NEW YORK — On the feast of the Transfiguration in 1994, then-seminarian Elias Rafaj made the journey to visit the monastic village of Ormylia in Greece, home to the largest women’s monastery in the ...

From outside the doors of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral, the baritone voice of John Michael Boyer can be heard. Inside the church, Boyer is standing just to the right of the church’s icon ...

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About halfway through the western route of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, the Perpetual Pilgrims took a quiet respite from the road on Saturday, June 8, to attend an age-old Byzantine Catholic ...

One of the most poignant liturgical services of the year is the celebration of the “Burial Vespers” on Great and Holy Friday in the Byzantine tradition. It is a symbolic commemoration of Christ’s ...

Lorain’s St. Nicholas Byzantine Catholic Church opened its doors on March 1 for an evening of prayer, food and celebration of eastern European culture. Several parishioners made the trip to eastern ...

A Lorain church and its troupe of singers will be featured on national and international television this weekend as part of a documentary on the Byzantine-Ruthenian Church. As part of a commemoration ...

The parish of ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST BYZANTINE RITE CATHEDRAL was established in 1898. It is considered the mother church of the Ruthenian Byzantine Rite Catholic church in Ohio. St. John's earliest ...

The haunting, otherworldly sound of Gregorian chant transports us to another time and place. The trouble is, that time and place may never have existed. That’s because the style of chant we’re used to ...