We’ve just received word of a clean-up day that’s happening in Sydney:
With the Blessing of Hieromonk Father Joachim of St John the Baptist Skete, Kentlyn NSW.
We wish to extend to everyone an invitation to come and join us in a much needed Clean Up Day at the Skete, in order for Father Joachim to move [...]

With the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion, Archbishop of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand and First Hierarch of ROCOR, a new podcast has begun based in Melbourne, Australia.
The Russian Orthodox Podcast began in January 2010 after Syezd (the ROCOR Youth Conference), and is hosted by the Polorotoff family.
Currently in its early days, there are [...]

On 27-29 September, 2009, the Ninth State Youth Conference of the Second Archdiocesan District of Victoria and Tasmania, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, will be held in Melbourne.
The topic is The Responsibility of Youth in a Modern Society.
On the 27th, there will be a Doxology and cocktails at Axion Estin Monastery, Northcote.
On the 28th, the [...]

Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia
Diocese of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand
With the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion
You are invited to attend the
Sixth Annual Father Seraphim of Platina Memorial Lecture
Featuring, from Melbourne:
The Very Revd Archpriest Nicholas Karipov
“Faith and Culture”
In search of an Orthodox Christian identity in Australia
Friday 4th of September 2009, at
All Saints of [...]

In the article ‘Top 12 Things I Wish I’d Known’ (before entering an Orthodox Church), Frederica Mathews-Green writes that “Only Orthodox may take Communion”.  It sounds very exclusivist and well, to some degree, it is.
Yet, even recently, the concept of ‘closed communion’ was simply the standard for those denominations that believed that something special was [...]