Update from Fr. Benjamin Naasko at Ss Sergius and Herman of Valaam Mission in Mine, MI

  October 7, 2025, Saints Sergius and Herman has enjoyed a wonderful year of continued growth and continued investment in our property and parishioners. We celebrated our thirtieth anniversary this September and our dean, Priest Gregory Joyce, celebrated our liturgy and awarded a Gramota to our treasurer who housed the early mission in her basement.[…]

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Update From Some of Our Missions

  September 29, 2021, as we near the end of 2025, it has been a year of ebbs and flows for our supported missions. Our need for donations is still dire as we aspire to maintain our support through the remainder of this year and the next. As we move to create momentum to bring[…]

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Speak the Truth with Love

  By His Eminence, Metropolitan Saba: September 24, 2025, much is said these days about “truth.” All people cling to their own truth, seeing it from their own perspective, whether for personal benefit or the interests of their group. Yet the Absolute Truth, God Himself, is often the most forgotten. Strangely, people still appeal to[…]

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The Little Churches 

  September 17, 2025, the family is considered the first church of every believer. It is there that one learns the first steps of faith and reverence, the love of God, and the practice of virtue.  The larger church, the parish, is nothing other than the union of these smaller “domestic churches.” The more faithfully[…]

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