Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection

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We invite you to visit and make your spiritual home with us!

Welcome to the Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection and Chapel of St. Innocent of Irkutsk, one of the main places of Orthodox worship in New York City.

We are a welcoming community with a great diversity of people, young and old, native New Yorkers, transplants, and immigrants. We are united in a community that believes that we can experience God's love and sustaining presence in our lives. We seek to acquire the Holy Spirit through the teachings of Jesus Christ in the Scriptures and the the life and activity of the Church as His continuing presence in the world.

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SAVE THE DATE!
Passion Cantata for Haitian Relief
A New Choral Composition by R. Sirico
Saturday, March 20, 2010 7:30 p.m.
At the Cathedral.
Details to follow
Please share this information with *everyone* you know and help us to alleviate some of the suffering in this tremendous humanitarian disaster.

COMING EVENTS

ONE DAY PARISH RETREAT: "Loving Lent"
Sunday, February 14, 2010
9:30 a.m. Divine Liturgy
11:45 a.m. Coffee Hour
12:45 p.m.Talk: Dr. Albert Rossi
1:30 p.m. Valentine's Day Ice Cream Social
2:15 p.m. Talk: Stephen Morris
3:00 p.m. Vespers with Rite of Forgiveness

SOLO ART EXHIBIT:
Cindy Vojnovic, New Work in Oils
NYC Cathedral on 2nd Gallery

February 20 - March 21, 2010
Opening Reception February 20, 7:30 p.m.
59 East Second Street, New York NY, 10003

Gallery Hours for duration of show:
Thursday & Friday - 4-7 pm
Saturday Noon-5:00 pm
Sunday Noon -2 pm
Show to close March 21

25% of proceeds will be donated to the Cathedral
More details forthcoming.
For more information visit
My website is www.cindy-vojnovic.com

About the Orthodox Church in America

We are not a colony of a foreign church, seeking to duplicate here what the Mother Church elsewhere can do much better at home. We are not an ethnic club, seeking to preserve Old World customs, languages or cuisines. We are not in exile from somewhere else, a Diaspora that needs direction from a distant homeland.

We are Orthodox Christians in America, convinced that America needs Orthodoxy as the fullness of her Christian vocation, that without Orthodoxy, American Christianity and America herself will remain unfulfilled, and the world, the whole planet will suffer from America’s spiritual deficiencies and “incompleteness.” We must offer [all Americans] the completeness, the wholeness of the Orthodox Faith, not to preserve any ethnic heritage, not to replicate an ancient but alien cultural tradition, but to save this country... and to make America “all that it can be,” sanctified by God in Christ through the Holy Spirit in His Holy Church.
-Archpriest Michael Oleksa, Alaskan Diocese

A Visit to the Cathedral