Oakland Greek Festival 2012!
May 18, 19, and 20 Ascension Cathedral once again presents the annual Oakland Greek Festival! (Check the main website of the Festival for more information! Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Ascension 4700 Lincoln Avenue Oakland, California 94602 510-531-3400 Here is the full program book! (as listed in "inside the Bay Area") Click on the picture below to open up the Entertainment Schedule 2012! (Excell Required) www.OaklandGreekFestival.com
Golf Tournament 2012!
The 44th Annual Ascension Cathedral Golf Tournament in memory of John F. Andronico will take place Monday, August 27, 2012 at the Sequoyah Golf and Country Club in Oakland, California. For more details on this event and to sign up online, please visit our main page for the tournament, here. Also available are an advertising request form and a hole sponsorship form.
2012 Camper Registration NOW OPEN !
Camp Dates for 2012 are June 16 - 24. Please visit the Ascension Summer Camp page to register or click here. Ascension Summer Camp is at the beautiful YMCA Camp Ravencliff in Redway, CA. All campers ages 8 – 16 are invited to join us for an Exciting week full of activities, fun and building Life-long friendships through Christ. Activities include Art, Crafts, Swimming, Athletics, Archery, Canoeing, Hiking, Inner-tubing, and much much more! Registration begins April 1 – May 15.
Saturday of Lazarus 2012
JOY/HOPE will be helping this year on Saturday of Lazarus (April 7, 2012) with the Greek Orthodox Tradition of tying Palm Crosses for Palm Sunday, which is the day after! Our Ascension Community ties around 1,400 crosses this year, so as many hands as are available would be helpful! The JOY/HOPE ministry will be "all hands on deck" for this wonderful opportunity for fellowship, and community building, as we help our church put together the palm crosses we all take away on Palm Sunday. Please Join us for the Divine Liturgy beginning at 9:30 am, Saturday, April ...
Light a Candle!
Have you ever wanted to just come by the church to light a candle & pray for someone? Feel like you don't have time to come all the way to church to do this? Well now you can do it online! The American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the USA has an online candle lighting program that anyway can use, at any time! Just click on the picture below! God Bless you and may Christ our Lord & Savior and all of the saints intercede for us! Instructions: When you get to the website ...
Vacation Bible School 2012!
This year's Vacation Bible School (VBS) will run from July 9 - July 13 (Monday - Friday) from 9am - 12pm every day that week! Registration is now open & you can sign up for the program itself, or even to volunteer! We need a lot of help this year, in order to provide the outstanding program we always do, so please sign up! PLEASE REGISTER HERE! If you have any questions or concerns about the program please contact Fr. Nebojsa Pantic
Encyclical for Great Lent 2012 from Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco
Encyclical for Great Lent 2012 Let us keep the Fast not only by refraining from food, but by becoming strangers to all the bodily passions; that we who are enslaved to the tyranny of the flesh may become worthy to partake of the Lamb, the Son of God, slain of His own will for the sake of the world, and spiritually may celebrate the feast of the Savior’s Resurrection from the dead. So shall we be raised high in the glory of the virtues, and ...
Encyclical of Archbishop Demetrios for Holy and Great Lent 2012
February 27, 2012 Holy and Great Lent To the Most Reverend Hierarchs, the Reverend Priests and Deacons, the Monks and Nuns, the Presidents and Members of the Parish Councils of the Greek Orthodox Communities, the Distinguished Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the Day, Afternoon, and Church Schools, the Philoptochos Sisterhoods, the Youth, the Hellenic Organizations, and the entire Greek Orthodox Family in America Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, As we begin this season of Holy and Great Lent, we do so in anticipation of the blessings we will receive as we commune with Christ through the special services, observances, and disciplines of our ...
Ecumenical Patriarch Issues Catechetical Homily for Holy and Great Lent 2012
CATECHETICAL HOMILY For HOLY AND GREAT LENT + B A R T H O L O M E W By God’s Mercy Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch To the Plenitude of the Church: Grace and Peace from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ And Prayers, Blessings and Forgiveness from Us “O faithful, let us joyfully welcome the divinely-inspired announcement of fasting” Beloved brothers and sisters in the Lord, In recent times, we observe an elevated level of concern. Many challenges arise. The world is suffering and yearns for help. Indeed, we are going through a general test. Some people call it a financial decline; others refer ...
JOY/HOPE & Sunday School Activity! February 26th
Come Join JOY/HOPE & Sunday School February 26th & March 4th for Kite making & Kite Flying activities, getting ready for Great Lent!
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Saint Gregory Palamas on the Presentation of the Lord
After the Saviour was born of the Virgin and circumcised on the eighth day according to the law, then, as Luke the evangelist says, "when the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, as it is written in the law of the Lord" (Luke 2.22). He is circumcised according to the law, brought to Jerusalem according to the law, presented to the Lord as it is written in the law and a sacrifice is offered as the law demands. Notice that the Creator and Lord ...
Ascended Grounds Coffee House is Set to REOPEN!!
The Ascended Grounds Coffee House will be closed until further notice. If you have any questions about this ministry, or if you would like to be involved please contact Fr. Nebojsa Pantic.
Sermon Library: Recorded Sermons!
Father Tom is now recording his sermons, and we're posting them to our Sermon Library. We expect to continue recording all sermons given at Ascension Cathedral, so the Sermon Library will be the place to download or listen to those. We are also posting transcripts of these sermons, for those who prefer to read them. These will be posted within a day or so of the sermon audio files. You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to read these files. A link to the Sermon Library may permanently be found beneath the calendar on the Home page of the ...
eScrip Donations
Dear Friends of Ascension Cathedral, Ever wish you could do something more to support the Cathedral, but feel like you're already giving all you can? Here's a new way to support our church: eScrip. Through this program, certain businesses that you shop at will contribute a percentage of your purchases to the Cathedral. You don't pay anything extra for this - you just shop as you normally would. A short list of participating businesses is attached, which includes Andronico's and Safeway, among many others. There is also a more complete list of businesses online with details on how much they ...
Teachings of the Fathers
Saint Gregory Palamas on the Presentation of the Lord
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Saint Demetrios, the Great Champion
A great champion hath the whole world found thee to be when in grave perils; for...
St Symeon the New Theologian: On Divine Gifts
Brethren and fathers, How great is the condescension and the love of God toward...
St Dorotheos of Gaza on Relationships
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St Theodore the Studite on the Dormition of the Theotokos
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Orthodox Life
Saturday of Lazarus 2012
JOY/HOPE will be helping this year on Saturday of Lazarus (April 7, 2012) with the...
Light a Candle!
Have you ever wanted to just come by the church to light a candle & pray for...
Encyclical for Great Lent 2012 from Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco
Encyclical for Great Lent 2012 Let us keep the Fast not only by refraining from...
Encyclical of Archbishop Demetrios for Holy and Great Lent 2012
February 27, 2012 Holy and Great Lent To the Most Reverend Hierarchs, the Reverend...
Ecumenical Patriarch Issues Catechetical Homily for Holy and Great Lent 2012
CATECHETICAL HOMILY For HOLY AND GREAT LENT + B A R T H O L O M E W By God’s Mercy...
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Our Parish
Oakland Greek Festival 2012!
May 18, 19, and 20 Ascension Cathedral once again presents the annual Oakland Greek Festival! (Check the main website of the Festival for more information! Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Ascension 4700 Lincoln Avenue Oakland, California 94602 510-531-3400 Here is the full program book! (as listed in “inside the Bay Area”) Click on the... [Read more of this article]
Golf Tournament 2012!
The 44th Annual Ascension Cathedral Golf Tournament in memory of John F. Andronico will take place Monday, August 27, 2012 at the Sequoyah Golf and Country Club in Oakland, California. For more details on this event and to sign up online, please visit our main page for the tournament, here. Also available are an advertising request form and a hole... [Read more of this article]
2012 Camper Registration NOW OPEN !
Camp Dates for 2012 are June 16 – 24. Please visit the Ascension Summer Camp page to register or click here. Ascension Summer Camp is at the beautiful YMCA Camp Ravencliff in Redway, CA. All campers ages 8 – 16 are invited to join us for an Exciting week full of activities, fun and building Life-long friendships through Christ. Activities... [Read more of this article]
Saturday of Lazarus 2012
JOY/HOPE will be helping this year on Saturday of Lazarus (April 7, 2012) with the Greek Orthodox Tradition of tying Palm Crosses for Palm Sunday, which is the day after! Our Ascension Community ties around 1,400 crosses this year, so as many hands as are available would be helpful! The JOY/HOPE ministry will be “all hands on deck”... [Read more of this article]
Light a Candle!
Have you ever wanted to just come by the church to light a candle & pray for someone? Feel like you don’t have time to come all the way to church to do this? Well now you can do it online! The American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the USA has an online candle lighting program that anyway can use, at any time! Just click on the... [Read more of this article]
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