Archbishop Christopher Blessed the Foundations of Saint Rostislav’s Temple in Southwestern Alaska

16. 8. 2012

The archbishop donated a wooden written icon of our saint to the future temple and to every orthodox family in Tuluksak also a printed form of this icon. The blessing was attended also by the local bishop Benjamin, Bishop of San Francisco and the West, who is, in accordance with the canon law, in charge of the diocese of Alaska. The temple was blessed in the anniversary year of Saint Prince Rostislav, which is remembered by our Church in connection with the 1150th anniversary of the arrival of Saints Cyril and Methodius to Great Moravia, which we are going to celebrate in Mikulčice next year in May. In the course of his journey through a few tens of orthodox parishes of southwestern Alaska the archbishop kept reminding people of the mutual bond that connects our churches thanks to the Cyrillo-Methodian tradition. Even though we do not understand the Yupik language of worship with our reason, because it is very distant to us, we understand it with our heart because Orthodox Christians keep holding exactly the same services in the whole world for almost two thousand years.
Details about the journey and the consecration of Saint Rostislav’s temple are soon to be published in a form of an extensive coverage on www.hlaspravoslavi.cz.

Mgr. Ondřej Chrást

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