My father served as an alter boy for Saint John and then helped to build the cathdral in San Francisco. I attended Saint Cyril and Methodius Academy from 1979 to 1989. There is a small chapell below the church where Vladyka Ioan's coffin was housed way before he was canonized. When I was kid in Russian school, my friends and i would visit the chapell all the time and light candles for vladyka. He helped our families defeat persecution and find a home in this country. We have been orthodox since the beginning. It is ingrained in us..well at least for a thousand years. We suffered and gave up everything for it. I pray that the American evangelical converts don't view this as a "fad".
My father served as an alter boy for Saint John and then helped to build the cathdral in San Francisco. I attended Saint Cyril and Methodius Academy from 1979 to 1989. There is a small chapell below the church where Vladyka Ioan's coffin was housed way before he was canonized. When I was kid in Russian school, my friends and i would visit the chapell all the time and light candles for vladyka. He helped our families defeat persecution and find a home in this country. We have been orthodox since the beginning. It is ingrained in us..well at least for a thousand years. We suffered and gave up everything for it. I pray that the American evangelical converts don't view this as a "fad".
pews are only good for one thing. firewood!