Saints Peter and Paul Russian Orthodox Church A Parish of the Moscow Patriarchate Archpriest Basil Micek, Pastor 1897-2010 113 years
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Welcome to Saints Peter and Paul Russian Orthodox Church website.
Saints Peter and Paul is located in Scranton Pennsylvania. We are
under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate and the part of the
Atlantic States Deanery. We hope that our website provides you with a
good description of our parish and answers any questions you may
have. Please contact us with any comments or questions.
Thank you for visiting Saints Peter and Paul Russian Orthodox Church.
Archpriest
Basil Micek
Pastor
Saints Peter
and Paul
Russian
Orthodox
Church
His Eminence Justinian
Archbishop of
Naro-Fominsk
Administrator of the
Patriarchal Parishes of
the Russian Orthodox
Church in the United
States
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Our Great Lord and Father Kirill, The Most Holy Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia.
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Welcome
The Orthodox Church is the church founded by
our Lord Jesus Christ and through which He
continues to bestow His blessings and grace
upon mankind. ‘Orthodoxy’ means ‘right belief’
or ‘correct glory’–-the Orthodox Church has
faithfully preserved those traditions and
teachings handed down from Jesus Christ to His
Apostles to their successors from generation to
generation. This care for the traditions of our
fathers is motivated by love and fidelity to the
truth and Divine origin of our faith.
Fourth Sunday of Lent
Our venerable and God-bearing Father John Climacus (ca. 579 -
649), also known as John of the Ladder, John Scholasticus, and
John Sinaites, was a seventh century monk at St. Catherine's
monastery at the base of Mount Sinai. In Greek, his epithet is
Κλιμακος (Klimakos). The Orthodox Church celebrates his feast
day on March 30.
He came to the monastery and became a novice when he was about
16 years old, and when he died in 649 he was the monastery's abbot.
He wrote a number of instructive books, the most famous of which
is The Ladder of Divine Ascent. (It is because of this book that
John is known as "Climacus," which means "of the ladder".) It
describes how to raise one's soul to God, as if on a ladder. This
book is one of the most widely read among Eastern Orthodox
Christians, especially during the season of Great Lent which
immediately precedes Pascha (Easter), and on the fourth Sunday of
Great Lent he is especially commemorated.
Saint John of the Ladder