Nov.24, 2013, HTOM: Churching of the Mother and the Child

Churching of the mother (Cyrilla) and her son (Longinus)
at the Holy Theophany Orthodox Mission (a small Orthodox Church
community located at Del Rosario, Bacon District,
Sorsogon, Philippines.

This is a mission church of the Holy Martyr Saint Eleftherios
Orthodox Church, Gubat, Sorsogon, Philippines, under the care of
Fr. Chrysostom, priest under the Metropolitanate of Hongkong
and Southeast Asia
and Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.

November 8, 2013: Supplicatory Prayers Offered

Prayers were offered at the peak of the super typhoon ''Haiyang''.
We put on the big cross that is being venerated during the Season of Lent
because we believe it is needed in critical times like this.

Prayers were done according to hourly set up
by the Orthodox Traditions
by the family of Fr. Chrysostom
at the makeshift chapel of the
Holy Martyr Saint Eleftherios Orthodox Church,
Gubat, Sorsogon, Philippines - a church under
the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
and the Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hongkong and Southeast Asia.

November 6, 2013, 6:00 P.M.: HMSEOC Prays for the Safety of the Country, Philippines against Super Typhoon Yolanda.

Some of the parishioners
of the Holy Martyr Saint Eleftherios Orthodox Church
in Gubat, Sorsogon, Philippines,
come and pray for God's mercy and keep them safe
against the super typhoon "Yolanda" which is
coming in the Philippine area of responsibility (PAR) as it continues
to accelerate towards the country according to the weather forecast.

HMSEOC Mission Team Visit Daet, Camarines Norte!

October 29-31, with the blessing of the Metropolitan Nectarios, bishop of the Holy Metropolitanate of Hongkong, the HMSEOC Mission Team (Fr. Chrysostom, Presbytera Mary, Gabriel, Ioannis, Theodora and Andrew) visit the place of Athanasius in Basud, Camarines Norte and the couple-Branko and Lorie in Daet, Camarines Norte.




The team were blessed by the hospitality and very warm welcome of the faithful. 

Fr. Chrysostom serves confession and celebrates Divine Liturgy.  Fellowshipping and Agape meal follows.