Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, expressed his condolences to His Beatitude Tikhon,  Metropolitan of All America and Canada, on the death of Protopresbyter Daniel Hubiak, one of the oldest clerics of the Orthodox Church in America.

The time for spiritual celebration has approached - the Church invites us to enter the Holy Days, beginning with the feast of the Nativity of Christ and concluding with the celebration of the Baptism of the Lord.

Today the Church in heaven and on earth is triumphant as she rejoices at the coming into the world of our Lord and Savior and lifts up praises and thanksgiving to God for His mercy and love for the human race.