Friday April 12th will be the final Akathyst Service of the year. Service will begin at 6:30pm. 8:00pm we will have a Lenten Dinner served in the Social Hall and we will hear an amazing Lenten lecture from Dr. Dean Vafiades, Archon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Saturday April 13th at 6:30pm doors will open for […]
Sunday of St. John Climacus – April 7, 2019 Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow Born in 1865 in the region of Pskov, our Father among the Saints Tikhon was tonsured a monk in 1891 and ordained to the priesthood in the same year. In 1897 he was consecrated Bishop of Lublin, and a year later appointed […]
Sunday of the Holy Cross – March 31, 2019 With the help of God, we have almost reached the middle of the course of the Fast, where our strength has been worn down through abstinence, and the full difficulty of the labour set before us becomes apparent. Therefore our holy Mother, the Church of Christ, […]
Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas – March 24, 2019 Saint Gregory Palamas was from Asia Minor and was reared in the royal court of Constantinople, where he was instructed in both religious and secular wisdom. Later, while still a youth, he left the imperial court and struggled in asceticism on Mount Athos, and in the […]
Sunday of Orthodoxy – March 17, 2019 For more than one hundred years the Church of Christ was troubled by the persecution of the Iconoclasts of evil belief, beginning in the reign of Leo the Isaurian (717-741) and ending in the reign of Theophilus (829-842). After Theophilus’s death, his widow the Empress Theodora (celebrated Feb. […]
Forgiveness Sunday – March 10, 2019 The Holy Fathers have appointed the commemoration of Adam’s exile from the Paradise of delight here, on the eve of the holy Forty-day Fast, demonstrating to us not by simple words, but by actual deeds, how beneficial fasting is for man, and how harmful and destructive are insatiety and […]
Judgement Sunday – March 3, 2019 The foregoing two parables — especially that of the Prodigal Son — have presented to us God’s extreme goodness and love for man. But lest certain persons, putting their confidence in this alone, live carelessly, squandering upon sin the time given them to work out their salvation, and death […]
Sunday of the Prodigal Son – February 24, 2019 Through the parable of today’s Gospel, our Saviour has set forth three things for us: the condition of the sinner, the rule of repentance, and the greatness of God’s compassion. The divine Fathers have put this reading the week after the parable of the Publican and […]
Sunday of the Canaanite – February 10, 2019 Saint of the Day Hieromartyr Haralambos This Saint was a priest of the Christians in Magnesia, the foremost city of Thessaly, in the diocese having the same name. He contested during the reign of Alexander Severus (222-235), when Lucian was Proconsul of Magnesia. At the time of […]
