Sep 14, 2023
9-14-23: Festal Liturgy Elevation of the Cross
The Universal Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross Come celebrate the Feast with us! Let us know you are coming so we can welcome you. Ardently desiring to find the Cross upon which our Lord Jesus Christ was crucified, Saint Constantine sent his mother, the pious Empress Helen (May 21), to Jerusalem, providing her with a letter to Saint Makarios, the Patriarch of Jerusalem. Saint Helen journeyed to the holy places connected with the earthly life of the Savior,…
Sep 13, 2023
9-13-23: Festal Vigil: Elevation of the Cross
The Universal Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross Come celebrate the Feast with us! Let us know you are coming so we can welcome you. Ardently desiring to find the Cross upon which our Lord Jesus Christ was crucified, Saint Constantine sent his mother, the pious Empress Helen (May 21), to Jerusalem, providing her with a letter to Saint Makarios, the Patriarch of Jerusalem. Saint Helen journeyed to the holy places connected with the earthly life of the Savior,…
Sep 8, 2023
9-8-23: Festal Liturgy: Nativity of the Theotokos
Come celebrate the Feast with us! Let us know you are coming so we can welcome you. The Nativity of Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary: The Most Holy Virgin Mary was born at a time when people had reached such a degree of moral decay that it seemed altogether impossible to restore them. People often said that God must come into the world to restore faith and not permit the ruin of mankind. The Son of…
Sep 7, 2023
9-7-23: Festal Vigil: Nativity of the Theotokos
Come celebrate the Feast with us! Let us know you are coming so we can welcome you. The Nativity of Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary: The Most Holy Virgin Mary was born at a time when people had reached such a degree of moral decay that it seemed altogether impossible to restore them. People often said that God must come into the world to restore faith and not permit the ruin of mankind. The Son of…
Aug 6, 2023
Aug 5, 2023
Apr 10 – 23, 2023
4-10-23 to 4-15-23: Holy Week
Great and Holy Monday Commemorated on April 10 Holy Week: A Liturgical Explanation for the Days of Holy Week 3. MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY: THE END These three days, which the Church calls Great and Holy have within the liturgical development of the Holy Week a very definite purpose. They place all its celebrations in the perspective of End Times; they remind us of the eschatological meaning of Pascha. So often Holy Week is considered one of the “beautiful traditions” or…
Apr 16, 2023
4-16-23: Great & Holy Pascha
HOLY PASCHA: The Resurrection of Our Lord Commemorated on April 16 Pascha (Easter) Enjoy ye all the feast of faith; receive ye all the riches of loving-kindness. (Sermon of Saint John Chrysostom, read at Paschal Matins) The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the center of the Christian faith. Saint Paul says that if Christ is not raised from the dead, then our preaching and faith are in vain (I Cor. 15:14). Indeed, without the resurrection there would be…
Apr 9, 2023
4-9-23: Palm Sunday
Entry of Our Lord into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday) Commemorated on April 9 Palm Sunday is the celebration of the triumphant entrance of Christ into the royal city of Jerusalem. He rode on a colt for which He Himself had sent, and He permitted the people to hail Him publicly as a king. A large crowd met Him in a manner befitting royalty, waving palm branches and placing their garments in His path. They greeted Him with these words: “Hosanna! Blessed…
Apr 8, 2023
4-8-23: Lazarus Saturday
The Raising of Lazarus (Lazarus Saturday) Commemorated on April 8 Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday Visible triumphs are few in the earthly life of our Lord Jesus Christ. He preached a kingdom “not of this world.” At His nativity in the flesh there was “no room at the inn.” For nearly thirty years, while He grew “in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and man” (Luke 2:52), He lived in obscurity as “the son of Mary.” When…
Apr 2, 2023
4-2-23: 5th Sunday of Great Lent: St Mary of Egypt
5th Sunday of Great Lent: St Mary of Egypt Commemorated on April 2 Saint Zosimas (April 4) was a monk at a certain Palestinian monastery on the outskirts of Caesarea. Having dwelt at the monastery since his childhood, he lived there in asceticism until he reached the age of fifty-three. Then he was disturbed by the thought that he had attained perfection, and needed no one to instruct him. “Is there a monk anywhere who can show me some form…
Mar 26, 2023
3-26-23: 4th Sunday of Great Lent: St John Climacus (of the Ladder)
4th Sunday of Great Lent: St John Climacus (of the Ladder) Commemorated on March 26 The Fourth Sunday of Lent is dedicated to Saint John Klimakos, the author of The Ladder of Divine Ascent. In this book the Igoumen of Saint Katherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai bears witness to the great effort which is required for entry into God’s Kingdom (Matthew 10:12). The spiritual struggle of the Christian life is difficult since it is “not against flesh and blood, but…