We will be privileged to have Metropolitan JOSEPH with us at St. Gregory’s for our Good Friday service. He will be in the Washington DC area for Holy Week and has asked to visit as many of the Antiochian parishes during that time as possible. Because the Good Friday Liturgy is the most solemn of […]

On the Fridays in Lent, beginning on March 2, we will share a Lenten supper at 6:30PM, followed by a period of study on the Our Father, the Hail Mary and the Apostle’s Creed, and ending with Stations of the Cross. You are encouraged to participate in these events as a part of your Lenten discipline. […]

In the month of February, we move from the Church’s liturgical cycle which is based on the Incarnation to that which points us to the Resurrection. The Presentation of Christ in the Temple (also called by other names: Candlemas, when candles for use in church are blessed; Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, commemorating her […]

The Feast of the Epiphany will be celebrated on Saturday morning, January 6, with the Blessing of Water at 9:30AM, Mass at 10:00 and a pot-luck brunch following. Due to the cold weather we have been experiencing, a frozen water pipe and the consequent lack of running water at the church meant that our celebration […]

In preparation for our celebration of the Nativity of our Lord, the Church encourages us, during Advent, to increase our care for the poor, to multiply our charitable endeavors, and to remember those who are in need. At St. Gregory’s, several ways to do this are presented at this time. Articles for flood buckets and […]

As is our custom, we will celebrate the feast of All Saints (which is actually on November 1) on the Sunday within the Octave, November 5, and we will have a Requiem Mass for All Souls Day on the Eve, Wednesday, November 1. Please provide the names of loved ones you wish to be remembered […]

We rejoice to welcome into our parish family 6-year-old Miao Miao, daughter of Jennifer and Dave Caldwell. Adopted from an orphanage in Inner Mongolia, China, Miao Miao will be given the name Lucy at her baptism. At the end of Liturgy on Sunday, October 15, we will process outside to the Mary garden to bless […]

The following feasts which fall on week-days this month will be celebrated at St. Gregory’s: the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (September 8) on the Eve, September 7; the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (September 14) on the Eve, Wednesday, September 13; and the feast of St. Michael and All Angels […]

We will celebrate several feast days in July and August. July 2 is the feast of the Visitation of Our Lady to St. Elizabeth soon after the Annunciation. Since this feast falls on a Sunday this year, we will all be privileged to hear the beautiful story and liturgical texts for the occasion. The Transfiguration […]