There will be two events in Advent to help us prepare for celebrating the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The first is a time of reflecting for the women of the parish on Saturday, December 6 beginning at 3:30PM. Presbytera Catherine will lead a discussion of the book The One Thing Needful: Meditations for […]

We begin the month of November with the celebration of an important feast on the calendar of the Western Rite – the Feast of All Saints. The actual feast day is November 1, but we will observe the Sunday in the Octave of the Feast. At the end of Liturgy that day, as we have […]

Our annual parish picnic will be held on Saturday, October 4, at Rock Creek Park, where we will eat al fresco, play games, and enjoy each other’s company in a beautiful setting. The Parish Hall will be our “back-up” in case of rain. The Our Lady of Walsingham service (originally scheduled for October 18) will […]

On Sunday, September 7, students and teachers in the parish will be given a blessing at the end of the Liturgy that their minds may be set on learning the ways of God as well as their other studies. We will also continue our parish custom of taking home-baked cookies to the Howard University students […]

Summer is a time for church conferences: the Parish Life Conference for the Eastern Region will be held for the first time at Antiochian Village from July 2-6. Fr. Nicholas, Kh. Becky, and Reader Simon (Karl Tsuji) will attend and participate in Western Rite Vespers, which will be offered by the four Western Rite parishes […]

The month of June is a month of Sunday feast days. The Sunday after Ascension Day begins the month on June 1; June 8 is the great feast of Pentecost, followed by Trinity Sunday on June 15; we celebrate the Sunday within the Octave of Corpus Christi (the actual feast day is on the Thursday […]