We begin the month of February with the celebration of the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple, or The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or Candlemas. Following Arch-diocesan directions (since the feast falls on Monday this year), we will observe the blessing of candles and procession at 6:30pm and then sing Second Vespers […]

We begin the month of January (and the new secular year) with the Feast of the Circumcision of Our Lord. Mass will be celebrated at 10am with Matins at 9:30 and a pot-luck brunch and games following. The Christmas season ends with the Feast of the Epiphany of Our Lord, which will be observed on […]

Collection of canned and packaged food for the Food for Hungry People program of the Archdiocese will be through Advent and Christmas and end at the beginning of Epiphany. Your generosity will benefit the poor through the Manna Food Bank. The Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary will be celebrated on Monday, December 8, with […]

We begin this month with the Church’s feast of All Saints. At Mass on Saturday, November 1 at 10AM (Matins at 9:30), we will celebrate the lives and witness of the innumerable saints who are recognized for their sanctity and whose intercessions we implore. A pot-luck brunch will follow the service. On Sunday, November 2, […]

  Lest we come to think of the angels as long since buried in the tomes of old theological treatises, covered over and musty with the dust of the long ages of our indifference, let us turn to our daily, and especially our Sunday worship. Attention to the angels is drawn in many a prayer. The […]

Three major holy days occur this month: the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (Sunday, September 14) will take precedence over the 14th Sunday after Pentecost; the Nativity of the Theotokos (September 8) and St. Michael the Archangel (September 29) will be observed with Vespers at 7pm. Read the full September newsletter here.

The semi-annual Convention of our Antiochian Archdiocese of America will be held in Chicago July 21 through 27. This gathering of our church family with our bishops will worship together, hear reports from the departments and organizations of the Archdiocese, and hear from our Metropolitan Saba about his vision for the Archdiocese. In August, we […]

We will celebrate the great festival of Pentecost beginning with the Vigil on Saturday, June 7. Matins will be at 9:30am; Mass, with prophecies and the blessing of the font, will be at 10am followed by a pot-luck brunch. On Sunday, June 8, the Mass will include the sequence hymn for Pentecost “Come Thou Holy […]

Many thanks to all who contributed to the beauty of our Holy Week and Easter services – those who served at the altar, who sang in the choir, who read lessons, who arranged flowers, who cooked… all worked together to make our offerings in celebration of the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. We continue […]

The most holy week of the year for Christians is that week in which we commemorate the events of our Lord’s earthly life from his triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday to his glorious Resurrection on the morning of Pascha. The services for this week include unique ceremonies which help call to mind these […]