We will celebrate the Feast of All Saints on Sunday, November 1. Even as we celebrate individual saints on their feast days throughout the year, this yearly observance is an opportunity to celebrate all the saints, known and unknown, whose lives and virtues we emulate and who intercede for us in heaven. At coffee hour […]

We will celebrate the feast day of St. Luke, the Evangelist, on Sunday, October 18. A native of Antioch, St. Luke was a gentile Christian, a physician and, according to tradition, an artist. He is the author of the Gospel that bears his name and because that book contains most of the beautiful stories of […]

In the month of September, two holy days will be celebrated with Vespers at 6:30pm, Mass at 7, and pot-luck suppers following: the Exaltation of the Holy Cross on Monday, September 14 and St. Michael the Archangel on the Eve, Monday, September 28. Thanks to all who have volunteered to be a part of one […]

As the summer months of July and August begin, with many traveling far and wide for vacations and visits to family (and camp at Antiochian Village), please remember to plan your trips to include a visit to an Orthodox Church for Sunday services. Fr. Nicholas can recommend Antiochian parishes; and remember to contact the priest […]

On Holiness by St. Nikolai of Ochrid   Holiness, my brethren, is the virtue that encompasses all the other virtues. A saint, a mere man, is adorned through it with all the virtues. If a man is a man of prayer and is not compassionate, he cannot be called a saint, and if a man […]

We begin this month with the Finding of the Holy Cross on May 3, a feast which celebrates the discovery by St. Helena of the True Cross of Christ, as she made her pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the 4th century, searching for the sites associated with the events of our Lord’s earthly life […]

Holy Week Schedule of Services                . In this most holy week of the Church year, we recall the events leading up to Christ’s Crucifixion and Resurrection. This recollection is not only about the historical events of our Incarnate Lord’s earthly life. It is anamnesis – a recalling that […]

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 […]