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 […]

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.