We will celebrate three major feast days during the month of September. The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, September 8, falls on Sunday this year as does the feast of St. Michael the Archangel (September 29). The Exaltation of the Holy Cross is on Saturday, September 14, and we will celebrate this feast with […]

Two important feast days occur in the month of August: the Feast of the Transfiguration (August 6)and the Dormition, or Assumption, of the Blessed Virgin Mary (August 15). Both of these holy days will be celebrated on the eve with Vespers at 6:30PM, Mass at 7, and pot-luck supper afterward. The Vigil of Assumption (8/14) […]

The Paschal Triduum Maundy Thursday, May 2: Vespers at 6:40PM, Mass at 7PM, Tenebrae following a silent Lenten meal At the foot-washing: Where charity and love are, there is God. At the stripping of the altar: They part my garments among them: and upon my vesture they cast lots. At Tenebrae: Jerusalem, Jerusalem, return unto […]

During the month of April, we will continue to offer Stations of the Cross and Litany of the Cross as a Lenten devotion on Fridays at 6:30PM. We will also continue our collection of baby items for the Orthodox Christians for Life National Baby Shower which will be donated to the Shady Grove Pregnancy Center. […]

We will celebrate the feast day of our patron saint – St. Gregory the Great, Bishop, Confessor and Doctor – on the Eve, Monday, March 11, with Vespers at 6:30 pm, Mass at 7, followed by a pot-luck supper. St. Gregory was pope (patriarch) of Rome with episcopal oversight for the Christians from the far […]

On the weekend of January 20-21, we were blessed with a visit from Bishop JOHN, who is the bishop for the Western Rite parishes of our Archdiocese. His grace was here for the annual March for Life, where he gave the opening speech and invocation. He decided to remain with us for Saturday Vespers and […]

We begin the month and the year with the celebration of the Circumcision of Our Lord on Monday, Jan. 1. Matins will be at 9:30 and Mass at 10AM, followed by a pot-luck brunch. As is our parish custom, we will remain for a “game day” in the parish hall. The Feast of the Epiphany, […]

Advent and Christmas, 2023 Drop down, ye heavens from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Saturday, December 2: We begin the season of Advent with Vespers. The vestments will now be purple and we will sing the Advent Prose (the antiphon is above) at Vespers. Sunday, December 3, the First Sunday of Advent: […]

On November 2, we will sing Vespers for the Departed at 6:30pm, and celebrate a Requiem Mass at 7, remem-bering our departed loved ones. A pot-luck supper will follow. The feast of All Saints will be celebrated on the Sunday within the Octave, November 5, and we will continue to honor the saints at coffee […]

The kingdom of God has no assessed value. It is worth everything you have. To Zacchaeus it was worth half his possessions; the other half he kept back in order to restore fourfold anything that he had unjustly taken. To Peter and Andrew it was worth their nets and boat. To the widow it was […]