Summer is a time, not only for vacations, but also for church conferences and pilgrimages. Our Parish Life Conference (for the dioceses of Charleston and the Mid-Atlantic and Washington and New York) has just ended and Fr. Raphael and Kh. Catherine have returned from their visit to the Philippines. Nathan and Ben Caldwell will spend […]

The month of June is a month of feasts. We begin with Trinity Sunday on June 3, when we celebrate the great mystery of one God in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. On this one Sunday of the year, we sing the Quicunque vult, or Athanasian Creed, at Matins. The Feast of Corpus […]

Thank you to all those who worked so hard to make our services of Holy Week and Easter so beautiful. Everyone was involved in some way – serving at the altar or in the choir, purchasing and arranging flowers, preparing food, baking bread, cleaning, and joining in the prayers – and we pray that our […]

We will be privileged to have Metropolitan JOSEPH with us at St. Gregory’s for our Good Friday service. He will be in the Washington DC area for Holy Week and has asked to visit as many of the Antiochian parishes during that time as possible. Because the Good Friday Liturgy is the most solemn of […]

On the Fridays in Lent, beginning on March 2, we will share a Lenten supper at 6:30PM, followed by a period of study on the Our Father, the Hail Mary and the Apostle’s Creed, and ending with Stations of the Cross. You are encouraged to participate in these events as a part of your Lenten discipline. […]

In the month of February, we move from the Church’s liturgical cycle which is based on the Incarnation to that which points us to the Resurrection. The Presentation of Christ in the Temple (also called by other names: Candlemas, when candles for use in church are blessed; Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, commemorating her […]

The Feast of the Epiphany will be celebrated on Saturday morning, January 6, with the Blessing of Water at 9:30AM, Mass at 10:00 and a pot-luck brunch following. Due to the cold weather we have been experiencing, a frozen water pipe and the consequent lack of running water at the church meant that our celebration […]

In preparation for our celebration of the Nativity of our Lord, the Church encourages us, during Advent, to increase our care for the poor, to multiply our charitable endeavors, and to remember those who are in need. At St. Gregory’s, several ways to do this are presented at this time. Articles for flood buckets and […]

As is our custom, we will celebrate the feast of All Saints (which is actually on November 1) on the Sunday within the Octave, November 5, and we will have a Requiem Mass for All Souls Day on the Eve, Wednesday, November 1. Please provide the names of loved ones you wish to be remembered […]

We rejoice to welcome into our parish family 6-year-old Miao Miao, daughter of Jennifer and Dave Caldwell. Adopted from an orphanage in Inner Mongolia, China, Miao Miao will be given the name Lucy at her baptism. At the end of Liturgy on Sunday, October 15, we will process outside to the Mary garden to bless […]