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 Paraclete,” and at coffee hour we will read a portion of the Epistle lesson in as many languages as are represented in our parish, as a reminder of the gift of the Holy Spirit enabling the Apostles’ to proclaim the good news in many languages at the first Pentecost.
On the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after Pentecost, the Ember Days call for us to pray particularly for those in ministry and for missionary efforts in the Church. On Sunday, June 29, we will celebrate the feast day of two of the Church’s greatest missionaries: St Peter and St. Paul, patrons of both Antioch and Rome, who were among the first to help spread the Gospel around the world.
The combined Parish Life Conference for the Diocese of Oakland and the Mid-Atlantic and the Diocese of Washington and New York will be held at Antiochian Village from June 25 through June 29. St. Gregory’s will be represented at the Western Rite service of Matins on Friday morning, June 27.
Read the full June newsletter here.