Every Wednesday during Lent we will have the Canon (meditation) of Repentance with a study on the book, How to be a Sinner by Dr Peter Bouteneff. Come to the service and bring a friend. Fr. Andrew will hear confessions before the Canon beginning at 6:30 PM. You can read the Canon here on the...
Every Wednesday during Lent we will have the Canon (meditation) of Repentance with a study on the book, How to be a Sinner by Dr Peter Bouteneff. Come to the service and bring a friend. Fr. Andrew will hear confessions before the Canon beginning at 6:30 PM. You can read the Canon here on the...
Every Wednesday during Lent we will have the Canon (meditation) of Repentance with a study on the book, How to be a Sinner by Dr Peter Bouteneff. Come to the service and bring a friend. Fr. Andrew will hear confessions before the Canon beginning at 6:30 PM. You can read the Canon here on the...
On the first Palm Sunday, Christ entered Jerusalem in triumph and was hailed by the multitudes as the coming Messiah. In John’s eyewitness version of the event, he reported that the people cried out, “Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!” (John 12:13). It was...
Fr Andrew and chapel member Brian Duracka traveled down state to purchase a church bell. They unloaded the bell from the car and installed it in the narthex of the chapel. Until it can be permanently installed in the bell tower, the bell is being rung in place.
Christ came to the world to “bear the infirmities” of men. One of the signs of his divine messiahship was to heal the sick. The power of healing remains in the Church since Christ himself remains in the Church through the Holy Spirit. The sacrament of the unction of the sick is the Church’s specific...
The main feature of the Great and Holy Thursday service is the reading of twelve selections from the Gospels, all of which are accounts of the passion of Christ. The first of these twelve readings is Jn 13.31–18.1. It is Christ’s long discourse with his apostles that ends with the so-called high priestly prayer. The...
On Great and Holy Friday, Christ died on the Cross. He gave up His spirit with the words: “It is finished” (John 19:30). These words are better understood when rendered: “It is consummated.” He had accomplished the work for which His heavenly Father had sent Him into the world. He became a man in the...
Great and Holy Saturday is the day on which Christ reposed in the tomb. The Church calls this day the Blessed Sabbath. “The great Moses mystically foreshadowed this day when he said: God blessed the seventh day. This is the blessed Sabbath This is the day of rest, on which the only-begotten Son of God...
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE AGAPE SERVICE As the Feast of feasts, the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is the most significant and inspirational event which embodies the center of worship in the Orthodox Christian Church. It is the epitome and crowning of the life, deeds and redemptive work of our Lord and Savior...