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Parish Planting and Yardwork Day

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As a reminder, our upcoming Parish Planting and Yardwork Day will be this Saturday, June 30th, beginning at 10am.  We will be tidying up the exterior of the temple, planting flowers/plants, trimming bushes, and the like.  Some tools will be made available, but participants are urged to bring rakes, paper yardwaste bags, gloves, cutters, and/or shovels if possible.  No experience needed! If you cannot physically lend a hand, then moral support (and prayer) are also needed!

So that we may plan accordingly, it would be greatly appreciated if you could please contact Alex Krowzow at wozwork@gmail.com as soon as possible as to confirm your ability to participate, if you have not already done so.

Thank you very much and we hope to see you Saturday!

Parish Picnic

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Please mark your calendars for our church picnic on Sunday August 19th. Instead of coffee hour, we will go directly to the pool and have a cookout and enjoy some fellowship and fun under the pavilion and in the pool.

The picnic will be held at Fountain Green Swim Club located on Route 543 just west of Wheel Road. A sign-up list is posted on the side of the refrigerator for people to RSVP that they will attend the picnic. If you ARE a member of Fountain Green swim club, you do not need to write your name on the list. If you are NOT a member of Fountain Green swim club, you can can just write the names of your family members on the list and bring $5 per person with you the day of the picnic. The pavilion rental has been sponsored.

Closer to the event, we will post a food sign-up list on the side of the refrigerator as well. Please see Ginny Seeley with any questions.

Saturday Vespers, May 26, + Pentecost Sunday

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Please note that Vespers for this evening, May 26 at 6PM, will be a Reader’s Vespers.

Tomorrow, May 27, is the Feast of Pentecost. Following the Divine Liturgy we will pray the Kneeling Prayers of Vespers of Pentecost. All are welcome on this glorious Feast!

Blessed art You O Christ Our God / You have revealed the fishermen as most wise / By sending down upon them the Holy Spirit / Through them You drew the world into Your net / O Lover of Man, Glory to You!

Holy Ascension

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Please join us Wednesday, May 16, at 7pm, as we celebrate the Vigil for the Great Feast of the Holy Ascension.

Parish Fundraiser Dinner

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Christ is Risen! A blessed Bright Week to all!

Please be reminded of our Parish Fundraiser today (Tuesday, April 10) from 4pm until 9pm at Texas Roadhouse located at 2428 Belair Road, Fallston, MD 21047 – on Rt.1, just south of Mountain Road.

Please print a copy of the attached flyer and bring it with you.  Present it to your server and the restaurant will donate 10% of your bill to our Parish (there is no discount on the bill, nor does the flyer guarantee a reservation).

Thank you!

Christ Is Risen! He Is Risen Indeed!

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Christ is risen!… Khristos voskres!… Christos anesti!… El Messieh kahm!… Hristos a inviat!… Pchristos aftooun!… Kristus nousi kuolleista!… Le Christ est réssuscité!… Harisutos Fukkatsu!… Atgyfododd Crist!…

He is risen indeed!

May God richly bless you on this joyous celebration of the holy and life-giving resurrection of Jesus Christ!

(See here for the traditional Paschal greeting in various languages.)

Great & Holy Pascha (Easter) 2018

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Brothers & sisters, friends & neighbors, strangers & all, please join us tonight, Saturday, April 7, at 11:30PM and into the early morning of Sunday, as we celebrate Our Lord’s joyous and life-giving Resurrection! All are welcome!

Great and Holy Feast of Pascha

Saturday, April 7
+ Midnight Office, 11:30PM

Sunday, April 8
+ Procession and ​​Paschal Matins, Festal Divine Liturgy, 12:00AM
+ Blessing of Pascha Baskets, Agape Feast following the Paschal Liturgy

Harrowing of Hades

Holy Week 2018

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Please join us for services during this Holy and Great Week as we anticipate and prepare for the joyful celebration of Our Lord’s resurrection. Services begin today, Wednesday, April 4th.

Crucifixion

Holy Wednesday, April 4
+ Service of Holy Unction, 7:00PM

Holy Thursday, Apr​il 5
+ Passion Gospels Service, 7:00PM

Great and Holy Friday, ​April 6
+ Vespers of the Cross, 2:00PM

Great and Holy Friday, April 6
+ Jerusalem Matins with Procession, 7:00PM

Great and Holy Saturday, April ​7
+ Vesperal Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great, 10:00AM

Great and Holy Saturday, April 7
+ Midnight Office, 11:30PM

Great and Holy Feast of Pascha, April 8
+ Procession and ​​Paschal Matins, Festal Divine Liturgy, 12:00AM
+ Blessing of Pascha Baskets, Agape Feast following the Paschal Liturgy

Vespers + Canon of Repentance

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Confession

Today, Saturday, March 31, we will be praying the Vespers service for the Feast of the Entry of Our Lord into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday) at 6:00PM. Afterwards we will pray the Canon of Repentance and Fr. Gregory will be available to hear confessions.

It is customary for Orthodox Christians to go to confession at least once during Lent. However, far from being an item to merely check off the to-do list or an action that we legalistically follow because it’s “the rule”, confession during this time is a wonderful opportunity to deepen our repentance and more fully experience the forgiveness of sins in order to better love God and our neighbor as we anticipate the celebration of Our Lord’s glorious and life-giving resurrection.

For a general overview of the sacrament of confession, check out this video from our friend Frederica Mathewes-Green: https://youtu.be/m7YtTS_8tJc

Entry of Our Lord into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday)

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This Sunday, April 1, is the Feast of the Entrance of Our Lord into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday). This feast day is one of the twelve Great Feasts of the Church and, along with Lazarus Saturday, marks the time between Great Lent and Holy Week.

Palm Sunday

“Palm Sunday is the celebration of the triumphant entrance of Christ into the royal city of Jerusalem. He rode on a colt for which He Himself had sent, and He permitted the people to hail Him publicly as a king. A large crowd met Him in a manner befitting royalty, waving palm branches and placing their garments in His path. They greeted Him with these words: “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel! (John 12:13)”. [from Palm Sunday at oca.org]

The readings for this Sunday are: Genesis 49:1-2,8-12 (Vespers, 1st reading), Zephaniah 3:14-19 (Vespers, 2nd reading), Zechariah 9:9-15 (Vespers, 3rd reading), Matthew 21:1-11, 15-17 (Matins Gospel), Philippians 4:4-9 (Epistle), and John 12:1-18 (Gospel).

Troparion for the Feast of the Annunciation: By raising Lazarus from the dead before Your passion, / You did confirm the universal Resurrection, O Christ God! / Like the children with the palms of victory, / We cry out to You, O Vanquisher of death; / Hosanna in the Highest! / Blessed is He that comes in the Name of the Lord!