Glory to Jesus Christ!
Mark your calendar. It’s that time of the year again! Following the Divine Liturgy on Sunday, 28 January 2024, we will hold our annual parish meeting. Please consider joining us as we discuss important items related to parish life for the new year.
Also following the Divine Liturgy will be a potluck Sunday coffee hour. If you are able, please bring a dish or snack to share. Coffee will be provided.
All are welcome!
As we approach the Feast of the Theophany of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, please join us for the Festal Divine Liturgy for the Feast of Theophany on Saturday, 06 January 2024, at 9:00 am.
Following the Divine Liturgy will be the Great Blessing of the Water. Please bring a container if you would like to take home some blessed water for personal use.
As always, all are welcome and invited to join us as we celebrate this Great Feast of the Orthodox Church.
When You, O Lord were baptized in the Jordan / the worship of the Trinity was made manifest / for the voice of the Father bore witness to You / and called You His beloved Son. / And the Spirit, in the form of a dove, / confirmed the truthfulness of His word. / O Christ, our God, You have revealed Yourself / and have enlightened the world, glory to You!
— Troparion for the Feast
Christ is Born! Glorify Him!
Thy Nativity, O Christ our God, * has shone to the world as the light of wisdom. * For by it those who worshipped the stars * were taught by a star to adore Thee, * the Sun of Righteousness, * and to know Thee, the Orient from on high. * O Lord, glory to Thee.
— Troparion for the Feast of the Nativity
Glory to Jesus Christ!
As a reminder, we will be gathering at Nichols Senior Care on Saturday, 23 December 2023 at 3:20pm, to sing Christmas carols to the residents.
Nichols Senior Care is located at located at 1111 Hanson Road, Edgewood, MD 21040.
Please join us if you are able!
Glory to Jesus Christ!
As we approach the Christmas season this year, please join us as we celebrate the Nativity in the Flesh of our Lord, God, and Savior, Jesus Christ. All are welcome and invited!
Saturday, 23 December 2023 at 6pm – Vespers of the Eve of the Nativity in the Flesh of our Lord, God, and Savior, Jesus Christ
Sunday, 24 December 2023 at 9am – Divine Liturgy of the Eve of the Nativity in the Flesh of our Lord, God, and Savior, Jesus Christ
Sunday, 24 December 2023 at 7pm – Great Compline of the Feast of the Nativity in the Flesh of our Lord, God, and Savior, Jesus Christ
Monday, 25 December 2023 at 9am – Festal Divine Liturgy of the Feast of the Nativity in the Flesh of our Lord, God, and Savior, Jesus Christ
Thy Nativity, O Christ our God, * has shone to the world as the light of wisdom. * For by it those who worshipped the stars * were taught by a star to adore Thee, * the Sun of Righteousness, * and to know Thee, the Orient from on high. * O Lord, glory to Thee. — Troparion for the Feast of the Nativity
Glory to Jesus Christ!
Please join us on Monday, 20 November, at 6.00PM, as we celebrate the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple with Vespers for the Feast.
Regarding this Great Feast of the Church we read:
The main theme of the feast of Mary’s entrance to the Temple, repeated many times in the liturgical services, is the fact that she enters the Temple to become herself the living temple of God, thus inaugurating the New Testament in which are fulfilled the prophecies of old that “the dwelling of God is with man” and that the human person is the sole proper dwelling place of the Divine Presence (Ezek 37.27; Jn 14.15–23; Acts 7.47; 2 Cor 6.11; Eph 2.18–22; 1 Pet 2.4; Rev 22.1–4).
Entrance of the Theotokos to the Temple, Orthodox Church in America website
Today is the prelude of God’s goodwill * and the prophecy of the salvation of men. * The Virgin appears openly in the temple of God * and foretells Christ to all. * So let us cry to her with loud voices: * Rejoice, thou who art the fulfillment * of the Creator’s providence. — Troparion for the Feast
