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Family Vespers, April 5th

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Family Vespers, 4pm on Saturday, April 5th. Join us after Vespers for food and boardgames! All welcome, with family or not. Be there, or be square!

Memorial Divine Liturgy

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Memorial Divine Liturgy

Join us for our Lenten Memorial Divine Liturgy this morning, Saturday, March 29, at 10:30am. Bring your lists of departed family and friends and get them to us in the Read more…

Presanctified Liturgy

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Presanctified Liturgy

Presanctified Liturgy tonight, Wed March 26, at 6pm! The presanctified gifts support us during the long season of Great Lent. “For where two or three are gathered in my name, Read more…

Annunciation Day, March 25th

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Annunciation Day, March 25th

Today is Annunciation Day. On March 25th, we always celebrate the Annunciation of the Theotokos. This is when the angel came to Mary asking her to become the mother of Read more…

Schedule Reminder!

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Schedule Reminder!

Vespers with Litya, Mon March 24 at 6pm. Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos Liturgy, Tuesday March 25 at 10:30am.

How then to warm our hearts in this cold age?

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How then to warm our hearts in this cold age?

Some words to read on this cold and snowy Sunday: “It is hard to love God and sing His praise each day when everything around us regards such behaviour as Read more…

Archpastoral Message of His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon for the Beginning of Great Lent from Feb 28. 2025:

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Glory to Jesus Christ! Glory forever! We read in the life of St. Euthymius the Great that, in the time of the great Palestinian monastic fathers, many of the monks Read more…

The Hellene of the Year is… DR. JOHN HADJINICOLAOU.

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The Hellene of the Year is… DR. JOHN HADJINICOLAOU.

The Hellene of the Year is an individual whose life and work exemplify the highest ideals of scholarship, faith, and community service. A person whose accomplishments span across academia, business, Read more…

Memory Eternal

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Memory Eternal

We remember today the repose of one of our parish members 2 yrs ago. May his memory be eternal. “With the spirits of the righteous made perfect, give rest to Read more…

Journey to Pascha

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Journey to Pascha

Join us tonight (Wednesday) at 6pm for the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, followed by a fasting potluck soup supper. “While fasting physically, brothers, Let us also fast spiritually; Let Read more…

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