Short Tour of Holy Week Services and Pascha!
A Brief Guide to the Holy Week Services for 2022 at St. Aidan’s Orthodox Church The highlight of the Church year and the earliest festal celebration of the Church is Read more…
Category: Exploring Orthodoxy
St. John of the Ladder – Growing Faith
The Audio recording is of the Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great at St. Aidan on April 3, 2022
Pancake Sunday
This Sunday is Cheesefare Sunday. It is the day we say farewell to dairy products and begin the Lenten Fast in earnest. To this end households would use up their Read more…
Psalm 136
In the Orthodox Church, this Psalm is sung during Lent to remind us to keep fresh the knowledge of what we have fallen from, how alien we are to the Read more…
The Dawn of Springtime
Why do Christians call their feast Easter? Isn’t that a pagan word? Did European Christians appropriate an existing pagan feast and add it to their religion? When did Christians start Read more…
Repose of Saint Raphael
Today we commemorate the repose of one of the North American saints, St. Raphael, Bishop of Brooklyn. Saint Raphael used to describe himself: “I am an Arab by birth, a Read more…
Wedding Homily for Mercurius and Katherine Feb. 20, 2022 Fr. Andrew
Glory to Jesus Christ! Mercurius and Katherine as you are called in the Church, what a blessing it is to join you in the holy sacrament of marriage, uniting you Read more…
The Sacrament of Baptism/Chrismation in the Orthodox Church
The sacrament of Baptism is the initial sacrament which bring us entry into the Church. It is as fundamental to entering the Church, as is birth to life. Through baptism, Read more…
Second Sunday before Great Lent
Tomorrow, Feb. 27th, is the Sunday of the Last Judgement. This is our Fr. Andrew’s homily on the Last Judgement from the archives: “Today is the Sunday of the Last Read more…
The Prayer for Peace
Click on the link below to listen to a Gregorian Prayer for Peace. https://saintaidanorthodoxchurch.blogspot.com/2022/02/trio-mandili-galoba-prayer.html