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Vesperal Divine Liturgy of St. Basil – Great and Holy Thursday

St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

Two events shape the liturgy of Great and Holy Thursday: the Last Supper of Christ with His disciples, and the betrayal of Judas. The meaning of both is in love. The Last Supper is the ultimate revelation of God’s redeeming love for man, of love as the very essence of salvation. And the betrayal of Read more...

Festal Divine Liturgy – HOLY PASCHA: The Resurrection of Our Lord

St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the center of the Christian faith. Saint Paul says that if Christ is not raised from the dead, then our preaching and faith are in vain...read more, click  https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2024/05/05/27-holy-pascha-the-resurrection-of-our-lord

Bright Week Divine Liturgy

St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

On Bright Thursday the Gospel reading is John 3:1-15, which mentions the Pharisee Νikόdēmos who came by night to speak to Christ. The Lord told him that a man could not see the Kingdom of God unless he were born again. Νikόdēmos, taking Him much too literally, could not understand how such a thing was Read more...

Divine Liturgy-Sunday of the Holy Myrrhbearing Women with the Noble Joseph

St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

The Myrrh-bearing women are those women who followed the Lord, along with His Mother. They remained with her during the time of the saving Passion, and anointed the Lord's body with myrrh. Joseph and Νikόdēmos asked for and received the Lord's body from Pilate. They took it down from the Cross, wrapped it in linen Read more...

Divine Liturgy-Sunday of the Paralytic

St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

On the Fourth Sunday of Pascha, the Church remembers the man who lay paralyzed at the Sheep Pool in Jerusalem for thirty-eight years, waiting for someone to put him into the pool. The first person to enter the pool after an Angel troubled the water would be healed of his infirmities, but someone always entered Read more...

Divine Liturgy – Sunday of the Samaritan Woman

St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

The holy Martyr Photina was the Samaritan Woman, with whom the Saviour conversed at Jacob’s Well (John. 4:5-42). During the time of the emperor Nero (54-68), who displayed excessive cruelty against Christians, Saint Photina lived in Carthage with her younger son Joses and fearlessly preached the Gospel there. Her eldest son Victor fought bravely in Read more...

Divine Liturgy – Sunday of the Blind Man

St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

At the end of Chapter 8 in Gospel of Saint John, the Saviour was disputing with the Pharisees in the Temple during the Feast of Tabernacles. He told them, "Your father Abraham was glad that he should see my day; and he saw it and rejoiced" (John 8:56). The Jews said that Jesus was not Read more...

Festal Divine Liturgy of Ascension

St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

“I ascend unto My Father and your Father, and to My God, and Your God” (John 20:17). In these words the Risen Christ described to Mary Magdalene the mystery of His Resurrection. She had to carry this mysterious message to His disciples, “as they mourned and wept” (Mark 16:10). The disciples listened to these glad Read more...

Divine Liturgy

St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

On the seventh Sunday of Pascha, we commemorate the holy God-bearing Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council. The Commemoration of the First Ecumenical Council has been celebrated by the Church of Christ from ancient times. The Lord Jesus Christ left the Church a great promise, “I will build My Church, and the gates of hell Read more...

Festal Divine Liturgy of Holy Pentecost

St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

In the Church’s annual liturgical cycle, Pentecost is “the last and great day.” It is the celebration by the Church of the coming of the Holy Spirit as the end—the achievement and fulfillment—of the entire history of salvation. For the same reason, however, it is also the celebration of the beginning: it is the “birthday” Read more...

CANCELLED-Divine Liturgy of Sts. Peter and Paul

St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

Today the Holy Church piously remembers the sufferings of the Holy Glorious and All-Praised Apostles Peter and Paul...to continue reading click:  https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2024/06/29/101840-the-holy-glorious-and-all-praised-leaders-of-the-apostles-peter