Memorial Divine Liturgy

St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

Today we remember those in our lives who have fallen asleep. We bring our lists and the names are commemorated during the Liturgy. 1st Saturday of Great Lent: The Miracle of the Boiled Wheat Today we remember the miracle of Saint Theodore the Recruit and the boiled wheat. Fifty years after Saint Theodore’s martyrdom, Emperor Read more...

Divine Liturgy-Sunday of Orthodoxy

St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

The first Sunday of Great Lent is called the Sunday of Orthodoxy. It commemorates the restoration of the Holy Icons and the triumph of the Orthodox Faith against the terrible heresy of the Iconoclasts. As in those heretics who refused to honour the Holy Icons. For more than a hundred years the Church was disturbed Read more...

Divine Liturgy-The Annunciation of the Holy Virgin Mary

St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

The Feast of the Annunciation is one of the earliest Christian feasts, and was already being celebrated in the fourth century. There is a painting of the Annunciation in the catacomb of Priscilla in Rome dating from the second century. The Council of Toledo in 656 mentions the Feast, and the Council in Trullo in Read more...

Divine Liturgy-St. John of the Ladder

St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

The Fourth Sunday of Lent is dedicated to Saint John of the Ladder (Climacus). He is the author of the work, The Ladder of Divine Ascent...Complete by clicking:  https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/04/03/16-4th-sunday-of-great-lent-st-john-climacus-of-the-ladder

Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts

St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

Special Lenten "Lord I call" verses for the fifth week of Great Lent.

Divine Liturgy – Mary of Egypt

St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

Saint Zosimas (April 4) was a monk at a certain Palestinian monastery on the outskirts of Caesarea. Having dwelt at the monastery since his childhood, he lived there in asceticism until he reached the age of fifty-three...click link to continue reading https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/04/10/18-5th-sunday-of-great-lent-st-mary-of-egypt

Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts

St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

We also commemorate Saint Martin the Confessor, Pope of Rome. He was a native of the Tuscany region of Italy. He received a fine education and entered into the clergy of the Roman Church. After the death of Pope Theodore I (642-649), Martin was chosen to succeed him...click link to continue reading: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/04/14/101075-saint-martin-the-confessor-pope-of-rome

Divine Liturgy-Lazarus Saturday

St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

Visible triumphs are few in the earthly life of our Lord Jesus Christ. He preached a kingdom “not of this world.” At His nativity in the flesh there was “no room at the inn.” For nearly thirty years, while He grew “in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and man” (Luke 2:52), Read more...

Divine Liturgy – Palm Sunday

St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

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 Read more...

Vesperal Divine Liturgy of St. Basil

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...much more to read at:  https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/04/21/24-great-and-holy-thursday

Nocturns, Matins

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 (I Cor. 15:14).  ...much more to read at: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/04/24/27-holy-pascha-the-resurrection-of-our-lord