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Great Vespers

St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

Great Vespers is served with Lytia as the beginning of the Feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos

Festal Divine Liturgy of the Nativity of the Theotokos

St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

The Nativity of Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary: The Most Holy Virgin Mary was born at a time when people had reached such a degree of moral decay that it seemed altogether impossible to restore them. People often said that God must come into the world to restore faith and not Read more...

Divine Liturgy

St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

This is the Leavetaking of the Nativity of the Theotokos. We also commemorate the Hieromartyr Autonomus. The Hieromartyr Autonomus was a bishop in Italy. During the time of the persecution against Christians under the emperor Diocletian (284-305), Saint Autonomus left his own country and resettled in Bithynia, in the locality of Soreus with a man Read more...

Great Vespers

St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

Great Vespers is served with Lytia at the beginning of the Feast of the Elevation of the Holy Cross.

Festal Divine Liturgy of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

Today is a strict fast day. The Elevation of the Venerable and Life-Creating Cross of the Lord: The pagan Roman emperors tried to completely eradicate from human memory the holy places where our Lord Jesus Christ suffered and was resurrected for mankind. The Emperor Hadrian (117-138) gave orders to cover over the ground of Golgotha Read more...

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St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

Today we celebrate the Afterfeast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. The Holy Martyrs Trophimus, Sabbatius and Dorymedon suffered for Christ during the reign of the Roman emperor Probus (276-282). A pagan festival was being celebrated in the city of Antioch. Sacrificial offerings were brought, the wine was poured, and vile acts were performed. Read more...

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St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

Today we commemorate the Holy, Glorious All-laudable Apostle and Evangelist, Virgin, and Beloved Friend of Christ, John the Theologian. He was the son of Zebedee and Salome, a daughter of Saint Joseph the Betrothed. He was called by our Lord Jesus Christ to be one of His Apostles at the same time as his elder Read more...

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St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

Today we commemorate Saint Dionysius. He lived originally in the city of Athens. He was raised there and received a classical Greek education. He then went to Egypt, where he studied astronomy at the city of Heliopolis. It was in Heliopolis, along with his friend Apollophonos where he witnessed the solar eclipse that occurred at Read more...

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St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

Today we commemorate Saints Eulampius and Eulampia who were brother and sister. They lived at the beginning of the fourth century in the city of Nicomedia. Eulampius became upset after reading the decree of the emperor Maximian (284-305) sentencing all Christians to execution. Eulampius was horrified that the emperor was taking up arms against his Read more...

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St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

Today the Church remembers the 350 holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council under the holy Patriarch Tarasius (February 25). The Synod of 787, the second to meet at Nicea, refuted the Iconoclast heresy during the reign of Empress Irene and her son Constantine VI. The Council decreed that the veneration of icons was not Read more...

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St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

Today we commemorate the Martyr Arethas and with him 4299 Martyrs. They suffered for the Lord Jesus Christ in the sixth century. Arethas was prefect of the Christian city of Negran in Arabia. The Arabian (or Omirite) king, Dunaan, who was Jewish, decided to eliminate Christianity from the land. He issued an edict that all Read more...

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St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

The Life of Saint John Kochurov, Hieromartyr, Missionary in America.  He wad the first Clergy Martyr of the Russian Revolution...read about his life at:  https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2021/10/31/103122-priestmartyr-john-kochurov