Divine Liturgy
Events
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St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
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Divine Liturgy – St. Thomas Sunday
St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, CanadaSome icons depicting this event are inscribed “The Doubting Thomas.” This is incorrect. In Greek, the inscription reads, “The Touching of Thomas.” The Slavonic inscription is, “The Belief of Thomas.” Read more...
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Divine Liturgy – Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women
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 Read more...
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Divine Liturgy – Sunday of the Paralytic
On this day the Church remembers the man who lay by the Sheep’s Pool, in Jerusalem, for thirty-eight years. He was waiting for someone to put him into the pool. Read more...
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Divine Liturgy – Sunday of the Samaritan Woman
The Holy Martyr Photina (Svetlana) the Samaritan Woman, her sons Victor (named Photinus) and Joses; and her sisters Anatola, Phota, Photis, Paraskevḗ, Kyriake; Nero’s daughter Domnina; and the Martyr Sebastian: Read more...
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Divine Liturgy-Sunday of the blind man
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 Read more...
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Divine Liturgy-Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council.
On the 7th 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 Read more...
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Divine Liturgy-Holy Pentecost followed by Kneeling Prayers
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 Read more...
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Divine Liturgy-Synaxis of All Saints
The Sunday following Pentecost is dedicated to All Saints, both those who are known to us, and those who are known only to God. There have been saints at all Read more...
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Divine Liturgy-Synaxis of All Saints of North America
On the second Sunday after Pentecost, each local Orthodox Church commemorates all the saints, known and unknown, who have shone forth in its territory. Accordingly, the Orthodox Church in America Read more...
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Divine Liturgy
Saint Hyacinth, a native of Caesarea in Cappadocia, was raised in a Christian family. The emperor Trajan made the boy his “cubicularius” (chamberlain), unaware that he was a secret Christian... Read more...
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Divine Liturgy
Saint Anthony of the Kiev Caves was born in the year 983 at Liubech, not far from Chernigov, and was named Antipas in Baptism. Possessing the fear of God from Read more...