Great and Holy Friday – Royal Hours
Royal Hours...continuing the journey to Pascha!...a once a year service.
Royal Hours...continuing the journey to Pascha!...a once a year service.
Taking our Saviour down from the cross and setting up the tomb...
Now we sing the Praises before the tomb and make a procession with the Shroud...
Great and Holy Saturday is the day on which Christ reposed in the tomb. The Church calls this day the Blessed Sabbath. “The great Moses mystically foreshadowed this day when he said: God blessed the seventh day. This is the blessed Sabbath This is the day of rest, on which the only-begotten Son of God Read more...
We gather today sing the Pascal Vespers. We joyously sing many times and in many languages...Christ is Risen... Following the Vespers we join in a Paschal Potluck...hmmm, hmmm...
Check in begins at 2 pm PST... (an hour after our time MST) Supper begins at 5:30 pm.
All welcome. Celebration meal to follow.
NEW! EARLIER Family Vespers 1st Saturday of every month. The plan is to have an early Vespers that the whole family can attend and that we could bring visitors to and introduce them to St. Aidans by holding an early 3/4hr. Great Vespers service followed by pizza and board games, puzzles,…and fellowship downstairs. This would Read more...
The Holy Great Martyr Katherine was the daughter of Konstos, the governor of Alexandria, Egypt during the reign of Emperor Maximian (305-313). Living in the capital, the center of Hellenistic knowledge, and possessed of a rare beauty and intellect, Katherine received an excellent education, studying the works of the greatest philosophers and teachers of antiquity. Read more...
Followed by a meal and a visit from St. Nicholas...
We are having our first perogy making session in our new church kitchen. We will be having one per month in order to make enough perogies for the dinners and to sell frozen in bags. Please let Joanna or Fr Andrew know if you are planning on coming, and if you could bring any of Read more...
A note from Ellen... Dear Family, If you have any gently used items you wish to donate to the Yard sale fundraiser next Saturday, please leave in balcony and I will pick them on Thursday. Thank you so and I will see you at the Open House - 663 Wardner Ft. Steele Rd., 250-421-6013 Ellen