Akathist Hymn/Study
2022-04-08 17:30 - 18:30, 2022-04-15 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Edmonton) | St. Aidan Orthodox Church, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
2022-04-13 17:30 - 19:30 | 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
2022-04-16 09:00 - 10:30 | 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), He lived in obscurity as “the son of Mary.” When He appeared from Nazareth to begin His public ministry,… click link to continue reading: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/04/16/19-the-raising-of-lazarus-lazarus-saturday

Bridegroom Matins
2022-04-17 17:30 - 19:00 | St. Aidan Orthodox Church, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
These three days, which the Church calls Great and Holy have within the liturgical development of the Holy Week a very definite purpose. They place all its celebrations in the perspective of End Times;…to continue reading click the link: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/04/18/21-great-and-holy-monday

Bridegroom Matins
2022-04-18 17:30 - 19:00 | St. Aidan Orthodox Church, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
…At the Presanctified Liturgy: Matthew 24: 36-26, 2. The End again and the parables of the End: the ten wise virgins who had enough oil in their lamps and the ten foolish ones who were not admitted to the bridal banquet;…https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/04/19/22-great-and-holy-tuesday

Bridegroom Matins
2022-04-19 17:30 - 19:00 | St. Aidan Orthodox Church, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
On Great and Holy Wednesday, the hymns of the Bridegroom Service remind us of the sinful woman who poured precious ointment on Christ’s head at Simon the leper’s house (Mt. 26:7)… continue reading at:https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/04/20/23-great-and-holy-wednesday

Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
2022-04-20 17:30 - 19:00 | St. Aidan Orthodox Church, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

Vesperal Divine Liturgy of St. Basil
2022-04-21 10:30 - 12:30 | 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

Matins with the Gospel Readings
2022-04-21 17:30 - 19:30 | St. Aidan Orthodox Church, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
We stand before the Cross of Christ and read the 12 Gospels telling of the Passion of Christ.

Royal Hours of Great and Holy Friday
2022-04-22 10:30 - 12:00 | St. Aidan Orthodox Church, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
On Great and Holy Friday, Christ died on the Cross. He gave up His spirit with the words: “It is finished” (John 19:30). These words are better understood when rendered: “It is consummated.” …to continue reading, click: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/04/22/25-great-and-holy-friday

Vespers with Shroud Veneration
2022-04-22 16:00 - 17:30 | St. Aidan Orthodox Church, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
The Vespers, celebrated in the Church on Holy Friday afternoon, brings to mind all of the final events of the life of Christ as mentioned above: the trial, the sentence, the scourging and mocking, the crucifixion, the death, the taking down of His body from the Cross, and the burial. As the hymnography indicates, these events remain ever-present in the Church; they constitute the today of its life. …so much more to read at: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/04/22/25-great-and-holy-friday

Vesperal Divine Liturgy of St. Basil on Great and Holy Saturday
2022-04-23 09:00 - 12:00 | St. Aidan Orthodox Church, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
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 rested from all His works….”
to continue reading, click: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/04/23/26-great-and-holy-saturday
The icon depicts the Descent into Hades.

Agape (Paschal)Vespers
2022-04-24 13:00 - 17:00 | St. Aidan Orthodox Church, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
followed by a Paschal Feast!

Mid Pentecost
2022-05-18 | British Columbia
Today’s celebration is the midpoint of the fifty days between the Feasts of Pascha and Pentecost. St. John tells us (John 7:14) that “in the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the Temple, and taught.” The Feast in question is the Feast of Tabernacles (celebrated in September), not Pentecost…continue reading at: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/05/18/38-midfeast-of-pentecost

Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
2022-06-29 | British Columbia
Sermon of Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo
Today the Holy Church piously remembers the sufferings of the Holy Glorious and All-Praised Apostles Peter and Paul…click the following link to read the rest of the sermon… https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/06/29/101840-the-holy-glorious-and-all-praised-leaders-of-the-apostles-peter

St. Aidan Annual Picnic
2022-08-28 14:00 - 17:00 | British Columbia
Post Liturgical Meal will be at the annual picnic.

Christmas Tree Farm - Come and choose a tree!
2022-12-04 13:00 - 17:00 | British Columbia
DECEMBER 4TH, SUNDAY, 1-5 PM.
Come with your family or friends and pick out your tree and enjoy a hot fire, a cup of hot cider/chocolate, S’Mores and more.
Premium, environmentally sustainable, natural stand Douglas Fir Trees are the hardiest and longest-lasting Christmas trees. This heritage industry used to boost over a million trees sold from the East Kootenays alone. It used to be the secondary income for many ranchers in the area. Now that number has shrunk to less than 10,000 trees due to competition from artificial trees and big box store plantation trees.
Prices:
Tiny Tim Trees (2-3’) with wooden stand: $25
5-6 feet: $40
7-8 feet: $50
9-10 feet: $75 (limited availability, best to pre-order)
All sales will be by cash or e-transfer.
Proceeds from every tree sold to St. Aidan parishioners and friends will be donated to our Elevator and Accessible Bathroom Build fund.

Royal Hours of the Nativity of the Lord Jesus Christ
2022-12-23 10:00 - 11:30 | British Columbia
We are blessed to be able to serve the Royal Hours on Friday morning. They are a gift that we have been given by the Church. We enter into the joyful anticipation of our Saviour’s birth.

Vigil for the Nativity of Christ-Tone 3
2022-12-24 16:00 - 17:30 | British Columbia
Compline with Lytia will be served followed by Matins of the Feast.

Akathist Service to Protomartyr and Archdeacon St. Stephen
2022-12-27 16:00 - 16:30 | British Columbia

Annual Meeting
2023-01-29 13:30 - 15:00 | British Columbia
The Annual Meeting will be held after lunch cleanup.

The Meeting of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in the Temple
2023-02-02 | British Columbia
The Meeting of our Lord God and Saviour Jesus Christ is described in the third Gospel (Luke 2:22-40). Forty days after His birth the Divine Child was brought to the Temple at Jerusalem to be presented to the Lord. According to the Law of Moses (Lev. 12:2-8), a woman who gave birth to a male child was forbidden to enter the Temple for forty days. At the end of the time of her purification, the mother went to the Temple with the child, to offer a young lamb, two turtledoves, or pigeons to the Lord as a sacrifice. The Most Holy Virgin had no need of purification, since she had given birth to the Source of purity and sanctity. Out of humility, however, she fulfilled the requirements of the Law… to continue reading, click: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2023/02/02/100407-the-meeting-of-our-lord-and-savior-jesus-christ-in-the-temple

Great and Holy Friday - Royal Hours?
2023-03-23 10:30 - 12:30 | British Columbia
On the Cross Jesus thus became “the man of sorrows; acquainted with grief” whom the prophet Isaiah had foretold. He was “despised and forsaken by men” and “smitten by God, and afflicted” (Isaiah 53:3-4). He became the one with “no form or comeliness that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him” (Isaiah 53:2). His appearance was “marred beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the sons of men” (Isaiah 52:14). All these Messianic prophecies were fulfilled in Jesus as he hung from the Cross.
As the end approached, He cried: “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46). This cry indicated His complete identification with the human condition. He had totally embraced the despised, forsaken and smitten condition of suffering and death—alienation from God. He was truly the man of sorrows.
Yet, it is important to note that Jesus’ cry of anguish from the Cross was not a sign of His loss of faith in His Father. The words which He exclaimed are the first verse of Psalm 22, a messianic Psalm. The first part of the Psalm foretells the anguish, suffering and death of the Messiah. The second part is a song of praise to God. It predicts the final victory of the Messiah…read more: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2023/04/14/25-great-and-holy-friday

Holy Unction Service
2023-04-05 17:30 - 19:00 | British Columbia

Bridegroom Matins
2023-04-09 17:30 - 19:00 | British Columbia

Great and Holy Monday - Bridegroom Matins
2023-04-10 17:30 - 19:30 | British Columbia
These three days, which the Church calls Great and Holy have within the liturgical development of the Holy Week a very definite purpose. They place all its celebrations in the perspective of End Times; they remind us of the eschatological meaning of Pascha. So often Holy Week is considered one of the “beautiful traditions” or “customs,” a self-evident “part” of our calendar. We take it for granted and enjoy it as a cherished annual event which we have “observed” since childhood, we admire the beauty of its services, the pageantry of its rites and, last but not least, we like the fuss about the Paschal table. And then, when all this is done we resume our normal life. But do we understand that when the world rejected its Savior, when “Jesus began to be sorrowful and very heavy… and his soul was exceedingly sorrowful even unto death,” when He died on the Cross, “normal life” came to its end and is no longer possible…read more: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2023/04/10/21-great-and-holy-monday

Great and Holy Tuesday - Bridegroom Matins
2023-04-11 17:30 - 19:30 | British Columbia
…For there were “normal” men who shouted “Crucify Him” who spat at Him and nailed Him to the Cross. And they hated and killed Him precisely because He was troubling their normal life. It was indeed a perfectly “normal” world which preferred darkness and death to light and life…. By the death of Jesus the “normal” world, and “normal” life were irrevocably condemned. Or rather they revealed their true and abnormal inability to receive the Light, the terrible power of evil in them. “Now is the Judgment of this world” (John 12:31). The Pascha of Jesus signified its end to “this world” and it has been at its end since then. This end can last for hundreds of centuries, but this does not alter the nature of time in which we live as the “last time.” “The fashion of this world passeth away…” (I Cor. 7:31)…read more: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2023/04/11/22-great-and-holy-tuesday

Great and Holy Wednesday - Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
2023-04-12 17:30 - 19:15 | British Columbia

Great and Holy Thursday - Vesperal Divine Liturgy of St. Basil
2023-04-13 10:30 - 12:30 | British Columbia
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 Judas reveals that sin, death and self-destruction are also due to love, but to deviated and distorted love, love directed at that which does not deserve love. Here is the mystery of this unique day, and its liturgy, where light and darkness, joy and sorrow are so strangely mixed, challenges us with the choice on which depends the eternal destiny of each one of us. “Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour was come… having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them unto the end…” (John 13:1). To understand the meaning of the Last Supper we must see it as the very end of the great movement of Divine Love which began with the creation of the world and is now to be consummated in the death and resurrection of Christ… read more https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2023/04/13/24-great-and-holy-thursday
