• Great Lent

    Today Great Lent begins as we follow a fast from meat, dairy, wine and oil. This is from today until Pascha on April 24, 2022.

  • Great Vespers-Tone 1

    St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
  • 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 Read more...

  • St. Aidan Church Breakfast

    St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

    A free breakfast is served every Monday of every month. Monday breakfast consists of a breakfast sandwich with coffee, juice, yogurt and two pieces of fruit.

  • 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 Read more...

  • Akathist Hymn/Study

    St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
  • 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 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 Read more...

  • Bridegroom Matins

    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 Read more...

  • St. Aidan Church Breakfast

    St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

    A free breakfast is served every Monday of every month. Monday breakfast consists of a breakfast sandwich with coffee, juice, yogurt and two pieces of fruit.

  • Bridegroom Matins

    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 Read more...