Saint Aidan Orthodox Church

Lenten Soup Supper
2023-09-22 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Edmonton) | St. Aidan Orthodox Church, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Following the Moleben

Moleben-Service of Thanksgiving
2023-09-22 18:00 - 18:30 | St. Aidan Orthodox Church, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

Meet and Greet with Archbishop Irénée
2023-09-22 16:30 - 18:00 | St. Aidan Orthodox Church, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

Divine Liturgy
2023-09-17 10:30 - 12:30
The Holy Martyrs Saint Sophia and her Daughters Faith, Hope and Love were born in Italy. Their mother was a pious Christian widow who named her daughters for the three Christian virtues. Faith was twelve, Hope was ten, and Love was nine. Saint Sophia raised them in the love of the Lord Jesus Christ. Saint Sophia and her daughters did not hide their faith in Christ, but openly confessed it before everyone.

Great Vespers Tone 6
2023-09-16 17:30 - 18:30

Fast Day
2023-09-15, 2023-09-06, 2023-08-30, 2023-08-25, 2023-08-23, 2023-08-18

The Universal Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross
2023-09-14
The pagan Roman Emperors tried to obliterate the holy places where our Lord Jesus Christ suffered and rose from the dead, so that they would be forgotten. Emperor Hadrian (117-138) ordered that Golgotha and the Lord’s Sepulchre be buried, and that a temple in honour of the pagan “goddess” Venus and a statue of Jupiter be placed there.
Pagans gathered at this place and offered sacrifice to idols. Eventually after 300 years, by Divine Providence, the Christian holy places, the Sepulchre of the Lord, and the Life-giving Cross, were discovered and opened for veneration. This took place under Emperor Constantine the Great (306-337) after his victory over Maxentius (in 312), who ruled the Western part of the Roman Empire, and over Licinius, the ruler of its Eastern part. In the year 323 Constantine became the sole ruler of the vast Roman Empire…click to continue : https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2023/09/14/102610-the-universal-exaltation-of-the-precious-and-life-giving-cross

St. Aidan Church Breakfast
2023-09-13 07:30 - 09:30
A free breakfast is served the first two Wednesdays of every month.
Wednesday breakfast consists of burritos with coffee, juice, yogurt and two pieces of fruit.

Strict Fast Day
2023-09-13

St. Aidan Church Breakfast
2023-09-11 07:30 - 09:30, 2023-08-28 07:30 - 09:30, 2023-08-21 07:30 - 09:30
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.

Divine Liturgy - Afterfeast of the Nativity of the Theotokos
2023-09-10 10:30 - 12:15
This may be our last service in the BGC…next Sunday, God grant, Divine Liturgy will be served in our newly renovated home… 🙂
Today we commemorate The Holy Virgins Menodora, Nymphodora, and Metrodora (305-311), were sisters from Bithynia (Asia Minor). Distinguished for their special piety, they wanted to preserve their virginity and avoid worldly associations. They chose a solitary place for themselves in the wilderness and spent their lives in deeds of fasting and prayer…click to continue : https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2023/09/10/102557-martyrs-menodora-metrodora-and-nymphodora-at-nicomedia

Great Vespers Tone 5
2023-09-09 17:30 - 18:30

The Nativity of our Most Holy Lady the Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary
2023-09-08
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 permit the ruin of mankind.
The Son of God chose to take on human nature for the salvation of mankind, and chose as His Mother the All-Pure Virgin Mary, who alone was worthy to give birth to the Source of purity and holiness…click to continue: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2023/09/08/102541-the-nativity-of-our-most-holy-lady-the-mother-of-god-and-ever-vi

St. Aidan Breakfast
2023-09-06 07:30 - 09:30, 2023-09-04 07:30 - 09:30

Divine Liturgy
2023-09-03 10:30 - 12:15

Great Vespers Tone 4
2023-09-02 17:30 - 18:30

St. Aidan Feastday
2023-08-31
Saint Aidan, a steadfast defender of Celtic practices against the imposition of Roman usage, was born in Ireland (then called Scotland) in the seventh century. As a monk of the monastery founded by Saint Columba (June 9) on the island of Iona, he was known for his strict asceticism…more to read at: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2023/08/31/102445-saint-aidan-bishop-of-lindesfarne

Divine Liturgy
2023-08-27 09:30 - 23:15
This Divine Liturgy will NOT be served in Cranbrook. It will be served this one time at the Family Camp in Riondel, BC

Saint Pimen the Great was born about the year 340 in Egypt. He went to one of the Egyptian monasteries with his two brothers, Anoub and Paisius, and all three received monastic tonsure. The brothers were such strict ascetics that when their mother came to the monastery to see her children, they did not come out to her from their cells. The mother stood there for a long time and wept. Then Saint Pimen said to her through the closed door of the cell, “Do you wish to see us now, or in the future life?” Saint Pimen promised that if she would endure the sorrow of not seeing her children in this life, then surely she would see them in the next. The mother was humbled and returned home…https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2023/08/27/102404-venerable-pimen-the-great

Great Vespers-Tone 3
2023-08-26 16:30 - 17:15
Great Vespers will NOT be served in Cranbrook. It will be served this one time at the Family Camp in Riondel, BC.

Family Camp
2023-08-25 14:00 - 2023-08-28 11:00
Check in begins at 2 pm PST… (an hour after our time MST)
Supper begins at 5:30 pm.

Divine Liturgy of the Afterfeast of the Dormition of our Most Holy Lady the Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary
2023-08-20 10:30 - 12:15
On the fourth day of the Afterfeast of the Dormition, the Church continues to honour the passage of the Most Holy Theotokos from death to life. Just as Christ once dwelt in the virginal womb of His Mother, now He takes Her “to dwell in His courts.”…taken from oca.org

Great Vespers-Tone 2
2023-08-19 17:30 - 18:15
