Saint Aidan Orthodox Church

St. Aidan Church Breakfast
2022-02-28 07:30 - 09:00, 2022-03-07 07:30 - 09:00, 2022-03-14 07:30 - 09:00, 2022-03-21 07:30 - 09:00, 2022-03-28 07:30 - 09:00 (America/Edmonton) | 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.

St. Aidan Church Breakfast
2022-03-02 07:30 - 09:00, 2022-03-09 07:30 - 09:00 | St. Aidan Orthodox Church, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
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.

Great Vespers-Tone 4
2022-03-05 17:30 - 18:15 | St. Aidan Orthodox Church, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

Divine Liturgy- Cheesefare Sunday
2022-03-06 10:30 - 12:15 | St. Aidan Orthodox Church, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
As we begin the Great Fast, the Church reminds us of Adam’s expulsion from Paradise. God commanded Adam to fast (Gen. 2:16), but he did not obey. Because of their disobedience, Adam and Eve were cast out of Eden and lost the life of blessedness, knowledge of God, and communion with Him, for which they were created. Both they and their descendants became heirs of death and corruption…to continue reading, click: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/03/06/7-sunday-of-cheesefare-expulsion-of-adam-from-paradise .

Forgiveness Sunday Vespers
2022-03-06 14:00 - 16:00 | St. Aidan Orthodox Church, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
In the Orthodox Church, the last Sunday before Great Lent – the day on which, at Vespers, Lent is liturgically announced and inaugurated – is called Forgiveness Sunday…continue reading the article by Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann click: https://www.oca.org/reflections/fr-alexander-schmemann/forgiveness-sunday

Great Lent
2022-03-07 00:00 - 2022-04-23 23:59
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 Compline of St. Andrew of Crete CANCELLED
2022-03-07 17:30 - 18:30 | St. Aidan Orthodox Church, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
A basic distinguishing feature of the Great Canon is its extremely broad use of images and subjects taken both from the Old and New Testaments. As the Canon progresses, the congregation encounters many biblical examples of sin and repentance. The Bible (and therefore, the Canon) speaks of some individuals in a positive light, and about others in a negative one—to continue reading, click: https://orthodoxwiki.org/Great_Canon

Ortho 101 Lenten Zoom Study CANCELLED
2022-03-08 19:00 - 20:30
You are Welcome to join in any Tuesday that works for you. Each Tuesday will be a stand-alone class. Feel free to invite anyone you think might be interested. Join in with them or just check out a class or two yourself. This course will run for the duration of Great Lent, to allow us to grow deeper in our relationship with Christ.

Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
2022-03-09 17:30 - 19:30 | St. Aidan Orthodox Church, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
The eucharistic Divine Liturgy is not celebrated in the Orthodox Church on Lenten weekdays. In order for the faithful to sustain their Lenten effort by participation in Holy Communion, the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts is served. The service is an ancient one in the Orthodox Church. We officially hear about it in the canons of the seventh century, which obviously indicates its development at a much earlier date… read the rest at https://www.oca.org/orthodoxy/the-orthodox-faith/worship/the-church-year/liturgy-of-the-presanctified-gifts
We also commemorate Martyr Quadratus and those with him at Corinth. To read his life story, click the following link: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/03/10/100751-martyr-quadratus-and-those-with-him-at-corinth

Akathist Hymn/Book Study
2022-03-11 17:30 - 19:30

Memorial Divine Liturgy
2022-03-12 10:30 - 12:00 | St. Aidan Orthodox Church, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Today we remember those in our lives who have fallen asleep. We bring our lists and the names are commemorated during the Liturgy.
1st Saturday of Great Lent: The Miracle of the Boiled Wheat
Today we remember the miracle of Saint Theodore the Recruit and the boiled wheat. Fifty years after Saint Theodore’s martyrdom, Emperor Julian the Apostate (361-363), devised a plan to corrupt the Christians during the first week of Great Lent…Saint Theodore appeared to Archbishop Eudoxios in a dream, telling him to assemble all the Christians on Monday morning and tell them that they must not buy any food from the marketplace. Instead they were to boil some kollyva and to eat it with some honey during that week. The hierarch asked Saint Theodore what he meant by kollyva. He replied, “Kollyva is what we call boiled wheat in Euchaita.” Thus the scheme of the idol-worshipping emperor was thwarted and the pious people were preserved undefiled during Clean Week…read more at: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/03/12/9-1st-saturday-of-great-lent-the-miracle-of-the-boiled-wheat

Great Vespers-Tone 5
2022-03-12 17:30 - 18:15 | St. Aidan Orthodox Church, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

Divine Liturgy-Sunday of Orthodoxy
2022-03-13 08:00 - 17:00 | St. Aidan Orthodox Church, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
The first Sunday of Great Lent is called the Sunday of Orthodoxy. It commemorates the restoration of the Holy Icons and the triumph of the Orthodox Faith against the terrible heresy of the Iconoclasts. As in those heretics who refused to honour the Holy Icons. For more than a hundred years the Church was disturbed by the evil doctrine of iconoclasm…to continue reading click: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/03/13/10-1st-sunday-of-great-lent-sunday-of-orthodoxy

Ortho 101 Lenten Zoom Study
2022-03-15 19:00 - 20:30, 2022-03-22 19:00 - 20:30, 2022-03-29 19:00 - 20:30

Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
2022-03-16 17:30 - 19:30 | St. Aidan Orthodox Church, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
As well as serving the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, we also commemorate the Venerable Alexis the Man of God
Saint Alexis was born at Rome into the family of the pious and poverty-loving Euphemianus and Aglais. The couple was childless for a long time and constantly prayed the Lord to grant them a child. And the Lord consoled the couple with the birth of their son Alexis…read about him at: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/03/17/100822-venerable-alexis-the-man-of-god

Akathist Hymn/Book Study
2022-03-18 17:30 - 19:30 | St. Aidan Orthodox Church, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

Greaat Vespers-Tone 6
2022-03-19 17:30 - 18:15 | St. Aidan Orthodox Church, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

Divine Liturgy-Sunday of Gregory Palamas
2022-03-20 10:30 - 12:30 | St. Aidan Orthodox Church, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
This Sunday was originally dedicated to Saint Polycarp of Smyrna (February 23). After his glorification in 1368, a second commemoration of Saint Gregory Palamas (November 14) was appointed for the Second Sunday of Great Lent as a second “Triumph of Orthodoxy.”…his life story continues at:https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/03/20/12-2nd-sunday-of-great-lent-st-gregory-palamas

Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
2022-03-23 17:30 - 19:30 | St. Aidan Orthodox Church, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Today we the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts. we also commemorate the Forefeast of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary.

Great Vespers with Lytia for the Annunciation
2022-03-24 17:30 - 18:30 | St. Aidan Orthodox Church, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

Divine Liturgy-The Annunciation of the Holy Virgin Mary
2022-03-25 08:00 - 09:30 | St. Aidan Orthodox Church, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
The Feast of the Annunciation is one of the earliest Christian feasts, and was already being celebrated in the fourth century. There is a painting of the Annunciation in the catacomb of Priscilla in Rome dating from the second century. The Council of Toledo in 656 mentions the Feast, and the Council in Trullo in 692 says that the Annunciation was celebrated during Great Lent.
More on the Annunciation at: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/03/25/100884-the-annunciation-of-our-most-holy-lady-the-theotokos-and-ever-vi

Great Vespers-Tone 7
2022-03-26 17:30 - 18:15 | St. Aidan Orthodox Church, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

Divine Liturgy-Veneration of the Life-giving Cross
2022-03-27 10:30 - 12:30 | St. Aidan Orthodox Church, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
The Third Sunday of Lent is that of the Veneration of the Cross. The cross stands in the midst of the church in the middle of the lenten season not merely to remind men of Christ’s redemption and to keep before them the goal of their efforts, but also to be venerated as that reality by which man must live to be saved. “He who does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me” (Mt.10:38). For in the Cross of Christ Crucified lies both “the power of God and the wisdom of God” for those being saved (1 Cor.1:24).
This was taken from oca.org.
