Great and Holy Thursday - Vesperal Divine Liturgy of St. Basil
2023-04-13 10:30 - 12:30 (America/Edmonton)
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

Matins with the 12 Gospel Readings
2023-04-13 18:30 - 21:00
Please note change of venue for this service.

Great and Holy Friday - Royal Hours
2023-04-14 10:30 - 12:30
Royal Hours…continuing the journey to Pascha!…a once a year service.

Vespers with Shroud Veneration
2023-04-14 16:30 - 17:45
Taking our Saviour down from the cross and setting up the tomb…

Matins with Praises & Shroud Procession
2023-04-14 18:30 - 21:00
Now we sing the Praises before the tomb and make a procession with the Shroud…

Vesperal Liturgy of Holy Saturday
2023-04-15 10:30 - 13:00
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….”
(Vesperal Liturgy of Holy Saturday)
By using this title the Church links Holy Saturday with the creative act of God. In the initial account of creation as found in the Book of Genesis, God made man in His own image and likeness. To be truly himself, man was to live in constant communion with the source and dynamic power of that image: God. Man fell from God. Now Christ, the Son of God through whom all things were created, has come to restore man to communion with God. He thereby completes creation. All things are again as they should be. His mission is consummated. On the Blessed Sabbath He rests from all His works…read more https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2023/04/15/26-great-and-holy-saturday

Nocturns, Matins and Paschal Divine Liturgy
2023-04-15 22:30 - 2023-04-16 01:30
The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the center of the Christian faith. Saint Paul says that if Christ is not raised from the dead, then our preaching and faith are in vain (I Cor. 15:14). Indeed, without the resurrection there would be no Christian preaching or faith. The disciples of Christ would have remained the broken and hopeless band which the Gospel of John describes as being in hiding behind locked doors for fear of the Jews. They went nowhere and preached nothing until they met the risen Christ, the doors being shut (John 20: 19). Then they touched the wounds of the nails and the spear; they ate and drank with Him. The resurrection became the basis of everything they said and did (Acts 2-4): “. . . for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see that I have” (Luke 24:39).read more… https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2023/04/16/27-holy-pascha-the-resurrection-of-our-lord

Agape Vespers
2023-04-16 13:00 - 15:00
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…

St. Aidan Church Breakfast
2023-04-17 07:30 - 09:30, 2023-05-01 07:30 - 09:30, 2023-05-08 07:30 - 09:30, 2023-05-15 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.

Great Vespers-Tone 1
2023-04-22 17:30 - 18:30

St. Thomas Sunday Divine Liturgy
2023-04-23 10:30 - 12:15
Some icons depicting this event are inscribed “The Doubting Thomas.” This is incorrect. In Greek, the inscription reads, “The Touching of Thomas.” The Slavonic inscription is, “The Belief of Thomas.” When Saint Thomas touched the Life-giving side of the Lord, he no longer had any doubts…read more https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2023/04/23/34-antipascha-saint-thomas-sunday

Great Vespers-Tone 2
2023-04-29 17:30 - 18:30

Sunday of the Holy Myrrhbearing Women with the Noble Joseph Divine Liturgy
2023-04-30 10:30 - 12:15
The Myrrh-bearing women are those women who followed the Lord, along with His Mother. They remained with her during the time of the saving Passion, and anointed the Lord’s body with myrrh. Joseph and Νikόdēmos asked for and received the Lord’s body from Pilate. They took it down from the Cross, wrapped it in linen cloths and spices, then they laid it in a tomb, and then they placed a great stone over the entrance of the tomb… read more: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2023/04/30/36-sunday-of-the-holy-myrrhbearing-women-with-the-noble-joseph

Fast Day
2023-05-03, 2023-05-05, 2023-05-10, 2023-05-12, 2023-05-17, 2023-05-19

St. Aidan Church Breakfast
2023-05-03 07:30 - 09:30, 2023-05-10 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.

Great Vespers-Tone 3
2023-05-06 17:30 - 18:30

Divine Liturgy - Sunday of the Paralytic
2023-05-07 10:30 - 12:15
Many miracles in the Old Testament involve water. To name but a few, the water of the Nile turned to blood after Moses lifted his rod and struck the water before Pharaoh and His servants (Exodus 7:20). Not only was the Nile turned to blood, but also “their rivers, their canals, their ponds, and all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone” …read more, click: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2023/05/07/37-sunday-of-the-paralytic

Great Vespers-Tone 4
2023-05-13 17:30 - 18:30

Divine Liturgy - Sunday of the Samaritan Woman
2023-05-14 10:30 - 12:15
The Holy Martyr Photina (Svetlana) the Samaritan Woman, her sons Victor (named Photinus) and Joses; and her sisters Anatola, Phota, Photis, Paraskevḗ, Kyriake; Nero’s daughter Domnina; and the Martyr Sebastian: The holy Martyr Photina was the Samaritan Woman, with whom the Savior conversed at Jacob’s Well (John. 4:5-42)…Click to read more: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2023/05/14/39-sunday-of-the-samaritan-woman

Great Vespers-Tone 5
2023-05-20 17:30 - 18:30

Divine Liturgy - Sunday of the Blind Man
2023-05-21 10:30 - 12:15
At the end of Chapter 8 in Gospel of Saint John, the Savior was disputing with the Pharisees in the Temple during the Feast of Tabernacles. He told them, “Your father Abraham was glad that he should see my day; and he saw it and rejoiced” (John 8:56). The Jews said that Jesus was not even fifty years old, so how could He claim to have seen Abraham? The Lord replied, “Before Abraham was, I am.” I am, of course, is the name that God revealed to Moses in the Burning Bush. When the Jews picked up stones to throw at Him, He hid Himself and went out of the Temple… read more: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2023/05/21/40-sunday-of-the-blind-man
