Saint Aidan Orthodox Church

Fast Day
2023-05-24, 2023-05-19, 2023-05-17, 2023-05-12, 2023-05-10, 2023-05-05, 2023-05-03

St. Aidan Church Breakfast
2023-05-22 07:30 - 09:30, 2023-05-15 07:30 - 09:30, 2023-05-08 07:30 - 09:30, 2023-05-01 07:30 - 09:30, 2023-04-17 07:30 - 09:30 (America/Edmonton)
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 - 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

Great Vespers-Tone 5
2023-05-20 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 4
2023-05-13 17:30 - 18:30

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

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 3
2023-05-06 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

Great Vespers-Tone 2
2023-04-29 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 1
2023-04-22 17:30 - 18:30

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…

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

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

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…

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

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.
