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  • Great Vespers-Tone-7

    St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

    All are welcome to join us in worship.

  • Festal Divine Liturgy of the Meeting of our Lord in the Temple

    St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

    The Meeting of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ is described in the third Gospel (Luke 2:22-40). Forty days after His birth the Divine Child was brought to the Temple at Jerusalem to be presented to the Lord. According to the Law of Moses (Lev. 12:2-8), a woman who gave birth to a male Read more...

  • Divine Liturgy of Zaccheus Sunday

    St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

    The paschal season of the Church is preceded by the season of Great Lent, which is also preceded by its own liturgical preparation. The first sign of the approach of Great Lent comes five Sundays before its beginning. On this Sunday the Gospel reading is about Zacchaeus the tax-collector. It tells how Christ brought salvation Read more...

  • Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee.-Divine Liturgy

    St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

    The Sunday after the Sunday of Zacchaeus is devoted to the Publican and the Pharisee. At Vespers the night before, the Triodion (the liturgical book used in the services of Great Lent) begins... Click to continue reading: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/02/13/2-sunday-of-the-publican-and-the-pharisee-embeginning-of-the-lente

  • Great Vespers-Tone 2

    St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

  • Divine Liturgy -The Sunday of the Prodigal Son

    St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

    The Sunday after the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee is the Sunday of the Prodigal Son. This parable of God’s forgiveness calls us to “come to ourselves” as did the prodigal son, to see ourselves as being “in a far country” far from the Father’s house, and to make the journey of return Read more...

  • Divine Liturgy- Sunday of the Last Judgement

    St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

    Today’s Gospel reading is Matthew 25:31-46, the parable of the Last Judgment. It reminds us that while trusting in Christ’s love and mercy, we must not forget His righteous judgment when He comes again in glory. If our hearts remain hardened and unrepentant, we should not expect the Lord to overlook our transgressions simply because Read more...

  • Great Vespers-Tone 4

    St. Aidan Orthodox Church Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

  • Divine Liturgy- Cheesefare Sunday

    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 Read more...

  • Forgiveness Sunday Vespers

    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

  • Divine Liturgy-The Annunciation of the Holy Virgin Mary

    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 Read more...