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We are pleased to offer plots in our parish cemetery for sale. To learn more please review the Regulations, Rules, and License Agreement at this link:

REGULATIONS, RULES, LICENSE AGREEMENT
You can see the plot map of those spaces available at this link:

LATEST PLOT MAP WITH SPACES AVAILABLE
Please note that parish members receive a discount on the cost of cemetery plots. To learn more about parish membership please visit this link:

ST. VLADIMIR PARISH MEMBERSHIP FORM
Questions or more information: cemetery@stvladimiraami.org

This Sunday we will continue collecting winter clothes for Orthodox Detroit Outreach. They have 10-20 individuals that are homeless that they are helping now (in addition to many more that are housing and food unstable). Therefore, in addition to winter clothes, sleeping bags are needed and welcome. Please contact Marina Edwards at church to learn more or email info@stvladimiraami.org.

Our next Children's Liturgy is sent for Wednesday, December 19 - the feast of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. Please sign your child up to participate today! The hours begin at 8:00 a.m. The sign up sheet can be found here:

SIGN UP SHEET FOR CHILDREN'S LITURGY

Dear St. Vladimir’s Parishioners! We would like to urge you to consider whether making a donation to the parish before December 31, 2018 would be helpful for you as you consider your tax liability for the year 2018. Donations to St. Vladimir Church are deductible to the greatest extent allowable by law. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions in this regard. It is also very important that your address be up to date in our parish database. If you have moved this year please contact our parish Secretary, Alexandre Alexandrov, with your new address. -Mikhail Fisenkov, Treasurer (treasurer@stvladimiraami.org).

We present here a short educational offering for both children and adults on the upcoming Sunday's principle Gospel reading so that all can better prepare for the Divine Services. Parents are asked to review the children’s portion with their children. It is very important for us to attend the Divine Services on Sundays and whenever else we are able, but in addition it is our spiritual responsibility to educate ourselves and our families in the faith. It is our hope that this mid-week offering will be an aid in this regard. Please contact Fr. Gregory with questions or suggestions.

For Adults: from the writings of Blessed Theophylact

For Children: from the Antiochian Archdiocese (various age groups)

Help Baking – email Zhanna Skalitzky at zbukina@yahoo.com.

Help at the Sale – Sign Up Here

Help Publicizing the Sale – Share this Flyer

If we all pitch in we’ll have a GREAT bake sale. Let’s get this done well – together as a parish family!

Below are links to the sign up sheets for the December Youth Group meetings. It is important to have a look at these NOW, because the reading assignments for the 9-12 and Teen groups are there. Please sign up now!

9-12 Year Old December Sign Up

Teen December Sign Up

Young Adult December Sign Up

JOIN US FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF THE ONLY SAINT WHO REPOSED IN ANN ARBOR!

“There is the case of a man minding his own business, sitting at peace and quiet; and when a brother comes up and says an annoying word to him, he is put out by it. And from the circumstances he thinks that he is justifiably angered, and he speaks against the one who troubled him, saying, ‘If he had not come and spoken to me and annoyed me I should not have been at fault.’ This is a delusion: this is false reasoning! It was not the one who spoke that put him in a bad mood. He only showed that it already existed in him; so that he could, if he chose, make reparation for his fault. But the man referred to above is like clean-looking winter wheat, externally good and ready to use; but when someone crushes it, its corruption is revealed. He was sitting at peace but he had this anger inside him and he did not know it. One word to him from the other and the corruption hidden inside him leapt out.”

+ St. Dorotheos of Gaza