Please don’t miss this wonderful Russian tradition – our Sisterhood’s annual Blini Dinner! Immediately following the Divine Liturgy on Sunday, February 15 please join us to enjoy these pre-Lenten treats as we empty the meat and eggs out of our refrigerators! Invite your friends! Tell your neighbors! Don’t miss it!

The date of the annual parish meeting has been set for Sunday, February 15, immediately following the Divine Liturgy. This is also Meatfare Sunday and we will have our annual Blini dinner that day as well. We combined these two activities last year and both were very successful! We assume many people came for the annual meeting and stayed for blini. But perhaps it was the reverse? In any case, it worked well and we will do it again. Please find all the information contined in the annual meeting mailing (which you will soon receive if you have not yet) at this link:

http://stvladimiraami.org/flyers/annualmeeting2015.pdf

Please note that we have made a change to the schedule of services for March 4, 2015. Originally we had scheduled Presanctified Liturgy that evening, but due to an unavoidable conflict we cannot hold Liturgy that evening. We appreciate your understanding and ask forgiveness for any inconvenience.

http://www.stvladimiraami.org/calendars ... lendar.pdf

Did you know that we have a You Tube Channel where we post videos regularly? Today the children's play from Sunday and the Sunday sermon were posted for viewing. There is a lot there! Please check it out:

www.youtube.com/StVladimirChurch

Beginning March 1 we will have a lecture each Sunday of Great Lent as is our usual practice at St. Vladimir's. The weekly lecture will take place during our weekly meal on these Sundays. The schedule is shaping up nicely and all details will be released very soon. For now, please plan to join us for this year's Great Lenten Lecture Series. You may also want to take note of a small addition to the service schedule this year. On March 1, 15, and 29 we will serve the beautiful Sunday Great Vespers after the scheduled lecture. At this service we transition from the weekend paradigm to the weekday paradigm of Great Lent, including the changing of the color of the church from purple to black (as you may recall is done each year at Forgiveness Vespers). Please join us!

LATE BREAKING NEWS! Dr. Roy (Andronik) Robson has confirmed that he will be with us to give the keynote lecture on March 15! Dr. Robson's area of expertise is Slavic Studies, specifically Russian Orthodox Old Belief, and he has written several books on this subject, including one on the monastery of Solovki as a refuge for Old Believers following Patriarch Nikon's reforms. Dr. Robson is an Old Believer himself and grew up in the Nativity of Christ parish in Erie, PA. He was the second reader on Fr. Gregory's doctoral dissertation. You will not want to miss this lecture!

See more on Dr. Robson here:

http://www.gradschool.usciences.edu/faculty/robson-roy

The feast of our Rector's patron saint, St. Gregory the Theologian, falls each year on January 25/February 7. At St. Vladimir's we will make this feast with Vigil at 6:00 p.m. on February 6 and Divine Liturgy on February 7 at 8:00 a.m. Generally Fr. Gregory and his family welcome the St. Vladimir's family to their home on this day, but since St. Gregory's feast falls on a Saturday this year they will instead host a reception in honor of St. Gregory beginning at 6:00 p.m. on February 12 - the secondary feast of St. Gregory. All St. Vladimir's family and friends are invited! Learn more about St. Gregory the Theologian at the links below. And please join us for the Divine Services on the feast of St. Gregory the Theologian as your personal schedule allows.

English:

http://oca.org/saints/lives/2015/01/25/ ... tantinople

Russian:

http://days.pravoslavie.ru/Life/life304.htm

We will hold our annual Ice Cream Ice Skate on Sunday, February 22. Ice Skating at Buhr Park Ice Rink 3:15-4:30 p.m. Ice Cream at Washtenaw Dairy 5:00 p.m. Don't miss this fun last taste of ice cream before Pascha and a nice skate to loosen up your legs after Forgiveness Vespers! A youth activity to which all that are young at heart are welcome!

Buhr Park Web Site:

http://www.a2gov.org/departments/Parks- ... fault.aspx

Washtenaw Dairy Web Site:

http://washtenawdairy.com/

Our Sisterhood's patron saint, St. Xenia of St. Petersburg, is commemorated each year on January 24/February 6. At St. Vladimir's we will mark this important date in our parish calendar with Vigil at 6:00 p.m. on February 5 and Divine Liturgy at 8:00 a.m. on February 6. All members of the Sisterhood are urged to attend one or both of these services as their personal schedule allows, and if at all possible, to partake of the Holy Mysteries on February 6. Please learn more about the remarkable life of St. Xenia at the links below.

English:

http://stxenia.stvladimiraami.org/stati ... ife_in_eng

Russian:

http://stxenia.stvladimiraami.org/stati ... ife_in_rus

We need help serving breakfast to families at the family homeless shelter, Alpha House, on Sunday February 8. If you can help please contact Addie Lanterman in church or via email at infor@stvladimiraami.org. This is a wonderful opportunity to live our faith in a very real way – by serving others (just as Jesus Christ came to minister according to this own words). Please join us!

Wednesday 6:00 p.m. - Weekly Akathist for the Ill

Thursday 6:00 p.m. - Vigil for St. Xenia of St. Petersburg

Friday 8:00 a.m. - Divine Liturgy for St. Xenia of St. Petersburg – SISTERHOOD FEAST DAY!

Friday 6:00 p.m. - Vigil for St. Gregory the Theologian – All English Cycle of Services

Saturday 8:00 a.m. - Divine Liturgy for St. Gregory the Theologian – All English Cycle of Services