Evening Presanctified Liturgies ~ Литургия Преждеосвященных Даров 2022

Wednesday, March 16
Wednesday, March 23
Wednesday, March 30
TUESDAY, April 5
Wednesday, April 13

Matins & Great Lenten Hours
Утреня и великопостные
часы 3:00 p.m.

Presanctified Liturgy
Литургия Преждеосвященных Даров ~6:00 p.m.

Following Liturgy: Lenten Dinner + Bible Study ~ После Литургии: Постный Ужин и Духовная Беседа

The Liturgical Fast for those communing begins after breakfast. In other words, you may eat breakfast, but eat or drink nothing further after that. Parents should use their best judgment regarding their children, as always. Those who confessed on the weekend prior to the Wednesday Presanctified need not confess again on/before Wednesday.

Пост для причащающихся начинается после завтрака, т.е. можно позавтракать, но не пить и не есть после завтрака. Как всегда, родители должны сами решить, что лучше всего подходит для детей. Исповедовавшиеся в предшествующую субботу или воскресенье в среду могут не исповедоваться.

Infants do not commune at this Liturgy ~ Младенцы не причащаются на этой Литургии

The 2021 parish meeting is set for Sunday, February 27, 2022 during annual bili dinner, immediately following the Divine Liturgy that day.

The agenda for the meeting is very full, and we value your time. In this regard, we will not give presentations on the reports below at the annual meeting, but rather, we offer them here so that you can read them in advance. Each report will be assigned 5 minutes for questions and answers. Reports will be posted not later than 12:00 noon on Wednesday, February 23, 2022. If you would like to ask your question in advance, please do so using this form. Answers to questions asked in advance will be posted at this link.

Annual Meeting Letter & Agenda

Rector's Report
Starosta's Report
Treasurer's Report
Sisterhood Report
Brotherhood Report
Youth Group Report
Church School Report
Membership Report
Building Team Report
Social Outreach Parish Report

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 All: from the Antiochian Archdiocese (various age groups)

During Great Lent at all weekday services, and on many Saturdays (beginning even before Great Lent with the first Soul Saturday on February 26) the departed are specially commemorated.

Other Soul Saturdays this Great Lent:

Saturday, March 19
Saturday, March 26
Saturday, April 2
You can arrange commemoration of your friends and loved ones by visiting our special page in this regard here:

COMMEMORATIONS AT THE DIVINE LITURGY
There is lots of good information there and you should read that all at some point. If you don’t have time to do that now please visit our on-line form to submit names (under the commemoration of the departed you can choose “Great Lent 2022: All Weekday Services + Soul Saturdays”):

COMMEMORATION ON-LINE SUBMITAL FORM
If you are in a financial position to make a donation for commemorating your loved ones you can do that here – if you aren’t this is not a problem since the Church does not charge for prayer, but is thankful for donations in this regard:

DONATIONS AT STV

We understand that these days different people have different thresholds of comfort with crowds, like the large number of people that gather at St. Vladimir’s on Sunday mornings. Please consider one of our weekday services if Sunday does not work for you. We have Liturgy every Wednesday, and often other weekdays as well. The full schedule of services can be found here:

PARISH MONTHLY SCHEDULE
We invite you to join us on our live stream if you cannot come to the church – you can find more information on that here:

LIVE STREAM INFORMATION
Those that have symptoms should remain at home. Our priests are happy to visit you as needed. Those who have tested positive for Covid should remain at home until they have completed the course of their disease. More information in this regard can be found on the Center for Disease Control’s web site:

CDC COVID ADVICE
It is time to begin to prepare ourselves spiritually for the end of the pandemic, because it will end. If we are not comfortable coming to church on Saturday night/Sunday morning we really need to push ourselves to be at church some other time during the week when there are fewer people present. The longer we simply allow ourselves to fall out of the habit of attending church AT ALL during the pandemic the harder it will be to come back to church when this is all over. Thus, NOW is the time to start reestablishing the habit of church attendance, even if not on Sunday. Success only comes before work in the dictionary, and building good habits is hard work. So let us work towards success! With our sincere effort and God’s help we will prepare ourselves to be back in church every Saturday night and every Sunday morning – with even BETTER church attendance than we practiced before the pandemic. Let this be our goal: to turn the time we spent away from church during the pandemic into even more frequent church attendance when the pandemic ends!

Please plan to join us for the annual commemoration of the Hieromartyr Haralampus on Tuesday evening at 6:00 p.m. and Wednesday morning at 8:00 a.m.

Following the Liturgy on Wednesday we will have our Pre-K catechism. More information and a sign up sheet can be found here:

WEDNESDAY PRE-K CATECHISM
In addition, we will celebrate the first of the Great Lenten Soul Saturdays this Friday evening at 6:00 p.m. and Saturday morning at 8:00 a.m.

If you cannot come to the Evening Services or Liturgy please try to join us on one of our live streams:

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As of August 20, 2021 we recommend (but do not mandate) masking for indoor activities.

Learn More: Hieromartyr Haralampus – English

Learn More: Hieromartyr Haralampus – Russian