Please find a sign up sheet for our Alpha House efforts at this link:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZYD3jC1XHNclUu33kX7w-3GpyAMazGgmdDQJ2nvaxI4/edit?usp=sharing

YOU MUST reach out to Addie Lanterman (her information is at that link) if you have not volunteered at Alpha House previously.

Please join us to help those less fortunate in our area!

Please join us for a live broadcast of today's Great Compline beginning at 6:00 p.m. at the following link:

http://www.stvladimiraami.org:8000/liturgy.ogg.m3u

If you have any trouble with the live stream please visit this link:

http://soundoftheparish.blogspot.com/p/ ... dimir.html

If the information at that link does not help please email info@stvladimiraami.org and we will assist you as soon as possible (but after the Divine Service).

Please remember - the stream only broadcasts live services. If you would like to listen to previously recorded and edited services please visit our sound blog:

http://soundoftheparish.blogspot.com/

With the blessing of His Eminence, Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America & New York, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, and our ruling Hierarch, Bishop Peter of Cleveland, the Kursk Icon will visit St. Vladimir Church on the following dates and times:

Friday, April 8: 8:00 a.m – 12:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 9: 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. (perhaps over night - see below)
Sunday, April 10: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Note that these dates and times correspond to Divine Services at St. Vladimir's. It would be ideal to organize the icon to stay at St. Vladimir's overnight from April 9 to April 10. We have managed that the last few times the icon has visited and we will try to do that again this time. According to the established rule, two men must be present at all times with the icon. In past years there have been many more people than that who took part in the reading of the akathist and the singing of hymns before the icon overnight of course, but we cannot assume that will just work out. Thus, we have established a sign up sheet for the hours the icon would need to be at St. Vladimir's overnight. You can find that sheet at this link:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QDwgcgB597qtmbKxmvZOnqQkSnj2RDunAsYjDEZ1jek/edit?usp=sharing

Please sign up as soon as possible. Please contact Fr. Gregory with questions.

Please join us for a live broadcast of today's Great Compline beginning at 6:00 p.m. at the following link:

http://www.stvladimiraami.org:8000/liturgy.ogg.m3u

If you have any trouble with the live stream please visit this link:

http://soundoftheparish.blogspot.com/p/ ... dimir.html

If the information at that link does not help please email info@stvladimiraami.org and we will assist you as soon as possible (but after the Divine Service).

Please remember - the stream only broadcasts live services. If you would like to listen to previously recorded and edited services please visit our sound blog:

http://soundoftheparish.blogspot.com/

YOUNG ADULTS! Who are you? If you think you belong in this group you probably do! We are talking about college age and grad school age folks, but if you are a bit over that you are welcome too! :)

Please join us for our monthly meal this coming Sunday at 6:00 p.m. The food will be Lenten - and tasty! The topic will be “The Divine Services – Theology in Action”. Plus we will discuss all things Great Lent. Do not miss! RSVP and more information:

http://goo.gl/forms/mLnbeYwCXq

Please join us for a live broadcast of today's Great Compline beginning at 6:00 p.m. at the following link:

http://www.stvladimiraami.org:8000/liturgy.ogg.m3u

If you have any trouble with the live stream please visit this link:

http://soundoftheparish.blogspot.com/p/ ... dimir.html

If the information at that link does not help please email info@stvladimiraami.org and we will assist you as soon as possible (but after the Divine Service).

Please remember - the stream only broadcasts live services. If you would like to listen to previously recorded and edited services please visit our sound blog:

http://soundoftheparish.blogspot.com/

Please join us for a live broadcast of today's Great Compline beginning at 6:00 p.m. at the following link:

http://www.stvladimiraami.org:8000/liturgy.ogg.m3u

If you have any trouble with the live stream please visit this link:

http://soundoftheparish.blogspot.com/p/ ... dimir.html

If the information at that link does not help please email info@stvladimiraami.org and we will assist you as soon as possible (but after the Divine Service).

Please remember - the stream only broadcasts live services. If you would like to listen to previously recorded and edited services please visit our sound blog:

http://soundoftheparish.blogspot.com/

The Holy Church appoints several special Saturdays throughout the year on which we especially commemorate our departed friends and loved ones. At St. Vladimir’s we will serve the following memorial services on the following dates this Great Lent:

March 5: Divine Liturgy 8:00 a.m. (Vespers and Matins for the departed the evening prior at 6:00 p.m.)

March 26: Divine Liturgy 9:00 a.m. (Matins for the departed the evening prior at 6:00 p.m.)

April 2: Divine Liturgy 8:00 a.m. (Matins for the departed the evening prior at 6:00 p.m.) - All English Cycle

April 9: Divine Liturgy 9:00 a.m. (Matins for the departed the evening prior at 6:00 p.m.)

Please join us for those services that you are able to and for those you are not: please assure the commemoration of your friends and loved ones at the services by emailing their names (please distinguish between Orthodox and non-Orthodox departed) to info@stvladimiraami.org or by otherwise contacting Fr. Gregory.

FOCUS is collecting reading books for kids K-6th grade. March is "Reading Month". Help us by collecting books and becoming a Tutor. More info:

www.focusdetroit.org

Thank You!

For Those We Serve,

Eric Shanburn, Director

FELLOWSHIP OF ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS UNITED TO SERVE
"Empowering Detroit Children Experiencing Poverty to Succeed in School"
4750 Woodward Ave
Detroit, MI 48201
www.focusmotorcity.org
248-671-4483

Please note that Great Lent begins this year on March 14. The week previous to this is a week where all foods are allowed except for meat. During Great Lent we abstain from meat and dairy products including fish (although fish is allowed on the Annunciation – April 7, and Palm Sunday – April 24). Let us recall that fasting is a tool given to us by God to aid us spiritually. For some it is easy to fast, for others it is difficult. However, what is most important is that we make a sincere effort to follow the fast. Why? Simply because the fast helps us to see our sins by helping us to focus spiritually. Eating “light” foods, or perhaps rather, abstaining from “heavy” foods such as meats and cheeses, allows us to be less focused on our stomachs and more focused on our souls, and of course, in this season when we undergo our journey to the Resurrection of our Lord we dearly wish to improve ourselves spiritually that we might meet the risen Christ better than we were when we began Great Lent. St. John Chrysostom writes that we abstain from meats that we might abstain from our sins. This nicely sums up the reason the Holy Church, as a loving mother, gives us the gift of fasting. Pascha is May 1 – may God grant us all a spiritually profitable Great Lent!