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

Save the date for a barbecue fundraiser for the Ann Arbor Orthodox Classical Academy! Lent will be over. Join us for a delicious non-Lenten lunch for a great cause! It is time to finish our school! So we’ll kick off a new campaign *to raise the last funds needed* at this fundraiser. Much more to come soon – but save the date for a great meal for a great cause at STV on April 30, 2022 about noon. Help build your parish school – create a legacy for generations to come!

Lots of folks in our parish family have family in Ukraine now that they might want to bring to the USA. If you are in this situation please contact our Starosta, Jack Mitchell. He also has family in Ukraine and is collecting information about best practices to help those there get here. Contact Jack at starosta@stvladimiraami.org or 734-395-5453.

A parish family has offered $7,500 to our parish as a matching grant to help pay for the septic system for our school through Great Lent (through 4/24/22). How do we match that gift?

CREDIT CARD OR ZELLE

Check at STV or Send via Post:
9900 Jackson Rd.
Dexter, MI 48130
Whether you give by Credit Card, Zelle, or Check please note “Matching Grant”.

For every $1 given as a donation to St. Vladimir’s we get $1 of that matching grant.

HELP US MEET THE MATCH! MAKE YOUR DONATION TODAY!
If you have questions please email our Treasurer, Mikhail Fisenkov, at treasurer@stvladimiraami.org!

Mark your calendars for April 9 at 10:00 a.m. at STV for our Pre-Pascha cleanup! Pascha is April 24 – and we need to get our 11 acres of land in shape for the feast of feasts and the day of days. Many hands make light work, and to be honest, it is just more fun when we get a bunch of folks together to accomplish something good! So join us! We’ll have some lenten food for you too – so you’ll have plenty of energy to do plenty of good.

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 Various Ages: from the Antiochian Archdiocese (various age groups)

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

There are many people in the parish already donating time, talent, and treasure to our parish school. And we are VERY THANKFUL for you all! We invite those who are not doing so to yet visit our school webs site and learn how you can help. Who can help? EVERYONE! Unless you have neither time, nor talent, nor treasure. But there is NO HUMAN that does not have at least one of those things. So we can all help! Please visit the link below to find out how:

FRIENDS OF A2OCA

Please plan to join us Wednesday morning at 9:00 a.m. for Midnight Office. Following the Midnight Office on Wednesday we will have our Pre-K catechism. More information and a sign up sheet can be found here:

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

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

On Wednesday at approximately 6:30 p.m. we will serve the Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts. Preparatory services begin at 3:00 p.m. with Matins, followed by the Great Lenten Hours and Typica. Following the Liturgy we will hold a Lenten Pot Luck meal. To volunteer to bring something please contact our Head Sister, Leta Nikulshina, at headsister@stvladimiraami.org. 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.

On Friday at approximately 11:30 a.m. we will serve the Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts. Preparatory services begin at 8:00 a.m. with Matins, followed by the Great Lenten Hours and Typica.

Friday evening at 6:00 p.m. and Saturday morning at 8:00 a.m. we will serve the last of the Soul Saturdays of Great Lent. If you haven’t had a chance to participate in one of these beautiful services this is your last change this Great Lent. 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.

We must strive so that all our life, as a whole, and not certain hours and days, is based on the Law of God. We must arrange all of our activities so that they are in agreement with the will of God. Only under these conditions will our heart be pure, and “only the pure in heart will see God.” (Matthew 5:8)

Venerable Nikon of Optina
Living without Hypocrisy