With the blessing of Archbishop Peter our annual fall pilgrimage to Holy Cross Monastery in West Virginia is slated for October 21-23, 2016. This pilgrimage fills up fast every year! Please register today by contacting our Parish Council member Dmitri Knysh at info@stvladimiraami.org or by seeing him in church. First come first served - register today!

Flyer suitable for sharing with others:

http://stvladimiraami.org/flyers/holycross2016.pdf

Please join us for the feast of St. Vladimir this year - our 35th anniversary! Take the day off and participate in the second Pascha of our parish!

Metropolitan Jonah and Bishop Longin will join us in addition to Archbishop Peter!

Following the Liturgy on July 28 we will have a festive meal. ALL ARE INVITED! Please ask for the day off NOW to assure that you can participate on July 28. The patron feast day of a parish is equal to PASCHA. We would never miss Pascha and we don't want to miss our feast day either! This year we celebrate 35 years as a parish. This is a significant milestone – please join us to mark it! Like to help? Please contact Snezhana Knysh (info@stvladimiraami.org). Snezhana is leading the planning of the event. See you on July 28!

Flyer to share:

http://stvladimiraami.org/flyers/stvladimirday16.pdf

Please note that tomorrow's meal after the Divine Liturgy is a monthly building fund dinner. The email that went out on Friday did not have this information correct. Irina's group is leading. Do not miss it!

It is a true blessing to have the opportunity to partake of Holy Communion on one's patron saint's day. Fr. Gregory is willing to consider serving Liturgy on your name's day – yes YOURS. If you would be willing to attend the Divine Services on the eve of the feast and on the feast itself, and to partake of Holy Communion on that day please contact him. This is not a guarantee that we can do this – but we can certainly try. But please don't tell him a week before. Something like six months before would be better – three months before as a minimum. See Fr. Gregory with questions!

As the weather improves missionaries from various religions tend to appear at our homes. At St. Vladimir's we have many pamphlets and booklets on the Orthodox Faith that are free for anyone to take. These can be found at the back of the church near the main entrance doors. Please feel free to take information home with you to share with the missionaries that come to visit you. It seems only fair that if they want us to take their information that we offer them information about Orthodox Christianity. Many missionaries have found the Orthodox Church in this way. No one is mandated to do this, but if you would like to you are welcome to. Please feel free to contact Fr. Gregory with questions in this regard.

We present here a short educational offering for both children and adults. 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: the explanation of the Sunday gospel reading from Blessed Theophylact:

http://chrysostompress.org/c_4th_pentecost.html

For Children – an activity based on last Sunday's Gospel reading for various ages:

http://www.antiochian.org/sites/default ... 6-28-b.pdf

Today the Holy Church commemorates the martyric struggle of Sts. Elizabeth and Barbara, New Martyrs of Russia. Please find information on the lives of these saints below. We congratulate all with the feast - especially those celebrating their name's days today!

English:

https://oca.org/saints/lives/2015/07/18/101915-grand-duchess-elizabeth

http://oca.org/saints/lives/2015/07/18/ ... yr-barbara

Russian:

days.pravoslavie.ru/Life/life357.htm

It is understood that everyone wants to support St. Vladimir's. But sometimes we don't make it to church. We reflect on this most about this time of year, when we plan vacations and we know we are going to be gone. How to make sure that we are still supporting our parish when we are unable to be in church? The best way is to fill out an ACH form and get it to our Treasurer or Starosta. You can find the ACH form here – please print and fill one out today:

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

The feast of Sts. Peter & Paul is tonight and tomorrow. Please join us for this important feast of the Holy Church - so important that it is one or four feasts with a lenten period leading up to it. Congratulations to all our Peters and Pauls celebrating their name's days! We ask also your prayers for previous Rectors of our parish and the parish in Ann Arbor that existed in the 1950s: Archpriests Peter & Paul. See you soon for the feast!

Find all information about this year's VBS at this link:

http://goo.gl/forms/odvXyypZ22xGCKcJ2

That is all! Please visit the link and register today! ALL ARE WELCOME!