The public school year begins just after Labor Day in Michigan. Moreover, we will begin Church School instruction on September 24. Thus, to cover all those beginning school at this time of year - both students and teachers - we will hold our annual molben for the beginning of instruction on Sunday, September 4, at the very end of the Liturgy. Please join us!

Please find our September schedule of services and activities at this link:

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

Pass the word!

The adult discussion group has waned a bit in the last few years and that is fine. Everyone is busy and getting together can be difficult and this is understood. These things are not written in stone and can change. So we will change! We have worked for several years with our youth groups on social outreach – helping those who are in need. It is important to live our faith in this way – to minister to others just as our Lord ministered and ministers to us. There are several local social service agencies that we can work with. Some we have worked with in our youth group efforts and this has been a very positive opportunity for our youth. But it isn't only the young people that need to live their faith – we all do! So this year we would like to give specific opportunities for our adults to serve – about once per month. But we need some help facilitating these opportunities. The time commitment would not be terribly large – perhaps an hour a month working with Fr. Gregory to arrange opportunities for our adult parishioners to help others, as well as a few more hours participating in the ministry itself as we help others. Please contact Fr. Gregory if you can help! We'd like to begin our work in September, so help is needed very soon to facilitate that September date. Please help your parish family members grow spiritually as we make a more conscious effort to reach out to and work actively in the name of our Lord in our local community!

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!

Please plan to join us on the second annual Walk of Life Procession! Register now at the link below:

https://goo.gl/forms/P1JPnxKikR1Aw7sa2

Volunteer to help now by emailing info@stvladimiraami.org. Don't miss this great opportunity!

Please note that His Eminence Archbishop Peter of Chicago & Mid-America will be leading the Divine Services at the Dormition Cathedral in Ferndale, MI. Vigil tonight is at 6:00 p.m. with Divine Liturgy tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m.

At St. Vladimir's we will have our usual weekend cycle of Divine Services with Vigil tonight at 6:00 p.m. and Divine Liturgy tomorrow at 10:00 a.m.

We have new acquisitions in our parish library! The following titles have recently been acquired and are available to borrow:

St Cyril of Jerusalem. Lectures on the Christian Sacraments: The Procatechesis and the Five Mystagogical Catecheses. Crestwood: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press." (1951).

http://www.svspress.com/on-the-christian-sacraments/

Archimandrite Aimilianos of Simonopetra. Psalms and the life of faith. Athens: Indiktos, 2015.

http://www.svspress.com/psalms-and-the-life-of-faith/

Archimandrite Aimilianos of Simonopetra. The way of the spirit: reflections on life in God. Athens: Indiktos, 2009.

http://www.indiktos.gr/askitika/503-the ... n-god.html

http://www.athosfriends.org/books/BookL ... /dales.htm

To check out a book (this is just a very small taste of what is available), to help with acquisitions, or to learn more about our parish library please visit the parish library page on our web site:

http://lib.stvladimiraami.org/

Please join us this Friday evening at 6:00 p.m. and this Saturday at 9:00 a.m. for our all English cycle of Divine Services at St. Vladimir's. More information at the link below (suitable to share!). All are welcome!

http://stvladimiraami.org/flyers/prophe ... nglish.pdf

The retirement celebration for His Eminence, Archbishop Alypy, is sent for August 30 in Chicago. The public is welcome to attend. Please learn more at the Diocesan web site:

http://chicagodiocese.org/news_160803_1.html

Please note that we have updated our Divine Service schedule for the coming weekend. We now will have Vigil at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday and Divine Liturgy at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday - just as we do every weekend. :) Also, note too that our Sisterhood will hold its monthly building fund dinner this coming Sunday. Please join us!