St. Peter Orthodox Church

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The Crucifixion of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

St. Peter Newsletter – Holy Week Announcements

Journey Through Holy Week Check the website for an explanation of services this Holy Week. Dyeing Easter Eggs To the volunteers donating Easter eggs for Pascha: Please bring you eggs

Taking Down Christ from the Cross

A Guide for Holy Week — Palm Sunday Through Holy Saturday

Source: Antiochian Archdiocese See more resources on the Antiochian Archdiocese website. Great Lent and Holy Week are two separate fasts, and two separate celebrations. Great Lent ends on Friday of

Fr. Hans Jacobse – Paschal Letter to the Parents of St. Peter’s

Dear Parents, Dear Parents, Take a look at your children and then take a look a the world they are growing up in. Our work is cut out for us.

The Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem

St. Peter Newsletter April 19, 2016 — Holy Week Schedule, Paschal Dinner, Easter Egg Hunt and more

Palm Sunday On the Sunday before the Feast of Great and Holy Pascha and at the beginning of Holy Week, the Orthodox Church celebrates one of its most joyous feasts

Softener of Evil Hearts

Miracle Working Icon Visits Ft. Myers on Thursday, April 14, 2016

On Thursday, April 14th, 2016, the myrrh-streaming Holy Icon of the Mother of God from Moscow, known as the Softening of Evil Hearts, will be at Saint Nicholas Monastery in

St. Mary of Egypt

St. Peter Newsletter April 12, 2016 — Fifth Sunday of Lent / St. Mary of Egypt

St. Mary of Egypt She began her life as a young woman who followed the passions of the body, running away from her parents at age twelve for Alexandria. There

St. John of the Ladder (Climacus)

St. Peter Newsletter – Fourth Sunday of Lent: St. John of the Ladder (Climacus)

The Fourth Sunday of LentSt. John of the Ladder (Climacus) Our venerable and God-bearing Father John Climacus (ca. 579 – 649), also known as John of the Ladder, John Scholasticus,

St. Peter Newsletter March 29, 2015 — Third Sunday of Lent / Veneration of the Holy Cross

Elevation of the Precious and Life Giving Cross Each of the Sundays of Great Lent has its own special theme. This Sunday’s theme is that in the cross of Christ

Why Does St. Peter’s Parish Exist?

The reason why St. Peter’s exists is so that those who attend can find Christ. Our vision when it started and that guides it today is: St. Peter’s is here

The Raising of Lazarus

Lazarus Saturday Invitation to Parents

April 4, 2016 Dear Friends of St. Peter, I want to invite you and your children to a special day in our Church on Saturday, April 23rd as we celebrate

St. Peter Newsletter — Second Sunday of Lent / St. Gregory Palamas (and a whole lot more)

From “A Man Fully Alive” by Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick. On the Second Sunday of Great Lent we celebrate St. Gregory Palamas, the archbishop of Thessalonica in Greece for a

Saturday of the Souls

Saturday of the Souls Liturgy Added for March 19, 2016

We are adding a second Saturday of the Souls Liturgy this Saturday, March 19, 2016 starting at 9:30 for those who could not make it last Saturday. Of course if