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Fr. Hans received this message for the parishioners of St. Peter’s. Please print (click the printer icon at the bottom of the essay) and read. The essay if very powerful;

Christ is Risen! The Second Sunday of Pascha – St. Thomas The Orthodox Church observes the Sunday of Thomas one week following the celebration of the Sunday of Holy Pascha.

Source: Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese In 1945, a Paschal Liturgy like no other was performed. Just days after their liberation by the US military on April 29, 1945, hundreds of Orthodox

The last transport of prisoners arrives from Buchenwald. Of the 5,000 originally destined for Dachau, I was among the 1,300 who had survived the trip. Many were shot, some starved to death, while others died of typhus…

Beginning with the Orthros of Holy Friday on Thursday evening, and ending with Vespers on Friday afternoon, the day is one of solemn observation and strict fasting. The richness of the liturgical actions and hymnography on this day, are unsurpassed.

Lazarus Saturday – April 4, 2015 Reading of the Hours – 9am Divine Liturgy – 9:30am Palm Sunday – April 5, 2015 Reading of the Hours – 9am Divine Liturgy

Great Lent and Holy Week are two separate fasts, and two separate celebrations. Great Lent ends on Friday of the fifth week (the day before Lazarus Saturday). Holy Week begins

It was just announced this morning (Thursday, April 2) that the myrrh-streaming icon of the Theotokos will be visiting St. Demetrius Orthodox Church (OCA) in Naples at 3pm this afternoon.

“These eight passions should be destroyed as follows: gluttony by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion for the poor;

After Liturgy on Palm Sunday next Sunday, April 5, plan on attending our annual Palm Sunday Brunch immediately following the Divine Liturgy. When? Immediately following the Divine Liturgy on Sunday,

Please fill in the form below if you plan on attending the Palm Sunday Brunch on Sunday, April 5, 2015. Your name must be received by Sunday evening, March 29,

The Fourth Sunday of Lent / St. Mary of Egypt On the Fifth Sunday of Lent the Orthodox Church commemorates our Righteous Mother Mary of Egypt. The feast day of