Parish Announcements

Message from Metropolitan Andrew: Great Lent 2021

March 13, 2021 By The Deacon

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ!

As we enter into the Great Fast, I ask forgiveness for any offense or lack of attention I have manifested during the year that has passed. May each of us forgive form his heart any with whom we are at enmity, that our souls may be at peace; that our fast may be pleasing to God. The better our Fast, the better our Pascha, and the better our Pascha the better the rest of the year.

God send His grace to each of you to strengthen you in the coming struggle. I recommend that you read the daily service of the Triodion, which are available online. It takes about half an hour and within them you will find spiritual enlightenment, and also come to know these most beautiful Church hymns of the whole year.

Pray for me.

In Christ,

+ Vladyka Andrew

Spiritual Pearl: On Judgement

March 8, 2021 By The Deacon

“He who sufficiently knows and judges himself has no time to judge others.”

Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow

Spiritual Pearl: On Repentance

March 1, 2021 By The Deacon

“It is always possible to make a new start by means of repentance. “You fell,” it is written, “now arise”(cf. Prov. 24:16). And if you fall again, then rise again, without despairing at all of your salvation, no matter what happens. So long as you do not surrender yourself willingly to the enemy, your patient endurance, combined with self-reproach, will suffice for your salvation. “For at one time we ourselves went astray in our folly and disobedience,” says St. Paul. “… Yet He saved us, not because of any good things we had done, but in His mercy” (Tit. 3:3,5).”

–St. Peter of Damascus

Spiritual Pearl: On Repentance

February 22, 2021 By The Deacon

“Repentance raises the fallen, mourning knocks at the gate of heaven, and holy humility opens it…”

–St. John the Ladder; “The Ladder of Divine Ascent” (Step 25)

Spiritual Pearl: On Trials and Temptations

February 15, 2021 By The Deacon

“And so, my friends, accept whatever the Lord sends with a willing spirit and do not groan at what is imposed on you, for why should you feel joy at being part of a crowd or pain at being excluded from it? Rather we should do everything to ensure that we are not excluded from the city of God.”