Today is the feast of the translation of the relics of St. Nicholas of Myra. Please learn more about the feast at the links below.

English:

https://oca.org/saints/lives/2017/05/09/101336-translation-of-the-relics-of-st-nicholas-the-wonderworker-from-m

Russian:

https://days.pravoslavie.ru/Life/life1023.htm

Please join us for the final Paschal services of the year at St. Vladimir’s. On Tuesday, May 23 we will serve Paschal Vespers and Matins beginning at 6:00 p.m. And on Wednesday, May 24 we will serve the Paschal Divine Liturgy at 8:00 a.m. The next evening we are already celebrating the vigil for Ascension and our Paschal celebration will have ended. Don’t miss this last chance to prayerfully participate in the special Paschal Divine Services!

Please join us for the final Paschal services of the year at St. Vladimir’s. On Tuesday, May 23 we will serve Paschal Vespers and Matins beginning at 6:00 p.m. And on Wednesday, May 24 we will serve the Paschal Divine Liturgy at 8:00 a.m. The next evening we are already celebrating the vigil for Ascension and our Paschal celebration will have ended. Don’t miss this last chance to prayerfully participate in the special Paschal Divine Services!

Please join us for our 9-12, Teen, and Young Adult Youth Group meetings this coming Sunday. You want to participate but don't know how? You want to know more? Please visit the appropriate links below!

9-12 Year Old Group:

https://goo.gl/forms/HlabmcoduVlLjMRg1

Teen Group:

https://goo.gl/forms/7ezMPhoEeGEgqzMs2

Young Adult Group:

http://goo.gl/forms/mLnbeYwCXq

Learn more at the Pastoral School Blog:

http://psdcma.blogspot.com/2017/05/summ ... unced.html

REGISTER TODAY! Courses are open to Pastoral School students AND the general public!

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: an explanation of the Sunday's gospel reading by Blessed Theophylact:

http://chrysostompress.org/c_fifth_pascha.html

For children, from the Antiochian Archdiocese (various age groups):

http://www.antiochian.org/sites/default ... 5-14-b.pdf

We cannot contain it to just one Sunday! Pascha is celebrated every day from the feast itself until the Ascension of the Lord 40 days later. Just as we celebrate Pascha every day we can’t fit the children’s Pascha celebration into just one Sunday – so we’ll do it for two this year!

Please join us on for the Paschal Egg Hunt both weeks and our two different Church School Paschal plays. Come for Liturgy and stay for all the fun! Mark your calendars now!

Friends,

Christ is Risen!

I am very pleased to announce that with the blessing of Archbishop Peter and with my full support Julia Easson has agreed to assume the role of Choir Director at St. Vladimir’s upon Roman Vershynin’s completion of his tenure here. I am most certainly sad to see Roman go, but at the same time I am very happy to have Julia again leading our parish choir! Julia is a very accomplished director, and we are fortunate to have her on our parish team in this important position. Please join me in welcoming Julia back as our parish Choir Director!

With Love in the Risen Lord,

Fr. Gregory

Please join us for a live broadcast of today's Vigil beginning at 6:00 p.m. at the following link:

http://www.stvladimiraami.org:8000/liturgy.mp3

Please remember - the stream only broadcasts live services. If you would like to listen to previously recorded and edited services please visit our sound blog:

http://soundoftheparish.blogspot.com/

"For our goal is not merely the purification of the passions: this by itself is not real virtue, but preparation for virtue. To purification from vicious habits must be added the acquisition of the virtues... For after abandoning what is evil, one must practice what is good. One must first deny oneself and then, taking up the cross, must follow the Master towards the supreme state of deification."

St. Theodoros the Great Ascetic

Quoted in "On the Holy Apostles" by St. Sergius Mechev in "Orthodox Life" Volume 66 No. 1, January - February 2015