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: a homily by Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) on the beginning of the path that leads from Nativity to Pascha:

http://www.pravmir.com/sermon-on-the-su ... l-reading/

For Children – an activity based on last Sunday's Gospel reading for various ages:

http://www.antiochian.org/sites/default ... 2-31-b.pdf

The Great Blessing of the Waters happens just two times in the year - on these two days! This Wednesday & Thursday. Please join us as your personal schedule allows! Holy Water will be available at St. Vladimir's after the feast if you cannot join us. Bring your own bottles!

House blessing schedule: https://calendly.com/ogrisha/house-blessing

We had a simply incredible weekend at St. Vladimir's - and your efforts were so great to make it such a wonderful weekend that we have to mention it here. Yes - every weekend is wonderful: we have the honor to celebrate the Lord's Resurrection every Sunday and that is something to be thankful for! But in addition to that we managed a Vigil and our Annual Nativity Ball on Friday, as well as a baptism. Saturday saw Liturgy for St. Basil the Great, the beginning of our Church School spring semester, and a wonderful vigil for Sunday and St. Seraphim of Sarov, and on Sunday we celebrated the weekly Resurrectional Divine Liturgy, another baptism, and our Nativity Yolka. Wow - now that's a fruitful weekend! Thank you to EVERYONE who made all that possible. We couldn't possibly list all the names - we would forget someone or many someones and we don't want to do that. You know who you are, and more importantly, the Lord knows who you are. May He reward you in this life and in the next for helping our parish be, as St. Paul says, all things to all men so that all means some may be saved! Join us next weekend at St. Vladimir's!

This weekend we hold our all-English cycle of Divine Services. Please invite friends, loved ones, strangers, enemies, everyone! This is a missionary effort but this also requires effort from all of us for it to succeed. YOUR EFFORT = INVITE OTHERS. Please join us!

NOTE THE EARLY START TIME THIS AFTERNOON!

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: a homily by St. Gregory Palamas on the Holy Forefathers:

http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2016/12 ... rs-st.html

For Children – an activity based on last Sunday's Gospel reading for various ages:

http://www.antiochian.org/sites/default ... 2-24-b.pdf

Please join us for the feast of the 14,000 Martyrs of Bethlehem tonight at 6:00 p.m. and tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. All are welcome to this feast, which has become the feast for those who have lost children via miscarriage, abortion, in childbirth, or as infants.

Explanation of the Feast - English:

https://oca.org/saints/lives/2017/12/29/103682-14000-infants-the-holy-innocents-slain-by-herod-at-bethlehem

Explanation of the Feast - Russian:

http://days.pravoslavie.ru/Life/life3193.htm

Unfortunately our pipes have frozen at the church. Therefore we will not be able to hold the services today. Not because the pipes have anything to do with the services, but because we have no working bathrooms.

Please spread the word to all those that you know or suspect maybe planning to come to St. Vladimir's this morning. We ask your forgiveness for the inconvenience!

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/

Due to the great feast of our Lord's Nativity there will be no ORPR camper meeting this Sunday. We will resume meetings on February 12. Full schedule here - please join us!

http://stvladimiraami.org/flyers/orprcampermeetings.pdf

Join us for the Divine Services of the Lord's Nativity this Friday at 6:00 p.m. and Saturday at 10:00 a.m. Find the full Nativity schedule of services here:

http://stvladimiraami.org/flyers/nativi ... hedule.pdf

ALL ARE WELCOME!