Great Lent begins Monday, February 27. It is important that we prepare for Great Lent even before it begins, and the Holy Church has been helping us in this regard for seveal weeks already, principally via the content of the Divine Services. But the first week is really quite important as well – especially attending the Divine Services, which are extraordinarily educational at this time of year. Thus, with God's help, we try to serve as much as we can the first week. Here is the schedule for that special time of year – please join us to the greatest extent you are able as we begin our journey of repentance which leads us to Pascha together as a parish family:

http://stvladimiraami.org/flyers/firstw ... tflyer.pdf

Please note: all are called upon to prepare for and to partake of the Holy Mysteries on Saturday March 4 and/or Sunday March 5. Please make every effort in this regard.

Please join us for our annual Blini Dinner! More information - see our Facebook Event. All welcome!

PDF of this flyer (send it to your friends, loved ones, everyone!):

http://stvladimiraami.org/flyers/blini17.pdf

Please find all materials pertaining to our parish annual meeting at the link below. The parish annual meeting is set for February 19, 2017 during our annual Blini Dinner. Please join us!

http://stvladimiraami.org/flyers/annualmeeting2017.pdf

The big question associated with this little announcement is – do you subscribe to our You Tube Channel? If not – you should!

Go to our channel now and subscribe:

https://www.youtube.com/user/StVladimirChurch

Have you missed a service that you'd really like to hear? Of course you can visit Sound of the Parish, but maybe you have a slow internet connection? Or maybe you know someone who doesn't have an internet connection at all? Reach out to us! If you'd like to receive services on CD via post please email us at info@stvladimiraami.org!

Please join us for the feast of St. Gregory the Theologian tonight at 6:00 p.m. and tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. Please also join us at 6:00 p.m. tonight at Fr. Gregory's new place for his name's day celebration! 3566 Joanna Ct., Saline, MI is the address. All are welcome!

Life of St. Gregory English:

https://oca.org/saints/lives/2017/01/25/100298-st-gregory-the-theologian-the-archbishop-of-constantinople

Life of St. Gregory Russian:

http://days.pravoslavie.ru/Life/life304.htm

Please join us for the feast of St. Xenia of St. Petersburg this Sunday evening at 6:00 p.m. and Monday morning at 8:00 a.m. Congratulations to our St. Xenia Sisterhood and all our Ksenias celebrating on that day! Learn more about St. Xenia at the links below.

English:

http://stxenia.stvladimiraami.org/stati ... ife_in_eng

Russian:

http://stxenia.stvladimiraami.org/stati ... ife_in_rus

Please join us - but please sign up! There is adequate time to make breakfast, clean up, and get to St. Vladimir's in time for the 10:00 a.m. Liturgy. If this Sunday is full please sign up for a future Sunday. All Alpha House volunteer opportunities are here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZYD3jC1XHNclUu33kX7w-3GpyAMazGgmdDQJ2nvaxI4/edit#gid=0

ST. VLADIMIR’S IS OPEN EVERY DAY!

11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Stop by to pray, light a candle, experience the peace of the parish church, more...

Please invite friends to stop by - all are welcome!

St. Vladimirians: We need folks to volunteer to fill in when our main staff have vacation or are sick.

Please contact Fr. Gregory if you can help or if you can commit to another time to keep the church open. We'd love to add evening hours as well!

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_zacchaeus_sunday.html

Unfortunately our usual source for children's resources is down. We hope to continue to use that resource in the future...