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

http://www.stvladimiraami.org:8000/liturgy.ogg.m3u

If you have any trouble with the live stream please visit this link:

http://soundoftheparish.blogspot.com/p/ ... dimir.html

If the information at that link does not help please email info@stvladimiraami.org and we will assist you as soon as possible (but after the Divine Service).

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/

YOUNG ADULTS! Who are you? If you think you belong in this group you probably do! We are talking about college age and grad school age folks, but if you are a bit over that you are welcome too! :)

Please join us for our monthly meal this coming Sunday at 6:00 p.m. The food will be Lenten - and tasty! The topic will be “The Divine Services – Theology in Action”. Plus we will discuss all things Great Lent. Do not miss! RSVP and more information:

http://goo.gl/forms/mLnbeYwCXq

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

http://www.stvladimiraami.org:8000/liturgy.ogg.m3u

If you have any trouble with the live stream please visit this link:

http://soundoftheparish.blogspot.com/p/ ... dimir.html

If the information at that link does not help please email info@stvladimiraami.org and we will assist you as soon as possible (but after the Divine Service).

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/

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

http://www.stvladimiraami.org:8000/liturgy.ogg.m3u

If you have any trouble with the live stream please visit this link:

http://soundoftheparish.blogspot.com/p/ ... dimir.html

If the information at that link does not help please email info@stvladimiraami.org and we will assist you as soon as possible (but after the Divine Service).

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/

The Holy Church appoints several special Saturdays throughout the year on which we especially commemorate our departed friends and loved ones. At St. Vladimir’s we will serve the following memorial services on the following dates this Great Lent:

March 5: Divine Liturgy 8:00 a.m. (Vespers and Matins for the departed the evening prior at 6:00 p.m.)

March 26: Divine Liturgy 9:00 a.m. (Matins for the departed the evening prior at 6:00 p.m.)

April 2: Divine Liturgy 8:00 a.m. (Matins for the departed the evening prior at 6:00 p.m.) - All English Cycle

April 9: Divine Liturgy 9:00 a.m. (Matins for the departed the evening prior at 6:00 p.m.)

Please join us for those services that you are able to and for those you are not: please assure the commemoration of your friends and loved ones at the services by emailing their names (please distinguish between Orthodox and non-Orthodox departed) to info@stvladimiraami.org or by otherwise contacting Fr. Gregory.

FOCUS is collecting reading books for kids K-6th grade. March is "Reading Month". Help us by collecting books and becoming a Tutor. More info:

www.focusdetroit.org

Thank You!

For Those We Serve,

Eric Shanburn, Director

FELLOWSHIP OF ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS UNITED TO SERVE
"Empowering Detroit Children Experiencing Poverty to Succeed in School"
4750 Woodward Ave
Detroit, MI 48201
www.focusmotorcity.org
248-671-4483

Please note that Great Lent begins this year on March 14. The week previous to this is a week where all foods are allowed except for meat. During Great Lent we abstain from meat and dairy products including fish (although fish is allowed on the Annunciation – April 7, and Palm Sunday – April 24). Let us recall that fasting is a tool given to us by God to aid us spiritually. For some it is easy to fast, for others it is difficult. However, what is most important is that we make a sincere effort to follow the fast. Why? Simply because the fast helps us to see our sins by helping us to focus spiritually. Eating “light” foods, or perhaps rather, abstaining from “heavy” foods such as meats and cheeses, allows us to be less focused on our stomachs and more focused on our souls, and of course, in this season when we undergo our journey to the Resurrection of our Lord we dearly wish to improve ourselves spiritually that we might meet the risen Christ better than we were when we began Great Lent. St. John Chrysostom writes that we abstain from meats that we might abstain from our sins. This nicely sums up the reason the Holy Church, as a loving mother, gives us the gift of fasting. Pascha is May 1 – may God grant us all a spiritually profitable Great Lent!

NEW, NEW, NEW!!! Buhr Park rink is melting with all the warm weather, so we will meet at the Arctic Coliseum in Chelsea at 1:30 p.m., with ice cream at Washtenaw Dairy at 3:45 p.m. The flyer has been updated - please spread the word:

http://stvladimiraami.org/flyers/icecre ... te2016.pdf

This is the last week we partake of dairy products before Pascha. We have already ceased from eating meat, and the last day to eat dairy is March 13. Great Lent begins March 14. We urge our parish family to take the opportunity of this week to use up the dairy products they have in their homes so that by the time we begin the fast all dairy products are gone. Please contact Fr. Gregory if you have questions in this regard, and especially if you will be fasting for the first time during Great Lent. It is important that we approach this spiritual duty wisely, and with a plan to make the fast a success. Talking to Fr. Gregory before you undertake fasting for the first time will help!

Did you know that our festival committee meets at the church every Wednesday evening after the akathist for the ill? The akathist starts at 6:00 p.m. and usually ends around 6:45 p.m. After that we begin the festival meeting. We welcome everyone to get involved in helping us to plan and execute this year's festival! This is a FUN activity! :) And it brings so many people to our parish and introduces them to the Orthodox Faith. This is our biggest missionary activity of the year. Please join us! And if you can't be there, please remember us in your prayers, that the Lord will bless us with a festival that brings more and more people to our parish family!