All are welcome at St. Vladimir's! Please join us this Sunday! More information can be found at this link, and we encourage you to share this with family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers!

DIVINE SERVICES FOR SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 2022
As of August 20, 2021 we recommend (but do not mandate) masking for indoor activities at St. Vladimir’s. Join us!

This Sunday we complete THREE WEEKS of Great Lent! In other words, this Sunday is the MIDWAY POINT of Great Lent!

Here is important information for Lent - please read before it is TOO LATE! :)

Find the schedule of Evening Presanctified Liturgies at St. Vladimir’s HERE

Find the schedule of Soul Saturdays at St. Vladimir’s HERE

Find the schedule of all Divine Services of Great Lent at St. Vladimir’s HERE

This Sunday our own Deacon Dmitriy Kashchenko gives the Great Lenten Lecture. The topic of his presentation is "Fasting Practices in the Orthodox Church". Please join us for this lecture during our parish meal after the Divine Liturgy on Sunday. All are welcome!

FULL SCHEDULE OF GREAT LENTEN LECTURES

GREAT LENTEN LECTURES ON YOUTUBE

During Great Lent at all weekday services, and on many Saturdays (beginning even before Great Lent with the first Soul Saturday on February 26) the departed are specially commemorated.

Other Soul Saturdays this Great Lent:

Saturday, March 19
Saturday, March 26
Saturday, April 2
You can arrange commemoration of your friends and loved ones by visiting our special page in this regard here:

COMMEMORATIONS AT THE DIVINE LITURGY
There is lots of good information there and you should read that all at some point. If you don’t have time to do that now please visit our on-line form to submit names (under the commemoration of the departed you can choose “Great Lent 2022: All Weekday Services + Soul Saturdays”):

COMMEMORATION ON-LINE SUBMITAL FORM
If you are in a financial position to make a donation for commemorating your loved ones you can do that here – if you aren’t this is not a problem since the Church does not charge for prayer, but is thankful for donations in this regard:

DONATIONS AT STV

We present here a short educational offering for both children and adults on the upcoming Sunday's principle Gospel reading so that all can better prepare for the Divine Services. 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 Various Ages: from the Antiochian Archdiocese (various age groups)

Lots of folks in our parish family have family in Ukraine now that they might want to bring to the USA. If you are in this situation please contact our Starosta, Jack Mitchell. He also has family in Ukraine and is collecting information about best practices to help those there get here. Contact Jack at starosta@stvladimiraami.org or 734-395-5453.

Evening Presanctified Liturgies ~ Литургия Преждеосвященных Даров 2022

Wednesday, March 16
Wednesday, March 23
Wednesday, March 30
TUESDAY, April 5
Wednesday, April 13

Matins & Great Lenten Hours
Утреня и великопостные
часы 3:00 p.m.

Presanctified Liturgy
Литургия Преждеосвященных Даров ~6:00 p.m.

Following Liturgy: Lenten Dinner + Bible Study ~ После Литургии: Постный Ужин и Духовная Беседа

The Liturgical Fast for those communing begins after breakfast. In other words, you may eat breakfast, but eat or drink nothing further after that. Parents should use their best judgment regarding their children, as always. Those who confessed on the weekend prior to the Wednesday Presanctified need not confess again on/before Wednesday.

Пост для причащающихся начинается после завтрака, т.е. можно позавтракать, но не пить и не есть после завтрака. Как всегда, родители должны сами решить, что лучше всего подходит для детей. Исповедовавшиеся в предшествующую субботу или воскресенье в среду могут не исповедоваться.

Infants do not commune at this Liturgy ~ Младенцы не причащаются на этой Литургии

There are many people in the parish already donating time, talent, and treasure to our parish school. And we are VERY THANKFUL for you all! We invite those who are not doing so to yet visit our school webs site and learn how you can help. Who can help? EVERYONE! Unless you have neither time, nor talent, nor treasure. But there is NO HUMAN that does not have at least one of those things. So we can all help! Please visit the link below to find out how:

FRIENDS OF A2OCA

All of life passes in vanity. The mind moves amid vain thoughts and temptations. Gradually, it gets used to remembering God, so that amid vanities and troubles, when not thinking, it will suddenly think [of Him], and when not remembering, will suddenly remember Him, just as long as it keeps going without stopping. As long as it is striving forward – do not fear, your little ship is whole, and under the shadow of the Cross it will finish sailing across the sea of life. It is whole and you need not fear what storms may arise. In normal sailing, you cannot avoid inclement weather, and even more so in the path of life. But the misfortunes and storms of life are not frightening for those traveling under the protection of the saving prayer: Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. They are not frightening, only do not fall into despondency, for despondency gives birth to despair, and despair is already a mortal sin.

Venerable Barsanuphius of Optina
Living without Hypocrisy

"This is the cause of all evils: the ignorance of the Scriptures. We go into battle without arms, and how ought we to come off safe?" -St. John Chrysostom, Homily IX on Colossians.

In order to help increase the general knowledge of scripture in our parish family we present here for your edification the scripture readings for the coming week. At least one Gospel Reading and one Epistle reading are assigned for each day of the year (although during Great Lent the readings are from the Old Testament). Hearing or reading only those readings appointed for Sunday merely scratches the surface of the great spiritual wealth that the scriptures provide us. Some of the readings are easily understandable – others are less so. As Orthodox Christians we do not make private interpretation of scripture, but rather consult the fathers of the Church for their explanations to aid us in our understanding. Those wishing to have access to such explanations are asked to contact Fr. Gregory or inquire in the kiosk for further reading in this regard. Bibles may also be acquired in the kiosk.

Monday: Isaiah 8:13-9:7, Genesis 6:9-22, Proverbs 8:1-21
Tuesday: Isaiah 9:9-10:4, Genesis 7:1-5, Proverbs 8:32-9:11
Wednesday: Isaiah 10:12-20, Genesis 7:6-9, Proverbs 9:12-18
Thursday: Isaiah 11:10-12:2, Genesis 7:11-8:3, Proverbs 10:1-22
Friday: Isaiah 13:2-13, Genesis 8:4-21, Proverbs 10:31-11:12
Saturday: Hebrews 10:32-38 & Mark 2:14-17

Please find below several very nice articles on how to read the scripture from an Orthodox point of view.

By St. Justin (Popovich):

http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/phronema/bible_how.aspx

By Bishop Kalistos (Ware):

http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/phronema/ware_howto.aspx