Please find our weekly email at this link:

http://www.stvladimiraami.org/pamphlets/fridayemail.pdf

If you don't receive our weekly emails that means you are not on our email list. We can fix that! Please visit the link below (this is to a Google doc - it is safe) and fill out the short form. You will then never miss a Friday email again!

http://goo.gl/forms/ObMyc1OQfx

With Bishop Peter's blessing, this year summer courses will again be offered in the Pastoral School of the Diocese of Chicago & Mid-America. The following courses will be offered this year – dates for the courses are June 8-July 25, 2015 (Liturgics is slightly longer in duration):

Liturgics
Church Slavonic
Byzantine History
Parish Management and Operations
Thesis Writing Workshop

All Pastoral School summer courses are available to the general public without the need for a formal application to our complete Diploma program. To register please visit the following link:

http://www.orthodoxtheologicalschool.or ... iew/summer

To learn more about the summer courses and all the offerings of the Pastoral School please visit this link:

http://www.orthodoxtheologicalschool.or ... scriptions

Course numbers are:

111 Liturgics
112 Church Slavonic
113 Byzantine History
114 Non-Profit Small Business/Parish Management
115 Thesis Writing Workshop

For more information or with questions please contact the Dean of the Pastoral School, Archpriest Gregory Joyce

(fr.gregory.joyce@orthodoxtheologicalschool.org).

The May edition of our video podcast, "Vladcast", has been posted on our You Tube Channel. The direct link is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq0tl60-efU

NOTE PLEASE: The English cycle of Divine Services for May is mentioned in this Vladcast as May 22-23. THIS IS WRONG. The English Divine Services will be May 29-30.

Christ is Risen!

Please find the May 2015 schedule of services and activities at St. Vladimir's at the link below:

http://www.stvladimiraami.org/calendars ... lendar.pdf

Please join us soon at St. Vladimir's!

Please join us this Sunday for our Church School Pascha Performance! Immediately after the kissing of the cross (before the weekly parish meal) our young people will present a short program in hour of the Resurrection of our Lord. Please join us!

We have a bit of business left to complete from our 2014 Annual Meeting (held on February 15, 2015) and thus we will have a special parish meeting on Sunday, June 14. Information in this regard will be sent out to all on our mailing list via email and via post (this is required by the Normal Parish Bylaws). At this meeting we will complete the election of the 2015 Parish Council, choose delegates to the 2015 Diocesan Assembly, hear the Brotherhood Report and the Church School Report (which were tabled at the Annual Meeting), and hear a proposal regarding membership criteria for our parish. Since this is a continuation of the 2014 annual meeting you must be a 2014 member of the parish to participate in this meeting. Please plan to join us on June 14!

The well known writer and spiritual father Archimandrite Roman (Braga) reposed in the Lord yesterday, April 28, 2015, at the Dormition of the Mother of God Romanian Convent in Rives Junction, MI.

The body will be laid in the church and visitation and funeral services are as follows:

Thursday, April 30th, 2015

5:00 pm Vespers
7:00 pm Trisagion
7:30 pm Matins

Visitors are welcome to come into the church, venerate the body and attend the services in a quiet manner as to not disturb the services.

The church will be closed at the end of the Matins service.

Friday, May 1st, 2015

The church will be opened at 6:00 am for visitation and services.

7:00 am Divine Liturgy
9:30 am Funeral Service

After the interment in the cemetery all guests are invited to partake of the mercy meal served at the Rives Baptist Church on Berry Road. The church address is 2800 Berry Road. (The church is located on the North side of Berry Road past Churchill Road, and before Rt. 127.)

Due to limited space we regret not being able to accommodate overnight guests.

For those coming from out of town and in need of accommodations we recommend you make reservations at the Hankered Inn located 5 miles North of the monastery. The phone number you can call is: 517-769-6153. A reduced rate will be offered to those who mention the monastery.

Other hotels are located in Jackson at the intersection of I94 and Rt 127.

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: the explanation of last Sunday's Gospel reading by Blessed Theophylact:

http://chrysostompress.org/c_third_pascha.html

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

http://www.antiochian.org/sites/default ... 4-26-b.pdf

His Grace Bishop Peter of Cleveland will serve Liturgy on Sunday, May 17 at the St. Seraphim of Sarov parish in Lansing, MI. The evening before that His Grace will join us at St. Vladimir's for vigil. Please join us that evening to participate in the vigil service with Bishop Peter!

In addition to this visit by Bishop Peter we have two future hierarchal visits planned - please save the dates!

July 27-28, 2015 - With Bishop Peter's blessing His Beatitude Metropolitan Jonah will lead us in prayer for our St. Vladimir's patronal feast day

November 7-8, 2015 - His Grace Bishop Peter will lead us in prayer for the feast of St. Demetrius the Great Martyr of Thessalonica

Pictures from Holy Week and Pascha are up on our photo album. Check them out at the link below!

http://stvladimirchurch.smugmug.com/2015