With Archbishop Peter's blessing, this year summer courses will again be offered in the Pastoral School of the Diocese of Chicago & Mid-America. Applications for admission for the summer semester are due June 13, 2022. The following courses will be offered this year – dates for the courses are June 20 – August 6, 2021 (Liturgics is slightly longer in duration):

• Introductory Liturgics
• Intermediate/Advanced Church Slavonic
• Parish Management and Operations
• Thesis Writing Workshop
• New Testament Greek
• New Testament Latin
• The Pivotal Points in the History of Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia
• Comprehensive Homiletics Seminar
• Seminar in Byzantine Law

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:

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

PSDCMA SUMMER COURSES
For more information or with questions please contact the Dean of the Pastoral School, Archpriest Gregory Joyce (fr.gregory.joyce@orthodoxtheologicalschool.org).

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, MAY 15, 2022
As of August 20, 2021 we recommend (but do not mandate) masking for indoor activities at St. Vladimir’s. Join us!

For those young people who do not sing in the choir or serve in the altar WE NEED YOU! Bells are a very important part of our worship, and we need to get those bells ringing again! Contact John Hill to learn more. We have a beautiful set of bells – let us use this gift the Lord has given us for the good of our parish family and our neighbors!

This Saturday, May 14, 2022!

Begin at 10:00 am!

Meet at STV!

Loading and transporting pavers, cabinets, and other nice things donated to STV!

RSVP by contacting Konstantin.

Two hours maximum time guaranteed by Jack Mitchell, our own Starosta!

See you Saturday!

In their wisdom the powers that be at Comcast seem to have decided to throttle downloads of Facebook videos. That makes it essentially impossible to download from Facebook (where we broadcast our live stream) and upload to YouTube if Comcast is your service provider (and that is true for Fr. Gregory). We are working on moving our stream to YouTube. But until that time we need help. Do you have a service provider that is not Comcast? Do you have 10-15 minutes per week to move 2-3 videos from Facebook to YouTube? If so, please contact Fr. Gregory.

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)

On Sunday Bill Edwards made a presentation during the parish meal regarding our parish efforts related to the Lord’s Matthew 25 Challenge, specifically regarding the To The Rescue portion of those efforts. You can learn more about our Matthew 25 efforts, how you can help, see Bill’s presentation, and more at our Matthew 25 page:

STV MATTHEW 25 CHALLENGE

Fr. Gregory, Elizabeth, Misha, Masha, and Natasha invite everyone to join us for our Pascha party on Sunday, May 15, 2022 at our house in Saline. The rain date is Monday, May 16 2022. Why do we need a rain date? Because we will hold the party outside! We’ll have a bon fire, lots of non-Lenten food, drinks, and hopefully a lot of fun! Don’t know where we live? Please send a note to info@stvladimiraami.org now (not on May 15 when you leave your house!) and we’ll share details with you. Everyone is welcome! Come celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord with our whole parish family in the best post-pandemic style!

THE WEATHER LOOKS GOOD FOR MAY 15! SEE YOU THEN!!!

On Tuesday evening we will hold Evening Services at 6:00 p.m. in preparation for Divine Liturgy for Apostles Jason & Sosipater on Wednesday morning at 8:00 a.m. Divine Liturgy will be followed by our Pre-K catechism at 10:00 a.m. More information and a sign up sheet for our Pre-K catechism can be found here:

WEDNESDAY CATECHISM
In addition, we will hold our weekly Akathist for the Ill at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday evening.

If you cannot come to the Evening Services or Liturgy please try to join us on one of our live streams:

STV LIVE STREAMS
As of August 20, 2021 we recommend (but do not mandate) masking for indoor activities.

Learn More: Apostles Jason & Sosipater – English
Learn More: Apostles Jason & Sosipater – Russian

Our life is not arranged arbitrarily, but by Divine Providence. Peace is acquired by cutting off your will. It is impossible to find complete satisfaction. The Lord does not demand the impossible from us, and the fulfillment of the commandments of God is possible everywhere and always. Seeing a person forcing himself to piety in a certain place and situation, according to his strength, and his readiness, the Lord fulfills his desire for good.

Venerable Nikon of Optina
Living without Hypocrisy