Confession and Communion are the two sacraments we most often partake of as Orthodox Christians and thus it behooves us to learn about these, how to prepare for these, and how to best take advantage of the Grace that our Lord freely gives us in these sacraments. At St. Vladimir’s we have created a special web site for this purpose with much information in this regard. Please find the web site listed below and please contact Fr. Gregory with questions!

CONFESSION AND COMMUNION AT ST. VLADIMIR'S

Each year around the feast of St. Demetrius of Thessalonica (whose relics reside in our parish foundation) there is a special Church-wide commemoration of the departed: Demetrius Saturday. This year Demetrius Saturday falls on November 7. At St. Vladimir's we will hold Vespers & Matins on Friday, November 6 at 6:00 p.m. and Divine Liturgy and a Pannykhida on Saturday, November 7 at 8:00 a.m. Please email names for the memorial services to info@stvladimiraami.org. Differentiate between Orthodox and non-Orthodox departed. We pray for both, but we pray differently and we want to do this appropriately – according to the Church’s established practices.

Thank God we have the ONLY ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CEMETERY IN MICHIGAN. There are others, but new burials are no longer allowed in any other Orthodox Cemetery in our state. What a blessing the Lord has given us! Let us take advantage of this blessing and arrange our burial plots at the earliest opportunity. St. Vladimir’s members receive a discount on their plot – and YOU CAN PAY OVER TIME WITH NO INTEREST CHARGE. Reserve your plot now – visit our parish cemetery page:

ALL CEMETERY INFORMATION
To learn more about parish membership please visit this link:

ST. VLADIMIR PARISH MEMBERSHIP

With Archbishop Peter’s blessing, it is our practice to serve the beautiful and ancient Liturgy of St. James, Brother of the Lord, annually on November 5. Since people come from throughout the metro area for this Liturgy we have scheduled it at 9:00 a.m. The service will be broadcast live on our audio stream and Facebook Live. Sign up is required to assure that we do not over-fill the church. You can sign up here:

SIGN UP FOR SERVICES WEEK OF NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Please join us as your personal schedule allows!

The last two weeks Archbishop Peter has asked us to conduct a special moleben at the end of the Sunday Divine Liturgy asking the Lord’s help for our country as we approach election day. Sadly there is much dissension in our country now. It seems to me (and perhaps I am just being romantic, but I don't think so) that Election Day used to be a day when we would celebrate our democracy – our ability to choose our own leaders freely. It seems that this is no longer the case – at least not this year. We still have the ability to choose freely, but the overall tenor of the society is rather negative - not celebratory...

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If you wish to be in control of your soul and body, forestall the passions by rooting out their causes.

+ St. Thalassios the Libyan

Danger - if you do not change your clocks back one hour on Saturday night when you go to bed you will be EARLY to Church on Sunday - and nobody wants that! :) Don't forget: FALL BACK ONE HOUR!

All are welcome at St. Vladimir's! Pleae 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, NOVEMBER 1, 2020
Due to the pandemic we have guidelines that must be followed. Please find those here:

HELP US KEEP THE PARISH OPEN DURING THE PANDEMIC
Services in the barn (mostly Sunday Liturgies) do not require sign up. All other services (which are held inside the church building) do - including Saturday evening Vigil. Sign up here:

DIVINE SERVICES WEEK OF OCTOBER 26, 2020

Thank God, we are about 1/3 of the way to our goal of raising $15,000 to cover our barn floor project with more than two weeks to go! Thank you all who have donated so far! For those who have not, but would like to help, please visit this giving page:

PANDEMIC WINTER WORSHIP SPACE
Or, feel free to reach out to our Treasurer, Mikhail Fisenkov. His contact information and lots of information about why you should and how you can support our St. Vladimir’s family is at our Treasurer’s Corner page:

TREASURER'S CORNER
If you aren’t in a position to help – we totally understand! But please do pray for the success of our effort, whether you can donate or not. Undoubtedly our prayers, entreating the Lord’s blessing on our work, are the MOST IMPORTANT PART of this effort!

It is important that we make an effort – a real effort – to refrain from speaking in church. Since we have been outside most of the summer we have unfortunately adapted our outside paradigm to church services rather than our church paradigm to being outside. LET'S NOT DO THIS AS WE BEGIN WORSHIPING IN THE BARN! If one absolutely must have a conversation during the time of the Divine Services this should be done either:

1. In the kiosk area IN VERY HUSHED TONES. The acoustics are excellent in the barn. The choir's beautiful voices carry throughout the space very readily - as do your conversations. :)

2. Outside (but please do not slam the barn door)

3. Most appropriately, unless the conversation involves a life or death situation: at the meal after the Divine Liturgy

4. We ask parents that if they bring toys for their children that these be soft toys that to do not make noise when dropped on the floor or on the benches.

Please contact Fr. Gregory with questions or concerns.