On Sunday, December 2, 2018 some of our parish family had the great honor to visit Sts. Peter & Paul Orthodox Cathedral in Detroit and to serve those in need in the neighborhood around the church there. We'll be serving there in 2019 on May 19 and December 1 – mark your calendars now. We hope you can join us then as we strive to fulfill our Lord’s clear guidance found in Matthew 25! Learn more or volunteer for our next visit by sending a note to info@stvladimiraami.org. If you'd like to help before we visit next please visit the Detroit Orthodox Outreach web site:

DETROIT ORTHODOX OUTREACH
To see pictures from our visit on December 2 please visit our photo album:

SERVING CHRIST BY SERVING OTHERS

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“A man can know nothing about the judgments of God. He alone is the one who takes account of all and is able to judge the hearts of each one of us, as He alone is our Master. Truly it happens that a man may do a certain thing which seems to be wrong out of simplicity, and there may be something about it which makes more amends to God than your whole life; how are you going to sit in judgment and constrict your own soul? And should it happen that he has fallen away, how do you know how much and how well he fought; how much blood he sweated before he did it? Perhaps so little fault can be found in him that God can look on his action as if it were just, for God looks on his labor and all the struggle he had before he did it, and has pity on him. And do you know this, and what God has spared him for? Are you going to condemn him for this and ruin your own soul? And how do you know what tears he has shed about it before God? You may well know about the sin but do you not know about the repentance?”

+ St. Dorotheos of Gaza

This month's schedule of services is now posted on our "Upcoming Activities" page. You can also find the January schedule and the Nativity of Christ service schedule there too. The link is below - please join us as your personal schedule allows!

UPCOMING ACTIVITIES

Our next Children's Liturgy is sent for Wednesday, December 19 - the feast of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. Please sign your child up to participate today! The hours begin at 8:00 a.m. The sign up sheet can be found here:

SIGN UP SHEET FOR CHILDREN'S LITURGY

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER TODAY!

Our monthly cycle of all-English services is set for this Friday at 6:00 p.m. and this Saturday at 9:00 a.m. Please invite friends, loved ones, neighbors, co-workers, and anyone else you know or suspect might like to learn more about the Orthodox Faith. The Lord has put us in this time and place to sanctify this time and place – to spread the Gospel here and now. This is why we hold these services – to provide an opportunity for all to be exposed to the theology in action that is the Divine Services. Please join us as your personal schedule allows!

FLYER TO SHARE
2019 SCHEDULE OF ALL ENGLISH SERVICES

PLEASE JOIN US AS YOUR PERSONAL SCHEDULE ALLOWS!

Please note that the yearly Lenten period in preparation for our Lord’s Nativity begins on November 28. From this day until January 7 we do not partake of meat or dairy products. On many days during this lent fish is allowed. Please consult the parish schedule of services for details in this regard. Have questions about fasting? Never tried to follow the fast before? Please talk to Fr. Gregory for answers! “We abstain from meats that we might abstain from the passions...” writes St. John Chrysostom. Let us indeed use the fast for what it is – a tool to aid us in our spiritual struggle for salvation.

There will be Divine Services at least once during each week of the Nativity Fast OUTSIDE the usual Saturday/Sunday services this year. Sign up today to help with these services (sing, read, serve in the altar) here:

NATIVITY LENT EXTRA SERVICES SIGN UP
The dates we will hold Divine Liturgy during the week of the Nativity Fast (and evening services the evening before) are:

November 29 – MIDNIGHT LITURGY
December 1
December 4
December 7
December 12
December 19 – CHILDREN’S LITURGY
December 22 – MIDNIGHT LITURGY
December 28 – MIDNIGHT LITURGY
January 5

Please join us as your personal schedule allows! Make a special effort to attend at least some of the weekday Lenten services this Nativity Fast!

Our annual Sisterhood Bake Sale is set for Saturday, December 15. Preparation has begun! Check out the picture above of some of the cookies that were already prepared – these are works of art! You can help. And you want to help. :) We know you do! How? Contact our Head Sister, Leta Nikulshina at headsister@stvladimiraami.org or 734-272-3826.