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THIS WEEK’S PARISH BULLETINS ENGLISH + РУССКИЙ

SCHEDULE OF DIVINE SERVICES AT STV

ONE: TRANSFIGURATION IS TONIGHT/TOMORROW!
If you are seeing this only now STOP! Begin the LIVE STREAM. Then continue reading. The great feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord is tomorrow! Divine Liturgy begins at 8:00 a.m. Do not forget to bring fruit to bless (a tomato is a fruit – no need to parse that tomorrow). :) But most traditional are apples and grapes. There will be a special table set up just inside the glass doors for your baskets. Please plan to join us – this is a very important feast and a beautiful one.

TWO: GREAT LITURGY YESTERDAY – SILVER CHAIN LOST
If you missed yesterday’s Liturgy we missed you too! The church was packed, and it was a really beautiful Liturgy. They are all spiritually and theologically beautiful of course, but somehow everything just “clicked” yesterday. Thank you to everyone who made that possible. Let’s do it again this coming Sunday! Someone lost a silver cross and chain yesterday. If that is you, please CONTACT ME and we’ll get it to you ASAP.

THREE: FESTIVAL IS LOOMING LARGE – JOIN IN NOW!
Our Russian Orthodox Festival is slated for September 20-21, 2025. That is just about 5 weeks away! Now is the time to SPREAD THE WORD. Now is the time to VOLUNTEER TO HELP. This is our 11th Festival. Everyone knows what to expect, including my annual admonition: “everyone should work, everyone should enjoy”. So sign up to work for part of the festival, and have fund for part of the festival. If everyone does this – we are golden. May the Lord grant it to be a great success by every metric!


STARTING AUGUST 23 AND EVERY SATURDAY @ 10 A.M. UNTIL THE FESTIVAL - JOIN US!
FOUR: THIS SUNDAY IS OUR MONTHLY BUILDING FUND DINNER
Part of our great Liturgy yesterday was the fellowship that continued into the weekly meal. A TON of people stayed, including a good number of new folks. We made over $600 on the meal, which is great! Especially because we were asking a donation of $10 per adult. Thank you all! Let’s CRUSH that this Sunday we we ask you, as we always do once per month, to donate $20 because we’ll have a huge spread of delicious food. And these proceeds will all go to our building fund! We promised you that we would break ground this construction season and that is still the plan! So your donation will go towards the new building, and keeping the present building in good working order too. Please join us!

FIVE: MOLEBEN FOR THE BEGINNING OF THE SCHOOL YEAR IS THIS COMING SUNDAY
Please join us for the Divine Liturgy this Sunday, at the conclusion of which we will hold our annual Moleben for the Beginning of the Instruction of Children. There are prayers for teachers too! Public schools and universities will begin this coming week for the most part, so this is the day to do it. All students and teachers will be sprinkled with holy water after the moleben. Fr. Colin will probably do that, so you are warned to dress appropriately. :) There will be another moleben a big later for our academy students a bit later – when we get closer to their start date in mid-September.

BONUS: SAVE THE DATE – LABOR BBQ @ FR. GREGORY’S IS SEPTEMBER 1
Our annual welcome barbecue for our students and young adults will be at Fr. Gregory’s place on Monday, September 1 at 1:00 p.m. Bring a healthy appetite and be ready to meet new people! DO NOT MISS! But PLEASE RSVP. We need to know how much food to have ready!