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BONUS: FIRST WEEK THANK YOU!
Thank you to EVERYONE who worked so hard to make it possible for us to have services each morning and each evening of the first week of Great Lent. It is a lot of work! But Great Lent passes very quickly. We have to get into it right away! Our having all of the First Week services, which we have done for the last few years at STV, is so important for our parish family. Thank you to everyone who labored for the glory of God last week! The next all-week effort like this at STV will be Holy Week (April 5-12) and Bright Week (April 12-19). Please plan to participate those weeks too!
ONE: GREAT LENT BEGAN FEBRUARY 23!
Please note that Great Lent begins this year on February 23. During Great Lent we abstain from meat and dairy products including fish (although fish is allowed on Palm Sunday, April 5). Let us recall that fasting is a tool given to us by God to aid us spiritually. For some it is easy to fast, for others it is difficult. However, what is most important is that we make a sincere effort to follow the fast. Why? Simply because the fast helps us to see our sins by helping us to focus spiritually. Eating “light” foods, or perhaps rather, abstaining from “heavy” foods such as meats and cheeses, allows us to be less focused on our stomachs and more focused on our souls, and of course, in this season when we undergo our journey to the Resurrection of our Lord we dearly wish to improve ourselves spiritually that we might meet the risen Christ better than we were when we began Great Lent. St. John Chrysostom writes that we abstain from meats that we might abstain from our sins. This nicely sums up the reason the Holy Church, as a loving mother, gives us the gift of fasting. Pascha is April 12 – may God grant us all a spiritually profitable Great Lent!
FULL GREAT LENTEN SCHEDULE
TWO: HOUSE BLESSING TIME!
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THREE: CHURCH SCHOOL STARTED 1/24/26!
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FOUR: EVENING PRESANCTIFIED LITURGY THIS WEDNESDAY EVENING
This year, with the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Gabriel, we will celebrate the beautiful Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts throughout Great Lent on Wednesday evenings. Matins begins at 3:00 p.m. Liturgy will begin at approximately 6:00 p.m. Following each of these services our St. Xenia Sisterhood will organize a light Lenten dinner. Please contact our Head Sister, Ksenia Nikulshina (headsister@stvladimiraami.org or see her in church) if you would like to help with the dinner. We have excellent Lenten recipes to share if you’d like to try something new! Please join us for these remarkably beautiful and meaningful Lenten evening services and for mid-week fellowship with your parish family at the meal afterwards!
Wednesday, March 4
Wednesday, March 11
Wednesday, March 18
Thursday, March 26 – NOTE THIS IS A THURSDAY
Wednesday, April 1
The Liturgical Fast for those communing begins after breakfast for the ~6:00 p.m. services. In other words, you may eat breakfast, but eat or drink nothing further after that. Parents should use their best judgment regarding their children, as always. Those who confessed on the weekend prior to the Wednesday Presanctified need not confess again on/before Wednesday.
PLEASE NOTE! There are other Presanctified Liturgies throughout Great Lent - mostly on Fridays. Please consult the schedule of services on our web site for more details.
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FIVE: SOUL SATURDAY THIS SATURDAY!
The Holy Church appoints several special Saturdays throughout the year on which we especially commemorate our departed friends and loved ones. At St. Vladimir’s we will serve the following memorial services on the following dates this Great Lent – (Evening Services 6:00 p.m. on the Eve ~ Divine Liturgy at 8:00 a.m.):
February 14
March 7
March 14
March 21
Please join us for those services that you are able to and for those you are not: please assure the commemoration of your friends and loved ones at the services by emailing their names (please distinguish between Orthodox and non-Orthodox departed) to info@stvladimiraami.org or by otherwise contacting Fr. Gregory.
BONUS: ICON SALE THANK YOU + PRAYER TO ST. GABRIEL
Thank you to everyone who participated in yesterday’s St. Gabriel icon sale! We sold about half of our icons and we’ll have the remainder available this coming Sunday. Several folks asked that we share the prayer we are asking that St. Vladimirians say each day – a prayer composed by St. Gabriel. Here it is – please pray for the Lord’s blessing on our work every day until we have our first Liturgy in the new church!
Prayer of Venerable Gabriel of Georgia
Feast Day: October 20/November 2
STV Family Voted to Approve a New
Parish Church November 2, 2025
O Lord, I beseech Thee, hearken unto us from Heaven and turn Thy face toward us. Have mercy upon us and grant us Thy peace that we may fulfill Thy commandments and renounce evil. Teach us, O Lord, to pray to Thee and to fulfill Thy Holy Law so that our hearts be devoted to Thee and that we live according to Thy Holy Law. Amen!
Молитва преп. Гавриила Самтаврийского
День памяти: 20 октября/2 ноября
Семья STV проголосовала за новой храм 2 ноября 2025 года.
Господи, молю Тя, услыши ны с небесе и обрати лице Твое на ны. Помилуй ны и даждь нам мир Твой да заповеди Твоя исполним и от зла отречемся. Научи, Господи, молитися Тебе и закон Твой святый соблюдати, да сердца наша к Тебе обращена будут и поживем по закону святому Твоему. Аминь.
Мы просим каждого прихожанина нашего Свято-Владимирского прихода ежедневно читать эту молитву — до нашего переезда в новый приходской храм!
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