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THIS WEEK’S PARISH BULLETINS ENGLISH + РУССКИЙ

SCHEDULE OF DIVINE SERVICES AT STV
ONE: ANNUAL MEETING THANK YOU!
We had a really outstanding annual meeting yesterday! Thank you to all who participated in the meeting, all who asked great questions, all who voted to support the revised design of our new parish church, and all those who volunteered to serve our parish in the coming year on our parish council and auditing committee! And to all who provided reports on the various parish ministried that they headed up last year – thank you for your efforts and may the Lord bless you for your labors for His Church! More information on the revised building design execution (like the exact location of the construction, when we break ground, etc.) will be coming soon! Likely we will regularly publish videos and updates in this email with opportunities for folks to ask questions too. Now – let us pray that the Lord bless our efforts and guide our work!

TWO: CHEESEFARE WEEK
This week we abstain from all meats, but in order to evacuate our homes of all fish and dairy products these are allowed. In moderation. The idea is to finish up what we already have on hand so that by next Monday morning, February 23, when we head off to church in the morning or head to work, there are no dairy products or fish left in our house. Just lenten foods! Please contact one of our priests if you have questions about fasting.

THREE: GREAT LENT BEGINS NEXT MONDAY!
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!
FIRST WEEK OF GREAT LENT SCHEDULE
FULL GREAT LENTEN SCHEDULE

FOUR: HOUSE BLESSING TIME!
Please arrange your house blessing now!
THEOPHANY HOUSE BLESSINGS

FIVE: CHURCH SCHOOL STARTED 1/24/26!
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