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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: STANDING OF ST. ANDREW IS THIS WEDNESDAY
Almost certainly the longest service of the year. The FULL penitential canon of St. Andrew of Crete (we ready this in 4 parts over the first four days of Great Lent) PLUS the reading of the life of St. Mary of Egypt. This is the only life of any saint that is mandated to be read in the church. Therefore, we can know that this life is very important for us to hear. Join us! Invite friends! Presanctified Liturgy is THURSDAY this week!
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THREE: CHURCH SCHOOL STARTED 1/24/26!
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FOUR: EVENING PRESANCTIFIED LITURGY THIS THURSDAY 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: LAUDATION OF THE THEOTOKOS IS THIS SATURDAY
Soul Saturdays are over for this Great Lent. This Saturday we mark the special service of the Laudation of the Theotokos (also known as Akathist Saturday). The akathist is read on Friday evening as part of the Matins service. Join us! This is the last Saturday of Great Lent. The next Saturday after this is Lazarus Saturday (the first day of Holy Week).
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BONUS: PRAYER TO ST. GABRIEL
Thank you to everyone who participated in yesterday’s St. Gabriel icon sale! We/ve now sold about half of our icons and we’ll have the remainder available this coming Sunday. Several folks requested 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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