Glory be to Jesus Christ! Glory forever!
Hope you are all staying dry on this wet April day. A lot going on as we enter the homestretch of our 2025 Lenten struggle.
First, a thank you to the choir and a reminder that they will be offering a Lenten Dinner, at 5:30PM on Friday. A freewill offering will be collected to benefit St. George Community Outreach. Thank you Choir! (And thank you to SAS who provided an awesome dinner last Friday).
Then, there will be opportunities for all of the rest of us to provide hospitality:
- To our own parishioners: LENTEN Potluck after Liturgy on Sunday (PLEASE: No meat or dairy)
- To our WNY Brother and Sister Orthodox after the Pan-Orthodox Vespers on Sunday Evening. (Please see Jackie Fadel if you’d like to help provide some food!)
Here is the schedule:
- Tonight 4/2
- 5:20 9th Hour and Typika
- 6PM Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
- 7:15ish Lenten Potluck
- 8:15ish Small Compline with Great Canon of St. Andrew and The Life of St. Mary of Egypt
- Friday 4/4
- 5:30 Lenten Dinner provided by Choir
- 7PM Small Compline w/ Complete Akathist Hymn
- Saturday 4/5
- 5PM Great Vespers
- Sunday 4/6 Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt and "First Sunday"
- 9AM Sunday Matins
- 10AM Divine Liturgy of St. Basil
- w/ Children’s Sermon
- Lenten Potluck (NO meat or dairy, Please!)
- 5PM Pan-Orthodox Sunday Lenten Vespers
- 6PM Hospitality: Food and Fellowship (PLease come and help welcome and serve our guests)
- Talk by Dr. Tina Colaizzo-Anas: "For I was Hungry . . ."
Upcoming!:
- Shrimp Scampi Dinner, provided by Steve Sargent and the Parish Council 4/11
- Lazarus Saturday
- Children sing
- Children’s Confessions (and pow-wow w/ Fr Raphael)
- Temple Clean-up
- HOLY WEEK!
