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Lent 2023 Schedule

  • March 14, 2023
  • by Fr. John Phelps

The general schedule during Great Lent 2023 will be as follows:5:30 pm Saturday - Great Vespers8:15 am Sunday - Orthros & Divine Liturgy6:30 am Monday - Jesus Prayer6:00 pm Monday - Great Compline6:00 pm Wednesday - Presanctified Liturgy9:00 pm Friday - Small Compline w/ AkathistNote: there will be …

A Beneficial Article by Metropolitan Joel of Edessa

  • June 3, 2020
  • by Fr. John Phelps

Considering all that has occurred recently with the pause of the Divine Services due to this unprecedented virus, I would like to humbly present the position of our Holy Church concerning whether diseases can be spread through the Holy Mysteries or through other sanctifying practices of the Church: …

Let us stand well; let us stand with fear, faith and love

  • April 28, 2020
  • by Fr. John Phelps

Demetrios Tselengides, Professor of Dogmatic Theology of the Theological University of Thessaloniki Note: the translation of this letter was recently sent to us by the sisters of Saint John the Forerunner, along with a word of encouragement from Gerondissa Efpraxia. We are found before events with a…

Patience will open the gates of Paradise

  • April 28, 2020
  • by Fr. John Phelps

Elder Ephraim of Arizona: (from Counsels from the Holy Mountain) Note: this was recently emailed to us by the sisters of Saint John the Forerunner, along with a note of encouragement. How much loss a person suffers when he forgets his sonship and does not reflect that he is disciplined as a child of…