Sunday Services: Orthros 9:00am / Divine Liturgy 10:00am
Great Friday - April 26 - 2:00PM
Vespers & Apokathelosis
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- 7:00 PM -
Lamentations
Holy Saturday - April 27 - 8:00AM
Vesperal Divine Liturgy of St. Basil
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Saturday - 11:00PM
Vigil
Pascha - April 28 - 12:00AM
Paschal Orthros and Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
Paschal Meal follows the Liturgy
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Sunday - April 28 - 11:00AM
Agape Vespers
Paschal Luncheon &
Children's Easter Egg Hunt
Monday - April 29 - 9:00AM
Divine Liturgy for St. George
(Orthros at 8am)
Friday - May 3 - 9:00AM
Feast of the Theotokos of the Lifegiving Font
(Orthros at 8am)
Philoptochos
Business Meeting and Elections: May 12 after Divine Liturgy.
Local Colors: parade and booth on Saturday, May 18.
Special Events
Everyone is invited to the Paschal Meal after midnight Divine Liturgy on Pascha. Later, after the 11:00am Agape service there will be a Paschal luncheon and Easter Egg Hunt.
Hellenic Club
The May Hellenic Club outing will be held on Saturday, May 4 at 10 a.m. at Cracker Barrel on 3153 Lee Hwy. in Troutville. Everyone is invited to attend. Please RSVP your attendance by Wednesday, May 1 to (434) 851.6830 or Frances Simopoulos
Pack-a-Snack
Our community will participate in one final “Pack-a-Snack” for the Memorial Day weekend. This is a great opportunity to send home a bag of snacks with elementary students that are in need. If you would like to donate items or make a monetary donation, please see Maria Apostolou or Angela Flegas. They will be collecting items/money until Sunday, May 19th. If you choose to donate nonperishable snacks, please bring 30 of that item. There will be a sign-up sheet in the hall starting Sunday, April 21. Thank you for your support.
No Sunday School
There is no Sunday School this Sunday (Pascha). The last week of Sunday School will be May 12 with a special Coffee Hour after Divine Liturgy.
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Welcome to All Visitors!
Please join us for fellowship in the Church Hall immediately following the Divine Liturgy. For those visiting an Orthodox Church for the first time, please be aware that Holy Communion is a sign of unity of faith, which is only offered to Baptized and Chrismated Orthodox Christians. All present are welcomed to come forward and receive the antidoron (or blessed bread) which is distributed at the end of the service. For those interested in learning more about the Orthodox Christian faith, please feel free to speak with Fr. Nick after the service.
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Prokeimenon. Plagal Fourth Mode. Psalm 117.24,29.
This is the day which the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Verse: Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his mercy endures for ever.
The reading is from Acts of the Apostles 1:1-8.
In the first book, O Theophilos, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. To them he presented himself alive after his passion by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days, and speaking of the kingdom of God. And while staying with them he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, "you heard from me, for John baptized with water, but before many days you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit."
So when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom of lsrael?" He said to them, "it is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has fixed by his own authority. But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth."
Great and Holy Pascha
The Reading is from John 1:1-17
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came for testimony, to bear witness to the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to bear witness to the light.
The true light that enlightens every man was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world knew him not. He came to his own home, and his own people received him not. But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God; who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father. (John bore witness to him, and cried, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me ranks before me, for he was before me.'") And from his fullness have we all received, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.