Dear parishioners,

Below is the schedule of Services in our Church for the period from April 24 to May 2.

1. Saturday, April 24. (Lazarus’ Saturday) Holy Liturgy at 10:00 a.m.

2. Sunday, April 25, (Palm Sunday) Holy Liturgy at 10:00 a.m.

3. Wednesday, April 28. Akathist to St. John of Shanghai at 6:00 p.m.

4. Thursday, April 29. (Great Thursday) Holy Liturgy at 10:00 a.m.

5. Thursday, April 29. (Great Thursday) Service with the reading of the 12 Gospels at 6:00 p.m.

5. Friday, April 30. (Good Friday) Evening Service at 6:00 pm (online registration required).

6. Friday, April 30 (Good Friday) Evening Service at 7:30 pm (online registration required).

7. Saturday, May 1. (Great Saturday) Holy Liturgy at 10:00 am.

8. Sunday, May 2 (Easter) Holy Liturgy at 9:00 a.m. (online registration required).

After the Holy Liturgy there will be the consecration of Easter eggs at 11:00, 11:30, 12:00, 12:30 and as long as there is a need. A separate message will be sent with registration instructions for Good Friday and Easter. Registration is not required for other days because we do not expect more than 70 parishioners, which is the maximum number of attendees allowed.

“Never has there been such an age of false teachers as this pitiful twentieth century, so rich in material gadgets and so poor in mind and soul. Every conceivable opinion, even the most absurd, even those hitherto rejected by the universal consent of all civilized peoples — now has its platform and its own ‘teacher.’ A few of these teachers come with demonstration or promise of ‘spiritual power’ and false miracles, as do some occultists and ‘charismatics’; but most of the contemporary teachers offer no more than a weak concoction of undigested ideas which they receive ‘out of the air,’ as it were, or from some modern self-appointed ‘wise man’ (or woman) who knows more than all the ancients merely by living in our ‘enlightened’ modern times. As a result, philosophy has a thousand schools, and ‘Christianity’ – a thousand sects. Where is the truth to be found in all this, if indeed it is to found at all in our most misguided times?

In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit! Dear brothers and sisters, today we celebrate the glorious and joyous feast of the Meeting of the Lord. This feast is so named because the righteous elder Symeon, living in Jerusalem, met in the Jerusalem Temple the forty-day-old Youth our Lord Jesus Christ with His Most Pure Mother. This sacred event is described by the Evangelist Luke (See Lk. 2:22-40). This is a wondrous narration, brothers and sisters.

Every year, on Epiphany Day (according to the Julian Calendar) during the blessing of the waters, a miracle, which according to our Holy Church, occurred when Jesus entered the Jordan to get baptized by Saint John, is repeated. It takes place every year on the same day, at the very same spot where our God and Savior Jesus Christ was baptized. The Jordan River reverses its flow after the Holy Cross is dropped into its waters.