Dear parishioners, brothers and sisters!
This year our temple unexpectedly needs expensive repair work. We urgently need to:
-replace a rusty underground sewer pipe,
-install a new boiler and water heater,
-replace the leaking church roof, cornices and gutters.
All of these projects require significant capital funds—about $50,000.
Our parish exists exclusively thanks to your donations and we simply do not have other sources of financial assistance. Our church is the only Orthodox church of the ROCOR in the entire state of Colorado.
We ask everyone to take part in this good cause with financial help and your prayers.
Donations for the renovation of the temple can be made in one of these ways:
-Credit or debit card (at bookstore),
-Via PayPal using this link or QR code below,
-Cash.
May God bless you for your generous help!
The Parish Council.
https://www.paypal.com/donate/
Nativity Fast
28 November – 6 January 2025
The Nativity fast begins on November 28, and lasts forty days. This period of fasting begins directly after the commemoration of the Holy Apostle Philip, on the November 28 according to the Church calendar, and concludes with the Nativity Feast itself. The Nativity fast is not Юas strict as Great Lent or the Dormition fast, and can be compared to the Apostle’s fast: fish can be eaten on every Saturday and Sunday, as well as on festal days of the Church calendar that do not fall on Wednesday or Friday. It was instituted by the Church so that we would worthily greet the feast of the Nativity of Christ after having cleansed our hearts by prayer and repentance.
Read here more about the fast, rules and how learn oneself to keep the fast here or here.
25th Sunday after Pentecost. Prophet Habakuk
Vigil and Confession: 5:30 p.m., December 14 Saturday
Liturgy: 10:00 a.m., December 15 Sunday
MOLEBEN TO SAINT NICHOLAS THE WONDERWORKER.
10:00 a.m., December 19 Thursday
Holy Hierarch Nicholas is commemorated by the Church on December 6/19. St. Nicholas is commemorated by the Orthodox Church on every Thursday as well! Anyone who has ever prayed to St. Nicholas for help knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that he not only did exist, but still does exist, for our God is a God of the living (cf. Mt. 22:32). St Nicholas’ title ‘wonderworker’ comes from the multitude of reports of miracles that issued forth at his intercession, both during his life and after.
Read more about the Saint here.
26th Sunday after Pentecost. Conception of Theotokos.
Vigil and Confession: 5:30 p.m., December 21 Saturday
Liturgy: 10:00 a.m., December 22 Sunday
27th Sunday after Pentecost. Holy Forefathers. Prophet Haggai.
Vigil and Confession: 5:30 p.m., December 28 Saturday
Liturgy: 10:00 a.m., December 29 Sunday
Read all feasts description for the year on our website
Read article – PREPARING FOR CONFESSION