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/
Fourth Sunday after Pascha. Sunday of the paralytic. Saint Theodore Trichinas.
Vigil & Confessions: May 2 Saturday at 5:30 p.m.
Liturgy: May 3, Sunday at 10:00 a.m.
The fourth Sunday after Pascha is called the Sunday of the Paralytic, since on in the Gospel at the Liturgy for this Sunday we recall the account of the Lord’s healing of the paralytic, who had lain for thirty-eight years by the Sheep’s Pool in Jerusalem. This event, like those of the Sundays that follow, testifies to us of the Divine omnipotence of the Lord Jesus Christ, and thereby strengthen our faith in the truth of His resurrection. In addition to this, these events were performed during this very period of time- during the days of Pentecost. Read more about the feast here.
Fifth Sunday after Pascha. Sunday of the Samaritan Woman. Saint Simeon.
Vigil & Confessions: May 9, Saturday at 5:30 p.m.
Liturgy: May 10, Sunday at 10:00 a.m.
On the fifth Sunday after Pascha — that of the Samaritan Woman — we commemorate how the Lord, coming from the Samaritan city of Sihar to Jacob’s well, while in conversation with the Samaritan woman gave her “the living water which dries up the fount of sins,” revealed that He is the Knower of hearts, and clearly proclaimed Himself the Messiah, Christ. Read more about the feast here.
Sixth Sunday after Pascha. Sunday of the Blind Man. Virgin–martyr Pelagia of Tarsus.
Vigil & Confessions: May 16, Saturday at 5:30 p.m.
Liturgy: May 17, Sunday at 10:00 a.m.
Perhaps today’s story of the healing of the blind man is especially important for us, for our generation. When the Savior walked near the blind man—who was known throughout Jerusalem—but did not ask him anything, not even about his faith, he passed by him and healed him. The blind man became a man who sees. Read more about the feast here.
ASCENSION OF OUR LORD
Vigil & Confessions: May 20, Wednesday, 6:00 p.m.
Liturgy: May 21, Thursday at 10:00 a.m.
This holy day is celebrated on the fortieth day after the Resurrection of Christ, on the Thursday of the sixth week of Pascha. The ascension of Christ into heaven is mentioned in the prophecies of the Scriptures. Christ Himself, upon His Resurrection, said to Mary Magdelene:
“I go back up to My Father and your Father and to My God and your God”.
This great event with which Jesus” life on earth concludes is briefly mentioned in the Gospels of Mark and Luke. But in the Acts of the Apostles there is a fuller account: Gathering His disciples, Jesus commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to await what had been promised by the Father, that is, the descent of the Holy Spirit. Read more about the feast here.
Moleben for Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker: May 22, Friday at 10:30 a.m.
7th Sunday after Pascha. First Ecumenical Council. Saints Methodius and Cyrill.
Vigil & Confessions: May 23, Saturday at 5:30 p.m.
Liturgy: May 24 , Sunday at 10:00 a.m.
Opening of the Council
The council was summoned in the year 325 by the Emperor St. Constantine the Great, who desired unity in the Roman Empire and thus called the Church’s bishops together to settle the raging of the heresy of Arianism, the doctrine that Jesus Christ was a created being and therefore not truly the one God.
The synod had originally been intended to be held at Ancyra, but its location was moved by Constantine to Nicea (much closer to the imperial headquarters in Nicomedia) so that he might be able to participate more easily. The First Council of Nicea assembled according to tradition on May 20 of 325.
Earlier in the year, there had already been a council at Antioch, presided over by St. Hosius of Cordoba, which condemned Arianism and its followers, even explicitly naming Eusebius of Caesarea (who is believed to have waffled somewhat on the question). When Constantine convened the council at Nicea, he did so primarily out of a desire to have a unified Empire rather than in an attempt to affect Church doctrine. Read more here.
Soul Saturday. Panykhida.
May 30, Saturday 10:30 a.m.
PENTECOST. Saint Theodotus.
Vigil & Confessions: May 30, Saturday, 5:30 p.m.
Liturgy: May 31, Sunday, 10:00 a.m.
Even in apostolic times, it was customary to begin the Church year with the celebration of the Savior’s Resurrection. The second oldest Christian feast day was the day of Pentecost, on which the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles. Tradition has it that the first Christian church was built on Mount Sion, at the place where the Apostles were gathered on the day of Pentecost. The church was not destroyed even during the general destruction of Jerusalem by the Roman legions in 70 A.D. Read more here.
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