December Calendar
January Calendar
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 2026
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.
29th Sunday after Pentecost. Holy Forefathers. Saint Eleutherius. Saint Hilarion.
Vigil and Confession: 5:30 p.m., December 27 Saturday
Liturgy: 10:00 a.m., December 28 Sunday
30th Sunday after Pentecost. Sunday before the Nativity. Sunday of the Holy Fathers
Vigil and Confession: 5:30 p.m., January 3 Saturday
Liturgy: 10:00 a.m., January 4 Sunday
THE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST
January 5, Monday 5:00 p.m. – Confession; 6:00 p.m. – Vespers and Matins
January 6, Tuesday 8:30 a.m. – Royal Hours, Vespers and Liturgy
January 6, Tuesday 5:30 p.m. – Confession; 6:00 p.m. – Great Compline and Matins
January 7, Wednesday 10:00 a.m. – Liturgy NATIVITY OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST; 12 p.m. Nativity Pot Luck Dinner
On this day we remember the birth of our Lord Jesus to His Most Pure and Unwedded Mother, the Virgin Mary, in the year 5508 from the creation of the world, in the reign of the Roman emperor Augustus, in Bethlehem of Judea. Read more about the feast here.
Read all feasts description for the year on our website
Read article – PREPARING FOR CONFESSION