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/
Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee. Saint Macarius the Great.
Vigil and Confession: January 31 Saturday, 5:30 p.m.
Liturgy: February 1, Sunday at 10:00 a.m.
In today’s Gospel, the prayer of the publican is shown drawing God’s mercy to him. This prayer consisted of the following words: God be merciful to me a sinner (Lk. 18:13). It is worthy of our attention that God heard such a short prayer, and that it was pronounced in the temple, during the common worship services, during the reading and chanting of psalms and other prayers. This prayer is commended in the Gospels; it is set forth as an example of prayer, and it becomes our sacred duty to piously contemplate it. Read more about the feast here.
Sunday of the Prodigal Son. New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia. Saint Xenophon.
Vigil and Confession: February 7, Saturday at 5:30 p.m.
Liturgy: February 8, Sunday at 10:00 a.m.
In what does the podvig of the holy Forty Days Fast consist? In the podvig of repentance. During these days, we stand before the time dedicated largely to repentance, as before the doors of repentance, and sing the song that is filled with contrite feeling: Open unto me the doors of repentance, O Giver of life! What does our Lord’s Gospel parable that we hear today reveal to us? It reveals the unfathomable, infinite mercy of our Heavenly Father for sinners who bring forth repentance. The Lord made it known to people, calling them to repentance: Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth (Lk. 15:10). So that His words would become even more strongly impressed in the hearts of His listeners, He decided to supplement them with a parable. Read more about the feast here.
Pannykhida.
February 14, Saturday at 10:00 a.m.
MEETING OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR. Meatfare Sunday.
Vigil and Confession: February 14, Saturday 5:30 p.m.
Liturgy: February 15, Sunday 10;00 a.m.
The Meeting of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ in the temple of Jerusalem by the righteous Symeon and Anna the Prophetess. This occurred on the fortieth day after the Nativity of Christ, when the Most Holy Virgin Mary, in accordance with the requirements of the law of Moses, brought the Infant Jesus to the temple of Jerusalem in order to offer sacrifice for Her purification (though She had no need of such, having immaculately given birth without seed), for the presentation of the Infant God, and to redeem Him. Read more about the feast here…
FORGIVENESS SUNDAY. Cheesefare Sunday. Martyr Nicephoros. Saint Innocent of Irkutsk.
Vigil and Confession: February 21, Saturday at 5:30 p.m.
Liturgy: February 22, Sunday at 10:00 a.m.
Vespers: 12:00 p.m.
Cheesefare Sunday, on which the “dismissal of cheese” takes place, i.e., the cessation of the eating of cheese, immediately before the beginning of Great Lent, is dedicated to “The Casting Out of Adam.” On the hymns for this Sunday the fall of our first parents Adam and Eve is recalled, by which is explained the necessity of the labors of fasting. Adam and Eve fell through incontinence and disobedience, and now, through the willingly undertaken labor of abstinence and obedience to the Church, we may rise up once again and restore the paradisiacal blessedness which they lost. At the Liturgy a Gospel is read which inspires us to forgive neighbors their offences and fast, not in display, like the Pharisees, but sincerely, for God’s sake (Matt. 17). Entering into Great Lent, the faithful, according to the ancient Christian practice, remembering the exhortation of the Lord regarding this in the Gospel, mutually ask forgiveness of one another. This rite of forgiveness takes place at the end of Vespers.
Great Lent: February 23- April 11, 2026
Great Lent is the 40-day season of spiritual preparation that comes before the most important Feast of the Christian year, Holy Pascha. The purpose of fasting is to remind us of the Scriptural teaching, “Man does not live by bread alone.” The needs of the body are nothing compared to the needs of the soul. Above all else, we need God, Who provides everything for both the body and the soul. Fasting teaches us to depend on God more fully. Read more about the fast here.
Great Compline with Canon of St. Andrew of Crete
February 23, Monday at 6:00 p.m.
February 24, Tuesday at 6:00 p.m.
February 25, Wednesday at 6:00 p.m.
February 26, Thursday at 6:00 p.m.
The Great Canon of St Andrew, Bishop of Crete, is the longest canon in all of our services, and is associated with Great Lent, since the only times it is appointed to be read in church are the first four nights of Great Lent. Read more about the Great Canon here.
1st Sunday of Great Lent. Triumph of Orthodoxy. Martyr Pamphilus.
Vigil and Confession: February 28, Saturday at 5:30 p.m.
Liturgy: March 1, Sunday at 10:00 a.m.
On this first Sunday of Great Lent, the Sunday of Orthodoxy, the Church of Christ celebrates the restoration of the holy and venerable icons by the Emperor Michael, the holy and blessed Empress Theodora and the Holy Methodius, Patriarch of Constantinople. Read more about the feast here.
Read all feasts description for the year on our website
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