Entries by St. Mary

Looking Ahead at St Mary (Dec 4 – 11)

Beloved in Christ, Below you will find this week’s schedule, as well as some important notes about upcoming events. THIS WEEK: Dec 4 – 11, 2023 This Week: The Advent Fast began on Wednesday, November 15, and runs through the Divine Liturgy for Christmas.       Wed, Dec 6 at 8:00 am – Divine Liturgy […]

St Saba the Sanctified (12-03-2023)

December 5: Venerable Saba the Sanctified (From The Prologue from Ochrid by St. Nicholai Velimirovich) The unknown village of Mutalaska, in the province of Cappadocia, became famous through this great luminary of the Orthodox Church. St. Saba was born there of his parents John and Sophia. At the age of eight, he left the home […]

Looking Ahead at St Mary (Nov 27 – Dec 3)

Beloved in Christ, Below you will find this week’s schedule, as well as some important notes about upcoming events. THIS WEEK: Nov 27 – Dec 3, 2023 This Week: The Advent Fast began on Wednesday, November 15, and runs through the Divine Liturgy for Christmas.       Wed, Nov 29 at 6:00 pm – Advent […]

Looking Ahead at St Mary (Nov 20 – Nov 27)

Beloved in Christ, In addition to Metropolitan Saba’s weekly teaching, this week I am including another publication from the Archdiocese discussing how the Archdiocese serves our parishes. I hope you find the interview with Fr Thomas Zain of the Department of Liturgics to be useful. I will begin sharing all of these with you as […]

The Orthodox Spirit and the Nativity Fast

By Metropolitan Saba (Isper) Saint Porphyrios of Kafsokalyvia (also known as Saint Porphyrios the Seer, +1991) recounts, in the context of narrating events from his life, his experience as a spiritual father with the sacrament of confession. He was a mere fourteen years old when he fled to Mount Athos. There, he lived in the […]

Looking Ahead at St Mary (Nov 13 – Nov 20)

Beloved in Christ, For the past several weeks, Metropolitan Saba has been sending the clergy throughout the Archdiocese a short teaching on various topics. Because they are beneficial, I plan to begin sharing his weekly teachings with you in my weekly e-mail to the parish. You can find his teaching from this week on “The […]