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Community of Grace

April-May Book Club- Community of Grace: An Orthodox Christian Year in Alaska by Mary Alice Cook Throughout the Christian world and beyond, people are beginning to recognize the need for community—the need to belong to a close and caring group of people who provide each other with physical, material, emotional, and spiritual support on a daily basis. But […]

Sunday Bulletin 03/28/21

Palm Sunday WEEKLY LITURGICAL SCHEDULE Sunday, March 28  –  Palm Sunday 8:30 AM Matins 9:30 AM Divine Liturgy Monday, March 29  –  Holy Monday 7:30 AM Bridegroom Matins 7:30 PM Presanctified Liturgy +Maggie Yanoschik from Libby Reichert Tuesday, March 30  –  Holy Tuesday 7:30 AM Bridegroom Matins 7:30 PM Presanctified Liturgy +Rachel Carillo Wednesday, Mar. […]

Readings for Sat. 27th of March: Forty-first Week After Pentecost: Holy Week: LAZARUS SATURDAY

  Hebrews 12:28-13:8 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 28 Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe; 29 for our God is a consuming fire. Service Well-Pleasing to God 13 [a]Let brotherly love continue. 2 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, […]

Readings for Fri. 26th of March: Forty-first Week After Pentecost: LAST DAY OF THE GREAT FAST

  N.B “Today ends the forty day fast before Pascha that runs from the Monday after Cheesefare Sunday until the day before Lazarus Saturday. In origin this fast seems to be an imitation of the forty-day fast Jesus made after his baptism in the Jordan. In Egypt, it prepared the catechumens for the reception of […]

Readings for Thurs. 25th of March: Forty-first Week After Pentecost: Great Fast: ANNUNCIATION OF THE THEOTOKOS AND EVER VIRGIN MARY

  Isaiah 65:8-16 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 8 Thus says the Lord: “As the wine is found in the cluster,     and they say, ‘Do not destroy it,     for there is a blessing in it,’ so I will do for my servants’ sake,     and not destroy them all. 9 I will bring forth descendants from Jacob,     and from […]

Readings for Wed. 24th of March: Forty-first Week After Pentecost: Great Fast

  Isaiah 58:1-11 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition False and True Worship 58 “Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression,     to the house of Jacob their sins. 2 Yet they seek me daily,     and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did […]

Readings for Tues. 23rd of March: Forty-first Week After Pentecost: Great Fast  

  Isaiah 49:6-10 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 6 he says: “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant     to raise up the tribes of Jacob     and to restore the preserved of Israel; I will give you as a light to the nations,     that my salvation may reach to the end of […]

Readings for Mon. 22nd of March: Forty-first Week After Pentecost: Great Fast

  Isaiah 48:17-49:4 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 17 Thus says the Lord,     your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God,     who teaches you to profit,     who leads you in the way you should go. 18 O that you had hearkened to my commandments!     Then your peace would have been like a river,     and your […]

Readings for Sun. 21st of March: Forty-first Sunday After Pentecost: 5th Sunday of the Great Fast: MARY OF EGYPT  

  Hebrews 9:11-14 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 11 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come,[a] then through the greater and more perfect tent[b] (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) 12 he entered once for all into the Holy Place, taking[c] not the blood of goats and calves but […]