Schedule of Services for September 2024
27 August 2024
September 2024
1 — Sunday — 10:00 AM — DIVINE LITURGY — 10th SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
7 — Saturday — 8:00 AM — GREEK LITURGY
7 — Saturday — 7:00 PM — All-night Vigil
8 — Sunday — 10:00 AM — DIVINE LITURGY — VLADIMIR MOTHER OF GOD
10 — Tuesday — 7:00 PM — All-night Vigil
11 — Wednesday — 10:00 AM — DIVINE LITURGY — BEHEADING of ST. JOHN the BAPTIST
12 — Thursday — 8:15 AM — Matins — 10:00 AM — DIVINE LITURGY — ST. ALEXANDER NEVSKIY
14 — Saturday — 8:00 AM — GREEK LITURGY
14 — Saturday — 7:00 PM — All-night Vigil
15 — Sunday — 10:00 AM — DIVINE LITURGY — WEEK 12th and MOTHER OF GOD of KALUGA
20 — Friday — 7:00 PM — All-night Vigil
21 — Saturday — 9:00 AM — DIVINE LITURGY — NATIVITY of the MOST HOLY THEOTOKOS
21 — Saturday — 7:00 PM — All-night Vigil
22 — Sunday — 10:00 AM — DIVINE LITURGY — 13th SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
26 — Thursday — 7:00 PM — All-night vigil with carrying out the Holy Cross
27 — Friday — 10:00 AM — DIVINE LITURGY — EXALTATION of the CROSS of the LORD
28 — Saturday — 8:00 AM — GREEK LITURGY
28 — Saturday — 7:00 PM — All-night Vigil
29 — Sunday — 10:00 AM — DIVINE LITURGY — 14th SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
12 — Monday — 8:15 AM — Matins — 10:00 AM — DIVINE LITURGY — HOLY MARTYRS FAITH, HOPE, LOVE and SOPHIA
CELEBRATION OF THE 75th ANNIVERSARY of the PARISH (1949-2024)
27 August 2024
The parish shall celebrate 75th anniversary on October 26th (service at 6pm) and October 27th (greeting of metropolitan at 9:30am), 2024. Metropolitan Nikolai will lead services. Festive Reception at 2pm at Crystal Grand Banquet Hall, 2110 Dundas St. East #4, Mississauga (Hwy 427 & Dundas).
For tickets call at (647) 345-3929. Adults – $125, children, students and retirees – $100.
Parish school
5 February 2024
Parish school reopens
29 July 2023
RUSSIAN PARISH SCHOOL BEGINS SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 7.
A moleben will be served before the beginning of the new school year in our parish school on Saturday 7th at 10 am. Afterwards there will be classes until 2.30 pm and new students will be assigned to their classes in the church hall. Preschool class takes children who are 5 years old, grade one accepts children who are 6 years old. For information phone father Vladimir at 416-265-5651.
Wedding and Feast Loafs
3 October 2021
Wedding and Feast Loafs from Sisterhood may now be ordered at 416-400-3797
Parking rules
29 August 2021
Parking at United Steel Workers is permitted on Sunday only. There must be the blue windshield sticker, which can be obtained at the church. Spots marked with “Staff Parking Only” may not be used.
If these regulations are not observed, the cars may be towed and the parking privilege may be revoked from the church completely.
Zoom Conference on 100 years of ROCOR
11 January 2021
More information is available through this Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/110063552339710/permalink/4133146366698055/
APPEAL OF THE FIRST HIERARCH
13 April 2020
APPEAL OF THE FIRST HIERARCH OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH OUTSIDE OF RUSSIA TO THE GOD-LOVING FLOCK, IN CONNECTION WITH THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
Dear in the Lord fathers, brothers, and sisters!
I sincerely greet you with the very warmest well-wishes for the blessings of God, good health, spiritual calm, and the patience so needed in this trying time! I especially greet the doctors, nurses, and all who work in the hospitals, sincerely wishing them increased strength and Heavenly aid! I wish for those who are sick – and for their friends and relatives – comfort in the hope of God’s will, which always directs man toward the good. Our prayers are with all of you.
As a result of measures being taken to halt the spread of the Coronavirus infection, which have been instituted by the governments of countries in which our Church maintains a presence, many of us have been deprived of the divine services and of communal worship in the temples. In some parishes, following the strict recommendations of local authorities, no services are held at all; in others, it is possible to serve, but this must be done with closed doors and in the presence of an extremely limited number of people, who themselves observe the required distance from one another. In many parishes, the service is performed by a single priest, sung by a single chanter. For these parishioners, it is a comfort to know that prayer is still being offered up in the churches, that the living and the dead are being commemorated. And where the divine services are being broadcast over the Internet via live-stream, many unite and join in this prayer, creating a prayerful atmosphere in their own homes. I have even heard of instances where some among the faithful light candles and lamps and, standing in their prayer corners, follow along with the service and pray. I think that such church “attendance” has the virtue for them of actual attendance, and inclines to them God’s mercy. It is a joy to hear how some priests, using modern technology, support their parishioners by holding talks on various spiritual, moral, catechetical, and others useful subjects. I am sure that such a creative approach strengthens the unity among people who together endure these difficult circumstances, and will bring good fruit in the future. In general, any positive examples in such complicated situations, when new methods of preaching and pastoral nourishment are discovered, are always inspiring and instructive.
Unfortunately, we also hear of sorrowful instances of insubordination not only to local authorities, but also to the ruling bishops. Such behavior on the part of the clergy and lay parish officers is completely irresponsible and involves risk not only to the physical health of our neighbors, but also to our relationships with these communities and to parish property. Tempting God and man, their actions can result in insurmountable fines and other measures from law enforcement. In so doing, they irreparably damage their relationships with those around them, sowing in them doubts toward Christ’s Church, whose members must serve as an example. As a result of their disobedience and so-called “zeal not according to knowledge” (Romans 10:2), there can even develop divisions and conflicts within the parish communities themselves.
“Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God,” writes the Apostle Peter, “That He may exalt you in due time; casting all your care upon Him, for He careth for you” (I Peter 5:6-7). I call on the clergy and faithful of our churches, as law-abiding citizens of their countries, to follow all precautionary measures implemented by the local authorities, as well as adhering to the instructions issued by your Hierarchy, and to use the present conditions of quarantine to redouble your prayer, fasting, reading, and salvific contemplation, strengthening relations with family and friends. Perhaps before we did not sufficiently treasure the opportunity to pray in church, missing the divine services through our laziness and carelessness, or were so swallowed up by our affairs that we practically never saw our families, never prayed, never read anything of spiritual value, never prepared for the feasts, and never observed the fasts. General quarantine is a gift from God, which drives man into the depths of himself, forcing him to reexamine his attitude toward life, to think and to care about what is most important. Let every one of us make use of this blessed opportunity, at midnight on the Glorious Pascha night, to say to our own heart: “Christ is Risen,” and to hear from it that sweetest reply: “Indeed He is Risen.”
Asking your holy prayers, I remain with love in the Lord,
+HILARION
Metropolitan of Eastern America & New York
First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.
CELEBRATION OF THE 70th ANNIVERSARY of the PARISH (1949-2019)
21 October 2019
The parish will celebrate 70th anniversary on November 24th, 2019. Metropolitan Hilarion will lead services.
Festive Reception at 2pm at Crystal Grand Banquet Hall, 2110 Dundas St. East #4, Mississauga (Hwy 427 & Dundas).
Tickets may be ordered from the sisterhood treasurer, Kaleria Antonovna Poroshina, at: (647) 345-3929. Adults – $75, children up to 16 y.o. – $45.
Concert program by the Holy Trinity choir, Valery Malyshev and others.