Calendar Updates
(In addition to the usual services)
FORGIVENESS VESPERS MARCH 9 AT 7PM
Sunday March 9 in addition to the usual services we will have Forgiveness Vespers at 7PM. This is one of the most important services of the church year as we enter the Great Fast making sure we have forgiven each other of any and all grudges and offenses.
NO SERVICE MONDAY NIGHT
THE GREAT FAST AND CANON OF ST. ANDREW BEGINS MARCH 11
Tuesday through Thursday of the first week of the fast (Clean Week) we will sing the beautiful and profound canon of St. Andrew of Crete each evening from 5PM to 7PM. Wednesday will include the Liturgy of the Pre-sanctified Gifts.
ON WEDNESDAYS …
… we will have a lenten meal after the liturgy. Please volunteer to bring the meal.
SUNDAY OF THE TRIUMPH OF ORTHODOXY
March 16 at 5PM at St. George in Indianapolis we will gather for the Sunday of Orthodoxy Vespers.
LENTEN VESPERS SERIES
5PM on Sunday evenings in lent …
- March 23 at Holy Trinity,
- March 30 St. Stephen’s Crawfordsville,
- April 6 St. Stephen’s Indy,
- April 13 Saint Nicholas.
SATURDAY APRIL 12
At 2PM our deanery will gather at Saint Alexis in Lafayette for a lenten mission service. Let’s all plan on being there.
ORTHODOX PSYCHOTHERAPY by Hierotheos
“Contemporary man, tired and discouraged by the various problems which torment him, is looking for rest and refreshment…..My basic aim is to help contemporary man to find his cure within the Orthodox Church, as we too are struggling to attain it. I realize that we are all sick and seeking the Physician. We are ill and seeking a cure. The Orthodox Church is the inn and the hospital in which every sick and distressed person can be healed.” (Metropolitan Hierotheos explaining the purpose of his book.)
FROM THE PASTOR
It is especially during the season of the Great Fast and the celebration of Pascha that we experience this healing of which Metropolitan Hierotheos speaks. Let us all take advantage of every opportunity to allow the Great Physician, Christ Himself, to heal us through the sacraments and services of the church.
Freely Ye Have Received Freely GiveTags: lent