Upcoming Feast Day Services
December 20th, 2010As we approach the Nativity of our Lord, it is appropriate to realize that many in our modern society have turned this Feast of the Church into a reason to consume material goods, watch movies and ignore the spiritual realities of the incarnation (even, as a priest friend of mine reminded me recently, closing churches on Sunday when services recently conflicted with traditional family holiday plans!). The appropriate place for Christians to be during this feast, is gathered in community, worshiping the Holy Lord Jesus as the Shepherds and Wise Men did thousands of years ago.
To this end, I encourage everyone who can, to set aside time to join us to usher in the Feast of Nativity with the following services:
- Vigil (services of Compline and Matins) at 6:30 on Friday Evening, December 24
- Divine Liturgy for Nativity at 9:30am on Saturday Morning, December 25
- No Great Vespers on Saturday Evening, December 25
- Divine Liturgy for the Afterfeast of Nativity (also Joseph, James and King David) at 9:30am on Sunday Morning, December 26
ALSO TAKE NOTE:
Our parish feast day – the Feast of St. Basil the Great, will occur the following weekend – January 1 (our parish feast day will be on New Years Day each year). It is, once again, an important time for us as a community to gather in worship, and to thank God for the blessings he has bestowed upon us as a community, and to ask His blessings upon us in the coming year. Please make every effort to attend the services that will be held in connection with this feast:
- Great Vespers for St. Basil the Great: Friday, December 31 6:30pm
- Divine Liturgy for St. Basil the Great: Saturday, January 1 9:30am
- Again, No Great Vespers on Saturday Evening, January 1, 2011
Note that we will not be celebrating Great Vespers on these two Saturday Evenings (as we usually do) in order to facilitate participation in the festal cycle of services for Nativity and St. Basil.
