We will celebrate All Saints Day, which is November 1, on the Sunday within the Octave, November 6. As has been our custom, at Coffee Hour that day, instead of “Ask Abouna”, we will have a time of sharing the stories of the saints. Please come prepared to tell about your patron or a favorite […]

We haven’t printed a separate Parish News section in this month’s newsletter, as many things are “on hold” as we go to press. We have the building permit for work on our new property and construction should start within the first week of October. Permits for the Storm Water Management work and changes within  the public Right […]

We will celebrate the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross on the eve, Tuesday, September 13. Vespers will be sung at 7PM with Sung Mass at 7:30 and a pot-luck supper following (call 703-618-2348 for location). We welcome Jonathan Augustine Mallory to the holy Orthodox Church and to our family at St. Gregory’s. […]

Summer is the time for vacations (remember to speak with Fr. Nicholas about the nearest Orthodox church if you are going to a new vacation destination), but also for church conferences. Our Eastern Region Parish Life Conference, which will be held at Antiochian Village is June 29-July 3. In what has now become a tradition, […]

We celebrate two great feast days in this month. On Ascension Day, forty days after the Resurrection, as Christ ended his bodily presence on earth, we celebrate the fact that He carried our human nature, which He had assumed at the Incarnation, into Heaven. Our celebration of Ascension Day will be on the Eve, Wednesday, […]

On Easter Day, May 1, we will celebrate Mass at 11:00 am. Just as at the Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord, it is the Western tradition to allow for three celebrations of the Liturgy on Easter. Fr. Nicholas and Fr. Raphael beg to be excused from the Mass to be celebrated at dawn! […]

Our Lenten classes on the Fridays in April will be on the topic of models of repentance. On April 1: Repentance in the Old Testament; April 8: Repentance in the parables of our Lord; April 15: Repentance in the lives of the Apostles; and on April 22: Repentance in the lives of saints. We will […]

Happy Anniversary!   St. Gregory’s parish is now twenty years old! After months of preparation – studying and praying together – our group of enquirers was chrismated by Bishop ANTOUN on Saturday, March 2, 1996, at Ss. Peter & Paul Church (then in Bethesda). Fr. Nicholas was ordained deacon at the same service and the following day (the First Sunday of Lent that […]

Happy Anniversary! St. Gregory’s parish is now twenty years old! After months of preparation – studying and praying together – our group of enquirers was chrismated by Bishop ANTOUN on Saturday, March 2, 1996, at Ss. Peter & Paul Church (then in Bethesda). Fr. Nicholas was ordained deacon at the same service and the following […]

The great ‘blizzard of 2016,’ which paralyzed the Washington DC area for days, also had its impact on St. Gregory’s parish. This was to have been our visitation weekend from Bishop JOHN, but after attending the March for Life, Sayedna took the last train out of Washington to get home to Massachusetts and avoid being […]