Parish News Thanks to the many who helped with the Parish work day in June. We accomplished much-needed tasks around the building, including cleaning, painting, tree trimming and other gardening work, brass polishing, wax removal – and many others. We should do this more often! Two of our church conferences occur in the month of […]

A parish work day has been scheduled for Saturday, June 6, to clean and make much-needed repairs around our building. Please come and lend a hand. Congratulations to Benjamin Green, who has just graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Well done, Ben! We bid farewell to the Borthwick family, as they move to […]

We continue to bask in the joy of the Resurrection in the month of May, through the celebration of our Lord’s Ascension and ending the month with the great feast of Pentecost. Mass for the Ascension will be offered on the Eve, Wednesday, May 20, at 7:30PM (Vespers at 7). Several additional feast days will […]

We share in the joy of Sister Michele Green, as she has now been clothed and received as a member of the religious community of nuns at the Monastery of the Transfiguration in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania. Thanks to the monastery’s on-line streaming of all their services, we were able to witness the ceremony. We will […]

We will celebrate the Sunday of Orthodoxy with Vespers at Ss Peter & Paul Church in Potomac, MD at 5PM on Sunday, March 1. All are invited to this annual pan-Orthodox service. Bishop ANTHONY of the Antiochioan Diocese of Toledo and the Midwest will be the speaker. Lenten suppers, classes, and Stations of the Cross […]

We begin the month of February with another feast day which falls on Monday. With the permission of Metropolitan JOSEPH, we will transfer this feast to the day before and so will celebrate the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple (also known as the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Candlemas […]

Thank you to all who made our Christmas celebrations so beautiful – to those who decorated, to the acolytes who served at the altar, to the choir for their music and to all who came to joyously share in the celebration of the Nativity of Our Lord. Christ is born! Glorify Him! This first month […]

There will be two events in Advent to help us prepare for celebrating the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The first is a time of reflecting for the women of the parish on Saturday, December 6 beginning at 3:30PM. Presbytera Catherine will lead a discussion of the book The One Thing Needful: Meditations for […]

We begin the month of November with the celebration of an important feast on the calendar of the Western Rite – the Feast of All Saints. The actual feast day is November 1, but we will observe the Sunday in the Octave of the Feast. At the end of Liturgy that day, as we have […]

Our annual parish picnic will be held on Saturday, October 4, at Rock Creek Park, where we will eat al fresco, play games, and enjoy each other’s company in a beautiful setting. The Parish Hall will be our “back-up” in case of rain. The Our Lady of Walsingham service (originally scheduled for October 18) will […]