On Sunday, September 7, students and teachers in the parish will be given a blessing at the end of the Liturgy that their minds may be set on learning the ways of God as well as their other studies. We will also continue our parish custom of taking home-baked cookies to the Howard University students […]

Summer is a time for church conferences: the Parish Life Conference for the Eastern Region will be held for the first time at Antiochian Village from July 2-6. Fr. Nicholas, Kh. Becky, and Reader Simon (Karl Tsuji) will attend and participate in Western Rite Vespers, which will be offered by the four Western Rite parishes […]

The month of June is a month of Sunday feast days. The Sunday after Ascension Day begins the month on June 1; June 8 is the great feast of Pentecost, followed by Trinity Sunday on June 15; we celebrate the Sunday within the Octave of Corpus Christi (the actual feast day is on the Thursday […]

Christ is risen! Indeed He is risen! Our services for Holy Week and Pascha were very beautiful, thanks to the efforts of so many people. Clergy, acolytes, choir singers, flower arrangers, bread makers, cooks, cleaners, seamstresses – all worked diligently to beautify our celebrations. Thanks to all of you for your work. St. Ignatius of […]

Upon the repose of our beloved Metropolitan Philip, St. Gregory’s joined with parishes around the archdiocese in honoring his memory with services. We celebrated a Requiem Mass on the third day following his death and will continue to remember him in prayers for forty days and on the one-year anniversary of his death. Metropolitan Philip […]

We begin the season of Lent with the service for the Imposition of Ashes and Mass on Ash Wednesday, March 5, at 7:30PM (Vespers will be at 7PM). A Lenten pot-luck supper will follow. For the remainder of the season, from March 14 until Holy Week, we will meet for a Lenten supper at 6:30PM […]

We begin the month of February with the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple on February 2. This year, the feast falls on a Sunday, so we will all participate in the celebration of this event which contains so much meaningful symbolism. At the end of the Liturgy, we will also […]

We begin the new year with the celebration of the Circumcision of Our Lord. Matins will be at 9:30AM on Wednesday, January 1, and Mass will be at 10:00 followed by a pot-luck brunch and games. Metropolitan PHILIP, has directed that all parishes in the Archdiocese celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany on Sunday, January […]

St. Gregory’s has been blessed with the gift of a relic of St. Lucy, which was first offered for veneration on All Saints Day. Along with those of St. Gregory the Great, our patron, St. Nicholas, and St. Sebastian, her relics are kept on the altar at all times as a reminder of the communion […]

On Saturday, November 2, All Souls Day, we will celebrate a Requiem Mass at 10:00 am (with Lauds of the Departed at 9:30). Please give Fr. Nicholas the names of those you would like to have remembered at the altar. The Feast of All Saints will be observed on the Sunday within the octave, November […]