Advent and Christmas, 2023 Drop down, ye heavens from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Saturday, December 2: We begin the season of Advent with Vespers. The vestments will now be purple and we will sing the Advent Prose (the antiphon is above) at Vespers. Sunday, December 3, the First Sunday of Advent: […]

On November 2, we will sing Vespers for the Departed at 6:30pm, and celebrate a Requiem Mass at 7, remem-bering our departed loved ones. A pot-luck supper will follow. The feast of All Saints will be celebrated on the Sunday within the Octave, November 5, and we will continue to honor the saints at coffee […]

The kingdom of God has no assessed value. It is worth everything you have. To Zacchaeus it was worth half his possessions; the other half he kept back in order to restore fourfold anything that he had unjustly taken. To Peter and Andrew it was worth their nets and boat. To the widow it was […]

The annual Parish Life Conference for the two dioceses of the Eastern Region was held at Antiochian Village June 28 to July 2. Representatives from parishes from Connecticut to West Virginia gathered for fellowship, study, and worship, including a Western Rite Vespers service led by members of St. Gregory’s and the other three Western Rite […]

On Sunday, July 2, we will celebrate the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to St. Elizabeth. This wonderful event, which is described in the Gospel of Luke, gives us the canticle Magnificat, which is sung at Vespers, and also words of St. Elizabeth which form part of the prayer, Hail Mary. […]

We were so blessed to have our new Metropolitan, SABA, with us on Rogation Monday, May 22. His Eminence was present for a service of Matins (within the Octave of our Feast of Dedication), followed by the Litany of Saints, which is appointed for the Rogation days, sung in procession around the building. Sayedna spoke […]

Thanks to all who helped with our parish work day and to those who helped to make our Holy Week and Pascha observances so beautiful. We continue to celebrate the joy of the Resurrection as the Paschal season lasts until Pentecost, encompassing the entire month of May. The Enthronement of our new Metropolitan, SABA, will […]

Passion Sunday, April 2, marks another step in our journey towards Easter. The altar and sacred ministers have been clothed in purple since the preparatory pre-Lenten season and now, the crosses throughout the chapel and the parish hall will be veiled. On Palm Sunday, April 9, we begin Holy Week, the last week of preparation […]

May God grant our new Metropolitan Saba wisdom, strength, and many years! We begin the month of March with the observance of Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent in the Western calendar. Vespers will be offered at 6:30PM and the Blessing and Imposition of Ashes followed by Mass will begin at 7. A Lenten […]

At our Annual Parish meeting on January 22, Dave Caldwell was re-elected for another term on the Parish Council and Monica Burnett was elected as a new Council member replacing Keivan Shahrahki, Council president for the last several years, whose term of office has finished. Thanks to all Council members for their good work in […]