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 […]

We begin the new year and the month of January with the celebration of the Feast of the Circumcision of Our Lord on Sunday, January 1. This will also be commemorated as the Sunday within the octave of Christmas. Our usual service times (9AM Matins, 9:30 Mass) will be observed. The Feast of the Epiphany […]

During the season of Advent at St. Gregory’s, a number of ways are offered for preparing for the coming of the Saviour as we are called by the Church to pay special attention to prayer, fasting, confession, and almsgiving. Weekday low masses will be offered at 7AM on St. Andrew’s day (Wednesday, November 30); on […]

The month of November begins with two important feast days in the liturgical calendar of the Church: All Saints on November 1 and All Souls on November 2. We will transfer our celebration of All Saints to the Sunday within the Octave, November 6. At coffee hour after Mass that day, we will continue a […]

A parish picnic has been planned for Sunday, October 23, in lieu of coffee hour. Everyone is invited to stay after church for food, fellowship, and games. A deanery gathering is planned for Saturday, 10/22, at Ss. Peter & Paul in Potomac, to bring together parish leaders  for parish councils, Christian Education, Music, Young Adult […]

Mass for special feast days this month will be held on Wednesday, September 7, the Eve of the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, and on Tuesday, September 13, the Eve of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, and on Wednesday, September 28, the Eve of the Feast of Dedication of St. Michael […]

There will be two extra feast-day services in the month of August: the Transfiguration of Our Lord is on Saturday, August 6 and Mass will be celebrated at 10AM with Matins at 9:30 and pot-luck brunch following. On Monday, August 15, we will celebrate the Dormition (Assumption) of the Blessed Virgin Mary with Vespers at […]

What a wonderful celebration we had on May 22 with the observance of our Feast of Dedication, the 26th anniversary of our parish, and the visitation of our father in God, Bishop JOHN. Thank you to all who helped to make the celebration so memorable. We begin the month of June with Vespers at 6:30PM […]