Bishop Nicholas’ Lenten Letter 2021
Great Lent and Holy Week Renewal of our Baptismal Commitment Let us enter the season of the radiant Fast with joy. Giving ourselves to the spiritual combat. Let us purify…
Great Fast (Lent)
St Ephrem’s weekday Lenten prayer
The weekday Lenten prayer in Byzantine tradition – Prayer of St. Ephrem: O Lord and Master of my life, keep from me the spirit of indifference and discouragement, lust of…
Clothed with Christ’s grace
Now that we are at Palm Sunday, we enter more deeply into the mysteries of our Christian faith through liturgical drama of Holy Week –a week that has changed all…
Palm Sunday 2020
For Palm Sunday The Divine Liturgy will be live-streamed both on the parish website (https://stannmelkitechurch.org) and the parish Facebook page (@StAnnWaterfordCT). Blessed Palms will be placed at the entry of…
The Holy Cross
We are near to the mid-point of Great Lent. The Church today celebrates the Holy Cross. What follows below is a piece by Orthodox Father Alexander Schmemann. The third Sunday…
Lenten Observances this week
Tuesday, March 10, 6:30 pm: The Pre-sanctified Liturgy Friday, March 13, 6:30 pm: Great Compline and Akathist
Lenten Observances 2020
The parish will have the following services for Great Lent: Friday, March 6, 6:30 pm: Great Compline and the Akathist Hymn Tuesday, March 10, 6:30 pm: Liturgy of the Pre-sanctifed…