Saint Vladimir’s Russian Orthodox Church
6824-128th Ave. Edmonton, AB T5C 1S7 Church phone: (780) 476.2381 Archpriest Andrew Kencis, Rector (780) 325.2357
e-mail: frandrew@monasterypress.com
(Dates given as follows: Civil Calendar/Church Calendar)
Saturday or Festal Evening Vigils at 6:00 PM / Sunday or Feast Day Divine Liturgies at 10:00 AM
| Sat. May 4/April 21
Sun. May 5/April 22 |
Holy and Glorious Pascha of the LordFast-free week follows |
| Sat. May 11/ April 28
Sun. May 12/ April 29 |
First Sunday After Pascha Sunday of St. Thomas (services at Granada & St. George’s) |
| Sat. May 18/ May 5
Sun. May 19/May 6 |
Second Sunday After Pascha Sunday of the Myrrhbearing Women |
| Sat. May 25/May 12
Sun. May 26/May 13 |
Third Sunday After Pascha Sunday of the Paralytic |
Please refer to the Holy Week Schedule for details of the services from Holy Wednesday to Pascha Sunday Morning, from May 1 – May 5, n.s. The week following Pascha is fast-free.
From The Holy Fathers:
The demons try to undermine your inward resolution by buffeting your souls with an untold variety of temptations. Yet out of these many tribulations a garland is woven for you; Christ’s power ‘comes to its fullness in us in our weakness, (II Cor. 12:9). It is usually when our situation is most gloomy that the grace of the Spirit flowers within us. ‘Light has shone in the darkness for the righteous, (Ps. 112:4 LXX), if, that is, ‘we hold fast to our confidence and the rejoicing of our hope firmly to the end,’ (Heb. 3:6). St. John of Karpathos, The Philokalia, Vol. 1, Faber and Faber, pg. 302
If a fierce storm of tribulations fall upon us, let us not be terror stricken as if we had to overcome the disaster in our own strength, since both our Counsel and our Strength is Christ, and through Him we can do all things, without Him nothing, Who, to confirm the preachers of the Gospel and the ministers of the mysteries, says, Lo, I am with you always even to the consummation of the age, (Mt 28:28). And again He says, these things I have spoken to you that in Me you may have peace. In this world you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer, because I have overcome the world, (Jn. 16:33). The promises, which are as plain as they can be, we ought not to let any causes of offence to weaken, lest we should seem ungrateful to God for making us His chosen vessels, since His assistance is powerful as His promises are true. St. Leo the Great, The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. XII, Eerdmans pg. 107