Saint Vladimir’s Russo-Greek Orthodox Church
6824-128th Ave. Edmonton, AB T5C 1S7 Church phone: 780.476.2381
Archpriest Andrew Kencis, Rector ~ e-mail: frandrew@monasterypress.com
Saturday or Festal Evening Vigils at 6:00 PM / Sunday or Feast Day Divine Liturgies at 10:00 AM
Confessions heard during the evening vigils.
***If this is your first time to our parish please do not approach for Holy Communion if you have not spoken to the priest before the service.***
(Dates given as follows: Civil Calendar [n.s.] /Church Calendar [o.s.] )
Schedule for DECEMBER 2025
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Wed. Dec. 3/Nov. 20 |
ENTRY OF THE THEOTOKOS INTO THE TEMPLE Services at the Bluffton Convent |
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Sat. Dec. 6/Nov. 23 |
Great Martyr Catherine Great Martyr Mercurius |
| Sat. Dec. 13/ Nov. 30 Sun. Dec. 14/ Dec. 1 |
Prophet Nahum St. Philaret the Merciful of Amneia |
| Thu. Dec. 18/ Dec. 5 Fri. Dec. 19/Dec. 6 |
St. Nicholas, Wonder-worker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia |
| Sat. Dec. 20/ Dec. 7 Sun. Dec. 21/ Dec. 8 |
St. Patapius of Thebes NO SERVICES AT ST. VLADIMIR’S |
| Wed. Dec. 24/Dec.11 Thu. Dec. 25/Dec. 12 |
St. Herman, Wonder-worker of Alaska St. Spyridon of Tremithus Martyr Peter the Aleut |
| Sat. Dec. 27/ Dec. 14 Sun. Dec. 28/ Dec. 15 |
Sunday of the Holy Forefathers Hieromartyr Eleutherius, Bishop of Illyricum & Those with him |
Wisdom from Elder Barsanuphius of Optina
Full joy does not occur in this life where we see God only through a glass darkly. This joy will begin yonder, beyond the grave, when we will see the Lord face to face. Not everyone will see God the same way, but each will see Him according to the measure of his own receptivity… The capability of seeing God is attained through work on oneself in this life….
St. John Climacus was asked if there were reliable signs by which it is possible to know whether a soul is drawing near to God or moving away from Him… To this question the Holy Father replies: “A sure sign of the deadening of the soul is the avoidance of church services.”….A man who is growing cold towards God begins first of all to flee attending church.
When the Hebrews were journeying through the desert they came to the enormous lake of Marah, which exists to this day. They were parched, but the water in the lake turned out to be so bitter that is was impossible to drink it. The people were ready to start murmuring, but God showed Moses a certain tree. Whe he immersed the wood in the lake, Moses deprived the water of its bitterness, and the water became pleasant and wholesome. But these were images, incomprehensible to the people, and only Moses understood the hidden meaning of what had occured.
What did this tree, which sweetened the bitterness of the water, forefigure? The tree of the Cross! And now, in all of life’s most bitter circumstances, a Christian has a great consolation in the Cross of the Lord Jesus. No matter how sinful a Christian has been, he has something precious —faith in the Lord Jesus — and by this faith he will be saved.You too will be saved—- only hold fast to Christ, cry out to Him, and He will hear you. Of course, don’t cry out with your voice, but with your heart: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner!” And He will have mercy! He will have mercy!
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