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Christ is Risen!

4/30/2019

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Wishing you a joyous and fruitful Pascha.  Christ is Risen and Hell's power is shattered, where O Death is thy sting?   

Thank you to everyone who made Pascha so beautiful and helped us in the long road to this moment.  It truly was a joyous feast, proclaiming light to the darkness, dueling processions, a packed beautiful decorated new church, a great choir, and an amazing feast in the early hours of the morning.

We hope you have gotten some time to rest.   As a reminder we have two services this week:

Paschal Canon and Liturgy:  Wednesday @6:30pm
Paschal Canon and Liturgy for St Thomas Sunday:  Sunday @ 9:30am

See you there! 

From our multicultural family:
  • Христос воскресе! Воистину воскресе!
  • Χριστὸς ἀνέστη! Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη!
  • Hristos a înviat! Adevărat a înviat!
  • Le Christ est ressuscité! En verité il est ressuscité!
  •  !المسيح قام! حقا قام
  • ΠιχρίςΤος αϥτωΝϥ! ϦΕΝ οΥΜεθΜΗι αϥτωΝϥ!
  • ¡Cristo ha resucitado! ¡En verdad ha resucitado!
  • Kristus nousi kuolleista! Totisesti nousi!
  • 基督復活了 他確實復活了
  •  !המשיח קם! באמת קם
  • Si Kristo ay nabuhay! Totoo! Siya nga ay nabuhay!
  • Chrystus zmartwychwstał! Prawdziwie zmartwychwstał!
  • Christus ist auferstanden! Er ist wahrhaftig auferstanden!
  • Christ is risen! Indeed, He is risen!
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New Location and Holy Week!

4/20/2019

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New Location
By God's grace we are at our new location:

   237 Sackville Street
   Toronto, Ontario
   M5A 3G1

(Enter by the three doors at street level on Sackville Ave. Once inside, head downstairs and enter the first door on the right.)
There is no dedicated parking so you may wish to use street parking or the Green P lot across from the church.
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We wish to thank everyone who helped us move and St George's Macedono-Bulgarian Orthodox Church for hosting us for the last two months.  We are truly blessed by the generosity we have been shown and God's amazing hand in all of this.  

Upcoming Services
The next week is a busy one as we journey to the Cross and on to the Joyous Resurrection. Come, join us!  As Christ invited us, "keep watch with Me." 
Sunday,
​April 21st
Monday,
​April 22nd
Tuesday,
​April 23rd
Wednesday,​April 24th
Thursday,
​April 25th
​Friday,
​April 26th
Saturday,
​April 27th
Sunday,
​ April 28th
9am:  Matins and 10am: Liturgy for Palm Sunday
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2pm:  Royal Hours and Decoration of Tomb (Epitphion)
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5pm: Vesperal Liturgy of the Last Supper
3pm:  Vespers of the Crucifixion ​
4pm: Holy Saturday Vesperal Liturgy & Chrismations 
4pm:  Agape Vespers and Meal
7pm: Bridegroom Matins
​7pm: Bridegroom Matins
​7pm: Bridegroom Matins
​7pm: Holy Unction
​ 7:30pm:  12 Gospels of Christ's Passion
​7pm: Burial Service of Christ (Jerusalem Matins)
​11pm:  Removal of Shroud
11:30pm: 
​Pascha Matins & Liturgy 
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What is this about?
  • Bridegroom Matins:  We wait for the moment of Christ's coming (traditionally thought to be Pascha) and remember that today is the acceptable time of salvation.   
    • ​Sunday:  Patriarch Joseph & Fig Tree:  What is the fruit of our lives? Do we live the Gospel even if we don't know when it will bear fruit?
    • Monday: 12 Virgins:  Are you watchful? Will your virtue be found wanting when Christ comes in glory?  Despite our hypocrisy, Christ has longed to gather us under his wings.  
    • Tuesday:  The Sinful Woman:  Do I realize true grace and repentance like the woman who washed Christ's feet with her hair? Am I like Judas?
  • Unction:  Anointing for healing of souls and bodies, allowing us to enter whole into the final journey.
  • Vesperal Liturgy of St Basil for the Last Supper: Commemorating where the liturgy began, the first Eucharist.  
  • Matins of the 12 Gospels of Christ's Passion:  Walking with Christ from the Last Supper to his death.
  • Royal Hours and Vespers of the Crucifixion:  The moment that Creation turned upside down, the moment our Savior gave his spirit on the Cross.
  • Burial/Funeral Service of Christ:  The funeral and lamentations, seeing the darkness and hopelessness of Christ in the Tomb but but also the hope humanity has called out for since the beginning.
  • Holy Saturday:  The first service of Pascha! Read the prophecies of Christ's Resurrection, and celebrate Christ's descent into and destruction of Hell!
  • Pascha:  Come and see the joy of death's destruction and the new life in Christ's Resurrection!
  • For More Info:
    • Find background information, customs, and scripture references for each of the services of Holy Week here
    • Fr Alexander Schmemman on Holy Week​

Paschal Feast
There is a signup sheet for our tradition of breaking the fast of Pascha after liturgy.  Do sign up if you can and don't feel like you can't stay if you dont bring anything, there will be a lot of food. 

Other Ways to Help Out
  • If you are interested in bringing red eggs at Pascha, do let us know!   
  • If you have an icon of the Last Supper or Crucifixion it would be appreciated!
  • Flowers!  Let's make Christ's Tomb a place of beauty.
  • We could use some help putting up tables and taking them down. 
  • Any one willing to help with the inevitable renovations or painting are appreciated
  • We could still use some materials for our new building, do see the email that was sent out
  • Prayers!  If you would like help pray let Fr Paul know, we could use some discrete people to pray.  If you have someone you would like us to pray for, let Fr. Paul know.  
  • If you would be able to help with reading, please sign up here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pNJgJKwHvxUp-96M4-Q5WuIMgUefkF9NfcDhiBRPqaI/edit?usp=sharing​

Reception of Jolene and Rowan
As you may have heard, with the bishop's blessing we will be receiving Jolene and Rowan through Chrismation into the Orthodox church on St. Basil's Liturgy on Great and Holy Saturday.  Prayers would be appreciated for their journey.
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Resources for Parents
Holy Week is a wonderful, special week for Orthodox Christians. It is also filled with long services that can be challenging to anyone, but especially to young children. This post offers suggestions for Holy Week that can help to make Holy Week more meaningful for children of different ages. There are many ideas here. They range from ideas of ways to prepare yourself for the week to ways to help your children understand the services to crafty things you can do together.

Check out these ideas if you have time, and apply any that you wish. Please do not let these many suggestions discourage you, especially if you do not have the energy to add “one more thing” to your family’s schedule! You know your family, and what each member needs the most. So live accordingly!
  • Find encouragement and ideas for Holy Week from an Orthodox mama here
  • Potential Activities
  • Another Activities List

Above all, let us love our Lord and each other throughout Holy Week. May we live this week together, in awe of His compassion and mercy, and in gratitude for His great gift to us. May all that we do (or do not do!) prepare us to celebrate His holy resurrection!
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​SEE YOU AT THE FINISH LINE!
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Lazarus Saturday

4/19/2019

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St. Silouan has moved to a new home at 237 Sackville Street! A few words from Father Paul on our move:

"...[O]ur first Divine Liturgy at our 237 Sackville location (lower level) will fittingly be held on Lazarus Saturday at 9:30 am. Enter by the three doors at street level on Sackville Ave. Once inside, head downstairs and enter the first door on the right. [...] May this new temple be a place for us to grow older together, to see our children pray and play together, to welcome the stranger together, to laugh and even cry together. May it be a place of many Holy gatherings, pleasing in the Lord’s sight."


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Lenten Retreat this Weekend, April 12 - 14

4/11/2019

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All are welcome to this weekend's Lenten Retreat with the much beloved, Very Rev. Fr. Maxym and Matushka Yvonne Lysack!

​See poster for details
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Announcements for the week of St Mary of Egypt

4/9/2019

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St Mary of Egypt's life is a story of the power of God's grace and mercy as we seek true repentance. God takes us through the desert in order to purify us and prepare us for his glory of the Promised land.   Each desert is unique to our woundedness and calling., but the desert is not enough, we need each other.   St Zosima, a lauded monk, is taught humility and true monastic life by a woman (whom he was least expecting) and St Mary learns to reset her unhealthy relationship with men by a relationship with the holy St Zosima.   God has prepared them for this moment of encounter.   Come and see how God can create great beauty out of the ashes of our lives.  

Upcoming Services
  • Friday ( Apr 12th):  Akathist service at 7:00pm ( 17 Regent St. ) with Fr Maxym, Confessions from both priests
  • Saturday (April 13th)   ( 17 Regent St. )
    • 1:30pm-2:30pm - Matushka Yvonne: "Coffee" Chat Session
    • 1:30pm - 2:30pm - Confessions provided during session
    • 3:00pm  - Fr Maxym: “Essential Elements and Immediate Tasks for an Orthodox Christian Mission Parish
    • 5:00pm -  Memorial for the Dead (Parastas)
    • 5:15pm - Vespers
  • Sunday  (April 14th)  :  Hours and St Basil's Liturgy  9:00am (17 Regent St.)
  • Wednesday  (April 17th)  : Presanctified liturgy + soup at 6:30pm (17 Regent St.) 

Lenten Retreat
In order to renew our lifes we are having a retreat this Friday, Saturday and Sunday with our Dean Fr. Maxyme.  This is a great chance to get confession as well as refocus on our life in Christ. 

Reminder Earlier Start Time
To accommodate our host parish shorter service, we will be starting at 9:00am for the hours and 9:30am for the Liturgy of St Basil for the next two Sundays.   Look forward to seeing you there!
  
Update on New Location
We are hoping to sign a lease very soon and be able to start Holy Week in the new location, do pay attention to announcements in the upcoming weeks about location of services.  :)

Reception of Jolene and Rowan
As you may have heard, with the bishop's blessing we will be receiving Jolene and Rowan through Chrismation into the Orthodox church on St. Basil's Liturgy on Great and Holy Saturday.  Prayers would be appreciated for their journey.

Thank You
Thank you to Bogdan for hosting last week and Theda and Nick for hosting Akathists at your home, we are truly blessed to be able to pray and fellowship together.  A continued thank you for all those that have stepped up to take care of the chapel,setup, the food, Phos, the Choir, read the services, building liturgical items, or just helping with community; we are truly blessed by gift of your time!

Cleanup Crew
We need volunteers to help setup the church on Sundays about 45 minutes before the service.    (ie 8:15 am on Sunday).  This will hopefully alleviate the burden on Fr. and a small group that have been doing it.   Please sign up here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dkBE_ieiI8Bhhdmh68DgPboJDDdOiFL3JI920jSI2k0/edit?usp=drive_web&ouid=100380447218779408151
If you would be able to help with reading, please sign up here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pNJgJKwHvxUp-96M4-Q5WuIMgUefkF9NfcDhiBRPqaI/edit?usp=sharing

Icons
Does anyone have a nice icon  (written or printed) at home that would be appropriate for an upcoming feast?  Anyone with some icon calendar taking up space?  We need it!  Please talk to Subdn Michael, in particular we need: 
  • St Mary of Egypt (need for April 10 + 13/14th)
  • Christs Entry to Jerusalem (Palm Sunday)
  • The Last Supper, 
  • The Crucifixion,
  • Myhrbearers, Thomas Sunday
  • Pentecost... 












Sunday of St Mary of Egypt
LITURGY EPISTLES: Hebrews 6.13-20 and Ephesians 5.9-19
LITURGY GOSPELS: Mark 9.17-31 and Matthew 4.25-5.12
 
Troparion — Tone 1
Dweller of the desert and angel in the body, / you were shown to be a wonder-worker, our God-bearing Father John. / You did receive heavenly gifts through fasting, vigil, and prayer: / healing the sick and the souls of those drawn to you by faith. / Glory to Him who gave thee strength! / Glory to Him who granted you a crown! / Glory to Him who through you grants healing to all!

Kontakion — Tone 4
The Lord truly set youon the heights of abstinence, / to be a guiding star, showing the way to the universe, / O our Father and Teacher John.
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