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Our God fearing diocese has posted photos the Holy Week and Paschal celebrations of parishes across the diocese.
Holy Week and Pascha Throughout the The Diocese 2026 - Photos from Holy Week and Pascha 2026 in the various communities of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of North America. www.acrod.org/diocesan-life/media/photos/?setID=72177720333092526 Christ is Risen! Indeed He is Risen! Some beautiful highlights from Holy Week and Pascha:  Lazarus Saturday/Palm Sunday - Lazarus Saturday Procession, Parishioners gathered together to do traditional ethnic paschal crafts after Lazarus Saturday Liturgy, Fr Paul Tadros blessing child in the parish, Palm Sunday Procession, Holy Unction, FrDn Michael Luciuk holding the Holy Gospel during Holy Week. A full cycle of services were held throughout Holy Week.  Holy Friday/Holy Saturday/Pascha - Epitaphios during Great and Holy Friday, Fr Timothy Mikhail, Fr Paul Tadros and Fr Bernard Funk during Holy Friday Burial Service, 10 Newly Illumined Christians (Jeremiah, Nektaria, Christina, Stefanie, Porphyrios, Elijah, Silouan, Macarius, Anthony and Martha) were Baptized and Received into the Holy Orthodox Church during Holy Saturday Vesperal Liturgy, Bay leaves thrown on parishioners during the singing of "Arise O God" during Holy Saturday Liturgy.  Pascha - The parish co-served Pascha with the upstairs St Cyril and Methody Bulgarian church with over 250+ attendees. After, a joyous feast was enjoyed by all into the early morning hours. The local community was welcomed for Agape Vespers and a feast that afternoon.  Noble Joseph House. the house of hospitality attached to our parish, now offers a Free Tax Clinic for eligible individuals and families. Year round free assistance in filing current and prior years personal income tax returns.
Open Saturdays between 11am to 5pm by appointment. For more information visit https://www.noblejosephhouse.ca/services/tax-clinic To book an appointment please email [email protected]  Schedule for Holy Week, Pascha and Bright Week
Location: St Silouan the Athonite Orthodox Church 237 Sackville Street (Lower Level/Basement), Toronto, Ontario, M5A 3G1 Saturday, April 4, 2026 8:30am-11am Lazarus Saturday Matins and Divine Liturgy followed by Traditional Fish Soup 11am-1:30pm Liturgical Arts and Crafts Sunday, April 5, 2026 9am-12noon Palm Sunday Matins and Divine Liturgy with Procession 7pm-8:30pm Bridegroom Matins Monday, April 6, 2026 7pm-8:30pm Bridegroom Matins Tuesday, April 7, 2026 7pm-8:30pm Bridegroom Matins Wednesday, April 8, 2026 6pm-7pm Bridegroom Matins 7pm-9pm Great and Holy Unction Thursday, April 9, 2026 4pm-6pm Vesperal Liturgy of St Basil's for the Last Supper 7pm-11pm 12 Gospels Friday, April 10, 2026 12noon - 2pm Royal Hours 2pm-3pm Children Decorating the Epitaphios 3pm-4pm Crucifixion Vespers 6pm-9pm Burial (Jerusalem Matins) Saturday, April 11, 2026 12noon - 4pm Holy Saturday Vesperal Liturgy of St Basil and Baptisms 10pm-10:30pm Reading of the Acts 10:30pm - 3am PASCHA: Midnight Office, Matins and Divine Liturgy Sunday, April 12, 2026 4pm-5pm Agape Vespers followed by Paschal meal Monday, April 13, 2026 5pm-8pm Noble Joseph House Community Dinner 8pm Paschal Hours Wednesday, April 15, 2026 6:30pm Paschal Canon 7pm Divine Liturgy for Bright Wednesday Support Noble Joseph House This Lenten Season "Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same." Luke 3:11 Your support will help Noble Joseph House grow love, compassion, and community guided by the quiet care of St. Joseph of Arimathea. Together, let us fulfil this Lenten season with time of giving and sharing. Please visit the Noble Joseph House Donate Page for details on how to donate by cheque or e-transfer.  A PDF of the Orthodox Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom which is prayed on Sunday Divine Liturgy at our parish is available for download: divine_liturgy_of_st_john_chrysostom_-_st_silouan_the_athonite_orthodox_church.pdf  This schedule enables one to read the entire Psalter over the weekdays of the Great Fast (Lent). The two sections (“stasis”) of the Psalms appointed for each day can either be read together at one time, or can be split between morning and evening. How do you know which Psalm numbers your Bible uses? Look up Psalm 23. If it begins “The Lord is my shepherd...” it uses the Hebrew numbering. If it begins “The earth is the Lord’s...” then it uses the Greek numbering.   St. Athanasius Orthodox Academy Information Seminar Saturday, Jan 31st 2:00pm All are warmly invited to attend the first information seminar for St. Athanasius Orthodox Academy! An initiative exploring the possibility of an Orthodox Christian classical education within the GTA.
This gathering is open to EVERYONE - parents, parishioners, educators, future parents, Orthodox or non-Orthodox and anyone interested in learning more about the vision, purpose, and hopes for the future of Orthodox education for our children. Whether you are actively discerning schooling options or simply wish to listen and ask questions, your presence is welcome and encouraged. The seminar will take place on Saturday, January 31st, from 2:00–4:00 PM, at 237 Sackville Street (Lower Level). Refreshments and childcare will be provided. Please come, listen, ask questions, and help discern together whether this work is something God is calling our community to pursue.  Glory to Jesus Christ!
Back by popular demand, The Vine, St. Silouan’s Young Adult Ministry is excited to invite you to our next event: Bible Trivia Night At Blessing in Disguise Bistro and Pub (150 John Street, Toronto, ON) https://maps.app.goo.gl/VMTrTfB84CgijFbi9 Friday, February 6th ⏰ 7:30 PM Join us for an evening of fellowship, good food, and a fun challenge of your Bible knowledge. Please RSVP by February 1st so we can reserve enough space. Email us at: [email protected] We look forward to seeing you there!  The chapel and home of the late Hieromonk Nicholas of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist Hermitage in Combermere, Ontario, was once again visited with prayers and hymns to the glory of God. The hermitage, which has been largely unused since the falling asleep of Fr. Nicholas on December 26, 2021, remains a true treasure within our Diocese. For nearly fifty years, Hieromonk Nicholas lived and prayed there in quiet contemplation. The hermitage has no running water, only a well behind the cabin, and is heated solely by a wood-burning stove. Though located near the town of Combermere (approximately a three-and-a-half-hour drive east of Toronto), Fr. Nicholas worked out his salvation in near-complete isolation. The wooden lodge, with its low ceilings on the main floor and what remains of the chapel above in the half-story, is tucked away off an easy-to-miss private side road—hidden from the world, yet fully known to God. This hermitage is part of our Diocese and our Deanery, and it holds a unique place in the story of ACROD in Canada. Over the years, Fr. Nicholas would occasionally allow the faithful from our sister parish, Christ the Saviour in Ottawa, under Fr. Maxym Lysak, to visit on special occasions, though his primary calling remained one of monastic solitude. The hermitage is situated in a very rural region of Ontario, far from any Orthodox parish. For the few Orthodox families who lived in the surrounding area, His Eminence Metropolitan Nicholas asked Fr. Nicholas, in fatherly love, to care for them. Opening to them the doorway of heaven through the holy Sacraments of the Church, which he did with great pastoral joy. With the archpastoral blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Gregory, it is our hope to hold Divine Liturgies at the hermitage periodically, as well as to offer day retreats there. May the Lord help us to continue to reveal these hidden and precious lives, so that through these 'little flowers' in the Lords garden, we too may behold the glory of God. |
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