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Services are streaming live.
See the week's schedule below for links

Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy

Over the past few centuries the view has grown within Christianity that the significance and character of the icon is not decisive for the teaching of the faith. But the history of the Church and her teachings demonstrate the opposite: it is not for nothing that the bloody struggle against iconoclasm lasted for over 100 years. The Orthodox liturgical calendar is full of the names of martyrs and confessors for icons. And they didn’t go to martyrdom, tortures and deaths for a work of art (the icon was never viewed that way), nor for a painted board, but for the confession of the faith through the icon, just as in the first century and later people went to martyrdom for confessing the name of Christ (a strange situation for the mind of contemporary man). …The dogma of the veneration of icons is a victory over the Christological and, at the same time, Trinitarian heresies… This dogma was the culmination of an entire era of struggle for the Orthodox faith in the Incarnation and, it follows, for the true confession of the image of the building of the House of God in the world. It is an open truth, revealed by the collective consciousness of the Church. In it the Church reveals the genuine essence of the Christian icon as the visible and immutable witness of the Incarnation (and not only as one in a series of Old Testament and New Testament theophanies). This dogma is the result of the acceptance by Christianity of the fullness of Christ’s nature as both God and human.

~ Leonid Ouspensky, On the Way to Unity?

Service Cancellation Policy

  • No one should travel to church for services if the road conditions are dangerous.
  • No services will be cancelled. Most services will be live streamed (links available below).
  • Those who cannot get to services should instead stay home, watch the live stream of the service if possible, and be happy in the knowledge that a priest and a chanter are singing the services and praying for them.
  • Cancellation of services and activities will be posted on our website: www.stmarysoca.org.

Bear one another's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.  (Galatians 6:2)
 

Schedule of ServicesServices listed below will be live streamed at https://www.youtube.com/c/StMarysOCAMinneapolis

Monday, March 25
Annunciation
7:45 AM Festal Matins
https://youtube.com/live/hAkcRcrp6KM?feature=share
9:00 AM Festal Liturgy


Tuesday March 26

Wednesday, March 27
9:00 AM Presanctified Liturgy
https://youtube.com/live/OPK8h_gt6Jo?feature=share

Thursday,
March 28

Friday
, March 29
9:00 AM Presanctified Liturgy
https://youtube.com/live/VM_NzeOTH_Q?feature=share
6:00 PM 9th Hour & Presanctified Liturgy
https://youtube.com/live/oUZegozMgsU?feature=share

Saturday
, March 30
11:00 AM Labine Baptism
5:00 PM Great Vespers
https://youtube.com/live/lfYAkGK293g?feature=share

Sunday, March 31 - 43rd Sunday after Pentecost
Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas
7:45 AM Matins @ Cathedral
9:00 AM Divine Liturgy @ Cathedral
https://youtube.com/live/kAZ1-yqpw8E?feature=share
40 Day Parastas: Valentin Scheglowski @ Cathedral

5:00 PM Pan-Orthodox MEOCCA Vespers
@
St. George Greek Orthodox Church, 1111 Summit Ave, St. Paul 55105




If you missed any of the live streaming services you can go to the playlist to replay them by clicking here  https://www.youtube.com/c/StMarysOCAMinneapolis

 



NOTE: Elevators available at both the Cathedral and the Parish Center.

This Week's Events
Monday, March 25

Tuesday
, March 26
6:30 PM Grief Support Group

Wednesday
, March 27
7:00 PM Choir Rehearsal

Thursday, March 28

Friday
, March 29
7:30 PM Saints Friday Night Lenten Dinner

Saturday, March 30

Sunday, March 31
11:00 AM Church School @ Parish Center
11:00 AM Coffee Hour @ Dining Room















 


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