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Services are streaming live.
See the week's schedule below for links
Sunday, March 16: St. Gregory Palamas
.... it is not a mere historical event that the Church wishes to celebrate in liturgically offering St. Gregory for our contemplation on this Second Sunday of Lent. It is rather a profound spiritual possibility, a mystical horizon, a Taboric vision quest, a beckoning path of prayer, an illumination of uncreated light and the transfiguring effect of a Divine encounter to which the Holy Church points us in honoring the achievements of the holy archbishop of Thessalonica. By assigning the celebration of St. Gregory Palamas to the following Sunday after the celebration of the Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy, the Church intends us to understand that the “faith that sustains the universe,” the reality of the Incarnation of the God-man, Christ Jesus, the Icon of the Father, is the unshakeable foundation of transfiguring and deifying Light - the fullness of the knowledge of God possible for created human beings.
.... a single, stupendous, earth-shattering, soul-shaking and life-transforming meaning: God has become man so that man might become God. Created in His image and after His likeness... every human being is called, invited, nay, invoked by name from before the foundation of the world to know God by experiencing Him, both in this life and the life to come, in spirit, soul and body, as Light, as Grace, as one’s very center of conscious being. This Sunday, therefore, places before us Orthodox the ultimate goal of our faith, not only of Great Lent but the very essence of our life: to live true theology, which is not to know about God, but to know God by experience.... to participate, as St. Peter’s 2nd epistle affirms, in the Divine nature. Our true destiny is so to be crucified with Christ that He may live in us completely, so that knowing and experiencing, through Christ, He Who Is, we may, in Christ, be one who knows even as he is known (1 Cor. 13:12). (Monk Maximos)
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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 here on the website).
- 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 here 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)
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Schedule of ServicesServices listed below will be live streamed at https://www.youtube.com/c/StMarysOCAMinneapolis
Monday, March 17
10:00 AM Semanko Visitation @ Cathedral
11:00 AM Semanko Funeral @ Cathedral
Tuesday, March 18
Wednesday, March 19
9:00 AM Presanctified Liturgy
(NO live stream)
6:15 PM Akathist & Confessions
(NO live stream)
Thursday, March 20
Friday, March 21
9:00 AM Presanctified Liturgy
(NO live stream)
6:00 PM 9th Hour & Presanctified Liturgy
https://youtube.com/live/CO2a4zLgE1M?feature=share
Saturday, March 22
9:00 AM Memorial Liturgy
https://youtube.com/live/LLo_Yz5o6fc?feature=share
5:00 PM Great Vespers
https://youtube.com/live/88DJefSGoVo?feature=share
Sunday, March 23 39th Sunday after Pentecost
Veneration of the Cross
7:45 AM Matins @ Cathedral
9:00 AM Divine Liturgy @ Cathedral
https://youtube.com/live/3OraMjhdQ_4?feature=share
5:00 PM Pan-Orthodox Lenten Vespers @ St. Elizabeth Orthodox Church, 125 Congress S. E., St. Paul
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.
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This Week's Events
Monday, March 17
Church Office Closed
NO Perohi Making
Tuesday, March 18
Church Office Open
(9 am-4:30 pm)
NO Perohi Making
Wednesday, March
19
Church Office Open
(9 am-4:30pm)
7:00 PM Choir Rehearsal
Thursday, March 20
Church Office Open
(9 am-4:30 pm)
7:30 PM Adult Bible Study (via Zoom)
Friday, March 21
Church Office Open
(9 am-4:30 pm)
7:30 PM Saints Friday Night Lenten Dinner
Saturday, March 22
Church Office Closed
Sunday, March 23
11:00 AM Coffee Hour @ Parish Center
11:00 AM Church School & Classroom Choir (PreK-2nd Grade) @ Parish Center
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