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St. Athanasius Orthodox Church • Nicholasville/Lexington Kentucky

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Christ is Risen! A Glimpse At Pascha 2021

May 7, 2021 Featured

In a manner like unto our Lord’s Resurrection, in 2021 we have seen our parish life fully renewed! Our parish family is grateful to God for a complete and healthy celebration of Great Lent, Holy Week, and the Lord’s Pascha! We welcomed hundreds of people to our church over the course of Holy Week and Pascha (including a record crowd for our Paschal Midnight Service.) At the bottom of the this page, you can see over 200 photos that span Holy Week and Pascha!

As we continue to celebrate the full 40-days of the Paschal Season, we invite you to share in our joy. (You can review our simple Covid guidelines here. While we hope you will join us in-person, we are also pleased to continue offering a livestream of all our primary services and adult education on Wednesday nights.)

Please visit our regularly-updated online schedule and note some especially interesting events and activities that we are planning over the next month or so:

  • Bright Saturday (May 8)
    • 4pm Paschal Hike in Berea at the Pinnacles
      • 6pm Pan-Orthodox Vespers on the East Pinnacle
    • 630pm Deacon’s Vespers at St. Athanasius (no Confessions)
  • St. Thomas Sunday (AntiPascha) (May 9)
    • 10am Resurrectional Liturgy
    • 1145am Coffee Hour Fellowship
    • 1pm Informal Contra Dancing in Tent
  • Super Saturday Children’s Education Program (May 15)
    • 430-630pm Programs for elementary children
  • Girls Group & Youth Events alternating on Sunday evening throughout May and June
  • Wednesday Night Christian Ed. resuming on Wednesday, May 12 (topics TBA: please check online calendar)
  • Special Events on Pentecost Weekened (June 19-20) including Pentecost Picnic at Highbridge Park on the Kentucky River

Here is our complete photo gallery for Holy Week and Pascha 2021:

 

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Saint Athanasius Orthodox Church
100 Lime Lane
Nicholasville, KY 40356
Directions to the church

Priest Justin Patterson
Church: (859) 881-8144
Cell: (859) 361-2823
E-mail Fr. Justin

We are a parish of the Diocese of the South of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), under the archpastoral care of his grace, the right reverend ALEXANDER, Bishop of Dallas and the South. We are the first OCA parish in Kentucky. We are located in the heart of the bluegrass region just outside Lexington.

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