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St. Athanasius Orthodox Church • Nicholasville/Lexington Kentucky

St. Athanasius Orthodox Church • Nicholasville/Lexington Kentucky

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Witnessing Christ’s Passion & Resurrection

April 28, 2021 Featured

For Orthodox Chrisitans, there is no time like Holy Week and the “Feast of Feasts,” Pascha. With deep gratitude to God, our St. Athanasius parish family is excited to be fully open and nearly “normal” in this Paschal season–with visitors being welcomed warmly! (You can review our simple Covid …

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April 23, 2021 News

April 25, 2021 / Palm Sunday / Apostle Mark Holy Week Services can be found here: Holy Week Service Guide 2021 You are encouraged to attend as many of the daily services as your schedule permits. Most of the services are being broadcast on YouTube & Facebook. Check your email for the online …

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April 17, 2021 News

Bulletin for April 18, 2021 5th Sunday of Lent — St. Mary of Egypt Presanctified Liturgy will be served on Wednesday at 6pm and following, we will have our first and only soup & salad meal for this Lent! The coffee hour signup has been edited to include a signup for the soup & salad …

Experience Holy Week & Pascha!

April 17, 2021 Featured

For Orthodox Chrisitans, there is no time like Holy Week and the “Feast of Feasts,” Pascha. If you have never experienced these holy days, we invite you to watch our 7-part series on Holy Week & Pascha, made during the most trying Pascha of our lives–Pascha 2020. With deep …

Recording & Resources from Lenten Retreat with Mother Abbess Christophora

April 14, 2021 Featured

The years 2020 and 2021 have presented many challenges to churches around the world. One of the ways it presented an opportunity to our parish was that we had the idea to bring in a real monastic (who otherwise would not be able to join us) to speak to our community virtually. On Saturday, April …

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April 9, 2021 News

Bulletin for April 11, 2021 4th Sunday of Lent — St. John Climacus On Monday Father will pray an Akathist to St. Mary of Egypt at 11am and then will hear confessions following. Parish Council will meet on Monday evening at 7:30pm. Presanctified Liturgy will be served on Wednesday at 6pm and weather …

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April 3, 2021 News

Bulletin for April 4, 2021 3rd Sunday of Lent — Veneration of Cross Opportunities for a Lenten Weekday Service/Confession Moleben/Akathist to St. Tikhon the Confessor at 9am on Wednesday the 7th. Confessions at 10am. Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts at 6pm on Wednesday. Bonfire following. Liturgy of …

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March 26, 2021 News

Bulletin for March 28, 2021 2nd Sunday of Lent — St. Gregory Palamas On Wednesday we commemorate the Repose of Saint Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow, Enlightener of the Aleuts, Apostle to the Americas with a Moleben & Akathist at 9am. Father will be available for confessions following the …

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March 19, 2021 News

Bulletin for March 21, 2021 Sunday, March 21, 2021 / 1st Sunday of Lent / Sunday of Orthodoxy Today, we commemorate the Triumph of Orthodoxy, the restoration of the holy icons in the reign of the holy Empress Theodora in 843, with a procession of icons following Liturgy. Festal Vigil for the Feast …

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March 12, 2021 News

Bulletin for March 14, 2021 40th Sunday After Pentecost / Forgiveness Sunday Forgiveness Vespers will be celebrated at 5pm today as usual, but spacing will be 6 feet apart with masks, no prostrations, and the line will snake out of the nave and go downstairs rather than loop around. Laura Walther …

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Doing Lent in the Shadow of Coronavirus

March 18, 2020 Featured

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December 23, 2017 News

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August 2, 2019 News

Back to Basics w/ Law of God

October 22, 2018 Featured

Resources to Pray Holy Week at Home

April 9, 2020 Featured

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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