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Entrance Into Jerusalem / Palm Sunday Today’s Readings: Phil. 4:4-9 John 12:1-18 Welcome to our Divine Liturgy for Palm Sunday as we remember Jesus’ Entrance into Jerusalem that begins Holy Week leading into Great & Holy Pascha! Bridegroom Matins introduces us to Holy Week will be held each …

  5th Sunday of Great Lent: St. Mary of Egypt Today is also the Feast Day of Annunciation of the Most-Holy Theotokos (always on March 25) and is one of two days during Lent (also Palm Sunday) that we are permitted to eat fish. Final Evening Presanctified Liturgy (&Lenten Meal) is served on …

4th Sunday of Great Lent /  St. John of the Ladder Today’s Readings: Heb.6:13-20 Mark 9:17-31 Presanctified Liturgy will be served at 6:15pm on Wednesday, March 21 (followed by the Lenten meal w/readings) and also on Friday the 23rd at 11am. Only 3 more opportunities for Presanctified service after …

“Providence & the Fire of God” On Saturday, March 3, our parish family at St. Athanasius welcomed one of our “parish founding fathers,” Archpriest Stephen Freeman, back to the Bluegrass. Fr. Stephen led our day retreat in two sessions on the theme of “Providence …

3rd Sunday of Great Lent–Sunday of the Cross Today’s Readings: Heb.4:14-5:6 Mark 8:34-9:1 Presanctified Liturgy will be served at 6:15pm on Wednesday, March 14. Join us in a soup & salad meal following Liturgy as we read from the book, Everyday Saints. A second Presanctified Liturgy will …

In 2017, Katerina Huffman interviewed Father Justin Patterson, pastor of St. Athanasius Orthodox Church in Nicholasville, Kentucky. She asked him a series of questions on behalf of “Foma” (“Thomas”) magazine, a Russian-language journal that tells stories of faith and attempts especially to engage …

Today we enter the 2nd Sunday of Great Lent known as the Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas. Today’s Readings: Heb. 1:10-2:3 Mark 2:1-12 Presanctified Liturgy will be served at 6:15pm on Wednesday, March 7. Join us in a soup & salad meal following Liturgy as we read from the book, Everyday Saints. A …

Today’s Readings: Heb. 11:24-26,32-12:2 John 1:43-51 1st Sunday of Great Lent / Triumph of Orthodoxy Today we commemorate the “Triumph of Orthodoxy,” the restoration of the holy icons in the year 843. At 5pm Pan Orthodox Vespers will be served at Panagia, the Greek Orthodox Church in Lexington. …