St. Athanasius Orthodox Church • Nicholasville/Lexington Kentucky
We Invite You To Join Us for Holy Week & Pascha! The days of Holy Week & Pascha (Eastern Orthodox Easter) constitute together the most sacred days of the church year for Orthodox Christians. And we invite you to make the journey with us, ideally in-person, though we are also pleased to be …
As we enter a new civil year, AD 2023, the Orthodox Church marks a number of important feasts, beginning with the combined feast of our Lord’s Circumcision & St. Basil, which we observe on New Year’s Eve and on New Year’s Day with great fanfare. Then we ascend further as we …
At midnight on Sunday, April 24, our parish family joined the whole body of the Orthodox Christian Church around the world in celebrating the Feast of Feasts, the Great & Holy PASCHA! Our Paschal celebration is never in a vacuum, of course, but always follows more than two months of preparation …
The month of January was a rich and special month at St. Athanasius (check out the large collection of photos at the bottom of this page!) as usual, we marked the Great Feast of Theophany (Epiphany) with the Great Blessing of Waters both inside and outside as usual for this season, we blessed cars …
On the weekend of January 28-30, the parish family of St. Athanasius gave thanks to God for 20 years of spiritual life as a parish of the Orthodox Church in America. Leading our celebrations was our archpastor, His Eminence, Archbishop Alexander of Dallas and All the South, assisted by His Grace, …
Having completed the Nativity Fast and the Great Feast of our Lord’s Nativity, our parish now greets the Civil New Year and the Great Feast of our Lord’s Theophany! In practice, most of January feels as if is is a continuation of the joy of the Theophany, as the priest visits mosts home, …
We stand on the brink of the Great Feast of our Lord’s Nativity in the Flesh, then the 12 days following Christmas (including New Year-Circumcision,) and then the Great Feast of our Lord’s Theophany, observed Jan. 5-13 (and in practice, for much of January as we conduct the traditional …
Having marked Thanksgiving and begun the month of December, we enter more deeply into the Nativity Fast, our season of preparation leading to the Feast of our Lord’s Nativity in the Flesh, on December 25. As we near Christmas, our services focus increasingly on the mystery of the Incarnation. …
The parish family of St. Athanasius Orthodox Church welcomes you to our church! We are so grateful that, from June 11th on, we are able to welcome everyone without any Covid restrictions whatsoever. Here is our archbishop’s common-sense letter blessing us to move forward normally with parish …
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 …
