Epiphany Masses, Friday, Jan. 6

• 12 Noon
• 6 pm (high mass with blessing of holy water)

Please inform the parish office if you would like an Epiphany House Blessing during Epiphanytide and until Ash Wednesday.

December 24^th: Family Service – 6 PM. Midnight Mass – 11 PM (Carols at 10:30 PM).

December 25^th: Morning Prayer and Mass – 10 AM – No 8 o’clock mass.

Monday, December 26^th: St. Stephen’s Day – 4 PM masses.

Tuesday, December 27^th: St. John the Evangelist – 4 PM Mass.

Wednesday, December 28^th: Holy Innocents – 4 PM Mass.

Thanksgiving Day, November 24th – Mass 10 AM

St. Andrew’s Day, November 30th – Mass (bring your Tartan/Kilts) 7 PM

All Saints Day – Masses Noon & 7 PM

All Souls Day – Masses Noon & 7 PM

New Sunday School Class begins September 11th – The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis.

Instead of the text being read cover to cover, the lessons are arranged to correspond with the Bible readings from worship each Sunday.

Bilbo Baggins Birthday Party – September 18th, 4 PM

A Time of Fun with the theme of Tolkien’s Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. The public is welcome! There will be country dancing by hobbits. A wizard will arrive whenever he intends to. You can learn to write in Elvish. You can sample the Ale – Ginger Ale, Root Beer, Apple Sparkling Soda. Sting will likely make an appearance! Watch out. He’s sharp!

Gregory F. Seeley’s Ordination to the Diaconate – September 21st, 6:30 PM

Rogation Procession with Blessing of Crops, Waters, and Industry – following Sunday, 10 AM mass.

Ascension Day – Thursday, May 26th, Noon & 7 PM

Easter Sunday after the 10 AM Festive Holy Eucharist. All are welcome!

For Holy Week schedule, see below!

April 9^th, Vigil of Palm Sunday, 5 pm Vespers and Mass

April 10^th, Palm Sunday: 8 am Matins & Mass,

10 am Blessing of Palms, Procession, and Holy Eucharist

April 11^th, Monday before Easter: Mass at 7 PM

April 12^th, Tuesday before Easter: Noon Mass,

Stations of the Cross at 7 PM

April 13^st, Wednesday before Easter: Noon Mass,

General Healing Service & Tenebrae at 7 PM

April 14^th, Maundy Thursday: Festive Holy Eucharist, 6 PM, SEDER at Christiansburg Presbyterian Church, Watch Following

April 15^th, Good Friday: Noon Pre-Sanctified Liturgy, etc. Confessions heard after 3 PM.

7 PM Evening Prayer, Liturgy of 7 Last Words, and Stations of the Cross

April 16^th, Holy Saturday: Noon Ante-Communion.

Confessions heard after 1 PM. Vigil of Easter, 5 PM.

April 17^th, Easter: 8 AM Matins & Mass, 10 AM Festive Holy Eucharist

April 18^th, Easter Monday Mass – (Tentative) 7 PM

April 19^th, Easter Tuesday Mass – (Tentatively) 12 Noon

Wednesday, March 9^th – Evening Prayer w/ 1^st Part of Catechism in Practice of Religion – 7 PM

Thursday, March 10^th – Mass for the 40 Martyrs of Sebaste – 12 Noon

Friday, March 11^th – Stations of the Cross – 4:30 PM

Wednesday, March 16^th – Mass for St. Patrick’s Day – 7 PM

Thursday, March 17^th – Mass for St. Patrick’s Day – 12 Noon

Friday, March 18^th – Stations of the Cross – 4:30 PM

Wednesday, March 23^rd – 2^nd Part of the Catechism in Practice of Religion, Stations of the Cross – 7 PM

Thursday, Match 24^th – Annunciation of the BVM (transferred) – 12 Noon

Friday, March 25^th – Stations of the Cross – 4:30 PM

Wednesday, March 30^th, Evening Prayer w/ Stations of the Cross, Guest Preacher – 7 PM

Thursday, March 31^st – Mass – 12 Noon

Friday, April 1^st – Stations of the Cross – 4:30 PM

Shrove Tuesday, March 1:

4-5 PM, Confessions heard in Church

5-6 PM, Men Prepare the Pancake Supper

6 PM Pancake Supper

Ash Wednesday, March 2: 

12 Noon – Blessing & Imposition of Ashes, Penitential Office, Mass

7 PM – Imposition of Ashes, A Commination (1549) and Penitential Office, Mass

Thursday, March 3:

12 Noon – (Feria) Mass in commemoration of St. Vartan and the 1000 Martyrs of the Battle of Avarayr. 

This feast is celebrated on the Thursday prior to Great Lent in the Armenian Church (their Lent begins on a Sunday and roughly corresponds to our day after Ash Wednesday). While the Armenian Church did refuse to sign the Creed of Chalcedon in 451 A.D. and cut itself off from the rest of Christendom as a result, much of the reason that they were not present at Chalcedon (and had no part in those deliberations and had to rely on secondhand reports) was because they were being invaded by the Persian Empire. Thus these martyrs stand at the brink of the schism between Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian Christianity. Yet they died to keep Armenia Christian when the Persian Empire wanted to invade them so they would return to Zoroastrianism. In Lent we learn to be better Christian Soldiers. So it is fitting that the day after Ash Wednesday we recall the death of Christian warriors in battle felled and pray for Christian unity through Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving.  

Friday, March 4 – Saturday March 5: Lenten Retreat in Roanoke. Sign up here if you haven’t!

The following week we will begin our Lenten Program on Wednesdays at 7 PM and Stations of the Cross (especially for children but all are welcome) on Fridays at 4:30 PM.