Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wed. Early Lent

Shrove Tuesday, Feb. 13: Confessions heard in church 4-5 pm. Men arrive to cook, 5:30 pm. Pancake Supper, 6 pm.

    Ash Wednesday, Feb. 14: 12 Noon & 6 pm.

Wednesday, Feb. 24: Poem Study at 6 pm; Mass at 7 pm; Vestry at 7:30 PM.

Wednesdays in Lent (Except Feb. 24 & until Holy Week): Soup & Poem Study, 6 pm. Poem Study will be on some of the Icelandic Passion Hymns of Hallgrímur Pétursson (1614 – 27 October 1674).

New Adult Sunday School Class. John Breck’s God with Us: Critical Issues in Christian Faith and Life. John Breck is described as an “Eminent Orthodox ethicist and pastor.” Of this work, Fr. Breck says, “My aim has been to discuss critical moral, biblical, and general theological issues in a way that is relevant to the lives of Christian people today, while remaining faithful to the sacred tradition of the Orthodox Church… Because a few of these writings are controversial, they will inevitably elicit disagreement… But that is all the good, if they succeed in provoking reflection that will provide better answers than I can offer to the challenges we Orthodox Christians are currently facing…”

Christmas 2023

News and Information

December 16th – Cookies with Santa at the Parish House, 11 am – 3 pm.

December 23rd – Advent Lessons & Carols, 5 pm.

December 24th – Fourth Sunday of Advent celebrated at 8 & 10 am.

Christmas Eve – Family Service, 6 PM; Carol Sing, 10:30 pm; Midnight Mass, 11 pm.

Christmas Day – Matins & Mass, 10 am.

St. Stephen’s Day, Tuesday, December 26th – Mass, 12 Noon.

St. John the Evangelist, Wednesday, December 27th – Mass, 6 pm.

Holy Innocents’ Day, Thursday, December 28th – Mass, 12 Noon.

Rogation, Ascension & Pentecost

May 14th, Bishop’s Visit and Rogation Procession

Rogation Blessing of Crops and Gardens by Appointment

May 15th, Rogation Monday, Mass at 4 PM

May 16th, Rogation Tuesday, Mass at Noon

May 17th, Rogation Wednesday, Mass at 4 PM

Ascension Day, Masses at Noon and 7 PM (Festive Holy Eucharist at 7 PM)

Pentecost Vigil, May 27th at 5 PM

Pentecost, 8 AM (Mass and Matins) and 10 AM (Festive Holy Eucharist)

May 29th, Whitsun Monday mass 4 PM

May 30th, Whitsun Tuesday mass Noon

May 30th, Ember Wednesday, 4 PM mass.

Holy Week 2023

April 1st, Vigil of Palm Sunday, 5 pm Vespers and Mass

April 2ndPalm Sunday: 8 am Matins & Mass,

10 am Blessing of Palms, Procession, and Holy Eucharist

April 3rd, Monday before Easter: Mass at 7 PM

April 4th, Tuesday before Easter: Noon Mass,

Stations of the Cross at 7 PM

April 5th, Wednesday before Easter: Noon Mass,

General Healing Service & Tenebrae at 7 PM

April 6thMaundy Thursday: Festive Holy Eucharist, 6 PM, SEDER at Christiansburg Presbyterian Church, Watch Following and continuing until Noon on Good Friday.

April 7thGood Friday: Noon The Good Friday Liturgy. Confessions heard after that Service.

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

April 8thHoly Saturday: Noon Pre-Sanctified Liturgy, communion from the Reserve Sacrament.

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

April 9thEaster: 8 AM Matins & Mass, 10 AM Festive Holy Eucharist

April 10th, Easter Monday Mass – 7 PM

April 11th, Easter Tuesday Mass – 12 Noon

Lenten Services

Lenten Schedule is as follows

Wednesdays, soft start at 6 pm (go ahead and arrive a bit later as needed) soup or light meal and Family Evening Prayer (in parish house) followed by meditation on the poem for that week by John Keble from The Christian Year.

Thursdays, 12 Noon mass. 

Fridays, 4 pm evening prayer, 4:30 pm mass, 5 pm Stations of the Cross.  

Epiphany

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.

Christmas Services

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

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

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

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

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