5:15 pm Lenten Hours
6:00 pm Presanctified Liturgy
followed by Potluck
8:30 am – 5:00 pm Pan-Orthodox Retreat in Castro Valley
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6:00 pm Vigil (San Anselmo)
Live-Stream Scheduled
St. John Climacus
9:30 am Divine Liturgy
Live-Stream Scheduled
Bible Study
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5:00 pm Vespers and Mission Awareness Dinner at Nativity of Christ, Novato
From the Amvon
In the light of the approaching encounter with Christ (in the Holy Eucharist,) how serious and how grave becomes the day I have to spend in the usual occupations; how the most trivial and insignificant things, which fill my daily existence and to which I am so accustomed that I pay no attention to them, acquire a new significance.
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There is no more profitable practice as a companion to holy and spiritual fasting than that of almsgiving. View our schedule for almsgiving collections during Great Lent.
To help those who aren’t familiar with all the figures and episodes mentioned in the Great Canon of St. Andrew, we've prepared a summary that highlights and explains its main figures.
Of all lenten hymns and prayers, one short prayer can be termed the lenten prayer. Tradition ascribes it to one of the great teachers of spiritual life — St. Ephrem the Syrian. From Great Lent (Chapter 2), by Alexander Schmemann
Dweller of the desert and angel in the body, you were shown to be a wonderworker, our God-bearing Father John. You received heavenly gifts through fasting, vigil, and prayer: healing the sick and the souls of those drawn to you by faith. Glory to Him who gave you strength. Glory to Him who granted you a crown. Glory to Him Who, through you, grants healing to all.
Because of its Paschal character, the normal Divine Liturgy is not served on weekdays of Great Lent in the Orthodox Church. In its place, so that the faithful would not be left without Holy Communion, the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts is served.
Throughout Lent it is imperative that we give at least one evening to attend the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts with the spiritual experience it implies—that of total fasting, that of the transformation of at least one day into a real expectation of judgment and joy.
The words of St. Andrew and the Great Canon will punctuate the evenings of the first four days of the Fast and then return in their full form in the fifth week. Click here to download The Great Canon PDF.
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St. Nicholas Orthodox Church
102 Ross Avenue
San Anselmo, CA 94960
pastor: V. Rev. Stephan Meholick
phone: 415.454.0982
St. Nicholas Orthodox Church is a parish of the Orthodox Church in America in San Anselmo, CA. The Orthodox Church in America is the autocephalous (self-governing) Orthodox Church on this continent, whose jurisdiction runs from Canada through Mexico under the omophor of His Beatitude, our Metropolitan TIKHON.
