Clean Week: The First Week of Great Lent

During the first week of Great Lent, we strive with God's help to begin our journey toward Pascha with repentance and zeal. We do this through increased prayer, fasting, and love/almsgiving. (The first three days are more strict with regard to fasting.) We also participate in as many of this week's beautiful church services as we can. There are services every evening starting at 6:00 pm; see the calendar for details.

Of particular importance are the Presanctified Liturgies on Wednesday and Friday. Those who plan to receive communion at these liturgies should fast from food and water starting at 12 noon. 

During this week we also look forward to the First Sunday of Great Lent, the Sunday of Orthodoxy, in which we celebrate the triumph of the Orthodox Church over the heresy of iconoclasm. Bring one of your favorite icons on Sunday for the procession!

Lenten Women's Retreat: Saturday March 14

Holy Resurrection’s Sts. Martha and Mary Sisterhood invites you to a Lenten Women’s Retreat with Matushka Constantina Palmer, author of The Scent of Holiness. The retreat's theme will be: "Becoming a Living Sacrifice." For more information please refer to the retreat flyer and schedule. If you would like to attend, please register online.

Speaker biography: Matushka Constantina Palmer and her husband live on and serve the Canadian Archdiocese of the OCA on the island of Newfoundland. She is the authour of The Scent of Holiness: Lessons from a Womens’ Monastery as well as numerous articles on her blog Lessons from a Monastery. She hopes to publish her second book - also a collection of non-fiction stories - in the near future. She holds a Master’s degree in Theology from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a Bachelor’s degree in Great Books. Currently she is studying Social Work.