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Welcome! Добро нам дошли! We welcome all visitors and seekers to join us!
We
invite you to join us for services, which are held in Church Slavonic,
English and Serbian. Sunday liturgies begin at 10:00 am. Weekday feastday liturgies begin at 9:00 a.m. Vespers are held at 6:00 p.m. every Saturday and on the eve of feasts. Please note that only baptized Orthodox
Christians can partake of our sacraments and receive the antidoron
(нафора) distributed at the end of the liturgy. You are encouraged to
ask our priest for additional learning materials or service
substitution readings. Private catechism sessions can be arranged upon
request.
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In accordance with a directive issued by our Diocese, all priests in our deanery are to report to Monastery Marcha for Presanctified Liturgies on Fridays. Therefore, we have adjusted our schedule and will only be serving the Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts each Wednesday morning of Great Lent at 9 a.m.
Our next Pogacha Sale will be held on Saturday, March 13. Pick up is at 4:00.
Pogace $3.50/each
Doughnuts $7.00 dz $3.50 1/2 dozen
Apple Strudel $7.00
Nut Rolls $10.00
Call Francine at 724-346-0108 or Angie at 724-946-3311 to place your order.
All children ages Preschool- Age 11 are invited for a Pan- Orthodox “Kids Night Out at Church” to be held at Holy Cross Romanian Orthodox Church on Saturday, March 20 at 5PM. Vespers will follow at 6PM. This will be a fun-filled hour, with activities and snacks included, in order to give some practical teaching to the children about Orthodoxy.
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Today is ,
( according to the Church Calendar)
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On this day, the Church commemorates:
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"As long as a man only philosophizes about God he is weak and completely
helpless against the evil spirit. The evil spirit ridicules the feeble sophistry
of the world. But, as soon as a man begins to fast and to pray to God, the evil
spirit becomes filled with indescribable fear. In no way can the evil spirit
tolerate the aroma of prayer and fasting. The sweet-smelling aroma chokes him
and weakens him to utter exhaustion. In a man who only philosophizes about
faith, there is spacious room in him for the demons. But in a man who sincerely
begins to pray to God and to fast with patience and hope, for the demon it
becomes narrow and constricted and he must flee from such a man. Against certain
bodily ills there exists only one remedy. Against the greatest ill of the soul,
demonism, there exists two remedies, which must be utilized at one and the same
time: fasting and prayer. The apostles and saints fasted and prayed to God. That
is why they were so powerful against evil spirits."
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