Glory to Jesus Christ! Dear community of Holy Ascension Parish! Due to the epidemic and announced quarantine, doctors and relevant health authorities are appealing to everyone in order to limit contacts and visiting public places. With all above said, there are a lot of questions appeared regarding attending the Church for praying there. This post […]
On Sundays, after the Liturgy is over, we have our Sunday school lessons for our little Christians. We give them the knowledge about Christ’s sermon, study stories from the Bible together. To make the lessons more interesting – we have interesting master classes dedicated to church holidays hold. Before the holiday of Candlemas (Presentation of […]
During winter time our Holy Ascension community was not only caroling, preparing Verteps and hosting guests, but also was working to assist Ukraine. During the December-February period we have collected a large amount of humanitarian aid to be sent to Ukraine – there were 23 packages collected weighing 1562,3 pounds (approximately 708kg). We were able […]
Historically it turned out that here in the USA the Church has become the unifying center and the guardian of the national culture and traditions. Moms and dads, grandpas and grandmas bring their children who had to be brought up in another country to the temple with the aim to convey the religion and to […]
Unfortunately, the period of holidays anticipated so much is coming to its end. We’ve caroled, made many visits to each other to celebrate the holidays, drank holy water and made a stock of it for the whole year, sprinkled our homes. And now there is just a bunch of good positive memories and emotions left […]
Christ was born! Let’s praise him! Within their community Ukrainians adhere to their traditions and honor the holidays established by the Orthodox Church. This Christmas holiday happened to be on Tuesday. On the 7th of January there is a usual working day in the USA, that’s why everyone had to make an effort to take […]
January 6th (Monday) – Christmas Eve (Fast Day) 9:00 p.m. – Grand Compline ❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄ January 7th (Tuesday) – CHRISTMAS DAY 10:00 a.m. – Divine Liturgy (Ukrainian-English) Open House – All are Welcome ❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄ January 8th (Wednesday) – Council of the Blessed Mother 10:00 a.m. – Divine Liturgy (Ukrainian-English) ❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄ January 9th (Thursday) – St. Stephen’s […]
On the 15th of January we celebrated the first winter holiday – Saint Nicholas visited our Holy Ascension Church community. Children have been waiting for him and have prepared their greetings. They were singing, dancing and telling poems. But the most important – they have been studying his lifetime and were answering questions to get […]
At the end of fall, according to our church community Constitution, we had important events took place. On the 18th of November our parish had the annual general meeting held where we have elected our new church administration and the head of the parish. A week after the new elected members of the church administration […]
Every fall the members of our community have their annual meeting. The aim of this meeting is to summarize the parish’s life during the year passing and also to determine the ways of development for the year coming. The most important task our parishioners have to solve – is the election of a new church […]
