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About the Orthodox Church in America
We are not a colony of a foreign church, seeking to duplicate here what the Mother Church elsewhere can do much better at home. We are not an ethnic club, seeking to preserve Old World customs, languages or cuisines. We are not in exile from somewhere else, a Diaspora that needs direction from a distant homeland.
We are Orthodox Christians in America, convinced that America needs Orthodoxy as the fullness of her Christian vocation, that without Orthodoxy, American Christianity and America herself will remain unfulfilled, and the world, the whole planet will suffer from America’s spiritual deficiencies and “incompleteness.” We must offer [all Americans] the completeness, the wholeness of the Orthodox Faith, not to preserve any ethnic heritage, not to replicate an ancient but alien cultural tradition, but to save this country... and to make America “all that it can be,” sanctified by God in Christ through the Holy Spirit in His Holy Church.
-- Archpriest Michael Oleksa, Diocese of Alaska
Christ is Risen!
Holy Week and Pascha Pictures - April 11-19, 2009
We had a wonderful blessed Holy Week and Pascha. Services were well attended; we baptized three fine little boys, and in spite of rainy weather we were able to make outdoor Processions on Palm Sunday and Holy Friday. It was too rainy for an outdoor procession Pascha night, but we had a beautiful and joyous service inside. A special joy was hosting the other two Jackson area Orthodox congregations this year for Agape Vespers and Feast Sunday afternoon. This is the 22nd year we have done this service together.
Pascha Midnight At this service all lights are put out as we experience the darkness of the Tomb. Then we hear:
Come receive the light from the unwaning light,
and glorify Christ, Who is risen from the dead. We light our candles from the light brought from the altar, singing
Thy Resurrection O Christ Our Saviour
The Angels in Heaven Sing;
Enable us on earth
To glorify Thee in purity of heart.
Then we hear the Resurrection Gospel from St. Mark, the proclamation, Christ is Risen! in many languages, and continue with the brightly lighted and festive Matins and Divine Liturgy. Then we go to the dining food for feasting and fellowship.
"More Holy Saturday" and Pascha Midnight pictures by Steve and Christina Long; other pictures by Melinda Haddad.
Join Us for Holy Week
April 11-19, 2009
The Orthodox Holy Week and Pascha services set before us a rich feast of Christian experience that no seeker of God should miss. The four Gospels devote more space to the week before our Lord's death than all the rest of His life and teaching. Beginning with the Raising of Lazarus, the Orthodox services give us each day scriptures, hymns, and liturgical actions that enable us experience these saving events as realities in our time. Make plans to join us for these.
Holy Friday Evening, 2008
Procession with the Epitaphios (image of the shroud of the Lord)
through the Clinton cemetery next to the Church
First of Resurrection Murals Installed
April 14, 2009
This mural of the Appearance of the Lord at the Sea of Tiberias (St. John 21:1-14) was installed on the right front wall of our Temple. The mural is 12 feet wide and 8 feet high. It was painted on canvas by Fr. Andrew Tregubov of Claremont, NH, and affixed to the wall by Mr. Gary Atchley, a local wallcovering professional.
It is given in memory of Joseph Bassam Khalaf, Holy Resurrection member who fell asleep in the Lord April 17, 2008. May his memory be eternal!
Since our Temple is called Holy Resurrection, the right side of the Temple will have murals of the Resurrection events, beginning at the back
with the women at the Tomb and St. Mary Magdalene with the Lord in the Garden (St. John 20:11 ff), then Sts Peter and John at the Tomb (St. John 20:3 ff),
the meal at Emmaus (St. Luke 24:13 ff), and ending with this one in front.
Let us fast with a fast pleasing to the Lord. This is the true fast: the casting off of evil, the bridling of the tongue, the cutting off of anger, the cessation of lusts, evil talking, lies and cursing. The stopping of these is the fast true and acceptable. --Monday Vespers of the First Week
O Lord and Master of my life
Take from me the spirit of sloth, despair, lust of power and idle talk.
But grant rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience and love to Thy servant.
Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own transgressions and not to judge my brother,
For blessed art Thou unto ages of ages. Amen.
Sunday of Orthodoxy
March 8
Orthodox Christians celebrate the first Sunday of Great Lent as the Sunday of Orthodoxy, remembering the restoration of the Holy Icons to the Churches on this Sunday in A.D. 843, after they were suppressed about 90 years by heretical Byzantine emperors.
Other Churches participating include St. Peter's Church in Madison and Holy Resurrection. The picture at right is of the the iconostas at St. George's.
The service will begin at 6 p.m. The public is invited to this service and fellowship afterwards.
We had a wonderful time here February 17-19 with Fr. Jacob Myers and his wife, Matushka Rebecca, from St. John the Wonderworker Church in Atlanta. Recordings of his first two talks can be heard here (unfortunately the third talk did not record properly).
