We will have this service at 6:30 PM.  Remember to fast to prepare for Holy Communion.

Sunday, February 14
9 A.M — Orthros & Divine Liturgy
2:30 p.m. — Forgiveness vespers

Clean Monday, February 15
6:30 p.m. — Great Compline
7:30 p.m. — Adult Catechism

Wednesday. February 17
6:30 p.m. — Presanctified Liturgy followed by Lenten Soup dinner

Friday, February 19
6:30 p.m. — The Akathist Hymn of the Theotokos, followed by a Lenten potluck

Saturday, February 20
9 a.m.-2 p.m. — Retreat with Fr. Chad Hatfield
5:45 p.m. — 9th Hour & Great Vespers

Sunday, February 21
9 a.m. — Orthros & Divine Liturgy
Sunday of Orthodoxy with Fr. Chad Hatfield
5 p.m. — Orthodoxy Vespers at St. George Serbian Orthodox Church in Lenexa

The same order, Liturgical services, and time of services remain throughout Lent except the following dates, below:

Wednesday, March 17
6:30 p.m. — Veperal Liturgy of Feast of Annunciation

Thursday, March 18
6:30 p.m. Presactified Liturgy

Friday, March 19
6:30 p.m. — The Fifth Akathist Hymn

Saturday, March 20
9 a.m. — Orthros and Divine Liturgy of Lazarus
Followed by brunch for youth and all- Making Crosses

Sunday, March 21
9 a.m. — Orthros and Divine Liturgy Palm Sunday
6:30 p.m. — Bridegroom Service I

Wednesday, March 24
6:30 p.m. — Veperal Liturgy of Feast of Annunciation

Friday, March 26
6:30 p.m. — Great Vespers of the Feast of Lazarus

Saturday, March 27
9 a.m. — Orthros and Divine Liturgy of Lazarus Saturday followed by Brunch for youth and all — Making Crosses

Sunday, March 28
9 a.m. — Orthros and Divine Liturgy Palm Sunday
6:30 p.m. — Bridegroom Service I

Monday, March 29
6:30 p.m. — Bridegroom Service II

Tuesday, March 30
6:30 p.m. — Bridegroom Service III

Wednesday, March 31
6:30 p.m. — Holy Unction

Thursday, April 1
1 p.m. — Vesperal Liturgy of St. Basil
5 p.m. — Foot-Washing Service
6:30 p.m. — The 12 Gospels Service

Friday, April 2
9 a.m. — Royal Hours
12 p.m. — Decorating the Bier
3 p.m. — Vespers of “Taking the Body Down”
7 p.m. — Lamentation Orthros
9 p.m. — All-Night Vigil

Holy Saturday, April 3
9 a.m. — Vesperal Liturgy of St. Basil
11:30 p.m. — Rush Service

Holy Pascha, April 4
12 a.m. — Orthros and Divine Liturgy of Holy Pascha followed by potluck Paschal meal
1 p.m. — Agape Vespers followed by catered Paschal meal

Dear to Christ, Fathers and Brothers:

Blessings to you, your families and your congregations on this first day of the 40-day long Nativity Fast.

His Holiness PAVLE (Paul), Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovac , and Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Serbia, reposed today at the age of 95.

The Patriarch was born Gojko Stojcevic on September 11 1914 at Kucanci, a village which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire but is now in Croatia. After attending the Fourth Male Gymnasium in Belgrade, he studied at a seminary in Sarajevo. During the Second World War he took refuge in a monastery at Ovcar, and then returned to Belgrade, where he briefly worked in the construction industry.  In 1946 he became a monk at Blagovestenje monastery in Ovcar, taking the name Pavle (Paul). For 11 years he lived as a monk at the Raca Monastery in central Serbia, and from 1950 lectured at the Prizen Seminary in Kosovo.  From 1955 to 1957 Pavle studied Orthodox Theology at the University of Athens, where he discovered a particular gift for liturgics – he was later to become one of the most prolific liturgical writers in the Serbian Church.

On completion of his studies he was elected Bishop of Raska-Prizren (the diocese includes Kosovo), remaining in that post for 33 years until his election as Patriarch on December 1 1990.  Pavle had by this time experienced at first hand the hatred that was to consume the former Yugoslavia: in 1989 he had been beaten up by a group of Albanian youths in Kosovo, receiving injuries that required three months’ hospital treatment.

The Milosevic regime was to lose the support of the Patriarch and his Church, and Pavle made efforts to find common ground between the various opposition groups. Traditionally the Church remained outside politics in Serbia, but at a synod meeting in June 1999 – after NATO had ended 11 weeks of air strikes – it called for Milosevic to stand down.  Six months earlier, in a sermon in Belgrade, the Patriarch had declared that the struggle for Kosovo, where Albanians outnumbered Serbs by nine to one, would be decided as much by demographics as by the outcome of war. “Who has the most sheep in the field, that is his field,” he said, adding: “Multiply yourselves.” Following attacks by the Albanian population, some 80,000 Serbs had fled Kosovo – out of a population of around 200,000 – and Pavle urged the remaining Serbs to stay in the province. “If this trend is not stopped immediately,” he said in June 1999, “the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo will be complete.”  Pavle remained popular among his flock, who admired his humility. He was said to make his own shoes, and tended to use public transport – he did not like to travel by car, saying: “I will not purchase one until every Albanian and Serbian household in Kosovo and Metohija has an automobile.”

The Patriarch supervised the first official Serbian translation of the New Testament, which was published in 1984.

Patriarch Pavle had been suffering from ill health since last year, and although he was nominally still head of the Church, his duties had been carried out by Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro.

Please join me in praying a rope for the repose of the soul of Patriarch Pavle, saying, “O Lord Jesus Christ, grant rest to the soul of Thy departed servant.”

May his memory be eternal, and may you be granted long life.

In Christ Who is our Resurrection and our Life,

+ Bishop Basil

“On Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 7 p.m. there will be a Panakhida Parastos for the newly reposed Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Pavle at St. George Serbian Orthodox Church in Lenexa, Kansas. You are invited to join us as we pray for the repose of the soul of His Holiness, our beloved Patriarch, who has often been referred to as the “saint who walks.”

Please make every effort to join us at St. George.

From now on the all Adult educational classes will meet every other on Monday.