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Baptism & Chrismation

Submit a Record of Baptism/Chrismation: Click Here

Marriage

Please click here to submit information needed to prepare a Certificate of Marriage.

Article: And the Two Shall Become One Flesh: The Sacrament of Holy Matrimony

Funeral

Please click here to submit a funeral record.

The "Lesser" Orders

Preparing for Tonsure as a Reader

Preparing for Ordination as a Subdeacon

A Guide to Readers and Subdeacons

Chanting

Guidelines for Epistle readers (pdf)

For audio samples of Epistle readings, visit our Choir/Chant Recordings page.

Epistle Reading Schedule Oct-Dec 2019 (pdf)

Epistle Reading Schedule July-Sept 2019 (pdf)

A Prayer before Singing

Holy Bread for the Eucharist

Liturgical Offerings

Holy Bread recipe (for the Eucharist)

Artos recipe (for Artoklasia)
Alternate ingredient list

Kollyva recipe (memorial wheat)

Another Koliva recipe (Ukrainian)

Calendar

Daily Readings

Saints, Feasts, and Readings for 12/09/2025

The Conception by St. Anna of the Most Holy Theotokos

St. Paul's Letter to the Galatians 4:22-27

Luke 8:16-21

The Conception by St. Anna of the Most Holy Theotokos; Hannah the Righteous, mother of Samuel the Prophet; Narses the Martyr of Persia; The Consecration of the Church of the Resurrection (Holy Sepulchre) in the Holy City of Jerusalem

Searchable Scripture

Searchable Bible (King James Version), including the "Deuterocanonical/Aprocryphal" books
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kjv/

Podcasts

The Eucharist as the Mystery of Mysteries: Reflections on the Orthodox Unders...
13 Sep 2023 at 1:20pm

Justin and Nick discuss various aspects of how the Orthodox Church understands the Mystery, or Sacrament, of the Eucharist. What is the Eucharist? Why is it important? How do we prepare to receive it? These and other like questions.

Justin and Nick...

Why Do We Go to Church?: Worship&the Image of God
12 Apr 2023 at 2:47pm

In this reboot of Living Orthodoxy, Sdn Justin Gohl and Rdr Nick Muzekari discuss the importance of going to Church, participating in the worship of the Church, as the place where we encounter Christ and find the true purpose of our lives as human...

Homily: Fr Noah on The Sunday of the Prodigal Son (3/28/21)
12 Mar 2021 at 2:25pm

We are prodigals who have gone astray and need to return to the Father. We must see ourselves as the older brother...

End of Liturgy Homily: Fr. Witalis Sunday of the Prodigal Son
12 Mar 2021 at 2:06pm

Fr. Witalis reminds us of the perils of sexual immorality.

Homily: Fr James Thayer
18 Mar 2020 at 10:11am

Homily given by Fr James Thayer on the Divine Liturgy