Worship

GREAT VESPERS (Saturdays 5pm)
Great Vespers is an ancient evening prayer service.  It tells the story of salvation—beginning with the reading of Psalm 103 (the “creation” psalm), acknowledging our fallen condition, proclaiming Christ—the “Gladsome Light” who sets us free, and—finally—praying for a peaceful departure from this life since “our eyes have seen Thy salvation.”

MATINS (Sundays 9am)
Matins is a morning service of chanting and quiet meditation.  The service begins with the reading of six Psalms designed to lift up the broken human spirit and orient the hearers gaze to the heavens.  Some its hymns are fixed, some change with the season—all are filled with deep reverence.  A main feature of Sunday Matins is a cycle of 11 readings which focus on the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

DIVINE LITURGY (Sundays 10am) 
The Divine Liturgy is the main worship service of Orthodox Christianity.  The Divine Liturgy is the highest and fullest celebration of the Word of God.  Profound mysteries always fill the Divine Liturgy—the joyful gathering of the faithful, the symbolic joining of the physical with the spiritual, the presence of the Creator of heaven and earth in our midst, and, ultimately, our solemn participation in Holy Communion.

DAILY VESPERS (Wednesdays 6:30pm)
Daily Vespers is our mid-week service, reflective and quiet in tone.  Containing most of the elements of Great Vespers—with the exception of various references to the Resurrection of Christ (since, liturgically, the “Day of Resurrection” is Sunday)—Daily Vespers also includes references to the saint (or biblical event) currently being commemorated.  Slightly shorter than Great Vespers, the service of Daily Vespers provides a great mid-week boost to the faithful.