Live Services
Sunday School
Join us for Sunday School! For those who are attending church, if you are at church your children will be able to join from church. School starts at 9:00 am. The links for church school lessons are following:
Church Calendar & Upcoming Events
Calendar of Events
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Akathist Hymn to the Mother of God
Akathist Hymn to the Mother of God
The Akathist Hymn to the Mother of God is a beautiful, prayerful, and poetic hymn of praise to the Virgin Mary, mother of God. Consisting of 24 stanzas, which alternate […]
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Matins (Orthros)
Matins (Orthros)
The morning service of the Church is called Matins. It opens with the reading of six morning psalms and the intoning of the Great Litany. The Matins service of the […]
Divine Liturgy
Divine Liturgy
The Divine Liturgy is considered the most significant ancient Christian service, not so much for its phrasing and words as for its meaning. In fact, the Divine Liturgy was in […]
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Akathist Hymn to the Mother of God
Akathist Hymn to the Mother of God
The Akathist Hymn to the Mother of God is a beautiful, prayerful, and poetic hymn of praise to the Virgin Mary, mother of God. Consisting of 24 stanzas, which alternate […]
1 event,
2 events,
Matins (Orthros)
Matins (Orthros)
The morning service of the Church is called Matins. It opens with the reading of six morning psalms and the intoning of the Great Litany. The Matins service of the […]
Divine Liturgy
Divine Liturgy
The Divine Liturgy is considered the most significant ancient Christian service, not so much for its phrasing and words as for its meaning. In fact, the Divine Liturgy was in […]
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Akathist Hymn to the Mother of God
Akathist Hymn to the Mother of God
The Akathist Hymn to the Mother of God is a beautiful, prayerful, and poetic hymn of praise to the Virgin Mary, mother of God. Consisting of 24 stanzas, which alternate […]
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Youth Candlemaking
Youth Candlemaking
Hey there! Starting at 3pm, we will have a candlemaking class/event for all youth, ages 8-12 at Sts. Constantine and Helen. Your kids will learn how to make a candle […]
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Matins (Orthros)
Matins (Orthros)
The morning service of the Church is called Matins. It opens with the reading of six morning psalms and the intoning of the Great Litany. The Matins service of the […]
Divine Liturgy
Divine Liturgy
The Divine Liturgy is considered the most significant ancient Christian service, not so much for its phrasing and words as for its meaning. In fact, the Divine Liturgy was in […]
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SOYO Lenten Discussion and Movie Night
SOYO Lenten Discussion and Movie Night
At 6:30 PM, following Great Vespers, all SOYO members are invited to meet up at church for a short discussion on the Lenten spirit. We are following the discussion with […]
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Matins (Orthros)
Matins (Orthros)
The morning service of the Church is called Matins. It opens with the reading of six morning psalms and the intoning of the Great Litany. The Matins service of the […]
Divine Liturgy for Palm Sunday
Divine Liturgy for Palm Sunday
The Divine Liturgy is considered the most significant ancient Christian service, not so much for its phrasing and words as for its meaning. In fact, the Divine Liturgy was in […]
Divine Liturgy
Divine Liturgy
The Divine Liturgy is considered the most significant ancient Christian service, not so much for its phrasing and words as for its meaning. In fact, the Divine Liturgy was in […]
Divine Liturgy
Divine Liturgy represents a communal response to and participation in the sacred through activity reflecting praise, thanksgiving, remembrance, supplication or repentance. Eastern Orthodox church follows the Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom which is the most celebrated divine liturgy in the Byzantine rite.
It is named after its core part, the anaphora attributed to Saint John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople in the 5th century. In Constantinople, it was refined and beautified under John’s guidance as Archbishop (398–404).
As a divine liturgy of the Church of Holy Wisdom, Hagia Sophia, it became over time the usual divine liturgy in the churches within the Byzantine Empire. Just two divine liturgies (aside from the presanctified, those of Saints John and Basil the Great, became the norm in the Byzantine Church by the end of the reign of Justinian I.
After the Quinsext Council and the liturgical reforms of Patriarch Theodore Balasamon, the Byzantine Rite became the only rite in the Eastern Orthodox Church, remaining, so until the 19th and 20th Century re-introduction by certain jurisdictions of Western Rites.
The Divine Liturgy is the common action of Orthodox Christians officially gathered to constitute the Orthodox Church. It is the action of the Church assembled by God in order to be together in one community to worship, to pray, to sing, to hear God’s Word, to be instructed in God’s commandments, to offer itself with thanksgiving in Christ to God the Father, and to have the living experience of God’s eternal kingdom through communion with the same Christ Who is present in his people by the Holy Spirit.