Below please find links to the Divine Services from Sunday, December 6. We are still looking for help with editing sound and video files. Please contact Fr. Gregory if you can help. See you soon at St. Vladimir's!
Please find below links to the Divine Services and sermon from Saturday, November 28 and Sunday, November 29, 2015. This Sunday was also the feast of the Apostle Matthew this year and you will hear about his life throughout the recordings. Please join us at St. Vladimir's in person soon!
Sunday, November 1, 2015 marks the primary feast of St. John of Kronstadt as celebrated in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. Please fine below links to the Divine Service files from this feast at St. Vladimir's. We hope to see you soon in person, but if you can't make it, don't forget that we broadcast all our major Divine Services live. Find the link on our home page or at the Sound of the Parish blog!
Please find links to the files for our all English cycle of Divine Services for November. These services were held on November 20 & 21, 2015 at St. Vladimir's - the feast of Archangel Michael & All the Bodiless Hosts. Also please find below a link to information about our December all English cycle - this will be a midnight Liturgy. We hope all can join us!
Bishop Peter visited St. Vladimir's November 7 & 8, 2015 for the feast of St. Demetrius the Great Martyr. Below please find links to the sound files of all the Divine Servies of Bishop Peter's visit. Please join us at St. Vladimir's in person soon, and if you cannot, please join us on our live stream for all the major Divine Services at St. Vladimir's!
Please find below the sound files associated with Sunday, October 25, 2015. We were pleased to welcome Fr. David Moser and Deacon Elias Reeves at this Divine Liturgy. Please join us soon at St. Vladimir's!
We held our All English cycle of Divine Services on Friday evening October 23 and Saturday morning October 24 this month. Below please find the sound files for these services.
Please find below links to the sound files for the feast of the Optina Elders at St. Vladimir's this year. We congratulate all with the feast - especially those who celebrated name's days!
Friends,
Please find the lectures from our 2015 Marriage and Family Retreat at the links below. It was a great pleasure to have Fr. David Moser lead our retreat and we are deeply indebted to him for his wise words and insightful commentary. We hope to have another similar retreat next year. Until then, we hope you enjoy these lectures and listen to them again and again. There is much there - the content is very dense - and multiple reviews of the material will undoubtedly be very spiritually profitable!
Please find the sound files from Sunday, October 18, as well as vigil the evening before at the links below. Unfortunately The Path is still on vacation! :( But we hope, hope, hope it will be back next week. Thank you for your patience!
Fr. Gregory is travelling to Cleveland and Jordanville this week and thus there will be no Path this week. Due to the Diocesan Assembly next week there also will be no path then. So The Path is on vacation until the week of October 19. We thank you for your patience.
This week's edition of The Path includes parish announcements, a commentary on spiritual priorities, and some very nice selections from the Divine Services of the previous week at St. Vladimir's. Please join us on The Path!
This year the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross fell on Sunday, September 27. Please find the sound files from the feast below. We wish all our parish family and friends all the best with the great feast of the Exaltation of the Cross!
We ask forgiveness of all, but this week the schedule is such that we cannot publish The Path. We hope to publish again next week. We thank you for your understanding!
Please find the sound files associated with Sunday, September 20 at the links below. This Sunday was the forefeast of the Nativity of the Theotoks and the hymnography of the Holy Church reflects that reality. We congratulate all with the Sunday and the feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos!
Below please find the sound file for the vigil for the feast of Sts. Peter & Febronia at St. Vladimir's. This file begins a bit after Vespers had begun. Unfortunately the recording equipment had some trouble and the Divine Liturgy was not recorded for this feast. However, Vigil was really quite beautiful and we hope that the prayerfulness and beauty of the Vigil will in some small way make up for not being able to provide you the Divine Liturgy.
Below please find the sound files from the feast of St. Alexander Nevsky at St. Vladimir's on the 11th and 12th of September. This was our all-English cycle for the month and so the services are entirely in English. We congratulate all our parishioners who celebrated their name's days on this feast and all with the feast of the great favorite of God the Holy Right Believing Prince Alexander!
Please find below sound files for Vigil and Divine Liturgy for the commemoration of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist. You may also find the article from the web page of the Diocese of Chicago & Mid-America linked below interesting - it covers the blessing of our memorial to those who gave their lives for Faith, King, and Country. This memorial was blessed on the feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist with the blessing of His Grace Bishop Peter of Cleveland.
This week's edition of The Path includes announcements, a commentary on the festival as a missionary outreach, and some really nice highlights from last week's Divine Services. Please join us on The Path!
This week's edition of the Path includes announcements (some of which are pretty important, like the fact that as of today our old driveway is closed!), a commentary on marriage and how we can strengthen our marriages beginning this weekend, and liturgical highlights from last week's Divine Services. Join us on The Path!
On Sunday evening, September 6 and Monday morning, September 7 we were privileged as a parish to host the finale of the Walk of Life - the Procession/Pilgrimage of the Diocesan Youth Department. Part of hosting the pilgrims was serving the Divine Service: Vespers for the exhausted walkers on Sunday evening and Divine Liturgy on Monday morning. Below please find the sound files of those services. Thank you to all who make the pilgrimage such a success, including those who made it possible for us to serve the Divine Services for the pilgrims!
Below please find the sound files from Sunday, September 6. Please join us soon at St. Vladimir's to enjoy these services in person, or if you cannot, join us prayerfully by listening to our live stream.
Please find below links to the Divine Services for Sunday, August 30, 2015. Please also note that there will be no Path this week. We ask your forgiveness, but with the festival just around the corner, the Walk of Life this weekend, and seminary classes starting on the 14th Fr. Gregory has not been able to make time to prepare The Path this week. Please pray that next week will be a bit easier!
Please find below a link to The Path for the eve of the feast of Dormition. This week's Path includes parish announcement – some of which are pretty important, a commentary on the business of this time of year and how that can be spiritually profitable if we let it be, and liturgical highlights from the last week's services. Please join us on The Path!
Please find below links to the Divine Services for the 12th Sunday after Pentecost - August 22 & 23, 2015.
Please find below three sound files for the feast of the Lord's Transfiguration. Thank you to all who worked so hard to decorate the church, sing, serve, and otherwise make the feast possible. We congratulate all with the "Apple Savior" feast!
Please find below a link to the sound file of the Divine Liturgy on Sunday, August 16. Please note that Fr. Michael gives a short sermon at the end of the liturgy, so if you would like to hear that, please find it there. Thank you to Fr. Michael for serving while Fr. Gregory was away on vacation! We had a little technical difficulty with our broadcast equipment on this Sunday, so the recording starts a few minutes into the liturgy - with the hymn "O Only Begotten Son...".
Please find below a link to our weekly podcast, "The Path". In this edition we hear the parish weekly announcements and an interview with Angelina Noll. Angelina was chosen by Bishop Peter to attend an International Orthodox Christian Charities service leadership conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota earlier this month. This is a great honor for Angelina - only one young person was chosen from our diocese to attend! Angelina talks about service to others as strengthening her faith, her experience at the conference, and how we at St. Vladimir's might make service to others a more active part of our parish life. Please join us on The Path!
Please find below a sound file of the sermon from Sunday, August 2, 2015. This is the feast of the Prophet Elias, and the gospel that was read is that from Matthew of the Lord walking on the water, Peter joining Him, and subsequently beginning to sink. We hope the sermon is edifying for our listeners!
We had some trouble with the sound equipment for the feast of the Apostles Peter & Paul, but we were able to make a sound file from the video that was taken of the sermon. The quality isn't as good as it usually is - but it is passable. We hope you find it edifying!
Please find links below to the sound files of the Second Pascha of our parish - the feast of the Holy Equal of the Apostles Great Prince Vladimir. Congratulations to all on this great jubilee - the 1000th anniversary of the repose of St. Vladimir!
Please find the sound files for Saturday evening July 25 and Sunday morning July 26 at the links below. This was the Sunday of the commemoration of the Fathers of the First Six Ecumenical Councils. Join us soon at St. Vladimir's!
Please find a link
below to this week's version of “The Path”. The Path and our
Sound of the Parish blog will be on vacation at least until August 19
– perhaps until as late as August 26. During this time we invite
our listeners to enjoy past editions of The Path as well as our
parish live stream of Divine Services.
Sadly our recorder malfunctioned at the Liturgy for the All English Cycle this month, but the Evening Services were quite prayerful.
Please find below the Evening Services on the eve of the feast of St. Olga as well as the Divine Liturgy on the day of the feast. We congratulate all our many Olgas with their name's day!
Please find below two sound files: the full Liturgy from the feast of the Royal Martyrs, as well as a shorter file of just the sermon on that day. Congratulations to all who celebrated their name's days!
Please find a link to our weekly audio podcast, “The Path”, at the link below. This week we are pleased to offer part one of a two part interview with Matushka Maria Karas. In addition to this really interesting interview we include our usual announcements, and since the interview is quite lengthy, fewer than usual liturgical highlights. For those who enjoy the liturgical highlights please note that the services from last weekend will soon be posted here on our Sound of the Parish blog and you can listen to them in their entirety. Please join us on “The Path”!
As we have worked toward live streaming of our Divine Services we have had a few technical glitches. So, unfortunately, the beautiful services for Sts. Peter and Paul were lost. But we know how and why that happened and it should not happen again. In the mean time, below please find below the full liturgy as well as the sermon for July 5. Join us soon at St. Vladimir's!
Please find below a link to this week's podcast, The Path. Last week The Path was on vacation, but it is back this week with a vengence! :) Announcements include lost of great opportunities to volunteer, as well as other informational things. And the commentary speaks to volunteering - why we give you those opportunities and why they are spiritually helpful on our Christian walk. Finally, we have liturgical highlights as always - and some really beautiful pieces this week. Please join us on The Path!
Please find a link to our weekly podcast, The Path, at the link below. This week's Path contains the weekly schedule of services and announcements, a commentary on the Supreme Court's Obergefell v. Hodges decision and how we should understand this as Orthodox Christians, as well as highlights from Divine Services at St. Vladimir's last week. The commentary on the Supreme Court decision is not meant to be a statement on behalf of the entire Church, but rather a reflection on what we as a parish should consider in light of this decision. This is one of those commentaries that will no doubt be a bit controversial. There is a temptation to say nothing. No doubt to some we will have said too much. And that will anger some. There is another tempation to say too much. No doubt to some we will have said too much. And that will anger others. We hope we have said just the right amount - just what we as a parish need to be able to reinvigorate our mission to bring Orthodox Christianity to all - and to bring anger to none. Join us on The Path!
Please find two files at the links below. The first is the full Liturgy from Sunday, June 28 at St. Vladimir's. The other is just the sermon. We hope you enjoy the new, 4-microphone recording system we have implemented at St. Vladimir's. We hope very soon to be able to stream Divine Services live. We ask your prayers for God's help in this regard!
Below please find a link to this week's "The Path". This week's edition includes the weekly announcements as well as liturgical highlights of last week's Divine Services. This week's commentary covers politics, patriotism, and ethnophyletism. Please join us on The Path!
Please find links below for the full Divine Liturgy and a smaller one of just the sermon for Sunday, June 21 below. Please join us soon at St. Vladimir's!
Please find The Path for June 17 below. Yes - today is the 18th. But this was supposed to be out on the 17th. :)
The recording equipment that we use to record The Path is the same equipment we use to record Divine Services in the church and also the same equipment we will be using for live broadcasts of Divine Services. In other words, that equipment is being used a lot these days! And because of that we just can't get The Path done by Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. this week. But we will have it done by Thursday at 6:00 p.m. and that is when it will be published - this week only. Thank you for your understanding!
Please find the sound files from Sunday, June 14 at the links below. We would like to call your attention to the Divine Liturgy file. This is the first file we are able to publish with our newly-installed microphones that provide a much better reception of both the choir and the clergy. Please provide us feedback - this is a work in progress. With Bishop Peter's blessing we hope to soon be able to provide live broadcast of our Divine Services. We ask your prayers in that regard. See you soon at St. Vladimir's!
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