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St. Mary the Protectress Ukrainian Orthodox Church

Today: 9:00 a.m. Liturgy – an hour earlier due to the patronal Feast Day of St. Sophie Cathedral Parish. We pray for the health of Volodymyr, father of Oleksii Vorobei (Sorokousty – 21).

September 25, Wednesday: 9:30 a.m. Akathist to the Most Holy Theotokos.

September 27, Friday, The Universal Exaltation of the Precious and Life-giving Cross of the Lord: 9:30 a.m. Liturgy at St. Sophie Cathedral.

September 29, 15th Sunday after Pentecost: 9:00 a.m. Liturgy – an hour earlier due to the patronal Feast Day of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Cathedral Parish in Ottawa. We pray for the health of Volodymyr, father of Oleksii Vorobei (Sorokousty – 22). Veneration of the Life-giving Cross.

October 2, Wednesday: 9:30 a.m. Akathist to St. Nicholas the Wonder-worker.

October 5, Saturday: 5:00 p.m. Vespers.

October 6, 16th Sunday after Pentecost: 9:00 a.m. Matins. 10:00 a.m. Liturgy. We pray for the health of Volodymyr, father of Oleksii Vorobei (Sorokousty – 23).

14th Sunday after Pentecost, before the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Tone 5. Holy and Righteous Ancestors of God, Joachim and Anna. Martyr Severian (320). Commemoration of the Third Ecumenical Council (431). St. Theophanes the Confessor and Faster of Mt. Diabenos (299). Uncovering and glorification of St. Theodosius, Archbishop of Chernihiv (1896). Matins: G3 – Mk. 16: 9-20

Liturgy: Gal. 6:11-18; Jn. 3:13-17 (Sunday before the Exaltation); 2 Cor. 1:21-2:4; Mt. 22:1-14 (Ord.).