St.Vladimir Orthodox Church
3163 Purcell's Cove Road, Halifax, NS
Welcome to the Orthodox parish of St. Vladimir Prince of Kiev
The first thing you will want to know is something about our parish. Let’s start with our patron saint — St.Vladimir: It was through his efforts that the whole of that part of the world and its people known as The Rus, became Christian and Orthodox. Let me tell you that St. Vladimir Orthodox Church has more English language speaking parishioners than any other.
St. Vladimir Parish was started by Father Vladimir Tobin as an English Mission and you would feel right at home. St. Vladimir, our Patron Saint, the Prince of Kiev was instrumental in the conversion of that part of the world, Rus, to Orthodoxy, more than a thousand years ago? The Orthodox Church has been teaching about Jesus Christ for more than 2,000 years, and that it has not altered those incredible teachings? Frequently we get asked, “Do you believe in the Bible?” Our answer has to be, “Of course we do, Orthodox Christians wrote the New Testament!” Orthodox Christians wrote the Gospels, the Epistles, the Acts of the Apostles, and the great Revelation. The Orthodox Church (Orthodox meaning right believing) is the ancient and the modern Christian Church, which stretched and still stretches as far back as to St. Peter and St. Paul, and the other Disciples and Apostles, who, led by the Holy Spirit, traveled The Holy Land and far beyond.
The Orthodox Church may be more than 2000 years old, but we live now, by holding on to Traditional Christian teachings. We live in and are part of the 21st Century. Glory to God!
It would be an adventure to visit St Vladimir Prince of Kiev church, and you would be welcome. We don’t criticize, we don’t judge, and there are lots of children.
Saturday evening at 6pm we serve Vespers, which takes about an hour. Sunday 10am we serve Liturgy, which takes about two hours on a regular Sunday. The coffee time that follows lasts as long as people stay and chat, and eat, and drink tea and coffee. Our people love being in each others’ company so we don’t hurry away.
How did we learn about the Church? By being part of the community. So, we await — to welcome you.
In Christ,
Father David
Rector
Weekly News
April 18th, 2025
Holy Friday April 18
1pm Vespers Bringing out of the Shroud
6pm Matins Lamentations and Procession
Holy Saturday April 19
10am Vesperal Liturgy
11pm Nocturns
12am Matins and Liturgy of Pashca
Pascha Sunday April 20
4pm Agape Vespers of Pascha and Potluck
I want to thank those who buy and arrange the flowers. They do such an excellent job.
Mark would like to ask that we encourage people to carpool if possible, especially the evening of April 19th as there will hopefully be a great number of people in attendance.
Did you remember that the Lamb Roast will be following the Liturgy, the Sunday after Pascha?
We must thank those who will prepare the feast after the Paschal Liturgy, (no screaming this year, to attract the police!), who will prepare the feast after the Agape Vespers, which is at 4pm on Pascha afternoon. And the Lamb Roast the Sunday following, after Liturgy. Lots of feasting to make up for the Great Fast. And we must thank those who do the cleaning up. Thank you, all!
Parish Council Meeting 7pm Wednesday 23rd April at the usual venue. (Mark please book as usual.)
Did you notice or will you notice the floor downstairs? I have been completely renewed with tiles that will resist water for a considerable time. Thank you to the workers, led, I believe, by Sergey, who accomplished this and also did you notice the painted walls downstairs? Thank you whoever did that.
Christ is Risen,
Love in that same Christ, His Father and the Holy Spirit,
Father David
Service Times
Saturday: 6:00pm Vespers
Sunday: 9:30am Hours, 10:00am Divine Liturgy, followed by coffee hour
See special service times, feasts, and parish events in our online Calendar.
Our parish uses the Old Style Julian calendar.
Capital Campaign
St.Vladimir‘s has begun the journey towards owning a permanent temple. Join Us!
You can Interac E-Transfer your donations now to halifaxorthodox (at) gmail (dot) com.
PayPal:
Mission of St Seraphim of Sarov in Cape Breton
Saint Seraphim of Sarov Mission Facebook group
The Divine Liturgy will be held on Monday, April 21th at 5835 Louisbourg Hwy, Catalone.
Fr. Stelian will be coming up to serve Liturgy.
Fr. Panayiotis will serve Divine Liturgy at a location to be determined on Saturday April 26st.
We should all share the date and invite friends and family to come along. Our doors are open to anyone who is interested in experiencing the Divine Liturgy.
For further information, contact: stseraphimofsarovmission (at) gmail (dot) com