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
March 30th, 2025
Saturday March 29
10am Holy Unction
6pm Vigil
Sunday March 30
St. John of the Ladder
Tone 7
9:40am Hours and Divine Liturgy
Wednesday April 2
6pm Pre-Sanctified Liturgy
*Note the time change for this service*
Friday April 4
6pm Akathist to the Theotokos
How has Great Lent so easily slipped through our prayerful hands? Just yesterday, it seams, we were warning about the start of the Lenten Fast and this Sunday, we are already at St. John of the Ladder and hoping we will not be one of those souls plucked off of the ladder and finding ourselves in a most unholy mess. May God protect us!
Father Stelian is a member of the Archdiocesan Council. For the first time ever, the Council has asked to meet here in Halifax. Father Stelian is in charge of billeting the other members of the Council; he has to find accommodation for them and has asked that we, the parish, find within ourselves, beds for two nights, April 28th and 29th. If you have a spare bed for these dates, please contact Father Stelian. This is important; it is our chance to show our parish to the Archdiocese. The Archbishop already knows who we are, others in the Archdiocese may not. I leave this in your capable and loving hands.
There is a general Baptism of Catechumens on Lazarus Saturday (April 12) at 10 am, If you would like to be baptized, please speak with Father David or one of the priests.
We will want the temple to be clean, prepared and ready for the great celebration of Pascha. That is why Mark has arranged a clean-up morning on April 5. There's lots to be done. Believe it or not Sergey thinks that the new basement floor will be finished by then and so there will be a real clean-up. We can't supply donuts, it is still fasting time, but coffee does not break the fast and perhaps someone will find, or bake some Lenten scones, with which to reward the workers.
The clergy have discussed the wording of certain prayers that we use liturgy by liturgy and we have decided that we should be bringing our parish into synch with our Archdiocese and thus the OCA. When our people go to other OCA parishes, we want to make sure that we know the correct wording. The first we have looked at is the Pre-Communion Prayer. Here is the prayer as it appears in the OCA liturgy book and this is the wording we shall be using. It comes directly from the OCA HIERATICON VOLUME TWO:
I believe, O Lord, and I confess that thou art truly the Christ, the Son of the living God, who camest into the world to save sinners, of whom I am first. I believe also that this is truly thine own most pure Body, and that this is truly thine own precious Blood. Therefore, I pray thee: Have mercy upon me and forgive my transgressions both voluntary and involuntary, of word and of deed, committed in knowledge or in ignorance. And make me worthy to partake without condemnation of thy most pure Mysteries, for the remission of my sins and unto life everlasting. Amen
Of thy mystical Supper, O Son of God, accept me today as a communicant, for I will not speak of thy Mystery to thine enemies, neither like Judas will I give thee a kiss; but like the thief will I confess thee: Remember me, O Lord, in thy kingdom.
May the communion of thy holy Mysteries be neither to my judgement nor to my condemnation, O Lord, but to the healing of soul and body.
Voting has closed for the date of the Parish Camp. The weekend of July 18-20 won by a wide margin.
A message from the Monks of the Hermitage of the Annunciation
Dear Friends,
What's New for 2025?
We need a rest!
Growing & preparing vegetables for market is hard work. The monks need a sabbatical year to rejuvenate. Thank you to everyone who has supported us by buying our vegetables over the past several years.
Need Garlic?
We will still be selling garlic. The garlic will be ready at the end of August. And we always have garlic scape pesto for sale.
May God bless all of us
Love in Christ
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.
Mission of St Seraphim of Sarov in Cape Breton
Saint Seraphim of Sarov Mission Facebook group
The Divine Liturgy will be held on Saturday, March 8th at 17 Marconi St, Glace Bay. Fr. Panayiotis will be coming up to serve Liturgy. 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