Aprilie 2024 Programul slujbelor

April 2024 Liturgical Schedule

Tuesday April 2nd  2024 

6:30pm Presanctified Divine Liturgy / Dumnezeiasca Liturghie a Darurilor înainte-sfințite

7:30 pm – Holy Unction/ Sf Maslu;

9:00PM Fellowship Agape Dinner/Agapa masa de seară

MOST HOLY THEOTOKOS, SAVE US!

Prayerfully yours in Christ’s service,

Fr. Hieromonk Polycarp (Athenagoras)
egumen

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2024 – Together for building the Main Church/ Împreună Ridicăm Biserica Mare a Mănăstirii – 2024

Donations Main Church/ Biserica Mare

INVITATION to Save the Dates in 2024:

• 18 mai 2024 – Hramul Mic/Annual Spring Pilgrimage Day (Sf. M. Mc. Efrem cel Nou/St. Ephraim the New)
• 27 iulie 2024 – Pelerinaj în cinstea Maicii Domnului (Icoana “Gherontissa”) / Annual Summer Pilgrimage Day in honor of our Mother of God
• 21 septembrie 2024 – Hramul Mare/Annual Fall Pilgrimage Day (Înălțarea Sfintei Cruci/Exaltation of the Holy Cross)

Programul Liturgic / Liturgical schedule

Aprindeți o lumânare / Light a candle

Pomelnic / Prayer request

Donations Altar de Vară/Pavilion

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Mănăstirea Ortodoxă Înălțarea Sfintei Cruci și Sf. Efrem cel Nou

The Orthodox Monastery Exaltation of the Holy Cross and St. Ephraim the New

308328 Hockley Rd., Mono

Orangeville, Ontario L9W 6N4

Cell: 226.200.1074

1. [email protected]

New Website: www.monasterymono.org

Join our Facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/OrthodoxMonasteryMono/

Episcopia Ortodoxă Româna a Canadei / The Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Canada    

The Orthodox Monastery “Holy Cross” is under the spiritual and ecclesiastical authority (omofor) of His Grace, Bishop Ioan Casian, of The Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Canada.

Mitropolia Ortodoxă Română a celor două Americi / The Romanian Orthodox Metropolia of the Americas

16 March 2024 – 8:30 AM Akathist/ Acatist; 9:00 AM – Divine Liturgy / Dumnezeiasca Liturghie; 10:30 AM – Holy Unction/ Sf Maslu;  12:00PM Fellowship Agape Meal/Agapa lunară

MOST HOLY THEOTOKOS, SAVE US!

Prayerfully yours in Christ’s service,

Fr. Hieromonk Polycarp (Athenagoras)
egumen

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2024 – Together for building the Main Church/ Împreună Ridicăm Biserica Mare a Mănăstirii – 2024

Donations Main Church/ Biserica Mare

INVITATION to Save the Dates in 2024:

• 18 mai 2024 – Hramul Mic/Annual Spring Pilgrimage Day (Sf. M. Mc. Efrem cel Nou/St. Ephraim the New)
• 27 iulie 2024 – Pelerinaj în cinstea Maicii Domnului (Icoana “Gherontissa”) / Annual Summer Pilgrimage Day in honor of our Mother of God
• 21 septembrie 2024 – Hramul Mare/Annual Fall Pilgrimage Day (Înălțarea Sfintei Cruci/Exaltation of the Holy Cross)

Programul Liturgic / Liturgical schedule

Aprindeți o lumânare / Light a candle

Pomelnic / Prayer request

Donations Altar de Vară/Pavilion

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Mănăstirea Ortodoxă Înălțarea Sfintei Cruci și Sf. Efrem cel Nou

The Orthodox Monastery Exaltation of the Holy Cross and St. Ephraim the New

308328 Hockley Rd., Mono

Orangeville, Ontario L9W 6N4

Cell: 226.200.1074

1. [email protected]

New Website: www.monasterymono.org

Join our Facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/OrthodoxMonasteryMono/

Episcopia Ortodoxă Româna a Canadei / The Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Canada    

The Orthodox Monastery “Holy Cross” is under the spiritual and ecclesiastical authority (omofor) of His Grace, Bishop Ioan Casian, of The Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Canada.

Mitropolia Ortodoxă Română a celor două Americi / The Romanian Orthodox Metropolia of the Americas

9 March 2024 “Moșii de iarnă/Winter Soul Saturday”– 8:30AM Matins/Utrenia ; 10:30AM Divine Liturgy with memorial Service for the Souls Saturday/ Sf. Liturghie cu Parastas pentru Moșii de iarnă ; 6:00 PM Vespers with Paraklesis to the Theotokos/Vecernie cu Paraclisul Maicii Domnului

1 March 2024 – 5:00 AM Divine Liturgy/ Sf. Liturghie  ; 6:00 PM Vespers with Paraklesis to the Theotokos/ Vecernie cu Paraclisul Maicii Domnului

2 March 2024 – 8:30AM Matins/Utrenia ; 10:30AM Divine Liturgy/ Sf. Liturghie ; 6:00 PM Vespers with Paraklesis to the Theotokos/Vecernie cu Paraclisul Maicii Domnului

3 March 2024 – 8:30AM Matins/Utrenia, 10:30AM Divine Liturgy/ Sf. Liturghie; 6:00 PM Vespers with Paraklesis to the Theotokos/ Vecernie cu Paraclisul Maicii Domnului

4 March 2024 – 7:00PM Divine Liturgy/ Sf. Liturghie  ;  Paraklesis to the Theotokos/ Vecernie cu Paraclisul Maicii Domnului

5 March 2024 – 7:00PM Divine Liturgy/ Sf. Liturghie  ;  Paraklesis to the Theotokos/ Vecernie cu Paraclisul Maicii Domnului

6 March 2024 – 7:00PM Divine Liturgy/ Sf. Liturghie  ;  Paraklesis to the Theotokos/ Vecernie cu Paraclisul Maicii Domnului

7 March 2024 – 7:00PM Divine Liturgy/ Sf. Liturghie  ;  Paraklesis to the Theotokos/ Vecernie cu Paraclisul Maicii Domnului

8 March 2024 – 7:00PM Divine Liturgy/ Sf. Liturghie  ;  Paraklesis to the Theotokos/ Vecernie cu Paraclisul Maicii Domnului

9 March 2024 – “Sâmbăta Morților/Moșii de iarnă/Winter Souls Saturday” 8:30AM Matins/Utrenia ; 10:30AM Divine Liturgy/ Sf. Liturghie with memorial Service for the Souls Saturday/Parastas de obște ; 6:00 PM Vespers with Paraklesis to the Theotokos/Vecernie cu Paraclisul Maicii Domnului

10 March 2024 – 8:30AM Matins/Utrenia, 10:30AM Divine Liturgy/ Sf. Liturghie; 6:00 PM Vespers with Paraklesis to the Theotokos/ Vecernie cu Paraclisul Maicii Domnului

11 March 2024 – 7:00PM Divine Liturgy/ Sf. Liturghie  ;  Paraklesis to the Theotokos/ Vecernie cu Paraclisul Maicii Domnului

12 March 2024 –  Night Vigil/Priveghere 8:00 pm followed by Divine Liturgy at 10:30pm / cu Dumnezeiasca Liturghie la 10:30pm

13 March 2024 –  6:00 PM Vespers with Paraklesis to the Theotokos/ Vecernie cu Paraclisul Maicii Domnului

14 March 2024 – 7:00PM Divine Liturgy/ Sf. Liturghie  ;  Paraklesis to the Theotokos/ Vecernie cu Paraclisul Maicii Domnului

15 March 2024 –   Paraklesis to the Theotokos/ Vecernie cu Paraclisul Maicii Domnului

16 March 2024 – 8:30 AM Akathist/ Acatist; 9:00 AM – Divine Liturgy / Dumnezeiasca Liturghie; 10:30 AM – Holy Unction/ Sf Maslu;  12:00PM Fellowship Agape Meal/Agape

17 March 2024 – 8:30AM Matins/Utrenia ; 10:30AM Divine Liturgy/ Sf. Liturghie ; 1:00 PM Forgiveness Vespers/ Vecernia iertării

18 March 2024 – 5:00 AM  Începutul Postului Sf Paști/Beginning of Holy and Great Lent – Utrenie, Ceasul I, III, VI, IX, Obednița/Matins, Royers hours   7:00pm Pavecernița Mare cu Canonul cel Mare/Great Compline & Great Canon of St. Andrew

19 March 2024 – 5:00 AM  – Utrenie, Ceasul I, III, VI, IX, Obednița  7:00pm Pavecernița Mare cu Canonul cel Mare / Great Compline & Great Canon of St. Andrew

20 March 2024 – 5:00 AM – Utrenie, Ceasul I, III, VI, IX, Obednița  7:00pm Liturghia Darurilor înainte-sfințite Pavecernița Mare cu Canonul cel Mare / Presanctified Liturgy; Great Compline & Great Canon of St. Andrew

21 March 2024 – 5:00 AM – Utrenie, Ceasul I, III, VI, IX, Obednița  7:00pm Liturghia Darurilor înainte-sfințite Pavecernița Mare cu Canonul cel Mare/Presanctified Liturgy; Great Compline with Great Canon of St. Andrew

22 March 2024 – 5:00 AM – Utrenie, Ceasul I, III, VI, IX, Obednița  7:00pm Liturghia Darurilor înainte-sfințite Pavecernița Mare/Presanctified Liturgy; Great Compline

23 March 2024 – 8:30AM Matins/Utrenia ; 10:30AM Divine Liturgy/ Sf. Liturghie ; 6:00 PM Vespers with Paraklesis to the Theotokos/Vecernie cu Paraclisul Maicii Domnului

24 March 2024 – 8:00AM Matins/Utrenia ; 10:00AM Divine Liturgy/ Sf. Liturghie ; 6:00 PM Vespers with Paraklesis to the Theotokos/Vecernie cu Paraclisul Maicii Domnului

25 March 2024 – 7:00 PM Divine Liturgy/ Sf. Liturghie  ;  Paraklesis to the Theotokos/ Vecernie cu Paraclisul Maicii Domnului

26 March 2024 –  7:00pm Liturghia Darurilor înainte-sfințite Pavecernița Mare/Presanctified Liturgy; Great Compline

27 March 2024 –  7:00pm Liturghia Darurilor înainte-sfințite Pavecernița Mare/Presanctified Liturgy; Great Compline

29 March 2024 –  7:00pm Liturghia Darurilor înainte-sfințite Pavecernița Mare/Presanctified Liturgy; Great Compline

30 March 2024 – 8:00AM Matins/Utrenia ; 10:00AM Divine Liturgy/ Sf. Liturghie ; 6:00 PM Vespers with Paraklesis to the Theotokos/Vecernie cu Paraclisul Maicii Domnului

31 March 2024 – 8:00AM Matins/Utrenia ; 10:00AM Divine Liturgy/ Sf. Liturghie ; 6:00 PM Vespers with Paraklesis to the Theotokos/Vecernie cu Paraclisul Maicii Domnului

Pomelnic 40 de Sf. Liturghii: holycrossorthodoxmonastery@gmail.com

Please Donate today for  building your monastery and its main Church.

https://monasterymono.org/en/donations/

February 24th, 2024

With the Blessing of HG Bishop IOAN CASIAN of Canada

The Hawaii’s Myrrh-Streaming Iveron Icon is coming back to our Monastery.

Most Holy Mother of God, save us!

Prayerfully yours in Christ’s service,

Fr. Hieromonk Polycarp

-egumen-

Mănăstirea Ortodoxă Înălțarea Sfintei Cruci și Sf. Efrem cel Nou

The Orthodox Monastery Exaltation of the Holy Cross and St. Ephraim the New

E.  holycrossorthodoxmonastery@gmail.com

New Website: www.monasterymono.org

INVITATION to Save the Dates in 2024:

• 18 mai 2024 – Hramul Mic/Annual Spring Pilgrimage Day (Sf. M. Mc. Efrem cel Nou/St. Ephraim the New)
• 27 iulie 2024- Pelerinaj în cinstea Maicii Domnului (Icoana “Gherontissa”) / Annual Summer Pilgrimage Day in honor of our Mother of God
• 21 septembrie 2024- Hramul Mare/Annual Fall Pilgrimage Day (Înălțarea Sfintei Cruci/Exaltation of the Holy Cross)

Programul Liturgic / Liturgical schedule

Aprindeți o lumânare / Light a candle

Pomelnic / Prayer request

Donations Altar de Vară/Pavilion

Donations Main Church/ Biserica Mare

2024 – Together for building the Main Church/ Împreună Ridicăm Biserica Mare a Mănăstirii – 2024

Join our Facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/OrthodoxMonasteryMono/

Episcopia Ortodoxă Româna a Canadei / The Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Canada    

The Orthodox Monastery “Holy Cross” is under the spiritual and ecclesiastical authority (omofor) of His Grace, Bishop Ioan Casian, of The Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Canada.

Mitropolia Ortodoxă Română a celor două Americi / The Romanian Orthodox Metropolia of the Americas

Night Vigil Service Febraury 7th 2024 in honor of all the Holy Saints Wonderworkers and Unmercenaries  commemorated in  February by the Orthodox Church

Night Vigil Service February 7th, 2024 in honor of all the Holy Saints Wonderworkers and Unmercenaries  commemorated in February by the Orthodox Church.

February 7th, 2024 starting at 10:00pm – Vigil Service  (Vespers, Matins, Akatist and  Divine Liturgy)

Wonderworkers and Unmercenaries Saints pray for us!

Send your Prayer request (both Living/Departed)for this service at holycrossorthodoxmonastery@gmail.com

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https://basilica.ro/en/romanian-patriarchate-2024-will-be-dedicated-to-the-pastoral-care-of-the-sick-and-to-all-holy-healers/

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Foto credit: Agenția de știri Basilica Basilica News Agency

2024 – Together for building the Main Church/ Împreună Ridicăm Biserica Mare a Mănăstirii – 2024

INVITATION to Save the Dates in 2024:

• 18 mai 2024 – Hramul Mic/Annual Spring Pilgrimage Day (Sf. M. Mc. Efrem cel Nou/St. Ephraim the New)
• 27 iulie 2024- Pelerinaj în cinstea Maicii Domnului (Icoana “Gherontissa”) / Annual Summer Pilgrimage Day in honor of our Mother of God
• 21 septembrie 2024- Hramul Mare/Annual Fall Pilgrimage Day (Înălțarea Sfintei Cruci/Exaltation of the Holy Cross)

Programul Liturgic / Liturgical schedule

Aprindeți o lumânare / Light a candle

Pomelnic / Prayer request

Donations Altar de Vară/Pavilion

Donations Main Church/ Biserica Mare

Prayerfully yours in Christ’s service,

Fr. Hieromonk Polycarp (Athenagoras)

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Mănăstirea Ortodoxă Înălțarea Sfintei Cruci și Sf. Efrem cel Nou

The Orthodox Monastery Exaltation of the Holy Cross and St. Ephraim the New

308328 Hockley Rd., Mono

Orangeville, Ontario L9W 6N4

t: 226.200.1074

e. [email protected]

New Website: www.monasterymono.org

Join our Facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/OrthodoxMonasteryMono/

Episcopia Ortodoxă Româna a Canadei / The Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Canada    

The Orthodox Monastery “Holy Cross” is under the spiritual and ecclesiastical authority (omofor) of His Grace, Bishop Ioan Casian, of The Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Canada.

Mitropolia Ortodoxă Română a celor două Americi / The Romanian Orthodox Metropolia of the Americas

Night Vigil Service January 31st, 2024 in honor of all the Holy Saints Wonderworkers and Unmercenaries  commemorated in January by the Orthodox Church.
January 31st, 2024 starting at 10:00pm – Vigil Service  (Vespers, Matins, Blessing of the Water and at 5am Divine Liturgy)

Wonderworkers and Unmercenaries Saints pray for us!

Send your Prayer request (both Living/Departed)for this service at holycrossorthodoxmonastery@gmail.com

️ https://basilica.ro/en/8-holy-healers-celebrated-in-january/

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Foto credit: Agenția de știri Basilica Basilica News Agency

2024 – Together for building the Main Church/ Împreună Ridicăm Biserica Mare a Mănăstirii – 2024

INVITATION to Save the Dates in 2024:

• 18 mai 2024 – Hramul Mic/Annual Spring Pilgrimage Day (Sf. M. Mc. Efrem cel Nou/St. Ephraim the New)
• 27 iulie 2024- Pelerinaj în cinstea Maicii Domnului (Icoana “Gherontissa”) / Annual Summer Pilgrimage Day in honor of our Mother of God
• 21 septembrie 2024- Hramul Mare/Annual Fall Pilgrimage Day (Înălțarea Sfintei Cruci/Exaltation of the Holy Cross)

Programul Liturgic / Liturgical schedule

Aprindeți o lumânare / Light a candle

Pomelnic / Prayer request

Donations Altar de Vară/Pavilion

Donations Main Church/ Biserica Mare

Prayerfully yours in Christ’s service,

Fr. Hieromonk Polycarp (Athenagoras)

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Mănăstirea Ortodoxă Înălțarea Sfintei Cruci și Sf. Efrem cel Nou

The Orthodox Monastery Exaltation of the Holy Cross and St. Ephraim the New

308328 Hockley Rd., Mono

Orangeville, Ontario L9W 6N4

t: 226.200.1074

e. [email protected]

New Website: www.monasterymono.org

Join our Facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/OrthodoxMonasteryMono/

Episcopia Ortodoxă Româna a Canadei / The Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Canada    

The Orthodox Monastery “Holy Cross” is under the spiritual and ecclesiastical authority (omofor) of His Grace, Bishop Ioan Casian, of The Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Canada.

Mitropolia Ortodoxă Română a celor două Americi / The Romanian Orthodox Metropolia of the Americas

Some reflections at the beginning of 2024

– unity, variety and fidelity in prayer to God –

In the typicon of the Tedeum service that we perform at the beginning of the year, the Church chose a text from the first Epistle of St. Paul to Timothy to be read by the Apostle:

“Therefore, I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Timothy 2, 1-4).

St. Paul the Apostle exhorts his disciple Timothy and through him us and the whole Church to renew prayer every time at the beginning of the year in its different ways and benefits. Why this we may ask? Because prayer is what best characterizes the Church. It manifests the Church’s identity as a temple of God, a place or community that is in dialogue with the Creator and lives in His presence and from His word. This dialogue manifests our faith in the fact that our prayers are heard by the One who created us and cares for us.

If prayer as a whole manifests our unity as beings created by God, the multitude of ways to pray, to ask God and to speak to Him that the Apostle mentions shows the variety and multiplicity of our needs. Requests, prayers, and thanksgivings are some of the ways we address God by talking to Him about our joys, needs, weaknesses, hopes or plans.

All this, however, has the main purpose of establishing a lasting peace and a good order in the relationships between us humans and in the society in which we live in accordance with God’s will. The Christian prayer as we see it in the Great Apostle of the Gentiles is universal asking for grace and wisdom from God for all – Christians and non-Christians – because the emperors or those in high authority at that time were pagans. This is how St. Paul the Apostle gives us an example of how we must educate our own mind and heart and lead and organize our lives.

We pray for those to whom we have entrusted even temporarily the responsibility of managing our earthly affairs thinking and hoping that they will be done according to God’s will. The peaceful and quiet life is the goal of these prayers so that we can continue to live as befits a life of faith, pious, and in good order because this is well received before God.

In this way, if our life and the society in which we live are well ordered, they show the foundation of our faith and our way of living, of the fact that we have begun to know the truth of God and we already live with the hope of salvation through Christ Jesus our Lord.

The Gospel from Matthew of the same service tells us, repeating the words of Christ the Savior:

” The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor;

He has sent Me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord” (Luke 4, 18-19)

As Christ tells us, nothing of faith can be done without the presence of the Holy Spirit. The spiritual and social program of our faith, like prayer, is universal and unitary, springing from the power of God’s grace through the Holy Spirit, but it has multiple values and addresses the various needs of man and society – the need to help the poor, to encourage, strengthen and heal those who are wounded in spirit, the physical liberation and with the understanding of those who are enslaved in this way, the accompanying and uplifting those burdened for various reasons, etc. All these thus become preliminary signs of God’s presence among us and of a time blessed by Him in the Holy Spirit.

If we look around us, at the times in which we live, we notice that there are many needs and troubles, difficulties, violence, lies, injustices. There are also many good initiatives, but we believe that many other things could be better arranged with more attention and effort, with more love and understanding.

For a relatively short time we have observed obvious armed conflicts, associative strategies that take this context into account, decisions that do nothing but aim to increase the means by which the respective countries or organizations will participate in the respective conflicts. But there are few who reorient these initiatives or funds for health, education, against poverty, for the development of scientific innovation, etc. in such a way that at least part of the difficulties we observe at different levels are mitigated or even resolved.

Our work is both inner and outer. It shows precisely the special, consistent, and coherent way in which God works. He created the world in the beginning harmoniously in the two dimensions – spiritual and material. We as humans try to lead a healthy inner spiritual life so that everything that happens inside and outside us reflects the reason that God planted in us at creation and that grows and manifests itself in the fullness of its calling.

Let us pray and discern at the same time in the decisions we make in such a way that the steps we will follow both internally spiritually and physically externally reflect the will of God. This is a responsibility we have if we want to be faithful to our vocation to reflect the image and likeness of God.

The prayers pronounced at the beginning of the year do nothing but remind us of this vocation of ours and introduce us to the presence of God through the word of prayer but also through deed and action. They show the nature of man in the fullness of its manifestation.

I invite you on the occasion of the recitation of the prayers at the beginning of the year to restore a solid foundation of faith in personal word and deed so that we can become lucid, clear, unquestionable, sure, resolute, loving, peaceful and blessed reflections to continue our journey to the Kingdom of God and for meeting Christ.

I wish you all holy joys, grace from God, increase in spiritual progress, love, peace and wisdom in the path you will complete.

A new year 2024 full of wisdom and blessing!

† Ioan Casian

Romanian Orthodox Bishop of Canada

Saint-Hubert/ Montreal, January 1, 2024

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