Beloved brethren,
Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!
We hope and pray that everyone is doing well at this time. You are all in our prayers and thoughts.
We were hoping that we would be able to soon lift the restrictions on attendance at liturgy. However, yesterday (Friday, May 1), Metropolitan JOSEPH's office issued a statement stating that new guidelines will be coming out next week, and that for this weekend, we must continue as we have been for the past few weeks. So, given that, we will only be able to have our 'skeleton crew' of chanters/servers for liturgy on Sunday, May 3.
Fr. Gregory will serve Vespers this evening at 5:00 PM at St. Catherine Church. We will attempt to live stream the service on Facebook at the St. Catherine Orthodox Church facebook page. We'll do the best we can.
We will serve the Divine Liturgy at St. Barnabas Church (Orthros/Matins begins at 9:00 AM, and Divine Liturgy at 10:00 AM). We will livestream that service on the St. Barnabas Orthodox Church Facebook page. Due to the limitations, we will NOT have a service at St. Catherine on Sunday, May 3. Please participate prayerfully in the livestream, if possible.
Next week, we will receive guidelines from the Archdiocese, God willing, and as things open back up, we'll see what we can do moving forward. We will not plan to have Vespers, however, on Wednesday, May 6. Without guidelines, we're not clear as to what would be appropriate yet.
Remember, if you need anything, please feel free to call me. God willing, things will move to a more 'normal' state soon.
You are all in our prayers!
In Christ,
Fr. Gregory