establishing the Church in our town
We began the month of October with the Feast of the Protecting Veil of the Mother of God on October 1st. The Tradition of the Church describes in the Lives of the Saints, how the All-Pure Virgin covered the worshippers in the Church that day with her omophorion, her protecting veil. There were, of course, […]
The Montrose Mission of the Orthodox Church in America will bless the waters of the Uncompahgre River Saturday, January 11 at 11:00 AM by the footbridge in Baldridge (Riverbottom) Park. Everyone in the community is invited to participate. We will enjoy lunch together afterwards at a local restaurant. This is part of the Church’s annual […]
Every November on Thanksgiving, we pray the Akathist of thanksgiving, “Glory to God for All Things,” a beautiful, short prayer service composed by a Russian priest shortly before his death in a Soviet prison camp in 1940. It is a song of praise amidst great suffering. For one translation of the Akathist, please click here. […]
Every year, 50 days after the Easter celebration of Pascha, Our Lord Jesus Christ’s resurrection from the dead, we celebrate the birth of the Church, Pentecost. Ten days before — or 40 days after Pascha — the Church celebrated the Ascension, when Christ returned in glory to sit at the right hand of His Father. […]
On Sunday, February 26, the Church gathered for Vespers, as it has nightly in homes, catacombs, parishes, monasteries, and cathedrals around the world for the last 2,000 years. As we closed Vespers, “Glory to Thee, O Christ our God and our hope, glory to Thee,” we lined up to ask — and offer — forgiveness […]
On January 1, 2023, the Montrose Mission will begin meeting each Sunday at 9:30 AM (hours begin at 9:10 AM) for Divine Liturgy. We were offered a space at an affordable daily rate in downtown Montrose, at 207 E Main Street. Please join us! We will continue serving Great Vespers Saturday nights at 7:00 PM […]
Our Zoom webinar on Thursday, November 10, “The Orthodox Church in Kenya: Its History & Mission,” was a great blessing. We heard from Fr. Cosmas Njoroge, Professor of Theology at Kenya Methodist University, about the history and work of the Orthodox Church in Kenya, as well as Fr. Cosmas’s own mission parish, St. Anne’s in […]
The first Divine Liturgy of the re-founded Montrose Mission was celebrated Sunday, October 2 at 9:30 AM. It was a blessed celebration after two years apart. Our next Divine Liturgy in Montrose is scheduled for Sunday, October 30th, 2022.