This coming weekend will be especially busy and especially joyful because Sunday is the Great Feast of Pentecost and that following Monday, June 24, is our parish feast day, The Nativity of the Forerunner. So, here’s what the schedule will look like:

• Saturday, June 22, is the final Saturday of Souls for 2024. We will offer Orthros at 6am and serve the Divine Liturgy at 8am; that evening we will serve Great Vespers for Pentecost, and then we will Beat the Bounds, processing around our property, blessing the land and all the creatures, and whupping up on our King Herod piñata.

• Sunday, June 23, is the Great Feast of Pentecost. We will keep the usual Sunday morning schedule—Orthros at 8am with Divine Liturgy at 10am, then we will have our Annual Pentecost Picnic (featuring, in honor of the Holy Forerunner, fried locusts and wild honey), and then, no later than 1pm, we will offer the beautiful service of Kneeling Vespers, which, this year, will be combined with hymns for the Nativity of the Forerunner

• Monday, June 24, is our parish feast day, and we will offer Orthros at 5am and Divine Liturgy at 7am.

We hope to see you at all the Divine Services, and we hope you will join us for all the fun activities!