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April 5, 2020 Liturgy Week Fifth Great Lent – live broadcast from 10.00

Dear parishioners On Sunday April 5, 2020 at 10 am we invite you to take part in the online broadcast of the liturgy from our Sobor.

The broadcast is held for the first time – we apologize for possible shortcomings.

March 27, 2020 The Apparition of the Virgin over Mt Athos

By the collective prayer of the monks for deliverance from the coronavirus over MT Athos the Apparition of the Virgin took place on March 27, 2020. The image was clearly visible from the two monasteries of Simon Peter and Grigoriou. The monks also received instructions from the Virgin to anoint the doorposts of the

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Services cancellation

Dear parishioners, Christ is in our midst! I received a letter from His Eminence Archbishop Irenee, stating that the Holy Synod of OCA asks all clergy not to celebrate services in our churches until April 1, 2020. All Holy Resurrection Church services are cancelled until further notice after April 1st. Please find below some very

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Apr 27 2019 Holy Saturday. Liturgy in Chilliwack

20190427 Holy Saturday. Liturgy in Chilliwack / Google Photos

Annual Parish Meeting, April 7, 2019

Christ is in our midst!

Dear members of the Holy Resurrection Sobor!

I wish to remind you that we are going to have our Annual Parish Meeting on Sunday, April 7, 2019 at 12:30 pm  after the Divine Liturgy and Pot Luck Lunch.

Please try to make an effort to attend this Meeting. If

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Jan 13 2019 Saint Stephan sermon

services in January 2019

January 2019

5, Sat — 6 pm Vespers Akathist to the Nativity of Christ

6, Sun — 10:00 Liturgy and Prayer for New Year

6, Sun — 18:00 Vigil on the eve of the Nativity

7, Mon — 10:00 The Nativity of Christ. Liturgy

14, Mon — 10:00 Circumcision of our Lord and St.

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The Great Patriotic War presentation

Dear parishioners, There will be a series of lectures/presentations in English ( there may be deviations in Russian) occurring at our church on the theme of the Great Patriotic War. On Sunday, September 9th at 12:30 there will be a first presentation on the theme “Brest Fortress. The beginning of war”. Everybody is welcome and

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Annual Great Healing Service at the Monastery of All Saints on 3 June at 4 pm

Dear Parishioners,

The annual Great Healing Service will be held at the Monastery of All Saints on the Sunday of All Saints, 3 June at 4 pm.

A potluck supper will be served at the end of the service.

The bulk order for needed disposable dishes and cutlery is going to be placed. By submitting

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Apr 7 2018 The Annunciation. The first blessing of Easter cakes on Great Friday

20180417 First blessing of Pasha on Great Friday / Google Photos

To woman

To woman

Владимир Московченко

Gift made of His miracles. For me in this world. For I can throw upon you flours and lyrics of love songs.

In every song there is you when you are mother. In every song there is you my wife. I love you always. I can’t escape from this circle.

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Annual Parish Meeting, March 11, 2018

Christ is in our midst! Dear members of the Holy Resurrection Sobor! We are going to have our Annual Parish Meeting on Sunday, March 11, 2018 at 12:30pm after the Divine Liturgy and Pot Luck Lunch. Please try to make an effort to attend this Meeting. If you paid your membership dues but unable to

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Registration in the Orthodox Cemetery Project

Dear parishioners! The project of the Orthodox Cemetery reached the stage of registration of documents. Members of our parish until December 18, 2017 have the right to a discount in the acquisition of plots. Address of the cemetery: Heritage Gardens Surrey Cemetery (HGSC), 19082 16th Avenue, Surrey BC. (192 St. and 16 Ave) The preferential

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On Saturday, November 26 at 6 pm we’ll have 1st HOLY UNCTION

Dear parishioners,

Let me remind you, on this coming Saturday, November 26 at 6 pm in our Church we’ll have 1st HOLY UNCTION.

Second one will be on December 17 at 6 pm as well.

God bless you Fr. Michael

REMEMBRANCE DAY: SHOULD IT MEAN MORE? – by archbishop Lazar

FRIDAY IS REMEMBRANCE DAY IN CANADA. IS THERE MORE OF A MESSAGE TO THIS DAY THAN JUST UN SOUVENIR DES CHOSES PASSÉES? OR SHOULD IT NOT RATHER MEAN A GREAT DEAL MORE THAN THAT TO US?

I rather think we should stand when any soldier or sailor who has served in a battlefront area enters

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Orthodox Christian Fellowship (OCF)

Dear Reverend Fathers, Brothers, and Sisters in Christ, Christ is in Our Midst!

I am writing to invite you to register your college-aged students for the Orthodox Christian Fellowship (OCF), which is the official Pan-Orthodox collegiate campus ministry program blessed by the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops. OCF is charged with connecting Orthodox college students—and

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Current announcements

Dear parishioners of our Church!

Let me remind you of the following items that were announced in the Church:

1. On this coming Saturday, July 18th, we are going to CLEAN UP the Church territory. We start at 10 am. We are planning to wash church steps, walls etc… Please try to come and help

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On May 25 in our Lower Church Hall after the Liturgy there will be a Seminar on the Life Insurance

Dear parishioners on May 25 in our Lower Church Hall after the Liturgy there will be a Seminar on the Topic of Life Insurance. So, we will have: -Liturgy -Pot-luck (if you wish to come, please bring one dish for the table) -Seminar

On October 13th, Sunday at 6pm we are going to have Vigil service with His Grace Bishop Ireneè

Dear parishioners,

Christ is in our midst!

On October 13th, Sunday at 6pm we are going to have Vigil service with His Grace Bishop Ireneè, Administrator of OCA Diocese in Canada and Protodeacon Nazari at our Holy Resurrection church. After the evening service we are planning to have a Pot-Luck dinner in our lower hall.

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March 31, 2013 – Panichida on the Fr. Andrey Somow was served

On March 29 there was the anniversary of the death of Fr. Andrew Somow. A funeral service was held on Sunday, March 31 after the liturgy. Mother Henriette arrived at the service and father Andrey’s children: Sasha, Andrey and Constantine. Sasha and her husband arrived from Paris. After the service, many parishioners remained at the

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July 9, 2012 – Holy Synod appoints Archbishop Nathaniel Locum Tenens of OCA

On Monday, July 9, 2012, His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah and the members of the Holy Synod of Bishops met via conference call to further discuss His Beatitude’s resignation, as reported earlier on the web site of the Orthodox Church in America.

The hierarchs issued the following statement at the conclusion of their meeting.

“To

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July 6, 2012, His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah tendered his resignation as Primate of the Orthodox Church in America

In a letter addressed to the members of the Holy Synod of Bishops dated Friday, July 6, 2012, His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah tendered his resignation as Primate of the Orthodox Church in America.

His Beatitude composed and signed the letter at his residence in Washington, DC, in the presence of Archpriest John Jillions, OCA Chancellor.

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Pilgrimage to Ukraine’s Holy Sites Sep 6-18, 2011

Apr 12 – Yuri Gagarin, first human in space, was a devout Christian, says his close friend

The first man in outer space 50 years ago believed fervently in the Almighty – even though the atheistic Soviet government put famous words in his mouth that he had looked around at the cosmos and did not see God.

Mankind’s first space flight lasted 108 minutes on April 12, 1961.

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March 13, 2011 – Prayer of the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan