Raising the Cupola.
A three-legged race at Dormition Skete
Metropolitan Vitaly delivers a lecture to the parishioners of St. Vladimir's in 1998
Sanya hits the Pinata!
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St. Vladimir's Russian Orthodox Church
Weekly English language Orthodox Christian services are conducted at 6:00 Saturday night
and 9:30 Sunday Mornings, and all sincere people are invited to attend. There is a common meal after the Sunday service, courtesy of
the sisterhood, to which we welcome all of our guests.
Saint Vladimir's Russian Orthodox Church was founded by Archbishop Ioasaph of the Russian Orthodox
Church Abroad, now known as the Russian Orthodox Church in Exile.
Our Orthodox Christian community is located in the beautiful city of Edmonton, in the province of
Alberta, which puts us in the middle of north-western Canada. Our parish has grown considerably
in recent years, and around seventy people attend weekly services on Saturday evening and Sunday
morning, as well as on feast days of the church. (click community
for more about this website and our parish)
Orthodox Christianity in Canada has a long history. St. Brendan, an Irish Orthodox monk, arrived
in Canada long before Jacques Cartier and the French. The Viking colonists of Newfoundland and the
Northwest territories were Orthodox Christian as well. St. Vladimir's parish, however, has a less
mysterious heritage, founded 73 years ago by Russian Orthodox monks. St. Vladimir's has close ties
to other Orthodox Christian parishes in Western Canada, and our clergy help serve mission parishes in
Prince George, Vancouver, and even as far South as Sacramento, California.
St. Vladimir's is not an exclusively Russian parish, an ethnic enclave, by any stretch of the imagination.
While we do have Russian parishioners, our parish also includes many converts from low-German Mennonite
backgrounds and a diverse array of Serbians, Romanians, and other Slavic peoples. What brings us together into
a remarkable close-knit community is our new nationality, our Orthodox Christianity. For all of us,
the Orthodox Church has become a refuge, a consolation and a hope in an era when modernism and atheism
have swept the globe. In a spiritual dark age, Orthodox Christianity is a light dispelling the shadows
of materialism and spiritual death.
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In our modern secular society it is often difficult for us to practice even the most elementary Christianity. How, then, can we not marvel at one who not only overcame the seductions of the world, but completely dedicated himself to Christ and persevered through even the most difficult circumstances? Truly, such persons shall rest in the company of the saints, and it is from the quiet virtues of such as Bishop Savva of Edmonton that we can learn to please the Prince of Peace, Christ our Lord. |
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Blessed Bishop Theophan explains from the Holy Gospels and lives of saints what love for the Lord is, and how to acquire it. An inspiring sermon from this revered teacher of Orthodoxy. |
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St. John explains the great sacrifices of the Tsar and the Royal family for Russia, and the great sin incurred by the Russian people in the murder of their God-annointed sovereign. |
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A sermon on the meaning of the truth of the Resurrection of Christ for the whole world, and for our lives as Christians. |
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Metropolitan Gregory explains how Christians should act towards others in the world, and how to live peacefully with others. |
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The great archpastor of the Russian Church, Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow, describes how Christians should conduct their lives in this short catechitical essay. |
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The "Serbian Chrysostom" explains the Orthodox position on causes in this memorable lecture. A good outline of Bishop Nikolai's thoroughly Orthodox worldview. |
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Bishop Theophan explains how "St. John the Evangelist does not allow one to say: Believe any way you wish, only love" in a clarifying analysis of St. John's theology of love and belief. This essay is especially relevant to the current debate on ecumenism. |
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A homily on the life-giving and unifying force of love, and a call to those lost in materialism to return to the love of Christ in the Church. |
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A homily from St. Petersburg, 1874, filled with stirring insight into the spiritual meaning of our Lord's ascension. |
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