St. Aidan Orthodox Church Covid protocols as of Aug. 28.2021 The BC Provincial Health Order (PHO) presently in place has mandated indoor mask use, restricted indoor gatherings to 50 people, and indicated they are bringing in a Covid vaccination passport requirement to enter certain facilities and businesses throughout the province. They have however exempted religious
Read more...Riches and other Idols
12th Sunday after Pent. Sept. 12, 2021 Matt.19: 16-26 Last week we heard a gospel lesson about the great danger of not practicing forgiveness, today we deal with another great danger, that of avarice/greed/love of money. In today’s gospel reading we are presented with a model citizen. Young, rich, and when it comes to living
Read more...Denying Ourselves
11th Sun. after Pent. Sept 5, 2021; Matt.18: 23-35 In today’s gospel reading we hear about the wicked servant who was forgiven the huge amount of 10,000 talents by his king, about $30 billion in today’s dollars. The first thought that comes to mind is how can you possibly run up that kind of debt!
Read more...Short Life of St. Aidan of Lindisfarne
Short Life of “St. Aidan of Lindisfarne” Compiled by Fr. Andrew Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne, the Apostle of Northumbria (died 651), was the founder and first bishop of the Lindisfarne island monastery in England. He is credited with restoring Christianity to Northumbria and has even been promoted as the “patron saint of England.” Aidan is the Anglicised form of the original Old Irish Aodhán,
Read more...On Our Wonderful Patron – St. Aidan’s Feast Day
St. Aidan’s feast day Aug. 31, 2021 “Milk of God’s Gentle Love” John 10: 9-16 St. Aidan is a wonderful saint to have as our Patron. Born in Ireland and living in Scotland, in the Monastic community of Iona, founded by St. Columba, St. Aiden listened to a monk called Corman, as he returned
Read more...Beheading of the Forerunner and Baptist John
9th Sun after Pent. Aug. 29, 2021 Mark 6:14-30 Today we have another wonderful feast day falling on a Sunday. The “Beheading of the Holy Glorious Prophet Forerunner and Baptist John” is always commemorated on Aug. 29 and so once again like a couple weeks ago with the Dormition, we find this feast day commemoration
Read more...Good Building Principles
9th Sun. after Pent. Aug.22, 2021; 1Cor.3:9-17 “Building Principles” In today’s epistle we hear Paul describing our short journey here on planet earth as a building project. This is something I can relate to as for much of my life I have been involved in some aspect of building. I thought that period of my
Read more...5 Clergy serving at St. Aidan for Dormition
It was a great blessing to have a full Altar with 3 deacons and two priests decked out in blue together in brotherly love serving the great feast of the Dormition(falling asleep) of the most holy Theotokos here at St. Aidan parish today! Much thanks to Fr. Larry Reinheimer from Creston and Protodeacon Jesse Isaac
Read more...Dormition Sunday – 8th Sun. after Pent.
Aug. 15, 2021, Luke 10:28-42;11:27,28 ; Matt. 14:14-22 Feeding the Thousands / Dormition With the Feast! Today is the glorious, blessed feast of the Dormition – the “falling asleep” of the Mother of God. It is also the 8th Sunday after Pentecost when we consider the feeding of the 5000 with only 2 fish and 5
Read more...Scruples
7th Sun. after Pent. Aug. 8, 2021; Matt. 9:27-35, Ep: Rom. 15:1-7, In today’s Epistle St. Paul tells us we who are strong are to bear with the scruples of the weak and not please ourselves. This is a very instructive bit of advice in today’s North American culture. What are these “scruples” we are
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