Streaming Services: 

Dealing with COVID-19

Update: March 17, 2020
Dealing with COVID-19

COVID-19 (aka CoronaVirus) Update: We received a new directive from His Eminence Metropolitan JOSEPH concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. You can read his directive by clicking here.

Here's an overview of what's being done throughout the Archdiocese:
1. Beginning today, all parishes are instructed to cancel all non-liturgical, in-person activities including schools, business meetings, and social functions.
2. All liturgical services will be served with only clergy, servers, and chanters. No liturgical service can total more than ten persons.
3. Priests are instructed to limit services to only the Akathist/Medayeh and Sunday Orthros & Divine Liturgy as well as the liturgy for the Annunciation on March 25th as outlined by the Department of Liturgics.
4. All parishes are encouraged to take advantage of the technology at our disposal, to livestream the divine services, and offer education to the faithful.  We will have information on how to livestream services by Friday, March 20.

We will be streaming all the services starting Friday, March 20 with the Akathist. We are working to make it a better experience than this past Sunday. You can download readers services for this weekend by clicking here.

Wednesday evening's Presanctified Liturgy and Saturday Vespers are cancelled.

At this point, do not come to church for services unless you have specifically been invited by Fr. David. We will be limiting all services to clergy, servers and one or two chanters. This is by decree from the Archdiocese.

In an email sent out in the next couple of days, we will try to suggest how to best participate in streaming services. We know it is more difficult, but it is the best we can do under these circumstances.

We know you will have questions—we do too. Please feel free to ask. You can email Fr. David or Fr. Raphael . Both are happy to answer any questions you might have. Watch for more information in the next few days. We are doing what we can do minister to you and our parish and our city during this crisis.

Prayer in the Time of Pandemic:  Click here

Aid to our Community:

Dagar's Grocery:

Dagar's Catering of Austin has grocery packs available to purchase during the coronavirus shelter at home restrictions.  Check out their website here.

 

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Great Lent, 2020

 

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