Services

Small Compline/Confession: The shortest of the services that St. Olga offers, Small Compline is an excellent opportunity to gather together and mark the middle of the week with prayer. Small Compline is a short (25 minute) service that offers a quiet, peaceful, and prayerful atmosphere which is ideal for self-reflection and repentance. After Compline is served, those who need can come for the sacrament of Holy Confession.

Great Vespers: Every Saturday evening, the Orthodox Church gathers together to sing the service of Great Vespers. This is both a wrap up of the week and the beginning of a new one. Vespers is a wonderful teaching service, where we hear hymns and teachings from the relevant feasts and saints of the day, but it is also a time where we prepare ourselves for the Divine Liturgy which happens on Sunday morning.

Divine Liturgy: The Liturgy is the crown jewel of the Orthodox Church. The center of our ecclesiastical life, the Liturgy is a place where we encounter Christ in word (“Jesus therefore answered and said to them… ‘It is written in the prophets that they shall all be taught by God. Therefore, everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.’”- John 6.44-5) and in sacrament (“Then Jesus said to the, ‘Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you.’”- John 6.53). The center of the Divine Liturgy is the Eucharist, where the Church expresses her fullness in the communion of her members one to another, and to Christ.