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Sundays:  Pastor's Class 9:00 AM (Ephesians)
               Divine Liturgy 10:30 AM

Wednesdays: Pastor's Class 10:00 AM (Psalm 119 deep dive)
                    Divine Liturgy 7:00 PM

Holy Week:

    • Maundy Thursday Divine Liturgy 7:00 PM

 

    • Good Friday Tenebrae 8:00 PM

 

    • Holy Saturday Easter Vigil 8:00 PM

 

    • Easter Sunrise 8:00 AM

 

  • Easter Divine Liturgy 10:30 AM

 

 

                

 

Liturgical Psalmody

The Psalms have been an essential part of Christian worship from its inception. Today we find only traces of such usage in the Introit and Gradual. But in earlier times multiple Psalms were sung aloud to prepare God's people to rightly hear the reading of the Holy Scriptures. But why? What is the logic? 

According to St. Augustine, "in them the Lord Jesus Christ himself speaks." They are "his words, his prayer." "In this book," writes Augustine, "pray and weep only Jesus Christ and his church." While all Scripture points to Christ, in the Psalms he is revealed from within! They are, as it were, "the mind of Christ." (1 Corinthians 2:16)

When we hear from St. Luke that our Lord stayed awake all night offering prayers to his Father we may wonder what the content of those prayers was. (Luke 6:12 & Hebrews 5:7) Likely the Psalms themselves. As you hear these words, then, hear the "Man Christ Jesus" (1 Timothy 2:5) praying them and you will experience them anew! 

By them the Lord opened the minds of his disciples on the Road to Emmaus to "understand the Scriptures." (Luke 24:44-45) He does the same today by the same Psalms. He enables us to hear, believe and understand the sacred texts, for they (the Psalms) are the spiritual realilty that "enlighten the eyes of our heart." (Ephesians 1:18)