ROCA Samara Community

In ROCA, The Samara Community, they have as their own special feast, the Sunday of the Samaritan Woman

PHOTOS
 http://internetsobor.org/rptcz/tcerkovnye-novosti/rptcz/u-samarian-v-nedeliu-o-samarianyne

Christ is Risen, brothers and sisters!

  05.10.2015, in the 5th week of Pascha, of the Samaritan Woman, in the Samara community RPTSZ- there was a large festal celebration, with Divine Liturgy.

  On Friday, we were visited by our  Rector and confessor, Fr. Valery Leonichev. This meeting, we had looked forward to  from the first week of Lent.

  Without a father-resident priest, in our house-church, we normally perform lay-reader services,  so the Divine Liturgy for us is especially dear.

  Again, God has given us the opportunity to confess and take Holy Communion, thank you Lord! It was a pity that not all were able to attend.

  We have had only three days with  Father, and he has worked hard.  From morning until late at night he has had no peace: a requiem prayer, and all the accumulated problems, for which their solutions had all been delayed, all needed his  attention. On Saturday, Father read a very instructive lecture on "The causes of divisions in the ROCOR."  

On Sunday, after the Liturgy, there was a meeting of the fathers of the families,  about  the [planned] construction of the temple in our community, and about our official legal registration..... ["The total meal and a plane"? ... 19 00 [Общая трапеза и в 19 00 самолет...]? cannot translate this Russian original or this rough machine-English-sentence-Rd. Daniel

  We had three long and  bright days, which  seemed like a lifetime.

Truly He is Risen!

John (Samara)

http://rpczmoskva.org.ru/pravoslavnyj-kalendar/u-samaryan-v-nedelyu-o-samaryanyne.html