Holy Trinity Orthodox Church

10/10/2026

Service Schedule at Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in Moose Jaw:
✝️ Vespers: Saturdays at 7 PM
✝️ Matins/Divine Liturgy: Sundays at 9:20/10:00 AM

WHAT YOU THINK ORTHODOXY SAYS:
“The Church is a building or institution I attend once a week.”

WHAT THE CHURCH ACTUALLY TEACHES:
“The Church is the Body of Christ, a life we enter and share together.”

We often talk about church as somewhere we go. “I’m going to church Sunday.” That makes sense in ordinary conversation, but the Orthodox understanding of the Church is much bigger than a building or a weekly event.

St. Paul calls the Church the “body of Christ” (1 Corinthians 12:27).

That means Christianity is not meant to be lived alone. We are baptized into a people. We worship together, receive the Eucharist together, repent together, celebrate together, bury our dead together, care for one another, and learn how to love people we might never have chosen for ourselves.

That last part is important.

It is easy to imagine ourselves as wonderful Christians when Christianity consists mostly of our private relationship with God. Community gives us actual people to forgive, serve, encourage, tolerate, and love.

The Church certainly has buildings, clergy, councils, rules, and institutions. Those things serve something much deeper. The Church is a living communion of people gathered into Christ through the Holy Spirit.

You do not simply attend the Church like you attend a concert or lecture. Over time, the Church becomes part of the shape of your life.

Christianity was never meant to be “Jesus and me.” Christ gathers us into a family and teaches us to say not merely “my Father,” but “Our Father.”

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Service Schedule:
✝️ Vespers: Saturdays at 5 PM
✝️ Divine Liturgy: Sundays at 9:30 AM

10/07/2026

10/05/2026

WHAT YOU THINK ORTHODOXY SAYS:
“I have to confess my sins to a priest instead of going directly to God.”

WHAT THE CHURCH ACTUALLY TEACHES:
“We confess to God in the presence of a priest who helps guide us toward repentance.”

Why confess to a priest when I can just confess directly to God?

Orthodox Christians do confess directly to God. In the Mystery of Confession, the priest does not replace God, and he does not stand there as though the sin were committed against him. We come before Christ, openly name our sins, and receive the assurance of His forgiveness within the life of His Church.

Christ gave His Apostles a ministry of reconciliation and told them, “If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven” (John 20:23). The Church has continued that ministry from the earliest centuries of Christianity.

There is also something spiritually important about saying our sins aloud.

It is easy to confess vaguely in our heads. “God, forgive me for everything.” It is much harder to say, “I lied. I was cruel. I was prideful. I did this particular thing, and I need to repent.”

Confession brings what we would rather hide into the light.

The priest is there as a witness, a pastor, and sometimes a physician who helps us recognize patterns we cannot see ourselves. He has heard sins before. You are probably not going to shock him.

Confession is not humiliation. It is medicine. We confess because sin wounds us, and Christ desires to heal us.

✝️ Vespers: Saturdays at 5 PM
✝️ Divine Liturgy: Sundays at 9:30 AM

10/05/2026

Please be advised of our parish expectations regarding children at the Divine Liturgy:

If your kids are loud, please still come to Liturgy.
If you’re running late because getting everyone dressed and out the door was a battle, please still come to Liturgy.
If your toddler won’t sit still, please still come to Liturgy.
If your baby needs to eat, please still come to Liturgy.
If your child asks questions at the least convenient moment, please still come to Liturgy.
If someone cries, drops a toy, or has to make their third trip to the bathroom, please still come to Liturgy.
If your child doesn’t know all the prayers, responses, or exactly when to sit or stand, please still come to Liturgy.
If you feel like you spent the entire Liturgy managing your children and heard approximately 12% of the homily, please still come to Liturgy.
If Sunday morning feels messy instead of peaceful, please still come to Liturgy.
If you’re worried your children are distracting the people around you, please still come to Liturgy.
If your child has a disability or special needs, please still come to Liturgy.

Children do not learn how to be part of the Church by staying home until they can sit quietly. They learn by being here.

They learn the Sign of the Cross by watching us make it.
They learn the prayers by hearing us pray them.
They learn the Scriptures by hearing the Word of God proclaimed.
They learn reverence by watching us bow and make prostrations.
They learn that Christ is truly present in the Holy Eucharist by seeing the love and reverence with which we approach the Holy Chalice.
They learn that the Church is their home because we make room for them here.

The wiggles, whispers, crying babies, and little voices are not signs that children don’t belong at Liturgy. They are signs that the Church is alive.

So bring the babies. Bring the toddlers. Bring the big kids. Sit where the little ones can see. Step out when you need to, but always come back in.

At Baptism and Chrismation, these children became full members of the Body of Christ. They belong here. They need the grace of the Holy Mysteries, the example of their parents, and the love and patience of their parish family.

Children are not simply the future of the Orthodox Church. They are part of the Church right now!

09/14/2026

As You were voluntarily raised upon the cross for our sake, grant mercy to those who are called by Your Name, O Christ God; make all Orthodox Christians glad by Your power, granting them victories over their adversaries, by bestowing on them the Invincible trophy, Your weapon of Peace.
-Kontakion of the Feast of the Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross

09/08/2026

Your Nativity, O Virgin, has proclaimed joy to the whole universe! The Sun of Righteousness, Christ our God, has shone from you, O Theotokos! By annulling the curse, He bestowed a blessing. By destroying death, He has granted us eternal Life. (Troparion)

By your Nativity, O Most Pure Virgin, Joachim and Anna are freed from barrenness; Adam and Eve, from the corruption of death. And we, your people, freed from the guilt of sin, celebrate and sing to you: “The barren woman gives birth to the Theotokos, the nourisher of our life.” (Kontakion)

09/01/2026

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08/27/2026

“There was a time when I did not know how to act in a very important life choice. And I asked the elder:
“Elder, what am I doing?”
And he answered:
“Ask God to fulfill His will!”
Then I was afraid! And then I thought:
“And if God wants something that I do not want, then what should I do?”
One of us must interrupt His will!

I did not understand that God’s will is to find the greatest peace for a human being! God does not want to put you in a difficult situation. On the contrary! God takes you out of the prison you are in and leads you to a place of rest. Fulfilling God’s will gives peace, joy and rest to the human soul! Christ speaks of this in the Gospels: “Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28).”

Metropolitan Athanasius of Limassol