Holy Assumption Orthodox Church 1898

10/17/2026

Come on in this weekend!

10/09/2026

10/06/2026

We had a blessed evening praying the Akathist to the Tikhvin Mother of God followed by a social at St. Michael the Archangel OCA in Broadview Heights. Keep us in your prayers during our 65th Diocesan Assembly.

Most Holy Theotokos, you taught us that purity, chastity and heartfelt prayer are more pleasing to you than praises from our unworthy lips.

10/04/2026

10/04/2026

Thought for the week:

In today’s Gospel of St. Luke, often called “the healing Gospel,” we read the words of Jesus that we have heard countless times – perhaps even memorized. “And just as you want men to do to you, do also to them.”

The words of Jesus are so simple, so elementary and plain – yet amazingly profound. Perhaps that is why we cannot hear them. They can be summed up in just a few valid phrases: Compassion knows no boundaries; Mercy has no conditions; Forgiveness knows no limitations; and the Love of God is unconditional. Orthodox Christians who pursue the spiritual life (and not all do!) usually discover what was written in the Philokalia: “There is only one sin,

Let us rise above ego and self-centeredness and love as God loves, have compassion as He has, show mercy as He does, bestow forgiveness with the sincerity of our heart as he lavishes forgiveness on us from the bountiful love of His own. that of despising anyone.”

Fr. peter

10/03/2026

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!

10/02/2026

4:00pm Saturday Vespers
9:10am Sunday Hours
9:30am Divine Liturgy

09/26/2026

No vespers this Saturday

09/21/2026

Thought for the week:

“Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a little, I will set you over much.” (Matt. 25:21)

Our Lord, in the parable of the talents (Matthew 25:14-30), teaches us that God gives men gifts that differ in number and kind. What Is extremely important is not the number, but the use we make of those gifts.

How important for us as Orthodox Christians, and for the strength of our families and churches, to use God’s gifts to us in a responsible manner which manifests our own personal sense of accountability to Him and, above all, our gratitude toward Him. The first two servants showed gratitude. They accepted their gifts in a positive manner and worked diligently to increase the portion of grace given them. They didn’t compare, the one having two talents looking to the one who had five, and asking why or complaining that he too should have as many.

The parable ends on a sobering note. It lays down a rule of life, which is universally true. It tells us that to him who has indeed been faithful more shall be given, and that he who has not been faithful, the little he does have will be taken away. "'For to everyone who has more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.'"

Fr. Peter

09/12/2026

Vespers 4:00pm today
Sunday 9:10am Hours
9:30am Divine Liturgy
Monday 9:10am Hours
9:30am Divine Liturgy for the Feast of The Universal Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross