SECOND SUNDAY IN ADVENT
Liturgical Color: Violet

Lauds
Sunday, December 7, 2025
9:00 AM to 9:45 AM
 

Sunday Mass (St. Tikhon)
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

JOIN US IN CELEBRATING OUR PATRON SAINT
AFTER SUNDAY MASS

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SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK
December 8, 10, and 12 & 13

The 7th to the 13th of December A.D. 2025
Scripture Readings for the Week:

7th | SECOND SUNDAY IN ADVENT
St. Ambrose of Milan, Bishop, Confessor & Doctor

• Matins: Isaiah 35; 
  Luke 4:14 - 32;
  Vespers:  Judges 16:21 to end; 
  Luke 6:27 - 42

8th | MONDAY

• Matins:   
  Genesis 6;
  Mark 4:35 - 5:20;
  Vespers:  
   1 Kings 13:33 - 14:20; 
  Revelation 6:13 to end

PLACE HOLDE

9th | TUESDAY  

• Matins:   
  Genesis 7:1 - 12; 
  Mark 5:21 to end 
  Vespers:  
  1 King 15:21 to end; 
  Revelation 10

10th |  WEDNESDAY

• Matins:   
  Genesis 7:13 to end; 
  Mark 6:1 - 29;
  Vespers: 
  1 Kings 16:1 - 14; 
  Revelation 11:1 - 14

11th | THURSDAY

• Matins:   
  Genesis 8:1 - 19; 
  Mark 6:30 to end;
  Vespers:  
  1 King 16:11 - 33; 
  Revelation 11:15 - 12:6

12th | FRIDAY 

• Matins:  
  Genesis 8:20 - 9:19; 
  Mark 7:1 - 23
  Vespers: 
  1 King 17; 
  Revelation 12

13th | SATURDAY - St. Nicholas

• Matins:  
  Genesis 11:1 - 9; 
  Mark 7:24 to end;
  Vespers: 
  1 Kings 18:1 - 20; 
  Revelation 13

ST. ANDREW CHRISTMAS NOVENA

Continue your Advent journey with the St. Andrew Christmas Novena.
 

• A limited supply of cards with the prayer are available in the Narthex — a simple way to prepare your heart daily for the coming of Christ.
   
• We invite you to pray the St. Andrew Prayer 15 times each day from December 1st through Christmas Eve, joining our parish family in this beautiful tradition.
   
• ✨ Pick up your card at church and let this devotion guide your Advent with hope, peace, and joy.

• During Advent, we prepare our hearts and bodies for the Feast of the Nativity — Christmas. Through prayer, repentance, fasting, and almsgiving, we seek to cleanse our minds, grow in faith, and turn away from worldly distractions. This holy season invites us to ready our souls with joy and hope for the coming of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

• Ember Days -- a time set aside for prayer, fasting, and thanksgiving. With the changing of the season, you're invited to pause, reflect, and renew your faith in Christ. In the stillness of winter, let the Ember days remind us that even in the cold and quiet, the light of God's love continues to burn brightly.

• 🎙️ Tune in daily to The Fathers Speak, a podcast from the Orthodox West. Join Father John Fenton, as he reads selections from the Church Fathers, aligned with the Western Orthodox liturgical calendar.

Oblates* Prayer and Discipleship Sessions
(All are Welcome)

The Benedict Option Meetings:

• When: Wednesday, December 10th
  • Time: 6 PM
  • Where: St. Nicholas Orthodox Church
    1325 E. Queen Ave., Spokane, WA 99207
  • Remote Access also available. Click Here

The Rule of Benedict Meetings:

• When: Saturday, December 27
  (Click Here to view the online calendar)
  • Time: 11:45 AM
  • Where: St. Nicholas Orthodox Church
    1325 E. Queen Ave., Spokane, WA 99207

*To be an oblate is a “vocation,” a response to a call from God. It is a means of living a life of
reciprocal prayer and blessings, between a person in the world and the monastic who “left the world.”

Please Remember to Pray for...

• Your Parish, Diocese, Archdiocese, Dn. Elijah and wife Evelyn, Jerri Cox, Tina Greer, Fr. David, Kh. Mona, Kh. Karen Kinnick, Barbara Myers, Gary Gillmore, Art Sill, Charlie and Alida Roth
  
  "O Lord Almighty, the Healer of our souls and bodies, You Who put down and raise up, Who chastise and heal also; do You now, in Your great mercy, visit our brothers and sisters who are sick."

For Our New Priest

• Jesus, eternal Priest, keep this thy Priest, Father Gabriel Souza, within the shelter of Thy Sacred Heart, where none may touch him. Keep unstained his anointed hands, which daily touch Thy Sacred Body; keep unsullied his lips, purpled with Thy precious Blood; keep pure and unearthly his heart, sealed with sublime marks of Thy glorious priesthood. Let Thy holy love surround him, and keep him ever spotless from the world. Bless his labours with abundant fruit, and may they to whom he has ministered be here below with joy and consolation, and in heaven his beautiful and everlasting crown. Amen.

For the Increase of Priests

• O Almighty God, look mercifully upon Thy Church, and incline the hearts of many of her sons to offer themselves for the work of the sacred ministry; so that by their labors, Thy Light may shine in the darkness of the world, and the coming of Thy kingdom may be hastened by the perfecting of Thine elect.  Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

• Reminder
  
  There is a list left in the Narthex for parishioners to remember those who need our on-going intercessions to God. The list is picked up after the Office by one of the Acolytes so they can be remembered. Customarily their names are mentioned in the Mass. However, remembrances and intercessions now are moved to the announcements in our Communion Service.