First Weekend of Lent - 03/08/25
Services and events at St. Tikhon Mission, March 8-9: On Saturday, Father Alexander gave a presentation on the topic of "Theosis in Icons," followed by Great Vespers. The next day was the "Sunday of Orthodoxy" with Divine Liturgy and a procession while everyone carried an icon. The first Sunday of Great Lent is called the Sunday of Orthodoxy because it commemorates the restoration of the Holy Icons and the triumph of the Orthodox Faith against the heresy of the Iconoclasts, i.e. those heretics who refused to honor the Holy Icons.