Saint Antonios Orthodox Church
2480 Windsor Street B3K5B9 Halifax, NS, Canada

We are at maximum capacity for tonight’s service. If you did not make it tonight, please join us on Sunday at 9am.

Dear Parishioners, Please review the following document. God bless you, and stay safe!

[Parish's selected weekday passage] We all have to die, beloved brethren, and it will be hard for us if while we are in this world if we do not love each other, if we are not reconciled to our enemies whom we have offended, and if one has grieved another ... if we do not forgive. Then we will not have eternal blessedness in that world, and the heavenly Father will not forgive our sins. (St. Peter of Cetinje)

[Parish's selected weekday passage] True freedom is the active ability of a man who is not enslaved to sin, who is not pricked by a condemning conscience, to choose the better in the light of God's truth, and to bring it into actuality with the help of the gracious power of God. (St. Philaret of Moscow)

[Parish's selected weekday passage] We must receive the one who ... rebukes our hidden evil thoughts, so that we, seeing our thoughts with exactness, might correct ourselves. (St. Mark the Ascetic)

[Parish's selected weekday passage] When people begin to praise us, let us hurry to remember the multitude of ours transgressions, and we will see that we are truly unworthy of that which they say and do in our honor. (St. John of the Ladder)

A friendly reminder to please refrain from attending church services if you are not feeling well. If you are experiencing any Covid related symptoms please call 811. If you have been travelling, or anyone in your household has travelled outside the Atlantic bubble within the past 14 days, please stay home and follow the quarantine guidelines set by our Province. We ask that you continue to wear your mask during church services. ... Church services are still being streamed on our Facebook page. Thank you, and God bless you all.

Check out this online event - a tribute to Beirut. https://www.facebook.com/events/351204619450822/

[Parish's selected weekday passage] To judge sins is the business of one who is sinless, but who is sinless except God? Whomever thinks about the multitude of his own sins in his heart never wants to make the sins of others a topic of conversation. (St. Gennadius of Constantinople)

[Parish's selected weekday passage] We suffer because we have no humility and we do not love our brother. From love of our brother comes the love of God. (St. Silouan the Athonite)

God bless the new SOYO and YAM Board Members! YAM President - Joelle Zhouri VP - Yara Yazbeck and Nicole Youssef... Treasurer- Jamie Zhouri Secretary- Chanel Zhouri SOYO President - Jaden Lawen and Nicholas Habib VP - Joelle Safatli Treasurer - Angela Habib Secretary - Kristen Yazbeck

[Parish's selected weekday passage] Thus also the discerning mind carefully marks the virtues which he sees in any person. A mindless man seeks out the vices and failings ... (St. John of the Ladder)

[Parish's selected weekday passage] Those who sin, but who cleanse themselves with true repentance, keep the Church holy. But unrepentant sinners are dismissed, whether visibly by Church authority, or invisibly by the judgement of God ... (St. Philaret of Moscow)

[Parish's selected weekday passage] They do not understand that the enemy is found within ourselves, and that first of all one must cast him out of oneself, and then also help others to do the same. (Martyr Roman Medved)