The Sign of the Cross (audio)

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This Week's Liturgical Scripture Readings
Beginning April 13, 2025

	Readings
Palm Sunday --- 10:35 Third Hour 11am Divine Liturgy	Phil 4:4-9	Jn 12:1-18
Holy Week
Holy Monday	Mt 24:3-35	Lk 1:24-38
Holy Tuesday 6PM Confessions 7PM Presanctified with Annointing	Ex 2:5-10 Job 13-22	Mt 24:36-26:2
Holy Wednesday ------------ Rosary 6pm	Ex 2:11-22 Job 1:13-22	Mt 26:6-18
Holy Thursday 7PM Vespers & Divine Liturgy	Is 50:4-11; 1 Cor 11:23-32 Mt 26:2-20; Jn 13:3-17	Mt 26:31-39; Lk 22:43-45 Mt 26:40-27:2
Good Friday 8PM Burial Vespers	Is 52:13-54:1 1 Cor 1:18-2:2 Mt 27:1-38; Lk 23:39-44	Mt 27:39-54; Jn 19:31-37 Mt 27:55-61
Holy Saturday Vigil at the Tomb	Rom 6:3-11	Mt 28:1-20

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About Us

Ascension of Our Lord is a Byzantine (Ruthenian) Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic church, located in Williamsburg, Virginia. The church's ancestral origins are from Eastern (Slavic) Europe. The Byzantine Catholic Church follows the Holy Traditions of the Byzantine East, with roots in Constantinople, while maintaining union with the Catholic church of Rome. All services are conducted in English. Roman Catholics in good standing with the Church are free to receive the Holy Sacraments.

A Brief History

As the first Byzantine-Ruthenian Catholic Church in Southeastern Virginia, the parish family first came together with a Divine Liturgy celebrated at St. Mary Star of the Sea Roman Catholic Church at Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia on November 4, 1984, when Father John Lazarek began his missionary work. For four years, Fr. Lazarek travelled from Annandale, Virginia, to the Tidewater area to celebrate the Divine Liturgy.

In September of 1987, the mission purchased Greensprings Community Chapel. On February 4, 1988, Bishop Michael J. Dudick, D.D., The Eparchy of Pasasaic, granted canonical status to the newly-named Ascension of Our Lord Byzantine Catholic Church. On October 25, 1988, Father Edward G. Cimbala was assigned as the parish's first resident pastor.

In October of 1989, Father Edward Cimbala began his missionary work in Virginia Beach by founding Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic Church while continuing to serve the Williamsburg parish.

Today

Ascension parish has grown from a parish formed to meet the needs of the ethnic Byzantine Catholics of the area into a parish home for many residents who have come to love the Catholic traditions of the Christian East. God has blessed our parish over the years and we look forward to all that He has in store for us in the years to come!

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Glory to Jesus Christ! Glory forever!