On Saturday 19 March and Sunday 20 March we had services for the First Sunday in Great Lent, the Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy.  It being the season of repentance, a great many people confessed and received the Holy Mysteries.  Joining for us for Divine Liturgy was a group of Orthodox Christians and catechumens from China.  Following the Prayer before the Amvon, the customary moleben “For the Conversion of those in Error” was served.  At the  Dismissal, the rector spoke briefly about the ever-memorable Metropolitan Laurus (Skurla) who reposed on the Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy in 2008 before serving a memorial litia for him.  A collection for the Holy Trinity Seminary was then taken up, raising $580.00.  In the evening, Vespers with the Passia was served.