On Saturday 1 February and Sunday 2 February we had services for the Thirty-Second Sunday after Pentecost and in honour of Venerable Euthymius the Great (+473 AD).  All-night Vigil was served on Saturday evening and the Hours and  Divine Liturgy was served on Sunday morning.  At Divine Liturgy on Sunday the parish rector was assisted by Protodeacon Martin Naef and prayers were offered for peace in the Holy Land.  It being Zaccheus Sunday, the final Sunday before the period of preparation for Great Lent, the parish rector spoke in his sermon about Zaccheus as a model of repentance and about not standing in the way of others who repent.  Following Divine liturgy, a memorial litia was served following Divine Liturgy for all our departed founders, parishioners and benefactors and koliva was blessed. In accordance with parish custom, a memorial litia was served on this day as it was the Sunday closest to the commemoration of Saint Xenia of Saint Petersburg, the patron saint of our Ladies' Auxiliary.