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Welcome to the website of the Dormition of the Theotokos Greek Orthodox Church of Oakmont and Verona! If you are a new member of our parish, or are considering membership, this web site will acquaint you with our parish. To those who already belong to the church, this is YOUR website. We hope you will make full use of it, not only to enrich your relationship with the church and your fellow members, but to strengthen and support our parish and its ministries as well. Read More

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The annual covered dish luncheon will be held on Sunday, February 26, following church services. Please sign up with Olympia Arthur or Jean Walter after church.

There will be a Philoptochos Meeting next Sunday (February 12th) after coffee hour.

Philoptochos will be making & selling Koulourakia on Palm Sunday for Easter. Pre-orders will be taken after church.

If any child is interested in Greek dancing with the Grecian Stars & are in 4th grade or higher/9-10 years old or older, please contact Alecia Denillo, ASAP (before the end of February) at 724.681.1714.

FOCUS is in dire need of food. A container for donations is located in the Narthex. Thank you!

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Please see the Church Events Calendar for all upcoming Church Services and our parish's ministry happenings! Note that the calendar will not show events that are scheduled for the Church Social Hall or Riverside Landing facility. If you know of an event or would like an event listed, please send email to events@dormitionpgh.org with the event details.

For Greater Pittsburgh Area Eastern Orthodox events, visit the Community page. If you are aware of an event or would like an event listed, please send email to dormition_web@dormitionpgh.org with the event details.

Holy Land Pilgrimage trip scheduled for June 10-22, 2012. View/Print the itinerary.

Orthodox Tidbits — The Triodion

With God on this present day we begin the Triodion, the hymns of which were composed by many of our holy and God-bearing Fathers, inspired by the Holy Spirit according to their worthiness. The first of all was the great author Cosmas of Maiuma, who composed the three odes (symbolic of the Holy and Life-Creating Trinity) for the Great and Holy Week of the Passion of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ. After him others of the Fathers, including Theodore and Joseph of the Studite Monastery, following his zealous example, arranged the services of the other weeks of the Holy and Great Forty-day Fast, reserving them at first for the use of the Studite Monastery. Furthermore they composed and arranged hymns, seeking them and collecting them from other books of the Fathers.

Since, according to the Triodion, Sunday, the celebration of the Resurrection, is the first day of the week as well as the last or eighth day, they prescribed the first canticle of the canon to be sung on the second day of the week, i.e. Monday.

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