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Advent retreat with Fr. Gregory Horton

Promotional poster for a parish retreat titled 'Loving the way GOD Loves' featuring Fr. Gregory Horton as the guest speaker. The event details include the dates November 28-29, 2025, and the location St. Vincent of Lerins Orthodox Church in Saskatoon, SK, with session times and donation information provided.

Loving the Way God Loves

The word love has become difficult to define within the modern context, definitions and preferences now available to us. There are many examples of Christian Love throughout the History of the Church. By incorporating this worldview into our own daily lives, we can actually live as God intended us to live.

The retreat with Fr. Gregory will be hosted in our hall at St. Vincent’s on the 28th and 29th of November.

Friday: 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Saturday: 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Admission and lunch are by donation, which can be e-transferred to treasurer@orthodoxsaskatoon.com.

Please RSVP for lunch by emailing stobbesara@gmail.com

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Project Mexico Internship

Please help us support Lucy Stobbe as she interns at Project Mexico this summer.

Donate online

E-transfer

You can also e-transfer your donation to treasurer@orthodoxsaskatoon.com and earmark it for Project Mexico. We will send the funds to Project Mexico on Lucy’s behalf.

About Project Mexico

Project Mexico organizes groups of Orthodox Christians to build affordable houses for families in Mexico. Volunteers spend four days building houses like the one in the picture. Lucy will be part of the team that leads the building projects.

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Fall Retreat at St. Vincent’s, 2024

Fall Retreat 2024 at St. Vincent's, Saskatoon with Mother Melania. "Be Who You Are in the Body of Christ

November 22-23

Be Who You Are in the Body of Christ

Mother Melania, Abbess of Holy Assumption Monastery, California

Sessions

  • Friday 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
  • Saturday 9:30 am – 3:30 pm lunch provided
  • Saturday Youth Time 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Please RSVP for lunch by contacting Sarah S.

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Project Mexico Mission Trip 2024

About our trip

This past July, a group of people from our church drove down to Mexico with friends from churches in Calgary and Cranbrook. We joined up with a group led by Fr. Tony Machnee in Colorado Springs and continued the drive.

The purpose for our trip was to build a house for Jose, Mariam, Casandra and Paula outside of Rosarito, Mexico. The funds we raised paid for the building material. There were sixteen people in our group, and we worked with another group to build the house in four days.

Project Mexico

The organization that facilitates these building projects is called Project Mexico. It hosts volunteers in these building projects all summer on the campus of an Orthodox orphanage called St. Innocent’s. The campus has a large empty yard where volunteers stay in tents all week.

Praying in Spanish

While we were at Project Mexico we had both morning and evening prayers as well as Divine Liturgy on Sunday. Most of the prayers were in Spanish, as the staff and boys of the orphanage are Mexican – and we were in Mexico! What a humbling experience to have it impressed upon us that the mission work there is focussed on the people who live there and not on us who were just visiting!

Our Father …

Above is a picture of the plaque on the outside of the dining room pavilion. Everyone would gather in front of it and pray (as best we could) this prayer before each meal.

The Pavilion / Church

The Project Mexico team informed all the volunteers that this pavilion was built by “people from Canada.” We said that we knew who they were talking about! As the only Canadian group there, we were celebrities.

Eat, Pray, Love

The week we were in Mexico over 130 volunteers were participating in the building of four different houses in parallel. The pavilion serves as dining room, meeting hall and church.

We arrived on Friday evening and worked one day on Saturday. But on Sunday we celebrated Orthros and Divine Liturgy and were treated to a performance of traditional Mexican dance.

Monday through Wednesday were work days again, and we blessed the completed house on Wednesday evening.

Several priests were leading groups of volunteers. We all celebrated together on Sunday.
Building the mould for the foundation. The green structure in the background is the family’s current home.
Sunset over the Pacific: the view from St. Innocent’s Orphanage

Thank you to everyone who donated money and helped us participate in this trip!