God-willing, this will be the last Holy Week and Pascha (Easter), in our makeshift chapel. In the same cavernous building where the pirohi are made and bingo is played, we gather together with folding chairs, facing an old wooden icon screen. And with our current icon screen -- the icon part at least -- along the wall to our backs. All icons on the screen were spared in the fire, even that of St. Vladimir himself, though it was at the spot where the blaze was the worst, flames likely licking at

Holy Week and Pascha 2022

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