Pentecost - June 8, 2025

On June 8th, 2025, Father Aleksey celebrated Divine Liturgy for Pentecost. Following the service, he blessed graves at St. Michael’s Orthodox Cemetery, on Merriam Mountain, and at Sts. Peter & Paul Cemetery, in Centralia.

Photo of Fr. Aleksey standing in front of the entrance to the Royal Doors and facing the congregation. He's wearing a green vestment with gold trim and is reading from a prayer book. There are brightly colored flowers on the center table: magenta/white roses, yellow daisies, salmon-colored carnations, and some purple/white flowers along with a cross, an icon, and some candles. The table is covered with a green cloth.

Photo of Fr. Aleksey standing at the front-left corner of the center table, with the iconstasis in the background behind him. He is facing the congregation and reading from a prayer book.

A view of parishioners standing the the pews. The photo was taken from the front, left corner of the church, which is stage-right, from the perspective of someone standing in front of the iconostas and looking towards the congregation).

Fr. Aleksey, holding the Holy Gifts, stands in front of the entrance to the Royal Doors, while facing the congregation. He's wearing a green vestment with gold trim, and there are two altar servers standing in front of him, facing him. The server on the left is wearing a gold vestment, and the server on the right is wearing a white vestment. The center table appears in the lower center of the photo, in front of the two servers who have their backs facing both the table and the viewer. Ticonostas is shown in the background, behind the priest and servers.

Fr. Aleksey stands outside at the church cemetary in front of a large, marble cross. He's facing the camera, and the cross towers several feet above him. He's wearing a green vestment with gold trim, and he's looking down at a prayer that he's holding. There's a, oval macadam walking path that goes around the cross and it's corresponding gravesite. There's grass both inside and outside the oval path, and a stone wall in that backgound that run perpendicularly across the middle of the frame, with trees on the far side of the wall. The sky is cloudy and appears very white in the photo.

A view of the cemetary with Fr. Aleksey and several parishioners holding umbrellas as they pray. Fr. Aleksey is standing in the bottom-left corner, facing a gravesite that is out-of-frame, although a few flowers are visble. The parishioners are standing behind him in the lower right-hand quarter of the photo and looking down at papers in their hand as they pray. Grave sites, grass, and trees are visible in the background, along with a cloudy sky.

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