St. Nicholas<\/a> or not — all are welcome. As the church is softly lit with candles only, the proper atmosphere is fostered to “lay aside all earthly cares” and to pray, to walk around and make a prayerful connection with the Saints in the icons, or to make prostrations before the relics and experience their power.<\/p>\nIf you would like to read the Psalms, email Peter and Helen Evans (we2rone@cox.net) to schedule a time to read, anywhere from approximately 8:30pm to 11:30pm. If you come alone or with a group make sure to email us first so the we can open the Massachusetts Avenue door, which is the only entrance we use at night. Please buy several candles to keep the church softly illuminated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
…consider attending the “Pilgrimage to Prayer” at St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral in Washington, DC (get map). Peter and Helen Evans, members of St. Nicholas have organized a prayer vigil on January 21, 2010 that starts after Vespers and continues until midnight. Come by yourself or with a group and read some Psalms aloud or just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1784],"tags":[438,296,1159,1218],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5521"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5529,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521\/revisions\/5529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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