Our Parish
Located in Irving, Texas, our church is a parish of the Midwest Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church. We are under the spiritual leadership of Bishop Longin of New Gracanica, Midwestern America. Our parish was founded on May 4, 1999, by ancestors who immigrated from the Balkans and settled in Texas.
Over the century, thousands of people have called Three Hierarchs Parish their home. Maybe this parish is the kind of spiritual home you have been searching for as well – please come and see, we would love to have you pray with us.
Divine Liturgy — Sundays at 10 am
Vespers — Saturdays at 6 pm
The Divine Services are in Serbian, English and Church-Slavonic.
Parish Priest
V. Rev. Fr. Ljubinko Savic
Father Ljubinko Savic, born in Priboj in 1975, has dedicated his life to the Serbian Orthodox Church, serving parishes from Cajnice to Northern Texas.
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Orthodox Calendar
Martyr Sebastian and Companions at Rome
- Thursday of the 31st week after Pentecost
Commemorations
- Martyr Sebastian and Companions at Rome
- Holy Hieromartyr Modestus I, Archbishop of Jerusalem (634)
Fasting
Nativity Fast — Wine and Oil are Allowed
Daily Readings
Epistle — James 1.19-27
19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 20For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. 21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. 22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: 24For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 25But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. 26If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain. 27Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Gospel — Mark 9.10-16
10And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.
11And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come? 12And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought. 13But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him.
14And when he came to his disciples, he saw a great multitude about them, and the scribes questioning with them. 15And straightway all the people, when they beheld him, were greatly amazed, and running to him saluted him. 16And he asked the scribes, What question ye with them?
Following the Old (Julian) Calendar used by the Serbian Orthodox Church. Calendar data and scripture (King James Version) from Orthocal.info; individual commemorations may differ from the printed parish calendar.
Verse of the Day
— Romans 10:14 (NIV)How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?
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