Welcome to St. Mary Magdalene Orthodox Church!
We hope that through this website you will become better acquainted with our Church, with its worship, its ministries, its educational programs, and its social activities. If you are from the Genesee/Livingston county area and yet do not have a spiritual home or if you have just moved to the area and are looking for a Church, we would like to invite you to join us in our worship of the one, true and living God, glorified in the Holy Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
In our Church, we believe that every person born into this world has been endowed with the image and likeness of God and is therefore capable of eternal life in Christ - and as such, our parish exists for no other purpose than this.
In our Church, we believe that every member, young and old, must become a full participant in every aspect of the Church’s life: worship, sacraments, education, and service, and that each member has a unique and invaluable talent to offer our community, no matter how simple, ordinary, or mundane. In our Church, we believe that Christian Orthodoxy is not only timeless in its character and practice, but that it remains vitally relevant to the lives of those who live in this time and age.
What we believe is thus very simple. We believe in God the Father Who is the Author of our salvation and “Who desires that all be saved and come to the Knowledge of the truth.” (1 Tim. 2:4). We believe in His one and only Son, Jesus Christ, Who was sent into the world by the Father as a genuine human being in order to renew the entire cosmos through His Cross and Resurrection. We believe in the power of the Holy Spirit Who was, and continues to be, “pentecosted” from the Father so that we might become fully deified, and thus become “children of the light and of the day.” (1 Thess. 5:5). This is the vision that affects everything we do as a body of believers.
May God continue to bless you always,
Fr. Paul Jannakos, Rector, St. Mary Magdalene Church.
Orthodoxy in America
