This year’s major façade work is successfully drawing to a close, and the scaffolding is coming down. Our heartfelt thanks to PREV OÜ, led by Enn Pirsko, for carrying out this extensive work, and to all our supporters—beginning with the National Heritage Board—who have helped improve both the appearance and the technical condition of the…

While the evenings are still light, they are worth spending at church! At 20:00 on Friday evening, this year’s organ festival concludes with a concert by two wonderful young organists. On Saturday, 30 August, we will share fellowship with members of Narva-Jõesuu Parish, our prayer partner for this year. We will look at historic photographs…

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: Love your neighbour as yourself. (Matthew 22:37–39) In one of his biblical commentaries, the renowned fourth-century Church Father St Jerome tells a story…

The autumn confirmation course begins on Sunday, 19 October. It will still be possible to join during the following couple of weeks. We will begin with Mass at church at 10:00 and continue over coffee. See you there! See also:

The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due season. (Psalm 145:15) Today, on the second Sunday of October, we celebrate Harvest Thanksgiving. We pause to reflect on all the good gifts with which God has blessed us. Our fields have borne fruit, our tables are spread, and our…

Jesus came forward and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And he said, “Young man, I say to you, rise!” The dead man sat up and began to speak. (Luke 7:14–15) In today’s Gospel, Jesus, the Son of the Virgin, meets a widow’s son in the town of Nain. Jesus, who is the…

Jesus said: “There will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.” (Luke 15:7) God is a merciful Father. He seeks those who have gone astray, calls sinners back to himself and forgives sins. Heaven rejoices over every single lost person who is found.…

Jesus said: “Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven; give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be put…

Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching people.” (Luke 5:10) As early as the early Middle Ages, the Feast of the Apostles Peter and Paul was celebrated in memory of their martyrdom on 29 June. They were executed in Rome during the persecutions under Emperor Nero in…

In the Church calendar, the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost bears the title “The Commandment of Love”. Christ came to fulfil God’s will and commandments, not to abolish them. Likewise, his disciples—Christians—must follow the commandment of love sincerely and wholeheartedly. In seeking to embody divine love, a Christian is prepared even to surrender their own rights…