The weekend of October 27-28, 2007  Saint Dimitri observed its patronal feast day honoring Saint Dimitri of Rostov who is the patron of the community. On Saturday October 27, the service of Great Vespers began at 4:00 p.m. followed by a fellowship meal in the church hall.
During the Vespers service there was included the litiya' or service of supplication which consists of hymns and prayers and the blessing of wheat, bread, wine and oil.
Priest Monk John from Saint Michael Skete near Canones concelebrated the evening Vespers. Divine Liturgy waas celebrated by Father John on Sunday at 10:00 a.m.
Saint Dimitri, Metropolitan of Rostov, was one of the most celebrated preachers in the history of the Russian Church.  In hymns he is referred to as the "Chrysostom of Russia." He was born near Kiev in 1651 and entered the Kiev Academy at an early age.  He was forced to give up his studies because of war and after leaving the academy continued to study on his own until he entered a Chernigov monastery.  Three years later he was ordained as priest.  When Dimitri was 33 years old, the Abbot of the Lavra of the Liev Caves, knowing his scholastic abilities, called him to compile a Russian-language Lives of the Saints, a work which he devoted himself to intensely for twenty-five years.  This renowned 12-volume work was completed in 1704.