Bread, Salt & Water
are traditional Slavic symbols
of peace and hospitality. 

To the Doukhobors, these symbols also represent their basic principle of "Toil & Peaceful Life".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SPECIAL EVENTS - from the USCC calendar

• New Year’s Day Prayer Service - January 1

• Peter P. Verigin-Chistyakov Memorial Service - Sunday preceding
  February 11

• Annual USCC Convention - last weekend in February

• World Day of Prayer - first Friday in March

• USCC Union of Youth Talent Nights - second and third Saturdays in March

• Easter Sunday Prayer Service - March or April

• Earth Day - April 22

• Mother’s Day Walk for Peace - May

• Annual USCC Union of Youth Festival - Victoria Day weekend in May

• USCC Children’s Sunday School Festivals - May

• World Environment Day - June 5

• Peter’s Day - June 29

• Blagodatnoye Picnic - first Sunday in July

• Declaration Day - first Sunday in August

• Hiroshima Day - August 6

• Anna P. Markova and Peter P. Verigin-Istrebov Memorial Service -
  Sunday preceding September 13

• International Day of Peace - third Tuesday in September

• Peter V. Verigin-Lordly and John J. Verigin Memorial Service - Sunday preceding
  October 29

• United Nations Day and Disarmament Week - October 24 to 31

• Evdokiya G. Verigin and Anna F. Verigin Memorial Service -
  Sunday preceding November 19

• International Human Rights Day - December 10

• Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Prayer Services - December 24 and 25

• New Year’s Eve Prayer Service - December 31