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When Christ God had been born for our sakes from the Virgin,
Thou faithfully didst follow Him keeping His statutes,
And heeding His sacred laws, O august Mary Magdalene.
Hence, as we today observe thy holy remembrance,
We receive the loosing of our sins and transgressions
Through thy holy prayers for us.

---The Troparion of St. Mary Magdalene (Tone 1)

St. Mary Magdalene Orthodox Chapel is a chapel of the Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America Under the pastoral care of Fr. Nikolai Meyers.

St. Mary Magdalene House, 913 Riley Lane (tel. (785) 539-3440)), remains the headquarters of the chapel as a Kansas non-profit corporation, will be used for meetings not following services, and will undergo slow renovations with a view to it either becoming a priest's residence or being sold as a house to further the growth of Holy Orthodoxy in Manhattan, KS.

From September 2026, our services will be offered in the education wing of Trinity Presbyterian Church, where a Orthodox temple and sacristy has been erected in Room 4. (Room 4B serves as the nave, Room 4A as the altar and sacristy). Rooms 2 and 3 serve as a fellowship hall for our pot-luck-style coffee hours following Divine Liturgies and Sunday Typica services, and pot-luck suppers following evening services led by Fr. Nikolai or a visiting priest or bishop.

Services :

Our regular monthly schedule of services is currently

• Saturdays if no service was served that Saturday morning or if the next day is a great feast: 5 p.m. Readers' Great Vespers
• Sundays: 9 a.m. Orthros followed by Typica (from Sept. 2026)
• Alternate Saturdays (see the calendar): 10 a.m. Divine Liturgy
• One Tuesday or Thursday monthly: 6 p.m. Vespers or other evening service appropriate to the season. Before and after this service Fr. Nikolai is available to hear confessions. A pot-luck supper follows the service.

Other services usually offered:

• Mondays during Great Lent: 6 p.m. Great Compline
• Wednesdays during Great Lent: 6 p.m. Lenten Vespers
• Fridays during Great Lent: 6 p.m. Small Compline (with Akathist Hymn, weeks 1-5, or Canon of St. Lazarus, week 6).
• Reader Vespers on the Vigil of Great Feasts: 6 p.m.

Upcoming services with complete service texts

All services are now offered at the "North Chapel", the education wing of Trinity Presbytrian Church, 1110 College Ave.

• 5 September 5 p.m.Great Vespers
• 6 September 9 a.m.Orthros and Typica
• 12 September 10 a.m.. Divine Liturgy
• 13 September 9 a.m. Orthros and Typica
• 19 September 5 p.m.Great Vespers
• 20 September 9 a.m. Orthros and Typica
• 22 September 6 p.m.Daily Vespers with Doxology for the Conception of the Holy Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John
• 26 September 10 a.m.. Divine Liturgy
• 27 September 9 a.m. Orthros and Typica

Christian Education:

This fall a Sunday School program to take place during Sunday Orthros is being organized. It is now planned to begin on Sunday 13 Sept. If you are interested in your children participating and have not already done so, please contact Fr. Nikolai at frnmeyers@gmail.com.

Beginning Fr. Nikolai is offers adult Christian education classes, simultaneously in-person in the parish hall of Sts. Peter and Paul, Topeka, during the Wednesday pot-luck following 5:15 p.m. Wednesday Vespers, and via Zoom. Those wishing to participate via Zoom should contact Fr. Nikolai at frnmeyers@gmail.com to request the Zoom ID. .

During the pot-luck suppers following our weeknight services led by Fr. Nikolai, he will hold discussions with inquirers and catechumens on the Holy Orthodox Faith and Orthodox praxis.

Suggested readings for our Inquirers' Classes may be downloaded in MSWord format:

• The Didache Lecture notes on the teachings of the Holy Apostles from around the year 100.
• The Epistle of St. Clement to the Corinthians
• The Epistle of St. Ignatius to the Ephesians
• The Epistle of St. Ignatius to the Magnesians
• The Epistle of St. Ignatius to the Trallians
• The Epistle of St. Ignatius to the Romans
• The Epistle of St. Ignatius to the Philadelphians
• The Epistle of St. Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans
• The Epistle of St. Ignatius to St. Polycarp

In addition to these we read The Orthodox Church by Bishop +KALLISTOS (Ware). (It is still published with the author's name given as the name Bishop +KALLISTOS bore before his ordination, Timothy Ware.)

The readings used our Catechism Classes may be downloaded in MSWord format:

• The First Catechetical Homily of St. Cyril of Jerusalem
• The Second Catechetical Homily of St. Cyril of Jerusalem
• The Third Catechetical Homily of St. Cyril of Jerusalem
• The Fourth Catechetical Homily of St. Cyril of Jerusalem
• The Fifth Catechetical Homily of St. Cyril of Jerusalem
• The Sixth Catechetical Homily of St. Cyril of Jerusalem
• The Seventh Catechetical Homily of St. Cyril of Jerusalem
• The Eighth Catechetical Homily of St. Cyril of Jerusalem
• The Ninth Catechetical Homily of St. Cyril of Jerusalem
• The Tenth Catechetical Homily of St. Cyril of Jerusalem
• The Eleventh Catechetical Homily of St. Cyril of Jerusalem
• The Twelfth Catechetical Homily of St. Cyril of Jerusalem
• The Thirteenth Catechetical Homily of St. Cyril of Jerusalem
• The Fourteenth Catechetical Homily of St. Cyril of Jerusalem
• The Fifteenth Catechetical Homily of St. Cyril of Jerusalem
• The Sixteenth Catechetical Homily of St. Cyril of Jerusalem
• The Seventeenth Catechetical Homily of St. Cyril of Jerusalem
• The Eighteenth Catechetical Homily of St. Cyril of Jerusalem
• The Nineteenth Catechetical Homily of St. Cyril of Jerusalem
• The Twentieth Catechetical Homily of St. Cyril of Jerusalem
• The Twenty-First Catechetical Homily of St. Cyril of Jerusalem
• The Twenty-Second Catechetical Homily of St. Cyril of Jerusalem
• The Twenty-Third Catechetical Homily of St. Cyril of Jerusalem

Following these our catechumens read

• The Conversation of St. Seraphim of Sarov with Nicholas Motovilov

Online versions of these (with Western commentary--either Latin or protestant) can be found at

New Advent (From which the translations used in the MSWord versions provided above were taken).
or
Christian Classics Ethereal Libary

(Both links are directed to the relevant page on the site, rather than the site homepage.)
A small reminder: the chapter and verse citations to the Scriptures were not in the original documents, and were added by the translators.

Upcoming Special Events:

At St. Mary Magdalene:

• 22 September, following the Vespers, Pot-Luck Supper

Nearby:

Clergy:

• Patriarch John X of Antioch
• Metropolitan Saba of the Self-Ruled Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of North America
• Fr. Nicholai Meyers, Priest-in-Charge frnmeyers@gmail.com

Directions

To Trinity Presbyterian Church

From the north, turn onto College Avenue southbound from Claflin or Kimball. The entrance to the Trinity Presbyterian parking lot will be on your left before you reach College Heights.

From the south, travel along Anderson Ave. Turn onto Sunset, then make a left onto College Heights, and a right onto College Ave. The parking lot entrance will be on your right before you reach Claflin. When the construction on Anderson is complete, it should again be feasible when coming from the west to turn onto College Heights from Anderson, then turn left onto College Ave.

The walkway from the parking lot to the entrance to the lower level of the education wing is indicated in white on the Google aerial photo reproduced below:

It is also possible to park on Goodnow Ave. behind the east lawn of Trinity Presbyterian, and on Saturdays when the ECM is selling parking in the Trinity Presbyterian parking lot for K-State Football games, we have been given permission to park on the east lawn.

On Sundays, please reserve parking along the east edge of the parking lot, and in the center section nearest to the Presbyterians' main entrances to their nave and fellowship hall on the west end of the building, including the handicapped spots for our host community's use, and park along the south and north edges of the parking lot.

To St. Mary Magdalene House

St. Mary Magdalene house is located at 913 Riley Lane in Manhattan, KS, and once one is on Riley Lane is easy to pick out: it is the tan house on the north side of the street with a large three-barred cross in the front garden and a large gravel parking area on the eastern half of its double lot.

Approaching from the east along Ft. Riley Boulevard, turn left at Juliette Ave., cross the railroad tracks and make an immediate right. Follow Riley Lane past 9th Street. St. Mary Magdalene House is on the right.

Approaching from the west along Ft. Riley Boulevard, turn right at 10th Street (near Bison Ridge Recycling (formerly Howie's Recycling), cross the railroad tracks and make an immediate left. Riley Lane at 10th Street appears to be an alley or driveway (sometimes obscured by the trailer of a landscaping truck) directly opposite Pottawatomie Ave. Signs for both Riley Lane and Pottawatomie Ave. are on the same pole, but the sign for Riley Lane is hidden by another utility pole until one has almost reached the intersection. St. Mary Magdalene House is on the left.

A map is provided below. Standard map sites and GPS services now correctly show the neighborhood around St. Mary Magdalene House, but parishioners and visitors to the Chapel are quite insistent that the extra detail provided in this map is very helpful in finding the Chapel.

This page was last updated on 31 August 2026.