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St. Mary of Egypt by Heather MacKean

Today: 8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy, Lenten Brunch & Classes

Tuesday: 6:00 pm Vespers & Confessions

Wednesday: 6:30 pm Presanctified at St. Stephen Serbian Church

Thursday: 6:00 pm Vespers & Confessions

Friday: 6:00 pm Presanctified & Confessions (Note: Lenten Confessions will not be heard after this.)

Saturday: 9:30 am Divine Liturgy & Parish-Wide Work Party; 6:00 pm The Vigil of the Palms

Sunday: 8:30 am Matins, Blessing of Palms; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy, Salmon BBQ; 3:00 pm St. Francis Dining Room

Our Lenten Discipline of Prayer, Fasting, Almsgiving and Works of Mercy:

Please be sure to take one of the Lenten Offering Cans (available in the narthex) home and return it to church on Palm Sunday.  Funds collected will benefit the needy — primarily through the work of St. Francis Dining Hall.

Additionally, a bucket in the narthex is for “Pennies for Parkinson’s” —a special project for Spring.

And finally, a box in the narthex marked “Box Top Education” is to collect box top labels that can be redeemed to benefit Agia Sophia Academy.

St. John of St. Catherine Monastery, Sinai — Author of The Ladder of Divine Ascent

Today: 8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy, Lenten Brunch; Parish Council Meeting

Monday: 5:00 pm Funeral Vigil

Tuesday: 9:30 am Funeral Office and Liturgy of the Presanctified; 6:00 pm Vespers & Confessions

Wednesday: 6:00 pm Liturgy of the Presanctified & Confessions

Thursday: 6:00 pm Vespers & Confessions

Friday: 6:00 pm Liturgy of the Presanctified; 7:30 pm Akathist Hymn

Saturday: 5:00pm Catechumen Class; 6:00 pm Vespers

Sunday: 8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy, Brunch

Our Lenten Discipline of Prayer, Fasting, Almsgiving and Works of Mercy:

Please be sure to take one of the Lenten Offering Cans (available in the narthex) home and return it to church on Palm Sunday.  Funds collected will benefit the needy — primarily through the work of St. Francis Dining Hall.

Additionally, a bucket in the narthex is for “Pennies for Parkinson’s” —a special project for Spring.

And finally, a box in the narthex marked “Box Top Education” is to collect box top labels that can be redeemed to benefit Agia Sophia Academy.

Today: 8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy, Lenten Pot-Luck Brunch

Tuesday: 6:00 pm Vespers & Confessions

Wednesday: 6:00 pm Pan-Orthodox Presanctified @ Holy Trinity GOC

Thursday: 6:00 pm Vespers & Confessions

Friday:  6:00 pm Presanctified & Confessions

Saturday: 9:30 am Lenten Quiet Day of Recollection & Reflection; 6:00 pm Vespers & Confessions

Sunday: 8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy, Classes, Lenten Brunch

Our Lenten Discipline of Prayer, Fasting, Almsgiving and Works of Mercy:

Next Saturday, April 2: 9:30 am – 2:00 pm Lenten Quiet Day of Recollection.  This is being hosted by the Fellowship of New Skete.  The theme will center around the life and witness of St. Mary of Egypt.

Please be sure to take one of the Lenten Offering Cans (available in the narthex) home and return it to church on Palm Sunday.  Funds collected will benefit the needy — primarily through the work of St. Francis Dining Hall.

Additionally, a bucket in the narthex is for “Pennies for Parkinson’s” —a special project for Spring.

And finally, a box in the narthex marked “Box Top Education” is to collect box top labels that can be redeemed to benefit Agia Sophia Academy.

This link will take you to some Pre-Concilliar information (you’ll need to copy and paste):     http://www.AAC16.org

Christ healing the Paralytic (Mark 2:1-12)

St. Photini / Fatima / Svetlana / Lucia / Clara / Fiona / Claire

Today: 8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy, Classes, Lenten Brunch; 3:00 pm St. Francis Dining Hall

Tuesday: 6:00 pm Vespers & Confessions

Wednesday: 6:00 pm Presanctified & Confessions

Thursday: 6:00 pm Vespers, Litia & Confessions

Friday:  6:30 pm Hierarchial Divine Liturgy & Supper @ Annunciation Church

Saturday: 5:00 pm Catechumenate; 6:00 pm Vespers & Confessions

Sunday: 8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy, Lenten Pot-Luck Brunch

Our Lenten Discipline of Prayer, Fasting, Almsgiving and Works of Mercy:

Saturday, April 2: 9:30 am – 2:00 pm Lenten Quiet Day of Recollection.  This is being hosted by the Fellowship of New Skete.  The theme will center around the life and witness of St. Mary of Egypt.

Please be sure to take one of the Lenten Offering Cans (available in the narthex) home and return it to church on Palm Sunday.  Funds collected will benefit the needy — primarily through the work of St. Francis Dining Hall.

Additionally, a bucket in the narthex is for “Pennies for Parkinson’s”

And finally, a box in the narthex marked “Box Top Education” is to collect box top labels that can be redeemed to benefit Agia Sophia Academy.

This link will take you to some Pre-Concilliar information (you’ll need to copy and paste):     http://www.AAC16.org

Andrew Rublev’s Christ

From Vespers:

Advancing from false doctrine to true faith,

illumined with the light of knowledge,

let us clap our hands and offer grateful praise to God in song!

With due honor let us venerate the holy icons of Christ,

of the all-pure Virgin, and of all the saints,

depicted on walls or panels or sacred vessels,

rejecting the godless teaching of the heretics!

For as Saint Basil says:

“The honor shown to the image passes to its prototype.”

By the prayers of Your pure Mother and of all the saints,

we beseech You, O Christ our God, to grant us great mercy!

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Today: 8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy & Brunch (Pan-Orthodox Divine Liturgy @ Holy Trinity GOC at 10:00 am)

Tuesday: 6:00 pm Vespers & Confessions

Wednesday: 6:30 pm Pan-Orthodox Presanctified & Supper @ St. John the Baptist GOC

Thursday: 6:00 pm Vespers

Saturday:  6:00 pm Vespers

Sunday: 8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy, Classes, Lenten Brunch; 3:00 pm St. Francis Dining Hall

Our Lenten Discipline of Prayer, Fasting, Almsgiving and Works of Mercy:

Saturday, April 2: 9:30 am – 2:00 pm Lenten Quiet Day of Recollection.  This is being hosted by the Fellowship of New Skete.  The theme will center around the life and witness of St. Mary of Egypt.

Please be sure to take one of the Lenten Offering Cans (available in the narthex) home and return it to church on Palm Sunday.  Funds collected will benefit the needy — primarily through the work of St. Francis Dining Hall.

Additionally, a bucket in the narthex is for “Pennies for Parkinson’s”

And finally, a box in the narthex marked “Box Top Education” is to collect box top labels that can be redeemed to benefit Agia Sophia Academy.

Expulsion of Adam and Eve   //   The Forty Holy Martyrs of Sebaste

Today:  8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy, Reception into the Catechumenate, Rite of Forgiveness; Brunch

Monday:  7:00 pm Canon of St. Andrew

Tuesday:  7:00 pm Canon of St. Andrew

Wednesday:  6:00 pm Vespers, Presanctified & Confessions

Thursday:  Vespers & Confessions

Friday:  5:00 pm (note time change) Vespers & Presanctified (no confessions)

Saturday:  5:00 pm Catechumen Class; 5:30 Choir; 6:00 pm Vespers & Confessions

Sunday:  8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy & Brunch (Pan-Orthodox Divine Liturgy @ Holy Trinity at 10:00 am)

Please note that Lenten Offering Cans will be made available today.  Please place these on your kitchen or dining room table and make a daily offering for the good work of St. Francis Dining Hall.  We’ll be collecting them during Holy Week.  Thanks.

Expulsion of Adam and Eve (from Vespers):

When the Enemy tempted me,

I disobeyed Your command, O Lord.

I exchanged the glory of my mortal body for shame and nakedness.

Now I must wear garments of skins and fig-leaves;

I am condemned to eat the bread of bitter hardship in the sweat of my brow.

The earth is cursed and brings forth thorns and husks for me.

O Lord, You took on flesh from the Virgin in the fullness of time;

call me back and restore me to Eden!

The Forty Holy Martyrs of Sebaste (from Vespers):

The holy martyrs bravely endured their present suffering;

they rejoiced in things hoped for but not yet seen.

They said to each other:

“By stripping off our garments we have put off the old man.

The winter is cold and bitter, but Paradise will be warm and sweet.

The freezing is painful, but the reward will bring us joy.

Let us not be defeated, O brothers!

We suffer a little, but Christ will crown us with the laurel of victory.

He is our God and the Savior of our souls.”

O sacred troop!

O glorious company!

O invincible battalion!

O Flowers of the Church!

Stars that shine among the stars!

Martyrs worthy of the praise of all the centuries!

To you the doors of Paradise were opened,

And from the palaces of Heaven

The Angels, Prophets, Patriarchs and all Saints

Came out to witness your triumphal arrival.

A sight worthy of the Angelic Army!

Forty warriors in the very flower of their youth

Who have disdained this life,

Who have loved the Lord

Above parents, children, wives and relatives.

They disregarded this temporal life

That they might glorify God in their members…

(Attributed to St. Basil the Great)

Matthew 25:31-36

Today:  8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy; Pot-Luck; Parish Council; St. Elizabeth Committee

Tuesday:  6:00 pm Vespers

Thursday:  6:00 pm Vespers; 7:00 pm Choir

Saturday:  6:00 pm Vespers

Sunday:  8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy, Rite of Forgiveness; Brunch

A Psalm of Exile for the Pre-Lenten Sundays (Ps. 137)

By the waters of Babylon,

there we sat down and wept,

when we remembered Zion.

On the willows there we hung up our lyres.

For there our captors required of us songs,

and our tormentors, mirth, saying,

“Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a foreign land?

If I forget you, O Jerusalem,

let my right hand wither!

Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth,

if I do not remember you,

if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy!

Remember, O LORD, against the E’domites

the day of Jerusalem,

how they said, “Raze it, raze it! Down to its foundations!”

O daughter of Babylon, you devastator!

Happy shall he be who requites you

with what you have done to us!

Happy shall he be who takes your little ones

and dashes them against the rock!

…My embrace, my tears, my laughter

gather in all the years,

my kiss stops rehearsed

genealogies of sin, outlawing of self.

Of course, you are my son…

http://natcath.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2003b/040403/040403o.htm

Today:  8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy, Classes, Brunch; St. Francis Dining Hall

Tuesday:  6:00 pm Vespers

Thursday:  6:00 pm Vespers; 7:00 pm Choir

Saturday:  5:00 pm Liturgical Dynamics Class; 6:00 pm Vespers

Sunday:  8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy, Pot-Luck Brunch

A Psalm of Exile for the Pre-Lenten Sundays (Ps. 137)

By the waters of Babylon,

there we sat down and wept,

when we remembered Zion.

On the willows there we hung up our lyres.

For there our captors required of us songs,

and our tormentors, mirth, saying,

“Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a foreign land?

If I forget you, O Jerusalem,

let my right hand wither!

Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth,

if I do not remember you,

if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy!

Remember, O LORD, against the E’domites

the day of Jerusalem,

how they said, “Rase it, rase it! Down to its foundations!”

O daughter of Babylon, you devastator!

Happy shall he be who requites you

with what you have done to us!

Happy shall he be who takes your little ones

and dashes them against the rock!

The Tax Collector and the Pharisee (Luke 18:10-14)

Today:  8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy, Annual Parish Meeting; Brunch

Tuesday:  6:00 pm Vespers

Thursday:  6:00 pm Vespers; 7:00 pm Choir

Saturday:  5:00 pm Liturgical Dynamics Class (the history and structure of Great Lent); 6:00 pm Vespers

Sunday:  8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy, Brunch; 3:00 pm St Francis Dining Hall

Triodion Hymns of Repentance (sung at Sunday Matins through the 5th Sunday of Lent):

Open to me the doors of repentance, O Life-giver, for my spirit rises early to pray towards Thy holy Temple, bearing the temple of my body all defiled; but in Thy compassion, purify me by the loving-kindness of Thy mercy.

Lead me on the paths of salvation, O Mother of God, for I have profaned my soul with shameful sins and have wasted my life in laziness.  But by your intercessions, deliver me from all impurity.

Have mercy on me, O God, according to Thy great mercy, and according to the multitude of Thy compassions, blot out my transgressions.

When I think of the many evil things I have done, wretch that I am, I tremble at the fearful day of judgment.  But trusting in Thy loving-kindness, like David I cry to Thee: “Have mercy on me, O God; have mercy on me, O God; have mercy on me, O God, according to Thy great mercy.”

The Savior & Zacchaeus — coptic icon

Meeting of Our Lord – icon by Maria Struve

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Today:  8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy, Classes, Brunch

Tuesday:  6:00 pm Vespers

Thursday:  6:00 pm Vespers; 7:00 pm Choir

Saturday:  10:00 am Men’s Quiet Day of Reflection & Prayer here at the church; 5:00 pm Liturgy Class; 6:00 pm Vespers

Sunday:  8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy, Annual Parish Meeting; Brunch

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Parish Men’s Retreat:

Next Saturday, February 12:

A pre-Lenten opportunity to focus, share, connect, and prepare.  The subject will be the parable of the “Publican and the Pharisee,” amplified and illumined by ancient and contemporary commentary.  We’ll have a lunch together.  Look for a sign-up sheet.  Fee will be minimal.

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Annual Parish Meeting:

Next Sunday, February 13:

Agenda: Roll, Minutes from last year, Reports, Election of the Council Class of 2014, New & Old Business, Adjournment.  Brunch will follow.