Saturday Vespers
5:00 PM
Sunday Liturgies
9:00AM Orthros
10:00AM Divine Liturgy
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The Reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 1:10-14; 2:1-3
"IN THE BEGINNING, Thou, Lord, didst found the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of thy hands; they will perish, but thou remainest; they will all grow old like a garment, like a mantle thou wilt roll them up, and they will be changed. But thou art the same, and thy years will never end." But to what angel has he ever said, "Sit at my right hand, till I make thy enemies a stool for thy feet?" Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to serve, for the sake of those who are to obtain salvation?
Therefore we must pay closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. For if the message declared by angels was valid and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution, how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard him.
Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas
The Reading is from Mark 2:1-12
At that time, Jesus entered Capernaum and it was reported that he was at home. And many were gathered together, so that there was no longer room for them, not even about the door; and he was preaching the word to them. And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him; and when they had made an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic lay. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "My son, your sins are forgiven." Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts, "Why does this man speak thus? It is a blasphemy! Who can forgive sins but God alone?" And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you question thus in your hearts? Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise, take up your pallet and walk? But that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins"-he said to the paralytic-"I say to you, rise, take up your pallet and go home." And he rose, and immediately took up the pallet and went out before them all; so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!"
This divine Father, who was from Asia Minor, was from childhood reared in the royal court of Constantinople, where he was instructed in both religious and secular wisdom. Later, while still a youth, he left the imperial court and struggled in asceticism on Mount Athos, and in the Skete at Beroea. He spent some time in Thessalonica being treated for an illness that came from his harsh manner of life. He was present in Constantinople at the Council that was convened in 1341 against Barlaam of Calabria, and at the Council of 1347 against Acindynus, who was of like mind with Barlaam; Barlaam and Acindynus claimed that the grace of God is created. At both these Councils, the Saint contended courageously for the true dogmas of the Church of Christ, teaching in particular that divine grace is not created, but is the uncreated energies of God which are poured forth throughout creation: otherwise it would be impossible, if grace were created, for man to have genuine communion with the uncreated God. In 1347 he was appointed Metropolitan of Thessalonica. He tended his flock in an apostolic manner for some twelve years, and wrote many books and treatises on the most exalted doctrines of our Faith; and having lived for a total of sixty-three years, he reposed in the Lord in 1359.
His holy relics are kept in the Cathedral of Thessalonica. A full service was composed for his feast day by the Patriarch Philotheus in 1368, when it was established that his feast be celebrated on this day. Since works without right faith avail nothing, we set Orthodoxy of faith as the foundation of all that we accomplish during the Fast, by celebrating the Triumph of Orthodoxy the Sunday before, and the great defender of the teachings of the holy Fathers today.
Saint Theophanes, who was born in 760, was the son of illustrious parents. Assenting to their demand, he married and became a member of the Emperor's ceremonial bodyguard. Later, with the consent of his wife, he forsook the world. Indeed, both of them embraced the monastic life, struggling in the monastic houses they themselves had established. He died on March 12, 815, on the island of Samothrace, whereto, because of his confession of the Orthodox Faith, he had been exiled by Leo the Armenian, the Iconoclast Emperor.
Saint Symeon became a monk of the Studite Monastery as a young man, under the guidance of the elder Symeon the Pious. Afterwards he struggled at the Monastery of Saint Mamas in Constantinople, of which he became abbot. After enduring many trials and afflictions in his life of piety, he reposed in 1022. Marvelling at the heights of prayer and holiness to which he attained, and the loftiness of the teachings of his life and writings, the church calls him "the New Theologian." Only to two others, John the Evangelist and Gregory, Patriarch of Constantinople, has the church given the name "Theologian." Saint Symeon reposed on March 12, but since this always falls in the Great Fast, his feast is kept today.
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St. Gregory Palamas/Daylight Savings
9:00AM Morning Prayers (Orthros)
12:00PM Philoptochos Meeting
6:00PM Penitential Vespers
Photo Week
6:30PM Evening Compline
Office Closed
5:45PM 9th Hour Prayer
6:30PM Presanctified Liturgy with Lenten Potluck
9:00AM Presanctified Liturgy
6:30PM Small Compline with the Salutations to the Theotokos
4:30PM 9th Hour
5:00PM Great Vespers
Holy Cross
9:00AM Morning Prayers (Orthros)
6:00PM Penitential Vespers AT ST. GREGORY
6:00PM Evening Compline
6:30PM Parish Council Meeting
Office Closed
5:45PM 9th Hour Prayer
6:30PM Presanctified Liturgy with Lenten Potluck
9:00AM Presanctified Liturgy
6:30PM Vespers for the Eve of the Annunciation
9:00AM Matins and Divine Liturgy for the GREAT FEAST of the Annunciation
4:30PM 9th Hour Prayer
5:00PM Great Vespers
St. John Climacus
9:00AM Morning Prayers (Orthros)
6:00PM Penitential Vespers at St. John of Kronstadt
6:30PM Evening Compline
Office Closed
5:45PM 9th Hour Prayer
6:30PM Presanctified Liturgy with Lenten Potluck
6:30PM GREATEST Canon/Compline of St. Andrew with the life of St. Mary of Egypt
9:00AM Presanctified Liturgy
6:30PM Final and Full Akathist Hymn
Mary of Egypt
9:00AM Matins and Liturgy for St. Mary of Egypt
4:30PM 9th Hour
5:00PM Great Vespers
Mary of Egypt
9:00AM Morning Prayers (Orthros)
10:00AM Divine Liturgy
6:00PM Penitential Vespers
6:30PM Evening Compline
Office Closed
3:00PM St. Gregory's Particular Night God's Extended Hand Ministry
5:45PM 9th Hour
6:30PM Presantified Liturgy with Lenten Potluck
9:00AM Presanctified Liturgy
6:30PM Compline for St. Lazarus
Lazarus Saturday
9:00AM Matins and Divine Liturgy
11:00AM Pancake Breakfast, Palm Crosses and Kids Confessions
5:00PM Great Vespers
Palm Sunday
9:00AM Morning Prayers (Orthros)
10:00AM Divine Liturgy
11:30AM Palm Sunday Fish Luncheon
4:00PM 9th Hour and Vespers
6:00PM Bridegroom Matins
Holy Monday