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 4:14-16; 5:1-6
BRETHREN, since we have a high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we have not a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is beset with weakness. Because of this he is bound to offer sacrifice for his own sins as well as for those of the people. And one does not take the honor upon himself, but he is called by God, just as Aaron was. So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him, "Thou art my Son, today I have begotten thee"; as he says also in another place, "Thou art a priest for ever, after the order of Melchizedek."
Sunday of the Holy Cross
The Reading is from Mark 8:34-38; 9:1
The Lord said: "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it. For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? For what can a man give in return for his life? For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of man also be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels." And he said to them, "Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God come with power."
Saint Chrysanthus, who was from Alexandria, had been instructed in the Faith of Christ by a certain bishop. His father, who was a senator by rank and a pagan, had him shut up in prison for many days; then, seeing the unchanging disposition of his mind, he commanded that a certain young woman named Daria be brought from Athens. She was a very beautiful and learned maiden, and also an idolater, and Chrysanthus' father wedded him to her so that he might be drawn away from the Faith of Christ because of his love for her. Instead of this however, Chrysanthus drew Daria unto piety, and both of them boldly proclaimed Christ and received the crown of martyrdom in 283, during the reign of Numerian, when they were buried alive in a pit of mire.
With the help of God, we have almost reached the middle of the course of the Fast, where our strength has been worn down through abstinence, and the full difficulty of the labour set before us becomes apparent. Therefore our holy Mother, the Church of Christ, now brings to our help the all-holy Cross, the joy of the world, the strength of the faithful, the staff of the just, and the hope of sinners, so that by venerating it reverently, we might receive strength and grace to complete the divine struggle of the Fast.
Saint Cuthbert was born in Britain about the year 635, and became a monk in his youth at the monastery of Melrose by the River Tweed. After many years of struggle as a true priest of Christ, in the service both of his own brethren and of the neglected Christians of isolated country villages, he became a solitary on Farne Island in 676. After eight years as a hermit, he was constrained to leave his quiet to become Bishop of Lindisfarne, in which office he served for almost two years. He returned to his hermitage two months before he reposed in peace in 687. Because of the miracles he wrought both during his life and at his tomb after his death, he is called the "Wonderworker of Britain." The whole English people honoured him, and kings were both benefactors to his shrine and suppliants of his prayers. Eleven years after his death, his holy relics were revealed to be incorrupt; when his body was translated from Lindisfarne to Durham Cathedral in August of 1104, his body was still found to be untouched by decay, giving off "an odour of sweetest fragrancy," and "from the flexibility of its joints representing a person asleep rather than dead." Finally, when the most impious Henry VIII desecrated his shrine, opening it to despoil it of its valuables, his body was again found incorrupt, and was buried in 1542. It is believed that after this the holy relics of Saint Cuthbert were hidden to preserve them from further desecration.
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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
9:00AM Presanctified Liturgy
6:30PM Bridegroom Matins
Holy Tuesday
9:00AM Presanctified Liturgy
6:30PM Bridegroom Matins
Holy Wednesday
9:00AM Presanctified Liturgy
3:00PM FINAL Bridegroom Matins
6:30PM Holy Unction
Holy Thursday
9:00AM Vesperal Liturgy of the Mystical Supper
6:30PM 12 Passion Gospels Matins
Holy Friday
9:00AM Royal Hours
10:00AM Decorating our Lord's Tomb
3:00PM Removal from the Cross Vespers
6:30PM Lamentations
9:00PM All-Night Vigil at the Tomb (Psalm Readers!)
Holy Saturday
9:00AM Vesperal Liturgy of the Myrrh Bearing Women
11:00PM Vigil of Pascha
12:00AM THE Resurrection Liturgy
PASCHA!!!
10:00AM Divine Liturgy
12:00PM Agape Service
4:00PM Paschal Compline at the end of the Festal Meal
Renewal Monday