Sunday of the Holy Cross: this Sunday, we are strengthened at the mid-point of Great Lent by calling to mind the life-giving and honorable Cross. We celebrate with a Procession and Veneration of the Cross at the end of Orthros, immediately before the Divine Liturgy begins. Many thanks to the donors of flowers to decorate the Holy Cross.
- At the end of Divine Liturgy we will offer the 40-day Memorial for Joy Athas - May her memory be eternal!
- We will also have a 40-day Churching for Erin Wolcott Spencer and her daughter Angie Mae - Congratulations to Erin and Chris for their first-born child!
Annunciation Feast Luncheon: next Sunday, March 26, we will celebrate the Annunciation of the Theotokos and Greek Independence Day with a Doxology at the end of Divine Liturgy and a delicious Fish Luncheon. The Lenten Fast is lightened for this great celebration, and the Parish Council invites everyone to join us for a community dinner that day. The PC is asking for a $20 donation/adult to offset the cost of the fresh haddock being procured (children and college students always eat for free!). Please let Sotos Pappaseraphim or any member of the Council know that you will be attending so there can be adequate provisions.
Philoptochos News: This Sunday of the Holy Cross, Philoptochos will be passing its customary tray to benefit Holy Cross School of Theology. Please be generous. - If you are not able to be in church and would like to donate to this collection for our training institution for priests and other church workers, youth ministers, chanters, and educators, please mail your check, made out to “Philoptochos” with a memo “HC donation”, to Presv. Anthe Athas, P.O. Box 1343, Burlington, VT 05401 – Thank you and God bless you!
O Lord and Master of my life! Take from me the spirit of sloth, faint-heartedness, lust of power, and idle talk.
But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience, and love to Thy servant.
Yea, Lord and King! Grant me to see my own errors and not to judge my brother, for Thou art blessed unto ages of ages. Amen.
Κύριε καὶ Δέσποτα τῆς ζωῆς μου, πνεῦμα ἀργίας, περιεργίας, φιλαρχίας, καὶ ἀργολογίας μή μοι δῷς.
Πνεῦμα δὲ σωφροσύνης, ταπεινοφροσύνης, ὑπομονῆς, καὶ ἀγάπης χάρισαί μοι τῷ σῷ δούλῳ.
Ναί, Κύριε Βασιλεῦ, δώρησαι μοι τοῦ ὁρᾶν τὰ ἐμὰ πταίσματα, καὶ μὴ κατακρίνειν τὸν ἀδελφόν μου, ὅτι εὐλογητὸς εἶ, εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν.
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