Sunday Orthros - 8:00 a.m. followed by the Divine Liturgy
Saturday Vespers - 6:00 p.m.
Prokeimenon. Grave Mode. Psalm 63.11,1.
The righteous shall rejoice in the Lord.
Verse: Oh God, hear my cry.
The reading is from St. James' Universal Letter 3:1-10.
Brethren, let not many of you become teachers, for you know that we who teach shall be judged with greater strictness. For we all make many mistakes, and if any one makes no mistakes in what he says he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also. If we put bits into the mouths of horses that they may obey us, we guide their whole bodies. Look at the ships also; though they are so great and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So the tongue is a little member and boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire! And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is an unrighteous world among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the cycle of nature, and set on fire by hell. For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by humankind, but no human being can tame the tongue - a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brethren, this ought not to be so.
Tuesday of the 15th Week
The Reading is from Mark 11:11-23
At that time, Jesus entered Jerusalem, and went into the temple; and when he had looked round at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.
On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry. And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. And he said to it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again." And his disciples heard it.
And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons; and he would not allow any one to carry anything through the temple. And he taught, and said to them, "Is it not written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations'? But you have made it a den of robbers." And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and sought a way to destroy him; for they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching. And when evening came they went out of the city.
As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away to its roots. And Peter remembered and said to him, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree which you cursed has withered." And Jesus answered them, "Have faith in God. Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him."
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This Saint, a wealthy nobleman of Constantinople, was filled with piety toward God. He had two sons, Arcadius and John, whom he sent to Beirut to study law. But they were shipwrecked during their voyage; barely saved, they forsook all things and departed for Palestine. Saint Xenophon and his wife Mary, ignorant of what had happened, went in search of their sons. On finding them in Jerusalem, dressed in the habit of monks, they also took up the monastic life. And thus, having completed their lives in holiness, they departed for the Lord about the beginning of the sixth century. Saint Xenophon and his sons reposed at Saint Sabbas Monastery, and Mary at the Monastery of Saint Theodosius.
Xenophon & his Companions
Fasting Day
Removal of the Relics of John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople
9:00AM Church Office Open
9:00AM Archangels Academy
7:00PM Philoptochos Meeting - Online
Venerable Ephraim the Syrian
9:00AM Church Office Open
9:00AM Archangels Academy
Fasting Day
Removal of the Relics of Ignatius the God-bearer
9:00AM Church Office Open
9:00AM Archangels Academy
4:30PM Greek School Online
6:00PM Paraklesis
Synaxis of The Three Hierarchs: Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, & John Chrysostom
8:00AM Three Hierarchs, Orthros & Divine Liturgy
6:00PM Vespers
Cyrus & John the Unmercenaries
8:00AM Orthros & Divine Liturgy
1:30PM wedding SM
Trypho the Martyr
8:00AM Orthros & Divine Liturgy
9:00AM Church Office Open
9:00AM Archangels Academy
4:30PM Greek School Online
7:00PM Bible Study
The Presentation of Our Lord and Savior in the Temple
8:00AM Presentation of our Lord, Orthros & Divine Liturgy
9:00AM Church Office Open
9:00AM Archangels Academy
10:00AM Bible Study in Greek
Fasting Day
The Synaxis of the Holy and Righteous Symeon the God-Receiver and the Holy Prophetess Anna
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News and announcements, hymns, scripture readings, lives of saints for Sunday, January 24, 2021
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