Services at St. Andrew

Saturday 12/4
Saint Barbara the Great Martyr +Orthros @8am & Divine Liturgy SJC @9am

Sunday 12/5
The 10^th Sunday of Luke + Orthros @8:15am & Divine Liturgy SJC @9:30am

MEMORIALS

A 40 DAYMEMORIAL SERVICEwill be held for the repose of the soul of +Ourania Ουρανίας "Nitsa” Gribas, beloved sister of Chrisoula and devoted mother of: Nick (Natalia) Gribas, Despina (Aaron Hohenstein) Gribas and Angela (Christopher) Athineos. Friends of the family are invited to join the them for refreshments in the social hall.

A 40 DAY MEMORIAL SERVICEwill be held for the repose of the soul of +Christos Χρήστου Anagnost, beloved brother of John William (Kathleen) Anagnost, long time parishioner of Saint Andrew and avid supporter of Philoptochos.

A SIX MONTH MEMORIAL SERVICE will be held today for the repose of the soul of +Jeremy Ιερεμία J Paxos and A ONE YEAR Memorial Service for the repose of the soul of +Margaret ΜαραγαρίταςPaxos, beloved family members of Andrew and John A Paxos.

AN ANNUAL MEMORIAL SERVICE will be held today for the repose of the soul of our ever memorable +Kanella Κανέλας and +Nikolaos Νικολαόυ (Perdis) Perdikoulias, Beloved parents of Vickie (Vasiliki)and Perry (Pereklis, grandparents of Thomas, Nicholas and Peter Geannakakes brother in law and sister of Panayiotis and Norma.

May their memory be eternal. Αιωνίαημνήμηαυτών

Monday 12/6

+Saint Nicholas+Orthros @8am & Divine Liturgy SJC @9am

ARTOCLASIA SERVICE is offered today by Costas and Constantina Seretis for the health of their family members.

A FUNERAL SERVICE will be held on Monday for the repose of the soul of +Christine Hovliaras which is preceded by the viewing at 10:30am

ATTENDING SERVICES AT SAINT ANDREW

No reservations are required to attend church services
NO Masks required for people to attend services (you may wear a mask if you choose to)
A section in the church with Social distance seating is available for people who choose this for themselves or their family.

Participation in services is also available via livestream - go to: Home | St. Andrew Greek Orthodox Church (orthodoxws.com) and choose LIVESTREAM on the Menu bar

Prayers/Liturgy can always be found at: https://www.agesinitiatives.com/dcs/public/dcs/dcs.html

Online Giving System: Website: https://www.standrewgonj.org/ and choose PayPal / online WeShare

Announcements

Sunday services New start time is +8:15am Orthros & 9:30am Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom

Attending church services:

Sunday school (children please sit with your family during service) - after Holy Communion students go to classes - after class- meet families in the Social Hall

GOYA:Please sit in designated Pews 2A, 3A, 4A located at far left of Altar are reserved for GOYA MEMBERS.

Games today in Clifton at 2:30pm

HOPE & JOY: Meeting Sunday December 5^th after Sunday School Classes in rooms 102 & 103

The 2021 Christmas Pageant rehearsal after church on 12/5/21

The Saint Andrew Greek Orthodox Church Religious Education and Hellenic Afternoon School will present a Christmas Pageant on Sunday December 12^th immediately following Divine Liturgy. Parents, please help us prepare for the event by completing the form provided by our staff (copies outside church office). Snow 12/19/21.

Join us for Little Angels Playgroup (LAP)!

Calling all Little Angels ages 0-4! For basic introduction to Greek nursery rhymes and religion. Feel free to bring toys, snacks. A caretaker must be present. Drop in any time between 9:30-11:30am every other Friday on December 3, December 17, January 7, 2022 …
If you have questions or plan on attending, please contact Athina Vella at amv1823@gmail.com or call/text 973-879-7095.

PHILOPTOCHOS

Annual Holiday Bake Sale: see order form

Annual Christmas Dinner Philoptochos & Daughters of Penelope TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2021, at 6:30 p.m. see promo page

Share your Christmas & New Year’s Wishes see promo page

Knitting and Pillow Ministries: Please join us on the 1^st and 3^rd Wednesday of the Month at 11:00am for knitting and or sewing. We need you to help us provide blankets, scarves, and pillows to the different organizations we are helping. Feel free to drop in for a cup of coffee … we usually have little lunch a lot of laughs. Meeting Dates on Wednesday 12/1, 12/15 , 1/5, 1/19

Toys for tots: We are collecting NEW unwrapped toys for Toys for Tots Foundation. Please drop off your donations at church byFriday Dec. 10^h.

Hellenic Afternoon School

Mondays at 4:30pm for Jr.PK, PK, K, Levels 1 & 2.

Thursdays at 4:30pm for Levels 3,4,5 and 6

Greek Dance Class
Thursdays for Group 1 at 5:45pm & for Group 2 and 6:30pm

GOYA GREEK DANCE
Thursdays at 7:30pm

Fr. John's Message

THE THREE CROSSES

“The true purpose of Christian life is the acquisition of the Holy Spirit” the great Russian saint, Seraphim of Sarov mentions. It is his experience through the ascetical life that he followed. This saying is the authentic one of our tradition and refers to each ascetic, and to today’s celebrated Saint Savva, the professor of the desert. The venerable ascetics are those for whom the apostolic saying applies: “while those of Christ crucified the flesh, with the passions and the desires” (Gal. 5:26), showing us the way to acquire the Holy Spirit and its fruits.

The fleshly train of thought

The flesh is an element of our being. It is whatever reminds us of our human dimension. It is not only the body and its needs. It is also the ethos, the manner that keeps us attached to the here and indicates a path that we think can lead us to happiness and to the meaning of life. Whereas it was given to us by God, our flesh seeks us to ignore Him. It produces in us the false sense of immortality. It devours the time of our life with the idea that if we satisfy it, we will be well. The fleshly train of thought makes the body and our soul cooperate, not in order to be given to God, but in order for us to remain in the present. It absorbs our mind and heart. It wants us “modern”. ”. It hands us over to earthly cares. It cuts off our being from love. And it substitutes spirituality with secular knowledge, the freedom of virtue with the false sense of freedom of sin.

Passions and desires today

The sufferings, in other words, the passions, hide in the initial sweetness of pleasure, the trap of sin. They are considered our right. They are considered elements of the character and of the personality that imprints our “ego”. “To whomever we like”, we cry out. And we are not eager to limit them, since their domination over us gives us the sense of being distinct. It makes us controllers of others. Just as, however, we feel that the entire world proceeds on the clashes of the passions, we are swayed in the false sense that we will win. The passions, however, isolate us from our neighbor, because they make us tiresome and make whatsoever love be defeated. The desires, finally, comprise the manner with which we express how we see, but also what we want from the world and life. Our desires turn towards the other people and to what we seek them to give us. We become, of course, also an object of their desire, ceasing to be persons. Nevertheless, all desires are not sinful. Each desire, however, that separates us from God and our fellow man, usually makes us blind controllers and sometimes it also opposes nature, as God created it. Thus, it becomes the root of sin. We forget thus, the desire of God, the desire of love, the desire of eternity.

Walking “in the Holy Spirit”

In the spiritual life the three elements- fleshly train of thought, passions and desires- need to pass through the manner of the Cross. The Cross means struggle so that these are not the things that define the journey of our life, but that “we walk in the Spirit”, to walk in the manner and the gifts of the Holy Spirit. The Cross means the decision in us that the three elements find their true destination: the flesh, sanctification through the grace of God, that the passions be transfigured into the struggle to create and the desires, to become love. However, if we do not crucify our ego within the body of Christ, within the Church, within the community, within the relationship with each fellow man, our heart will remain not tasting the life of the Holy Spirit This path may be faced with scorn by our age and our people. Each one is called, imitating the Saints, to pursue the grace and the fruits of the Spirit with his life and to fight to find the path for eternity, defeating death. The beauty of holiness, furthermore, is the only one that is able to make the world to truly brave greatly. Holiness defeats time. And even if it doesn’t make the noise of our culture. And even if the lights of life do not fall on it. It is, however, and will remain the true purpose of life and of our faith.

Fr. Th. M.

Lord’s Voice Apostolic Ministry of the Church of Greece

Daily Calendar

Coffee Hour

will be held in the Social Hall and hosted by Philoptochos* in honor of the blessed memory of +Christos Anagnost, and sponsored by the Gribas family in memory of +Ourania, their beloved mother.

Bagels are donated by Jimmy Psaras of ALFA BAGELS on Route 10 in Randolph, NJ

Coffee is donated by William Callas of COFFEE ASSOCIATES in Edgewater, NJ

HOSTING Coffee hour on: 12/12 PTA*, 12/19 DOP*, (*Please bring Lenten options for coffee hour) 12/26 GOYA, 1/2/2022 Philoptochos, 1/9/2022 PTA,..

Church Schedule this week

Monday 12/6 +Saint Nicholas+Orthros @8am & Divine Liturgy SJC @9am

ARTOCLASIA SERVICE is offered today by the family of Costas and Dina Seretis

Funeral Service for the repose of the soul of Christine Hovliaras

@4:30 HAS LEVELS: JPK, PK, K, L1, L2

Tuesday 12/7

@7pm GOYA Volleyball Practice/gym

Wednesday 12/8

@6 pm GOYA JR Basketball & 7:30pm GOYA SR Basketball will Practice/gym

Thursday 12/9

@4:30 HAS LEVELS: L3, L4, L5, L6

@5:45 Greek Dance Class Group 1 |@6:30pm Greek Dance Class Group 2

@ 7:30pm GOYA GREEK Dance Practice

@7pm Festival Meeting

Friday 12/10

Saturday 12/11

@11am Baptism Langone

Sunday 12/12

The 11^th Sunday of Luke + Orthros @8:15am & Divine Liturgy SJC @9:30am

Memorial Service: +Kyriaki Lewis +Margaret Prassinos , +Ekaterini +Demetrios Rotsides

Christmas Pageant after Liturgy in Church

Monday 12/13

@4:30 HAS LEVELS: JPK, PK, K, L1, L2

@7pm Stewardship Virtual Meeting rescheduled

Tuesday 12/14

@7pm GOYA Volleyball Practice/gym

Philoptochos and DOP Christmas Dinner at Morristown Diner 6pm

Wednesday 12/15

Saint Eleutherios the Holy Martyr + Orthros @8:15am & Divine Liturgy SJC @9:30am

Memorial Service: +Elias Massad

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collecting NEW unwrapped toys for Toys for Tots Foundation. Please drop off your donations at Saint Andrew Church before December 10th

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Annual Christmas Dinner Philoptochos and Daughters of Penelope TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2021 at 6:30 p.m. RSVP 12/10/21

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Prayer List

Prayer for a Sick Person:

Heavenly Father, physician of our souls and bodies, who have sent Your only-begotten Son and our Lord Jesus Christ to heal every sickness and infirmity, visit and heal (me) Your servant from all physical and spiritual ailments through the grace of Your Christ. Grant (me) patience in this sickness, strength of body and spirit, and recovery of health. Lord, You have taught us through Your word to pray for each other that we may be healed. I pray that You heal (me) as Your servant and grant (me) the gift of complete health. For You are the source of healing and to You I give glory, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen

Please keep these names in your prayers

Gregory, John, Marny, Chari Nikolaos, Janet, Melissa, Marty, Andreas, Fotini, Georgia, Pamela, Haralambos, Photeine, Christina, Michael, Adrianne, George, Anastasia, Nicholas, Michael, Alexandra, Sofia, Joseph, Vasilios, Robert, Megan, Chrisopigi, Guadalupe, Barbara, Ioannis, Nicholas, Margaret, Ava, Venessa, Chris, Dominic, Ralph, Ralph L, Elenitsa, Sophia, Doreen, Lori, Robert, Constantine, Panagiota, Michael Scott, Christine, Millie, Joe, Anastasios, Herb, Sangita, Elizabeth, Mary, Niki, Phillip, Pagona, Eleftheria, Argiroula, Angeliki, John, Helen, Athena, Jeremiah, Joseph, Elias, Joanna, Ellen, Demetra, Kenneth, Artemis, Vasileke, John, Mike, Maria, Mary, Haroula, Ioannis, Irene, Christos, Evangelia, Alice, Larry, Maria, Catherine, Mark, Vasiliki-Christina, Christina….

If you would like us to remember you or your loved one in our prayers, please contact the office. 973-584-0388 or send us an email to info@standrewgonj.org

Names will be kept on this list for approximately 3 months. Please resubmit Names if needed. Fr. John will pray for the Names above during the Proskomide “Offering of gifts” during the first part of the Divine Liturgy when our priest prepares the mystical gifts of bread and wine. Please keep these names in your prayers as well.

Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

Second Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from Mark 16:1-8

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, so that they might go and anoint Jesus. And very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb when the sun had risen. And they were saying to one another, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the door of the tomb?" And looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back, for it was very large. And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe; and they were amazed. And he said to them, "Do not be amazed; you seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen, he is not here; see the place where they laid him. But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him, as he told you." And they went out and fled from the tomb; for trembling and astonishment had come upon them; and they said nothing to any one, for they were afraid.

Second Orthros Gospel
Κατὰ Μᾶρκον 16:1-8

Καὶ διαγενομένου τοῦ σαββάτου Μαρία ἡ Μαγδαληνὴ καὶ Μαρία ἡ τοῦ ᾿Ιακώβου καὶ Σαλώμη ἠγόρασαν ἀρώματα ἵνα ἐλθοῦσαι ἀλείψωσιν αὐτόν. καὶ λίαν πρωῒ τῆς μιᾶς σαββάτων ἔρχονται ἐπὶ τὸ μνημεῖον, ἀνατείλαντος τοῦ ἡλίου. καὶ ἔλεγον πρὸς ἑαυτάς· τίς ἀποκυλίσει ἡμῖν τὸν λίθον ἐκ τῆς θύρας τοῦ μνημείου; καὶ ἀναβλέψασαι θεωροῦσιν ὅτι ἀποκεκύλισται ὁ λίθος· ἦν γὰρ μέγας σφόδρα. καὶ εἰσελθοῦσαι εἰς τὸ μνημεῖον εἶδον νεανίσκον καθήμενον ἐν τοῖς δεξιοῖς, περιβεβλημένον στολὴν λευκήν, καὶ ἐξεθαμβήθησαν. ὁ δὲ λέγει αὐταῖς· μὴ ἐκθαμβεῖσθε· ᾿Ιησοῦν ζητεῖτε τὸν Ναζαρηνὸν τὸν ἐσταυρωμένον· ἠγέρθη, οὐκ ἔστιν ὧδε· ἴδε ὁ τόπος ὅπου ἔθηκαν αὐτόν. ἀλλ᾿ ὑπάγετε εἴπατε τοῖς μαθηταῖς αὐτοῦ καὶ τῷ Πέτρῳ ὅτι προάγει ὑμᾶς εἰς τὴν Γαλιλαίαν· ἐκεῖ αὐτὸν ὄψεσθε, καθὼς εἶπεν ὑμῖν. καὶ ἐξελθοῦσαι ἔφυγον ἀπὸ τοῦ μνημείου· εἶχε δὲ αὐτὰς τρόμος καὶ ἔκστασις, καὶ οὐδενὶ οὐδὲν εἶπον· ἐφοβοῦντο γάρ.

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Grave Mode. Psalm 149.5,1.
The saints shall rejoice in glory.
Verse: Sing to the Lord a new song.

The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Galatians 5:22-26; 6:1-2.

Brethren, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. Let us have no self-conceit, no provoking of one another, no envy of one another. Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Look to yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Προκείμενον. Grave Mode. ΨΑΛΜΟΙ 149.5,1.
Καυχήσονται ὅσιοι ἐν δόξῃ
Στίχ. Ἄσατε τῷ Κυρίῳ ᾆσμα καινόν.

τὸ Ἀνάγνωσμα Πρὸς Γαλάτας 5:22-26, 6:1-2.

Ἀδελφοί, ὁ καρπὸς τοῦ πνεύματός ἐστιν ἀγάπη, χαρά, εἰρήνη, μακροθυμία, χρηστότης, ἀγαθωσύνη, πίστις, πρᾳότης, ἐγκράτεια· κατὰ τῶν τοιούτων οὐκ ἔστιν νόμος. Οἱ δὲ τοῦ Χριστοῦ, τὴν σάρκα ἐσταύρωσαν σὺν τοῖς παθήμασιν καὶ ταῖς ἐπιθυμίαις. Εἰ ζῶμεν πνεύματι, πνεύματι καὶ στοιχῶμεν. Μὴ γινώμεθα κενόδοξοι, ἀλλήλους προκαλούμενοι, ἀλλήλοις φθονοῦντες. Ἀδελφοί, ἐὰν καὶ προληφθῇ ἄνθρωπος ἔν τινι παραπτώματι, ὑμεῖς οἱ πνευματικοὶ καταρτίζετε τὸν τοιοῦτον ἐν πνεύματι πρᾳότητος, σκοπῶν σεαυτόν μὴ καὶ σὺ πειρασθῇς. Ἀλλήλων τὰ βάρη βαστάζετε, καὶ οὕτως ἀναπληρώσατε τὸν νόμον τοῦ Χριστοῦ.

Gospel Reading

10th Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 13:10-17

At that time, Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years; she was bent over and could not fully straighten herself. And when Jesus saw her, he called her and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your infirmity." And he laid his hands upon her, and immediately she was made straight, and she praised God. But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the sabbath, said to the people, "There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be healed, and not on the sabbath day." Then the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger, and lead it away to water it? And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?" As he said this, all his adversaries were put to shame; and all the people rejoiced at all the glorious things that were done by him.

10th Sunday of Luke
Κατὰ Λουκᾶν 13:10-17

Τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ, ῏Ην δὲ διδάσκων ἐν μιᾷ τῶν συναγωγῶν ἐν τοῖς σάββασι. καὶ ἰδοὺ γυνὴ ἦν πνεῦμα ἔχουσα ἀσθενείας ἔτη δέκα καὶ ὀκτώ, καὶ ἦν συγκύπτουσα καὶ μὴ δυναμένη ἀνακῦψαι εἰς τὸ παντελές. ἰδὼν δὲ αὐτὴν ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς προσεφώνησε καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῇ· γύναι, ἀπολέλυσαι τῆς ἀσθενείας σου· καὶ ἐπέθηκεν αὐτῇ τὰς χεῖρας· καὶ παραχρῆμα ἀνωρθώθη καὶ ἐδόξαζε τὸν Θεόν. ἀποκριθεὶς δὲ ὁ ἀρχισυνάγωγος, ἀγανακτῶν ὅτι τῷ σαββάτῳ ἐθεράπευσεν ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς, ἔλεγε τῷ ὄχλῳ· ἓξ ἡμέραι εἰσὶν ἐν αἷς δεῖ ἐργάζεσθαι· ἐν ταύταις οὖν ἐρχόμενοι θεραπεύεσθε, καὶ μὴ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τοῦ σαββάτου. ἀπεκρίθη οὖν αὐτῷ ὁ Κύριος καὶ εἶπεν· ὑποκριτά, ἕκαστος ὑμῶν τῷ σαββάτῳ οὐ λύει τὸν βοῦν αὐτοῦ ἢ τὸν ὄνον ἀπὸ τῆς φάτνης καὶ ἀπαγαγὼν ποτίζει; ταύτην δέ, θυγατέρα ᾿Αβραὰμ οὖσαν, ἣν ἔδησεν ὁ σατανᾶς ἰδοὺ δέκα καὶ ὀκτὼ ἔτη, οὐκ ἔδει λυθῆναι ἀπὸ τοῦ δεσμοῦ τούτου τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τοῦ σαββάτου; καὶ ταῦτα λέγοντος αὐτοῦ κατῃσχύνοντο πάντες οἱ ἀντικείμενοι αὐτῷ, καὶ πᾶς ὁ ὄχλος ἔχαιρεν ἐπὶ πᾶσι τοῖς ἐνδόξοις τοῖς γινομένοις ὑπ᾿ αὐτοῦ.

Saints and Feasts

December 05

Sabbas the Sanctified

This Saint was born in 439 in Moutalaska, a small village of Cappadocia. He entered the arena of the monastic life from childhood and was under that master trainer of monastics, Euthymius, the Great, the teacher of the desert. He became the spiritual Father of many monks and an instructor for the monasteries in Palestine, and was appointed leader (archimandrite) of the desert-dwellers of Palestine by the Patriarch of Jerusalem. In his old age he went to Constantinople, to the Emperors Anastasius and Saint Justinian the Great, in behalf of the Orthodox Faith and the dogmas of the Council of Chalcedon. Having lived ninety-four years, he reposed in 533. The Typicon for the ecclesiastical services had its beginning in the monastery established by this righteous one.

December 05

Philotheos the Righteous of Mount Athos

December 05

10th Sunday of Luke

December 05

Nektarios the Bulgarian

December 06

Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra

This Saint lived during the reign of Saint Constantine the Great, and reposed in 330, As a young man, he desired to espouse the solitary life. He made a pilgrimage to the holy city Jerusalem, where he found a place to withdraw to devote himself to prayer. It was made known to him, however, that this was not the will of God for him, but that he should return to his homeland to be a cause of salvation for many. He returned to Myra, and was ordained bishop. He became known for his abundant mercy, providing for the poor and needy, and delivering those who had been unjustly accused. No less was he known for his zeal for the truth. He was present at the First Ecumenical Council of the 318 Fathers at Nicaea in 325; upon hearing the blasphemies that Arius brazenly uttered against the Son of God, Saint Nicholas struck him on the face. Since the canons of the Church forbid the clergy to strike any man at all, his fellow bishops were in perplexity what disciplinary action was to be taken against this hierarch whom all revered. In the night our Lord Jesus Christ and our Lady Theotokos appeared to certain of the bishops, informing them that no action was to be taken against him, since he had acted not out of passion, but extreme love and piety. The Dismissal Hymn for holy hierarchs, The truth of things hath revealed thee to thy flock ... was written originally for Saint Nicholas. He is the patron of all travellers, and of sea-farers in particular; he is one of the best known and best loved Saints of all time.

December 12

11th Sunday of Luke

On the Sunday that occurs on or immediately after the eleventh of this month, we commemorate Christ's forefathers according to the flesh, both those that came before the Law, and those that lived after the giving of the Law.

Special commemoration is made of the Patriarch Abraham, to whom the promise was first given, when God said to him, "In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed" (Gen. 22:18). This promise was given some two thousand years before Christ, when Abraham was seventy-five years of age. God called him and commanded him to forsake his country, parents, and kinsmen, and to depart to the land of the Canaanites. When he arrived there, God told him, "I will give this land to thy seed" (Gen. 12:7); for this cause, that land was called the "Promised Land," which later became the country of the Hebrew people, and which is also called Palestine by the historians. There, after the passage of twenty-four years, Abraham received God's law concerning circumcision. In the one hundredth year of his life, when Sarah was in her ninetieth year, they became the parents of Isaac. Having lived 175 years altogether, he reposed in peace, a venerable elder full of days.

Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Grave Mode

Thou didst abolish death by Thy Cross; Thou didst open Paradise to the thief; Thou didst transform the myrrh-bearers' lamentation, and didst bid Thine Apostles to preach that Thou art risen, O Christ God, granting great mercy to the world.

Κατέλυσας τῷ Σταυρῷ σου τὸν θάνατον, ἠνέῳξας τῷ Λῃστῇ τὸν Παράδεισον, τῶν Μυροφόρων τὸν θρῆνον μετέβαλες, καὶ τοῖς σοῖς Ἀποστόλοις κηρύττειν ἐπέταξας, ὅτι ἀνέστης Χριστὲ ὁ Θεός, παρέχων τῷ κόσμῳ τὸ μέγα ἔλεος.

Apolytikion for Sabbas the Sanctified in the Plagal Fourth Mode

With the streams of thy tears, thou didst cultivate the barrenness of the desert; and by thy sighings from the depths,thou didst bear fruit a hundredfold in labours; and thou becamest a luminary, shining with miracles upon the world, O Savas our righteous Father. Intercede with Christ God that our souls be saved.

Ταίς τών δακρύων σου ροαίς, τής ερήμου τό άγονον εγεώργησας, καί τοίς εκ βάθους στεναγμοίς, εις εκατόν τούς πόνους εκαρποφόρησας, καί γέγονας φωστήρ, τή οικουμένη λάμπων τοίς θαύμασι, Σάββα Πατήρ ημών, Όσιε, Πρέσβευε Χριστώ τώ Θεώ, σωθήναι τάς ψυχάς ημών.

Apolytikion for the Church in the First Mode

Hymn of the Apostle St. Andrew: As first of the Apostles to receive the call, and very brother of the prince of them, intercede O Andrew, with the Master of all of us, peace to all the world to grant, and to our souls His great mercy.

Απολυτίκιο του Αποστόλου Ανδρέου: Ως των Αποσόλων πρωτόκλητος, και του κορυφαίου αυτάδελφος, τον Δεσπότην των όλων Ανδρέα ικέτευε, ειρήνην τη οικουμένη δωρήσασθαι, και ταις ψυχαίς ημών το μέγα έλεος

Seasonal Kontakion in the Third Mode

On this day the Virgin cometh to the cave to give birth to * God the Word ineffably, * Who was before all the ages. * Dance for joy, O earth, on hearing * the gladsome tidings; * with the Angels and the shepherds now glorify Him * Who is willing to be gazed on * as a young Child Who * before the ages is God.

Ἡ Παρθένος σήμερον, τὸν Προαιώνιον Λόγον, ἐν Σπηλαίῳ ἔρχεται, ἀποτεκεῖν ἀπορρήτως. Χόρευε ἡ οἰκουμένη ἀκουτισθεῖσα, δόξασον μετὰ Ἀγγέλων καὶ τῶν Ποιμένων, βουληθέντα ἐποφθῆναι, παιδίον νέον, τὸν πρὸ αἰώνων Θεόν.

Wisdom of the Fathers

Patience is a labor that does not crush the soul. It never wavers under interruptions, good or bad...Patience sets a boundary to the daily onslaught of suffering...Patience comes from hope and mourning, and indeed to lack those is to be a slave of despondency.

St. John Climacus

Ladder of Divine Ascent, Step 27: On Stillness; Paulist Press pg.271, 6th century

Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance, suppresses anger, restrains pride and envy, draws down the Holy Spirit into the soul and raises man to heaven.

St. Ephraim the Syrian

Unknown, 4th century

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Saint Barbara the Great Martyr +Orthros @8am & Divine Liturgy SJC @9am

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