Sundays:
Orthros - 8:30 a.m.
Divine Liturgy - 9:30 a.m.
Weekdays:
Evening Vespers - 6:00 p.m.
Do you want to live a spiritual life-watch yourself. Every evening, look over what you have done good and bad, thank God for good, and repent of bad.
St.Alexy Mechev of Moscow
PLEASE JOIN US FOR A FESTIVAL MEETING SEPTEMBER 12.
EVERYONE IS NEEDED TO MAKE WONDERFUL THINGS HAPPEN!
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Summer 2021 Stewardship news
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Teacher positions are open for Sunday School. Please let the secretary know if you are interesteded. Thank you!
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Orthodox Catechism/Faith Classes
We have our Catechism/Faith Class every Wednesday evening at 7:30 pm via Zoom. This is led by your Priest, and assisted by Stavros Emery. We spend an hour presenting and discussing different aspects of our beautiful Orthodox Faith, as well as her history and practice. Here you will have the opportunity to meet some of our other inquirers as well.
Youth Program: The Relationship Project for Grades 7-12 AGES 12 - 18. Thank you all who participated in the summer session. Part 3 will resume in the fall/winter. Please contact Joyce Cisneros for more information and make sure she has your contact information as well for possible Youth outings and get-togethers.
Next Parish Council meeting is 9/9/2021 at 7:00pm at the back office.
We have an open position on parish council.
If anyone is interested please contact Namaz by phone or email our Parish Council at parishcouncil@ourparish.us
The Investment Committee
We are in the process of starting a new committee called "The Investment Committee".
We are looking for approximately 3 or 4 individuals to be part of the committee.
If you are interested please email Osama Dawood or call him at 916-778-9739.
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A memorial will be held this Sunday for the rest of the soul of our dear Nektarios (Troy) who has passed way after a terrible car accident this last Monday
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Kitchen is off limits for 2 weeks as drain pipe needs to be replaced
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Sign up to host a Sunday lunch! See sign up list in the hall bulletin board.
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Dancers have to be committed to be at all practices and available to dance between the actual performance time, to entertain the festival guests and encourage them to dance, or just participate in dancing so guests have something to see.
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Text Notifications
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This service will only be used to notify parishioners of any changes to service times or to provide information on events or occurences that affect the entire parish. We see this as being used infrequently but feel that we need to an effective way to communicate important information quickly.
Father Joseph's Hours
Father Joseph will be in the office Wednesdays and Thursdays from 11:00 to 3:00.
Father will also maintain office hours on Friday evenings from from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. for the sacrament of Holy Confession. He will be available to meet in the hall, narthex, or crying room on these nights. Please feel free to send Father Joseph a text message at 661-496-5768 during this time to check his availability. You will receive an estimated wait time if any.
Confessions appointments can be made with Presbytera.
If you need to meet with Father please make appointments during the week. Sunday should be left for Father to have time to visit with parishioners during coffee hour. Please give him the time to do so unless it is an emergency. Thank you for your understanding.
Secretary Presbytera Despina Hours
This Monday's office hours will be moved to Thursday
Monday 10-3 (For the summer only may be moved to Thursday)
Tuesday 9-3
Wednesday 10-3
Please contact Despina via call or text (661-496-5793) if there are any changes to your information.
Address, phone number, email. Thank you!
Prayers for Thanksgiving-Healing and Help:
Please add to your daily prayers
Orthodox: George, Abram, Vickie, Elaina, Maher, Nabel, Magdy, Daniel, Natalia and family, Nickolas, Irene, Pamela, Virginia, Paraskevi, Michael, Dimitris Mary, Margarita, Jennifer
Non-Orthodox: Judith, Nayeli and David, Peggy
For the rest of the soul of our departed:
Orthodox: George, George, Sooad, George, Leonid, Nikos, Vivian, John, Mary, Nektarios
Prayer
Let your mercies, O Lord, come quickly to our aid, for we are utterly poor; help us, O God our Savior, for the glory of your name. O Lord, deliver us, and have mercy on our sins, for your name’s sake.
From our Pastoral Assistant Stavros
Excerpt from Chapter “Second Epistle- A Small Blessing of a Few “Nuts”” from the book “Epistles- Elder Paisios of Mount Athos”.
“In those trials allowed by God one is tried, ascertains on his own his spiritual condition, and is compelled to be humbled; afterward, he is filled with Grace by God, as he humbly and joyfully accepts the trials as medicine for his soul, patiently glorifying and thanking God. It is fortunate that the Good God allows for us to be tried, for otherwise we would have hidden passions and absurd demands on the Day of Judgement. But even if God overlooked all these things and accepted us into Paradise as we are, we would create problems there, as well. For this reason, temptations are allowed in this life so as to clean us up, purify our soul with sorrow and weeping, and oblige us to take refuge in God in order to find our salvation.
People alienated from God are the most miserable in the world, both in this life and the life of the age to come. Even more miserable than these people are the demons, who estranged themselves from God thousands of years ago and who continue to alienate themselves with their pride and wickedness, remaining unrepentant.
The most blessed of all people are those who exhibited the greatest repentance, with pain and inner contrition, and, in this way, extinguished the proud enemy. They humbled their unruly flesh with asceticism - subdued it to the spirit - and granted the greatest joy to Heaven with their repentance (their return to God). ..
.. He who is unrepentant is the most foolish person in the world. Apart from being tormented by unceasing anxiety because he does not repent to rid himself of his little hell, which leads him to the eternal one, he is also deprived of heavenly joys while on earth, which continue to a much greater degree in Paradise, close to God.
There is no greater joy in the world than God’s love, which is given abundantly together with his divine tenderness to His children who have ‘philotimo’ even in this life; a love which is only to be lived, not expressed. How much more love has God stored up for us in Paradise that He withholds from us now because we are unable to fit it in our hearts of clay!”
PROSPHORO offering
Joyce: 1/3, 1/31, 2/28, 4/25, 5/23, 6/20, 7/18, 8/15, 9/12, 10/10, 11/7, 12/5
Olympia: 1/10, 2/7, 4/4, 5/2, 5/30, 6/27, 7/25, 8/22, 9/19, 10/16, 11/14, 12/12
Bessema: 1/17, 2/14, 4/11, 5/9, 6/6, 7/4, 8/1, 8/29, 9/26, 10/24, 11/21, 12/19
Mary: 1/24, 2/21, 4/18, 5/16, 6/13, 7/11, 8/8, 9/5, 10/3, 10/31, 11/28, 12/26
Thank you!
Please make arrangements with Presbytera to bring the offering Saturday night either to the church or Father's home or for any chedule changes.
We are looking for more people to make the blessed bread.
Please approach Father Joseph if interested.
If you want to learn more about how to make Prosphora, you can visit our Prosphoro site
Thank you.
AUGUST
ANNIVERSARIES
8/12 Ken & Olympia Hackleman
8/24 Josh & Evanthia Frazier
8/30 Ted & Kathy Exarchoulakos
BIRTHDAYS
8/1 Georgia and Sofia Alexandrakis
8/1 Isaiah Strategos
8/4 Evangeline Copeland
8/4 John Strategos
8/5 Zaina Olivias
8/5 Michael Antonaros
8/6 Tom Drulias
8/8 Anthony Becerra
8/10 Justin Dorlis
8/12 Katherine Brits
8/20 Anna West
8/23 Joyce Cisneros
8/23 Marianna Strategos
8/25 Namaz Pimentel
8/26 Ted Exarchoulakos
If your Anniversary or Birthday is not listed and would like to be added or if it's incorrect, please contact Presbytera directly or send her an email at secretary@ourparish.us
PLEASE NOTE: All bulletin announcements must be received each week by 6:00 pm Wednesday to be included in the Sunday bulletin for that week.
Please send email with your request or suggestion to editor@ourparish.us
Prokeimenon. Grave Tone. Psalm 63.11,1.
The righteous shall rejoice in the Lord.
Verse: Oh God, hear my cry.
The reading is from Acts of the Apostles 13:25-33.
IN THOSE DAYS, as John was finishing his course, he said, "What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. No, but after me one is coming, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie." Brethren, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you that fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation. For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor understand the utterances of the prophets which are read every sabbath, fulfilled these by condemning him. Though they could charge him with nothing deserving death, yet they asked Pilate to have him killed. And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb. But God raised him from the dead; and for many days he appeared to those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people. And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers, this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus.
Προκείμενον. Grave Tone. ΨΑΛΜΟΙ 63.11,1.
Εὐφρανθήσεται δίκαιος ἐν Κυρίῳ.
Στίχ. Εἰσάκουσον, ὁ Θεός, τῆς φωνῆς μου.
τὸ Ἀνάγνωσμα Πράξεις Ἀποστόλων 13:25-33.
Ἐν ταῖς ἡμεραῖς ἐκείναις, ὡς δὲ ἐπλήρου ὁ Ἰωάννης τὸν δρόμον, ἔλεγεν, Τίνα με ὑπονοεῖτε εἶναι; Οὐκ εἰμὶ ἐγώ. Ἀλλʼ ἰδού, ἔρχεται μετʼ ἐμέ, οὗ οὐκ εἰμὶ ἄξιος τὸ ὑπόδημα τῶν ποδῶν λῦσαι. Ἄνδρες ἀδελφοί, υἱοὶ γένους Ἀβραάμ, καὶ οἱ ἐν ὑμῖν φοβούμενοι τὸν θεόν, ὑμῖν ὁ λόγος τῆς σωτηρίας ταύτης ἀπεστάλη. Οἱ γὰρ κατοικοῦντες ἐν Ἱερουσαλὴμ καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντες αὐτῶν, τοῦτον ἀγνοήσαντες, καὶ τὰς φωνὰς τῶν προφητῶν τὰς κατὰ πᾶν σάββατον ἀναγινωσκομένας, κρίναντες ἐπλήρωσαν. Καὶ μηδεμίαν αἰτίαν θανάτου εὑρόντες, ᾐτήσαντο Πιλάτον ἀναιρεθῆναι αὐτόν. Ὡς δὲ ἐτέλεσαν πάντα τὰ περὶ αὐτοῦ γεγραμμένα, καθελόντες ἀπὸ τοῦ ξύλου, ἔθηκαν εἰς μνημεῖον. Ὁ δὲ θεὸς ἤγειρεν αὐτὸν ἐκ νεκρῶν· ὃς ὤφθη ἐπὶ ἡμέρας πλείους τοῖς συναναβᾶσιν αὐτῷ ἀπὸ τῆς Γαλιλαίας εἰς Ἱερουσαλήμ, οἵτινές εἰσιν μάρτυρες αὐτοῦ πρὸς τὸν λαόν. Καὶ ἡμεῖς ὑμᾶς εὐαγγελιζόμεθα τὴν πρὸς τοὺς πατέρας ἐπαγγελίαν γενομένην, ὅτι ταύτην ὁ θεὸς ἐκπεπλήρωκεν τοῖς τέκνοις αὐτῶν ἡμῖν, ἀναστήσας Ἰησοῦν.
البروكيمنون. Grave Tone. مزمور 63: 11، 1.
الصديقون يفرحون بالرب
Verse: يا الله انصت إلى صراخي
فصل من أعمال الرسل 13: 25-33.
25في تلك الأيام ولما صَارَ يُوحَنَّا يُكَمِّلُ سَعْيَهُ جَعَلَ يَقُولُ: ((مَنْ تَظُنُّونَ أَنِّي أَنَا؟ لَسْتُ أَنَا إِيَّاهُ لَكِنْ هُوَذَا يَأْتِي بَعْدِي الَّذِي لَسْتُ مُسْتَحِقّاً أَنْ أَحُلَّ حِذَاءَ قَدَمَيْهِ. 26((أَيُّهَا الرِّجَالُ الإِخْوَةُ بَنِي جِنْسِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَالَّذِينَ بَيْنَكُمْ يَتَّقُونَ اللهَ إِلَيْكُمْ أُرْسِلَتْ كَلِمَةُ هَذَا الْخَلاَصِ. 27لأَنَّ السَّاكِنِينَ فِي أُورُشَلِيمَ وَرُؤَسَاءَهُمْ لَمْ يَعْرِفُوا هَذَا. وَأَقْوَالُ الأَنْبِيَاءِ الَّتِي تُقْرَأُ كُلَّ سَبْتٍ تَمَّمُوهَا إِذْ حَكَمُوا عَلَيْهِ. 28وَمَعْ أَنَّهُمْ لَمْ يَجِدُوا عِلَّةً وَاحِدَةً لِلْمَوْتِ طَلَبُوا مِنْ بِيلاَطُسَ أَنْ يُقْتَلَ. 29وَلَمَّا تَمَّمُوا كُلَّ مَا كُتِبَ عَنْهُ أَنْزَلُوهُ عَنِ الْخَشَبَةِ وَوَضَعُوهُ فِي قَبْرٍ. 30وَلَكِنَّ اللهَ أَقَامَهُ مِنَ الأَمْوَاتِ. 31وَظَهَرَ أَيَّاماً كَثِيرَةً لِلَّذِينَ صَعِدُوا مَعَهُ مِنَ الْجَلِيلِ إِلَى أُورُشَلِيمَ الَّذِينَ هُمْ شُهُودُهُ عِنْدَ الشَّعْبِ. 32وَنَحْنُ نُبَشِّرُكُمْ بِالْمَوْعِدِ الَّذِي صَارَ لآبَائِنَا 33إِنَّ اللهَ قَدْ أَكْمَلَ هَذَا لَنَا نَحْنُ أَوْلاَدَهُمْ إِذْ أَقَامَ يَسُوعَ كَمَا هُوَ مَكْتُوبٌ أَيْضاً فِي الْمَزْمُورِ الثَّانِي: أَنْتَ ابْنِي أَنَا الْيَوْمَ وَلَدْتُكَ.
Beheading of the Holy and Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John
The Reading is from Mark 6:14-30
At that time, Herod the King heard about the fame of Jesus, for his name had become known. He said, "John the baptizer has been raised from the dead; that is why these powers are at work in him." But others said, "It is Elijah." And others said, "It is a prophet, like one of the prophets of old." But when Herod heard of it he said, "John, whom I beheaded, has been raised." For Herod had sent and seized John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife; because he had married her. For John said to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife." And Herodias had a grudge against him, and wanted to kill him. But she could not, for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he was much perplexed; and yet he heard him gladly. But an opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his courtiers and officers and the leading men of Galilee. For when Herodias' daughter came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests; and the king said to the girl, "Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will grant it." And he vowed to her, "Whatever you ask me, I will give you, even half of my kingdom." And she went out, and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?" And she said, "The head of John the baptizer." And she came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, saying, "I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter." And the king was exceedingly sorry; but because of his oaths and his guests he did not want to break his word to her. And immediately the king sent a soldier of the guard and gave orders to bring his head. He went and beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl; and the girl gave it to her mother. When his disciples heard of it, they came and took his body, and laid it in a tomb. The apostles returned to Jesus, and told him all that they had done and taught.
Beheading of the Holy and Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John
Κατὰ Μᾶρκον 6:14-30
Τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ, ἤκουσεν ὁ βασιλεὺς ῾Ηρῴδης· φανερὸν γὰρ ἐγένετο τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἔλεγεν ὅτι ᾿Ιωάννης ὁ βαπτίζων ἐκ νεκρῶν ἠγέρθη, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἐνεργοῦσιν αἱ δυνάμεις ἐν αὐτῷ. ἄλλοι ἔλεγον ὅτι ᾿Ηλίας ἐστίν· ἄλλοι δὲ ἔλεγον ὅτι προφήτης ἐστὶν ὡς εἷς τῶν προφητῶν. ἀκούσας δὲ ὁ ῾Ηρῴδης εἶπεν ὅτι ὃν ἐγὼ ἀπεκεφάλισα ᾿Ιωάννην, οὗτός ἐστιν· αὐτὸς ἠγέρθη ἐκ νεκρῶν. αὐτὸς γὰρ ὁ ῾Ηρῴδης ἀποστείλας ἐκράτησε τὸν ᾿Ιωάννην καὶ ἔδησεν αὐτὸν ἐν φυλακῇ διὰ ῾Ηρῳδιάδα τὴν γυναῖκα Φιλίππου τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ, ὅτι αὐτὴν ἐγάμησεν. ἔλεγε γὰρ ὁ ᾿Ιωάννης τῷ ῾Ηρῴδῃ ὅτι οὐκ ἔξεστί σοι ἔχειν τὴν γυναῖκα τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ σου. ἡ δὲ ῾Ηρῳδιὰς ἐνεῖχεν αὐτῷ καὶ ἤθελεν αὐτὸν ἀποκτεῖναι, καὶ οὐκ ἠδύνατο. ὁ γὰρ ῾Ηρῴδης ἐφοβεῖτο τὸν ᾿Ιωάννην, εἰδὼς αὐτὸν ἄνδρα δίκαιον καὶ ἅγιον, καὶ συνετήρει αὐτόν, καὶ ἀκούσας αὐτοῦ πολλὰ ἐποίει καὶ ἡδέως αὐτοῦ ἤκουε. καὶ γενομένης ἡμέρας εὐκαίρου, ὅτε ῾Ηρῴδης τοῖς γενεσίοις αὐτοῦ δεῖπνον ἐποίει τοῖς μεγιστᾶσιν αὐτοῦ καὶ τοῖς χιλιάρχοις καὶ τοῖς πρώτοις τῆς Γαλιλαίας, καὶ εἰσελθούσης τῆς θυγατρὸς αὐτῆς τῆς ῾Ηρῳδιάδος καὶ ὀρχησαμένης καὶ ἀρεσάσης τῷ ῾Ηρῴδῃ καὶ τοῖς συνανακειμένοις, εἶπεν ὁ βασιλεὺς τῷ κορασίῳ· αἴτησόν με ὃ ἐὰν θέλῃς, καὶ δώσω σοι. καὶ ὤμοσεν αὐτῇ ὅτι ὃ ἐάν με αἰτήσῃς δώσω σοι, ἕως ἡμίσους τῆς βασιλείας μου. ἡ δὲ ἐξελθοῦσα εἶπε τῇ μητρὶ αὐτῆς· τί αἰτήσομαι; ἡ δὲ εἶπε· τὴν κεφαλὴν ᾿Ιωάννου τοῦ βαπτιστοῦ. καὶ εἰσελθοῦσα εὐθέως μετὰ σπουδῆς πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα ᾐτήσατο λέγουσα· θέλω ἵνα μοι δῷς ἐξαυτῆς ἐπὶ πίνακι τὴν κεφαλὴν ᾿Ιωάννου τοῦ βαπτιστοῦ. καὶ περίλυπος γενόμενος ὁ βασιλεύς, διὰ τοὺς ὅρκους καὶ τοὺς συνανακειμένους οὐκ ἠθέλησεν αὐτὴν ἀθετῆσαι. καὶ εὐθέως ἀποστείλας ὁ βασιλεὺς σπεκουλάτωρα ἐπέταξεν ἐνεχθῆναι τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ. ὁ δὲ ἀπελθὼν ἀπεκεφάλισεν αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ φυλακῇ, καὶ ἤνεγκε τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ πίνακι καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτὴν τῷ κορασίῳ, καὶ τὸ κοράσιον ἔδωκεν αὐτὴν τῇ μητρὶ αὐτῆς. καὶ ἀκούσαντες οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ ἦλθον καὶ ἦραν τὸ πτῶμα αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἔθηκαν αὐτὸ ἐν μνημείῳ.
14فيَ ذلك الزمان سَمِعَ هِيرُودُسُ الْمَلِكُ، لأَنَّ اسْمَ يسوع صَارَ مَشْهُوراً. وَقَالَ: ((إِنَّ يُوحَنَّا الْمَعْمَدَانَ قَامَ مِنَ الأَمْوَاتِ وَلِذَلِكَ تُعْمَلُ بِهِ الْقُوَّاتُ)). 15قَالَ آخَرُونَ: ((إِنَّهُ إِيلِيَّا)). وَقَالَ آخَرُونَ: ((إِنَّهُ نَبِيٌّ أَوْ كَأَحَدِ الأَنْبِيَاءِ)). 16وَلَكِنْ لَمَّا سَمِعَ هِيرُودُسُ قَالَ: ((هَذَا هُوَ يُوحَنَّا الَّذِي قَطَعْتُ أَنَا رَأْسَهُ. إِنَّهُ قَامَ مِنَ الأَمْوَاتِ!))17لأَنَّ هِيرُودُسَ نَفْسَهُ كَانَ قَدْ أَرْسَلَ وَأَمْسَكَ يُوحَنَّا وَأَوْثَقَهُ فِي السِّجْنِ مِنْ أَجْلِ هِيرُودِيَّا امْرَأَةِ فِيلُبُّسَ أَخِيهِ، إِذْ كَانَ قَدْ تَزَوَّجَ بِهَا. 18لأَنَّ يُوحَنَّا كَانَ يَقُولُ لِهِيرُودُسَ: ((لاَ يَحِلُّ أَنْ تَكُونَ لَكَ امْرَأَةُ أَخِيكَ)) 19 فَحَنِقَتْ هِيرُودِيَّا عَلَيْهِ ، وَأَرَادَتْ أَنْ تَقْتُلَهُ وَلَمْ تَقْدِرْ، 20لأَنَّ هِيرُودُسَ كَانَ يَهَابُ يُوحَنَّا عَالِماً أَنَّهُ رَجُلٌ بَارٌّ وَقِدِّيسٌ، وَكَانَ يَحْفَظُهُ. وَإِذْ سَمِعَهُ، فَعَلَ كَثِيراً ، وَسَمِعَهُ بِسُرُورٍ. 21وَإِذْ كَانَ يَوْمٌ مُوافِقٌ، لَمَّا صَنَعَ هِيرُودُسُ فِي مَوْلِدِهِ عَشَاءً لِعُظَمَائِهِ وَقُوَّادِ الأُلُوفِ وَوُجُوهِ الْجَلِيلِ ، 22دَخَلَتِ ابْنَةُ هِيرُودِيَّا وَرَقَصَتْ، فَسَرَّتْ هِيرُودُسَ وَالْمُتَّكِئِينَ مَعَهُ. فَقَالَ الْمَلِكُ لِلصَّبِيَّةِ: ((مَهْمَا أَرَدْتِ اطْلُبِي مِنِّي فَأُعْطِيَكِ)). 23وَأَقْسَمَ لَهَا أَنْ ((مَهْمَا طَلَبْتِ مِنِّي لأُعْطِيَنَّكِ حَتَّى نِصْفَ مَمْلَكَتِي)). 24فَخَرَجَتْ وَقَالَتْ لأُمِّهَا: ((مَاذَا أَطْلُبُ؟)) فَقَالَتْ: ((رَأْسَ يُوحَنَّا الْمَعْمَدَانِ)). 25فَدَخَلَتْ لِلْوَقْتِ بِسُرْعَةٍ إِلَى الْمَلِكِ وَطَلَبَتْ قَائِلَةً: ((أُرِيدُ أَنْ تُعْطِيَنِي حَالاً رَأْسَ يُوحَنَّا الْمَعْمَدَانِ عَلَى طَبَقٍ)). 26فَحَزِنَ الْمَلِكُ جِدّاً. وَلأَجْلِ الأَقْسَامِ وَالْمُتَّكِئِينَ لَمْ يُرِدْ أَنْ يَرُدَّهَا. 27فَلِلْوَقْتِ أَرْسَلَ الْمَلِكُ سَيَّافاً وَأَمَرَ أَنْ يُؤْتَى بِرَأْسِهِ. 28فَمَضَى وَقَطَعَ رَأْسَهُ فِي السِّجْنِ. وَأَتَى بِرَأْسِهِ عَلَى طَبَقٍ وَأَعْطَاهُ لِلصَّبِيَّةِ، وَالصَّبِيَّةُ أَعْطَتْهُ لأُمِّهَا. 29وَلَمَّا سَمِعَ تَلاَمِيذُهُ، جَاءُوا وَرَفَعُوا جُثَّتَهُ وَوَضَعُوهَا فِي قَبْرٍ. 30وَاجْتَمَعَ الرُّسُلُ إِلَى يَسُوعَ وَأَخْبَرُوهُ بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ، كُلِّ مَا فَعَلُوا وَكُلِّ مَا عَلَّمُوا
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