Orthros - 9:00 AM, Divine Liturgy - 10:00 AM Sunday
Confessions are available after Services, or contact Fr. Steven
Tone 8 / Eothinon 3; Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost & Ninth Sunday of Luke
Holy Martyr Plato of Ancyra; Martyr Romanos of Antioch; Martyrs Zacchaeus the deacon and Alphaeos the reader of Caesarea in Palestine
WELCOME! WE WISH TO EXTEND A GRACIOUS WELCOME TO ALL WHO ARE VISITING TODAY! A FRIENDLY REMINDER: Only Orthodox Christians who have properly prepared themselves through fasting, prayer, and recent confession may approach the Chalice to receive Holy Communion.
PAGE 26: As a disciple of the Lord, O righteous one, thou hast received the Gospel. As a Martyr thou art never turned away. As the Brother of God, thou hast boldness. As a hierarch thou canst intercede. Do thou intercede with Christ God that He save our souls.
Prokeimenon. 8th Tone. Psalm 75.11,1.
Make your vows to the Lord our God and perform them.
Verse: God is known in Judah; his name is great in Israel.
The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Ephesians 4:1-7.
Brethren, I, a prisoner for the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all lowliness and meekness, with patience, forbearing one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of us all, who is above all and through all and in all. But grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ's gift.
9th Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 12:16-21
The Lord said this parable: "The land of a rich man brought forth plentifully; and he thought to himself, 'What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?' And he said, 'I will do this: I will pull down my barns, and build larger ones; and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, 'Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.' But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul is required of you; and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?' So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God." As he said these things, he cried out: "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
TUESDAY: Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple -- Orthros Canon and Divine Liturgy @ 5:30 PM
WEDNESDAY: Thanksgiving Akathist @ 4:00 PM; NO St. Maria of Paris Women's Prayer Group today.
AXIOS! and Many Years to the newly-illumined Theophylact (Ronnie) Mifflin, baptized on Saturday!
We are in the Nativity fast! Please remember to come to confession before Christmas!
Remember in your prayers Nicholas, Tamara, Christina,Theodore, Elizabeth, Pelagia, Anastasia, Photini, Mary, Katharine, John, Kenneth, Ellen, Richard, Thomas, Christine, Alexandra, Richard, Robert, Catechumens Theophylact, Mary, Mark and Bridget; Betty, Charles, Archpriest Steven, Kh. Christine, Mary, Reader Miguel, Dennis, Archpriest John, Archpriest Anastasy, Katherine, Joe, Kh. Barbara, Jonathan, newly-reposed Protopresbyter Petros.
Labor to acquire thanksgiving toward God for everything, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you, and then you will find peace. St. Barsanuphius
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