Vespers - 5:00 PM Saturday, Orthros - 9:00 AM, Divine Liturgy - 10:00 AM Sunday
Confessions are available after Services, or contact Fr. Steven
Tone 8 / Eothinon 11
Sunday after the Theophany of Christ
Martyrs Hermylos and Stratonikos of Belgrade; Martyrs Pachomios and Papyrinos of Greece; Venerable Maximos Kafsokalyvitis of Athos; Venerable Eleazar of Anzersk Island; Hilarion, bishop of Poitiers
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. 1st Tone. Psalm 32.22,1.
Let your mercy, O Lord, be upon us.
Verse: Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous.
The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Ephesians 4:7-13.
BRETHREN, grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ's gift. Therefore it is said, "When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men." (in saying, "He ascended," what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is he who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) And his gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
Sunday after Epiphany
The Reading is from Matthew 4:12-17
At that time, when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee; and leaving Nazareth he went and dwelt in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali, that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: "The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, toward the sea, across the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death light has dawned." From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."
Saints Hermylus and Stratonicus contested for piety's sake during the reign of Licinius, in the year 314. Saint Hermylus was a deacon, and Stratonicus was his friend. For his confession of Christ, Hermylus was beaten so fiercely that his whole body was covered with wounds. Stratonicus, seeing him endure this and other torments that left him half dead, wept with grief for his friend. From this he was discovered to be a Christian, and when he had openly professed his Faith and had been beaten, he and Hermylus were cast into the Danube River, receiving the crown of martyrdom.
The 2019 Calendars are here, and available in the narthex. One per family unit, free!
Theophany water is in the narthex. Please drink, or take home and use!
Theophany HOUSE BLESSINGS are beginning. Use the sign up sheet in Bldg. 700.
TUES. - St. Maria of Paris Ladies Prayer Group @ 10:30 AM
SAT. - Vespers has started again @ 5:00 PM each Saturday
JAN. 20: All-parish annual meeting after Liturgy. This is important, and everyone should attend! This is your community--be part of its future!
JAN. 24-26: Diocese of Miami Winter Retreat at St. Elias
Remember in your prayers Nicholas, Tamara, Christina,Theodore, Elizabeth, Pelagia, Anastasia, Photini, Mary, Katharine, John, Kenneth, Ellen, Richard, Thomas, Christine, Alexandra, Richard, Robert, Catechumen Mary, Newly-illumined Mark and Bridget; Betty, Charles, Archpriest Steven, Kh. Christine, Mary, Reader Miguel, Dennis, Archpriest John, Archpriest Anastasy, Katherine, Joe, Kh. Barbara, Jonathan, Savvas, Keenan, Diana, Carmen, Mariana, Michael, Gabriel.
St. James Orthodox Church is a mission of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.