Sunday before Epiphany
To learn more:
www.goarch.org/special/listen_learn_share/epiphany
Saturday, Great Vespers 5 PM
Sunday Matins/Orthros 8:30 AM
Sunday Divine Liturgy 10 AM
All weekday, Evening Services, 5 PM.
SATURDAY, January 4
SUNDAY, Eve of Theophany, January 5
*Please see:
www.goarch.org/special/listen_learn_share/epiphany
www.goarch.org/en/-/the-feast-of-epiphany-the-feast-of-lights
Please keep your Stewardship up-to-date. It is time to make our 2020 Stewardship Pledges. If you are not able to commit to a general 10% Tithe, please see if you can increase your current level of giving by 10%.
"Honor the Lord with your substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: so shall your barns be filled with plenty, and your presses shall burst out with new wine" (Proverbs 3:9-10)
8:30AM Matins (Orthros)
10:00AM Divine Liturgy with Sanctification Of Holy Water
11:15AM Sanctification Of Holy Water
Theophany of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
5:00PM Paraklesis
3:30PM Choir (Kliros) Practice
5:00PM Vespers (Hesperinos)
8:30AM Matins (Orthros)
10:00AM Divine Liturgy
5:00PM Paraklesis
3:30PM Choir (Kliros) Practice
5:00PM Vespers (Hesperinos)
8:30AM Matins (Orthros)
10:00AM Divine Liturgy
To learn more:
www.goarch.org/special/listen_learn_share/epiphany
Saint Syncletike was from Alexandria in Egypt. She lived eighty-three years in virginity and asceticism, and became the leader and teacher of many nuns. What Saint Anthony the Great was to men, she became to women: a model of mortification of the flesh, of patience in afflictions, and of wise instruction; for this, she is known a "Amma," a title corresponding to "Abba." Towards the end of her long life, she was stricken with an exceedingly painful disease, which she endured with faith and magnanimity. She reposed in the middle of the fourth century. It is said of Saint Syncletike that she was the virgin who hid Saint Athanasius from the Arians for more than a year in the environs of Alexandria, and it is to Saint Athanasius that her life is ascribed (PG 18:1488-1557).
Sunday before Epiphany
The Reading is from St. Paul's Second Letter to Timothy 4:5-8
TIMOTHY, my son, always be steady, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil your ministry.
For I am already on the point of being sacrificed; the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.
Sunday before Epiphany
The Reading is from Mark 1:1-8
The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it is written in the prophets, 'Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who shall prepare your way; the voice of one crying in the wilderness: prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.' John was baptizing in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And there went out to him all the country of Judea, and all the people of Jerusalem; and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. Now John was clothed with camel's hair, and had a leather girdle around his waist, and ate locusts and wild honey. And he preached, saying, "After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. I have baptized you with water; but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit."