Saturday, April 9: LENTEN PARISH WORKDAY starting at 10am. Inside kitchen, windows, altar ware and general cleaning. Outdoor grounds clean up, weather permitting. Nina will arrive around 9am. The only qualification for a worker is willingness!
Sunday, April 10, 2022
Fifth Sunday of Great Lent
Commemoration of our Righteous Mother Mary of Egypt
Martyrs Terence and Pompey of Carthage and those with them; New-hieromartyr Gregory V,
Patriarch of Constantinople; New-martyr Demas of Smyrna
This evening: The final Sunday Lenten Vespers at St. Mary of Egypt Greenwood at 5pm.
Thought for Today: “Entrust your physical needs to God–and it will be clear that you entrust to Him your spiritual needs also.” + St. Nilus of Sinai
Food for Hungry People and Outreach, 2022 Campaign: FFHP is receiving donations for the Archdiocesan fund to support those in our country and around the world with food insecurity. You may make a donation to All Saints by Agape Sunday and we will send the composite donation to FFHP.
Today’s Coffee Hour: Hosts: Glen and Wendy Carter family and Parishioners C-G
Next Week (Palm Sunday, April 17): Hosts: Nina Rogers and Parishioners H-R.
Parish Council meets today during coffee hour.
THIS WEEK
Wednesday, April 13: Presanctified Liturgy at 6:00 – Orthodoxy 101
Fr. Peter Jon’s topic is “Confession.“
Thursday, April 14: OCF’s Dinner and Discussion at Howard and Rhonda’s home 6:00-8:00
Friday, April 15 : Compline with the Raising of Lazarus at 6:00
Saturday, April 16: Lazarus Saturday, Matins at 9am with baptisms and chrismations and Divine Liturgy at 10am
Saturday, April 16: Great Vespers at 5:00 – Ask Abouna; Jr. SOYO at 4:00; Sr. SOYO at 6:00
Palm Sunday, April 17: Matins at 8:50; Divine Liturgy at 10:00 – Procession of Palms
Sunday, April 17: Bridegroom Service at 5:00
Monday, April 18: Holy Week with morning and evening services each day.
LOOKING AHEAD
Holy Pascha and Agape Sunday – April 24th
May 27-30: Pilgrimage to Holy Dormition Monastery
If you would like to join the Webbs on a pilgrimage to Holy Dormition Monastery over Memorial Day weekend, please see the information and Sign up NOW on the Sheet on the Bulletin Board by the kitchen door. First come, first served, as there are limited spaces available. There will be a waiting list in case plans change for some people. + Thanks, Rhonda
EPISTLE and GOSPEL READINGS
The Reading is from St. Paul’s Epistle to the Hebrews. (9:11-14)
Make your vows and pay them to the Lord our God.
God is known in Judaea. His Name is great in Israel.
Brethren, Christ having appeared a High Priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation; neither through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, entered in once for all into the holy place, having found eternal redemption. For if the sprinkling of defiled persons with the blood of bulls and goats and with the ashes of a heifer sanctifies for the purification of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
The Reading is from the Holy Gospel according St. Mark. (10:32-45)
At that time, Jesus took His twelve Disciples, and began to tell them what was to happen to Him, saying, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. And the Son of man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn Him to death, and deliver Him to the Gentiles. And they will mock Him, and scourge Him, and spit upon Him, and kill Him; and after three days He will rise.” And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came forward to Him, and said to Him, “Teacher, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall desire” And Jesus said to them, “What do you want Me to do for you?” And they said to Him, “Grant us to sit, one at Thy right hand and one at Thy left, in Thy glory.” But Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?” And they said to Him, “We are able.” And Jesus said to them, “The cup that I drink you will drink; and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized. But to sit at My right hand or at My left is not Mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared.” And when the ten heard it, they began to be indignant at James and John. And Jesus called them to Him and said to them, “You know that those who are supposed to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them. But it shall not be so among you; but whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be servant of all. For the Son of man also came not to be served but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
DIVINE LITURGY VARIABLES for CHOIR and PARISH
Resurrectional Apolytikion – Tone 1
While the stone was sealed by the Jews, and the soldiers were guarding Thy most pure body, Thou didst arise on the third day, O Savior, granting life to the world. For which cause the heavenly powers cried aloud unto Thee, O giver of life. Glory to Thy Resurrection O Christ, glory to Thy kingdom, glory to Thy providence, O Thou Who alone art the lover of mankind.
Apolytikion of St. Mary of Egypt – Tone 8
Through thee, the divine likeness was securely preserved, O mother Mary; for thou didst carry the cross and follow Christ. By example and precept thou didst teach us to ignore the body, because it is perishable, and to attend to the concerns of the undying soul. Therefore, doth thy soul rejoice with the angels.
Ordinary Kontakion – Tone 2
O Undisputed Intercessor of Christians…
Megalynarion of St. Basil’s Liturgy
All creation rejoiceth in thee, O thou who art full of grace: the angelic hosts and the race of men. O hallowed temple and spiritual paradise, glory of virgins, of whom God was incarnate and became a little child, even our God who is before all the ages; for he made thy womb a throne, and thy body more spacious than the heavens. All creation rejoiceth in thee, O thou who art full of grace. Glory to thee.
FAMILY NEWS
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Coffee Hour Reminders: First Sunday A-B; Second Sunday C-G; Third Sunday H-R; Fourth Sunday S-Z; Fifth Sunday All Pitch-in.
Anniversary Memories: Daniel & Gala M (14th)
Birthday Celebrations: Zachary P (11th); Subdn Jon (14th); Marvin P (15th)
Blessed Name Day: Molly A (St. Mary of Egypt – 10th); Subdn Jon (St. Jon of Vilna-14th); Ayris F (St Anastasia – 16th)
Memory Eternal: James; Merle; Justin; Christopher Ryan; Natalie Ashanin
Prayer List: Josiah (hospitalized with life-threatening condition); Displaced Ukrainian refugees and those who remain in their war-torn country; Peace talks; our nation and all nations’ leaders; Vicki;Vicki’s granddaughter with pre-term baby’s death;Petroulla’s mother hospitalized with kidney failure (Cyprus); Hermione with child;Arianna Vician; Rhonda’s sister-in-law Judee with a kidney tumor;Wendy Elizabeth’s Aunt Helen (Covid-Pneumonia) and Uncle Bobby;Mary Ann; Linda; Steve Crandall; Fr. Athanasius; Jack;Christopher; schools: school children, youth and personnel across the nation; Nancy; Don and Dee; Fr. Jerome; Catherine; Anastasia with child; Bonnie Thelen; Wadia; Jayci; Patricia, Marvin, Alice; Michael; Olga; Eileen; Soren; Kitsa; Apthrodite and Angelos; Kim; Kristy, Dusty, Cari; Betsy, Josh; Allison; Andrew and Isaac (Korea/military); Leanne; Heather; Nancy; Sharon Catherine; Lexi, Ross and Vivian; Theo; Doug; Jeremy; Marcia & Deacon; Elias; Waded; Seraphima; Lilly’s family; Jennifer; Christy