Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas
Excerpt from the Lenten Triodion (Service Book for Great Lent)
It is pointless for someone to say that he has faith in God if he does not have the works which go with faith. What benefit were their lamps to the foolish virgins who had no oil (Mt. 25:1-13), namely, deeds of love and compassion?
- †St. Gregory Palamas
Since 1368 this Sunday has been dedicated to the memory of St. Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (1296–1359). This commemoration forms a continuation of the feast celebrated on the previous Sunday: St. Gregory’s victory over Barlaam, Akindynos and the other heretics of his time is seen as a renewed Triumph of Orthodoxy. In the earlier period there was on this day a commemoration of the Great Martyr Polycarp of Smyrna (+ c. 155), whose feast was transferred from the fixed calendar (23 February). This commemoration, like that of St. Theodore, underlined the connection between Lenten asceticism and the martyr’s vocation. The second Sunday also takes up the theme of the Prodigal Son as a model of repentance, with the first of the two Canons at Mattins being devoted to this parable.
The Lenten Triodion, Service Book for Great Lent, pp. 52-53.
We have three meal trains going right now:
Mealtrain for the Jackson family: https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/33qyql
Mealtrain for the Stultz family: https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/83yy72
Mealtrain for the Dorsey family: https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/2302g5
We have a volunteer to deliver the meals if they are left here at the Church. Please label them.
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Starting Sunday, March 9th and then every Sunday until Palm Sunday we will be celebrating the Liturgy of St. Basil the Great. Two extra lambs must also be sanctified for the Presanctified liturgies. This will add a little time to the service.
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Check out the bookstore for Lenten reading and also a restock of prayer ropes.
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| Date | Matins | Epistle | |
| Mar 23 | Skomorucha | Peck | |
| Mar 30 | Burns | Bergwall | |
| Apr 6 | Plumley | Altschul | |
| Date | Coffee Hour | Service Duty | Church Cleaners |
| Mar 16 |
Morjana / Hamwi / Najemy / Didonato / Gwinn |
Riley / Riley | Bunitsky / Davis / Koehler |
| Mar 23 |
Diehl / Kendall / Koehler / Santana |
Stultz / Najemy | Dempsey / Plummer / Santana |
| Mar 30 |
Baldychev / Prior / Morales / Jaimes |
Bunitsky / Morjana | Long / Huff‑Cadreau |
| Apr 6 |
Shatley / Bunitsky / Davis / Altschul / Roundtree / Ricks |
Telep / Baldychev | Clause / Whalen |
| Date | Servers |
| Mar 23 | Bergwall / Moses (sub) |
| Mar 30 | Bergwall / Burns |
This Week's Schedule
Tuesday, March 18th
Lenten Compline
at 6:00 p.m.
Women's Fellowship
at 6:45 p.m.
Wednesday, March 19th
Ninth Hour
at 8:45 a.m.
Presanctified Liturgy
at 9:00 a.m.
Friday, March 21st
Ninth Hour
at 5:45 p.m.
Presanctified Liturgy
at 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 22nd
Great Vespers
at 5:00 p.m.
followed by
Confessions
Sunday, March 23rd
Sunday of the Cross - Mid Lent
Matins
at 8:00 a.m.
Divine Liturgy
at 9:00 a.m.
followed by
Fellowship
and
Classes
Important Dates
Tuesday, March 25th
Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos
