SAINTED MICHAEL, THE FIRST METROPOLITAN OF KIEV (992)
16TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
HIEROMARTYR GREGORY, BISHOP OF GREATER ARMENIA (335)
VENERABLE GREGORY, ABBOT OF PELSHME, WONDERWORKER OF VOLOGDA (1442)
Confessions heard, Third and Sixth Hours– 9:30 AM
Divine Liturgy – 10:00 AM
Prayer List: Mother Raphaela and Arleen (Pauluch)
Sunday, October 13th, Divine Liturgy offered:
For the Health of:
Peter, Anna, Nicholas, Alaric, Natalia, Alexei, Elya, Andrew, Vadim by Seasholtz Family
Valentina, Michael, Ludmila, Vladislav, Olga, Daniel and Alexander
For the Memory of Departed servants:
+Reader Samuel (Sokoluk, Jr) by Alexei, Lucia and Amelia
+ Joel (Patrick) by Diane Patrick
+ Valentina (Winsky) by Alexei, Lucia and Amelia
Flowers on the tetrapod and on the altar are in memory of +Reader Samuel (Sokoluk, Jr.), and +Valentina (Winsky), by Alexei, Lucia and Amelia. Vechnaya Pamyat! Memory Eternal!
Schedule of services:
Sunday, October 13, 16th Sunday After Pentecost Divine Liturgy 10AM
Monday, October 14, Pokrov Divine Liturgy 10 AM
Sunday, October 20, 17th Sunday After Pentecost Divine Liturgy 10AM
Troparion of the Sunday, Tone VII By Thy Cross, Thou didst destroy death! / To the thief, Thou didst open Paradise! / For the myrrhbearers, Thou didst change weeping into joy! / And Thou didst command Thy disciples, O Christ God, / to proclaim that Thou art risen, / granting the world great mercy!
Kontakion of the Sunday, Tone VII The dominion of death / can no longer hold men captive, / for Christ descended, shattering and destroying its powers! / Hell is bound, while the prophets rejoice and cry: /”The Savior has come to those in faith! / Enter, you faithful, into the Resurrection!
Holy Hieromartyr Gregory of Greater Armenia, Troparion in Tone IV As thou didst share in the ways of the apostles/ and didst occupy their throne,/ thou didst find thine activity to be a passage to divine vision,/ O divinely inspired one./ Wherefore, ordering the word of truth,/ thou didst suffer for the Faith even to the shedding of thy blood.// O hieromartyr Gregory, entreat Christ God, that our souls be saved.
Kontakion in Tone II "The steadfast" O ye faithful, in songs and hymns/ let us all praise today the right glorious hierarch Gregory/ as an athlete, a vigilant shepherd and teacher,/ a universal luminary and champion;// for he prayest to Christ/that we be saved.
EPISTLE 2 CORINTHIANS 6:1-10 We then, as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For He says: In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you." Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. We give no offense in anything, that our ministry may not be blamed. But in all things we commend ourselves as ministers of God: in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fastings; by purity, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as chastened, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
GOSPEL LUKE 6:31-36 And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise. But if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive back, what credit is that to you? For even sinners lend to sinners to receive as much back. But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil. Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.