HOLY MARTYR PLATON OF ANCYRA (266)

23rd SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST

HOLY MARTYR ROMANUS THE DEACON OF CAESAREA AND

CHILD-MARTYR BARULAS OF ANTIOCH (303)

Confessions heard, Third and Sixth Hours– 9:30 AM

Divine Liturgy – 10:00 AM

Prayer List: Mother Raphaela and Arleen (Pauluch)

Sunday, December 1st, Divine Liturgy offered:

For the Health of: 

Peter, Anna, Nicholas, Alaric, Natalia, Alexei, Elya, Andrew, Vadim by Seasholtz Family

For the Memory of Departed servants: 

+Reader Samuel (Sokoluk, Jr) by Alexei, Lucia and Amelia

+Julia Ann and +Pavel (Sokoluk) by Alexei, Lucia and Amelia

Flowers on the tetrapod and on the altar are in memory of +Reader Samuel (Sokoluk, Jr.), and +Julia Ann and +Pavel (Sokoluk)  by Alexei, Lucia and Amelia Vechnaya Pamyat! Memory Eternal! 

Schedule of Services:

Sunday, December 1, 23rd Sunday After Pentecost Divine Liturgy 10AM

Wednesday, December 4, Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple Feastday Divine Liturgy 10 AM

Saturday, December 7, Vespers at 5 PM

Sunday, December 8, 24th Sunday After Pentecost Divine Liturgy 10AM

Philip's Fast (Advent) continues until January 7th. Vespers will be celebrated at 5pm on each Saturday during the Fast .  The St. Innocent Orthodox Reading Society will meet on those Saturdays at 4pm. For more information on the readings and the SIORS discussions please contact Fr. Gregory.

On Sunday December 1 Fr. Gregory will conduct a discussion (or a sobor, or a huddle) on the sacrament of confession during the fellowship hour following Divine Liturgy.  During that time we will engage in a  group discussion, including opportunities for questions and answers. In preparation for this opportunity, here are the links for the English and Russian pre-reads that were shared via email previously centering on a quote from the marvelous little book The Way of a Pilgrim. If you have not read The Way and are interested to learn more about the book. click here for a link to Amazon. There will also be hard copies of both the English and Russian available prior to the huddle. Please plan to attend and come armed with questions. 

Wednesday December 4  Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple Feastday Divine Liturgy will be served at 10 AM.

Troparion of the Sunday, Tone VI  The angelic powers were at Thy tomb; / the guards became as dead men. / Mary stood by Thy grave, / seeking Thy most pure Body. / Thou didst capture hell, / not being tempted by it. / Thou didst come to the Virgin, granting life. / O Lord, Who didst rise from the dead: glory to Thee!

Kontakion of the Sunday, Tone VI  When Christ God, the Giver of Life, / raised all of the dead from the valleys of misery with His mighty hand, / He bestowed resurrection on the human race. / He is the Savior of all, the Resurrection, the Life, and the God of all.

Holy Martyrs Platon and Romanus, Troparion, In their sufferings, O Lord,/ Thy martyrs received imperishable crowns from Thee our God;/ for, possessed of Thy might,/ they set at nought the tormentors and crushed the feeble audacity of the demons.// By their supplications save Thou our souls.

Kontakion, Thy holy memory doth gladden the whole world,/ summoning all the faithful to thine all-honorable temple,/ where, assembled now with joy, we chant in hymns amid splendor./ Wherefore, O Platon, we cry out to thee:// Deliver thy city from the invasion of the heathen, O holy one.

EPISTLE 2:4-10 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. 

GOSPEL LUKE 12:16-21 Then He spoke a parable to them, saying: "The ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully. And he thought within himself, saying, 'What shall I do, since I have no room to store my crops?' So he said, 'I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build greater, and there I will store all my crops and my goods. 'And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry." ' But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?' So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.