THE FIFTH SUNDAY OF THE GREAT FAST
VENERABLE MARY OF EGYPT
Confessions heard, Third and Sixth Hours– 9:30 AM
Divine Liturgy – 10:00 AM
Prayer List: Mother Raphaela; and Arleen (Pauluch)
Sunday, April 21st Divine Liturgy offered:
For the Health of:
Peter, Anna, Nicholas, Alaric, Natalia, Alexei, Elya, Andrew by Seasholtz Family
Amelia (Sokoluk) on her birthday by Alexei and Lucia
Reader Samuel (Sokoluk Jr) on his birthday by Alexei, Lucia and Amelia
For the Memory of Departed servants:
+Archpriest Emil (Minkovich)
+Matushka Patricia (Saverino)
+Peter (Compo) on the 24th anniversary of his falling asleep in the Lord
Flowers on the tetrapod and on the altar are in honor of Amelia (Sokoluk) and Reader Samuel (Sokoluk, Jr) on their shared birthday, by Alexei and Lucia. Mnoghaya Lyeta! Many Years! and Jeremiah (News) on his anniversary of falling asleep in the Lord, by Alexei, Lucia, and Amelia.
Vechnaya Pamyat! Memory Eternal!
Schedule of Services
Great Lent Dairy & Meat are excluded until Pascha May 5th
- Sunday, April 21st Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt Divine Liturgy 10AM
- Sunday, April 21 Pan Orthodox Clergy Brotherhood of Philadelphia Lenten Sunday Vespers, at 4 PM at St. Nicholas Serbian Orthodox Church, 506 Stahr Road, Elkins Park, PA 19027
- Wednesday, April 24th Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts 6PM
- Saturday, April 27th Lazarus Saturday Divine Liturgy 10AM
- Sunday, April 28th Sunday of Feast of Entry of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday) Divine Liturgy 10AM
- Holy Wednesday, May 1st Holy Unction 6PM
- Holy Thursday, May 2nd Vesperal Liturgy 10AM
- Holy Thursday, May 2nd Matins of Holy Friday / Reading of the 12 Passion Gospels 6PM
- Holy Friday, May 3rd Vespers 2PM
- Holy Friday, May 3rd Matins of Holy Saturday 6 PM
- Holy Saturday, May 4th Vesperal Liturgy 10 AM, Blessing Baskets
- Holy Saturday, May 4th Nocturne and Pascha Matins and Divine Liturgy 11:20PM, Blessing Baskets
- Bright Monday, May 6th Divine Liturgy 10AM
Palm Sunday Fish Dinner - The Women's Fellowship is hosting a fundraising luncheon on Palm Sunday (April 28) with fish, shrimp scampi, rice pilaf, vegetables, sides, beverages and dessert. BYOB. Adults are $20 and children 6-13 are $10. Please rsvp to Denise Rutherford, Tanya Sarris or Suzanne Veres by Wednesday, April 24.
The Fifth Sunday of Great Lent: Venerable Mary of Egypt, Troparion, Tone VIII In thee, O Mother, was carefully preserved what is according to the Image. For thou didst take the Cross and follow Christ. By so doing thou didst teach us to disregard the flesh, for it passes away, but to care for the soul as an immortal thing. Therefore, St. Mary, thy spirit rejoices with the Angels.
Kontakion, Tone IV Having escaped the fog of sin, and having illumined thy heart with the light of penitence, O glorious one, thou didst come to Christ and didst offer to Him His immaculate and holy Mother as a merciful intercessor. Hence thou hast found remission for transgressions, and with the angels thou ever rejoicest.
Troparion of the Sunday, Tone V Let us, the faithful, praise and worship the Word, / Co-eternal with the Father and the Spirit, / born for our salvation from the Virgin, / for He willed to be lifted up on the cross in the flesh, / to endure death / and to raise the dead by His glorious resurrection.
Kontakion of the Sunday, Tone V Thou didst descend into hell, O my Savior, / shattering its gates as almighty; / resurrecting the dead as Creator, / and destroying the sting of death. / Thou hast delivered Adam from the curse, O Lover of Man, / and we all cry to Thee: "O Lord, save us!"
Holy Apostles Herodion, Agabus, Asyncritus, Rufus, Phlegon, Hermes & Companions No Troparion is given in the Menaion.
Kontakion..., Tone II: "Seeking the highest..." Ye were shown to be most honorable disciples and apostles of Christ, O glorious Herodion, Agabus and Rufus, Asyncritus, Phlegon and Hermes. Ever pray to the Lord, that He grant forgiveness of offenses unto those who hymn you.
EPISTLE HEBREWS 9:11-14 But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
EPISTLE GALATIANS 3:23-29 (VENERABLE MARY) But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed. Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
GOSPEL MARK 10:32-45 Now they were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was going before them; and they were amazed. And as they followed they were afraid. Then He took the twelve aside again and began to tell them the things that would happen to Him: Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to 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 on Him, and kill Him. And the third day He will rise again. Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Him, saying, "Teacher, we want You to do for us whatever we ask." And He said to them, "What do you want Me to do for you?" They said to Him, "Grant us that we may sit, one on Your right hand and the other on Your left, in Your glory." But Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" They said to Him, "We are able." So Jesus said to them, "You will indeed drink the cup that I drink, and with the baptism I am baptized with you will be baptized; but to sit on My right hand and on My left is not Mine to give, but it is for those for whom it is prepared. And when the ten heard it, they began to be greatly displeased with James and John. But Jesus called them to Himself and said to them, "You know that those who are considered rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant. And whoever of you desires to be first shall be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.
GOSPEL LUKE 7:36-50 (VENERABLE MARY) Then one of the Pharisees asked Him to eat with him. And He went to the Pharisee's house, and sat down to eat. And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil, and stood at His feet behind Him weeping; and she began to wash His feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head; and she kissed His feet and anointed them with the fragrant oil. Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he spoke to himself, saying, "This Man, if He were a prophet, would know who and what manner of woman this is who is touching Him, for she is a sinner." And Jesus answered and said to him, "Simon, I have something to say to you." So he said, "Teacher, say it." There was a certain creditor who had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. And when they had nothing with which to repay, he freely forgave them both. Tell Me, therefore, which of them will love him more? Simon answered and said, "I suppose the one whom he forgave more." And He said to him, "You have rightly judged." Then He turned to the woman and said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave Me no water for My feet, but she has washed My feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head. You gave Me no kiss, but this woman has not ceased to kiss My feet since the time I came in. You did not anoint My head with oil, but this woman has anointed My feet with fragrant oil. Therefore I say to you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little. Then He said to her, "Your sins are forgiven." And those who sat at the table with Him began to say to themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?" Then He said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you. Go in peace."