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shepherd his flock, "my brethren and sons whom I have baptized in the Lord - so many thousands of people," he says in his Confession. His apostolic work was not Holy Cross accomplished without much "weariness and painfulness," long journeys through difficult country, and many perils; he says his very life was in danger twelve times. When he came to Ireland as its enlightener, it was a pagan country; when he ended his earthly life some Greek Orthodox thirty years later, about 461, the Faith of Christ was established in every corner. Address: 6134 Black Bill Rd., Flagstaff, AZ 86004 Marinos the Martyr, Theocteristos the Confessor, Mailing Address: PO Box 2164, Flagstaff, AZ 86003 Paul the Righteous Martyr Phone: (928) 225-3814

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 Gabriella Kusmiak, in her fight with cancer Resurrectional in the First Mode  Vilma Raddick, in her fight with cancer The stone had been secured with a seal by the Judeans, * and a guard of  Vickie Cannavale, in her fight with cancer soldiers was watching Your immaculate body. * You rose on the third day, O Lord * and Savior, granting life unto the world. * For this reason were the Save the Dates! powers of heaven crying out to You, O Life-giver: * Glory to Your resurrection,

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3/17 Sunday of Orthodoxy—brings to church Apolytikion for the Sunday of Orthodoxy in the Second Mode Orthros 9:00a, No Church School, 10:00a We venerate Your immaculate , O good Lord, and entreat You to forgive 3/22 Readers Service—Salutations to the 6:30p our offences, O Christ our God. By Your own choice you were pleased to 3/24 St. of Palamas ascend the Cross in the flesh, to deliver us, whom You created, from our Orthros 9:00a, Church School 9:15a, Divine Liturgy 10:00a slavery to the foe. Therefore we cry to You with gratitude: You have filled all Annunciation of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary things with joy, O our Savior, by coming to save the world. Evening Orthros 5:30p, Vesperal Liturgy 6:30pm 3/29 Readers Service—Salutations to the Theotokos 6:30p Holy Cross Church Apolytikion in the First Mode 3/31 Sunday of the Holy Cross Save, O Lord Your people, and bless Your inheritance; grant victory to the Orthros 9:00a, Church School 9:15a, Divine Liturgy 10:00a faithful against the adversaries of the Faith, and protect Your people by the Monthly Memorial Service Following Divine Liturgy power of Your Cross. 4/5 Readers Service—Salutations to the Theotokos 6:30p 4/7 St. (St. John of the Ladder) Seasonal in the Plagal Fourth Mode Orthros 9:00a, Church School 9:15a, Divine Liturgy 10:00a O Champion General, I your City now inscribe to you Triumphant anthems as 4/12 Hymns to the Theotokos 6:30p the tokens of my gratitude, Being rescued from the terrors, O Theotokos. 4/13 Community Lenten Retreat and Pancake Breakfast 9:00a—5:00p Inasmuch as you have power unassailable, From all kinds of perils free me, so

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Prokeimenon. Mode 4, Daniel 3.26,27 Sunday of Orthodoxy (First Sunday of ) Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of our fathers. For more than one hundred years the Church of Christ was troubled Verse: For you are just in all you have done. by the persecution of the Iconoclasts of evil belief, beginning in the reign of Leo the Isaurian (717-741) and ending in the reign of The Reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 11:24- Theophilus (829-842). After Theophilus's death, his widow the 26, 32-40 Empress Theodora (celebrated Feb. 11), together with the Patriarch Methodius (June 14), established Orthodoxy anew. This ever- Brethren, by faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son memorable Queen venerated the icon of the Mother of God in the of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of presence of the Patriarch Methodius and the other confessors and righteous men, and openly cried out these holy words: "If anyone God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. does not offer relative worship to the holy icons, not adoring them And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, as though they were gods, but venerating them out of love as Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets -- who through faith images of the archetype, let him be anathema." Then with common conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, received promises, stopped the mouths prayer and fasting during the whole first week of the Forty-day Fast, she asked God's of lions, quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, won strength out forgiveness for her husband. After this, on the first Sunday of the Fast, she and her son, of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign enemies to flight. Women Michael the Emperor, made a procession with all the and people and restored received their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept the holy icons, and again adorned the Church of Christ with them. This is the holy deed release, that they might rise again to a better life. Others suffered mocking and that all we the Orthodox commemorate today, and we call this radiant and venerable day the Sunday of Orthodoxy, that is, the triumph of true doctrine over heresy. scourging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword; they went about in skins of sheep Alexis the Man of God and goats, destitute, afflicted, ill-treated -- of whom the world was not worthy -- Alexis was born in old Rome of illustrious parents named wandering over deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. Euphemianus and Aglais, and at their request was joined to a And all these, though well attested by their faith, did not receive what was young woman in marriage. However, he did not remain with her promised, since God had foreseen something better for us, that apart from us even for one day, but fled to Edessa, where he lived for eighteen they should not be made perfect. years. He returned to Rome in the guise of a beggar and sat at the gates of his father's house, unknown to all and mocked by his own servants. His identity was revealed only after his death by a paper Gospel Reading that he had on his person, which he himself had written a little before his repose. The pious Emperor Honorius honoured him Sunday of Orthodoxy with a solemn burial. The title "Man of God" was given to him from The Reading is from John 1:43-51 heaven in a vision to the Bishop of Rome on the day of the Saint's repose. At that time, Jesus decided to go to Galilee. And he found Philip and said to him, "Follow me." Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Patrick, Enlightener of Ireland Peter. Philip found Nathanael, and he said to him, "We have found him of Saint Patrick, the Apostle of the Irish, was seized from his native whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of , the Britain by Irish marauders when he was sixteen years old. Though son of Joseph." Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of the son of a and a grandson of a priest, it was not until his Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see." Jesus saw Nathanael coming captivity that he sought out the Lord with his whole heart. In his to him, and said of him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!" Confession, the testament he wrote towards the end of his life, he says, "After I came to Ireland - every day I had to tend sheep, and Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before many times a day I prayed - the love of God and His fear came to Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you." Nathanael me more and more, and my faith was strengthened. And my spirit answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of !" was so moved that in a single day I would say as many as a Jesus answered him, "Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree, do hundred prayers, and almost as many at night, and this even when you believe? You shall see greater things than these." And he said to him, I was staying in the woods and on the mountain; and I would rise "Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God for prayer before daylight, through snow, through frost, through rain, and I felt no harm." ascending and descending upon the Son of man." After six years of slavery in Ireland, he was guided by God to make his escape, and afterwards struggled in the monastic life at Auxerre in Gaul, under the guidance of the holy Bishop Germanus. Many years later he was ordained bishop and sent to Ireland once again, about the year 432, to convert the Irish to Christ. His arduous labours bore so much fruit that within seven years, three bishops were sent from Gaul to help him