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First Day of Church School TODAY! Phocas the Cyprian Feasts and Commemorations for this Week Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church Address: 6134 Black Bill Rd., Flagstaff, AZ 86004 Mailing Address: PO Box 2164, Flagstaff, AZ 86003 Phone: (928) 225-3814 Wine / Oil Allowed Fish Allowed Strict Fast Cheese / Dairy Allowed Web: www.holycrossflagstaff.org Email: [email protected] Prayer List: Rev. Earl J. Cantos Please keep the following intentions in your prayers this week: Phone: (928) 225-3814 For the owners & workers at Alba Construction who removed our window. Services Schedule: For Orthodox Christian missionaries. Orthros 9:00 AM Divine Liturgy 10 AM For the safety of Christians who live in places where it is dangerous to be a Church School 9:15 AM Christian, and offering thanksgiving for the security we enjoy to practice our faith. Bulletin for Sunday, September 22, 2019 For continued recovery of Presvytera Carol and Father Earl. First Sunday of Luke Services / Save the Dates! Hymns of The Day 9/28 Readers Vespers 5:00pm, No Confessions 9/29 Orthros 9:00am, Divine Liturgy 10:00 am Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Plagal First Mode Parish Memorial of departed family and friends Let us worship the Word who is unoriginate * with the Father and the Spirit, 10/5 Evening Vespers 5:00pm, Confessions after Vespers and from a Virgin was born * for our salvation, O believers, and let us sing His 10/6 Orthros 9:00am, Divine Liturgy 10:00 am (Church School Liturgy) praise. * For in His goodness He was pleased * to ascend the Cross in the 10/12 Evening Vespers 5:00pm, Confessions after Vespers flesh, and to undergo death, * and to raise up those who had died, * by His 10/13 Orthros 9:00am, Divine Liturgy 10:00 am (Church School Liturgy) glorious Resurrection. 10/19 Evening Vespers 4:00pm, Orthodoxy 102 5:00pm,Confessions following Apolytikion for Hieromartyr Phocas in the Fourth Mode 10/20 Orthros 9:00am, Divine Liturgy 10:00 am (Church School Liturgy) Becoming a partner with the Apostles in way of life and successor to their thrones, O God-inspired Saint, in the active life you found an entrance to 10/26 Evening Vespers 4:00pm, Orthodoxy 102 5:00pm,Confessions contemplation. Hence you rightly expounded the word of truth, and you shed following your blood in struggling for the faith, O Hieromartyr Phocas. Intercede with 10/27 Orthros 9:00am, Divine Liturgy 10:00 am (Church School Liturgy) Christ our God, beseeching Him to save our souls. Parish Memorial of departed family and friends 11/2 Readers Vespers 5:00pm, No Confessions Holy Cross Church Apolytikion in the First Mode 11/3 Orthros 9:00am, Divine Liturgy 10:00 am (Church School Liturgy) Save, O Lord Your people, and bless Your inheritance; grant victory to the 11/10 Fall General Assembly and PC Elections faithful against the adversaries of the Faith, and protect Your people by the 12/8 Commitment Sunday power of Your Cross. Refer to e-mailed Parish Updates and website for additional events and details. Seasonal Kontakion in the Second Mode O Protection of Christians that never falls, intercession with the Creator that New series of Orthodoxy 102 classes begin on never fails, we sinners beg you, do not ignore the voices of our prayers. O good Lady, we implore you, quickly come unto our aid, when we cry out to you 10/19/19. with faith. Hurry to intercession, and hasten to supplication, O Theotokos who protect now and ever those who honor you. Epistle Reading Saints and Feasts Commemorated Prokeimenon. Plagal First Mode. Psalm 11.7,1. First Sunday of Luke You, O Lord, shall keep us and preserve us. Verse: Save me, O Lord, for the godly man has failed. Phocas the Martyr, The reading is from St. Paul's Second Letter to the Bishop of Sinope Corinthians 1:21-24; 2:1-4 This saint was known for the Brethren, it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has many miracles he worked and for commissioned us; he has put his seal upon us and given us his Spirit in our his apostolic zeal in shepherding hearts as a guarantee. the flock of Sinope. He contested for the Faith during the reign of the Emperor Trajan, But I call God to witness against me - it was to spare you that I refrained from in the year 102, when he was burned to death in a coming to Corinth. Not that we lord it over your faith; we work with you for your bath-house. A homily in his honour was composed joy, for you stand firm in your faith. For I made up my mind not to make you by Saint John Chrysostom. The translation of his another painful visit. For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but holy relics is celebrated on July 23. the one whom I have pained? And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of Isaac & Martinos the Martyrs 26 Monk-martyrs all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all. For I wrote you out of much of Zographou Monastery martyred by the affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to Latins let you know the abundant love that I have for you. In July of 1274, the Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII accepted a union with the Roman Church at Lyons, France. Faced with dangers Gospel Reading from Charles of Anjou, the Ottoman Turks, and other enemies, the emperor found such an alliance with Rome expedient. The Union of Lyons required the Orthodox to First Sunday of Luke recognize the authority of the Pope, the use of the Filioque in the Creed, and the use of azymes (unleavened bread) in the Liturgy. Patriarch Joseph was deposed because he The Reading is from Luke 5:1-11 would not agree to these conditions. The monastic clergy and many of the laity, both at At that time, as Jesus was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, he saw two home and in other Orthodox countries, vigorously opposed the Union, denouncing the boats by the lake; but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing emperor for his political schemes and for his betrayal of Orthodoxy. their nets. Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon's, he asked him to On January 9, 1275 a Liturgy was celebrated in Constantinople in which the Pope was put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the commemorated as “Gregory, the chief pontiff of the Apostolic Church, and Ecumenical Pope.” The emperor’s sister remarked, “It is better that my brother’s empire should boat. And when he had ceased speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into the perish, rather than the purity of the Orthodox Faith.” Recalling the infamous Crusade of deep and let down your nets for a catch." And Simon answered, "Master, we 1204 when Latin crusaders sacked Constantinople, many of the people also preferred to toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets." And submit to the infidels than to abandon the Orthodox Faith. when they had done this, they enclosed a great shoal of fish; and as their nets Twenty-six martyrs of Zographou Monastery on Mt. Athos were among those who were were breaking, they beckoned to their partners in the other boat to come and persecuted by Emperor Michael VIII Paleologos (1261-1282) and Patriarch John Bekkos help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. (1275-1282) because they would not obey the imperial command to recognize the Union But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart of Lyons. They steadfastly kept the teachings of the Fathers of the Church, and from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord." For he was astonished, and all who fearlessly censured those who accepted Catholic doctrines. were with him, at the catch of fish which they had taken; and so also were When the authorities came to Mt. Athos to enforce the imperial policy, the monks of Zographou shut themselves up in their monastery. From the tower they reproached James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus those in favor of the Union, calling them lawless men and heretics. The attackers set the said to Simon, "Do not be afraid; henceforth you will be catching men." And monastery on fire and burned the twenty-six martyrs alive. when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed The names of the martyrs are: Igumen Thomas, the monks Barsanuphius, Cyril, Micah, him. Simon, Hilarion, James, Job, Cyprian, Sava, James, Martinian, Cosmas, Sergius, Menas, Joasaph, Joannicius, Paul, Anthony, Euthymius, Dometian, Parthenius, and four laymen who died with them. These holy martyrs are also commemorated on October 10. First day of Church School TODAY! Phocas the Cyprian .
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