Feasts and Commemorations for this Week Holy Cross Greek Orthodox

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Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Plagal First Mode Services / Save the Dates! Let us worship the Word who is unoriginate * with the Father and the Spirit, and 1/12 Orthros 9:00am, Church School 9:15am, Divine Liturgy 10:00am from a Virgin was born * for our salvation, O believers, and let us sing His 1/18 101 3:30pm, “Tithing and Almsgiving: God Doesn’t praise. * For in His goodness He was pleased * to ascend the Cross in the Need My Money” flesh, and to undergo death, * and to raise up those who had died, * by His Great 5:00pm glorious Resurrection. 1/19 Orthros 9:00am, Church School 9:15am, Divine Liturgy 10:00am Apolytikion for Theophany Afterfeast in the First Mode 1/25 Orthodoxy 101 3:30pm, “Nous: or Prayer of the As You were baptized in the Jordan, O Lord, then the worship of the Heart (John 14:20)” became manifest, for the voice of the Father bore witness to You, naming You Great Vespers 5:00pm the Beloved Son; and the Spirit, in the form of a dove, confirmed the certainty of 1/26 Orthros 9:00am, Church School 9:15am, Divine Liturgy 10:00am the word. O Christ God, who appeared and illumined the world, glory to You. Parish Memorial of Departed Family and Friends 2/1 Orthodoxy 101 3:30pm, “How to Pray and Why to Pray” Holy Cross Church Apolytikion in the First Mode Great Vespers 5:00pm Save, O Lord Your people, and bless Your inheritance; grant victory to the 2/2 Orthros 9:00am, Church School 9:15am, Divine Liturgy 10:00am faithful against the adversaries of the Faith, and protect Your people by the power of Your Cross.

Seasonal in the Fourth Mode Refer to e-mailed Parish Updates and website for additional events and You appeared today to us * on earth, O Master, * and Your light was signed on details. us * who cry aloud to You and say * with understanding, O Christ our God: You came and shone forth, O Light unapproachable.

Epistle Reading Saints and Feasts Commemorated

Prokeimenon. First Mode. Psalm 32.22,1. Let your mercy, O Lord, be upon us. Sunday after Epiphany Verse: Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous. Afterfeast of the The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Theophany of Our Lord Ephesians 4:7-13 and Saviour Jesus Christ

BRETHREN, grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ's gift. Therefore it is said, "When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men." (in Tatiana the Martyr of Rome Saint Tatiana was the daughter of a most distinguished saying, "He ascended," what does it mean but that he had also consul of Rome. She became a deaconess of the descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended Church, and for her confession of the Faith of Christ, is he who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might she endured many torments. As she was suffering, fill all things.) And his gifts were that some should be apostles, angels punished her tormentors with the same torments some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to they inflicted on her, until they cried out that they could no longer endure the scourges invisibly brought upon equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body them. She was beheaded during the reign of Alexander of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the Severus (111-135). knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. Martyr Mertios Mertios was a soldier in the Mauritanian battalion during the reign of Diocletian (284- 305). In the year 298, it was reported that he Gospel Reading was a Christian, for which he was arrested and brought before the emperor, who urged Mertios Sunday after Epiphany to offer sacrifice to the idols. Being unpersuaded, they stripped him of his belt which The Reading is from Matthew 4:12-17 was a symbol of his military rank. Afterwards he was beaten with wooden rods and they tore up his flesh. The Saint endured the cruel tortures with a At that time, when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he brave heart, so that not even the slightest noise escaped from his mouth. withdrew into Galilee; and leaving Nazareth he went and dwelt in This amazed the tyrant, and left him astounded. Since he was made to Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali, undergo such a beating for a long time, the body of the Martyr was left completely wounded. For this reason the tyrant ordered that he be thrown that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: into prison. After the passage of eight days, a heavy discharge of pus "The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, toward the sea, exuded from the wounds of the Saint, which also emitted a foul odor. across the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, the people who sat in Overcome by the pain, the athlete of Christ delivered his honorable soul into darkness have seen a great light, and for those who sat in the the hands of God, thus receiving the incorruptible crown of martyrdom. region and shadow of death light has dawned." From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of Basil and John the Hieromartyrs heaven is at hand." Euthasia the Virgin-Martyr Peter of Absalom Benedict