The Great Fast

THE GREAT FAST

O LORD AND MASTER OF MY LIFE! TAKE FROM ME THE SPIRIT OF SLOTH, DESPAIR, LUST OF POWER AND IDLE TALK. (FULL PROSTRATION)

BUT GIVE RATHER THE SPIRIT OF CHASTITY, HUMILITY, PATIENCE AND LOVE TO THY SERVANT. (FULL PROSTRATION)

YEA, O LORD AND KING! GRANT ME TO SEE MY OWN TRANSGRESSIONS AND NOT TO JUDGE MY BROTHER, FOR BLESSED ART THOU, UNTO AGES OF AGES. (FULL PROSTRATION)

O GOD, CLEANSE ME, A SINNER. (12 TIMES WITH 12 DEEP BOWS) Sunday, March 15, 2020 Tone 6 Gospel: St. Mark 2:1-12 Epistle: Hebrews 1:10-2:3 Second Sunday of Lent / St. Gregory Palamas / Synaxis of the Venerable Fathers of the Kiev Caves Lavra / Martyrs Agapius, Publius (Pausis), Timolaus, Romulus, two named Dionysius, and two named Alexander, at Cæsarea in Palestine MARCH Bulletin Sponsor: Father Andrew in memory of His Eminence, Metropolitan Nicholas, my ordaining Hierarch

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Please remember her & Susan (her daughter) in your prayers. Send a card of greeting.

110 E Main Street, Marblehead, OH 43440 Rectory 419-798-4591 / Cell 570-212-8747 PG 2 www.holyassumptionmarblehead.org [email protected] 2nd Sunday of Great Lent: St Gregory ATTENDANCE - MARCH Palamas Commemorated on March 15 Friday, February 28: 4 attended the Akathist to This Sunday was originally dedicated to Saint Polycarp St Raphael of Smyrna (February 23). After his glorification in 1368, a second commemoration of Saint Gregory Pala- Sunday, March 1: 25 Total (19 members; 3 mas (November 14) was appointed for the Second Sun- children; 3 guests; 10 Communicants; 18 at- day of Great Lent as a second “Triumph of Orthodoxy.” tended Forgiveness Vespers; 8 Attended Sat. Vespers Saint Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica, was born in the year 1296 in Constantinople. Saint Monday, March 2: 3 attended morning servic- Gregory’s father became a prominent dignitiary at the es; 12 attended Canon of St Andrew court of Andronicus II Paleologos (1282-1328), but he soon died, and Andronicus himself took part in the Tuesday, March 3: 4 attended Morning servic- raising and education of the fatherless boy. Endowed es; 11 attended Canon of St Andrew with fine abilities and great diligence, Gregory mastered all the subjects which then comprised the full course of Wednesday, March 4: 3 attended Morning medieval higher education. The emperor hoped that the services; 13 attended Canon of St. Andrew youth would devote himself to government work. But Gregory, barely twenty years old, withdrew to Mount Thursday, March 5: 3 attended morning servic- Athos in the year 1316 (other sources say 1318) and es; 12 attended Canon became a novice in the Vatopedi monastery under the guidance of the monastic Elder Saint Nicodemus of Friday, March 6: 2 attended morning services; Vatopedi (July 11). There he was tonsured and began on 12 attended Pre-Sanctified the path of asceticism. A year later, the holy Evangelist John the Theologian appeared to him in a vision and Sunday, March 8: 19 Total (16 members; 2 promised him his spiritual protection. Gregory’s mother children; 11 Communicants; NO VESPERS and sisters also became monastics.

MONTHLY TITHING ONLY After the demise of the Elder Nicodemus, Saint Gregory MARCH spent eight years of spiritual struggle under the guid- Goal Pledged per month: $4,600 ance of the Elder Nicephorus, and after the latter’s Sunday March 1: $1,045 death, Gregory transferred to the Lavra of Saint Athana- Sunday, March 8: $1,071 sius (July 5). Here he served in the trapeza, and then became a church singer. But after three years, he reset- OTHER WEEKLY INCOME tled in the small skete of Glossia, striving for a greater degree of spiritual perfection. The head of this monas- Sunday, March 1: $10 Candles; $50 Vigils; $50 tery began to teach the young man the method of un- Bulletin; $50 Special Collection (Food Pantry) ceasing prayer and mental activity, which had been cultivated by monastics, beginning with the great desert Sunday, March 8: $11 Candles; $50 Altar can- ascetics of the fourth century: Evagrius Pontikos and dles; $105 Vigils; $25 Eternal Light; $30 book- Saint Macarius of Egypt (January 19). store; $50 Special Collection Later on, in the eleventh century Saint Simeon the New Theologian (March 12) provided detailed instruction in SPECIAL COLLECTION mental activity for those praying in an outward manner, and the ascetics of Athos put it into practice. The expe- MARCH rienced use of mental prayer (or prayer of the heart), Mission Boxes for the Food Pantry. requiring solitude and quiet, is Con’t Pg 8

110 E Main Street, Marblehead, OH 43440 Rectory 419-798-4591 / Cell 570-212-8747 www.holyassumptionmarblehead.org [email protected] PG 3 PRAYER LIST Updated 3-10 Clergy: Alice Jackson (Mazurik) Elliot Joy (Police chief’s son) His Beatitude, Metropolitan Theodosius William Jappsen (Diane T.) Scott Kluding (Twarek) His Beatitude, Metropolitan Herman Michael Kouznetsov (Mary Tommy Leonchik (Fr’s friend) John Duranko (Father’s home pastor) Hiser’s son) Jake Lipstraw (Twarek) James Gleason (Father’s Spiritual Father) Kris Kollar (Fr.’S cousin) Mark Ludvik (Guzy) Moses Barry Betty Kovach Anna Maiani (Friend of Wayne- Steven Frase Kristen (Cassell’s daughter) Claudia McDonald (Twarek) Joseph Gibson Terri Lariccia (fr’s cousin) Pauline Meath (Fr’s) Gregory Grivna David LaValle (Fr.’s cousin) Charlie Nowak (Avery’s) Emilian Hutnyan Helen Lis Beth Reinhard (Diane friend) Josef Von Klarr Greg Mazur Chris Reinheimer (Bruno’s) Dan Kovolick Judy Mazurik (Paul Mazurik’s) Sandy Scafaria (friend of Jean) Vladimir Lecko Toddler Stella Miller Matthew Sterling (Tyron) David Lis Katelyn Pipenur (Niece of Jean) John Sutko (Fr.’S Friend) Myron Manzuk Earl Rindfleisch Devin Thomson (Jamestown) Philip Lasbrook Helen Jean Rofkar (Elchisco) Janice Timko Christopher Phillips Joe Rose Philip (Andy) Timko Benjamin Tucci Maryann Royhab Steve Turinsky (Twarek) Peter Tutko Steven Schirtzinger (Soski) Bob Van Osdol (Twarek) Deacon Nicholas Denysenko Christy Schutt (Joe’s sister) Chuck Wiedenhoft (Twarek) Deacon Paul Gansle Peter Truta (Jean H’s cousin) Rachel (Darlene M.) Deacon Gregory Krutchak Diane Tryon Kristina and her newborn Deacon Paul Mitchell Greg Tryon Michal (Fr.’s friend) Sub-deacon Wylie Meath Christine Twarek Molly & her unborn baby Tom Twarek Mollie & her unborn baby Carter Twarek (Fr.’s friend) Matushkii: Delaine Ward (Ron’s sister) Pani Patricia Duranko Katie and her baby Bodhi Myra Kovolick (Cassell’s daughter-in-law) Military: Virginia Lecko Pani Stacey Mihaley & her Craig Cassell Maura McCartney newborn Azariah (Fr.’s Cousin) Nathan Brown Jillian Rettig Nikki & her unborn baby Alena Grabavoy Snezana Ruzic Katherine & her unborn baby Alex Sonya Tutko (Fr.’s cousin) Jake Ellithorpe

Parishioners / & their Family: Other Requests: Captives: John Beadle (Elcishko) Sandra Alex (Muzyka) Metropolitan Paul Newborn Samuel Calzone (fr.s cousin) Alexia (Orthodox Archdiocese of MaryAnn Cook (Cousin to Twarek’s) Infant Baylor Aleppo) John Richard Elchisco Dick Biro (Natalie’s friend) Archbishop John Ruthe Flewelling Anna Burch (Wayne’s friend) (Syriac Archdiocese of Debbie Garnek (Roddie’s sister) Paul Demkosky (Fr’s friend) Aleppo) Michael Glovinsky (Basil’s nephew) Marge Dziama Heidi Golob Mary Dziak (Twarek) The UN & IOCC humanitar- Shirley Gresh (Wife of Ernest) Ben Franklin (Laura friend) ian aid workers in & around Julia Guzy Theodore Geletka Syria; Those suffering perse- Joseph Habegger (Laura brother-in-law) (St. Michael Broadview Heights’ cution in Iraq, Syria, Israel, Barb Heffernan choir director) Egypt, Ukraine and through- Tom Hileman Brad George ( Christi’s friend) out the world Donald Gresh (Basil) 110 E Main Street, Marblehea8-4591 / Cell 570-212-8747 PG 4 www.holyassumptionmarblehead.org [email protected]

The Triumph of Orthodoxy, Us, and The Resur- triumph of good over evil, of truth over falsehood, of rection of Our Lord Jesus Christ kindness over ill-will, of gladness over sorrow, and of By John Lickwar gratitude over thanklessness; let us become radiant We have completed the first week of the Great Fast! examples of Christ’s light. Let us shine the light of We began it one week ago by receiving the universal Orthodoxy’s triumph in faith by being brought down to impetus gathered as the Church in worship to surren- humbly and joyously persevere with the Comforting der our hearts to the direction given at the service of Spirit in virtues toward each other, toward our neighbor vespers, ‘to cleanse our soul as we cleanse our flesh,’ and so be adorned with our entrance into the glorious and ‘to abstain from passion as we abstain from Resurrection of Christ our Lord! St. John of Kronstadt food.’ We do this because we are not our own, we are has said as much: servants of God. With the passing of these words to us from the start of Great Lent, and by the kiss of “This is the character of our earthly life, a mutual forgiveness, we are adorned with the form of constant expectation of God’s call from this life Christ incarnate whereby we can embark upon a to the other.” humble and living triumph of Orthodoxy. The tri- “Man is a wonderful, grand, most wise, artistic umph of Orthodox iconography is linked to the living production of the most perfect Artist, God; he presence and call to holiness in Christ; before there was not originally defiled….” were painted icons, there was and is our Lord Jesus Christ, whose image and likeness was and is revealed “However, the most wise and almighty, and by his Mother, foretold by the prophets, and realized all-merciful Artist did not allow His and our in all the saints, appearing first in flesh and blood. The enemy to entirely destroy His beautiful and triumph of Orthodoxy is a tangible triumph in their grand creation, and made Himself a body like Oneness, Holiness, Catholicity, and Apostolic pres- unto ours, and took a soul in the womb of His ence in this world! These behaviors of authentic Most Pure Virgin-Mother; by His incarnation, Church life strengthen our spiritual health, and bring His teaching, miracles, sufferings, death and us together in wholeness by way of grace, truth, and resurrection, by His wonderful and most wise joy. The very spirit of the triumph we speak, it’s orderings, he again restores to the work of His tempered genuineness of which we are called to be a hands its former and even greater beauty and beacon, demand from us the (podvig) of the Baptist’s glory; He again bestows upon it the highest words preceding Christ’s coming, “Repent, for the bliss, making human nature godly and setting it Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” with Himself on the throne of the Godhead. Glory be to Thee, most merciful, the most wise In speaking once with a woman outside the Orthodox and almighty Artist!” faith, she made this discovery from attending our In the Rite of the Triumph of Orthodoxy, we acknowl- vesper service, “Nothing else in this world other than edge the victory of Christ triumphant in our lives, and Orthodox Christian worship and life can give me the as well as in those who departed this life before us, example, renew me, and inspire me to live my life in especially those martyred for the Faith! For those de- Christ, as Christ has lived his life in flesh and blood parted we sing Memory Eternal; and for those living we like mine!” How curious is the response of a person sing Many Years! We also remember in this celebration outside the Orthodox Church who considered her the condemnation of apostasy of Christians from Christ attending vespers a life changing experience and tri- by willful choice. But even for those who stray from the umph of Orthodoxy; she encountered the Kingdom of Orthodox Faith, let us acquire the mind of St. John of God made present. Here she was receptive to seeing Kronstadt and pray as he did for their return to the herself in a new light, that of Christ, his Mother, and substance of Christ centered Orthodoxy in life that has his saints. established and sustains the universe:

As we celebrate in our churches the Vespers of the “Strengthen in this belief and in this faith Sunday of Orthodoxy, let us become the tangible my heart and the hearts of all Orthodox Christians. Unite, in this faith, all great Christian communities Con’t Pg 8 110 E Main Street, Marblehead, OH 43440 Rectory 419-798-4591 / Cell 570-212-8747 PG 5 www.holyassumptionmarblehead.org [email protected] MARCH Celebrations NAMES DAY BIRTHDAY 3-1: Bishop David of Alaska 1-Marilynn Calzone 16- Claudia Zile 3-4: Bishop Daniel of Santa Rosa 2- Lori Batura 22- Ariana Holmes 3-17: Archbishop Alejo of Mexico 3- Tony Monastra 23- Mason Monschein 7- Tamera Blackford 26- Rachel Sumner 8- Rachel Adamcio 30- Bobbie Royhab 8- Ruth Sheller 30- Fred Cassell 11- Jason Monschein 31- Greg Mazur 16- Paul Bojan If there are those names to be added or removed, please contact Fr. Andrew. He would like to list all members of your family Orthodox and non-Orthodox.

MARCH Reposed 1- George Danchisen (2018) 17- Frank Holodnak (1961) 29- Todd Pollack (2019) 3- Anna Stoyka (2018) 23- Eva Pondillo (2001) 29- Carolyn Woodward (2000) 4- Andrew Mazur (2001) 23- Ella Mazurik (1985) 30- John Rofkar (2019) 6- Frank Guzy (2002) 23- Francis Mitchell (2008) Helen Hritsko (1908) 11- Ella Mazur (1918) 23- Barbara Ann Wasylenko (2017) Alexandra Brendza (1909) 13- Metropolitan Nicholas (2011) 25- Pani Janette Moriak (1997) Steve Danchisen 13- Richard Michael Benya 25- David Chikerotis (2019) (1983)

Mark 2:1-12 (Gospel) 40 DAY REMEMBRANCE March 15: Police officer from AL & And again He entered Capernaum after some days, and it was heard FL that He was in the house. Immediately many gathered together, so March 22: Soldiers killed in Afghan- that there was no longer room to receive them, not even near the istan / His Grace Bishop Varlaam door. And He preached the word to them. Then they came to Him, March 29: Mountain Apache officer bringing a paralytic who was carried by four men. And when they David could not come near Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the April 5: Victims from the Milwaukee roof where He was. So when they had broken through, they let down Shooting the bed on which the paralytic was lying. When Jesus saw their April 12: FF Tommy from AZ faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.” And some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, “Why does this Man speak blasphemies like this? Who can Saint Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Enlightener of Ireland forgive sins but God alone?” But immediately, when Jesus perceived in His spirit that they reasoned thus within themselves, He Commemorated on March 17 said to them, “Why do you reason about these things in your hearts? Saint Patrick, the Enlightener of Ireland Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ was born around 385, the son of or to say, ‘Arise, take up your bed and walk’? But that you may Calpurnius, a Roman decurion (an offi- know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins” – He cial responsible for collecting taxes). He said to the paralytic, “I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to lived in the village of Bannavem Taber- your house.” Immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went out in niae, which may have been located at the presence of them all, so that all were amazed and glorified God, the mouth of the Severn River in Wales. saying, “We never saw anything like this!” Con’t Pg 7 110 E Main Street, Marblehead, OH 43440 Rectory 419-798-4591 / Cell 570-212-8747 www.holyassumptionmarblehead.org [email protected] PG 6 APRIL BULLETIN AND CANDLE Bishop Paul's Travel Schedule SPONSORS St. Nicholas Church, Mentor, OH, March 14th Bulletin: ($50) Fr. Andrew: in memory of my  Ordination of Deacon Brian Crivella to mother Dorothy on the occasion of her b-day the Priesthood Chandelier: ($50) Laura: In loving memory of her mother Margaret Archangel Michael , Broadview Hts., OH, March Altar Candles: ($50) Open th th Candles on the Tomb: ($25) Open 13 to 15 Eternal Light & Icon Screen: (25) Open  Concelebration with Bishop Neofitos of Kenya  Presentation of Double Orarion to Deacon Daniel Kovalak

June 12 - 13 St Nicholas Church, Joliet, IL, March 18th, Deanery celebration of 50th Presanctified Liturgy Anniversary of OCA. Joy of All Who Sorrow, Joplin, MO, March 21st Holy Trinity Orthodox Church Parma, OH to 23rd  Tonsure of David Haugh (from Ashgrove parish as a Reader) Friday, June 12 6:30pm: Akathist to All American Saints fol- St Patrick Con’t lowed by a talk about the journey of the OCA. The district was raided by pirates when Patrick was Saturday, June 13 sixteen, and he was one of those taken captive. He was 9:00am: Greeting of the Bishop followed by brought to Ireland and sold as a slave, and was put to Divine Liturgy and a All American Breakfast work as a herder of swine on a mountain identified with Buffet. RSVP required. Watch for sign up Slemish in Co. Antrim. During his period of slavery, sheet. Patrick acquired a proficiency in the Irish language which was very useful to him in his later mission.

He prayed during his solitude on the mountain, and MARCH BULLETIN AND CANDLE lived this way for six years. He had two visions. The SPONSORS first told him he would return to his home. The second told him his ship was ready. Setting off on foot, Patrick Bulletin: ($50) Fr. Andrew: in memory of my or- walked two hundred miles to the coast. There he suc- daining Bishop His Eminence Metropolitan ceeded in boarding a ship, and returned to his parents in Nicholas Britain. Chandelier: ($50) Susan: in memory of her father Frank, God-father Peter, and brother Bill Some time later, he went to Gaul and studied for the Altar Candles: ($50) Fr. Andrew: In memory of priesthood at Auxerre under Saint Germanus (July 31). my father, George Eventually, he was consecrated as a bishop, and was Candles on the Tomb: ($25) Basil: in loving entrusted with the mission to Ireland, succeeding Saint memory of my nephew Richard Benya Palladius (July 7). Saint Palladius did not achieve much Eternal Light & Icon Screen: (25) Diane: in lov- success in Ireland. After about a year he went to Scot- ing memory of my brother Richard on his land, where he died in 432. anniversary (3-13-83) Patrick had a dream in which an angel Con’t Pg 9

110 E Main Street, Marblehead, OH 43440 Rectory 419-798-4591 / Cell 570-212-8747 www.holyassumptionmarblehead.org [email protected] PG 7 Triumph of Orthodoxy Con’t continuing with this until the end of his life. Who have tragically fallen away from In the 1330s events took place in the life of the Eastern The One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. Church which put Saint Gregory among the most signifi- Depose the pride and resistance of their teachers; cant universal apologists of Orthodoxy, and brought him Grant them to understand with their hearts great renown as a teacher of hesychasm. The Truth and Saving Grace of Your Church and to be united with her without delay. About the year 1330 the learned monk Barlaam had ar- Draw into this faith all peoples who inhabit the rived in Constantinople from Calabria, in Italy. He was the earth; author of treatises on logic and astronomy, a skilled and in this faith unite us all in the spirit of sharp-witted orator, and he received a university chair in meekness, humility, gentleness, simplicity, the capital city and began to expound on the works of serenity, patience and compassion Saint Dionysius the Areopagite (October 3), whose “apo- -rejoicing in the happiness of others. Amen! phatic” (“negative”, in contrast to “kataphatic” or “posi- tive”) theology was acclaimed in equal measure in both the Eastern and the Western Churches. Soon Barlaam St Gregory Con’t journeyed to Mt. Athos, where he became acquainted with called “Hesychasm” (from the Greek “hesychia” the spiritual life of the hesychasts. Saying that it was meaning calm, silence), and those practicing it impossible to know the essence of God, he declared men- were called “hesychasts.” tal prayer a heretical error. Journeying from Mount Athos to Thessalonica, and from there to Constantinople, and During his stay at Glossia the future hierarch Greg- later again to Thessalonica, Barlaam entered into disputes ory became fully embued with the spirit of hesy- with the monks and attempted to demonstrate the created, chasm and adopted it as an essential part of his life. material nature of the light of Tabor (i.e. at the Transfigu- In the year 1326, because of the threat of Turkish ration). He ridiculed the teachings of the monks about the invasions, he and the brethren retreated to Thessa- methods of prayer and about the uncreated light seen by lonica, where he was then ordained to the holy the hesychasts. priesthood. Saint Gregory, at the request of the Athonite monks, Saint Gregory combined his priestly duties with the replied with verbal admonitions at first. But seeing the life of a hermit. Five days of the week he spent in futility of such efforts, he put his theological arguments in silence and prayer, and only on Saturday and Sun- writing. Thus appeared the “Triads in Defense of the Holy day did he come out to his people. He celebrated Hesychasts” (1338). Towards the year 1340 the Athonite divine services and preached sermons. For those ascetics, with the assistance of the saint, compiled a gen- present in church, his teaching often evoked both eral response to the attacks of Barlaam, the so-called tenderness and tears. Sometimes he visited theo- “Hagiorite Tome.” At the Constantinople Council of 1341 logical gatherings of the city’s educated youth, in the church of Hagia Sophia Saint Gregory Palamas headed by the future patriarch, Isidore. After he debated with Barlaam, focusing upon the nature of the returned from a visit to Constantinople, he found a light of Mount Tabor. On May 27, 1341 the Council place suitable for solitary life near Thessalonica the accepted the position of Saint Gregory Palamas, that God, region of Bereia. Soon he gathered here a small unapproachable in His Essence, reveals Himself through community of solitary monks and guided it for five His energies, which are directed towards the world and are years. able to be perceived, like the light of Tabor, but which are neither material nor created. The teachings of Barlaam In 1331 the saint withdrew to Mt. Athos and lived were condemned as heresy, and he himself was anathem- in solitude at the skete of Saint Sava, near the Lavra ized and fled to Calabria. of Saint Athanasius. In 1333 he was appointed Igumen of the Esphigmenou monastery in the But the dispute between the Palamites and the Barlaamites northern part of the Holy Mountain. In 1336 the was far from over. To these latter belonged Barlaam’s saint returned to the skete of Saint Sava, where he disciple, the Bulgarian monk Akyndinos, and also Patri- devoted himself to theological works, arch John XIV Kalekos (1341-1347); Con’t Pg 9 110 E Main Street, Marblehead, OH 43440 Rectory 419-798-4591 / Cell 570-212-8747 PG 8 www.holyassumptionmarblehead.org [email protected]