Sunday of Orthodoxy March 21, 2021 THE THEOTOKIAN SAINT MARY’S ORTHODOX CHURCH. 61 CANADA ROAD PAINTED POST, NY 14870. (A PARISH OF THE CARPATHO-RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH OF NA ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE SCHEDULE OF SERVICES EPISTLE READING Sun Mar 21 9:30am Liturgy of St. Basil. Saint Paul’s Letter to the Sun. Of Orthodoxy Panachida Hebrews 11:24-12:2 mem of Anna Sovich Macura Gospel offered by daughter, Pani Joan SaintJohn 1:43-51 Wed Mar 24 5:00pm Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts Tone 8 Liturgical Color:Purple Sat Mar 27 5:00pm Paracletice to the Mother of God Contact Information Father Daniel Mahler Cell: 607.438.7339 Office: 607.936.0689 [email protected] CHURCH WEBSITE saintmarysorthodoxchurch corning.org DIOCESAN WEBSiITE The Sacrament of Holy Confession will be heard on Saturday ACROD.ORG 1:00-2:00pm, Sunday 8:45-9:15am or by calling Father @ WEARING OF MASKS 607.438.7339 to arrange a convenient time. Because of the elevation of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) in SPRING BAKE SALE! Steuben & Chemung The Altar Society is taking orders for their Spring Bake Counties Sale. They will be offering nut, apricot and raspberry WEARING OF FACE MASKS Kolachki cookies at $7.00 a dozen. MUST BE WORN AT ALL Please see Carole Herrlich or Diane Rodrigues to place TIMES IN THE BUILDING! Masks may be removed ONLY your order for Pascha before receiving Holy Communion! 1 Sunday of Orthodoxy March 21, 2021 EPISTLE READING The reading is from Saint Paul’s 1st Letter to the Hebrews 11:24-40-12:2 Sunday of Orthodoxy Brethren, By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets—who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, received promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, won strength out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign enemies to flight. Women received their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, that they might rise again to a better life. Others suffered mocking and 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 and goats, destitute, afflicted, ill-treated—of whom the world was not worthy—wandering over deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. And all these, though well attested by their faith, did not receive what was promised, since God had foreseen something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect. GOSPEL READING The reading is from Saint John 1: 43-51. Sunday of Orthodoxy Let us attend, 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 Peter. Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.” Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said of him “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!” Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!” Jesus answered him, “Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You shall see greater things than these.” And he said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man,” 2 Sunday of Orthodoxy March 21, 2021 PLEASE KEEP THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE IN YOUR PRAYERS: His Eminence, Metropolitan Gregory; His Eminence, Metropolitan Antony; Protopresbyter Frank Miloro; Protopresbyter John Duranko; Protopresbyter Jim Dutko; Protopresbyter Luke Mihaly; Protopresbyter Lawrence Barriger; Protopresbyter Kenneth Bachofsky; Archpriest Marc Vranes; Archpriest Jason Kappanadze; Archpriest Thomas Edwards; Protopresbyter Michael Polanichka; V. Rev. Thomas Kadlek, Father Jonathan Tobias; Rev. James Gleason; V. Rev. Robert Lucas; Deacon Charles Ellis; Deacon Donald Koch; Pani Joan Mahler; Pani Connie Miloro; Pani Betty Jean Baranik; Pani Kathleen Dutko; Sally Ellis; Helen Verno; Eleanor Adzima; Michael & Delores Kundrat; Lyudmyla Hayova; Helen Coons; Michael Matzkevich; Marlene Wheet; Helen Molson; Nancy Murphy- Teed; Joyce Nissen; Gloria Ewsuk; Andrew Chudanic; Jeanne Zimmer; Sylvia Serdula; Carole & Gary Herrlich; Jean Cox; Dimitri Wallick; Andrew Havalchak; Basil Havalchak; Kathy Snearly-Mahr; Isaac Glosser; Rachel Corey; Robert Zobbi; Helen Nekelek; Julio Falcon; Mildred Sosonka; Shirley Scates; Donald & Dawn Covel; David Walk; Ken Crozier; Gregory Heath; Jean Hamar; Scott Hamar; Denise Topichak; Tracy Glass; Carol Bailey; John & Florence Medvitz; Joyce Merletti; George Officer; Katie (Kadlek) Kaitlynn Dillon; Thomas Cummings; Tillie Kaufman; For all the First Responders, Medical Teams; Researchers and Scientists, for those with COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and for those who have died from it in this country and around the world and for those serving our country; Lucas, US Marine Corp; Jordan Worobey, US Navy; Jonathan Share, US Navy and for all of our Military personnel serving at home and around the world. SHOE DRIVE We are still accepting ‘old shoes’ in support of the Rainbow for Hope Animal Shelter. You may drop them off in the Church Vestibule when you come to Church on Sunday or tell Pani and she will set up a convenient time during the week for you to drop them off. Memory Eternal 1944 +VASYL HAYOVA 2021 It is with great sadness that I announce the falling asleep in the Lord of +Vasyl Hayova in his home in the Ukraine this past Sunday. Vasyl, the beloved father of Natalia Hartmann (McKane) after a prolonged illness. Vasyl, is also survived by his loving and devoted wife Lyudmyla, his beloved grandchildren Katherine, Anna, Angelina & John McKane. When visiting Natasha and their grandchildren, Vasyl and Lyudmyla became a part of our parish family as well. We offer our deepest condolences to the Hartman, McKane and Hayova families. May his memory be eternal! Vichnaja jemu pamjat! Father Dan 3 Sunday of Orthodoxy March 21, 2021 48 DAYS TO THE “GREAT DAY” THE TRIUMPH OF ORTHODOXY Tropar of the Holy Icons (Tone 2): We venerate Your most pure image, O Good One; and ask forgiveness for our transgressions, O Christ our God; for You of Your good will were pleased to ascend the Cross in the flesh, to deliver Your creatures from the bond of the enemy; therefore with thankfulness we cry aloud to You, O Saviour by Your coming to save the world, You have filled all with joy Every time you enter the Church building, you are surrounded by the Saints. Where else on earth can you pray with that experience? There is no other place. I read somewhere recently what a believer wrote: “I pray with icons because you become what you contemplate”. Last year at a virtual Pani’ Retreat on October 10th, His Eminence, Metropolitan Gregory reminded our priests’ wives: “If you want to worship in Church undistracted, sit in the front where worship is on full display and the only thing you can see are the Saints in the icons. Don’t sit in the back of the church because every distraction possible can happen from there in that hour of worship”. You have an opportunity this Lent to surround yourself with the Saints not only on Sundays, but several times at Lenten Services each week. Why would you eliminate their voices from your personal space this Lent? Listen to the Saints. They desperately want to tell you the secrets of a blessed life which can by yours. Let the icons talk to you! The whole earth is a living icon of the face of God”—St. John of Damascus (7th Century) FORTY-EIGHT DAYS TO THE “GREAT DAY” V. Rev. Protopresbyter Frank Miloro, Diocesan Chancellor 4 Sunday of Orthodoxy March 21, 2021 TRIUMPH OF ORTHODOXY The Feast of Orthodoxy (also known as the Sunday of Orthodoxy or the Triumph of Orthodoxy) is celebrated on the first Sunday of the Great Lent in the liturgical calendar of the Eastern Orthodox Church and of the Byzantine Rite Eastern Catholic Church. The Feast is kept I memory of the final defeat of iconoclasm and the restoration of the icons to the churches. Christian worship by the sixth century had developed a clear belief in the intercession saints. This belief was also influenced by a concept of hierarchy of sanctity, with the Trinity at its pinnacle, followed by the Virgin Mary, referred to in Greek as the Theotokos (“birth-giver of God” or Meter Theou (Mother of God”), the saints, living holy men, women, and spiritual elders, followed the rest of humanity. Thus, in order to obtain blessings or divine favour, early Christians, like Christians today, would often pray or ask an intermediary, such as the saints or the Theotokos, or living fellow Christians believed to be holy, to intercede on their behalf with Christ. A strong sacramentality and belief in the importance of physical presence also joined the belief in intercession of saints with the use of relics and holy images (or icons) in early Christian practices.