Saturday, Feb. 7 – 1st All Souls Saturday
9:30 AM All-Souls Divine Liturgy
5:00 PM Misson Divine Liturgy at St. Raphael’s
Sunday, Feb. 8 – Sunday of Meat fare
8:00 AM Matins
9:30 AM Divine Liturgy
12:00 PM Chant Class
Monday, Feb. 9 – Nicephorus, Martyr
8:30 AM Morning Prayer
Tuesday, Feb. 10 – Charalampus, Martyr
6:30 PM Akathist* for Addictions and Mental Illness
Wednesday, Feb. 11 – Blase, Bishop- Martyr
8:30 AM Morning Prayer
6:30 PM Divine Liturgy
7:30 PM Firepit Social
Friday, Feb. 13 – Martinian, Venerable
6:30 PM Community Sewing Class
Saturday, Feb. 14 – All Holy Ascetical Fathers and Mothers & Death of Cyril Apostle to the Slavs
5:00 PM Misson Divine Liturgy at St. Raphael’s
7:00 PM Mission Forgiveness Vespers at St. Raphael’s
Sunday, Feb. 15 – Sunday of Cheesefare
8:00 AM Matins
9:30 AM Divine Liturgy
12:00 PM Forgiveness Vespers
*Add first names to this prayer service by emailing niemirick@gmail.com
St. Mary’s: Sundays 8:45 AM or by appointment
Santa Paula: Saturdays 4:15 PM or by appointment
(Please resubmit or submit names to admin@ByzantineLA.com)
The Carlin Family, Michael Hefferon, Shirley Kunze, Diana Mina, Michael Mina, Peter Mina, Fr. John Mina, Lana Zimmerman, Patrick Zimmerman, Shannon O’Neill, Fern Bonowicz, Stephen Petach, Jenny Roman, Nicolese Salazar, and All the sick and suffering of St. Mary’s
Collection: $1,268.00; Online: $785.00; Santa Paula: $1,740.77; Church Improvments: $300.00; Candles: $37.49; Property Rental: $200.00; Parish Social: $44.00;
Total: $4,375.26/ Attendance – PSM: 91 HAR: 90
Fifty years after Saint Theodore’s martyrdom, Emperor Julian the Apostate (361-363), devised a plan to corrupt the Christians during the first week of Great Lent. He knew that Christians purify themselves through fasting, especially during this week (which is why it is known as Clean Week). Therefore, he ordered the Polemarch (military leader) of Constantinople to go secretly and sprinkle all the food in the marketplace with the blood of animals which had been offered in sacrifice to idols. Saint Theodore appeared to Archbishop Eudoxios in a dream, telling him to assemble all the Christians on Monday morning and tell them that they must not buy any food from the marketplace; instead they were to boil some kollyva and to eat it with some honey during that week. The hierarch asked Saint Theodore what he meant by kollyva. He replied, “Kollyva is what we call boiled wheat in Euchaita.” Thus the scheme of the idol-worshipping emperor was thwarted and the pious people were preserved undefiled during Clean Week. (From oca.org)
You can find many traditional Koliva Recipes Online. I would love if we could bring back the tradition of making this dish and bringing it to socials and All-Souls liturgies during the Great Fast.
You can find one recipe in the first article in the weekly email.
This year’s Bishop’s Appeal runs through May 2026.
The community goal for St. Mary’s is $24,500.
We’ve donated $1,425.00 to this goal. Thank you!
You should have received a letter from Bishop Artur with a greeting, donation allocation and payment information. You can also give to the appeal by going to the “Donation” page at www.ephx.org. Please make sure you identify the parish or the mission as the recipient of your generosity.
Thank you to the following parishioners who have given this year: Alig, Reichert, Zimmerman
Thank you all for your wonderful generosity, we will be wrapping up the 1st phase of fundraising. If you have a filled out a pledge form at home, please put it into the manila envelope in the Narthex of the church.
Thank you too all those who have already pledged a donation: Cook, Govea, Healy, Horey, Jubera, Martini, Mina, Neimi, Petach, Roche, Seabright, Sharone, Tagarao, Varga, Weitzel, White, Wiggins
“Whatever you did for the least of my brethren, you did it for me.” Our vocation is centered on us being Christ to others and seeing Christ in others with as much faith, hope and love as possible. God may be calling you to this life through an increase in prayer as a monk, nun, or member of the clergy. To find out more, contact the Vocations Office at 602-861-9778 or email: vocations@ephx.org
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