Saturday, Feb. 28 – 2nd All Souls Saturday
9:30 AM All-Souls Divine Liturgy
5:00 PM Misson Divine Liturgy at St. Raphael’s
Sunday, March. 1 – 2nd Sunday of the Great Fast
8:00 AM Matins
9:30 AM Divine Liturgy
12:00 PM Chant Class
Monday, March. 2 – Theodotus Bishop & Martyr
8:30 AM Morning Prayer
Tuesday, March. 3 – Eutropius & Others, Martyrs
6:30 PM Akathist* for Addictions and Mental Illness
Wednesday, March. 4 – Gerasimus, Venerable
8:30 AM Morning Prayer
6:30 PM Presanctified Divine Liturgy
7:30 PM Firepit Social
Friday, March. 6 – 42 Martyrs of Ammorium
6:00 PM Mission Presanctified Divine Liturgy at St. Raphael’s
6:30 PM Community Sewing Class
Saturday, March. 7 – 3rd All Souls Saturday
9:30 AM All-Souls Divine Liturgy
5:00 PM Misson Divine Liturgy at St. Raphael’s
Sunday, March. 8 – 3rd Sunday of the Great Fast and Veneration of the Cross
8:00 AM Matins
9:30 AM Divine Liturgy
*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: $2,237.00; Online: $966.00; Santa Paula: $1,410.08; Gift Shop: $45.00; Candles: $34.50; Big Hall Building Fund: $1,115.00; Parish Social: $45.00; Bishop’s Appeal: $1,000.00
Total: $6,852.58/ Attendance – PSM: 79 SRM: 56
“Arise, take up your mat and go to your house.” Our Lord healed the paralysis of the suffering man brought through the roof. His words of healing centered on spiritual healing by forgiving his sins. In response to God’s love and forgiveness, are you being called to a life of prayer and intercession as a religious, monastic, or a priestly life? Contact the Vocations Office at 602-861-9778 or email: vocations@ephx.org
(From ephx.org)
The second Sunday of Lent is now given to the memory of St Gregory Palamas, the great advocate of hesychasm and the Jesus Prayer. Previously, the Byzantine rite celebrated St. Polycarp of Smyrna, who was ordained bishop by St. John the Evangelist, on the second Sunday of Lent. That commemoration has been replaced by that of St. Gregory Palamas, the famous defender of hesychasm in the 14th century. Replacing such an ancient commemoration as that of Polycarp gives us an idea of just how important the hesychast controversy was.
The monks of Mount Athos had been condemned by the monk Barlaam, an Italo-Greek monk from Calabria in Italy, who favored education over contemplation, and who emphasized the unknowability of God. The monks taught hesychasm, using the Jesus Prayer and certain body postures or breathing, so as to draw very close to God, and for some, to see the Divine Light in this lifetime. The use of the body postures was repeatedly condemned by many saints and writers, but not the use of the Jesus Prayer. This prayer, so central in our spirituality, when used well, has a profound effect.
Further, St. Gregory taught that the mystic, even without education, could have greater knowledge of God than others, but he made the crucial distinction between energies of God, and the essence of God. Essentially, God cannot be known in His essence by any human, but His energies (what God sends forth in His creation), can be known. In this, he quoted the ancient Cappadocian Fathers. As for the body postures and breathing, since the person is both body and soul, uses of the body can affect the soul. In the end, he wrote that hesychasm teaches that one can see the Light of God, but only with repentance, interior conversion, constant prayer, and spiritual direction. This remains the position today, nearly 900 years later.
(PSM) All-Souls Divine Liturgies : 9:30am on Saturdays February 28th, and March 7th and 14th.
(SRM) All-Souls Panachidas : 4:45pm on Saturdays February 28th, and March 7th and 14th.
Great Canon of Andrew of Crete
(PSM): 6:30pm on Wednesday, March 18
(SRM): 11:30am on Thursday, March 19
Annunciation of the Theotokos
(SRM) Presanctified Divine Liturgy (in preparation for the feast): 6:00pm on Tuesday, March 24.
(PSM) Vesper-Liturgy for the feast: 6:30pm on Wednesday, March 25.
We’ve donated $2,898.20 toward our goal of $24,500.
You can give to the appeal online 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, Brunet, Klein, O’Loughlin, Reichert, Zimmerman
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