Saturday, May 24 – Simeon, Venerable
5:00 PM Santa Paula Outreach Divine Liturgy
Sunday, May 25 – Sunday of the Man Born Blind
8:00 AM Matins
9:30 AM Divine Liturgy
Tuesday, May 27 – Therapont, Bishop-Martyr
6:30 PM Akathist* and Discussion for Addictions & Mental Illness, in person and on Zoom
Wednesday, May 28 – Nicetas, Bishop
8:30 AM Morning Prayer
6:30 PM Vigil Divine Liturgy for the Feast of the Ascension
7:30 PM Firepit Social
Thursday, May 29 – The Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord
6:30 PM Neighborhood Bible Study
Saturday, May 31 – Hermas, Apostle & Hermeas, Martyr
5:00 PM Santa Paula Outreach Divine Liturgy
Sunday, June 1 – Sunday of the Fathers of the 1st Ecumenical Council
8:00 AM Matins
9:30 AM Divine Liturgy
12:00 PM Chant Class
*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, Michael Mina, Peter Mina, Fr. John Mina, Mila Mina, Lana Zimmerman, Patrick Zimmerman, Shannon O’Neill, Fern Bonowicz, Stephen Petach, Jenny Roman, All the sick and suffering of St. Mary’s
Collection: $1,001.00; Online: $756.00; Santa Paula: $ 1,060.98; Candles: $20.00; Parish Socials: $30.00
Total: $2,867.98 / Attendance – PSM: 70 HAR: 117
This year’s appeal is underway. Our parish goal this year is $32,000. So far, we have raised 20% of our goal, $6,532.50. Thank you to everyone who donated! With your generosity, we will reach our goal. Donate online on the eparchy’s website, don’t forget to select St. Mary Protocathedral on the drop menu!
Jesus explains to his disciples in today’s Gospel that the blind man’s life-long malady occurred so that “God’s works may be revealed in him.” Sirach 42:15-25 gives a beautiful reflection on these “Works of God.”:
I will now call to mind the works of the Lord, and will declare what I have seen. By the word of the Lord his works are made; and all his creatures do his will. The sun looks down on everything with its light, and the work of the Lord is full of his glory. The Lord has not empowered even his holy ones to recount all his marvelous works, which the Lord the Almighty has established so that the universe may stand firm in his glory. He searches out the abyss and the human heart; he understands their innermost secrets. For the Most High knows all that may be known; he sees from of old the things that are to come. He discloses what has been and what is to be, and he reveals the traces of hidden things. No thought escapes him, and nothing is hidden from him. He has set in order the splendors of his wisdom; he is from all eternity one and the same. Nothing can be added or taken away, and he needs no one to be his counselor. How desirable are all his works, and how sparkling they are to see! All these things live and remain forever; each creature is preserved to meet a particular need. All things come in pairs, one opposite the other, and he has made nothing incomplete. Each supplements the virtues of the other. Who could ever tire of seeing his glory?
“One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see!” The healing love of Christ gave sight to the man born blind. Have you received the eyes to spiritually see your calling in life? Is he calling you to help the world see Him more clearly by a vocation to the priesthood, diaconate, monastic or religious life? Contact the Vocations Office at 602-861-9778 or email: vocations@ephx.org
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