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During the week ofMarch 4 we read thefourth chapter of theBook of Genesis,which includes thestory of Cain and Abel.

These sons of Adamand Eve make offeringsto God. Abel, a keeperof sheep, brings achoice young animal.Cain, described as a"tiller of the soil" orfarmer, offers grain. Godaccepts Abel's gift, butnot Cain's.

Though no reason is given for thechoice God makes, He sees theanger it causes in Cain. God giveshim what seems to be both a reas-surance and a warning: "If you dowell, will you not be accepted?And if you do not do well, sin iscrouching at the door; its desire isfor you, but you must master it."God is telling Cain that everythingdepends on his righteousness.

But sin does get the better of Cain.He kills Abel and then faces theinescapable question from God:"Where is your brother Abel?" Godknows perfectly well where Abel is,just as He knew the answer to a similarquestion He posed to Adam earlier inGenesis: "Where are you?"

Like Adam, Cain fails to give anhonest answer. He lies, andspeaks defiantly and disrespect-fully: "I do not know; am I mybrother's keeper?" Cain knows thathis "brother's keeper" is exactlywhat God expects him to be, but

he has fallen awayfrom what God ex-pects. His answer is akind of self-defense,as if to say that God'sexpectations are un-r e a s o n a b l e o runreachably high for amere human being.

God announces Cain'spunishment for the sinof murder, and Cainbewails his fate, say-ing, "I shall be a fugi-tive and a wanderer onthe earth, and whoever

finds me will slay me." But God'smercy is with him, even after histerrible deed. The Lord puts amark on him, "lest any who cameupon him should kill him." Thoughthe "mark of Cain" is often misun-derstood as a sign marking Cainas a murderer, it is in fact a sign ofGod's protec-tion.

In the nextverses ofGenesis, theauthor hasfused togethertwo Biblicalsources. So now rather than beingone of only three people on earth(Cain, Adam and Eve) Cain ismarried and has a son called Enoch.Genesis names several generations ofEnoch's offspring, ending with Lamech.

If Cain murdered, Lamech mur-ders with boastful pride. He saysto his wives, "Hearken to what Isay. I have slain a man for wound-ing me, a young man for striking

me." The author wants to show thatmankind is becoming increasinglyevil. The disobedience to God's lawthat began with Adam and Eveincreased with Cain, and has nowbecome truly ugly with Lamech.

Yet the world can be saved if thereis one righteous person willing toobey God. In the next chapter ofGenesis, God finds that man andinstructs him to build an ark. He isNoah, the son of none other thanLamech.

This weekly bulletin insert complementsthe curriculum published by the Depart-ment of Christian Education of theOrthodox Church in America. This andmany other Christian Education re-sources are available at http://dce.oca.org.

Volume 12, Issue 3

The InescapableTruth

March 2012

February Council Highlights

January’s Operating Income was$12,712 and Operating Expenseswere $11,479, resulting in a posi-tive balance of $1,233 for themonth of January. The Construction Contract has

been signed for the new parkinglot addition and applications for allpermits completed and in theprocess of issuance by the City ofPhoenix. SS Peter and Paul will host the Pan

-Orthodox Lenten Vespers onSunday, March 25, 2012. Please stay out of the construc-

tion site for the new parking lot;the area has now been fenced off.

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Troparion - Tone 8Open to me the doors of repentance,O Life-giver.For my spirit rises early to pray towards Thy holy temple,bearing the temple of my body all defiled.But in Thy compassion,purify me by the loving kindness of Thy mercy.

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Dearly Beloved in the Lord,

At the Vespers of Forgiveness Sunday, hav-ing asked for and received for-giveness from our brothers andsisters and having forgiven themas well, we entered into the sea-son of Great Lent and began ourLenten journey that leads us to-wards the great and holy day ofPascha. In this season of spiritualgrowth and blessing, the HolyOrthodox Church invites all of usto live a special period of forty days as apilgrimage of repentance, conversion, andrenewal.

In the Holy Scriptures we see that thenumber forty is rich in symbolism. It recallsIsrael’s forty-year journey in the desert.These forty years of wandering in the de-sert was a time of hope and expectation,purification, and closeness to the Lord. Butthese forty years of wandering was also atime of temptation and testing. “And theLORD'S anger was kindled against Israel,and he made them wander in the wilder-ness forty years, until all the generation,that had done evil in the sight of the LORD,was consumed” (Numbers 32:13).

The fact that we observe a period of fortydays in our observance of the Great Fastalso reminds us of Jesus’ own sojourn inthe desert at the beginning of His publicministry. After His Baptism by John in theRiver Jordan, the Lord went out into theJudean desert. As the Gospel of Saint

Mark tells us, after coming out of the wa-ter, “Immediately the Spirit drove Him intothe wilderness” (Mark 1:12). These forty

days were, for the Lord JesusChrist, a time of profound close-ness to His Heavenly Father as Heentered into the spirit of silenceand deep prayer. But these fortydays in the desert were also atime of confrontation with themystery of evil. “And He wasthere in the wilderness fortydays, tempted by Satan, and was

with the wild beasts; and the angels minis-tered to Him” (Mark 1:13; see also Mat-thew 4 & Luke 4).

This season of Lent becomes, for us today,a forty day period of wandering in the de-sert, of being tempted by the evils thatsurround us in our daily lives, and of striv-ing to draw ever closer to the Lord whoHimself spent forty days in the wildernessin preparation for His saving Mission. TheChurch’s Lenten discipline is meant to helpdeepen our life of faith and our imitationof Christ in His paschal mystery. In theseforty days may we draw nearer to the Lordby meditating on His word and example,and thus we conquer the desert of ourspiritual aridity, selfishness and materialism.

For Orthodox Christians, observance ofGreat Lent is characterized by fasting fromcertain foods, by an intensified private andpublic prayer, by self-examination, repen-tance and confession, personal improve-ment and restitution for sins committed,

and almsgiving. The foods traditionallyabstained from are meat and dairy prod-ucts, wine, and oil. Since strict fasting iscanonically forbidden on the Sabbath andthe Lord's Day, wine and oil are permittedon Saturdays and Sundays. This year, theGreat Feast of the Annunciation falls dur-ing Great Lent (March 25); therefore fish,wine and oil are permitted on that daybecause of the importance of the feast.

Besides participating in the additional li-turgical celebrations that both character-ize and enhance this season, OrthodoxChristians are also expected to pay closerattention to and increase their privateprayer. According to Orthodox theology,when asceticism is increased, prayer mustbe increased also. The Church Fathershave referred to fasting without prayer as"the fast of the demons" since the demonsdo not eat because of their incorporealnature, but neither do they pray.

As we enter into this Holy Season ofPrayer, Reflection, Repentance and Pen-ance, let us pray for the whole Church, forall our brothers and sisters in Christthroughout the world. May this Lent be atime of grace in which God leads us, inunion with the Crucified and Risen Lord,through the experience of the desert to the joyandhopebroughtbyChrist’sHolyResurrection.

With love in Christ,

Father David

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60th Anniversary Celebration


MARY, MYSTERIES,

AND MISSION: LIVING

THE CHRISTIAN LIFE

A Day of Lenten Prayer and

Reflection

with

ARCHPRIEST CHAD

HATFIELD

Chancellor, Saint Vladimir’s

Seminary

10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Saturday, March 24, 2012

SS PETER& PAUL CHURCH

1614 E Monte Vista Road

Phoenix, AZ

Lunch will be provided.

$5.00 donation requested.

RSVP by 3/21 to:

[email protected]

The clergy leave the church after liturgy.

Sterling Sourk approaches Bishop BENJAMIN.Bishop BENJAMIN prays before liturgy begins.

Christi and the Yavornitzkys enjoy a laugh.The children greet the Bishop with flowers.

Protodeacon Alexis reading Epistle.

Reflecting on our history.

Fr. Ian MacKinnon

John, Amy, and Andrew Blischak.

Vesting Bishop BENJAMIN

Bishop BENJAMIN

2012 Pan-Orthodox Vesper Schedule


Please join our Brothers & Sisters at the host parishes for theseSunday Evening Lenten Vespers Services

All Vesper Services Begin at 6:00 PM

Sponsored by the Arizona Council of Eastern Orthodox ChurchesMore Information at: WWW.ARIZONAORTHODOX.ORG

The Sunday of OrthodoxyMarch 4, 2012Host Parish: Holy Trinity Cathedral1973 E. Maryland Ave. Phoenix (602) 264-7863

The Second Sunday of LentMarch 11, 2012

Host Parish: Assumption Church8202 E. Cactus Rd., Scottsdale (480) 991-3009

The Third Sunday of LentMarch 18, 2012Host Parish: St. Sava Church4436 E. McKinley Street, Phoenix (602) 275-7360

The Fourth Sunday of LentMarch 25, 2012

Host Parish: Sts. Peter & Paul Church1614 E. Monte Vista Road, Phoenix (602) 253-9515

The Fifth Sunday of LentApril 1, 2012Host Parish: St. Haralambos Church7950 W. Pinnacle Peak Rd. Peoria (623) 486-8665

Fr. Alexander Schmemann

Rejoicing today in the triumph of Orthodoxyon this first Sunday of Lent, we joyfullycommemorate three events: one eventbelonging to the past; one event to thepresent; and one event which still belongsto the future.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and ofthe Holy Spirit. Amen.Rejoicing today in the triumph of Orthodoxy on thisfirst Sunday of Lent, we joyfully commemoratethree events: one event belonging to the past; oneevent to the present; and one event which stillbelongs to the future.Whenever we have any feast or joy in the Church,we Orthodox first of all look back or in our presentlife we depend on what happened in the past. Wedepend first of all, of course, on the first and theultimate triumph—that of Christ Himself. Our faithis rooted in that strange defeat which became themost glorious victory—the defeat of a man nailedto the cross, who rose again from the dead, who isthe Lord and the Master of the world. This is thefirst triumph of Orthodoxy. This is the content of allour commemorations and of all our joy. This manselected and chose twelve men, gave them powerto preach about that defeat and that victory, andsent them to the whole world saying preach andbaptize, build up the Church, announce the King-dom of God. And you know, my brothers and sis-ters, how those twelve men—very simple menindeed, simple fishermen—went out and preached.The world hated them, the Roman Empire perse-cuted them, and they were covered with blood. Butthat blood was another victory. The Church grew,the Church covered the universe with the true faith.After 300 years of the most unequal conflict be-tween the powerful Roman Empire and the power-less Christian Church, the Roman Empire ac-cepted Christ as Lord and Master. That was thesecond triumph of Orthodoxy. The Roman Empirerecognized the one whom it crucified and thosewhom it persecuted as the bearers of truth, and theirteaching as the teaching of life eternal. The Church tri-umphed. But then the second period of troubles began.The following centuries saw many attempts todistort the faith, to adjust it to human needs, to fill itwith human content. In each generation there werethose who could not accept that message of thecross and resurrection and life eternal. They triedto change it, and those changes we call heresies.Again there were persecutions. Again, Orthodoxbishops, monks and laymen defended their faithand were condemned and went into exile and werecovered with blood. And after five centuries ofthose conflicts and persecutions and discussions,the day came which we commemorate today, the

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people, they had a difficult life, and they built thoselittle Orthodox churches everywhere in America notfor other people but for themselves, just to remem-ber their homes, to perpetuate their tradition. Theydidn’t think of the future. And yet this is what hap-pened: the Orthodox Church was sent herethrough and with those poor men. The truth itself,the fullness of the apostolic faith—all this camehere, and here we are now, filling this hall andproclaiming this apostolic faith— he faith that hasstrengthened the universe. And this leads us to theevent which still belongs to the future.If today we can only proclaim, if we can only prayfor that coming triumph of Orthodoxy in this countryand in the world, our Orthodox faith forces us tobelieve that it is not by accident but by divine provi-dence that the Orthodox faith today has reached allcountries, all cities, all continents of the universe.After that historic weakness of our religion, afterthe persecutions by the Roman Empire, by theTurks, by the godless atheists, after all the troublesthat we had to go through, today a new day begins.Something new is going to happen. And it is thisfuture of Orthodoxy that we have to rejoice about today.We can already have a vision of that future when,in the West, a strong American Orthodox Churchcomes into existence. We can see how this faith,which for such a long time was an alien faith here,will become truly and completely universal in thesense that we will answer the questions of all men,and also all their questions. For if we believe in thatword: “Orthodoxy,” “the true faith”; if for one mo-ment we try to understand what it means: the true,the full Christianity, as it has been proclaimed byChrist and His disciples; if our Church has pre-served for all ages the message of the apostlesand of the fathers and of the saints in its purestform, then, my dear friends, here is the answer tothe questions and to the problems and to the suf-ferings of our world. You know that our world todayis so complex. It is changing all the time. And themore it changes, the more people fear, the morethey are frightened by the future, the more they arepreoccupied by what will happen to them. And thisis where Orthodoxy must answer their problem;this is where Orthodoxy must accept the challengeof modern civilization and reveal to men of all na-tions, to all men in the whole world, that it hasremained the force of God left in history for thetransformation, for the deification, for the transfigu-ration of human life.The past, the present, the future: At the beginning,one lonely man on the cross—the complete defeat.And if at that time we had been there with all ourhuman calculations, we probably would have said:“That’s the end. Nothing else will happen.” Thetwelve left Him. There was no one, no one to hope.The world was in darkness. Everything seemedfinished. And you know what happened three days

day of the final victory of Orthodoxy as the truefaith over all the heresies. It happened on the firstSunday of Lent in the year 843 in Constantinople.After almost 100 years of persecution directedagainst the worship of the holy icons, the Churchfinally proclaimed that the truth had been defined,that the truth was fully in the possession of theChurch. And since then all Orthodox people, whereverthey live, have gathered on this Sunday to proclaim beforethe world their faith in that truth, their belief that theirChurch is truly apostolic, truly Orthodox, truly universal.This is the event of the past that we commemorate today.But let us ask ourselves one question: Do all thetriumphs of Orthodoxy, all the victories, belong tothe past? Looking at the present today, we some-times feel that our only consolation is to rememberthe past. Then Orthodoxy was glorious, then theOrthodox Church was powerful, then it dominated.But what about the present? My dear friends, if thetriumph of Orthodoxy belongs to the past only, ifthere is nothing else for us to do but commemo-rate, to repeat to ourselves how glorious was thepast, then Orthodoxy is dead. But we are heretonight to witness to the fact that Orthodoxy notonly is not dead but also that it is once more andforever celebrating its own triumph—the triumph ofOrthodoxy. We don’t have to fight heresies amongourselves, but we have other things that once more chal-lenge our Orthodox faith.Today, gathered here together, Orthodox of vari-ous national backgrounds, we proclaim and weglorify first of all our unity in Orthodoxy. This is thetriumph of Orthodoxy in the present. This is a mostwonderful event: that all of us, with all our differ-ences, with all our limitations, with all our weak-nesses, can come together and say we belong tothat Orthodox faith, that we are one in Christ and inOrthodoxy. We are living very far from the tradi-tional centers of Orthodoxy. We call ourselvesEastern Orthodox, and yet we are here in theWest, so far from those glorious cities which werecenters of the Orthodox faith for centuries—Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem,Moscow. How far are those cities. And yet, don’twe have the feeling that something of a miraclehas happened, that God has sent us here, far intothe West, not just in order to settle here, to in-crease our income, to build up a community. Healso has sent us as apostles of Orthodoxy, so thatthis faith, which historically was limited to the East,now is becoming a faith which is truly and com-pletely universal.This is a thrilling moment in the history of Ortho-doxy. That is why it is so important for us to behere tonight and to understand, to realize, to havethat vision of what is going on. People were cross-ing the ocean, coming here, not thinking so muchabout their faith as about themselves, about theirlives, about their future. They were usually poor

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later. Three days later He appeared. He appearedto His disciples, and their hearts were burningwithin them because they knew that He was therisen Lord. And since then, in every generation,there have been people with burning hearts, peo-ple who have felt that this victory of Christ had to becarried again and again into this world, to be pro-claimed in order to win new human souls and to bethe transforming force in history.Today this responsibility belongs to us. We feelthat we are weak. We feel that we are limited, weare divided, we are still separated in so manygroups, we have so many obstacles to overcome.But today, on the Sunday of Orthodoxy, we closeour eyes for a second and we rejoice in that unitywhich is already here: priests of various nationalchurches praying together, people of all back-grounds uniting in prayer for the triumph of Ortho-doxy. We are already in a triumph, and may Godhelp us keep that triumph in our hearts, so that wenever give up hope in that future event in the his-tory of orthodoxy when Orthodoxy will become thevictory which eternally overcomes all the obstacles,because that victory is the victory of Christ Himself.As we approach the most important moment of theEucharist, the priest says, “Let us love one an-other, that with one mind we may confess….” Whatis the condition of the real triumph of Orthodoxy?What is the way leading to the real, the final, theultimate victory of our faith? The answer comes

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Sunday of Orthodoxy (cont’d)


PRAYER LIST

“I was sick and you visited me.”

Matt 25:36

We offer prayers to all of our parishionerswho are ill or unable to attend services:

Dan Perotto

Vi Wasilenko

Mary Maul

Pauline Vinay

Rose and Bill Koval

Ann Garza

If you know of anyone else in need of ourprayers, please contact Father David.

Around SS Peter & Paul

Tania BooriakinMarch 29

Many Years! Mnogaya Leta!

have the promise of the Holy Spirit, that He will fillall that which is weak, that He will help us at themoment when we need help. In other words, wehave all the possibilities, we have everything thatwe need, and therefore the victory is ours. It is nota human victory which can be defined in terms ofmoney, of human success, of human achieve-ments. What we are preaching tonight, what weare proclaiming tonight, what we are praying fortonight, is the victory of Christ in me, in us, in all ofyou in the Orthodox Church in America. And thatvictory of Christ in us, of the one who for us wascrucified and rose again from the dead, that victorywill be the victory of His Church.Today is the triumph of Orthodoxy, and a hymnsung today states solemnly and simply: “This is theApostolic faith, this is the Orthodox faith, this is thefaith of the Fathers, this is the faith that is the foun-dation of the world.” My dear brothers and sisters,this is also our own faith. We are chosen. We areelected. We are the happy few that can say of ourfaith, “apostolic,” “universal,” “the faith of our fa-thers,” “Orthodoxy,” “the truth.” Having this wonder-ful treasure, let us preserve it, let us keep it, and let us alsouse it in such a way that this treasure becomes the victoryof Christ in us and in His Church. Amen.

Reprinted from “Reflections in Christ”, February 28,2012, Orthodox Church in America web site, http://oca.org/reflections/fr.-alexander-schmemann/sunday-of-orthodoxy

MEMORY ETERNAL

Our prayerful support and sin-

cere sympathy to Protodeacon

Alexis Washington on the

repose of his beloved mother,

Beatrice. May the Lord grant

her rest with the saints and

memory eternal!

Vechnaya pamyat!

from the Gospel. The answer comes from ChristHimself and from the whole tradition of Orthodoxy.It is love. Let us love one another, that with onemind we may confess . . . confess our faith, ourOrthodoxy. Let us, from now on, feel responsiblefor each other. Let us understand that even if weare divided in small parishes, in small dioceses, wefirst of all belong to one another. We belong to-gether, to Christ, to His Body, to the Church. Let usfeel responsible for each other, and let us love oneanother. Let us put above everything else the inter-ests of Orthodoxy in this country. Let us under-stand that each one of us today has to be theapostle of Orthodoxy in a country which is not yetOrthodox, in a society which is asking us: “What doyou believe?” “What is your faith?” And let us, aboveeverything else, keep the memory, keep the ex-perience, keep the taste of that unity which we areanticipating tonight.At the end of the first century — when the Churchwas still a very small group, a very small minority,in a society which was definitely anti-Christianwhen the persecution was beginning — St. Johnthe Divine, the beloved disciple of Christ, wrotethese words: “And this is the victory, our faith, thisis the victory.” There was no victory at that time,and yet he knew that in his faith he had the victorythat can be applied to us today. We have the prom-ise of Christ, that the gates of hell will never prevailagainst the Church. We have the promise of Christthat if we have faith, all things are possible. We

Mnogaya Leta!Many Years!

Bits and PiecesPRESANCTIFIED LITURGIESIn the period of the Great Fast, the Holy Ortho-dox Church supports and strengthens its mem-bers with the weekly celebration of the Liturgyof the Presanctified Gifts. As is our custom, ourWednesday evening (6:00 p.m.) PresanctifiedLiturgies will be followed by a Lenten meal anda short presentation or discussion.

LENTEN SUNDAY VESPERSThroughout the season of the Great Fast, theOrthodox communities in the Valley of the Sungather on Sunday evenings for prayer and fel-lowship. The Sunday evening Vespers are heldat 6:00 p.m. and are generally followed by areception offered by the host parish. This year,SS Peter and Paul will host Vespers on Sun-day, March 25. Please mark your calendarsand plan on joining with our Orthodox brothersand sisters in our common journey through Lentto Pascha.

COFFEE HOURThus far the coffee hour has been successful.However, we still have many members whohave not volunteered to host a coffee hour. Tovolunteer, please contact Tania Booriakin eitherin church or by phone (480.585.9560).Unable to host Coffee Hour? Why not considermaking a cash donation to cover supplies, do-nating staples for coffee hour, or help clean up!Let’s all pitch in and help!

WELCOMEWe welcome all visitors to SS Peter & Paul.We hope your visit was enriching and enlight-ening. Please join us in the Cultural Center,behind the church, for our Fellowship Hour. It’sa chance to meet some of our members, othervisitors, and enjoy some coffee and fellowship.It’s also a great time to take a look at our bookstore.Katrina can help you find whatever you need!

MEMORIAL SATURDAYSMarch 10 and 17 are Memorial Saturdays, alsoknown as Soul Saturdays. The Church setsthese days aside for the special commemora-tion of those departed this life before us. Com-memoration of the Departed Faithful will takeplace during a Panikhida on each of thesedays, prior to Vespers, at 4:30 p.m. If youwould like your departed loved ones to beremembered by name, and have not alreadydone so, please submit your commemorationlist to Father David.


PARISH LIBRARYOur parish library has manyresources to assist you inyour sp i r i tua l journeythroughout the Lenten season.Stop by after services and pick abook to read as part of your spiritualexercises. There are hundreds of titles for youto chose from.

PARISH PASCHA CARDInstead of sending individual Pascha greetings,why not list your name(s) on a beautifully de-signed Orthodox Pascha card and support SSPeter and Paul at the same time? If you wouldlike to participate, please fill out the form at thebottom of page 2, and give it to StephanieHomyak. The suggested minimum donation is$10. Proceeds will benefit the parking lot pro-ject, so please be generous in your offering.

MORE ANNIVERSARY PICTURES

BOOKSTOREHandcrafted egg pendants have returned againthis year! Reasonably priced from $8 - $25,these beautiful works of art will be sold onlythrough Pentecost. There are a small selectionof chains and pins also available for purchase.

Enrich your Lenten experience with some spiri-tual reading and music. We have 3 books thatdeal with Great Lent specifically as well as theLiturgy of Pre-Sanctified Gifts on CD. We alsohave a small supply of the Pre-Sanctified Lit-urgy service book that is served every Wednes-day night during Great Lent.May you all have a blessed Lenten journey!

Katrina Delsante

MYRRH BEARERS ALTAR SOCIETYSS Peter and Paul will behosting the Pan-OrthodoxLenten Vespers on March25th. The MBAS will host aLenten meal after the service.Marty Gala will be co-ordinating the meal, soplease show your usual gen-

erosity by contacting her and letting her knowwhat dish you will be able to bring.Thanks to Pat Starkey and her volunteers forall their hard work preparing the deliciousCheeseFare Sunday luncheon.The Myrhhbearers Altar Society officers for2012 were elected at the February meeting andthey are as follows:

Presidernt Marty GalaVice President Jane EvansTreasurer Elizabeth MichelSecretary Betsy Begian

Marty Gala

EASTER BAKEThe Myrrh Bearers’ Easter bake schedule isThursday March 15 and Tuesday March 20thand Tuesday April 3. Please sign up withElizabeth Michel if you can assist on any ofthe bake days. Orders will be taken for Paskas.

Elizabeth Michel

FLOWERSThanks to Marie Yevin for providing flowers tobeautify the church for the month of January.Flowers for the month of February were pro-vided by Marie Lobb. Marilyn Bezkorovainy isproviding flowers for the month of March.

Vi Wasilenko and Tillie Kulek catch up.

Cass and Mike Wagner.

Happy birthday Jane!

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3 St. Theodore Sat.

5:00pm Vespers

4 Sunday ofOrthodoxy

8:30am Hours9:00am Divine Liturgy

Church School

6:00 Lenten VespersHoly Trinity Cathedral

5 6 7 Icon Surety ofSInners

6:00pm Liturgy of the

Presanctified GiftsLenten Meal

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10 Memorial Saturday

4:30pm MemorialSaturday Service

5:00pm Vespers

11 St. GregoryPalamas


Church SchoolMBAS Meeting

6:00 Lenten VespersAssumption GreekOrthodox Church

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7:00pm Council MtgMeeting

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15EASTER BAKE

16 17 Memorial Saturday

4:30pm MemorialSaturday Service

5:00pm Vespers

18 Veneration of theCross


Church School

6:00 Lenten VespersSt. Sava SerbianOrthodox Church

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22 23 24 ForefeastAnnunciation

Lenten Retreat10:00am-3:00pmSS Peter & Paul

5:00pm Vespers

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6:00pm Great Canon

30 31 Repose ofSt. Innocent

5:00pm Vespers

March 2012

We welcome all of our guests and visitors. Please join us in the Cultural Center

for Fellowship Hour following Divine Liturgy each Sunday.

Join us for a light lenten meal

and discussion following Liturgy

of the Presanctified Gifts. Please

contact Ann Carroll to sign-up

to bring soup, fruit, or bread.

MARY, MYSTERIES, AND MISSION: LIVING

THE CHRISTIAN LIFE

A Day of Lenten Prayer and Reflection

Archpriest Chad Hatfield

Saturday, March 24, 2012

10:00 am—3:00 pm

Join us for a light lenten meal

and discussion following Liturgy

of the Presanctified Gifts. Please

contact Ann Carroll to sign-up

to bring soup, fruit, or bread.

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