PRAYER REQUESTS One of our most fundamental Christian

responsibilities is to pray. There is truly great power in prayer. During this Divine

Liturgy and throughout this next week your prayers are requested for: Jean Rivard,

Lusine Grigoryan, Toni Golfieri, Tracey Jarvis, Shelley Cotton, Diane Boghosian,

Jessica Thresher, Alex Velez, Shirley Yergatian, Anne Tom Keegan, Eleanor

Demirjian, Alice Vooris, Susie Arslanian, Lisa Omartian, John Trumbull, Kent

Woodard, Susan DerMargosian, Lisa Herrick, Kim Noel, Darlene McKenna, Dr.

David Manning, Jr., the Jozokos family, Joan Bazegian, Laura Wormel, Kate

Heck, Laura Hynds, Laora Grigoryan, Rebecca Meek, Michael O’Connor, Sara

Omartian, Gary Tumasyan, James Anita Assarian, Debbie Manning, Steve Taylor

and all those in need of our prayers.

Calendar of Events

February 5, Wednesday- Diocesan Assembly planning meeting 7 pm

February 23, Sunday – Great Barekendan

March 1, Sunday – Sunday of Expulsion

March 1, Sunday - Annual Parish Assembly – noon

March 8, Sunday – Sunday of the Prodigal Son

March 15, Sunday – Sunday of the Steward

March 22, Sunday – Sunday of the Judge

March 29, Sunday- Sunday of the Advent

April 5, Sunday – Palm Sunday

April 12, Sunday – Easter Sunday

LENTEN DINNERS

This year Lenten dinners will be held on the following Fridays:

March 6 & 13 & 20 and 27.

More details to follow soon.

HOME BLESSINGS

According to the tradition of the Armenian Church, we do Home Blessings at

Christmas. The Home Blessing is very important because as you go to the

House of God, likewise Christ’s representative, the priest, comes to your house

and blesses it. Der Hayr would like to make a visit and do a Home Blessing

during this season and ask that you please call and arrange a day and time for

him to come. Christ called His followers “the salt of the earth” who through

their faith, hope and love made life worth living. The burning incense signifies

the Christian who burns it with the love of God and also the prayers of the

faithful, which rise up as a sweet odot to Heaven. Please call Der Hayr to

make arrangements for him to come to your home and just as a reminder put

on a tray: a small dish of salt, a slice of bread, and a glass of water

ՍԻՐԵՑԷՔ ԶՄԻՄԵԱՆՍ ՈՐՊԷՍ ԵԻ ԵՍ ԶՁԵԶ ՍԻՐԵՑԻ

“LOVE ONE ANOTHER AS I HAVE LOVED YOU”

St. Mark Armenian Church

2427 Wilbraham Road

Springfield, MA 01129

Church Office: 413-783-5793

Der Sevak’s Cell: 914-888-4836

Email: frsevak.gabrielyan@gmail.com

Office Hours: Tuesday-Friday

Welcome to St. Mark Armenian Church

Sunday Bulletin

February 2, 2020 Church Services at 10:00am

Sunday School at 10:15am

Parish Council Greeters:

Steve Berian and Ramela Abramian

Coffee Hour Hosts: Armen and Anahit Tumasyan

Scripture Reading

John 6:22-38

I Am the Bread of Life On the next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had

been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but

that his disciples had gone away alone. Other boats from Tiberias came near the place

where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. So when the crowd

saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and

went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.

When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did

you come here?” Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me,

not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. Do not work for

the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of

Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.” Then they said to

him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?” Jesus answered them, “This is

the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.” So they said to him,

“Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you

perform? Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them

bread from heaven to eat.’” Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was

not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true

bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and

gives life to the world.” They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.”

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and

whoever believes in me shall never thirst. But I said to you that you have seen me and

yet do not believe. All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes

to me I will never cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will

but the will of him who sent me.

2 Timothy 2:15-25

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need

to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth. Avoid godless chatter,

because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly. Their teaching

will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have

departed from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already taken place, and

they destroy the faith of some. Nevertheless, God’s solid foundation stands firm,

sealed with this inscription: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Everyone who

confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness.”

In a large house there are articles not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and

clay; some are for special purposes and some for common use. Those who cleanse

themselves from the latter will be instruments for special purposes, made holy, useful

to the Master and prepared to do any good work.

Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along

with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. Don’t have anything to do with

foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. And the

Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach,

not resentful. Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant

them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth.

HOKEHANKISD In loving memory of

Samuel Bedrosian On the 40th day of his passing

Requested by: Linda Bedrosian, Susan Turcotte and David Bedrosian