Monday begins the season of house blessings. We invite Christ into our homes to set them aside another year, to bless them, and pray God to make them places manifesting Christ’s light, peace, truth, and love. Please contact Fr. Robert this month with two suggested days and times for a house blessing as soon as possible. He will do his best to accommodate you (n.b., Mondays and Thursdays he is generally not availabe).
This week at Holy Archangels:
- v Saturday, Jan 18 , 6:00 p.m., Great Vespers. Confession following and First Saturday Potluck Dinner and Fellowship (rescheduled).
- v Sunday, Jan 19, 9:30 Hours, 10 a.m. Divine Liturgy for Afterfeast of Theophany There will be a panihida for Charlene, Fr. Robert’s mother, following the service.
Prayer Requests:
- Memory Eternal for Charlene Miclean, Fr. Robert’s mother, who fell asleep in the Lord on Friday and for Fr. Robert, his father, and family as they grieve her loss.
- That God may grow our Mission “in spirit and in numbers as a living witness of His love, healing, power, and glory;”
- For God’s continued financial provision for our Mission and our college ministry, ACM;
- For our Mission that we may find a Choir Director;
- Archpriest George, Archpriest Michael, Priest John, Deacon Basil, Rdr. Michael, Rdr. John, Benedict, Lance, Colette, Mary, Tina Carol, Katherine, James, Charlene, Claudia, Daniel, Sarah, Seraphim, Ed, the Church in Georgia and Romania as they address the relativism of the West, speaking the truth in love, for our suffering Orthodox brethren in Syria and Egypt, the nuns and orphans of St. Thekla Monastery abducted by Syrian terrorist rebels.
- The departed Lelia, Woodrow, and Anastasia.
Troparion (Resurrection) Tone 4
When the women Disciples of the Lord
learned from the Angel the joyous message of the Resurrection,
they cast away the ancestral curse // and elatedly told the Apostles:
“Death is overthrown! // Christ God is risen,// granting the world great mercy!”
Troparion of the Feast Tone 1
When You, O Lord, were baptized in the Jordan, // the worship of the Trinity was made manifest.
For the voice of the Father bore witness to You, // calling You His Beloved Son;
and the Spirit in the form of a dove // confirmed the truthfulness of His word.
O Christ our God, You have revealed Yourself,// and have enlightened the world, glory to You
Troparion (Holy Archangels) Tone 4
Commanders of the heavenly hosts, // we who are unworthy beseech you:
by your prayers encompass us beneath the wings of your immaterial glory,
and faithfully preserve us who fall down and cry to you://
“Deliver us from all harm, for you are the Commanders of the Powers on high!”
Kontakion (Resurrection) Tone 4
My Savior and Redeemer
as God rose from the tomb and delivered the earth-born from their chains.
He has shattered the gates of hell, // and as Master,// He has risen on the third day!
Kontakion (Martyr Tatiana of Rome) Tone 4
In your sufferings you shone brightly // in the royal purple of your blood,
and like a beautiful dove you flew to heaven, // passion-bearer Tatiana.//
Therefore, always pray for those who honor you!
Kontakion (St Sava, Enlightener of Serbia) Tone 8
Your church glorifies you as its first great hierarch and the Apostles’
companion, O ven’rable one.
Since you have boldness before Christ God,
Save us by your prayers from every tribulation, so that we may cry out to you:
“Rejoice, O divinely-wise Father Sava!”
Kontakion of the Feast Tone 4
Today You have shone forth to the world, O Lord,
and the light of Your countenance has been marked on us. // Knowing You, we sing Your praises.
You have come and revealed Yourself,// O unapproachable Light.
Kontakion (Holy Archangels) Tone 2
Commanders of God’s armies // and ministers of the divine glory,
princes of the bodiless Angels // and guides of mankind;
ask for what is good for us, and for great mercy,// Supreme Commanders of the Bodiless Hosts
