Calendar
April - May
2010

April 18
Sunday of the Myrrh Beaing Women and
Sts. Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemos

April 25
Sunday of Paralytic
and Apostle & Evangelist Mark

May 2
Second Sunday of the Samaritan Woman and
the Translation of the Relics of St. Athanasios the Great

May 9
Sunday of the Blindman

May 16
Holy Fathers of the First Council of Nicea

May 23
Sunday of Pentecost

May 30
First Sunday after Pentecost
All Saints Sunday


Announcements
+ Last updated on May12, 2010 +

  • May 9 th: 40 day memorial for Anton Alexeev mother, Olga Alexeev
  • May 16 th: 7 year memorial for Georgeta Ardelean Grand father, Toader .
  • A reminder: His Eminence Archbishop Lorenzo will arrive in the U.S the end of June. We will keep your updated on the actual date. We want a good turn out for the Archbishop his first Sunday and every Sunday at St. Michael during his visits with us. Let’s show his Eminence how much we love and care for him.
  • We are sorry regarding the passing away of Fr. Lynn this month, former Pastor of St. Andrew Episcopal church. He was a good friend to Fr. Mark. He will be sadly missed by the whole congregation of St. Michael. May his memory be eternal!
  • May 25 th : Congratulations for Valerie David, graduated from St. Clement School. Next year, she will attend St. Mary Catholic Central High school. God grant you many years Valla.


Sunday of Pentecost
(May 23rd)

Pentecost is the “Descent of Holy Spirit”. This is the day that our Lord Jesus Christ promised to his disciples would happen. “When the day of Pentecost had come they were all together in one place and suddenly a sound came from Heaven like the rush of a mighty wind and it filled all the house where they were sitting and there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed upon each one of them and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit (Acts 2: 1-4). The fullness of the Godhead: Father, Son and Holy Spirit is manifested with the Spirit coming to man. The disciples now the Apostles had received “the power from on high” had the responsibility to spread the Good News. They began to preach and bear witness to Jesus as the risen Christ, the King and Lord. Because the fullness of the Holy Spirit appeared in the room that day, Pentecost is also referred to as Trinity Day in the Orthodox Church. The tongues of fire over the Apostles heads were the tongues of many languages so they could speak the language of the country they were going to.

Sunday, April 18, 2010
Sunday of the Myrrh Bearing Women
and Sts. Joseph pf Arimathea and Nicodemos


  • Troparion of the Resurrection, Tone 2
When thou didst submit thyself unto death, O thou death less and immortal One, then thou didst destroy hell with thy godly power; and when thou didst raise the dead from beneath the earth, all the powers of heaven did cry aloud unto thee: O Christ, thou Giver of life, Glory to thee.
  • Troparion for the Sunday of the Myrrhbearing Women, Tone 2
Glory to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. The Pious Joseph, having brought down Thy pure body from he tree, wrapped it in fine linen, embalmed it with ointment, provided for it, and laid it in a new tom. But thou didst verily rise after three days, O Lord, granting the world the great mercy.
Both now and ever, and unto ages if ages, Amen.
Verily, the angel came to the tomb and said to the ointment bearing women Ointments is meet for the dead, but Christ is shown to be remote form corruption. But cry ye, the Lord is risen, granting the world the great mercy.

  • Troparion of St Michael, Tone 4
O Commanders of the Heavenly Hosts, we the unworthy beseech you, that through your entreaties you will fortify us, guarding us in the shelter of the wings of your ethereal glory, even as we fervently bow before You, crying: " Deliver us from all danger as commanders of the powers on high."

  • Kontakion of Easter, Tone 8
When thou didst descend into the grave, Immortal, thou didst destroy the power of hades. In victory didst thou arise, O Christ God, proclaiming "rejoice" to the myrrh-bearing women, granting peace to thine apostles and bestowing resurrection of the fallen.

Epistle: Act 6:1-7
Gospel: Mark 15: 43-16:8


Sunday, April 25, 2010
Sunday of the Paralytic & Apostle and Evangelist Mark

  • Troparion of the Resurrection, Tone 3
Let the heavens rejoice and the earth be glad, for the Lord hath done a mighty act with his own arm: he hath trampled death by death, and became the first-born from the dead. He hath delivered us from the depths of Hades, granting the world the great mercy.

  • Troparion of the Apostle Mark, Tone 3
O Holy Apostle Mark, intercede with our merciful God to grant our souls forgiveness of sins.

  • Troparion of St. Michael, Tone 4
O Commanders of the Heavenly Hosts, we the unworthy beseech you, that through your entreaties you will fortify us, guarding us in the shelter of the wings of your ethereal glory, even as we fervently bow before You, crying: " Deliver us from all danger as commanders of the powers on high."

  • Kontakion of Easter, Tone 8
When thou didst descend into the grave, Immortal, thou didst destroy the power of Hades. In victory didst thou arise, O Christ God, proclaiming "rejoice" to the myrrh-bearing women, granting peace to thine apostles and bestowing resurrection of the fallen.

Epistle: 1 Peter 5:6:14
Gospel: John 5:1-15

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