Good morning!
We hope you are all doing well. Our normal schedule for our Lenten Project would have us doing our cards for those that are in prison this Sunday. Since we can't get the cards to them at this time...... We have 2 requests this Sunday....
1. Finish up our Week 4 Project
"For I was sick and you visited me..."
Our cards for the sick and shut ins. We have a list attached with the names of those in our community that would love to receive some of your creative Pascha cards this year. As you can see the "mail" bin is waiting right outside our Church office door for your deposits. Fr Nick will then see that they get to everyone on the list. Especially at this time they help bring joy and hope to many.
2. And since we aren't able to do our usual 2nd card project
There is another group of folks that could use the Hope & Joy that your cards give......Doctors, Nurses, Hospital workers, EMTs, delivery people, First Responders, National Guard - who came and cleaned our church top to bottom - people at the grocery. So lets do cards for them - expressing our love and thanks for all the things big & small that they are doing to try and make this time better for us all.
Our Lenten project each year is all about focusing on others and thereby focusing on Christ and witnessing our Faith. Yes, there are prayers we can say, but ACTION as PRAYER is what this is all about. Making sure all are thought about, cared for and loved.
Don't forget to continue filling your mission boxes. It is more important than ever to help others during this time of uncertainty. You will be able to drop them off next Sunday when you retrieve your palm crosses.
Today’s Lesson: Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt
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Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt
The memory of this Saint is celebrated on April 1, where her life is recorded. Since the end of the holy Forty Days is drawing nigh, it has been appointed for this day also, so that if we think it hard to practice a little abstinence forty days, we might be roused by the heroism of her who fasted in the wilderness forty-seven years; and also that the great loving-kindness of God, and His readiness to receive the repentant, might be demonstrated in very deed.
Apolytikion
Plagal Fourth Mode
The image of God, was faithfully preserved in you, O Mother. For you took up the Cross and followed Christ. By Your actions you taught us to look beyond the flesh for it passes, rather to be concerned about the soul which is immortal. Wherefore, O Holy Mary, your soul rejoices with the angels.
Kontakion
Third Mode
Who once was filled with every carnal sin has become today, through repentance, the bride of Christ. She desired the company of angels. She trampled upon demons with the Cross as her weapon. This is why, O Glorious Mary, you became a Bride of the Kingdom.