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2 Sunday March 3 rd Meatfare Sunday Tone 7. Sunday of the Last Judgement. Martyr Eutropius of Amasea, and with him Martyrs Cleonicus and Basilliscus (ca. 308). St. Piama, Virgin (337). Ss. Zeno and Zoilus. Epistle: 1 Cor. 8:8-9:2 Gospel: Matt. 25:32-46 Please Pray for the Health of: Dn. Basil Wallace, Child Sydney Foster, Harry Mlynar, Vasily Burlingame, Barbara Rogers, Paul Simpson, Thomas Gall, Vasily Burlingame, Teresa Petroski, Alex Petroski, Carol Wyhowanec, Benjamin Snyder, Julie Diamond, Ted Stevens, Maryann West, Pat Starkey, Sue Evanoff, Jim Jackson, Carl Johnson, Pat Kovachick, Bob Glaston, Sara Lucas & Melissa Trace. For the Departed Archpriest John Mason, Archpriest Joseph Martin, Protodeacon Dennis & Mat. Helen Lucak, Nicholas Stevens, Paul Pyle, Catherine Molenaur, Armand Pirvu, Michael Snyder & Eleanor Alexander. Schedule of Services Saturday March 9...Vespers...5:00 p.m. Sunday March 10...Forgiveness Sunday - Church School & Adult Class...8:55 a.m. The Third Hour...9:45 a.m. Divine Liturgy...10:00 a.m. Forgiveness Vespers...2:00 p.m. Epistle: Rom. 13:11-14:4 Gospel: Matt. 6:14-21 Liturgy Book Helps for Today Troparia, Kontakia, Prokimena, and Alleluia Verses: Pages: Daily Scripture Readings Day Epistle Gospel Monday 3 John 1:1-15 Luke 19:20-40; 22:7-39 Tuesday Jude 1-10 Luke 22:39-42, 45-23:1 Wednesday Joel 2:12-26 Joel 3:12-21 Thursday Jude Luke 23:2-34,44-56 Friday Zechariah 8:7-17 Zechariah 8:19-23 Saturday Heb. 12:1-10 & Rom. 14:19-23, 16:25-27 Matt. 20:1-16 & Matt. 6:1-13

3 Memorial Candle Offerings! Altar Table Candles: In memory of Richard, Anne and Daniel, offered by Maryann West. Table of Oblation Candles: In Honor of Diane Becker on her birthday & Michael Soroka on his birthday, offered by Kathy Zahirsky. Standing Vigil: For the health of Jim Jackson, offered by Barb, Rhyesa, Bill and Nikolai. Executive Board Meeting A meeting of the Executive Board of St. Nicholas Parish Council will be held tomorrow, Monday March 4 th, at 7:00 p.m. in the Social hall. All members are reminded to attend. Announcements Cash donations are used to buy the above mentioned items as well as supplies for our ongoing sandwich drive. I attempt to drop off 50 sandwiches two days a week at the mission. If you are interested in helping, please let me know. Some Words of Thanks Thanks to all that have sent cards, brought in food and kept me in their prayers, My surgery went well, and I am on the road to recovery. Thanks to all your prayers, I have stayed positive through all this. I have a ways to go to continue my chemo and radiation. Love in Christ Carol Wyhowanec Helping the Homeless Thank you for your continued support of St Nicholas' homeless ministry which we are now referring to as My Neighbor's Bread. As the warmer weather approaches, please consider the following items for donations: - canned or bagged meat - hard candies like Jolly Ranchers - pop tarts or other individually wrapped items - feminine hygiene products - The mission always collects tents, preferably 10 man kind. It is helpful if cans are the pull-top We will be having a collection on Sunday March 3rd to benefit transportation expenses for hot meal. It is $350 to rent the bus for three hours to continuously run back and forth to Akron. For this hot meal our goal is the feed 100 people. Thanks, Subdeacon David DMTRACE@GMAIL.COM St. Nicholas is a Registered Charity on Amazon smile Amazon smile is a website operated by Amazon with the same products, prices, and shopping features as Amazon.com. The difference is that when you shop on Amazon smile, the Amazon smile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price of eligible products to the charitable organization of your choice. Once you sign up at smile.amazon.com and choose a charity (St. Nicholas Orthodox Church of Mogadore, Ohio), 0.5% of your eligible purchases will be donated. The service doesn't cost anything to the charities that sign up or the shopper (for that reason, donations are not tax deductible). All you have to do is start your shopping at smile.amazon.com Amazon smile is a simple and automatic way for you to support your favorite charitable organization every time you shop, at no cost to

4 you. March March 10 March 17 March 24 March 31 April April 7 April 14 April 21 April 27 April 28 Greeters Schedule Ray Malackany Gloria Molenaur Tom Petrochuk Gary & Elaine Ramnytz Mia Rohweder Sue Smith Jim & Maria Stevens Tom Petrochuk Bill & Virginia Kuyon 1:4), sin is the absence of love, it is separation and isolation. When Christ comes to judge the world, His criterion for judgment will be love. Christian love entails seeing Christ in other people, our family, our friends, and everyone else we may encounter in our lives. We shall be judged on whether we have loved, or not loved, our neighbor. We show Christian love when we feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, visit those who are sick or in prison. If we did such things for the least of Christ s brethren, then we also did them for Christ (Mt.25:40). If we did not do such things for the least of the brethren, neither did we do them for Christ (Mt.25:45). Food For the Soul Sunday of Meatfare of the Last Judgment Today s Gospel reading is Matthew 25:31-46, the parable of the Last Judgment. It reminds us that while trusting in Christ s love and mercy, we must not forget His righteous judgment when He comes again in glory. If our hearts remain hardened and unrepentant, we should not expect the Lord to overlook our transgressions simply because He is a good and loving God. Although He does not desire the death of a sinner, He also expects us to turn from our wickedness and live (Ezek. 33:11). This same idea is expressed in the prayer read by the priest after the penitent has confessed his or her sins (Slavic practice). The time for repentance and forgiveness is now, in the present life. At the Second Coming, Christ will appear as the righteous Judge, Who will render to every man according to his deeds (Rom. 2:6). Then the time for entreating God s mercy and forgiveness will have passed. As Father Alexander Schmemann reminds us in his book GREAT LENT (Ch. Today is the last day for eating meat and meat products until Pascha, though eggs and dairy products are permitted every day during the coming week. This limited fasting prepares us gradually for the more intense fasting of Great Lent. Martyr Eutropius of Amasea The Holy Martyrs Eutropius, Cleonicus and Basiliscus suffered in the city of Pontine Amasea (Asia Minor) in about the year 308. The brothers Eutropius and Cleonicus, and Basiliscus the nephew of the Great Martyr Theodore the Recruit (February 17), were comrades. After the martyric death of Saint Theodore, they wound up in prison and by their preaching brought many of the pagans in prison with them to the Christian Faith. When he tortured Saint Theodore, Publius perished shamefully, struck down by divine wrath. Asclepiodotus was chosen as ruler of Amasea, and was more inhumane than his predecessor. Knowing the comrades of Saint Theodore the Recruit were all in prison, the governor commanded that they be brought to him. Saints Eutropius, Cleonicus and Basiliscus thus firmly confessed their faith in Christ before

5 this new governor. They were mercilessly beaten, so that their bodies were entirely bruised. As he was being tortured Saint Eutropius prayed loudly to the Savior, Grant us, O Lord, to endure these wounds for the sake of the crown of martyrdom, and help us, as You helped Your servant Theodore. In answer to the saint s prayer, the Lord Himself appeared to the martyrs with His angels and the holy Great Martyr Theodore the Recruit, saying to them: Behold, the Savior has come to help you, that you may know life eternal. Soldiers and many of the people standing nearby were also granted to behold the Savior. They urged Asclepiodotus to halt the tortures. Seeing that the people were distraught and ready to believe in the true God, the governor commanded the martyrs to be taken away. The governor then invited Saint Eutropius to supper and urged him to offer public sacrifice to the pagan gods, yet remain a Christian in soul. Eutropius refused this offer. On the following day they brought the martyrs to a pagan temple, to force them to offer sacrifice. Eutropius entreated the Savior: Lord, be with us, and destroy the raging of the pagans. Grant that on this place the Bloodless Sacrifice of the Christians be offered to You, the true God. No sooner had these last words been spoken, than an earthquake began. The walls of the temple collapsed, and the statue of the goddess Artemis was smashed to bits. Everyone fled from the temple to avoid being crushed among the rubble. In the noise of the earthquake a voice was heard from on high: Your prayer has been heard, and on this place a house of Christian prayer shall be built. When the earthquake ended, the governor Asclepiodotus, barely recovered from his fright, gave orders to drive high wooden stakes into the ground, tie the martyrs to them and pour boiling tar over them. The saints began to pray to God, and Eutropius cried out turning to the torturers: May the Lord turn your deed against you! The tar began to flow beside the bodies of the martyrs, like water with marble, scorching the torturers. Those seeing this fled in terror, but the governor in his bitterness gave orders to rake their bodies with iron hooks and to sting their wounds with mustard mixed with salt and vinegar. The saints endured these torments with remarkable firmness. The night before their execution the saints spent their time at prayer, and again the Lord appeared to them and strengthened them. On the morning of March 3, Saints Eutropius and Cleonicus were crucified, but Basiliscus was left in prison. Saint Basiliscus was executed on May 22 in the city of Komana. They beheaded him, and threw his body into a river, but Christians found his relics and buried them in a ploughed field. Later at Komana a church was built and dedicated to Saint Basiliscus. An account of the life of the holy martyr is found under May 2 Icon of the Mother of God of Volokolamsk The Volokolamsk Icon of the Mother of God is a copy of the Vladimir Icon of the Moscow Dormition cathedral. The icon was brought from Zvenigorod to the Dormition monastery of Saint Joseph of Volokolamsk on March 2, 1572, during the second week of Great Lent and was solemnly met by Igumen Leonid ( ; ) and all the monastic brethren.

6 It is distinguished by its particular depiction on the margins of Saint Cyprian (right) and Saint Gerontius (left), Metropolitans of Moscow. The name of Metropolitan Cyprian is associated with the first arrival of the ancient Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God from Constantinople to Moscow in the year 1395, and under Metropolitan Gerontius in 1480 the Vladimir Icon came finally to Moscow. In the year 1588 the Volokolamsk Icon was dedicated atop the gate in the church at the south gates of the Saint Joseph of Volokolamsk monastery in honor of the Meeting of the Vladimir Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (August 26). At the end of the seventeenth century, when a church of the same name was built in Moscow at Staraya Basmanna, the church atop the gate of Saint Joseph of Volokolamsk was rededicated in honor of the holy Apostles Peter and Paul. The Volokolamsk Icon was transferred to its proper place on the iconostasis of the new c athedral Dormition churc h of the monastery of Saint Joseph of Volokoamsk. In 1578, the icon was recognized as wonderworking. F a c t s & F i g u r e s - W eek of February 24, 2019 Attendance 111 General Offerings $2, General Offerings Loose & Children s $ Candles $ AC Project $ Envelope System Expense $10.00 Total $2, This Week Collected Required for Budget Short /Surplus Per Envelope $2, $5, $2, $21.45 Based On 160 Envelopes: Budgeted Amount Per Envelope Per Week: $40.68 Year To Date Collected Required for Budget Short/Surplus Per Envelope $42, $42, $ $2.21

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