SERVICES OF GREAT LENT Fr. David is available to hear Confessions after services and by appointment. Wednesdays April 3, 17 and Thursday, April 11 - Liturgy of PreSanctified Gifts, 6:00 pm; Lenten Pot-luck, 7:15 pm April 10 - Little Compline with Canon of St. Andrew & Life of Mary of Egypt, 6:00 pm *********** Fridays April 5 - Akathist Hymn with Salutations to the Theotokos, 6:00 pm April 12 - Akathist Hymn with Salutations to the Theotokos with Bishop NICHOLAS, 6:00 pm; Lenten Supper with Bishop NICHOLAS, 7:15 PM April 19 - Little Compline with Canon for St. Lazarus, 7:00 pm ********** Saturdays April 6 - Parish Clean-up Day, especially for outside grounds, 9:00 am - noon April 6, 13 - Great Vespers, 6:00 pm Saturday of Lazarus the Righteous, April 20 Orthros 9:00 am Divine Liturgy 10:00 am afterwards - Brunch, make Palm Crosses, decorate church for Palm Sunday Vespers for Palm Sunday 6:00 pm ********** Sundays April 7 - Divine Liturgy - St. John of the Ladder April 14 - Hierarchical Divine Liturgy - Our Righteous Mother Mary of Egypt April 21 - Palm Sunday - Entrance of the Lord into Jerusalem Parish Luncheon sponsored by Parish Council ********** SEE BULLETIN & ONLINE CALENDARS FOR SERVICES OF GREAT LENT, PALM SUNDAY, HOLY WEEK, and PASCHA. St. Andrew the Apostle Antiochian Orthodox Church 5501 N W St., Pensacola, FL 32505 (850) 469-9711 www.standrewpns.org Facebook: St. Andrew Orthodox Church week of March 31 2019 Third Sunday of Great Lent; Veneration of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross TODAY Mar 31 Sisters of St. Photini Meeting 12:15 pm Wednesday April 3 Liturgy of Pre-Sanctified Gifts Lenten Carry-in Pot-luck 6:00 pm 7:15 pm Friday April 5 Akathist Hymn with Laudations 6:00 pm Saturday April 6 Sunday April 7 Parish Grounds Clean Up Day Great Vespers Orthros Divine Liturgy: Fourth Sunday of Great Lent Commemoration of John Climacus, Author of The Ladder Youth Sunday School Coffee Fellowship 10:00 am 6:00 pm 8:50 am 10:00 am 11:15 am 11:20 am Hierarchs His Eminence Metropolitan JOSEPH, Archbishop of New York & Metropolitan of all North America His Grace Bishop NICHOLAS, Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Miami & the Southeast Pastor Very Rev. Fr. David Bleam
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR TODAY AND APRIL LENTEN GIVING Please participate in the following opportunities as you serve others. MONTCLAIR BACKPACK MEALS BOXTOPS FOR EDUCATION sponsored by the Sisterhood of St. Photini Antiochian Women Thank you for your faithful & generous support of these projects for our neighborhood school, Montclair Elementary. The students and staff are grateful for our participation in the weekend Backpack Meals program for chronically hungry children. St. Andrew sponsors 10 children weekly. The following items are needed: Boxed White or Chocolate Milk, Single-serving mac & cheese bowls Chef-Boy-R-Dee pop-top cans. Cash/check donations are always welcome. Donations may be placed in the green envelope taped on the Bookstore Door. Requested for Month of April PLEASE NOTE: The names on the Prayer List will be listed through the month of April. If you want family or friends listed, please give the person s name and your name as the one making the request IN WRITTEN FORM to Dorothy or send it to her by email (dtampary@me.com). Your prayers are requested for the health and return of Archbishops Paul and John of Aleppo, Syria, who were abducted on Monday, May 22, 2013. Please pray for peace for the people of Syria. Syria is the home of our Patriarchate which is located on Straight Street in Damascus where St. Paul was taken to regain the sight he lost when encountering Jesus Christ (Acts 9) and has maintained continuous succession in the Apostolic Faith. Kleoniki Donna Cole Dan & family Yves & Linda Mary Petrula Kim & Shawn George & Aspasia Larry Barbara Phyllis Sheila John Aerin John Martha Sharon Katie Melanie Natasha (Paisia) & Denny Thank you for your intercessions. Mark Nicole Jim James Mary 3/31 4/1 4/3 4/5 4/5 4/6 Fr. David Chrisandra Brazwell Alice Taylor Mary Blanos Molly Perkins Sh. Syd Werthmuller 4/7 4/9 4/17 4/18 4/23 4/24 Kathy Champlin Penny Tringas Sandra Sfanos Oliver Perkins Betsy Werre Sophia Kiser HAPPY ANNIVERSARY FOR APRIL 4/23 Yves & Linda Capel 4/13 Greg & Sue Ann Young If a birthday or anniversary has been mistakenly omitted or listed incorrectly, or if you are new to the parish, please place correction and additions in the Sisters of St. Photini mail drawer in Treasurer s office or give to Dorothy. SIGN UP TO HOST A COFFEE FELLOWSHIP! YES YOU CAN DO IT!! Join another family or two and host Coffee Fellowship. A birthday coming up? An anniversary? Honor or remember a loved one? Bring simple refreshments! Coffee & lemonade are furnished. Please check with Janean with any questions. *You are requested to please handle the setup and clean up. *The sign-up sheet is in the Great Room on the bulletin board. April 7 April 14 April 21 April 28 - Ellen Thompson & Dorothy Tampary Volunteer(s) needed Palm Sunday Luncheon (Parish Council) Pascha Picnic (see insert) DATA SUMMARY week before & up to March 24, 2019 Wednesday Liturgy of PreSanctified Gifts Friday Akathist with Salutations to the Theotokos Saturday Great Vespers Sunday Divine Liturgy 3/20 3/22 3/23 3/24 12 12 10 77
PALM LEAVES NEEDED PLEASE NOTE: Loose SEGO and other large PALM LEAVES are needed for Palm Sunday. If you have or can obtain any of these, please bring them to the church by Friday, April 19 or Saturday morning, April 20 (Saturday of Lazarus Divine Liturgy). These palm leaves will be used in decorating the church for Palm Sunday. We are especially looking for the large, green Sago Palm leaves or Sabal Palm leaves. The Bishop is Coming! Bishop NICHOLAS will visit St. Andrew parish on April 12 14. During his visit, he will meet with the Parish Council, the men (AMEN), the women (Sister of St. Photini Antiochian Women), and the teens (SOYO). On Sunday, April 14, we will be blessed with His Grace s celebration of the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy on the Fifth Sunday of Great Lent & Commemoration of our Righteous Mother Mary of Egypt. Before His Grace s visit, we will have a Spring Cleaning morning on Saturday, April 6, 9:00 am - Noon, of our church grounds, especially raking & bagging leaves and acorns, trimming branches, readying the outside picnic area.. Please mark your calendars to participate - many hands and all ages are needed. In addition to the Backpack Meals for Montclair Elementary School the Sisters of St. Photini AW are also collecting BOX TOPS FOR EDUCATION stamps Please check the wrapping around your canned goods and on you boxed food items (cereals, soups, pasta, etc) for the box top stamps. Cut them out and put them in the glass vase on the table in the hallway by the AED. Montclair Elementary will be able to redeem these Box Tops for Education stamps for needed educational supplies. ~~ FOOD FOR HUNGRY PEOPLE COIN BOXES ~~ ARCHDIOCESE LENTEN OUTREACH MINISTRY As Great Lent is a time to think about increasing our efforts to help others, please be sure to pick up your Food for Hungry People Coin Box from the narthex or in the Great Room. Fill your coin box with your pocket change, dollar bills & checks (payable to St. Andrew AOC). Bring your coin box offering during Holy Week. Place it at the foot of the Cross in the Church Temple.
Lenten Prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian O Lord and Master of my life! Take from me the spirit of sloth, faintheartedness, lust of power, and idle talk. But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience, and love to Thy servant. Yea, O Lord and King! Grant me to see my own errors and not to judge my brother; For Thou art blessed unto ages of ages. Amen Fr. David is available to hear Confessions after services and by appointment. Proper Disposal of Blessed Items For blessed items (such as palms and palm crosses, flowers, etc.) that you may have at home, office, car, etc. but you no longer need or have been replaced, there is a proper method for their disposal. Bring these items to church between now and April 20th. On that day, during the other activities of Lazarus Saturday, Fr. David will dispose of the blessed items properly. 2019 Parish Life Conference Anyone interested in attending the 2019 Parish Life Conference is encouraged to talk with Fr. David and go to the website: https://www.antiochianevents.com/files/miami/plc-schedule.pdf It will be held in Raleigh NC at the Sheraton Imperial Inn. All Saints Orthodox Church is the host church. See the item in this bulletin for the schedule of events during the conference. 2019 St. Andrew Parish Council Chairperson: Barbara Parker Vice-Chairperson: Tony Tampary Secretary: Sue Ann Young Treasurer: Pam Kelley Members: Tanner Clanton Michael Gay Janean Litzinger Mike Papadelias Shadi Oweis Johnny Scapin Sam Waite
Mid-Lent: The Holy Cross The Following is an excerpt from Great Lent, by Alexander Schmemann From Chapter 4: The Lenten Journey The third Sunday of Lent is called "The Veneration of the Cross." At the Vigil of that day, after the Great Doxology, the Cross is brought in a solemn procession to the center of the church and remains there for the entire week-- with a special rite of veneration following each service. It is noteworthy that the theme of the Cross which dominates the hymnology of that Sunday is developed in terms not of suffering but of victory and joy. More than that, the theme-songs (hirmoi) of the Sunday Canon are taken from the Paschal Service-- "The Day of the Resurrection"-- and the Canon is a paraphrase of the Easter Canon. The meaning of all this is clear. We are in Mid-Lent. One the one hand, the physical and spiritual effort, if it is serious and consistent, begins to be felt, its burden becomes more burdensome, our fatigue more evident. We need help and encouragement. On the other hand, having endured this fatigue, having climbed the mountain up to this point, we begin to see the end of our pilgrimage, and the rays of Easter grow in their intensity. Lent is our self-crucifixion, our experience, limited as it is, of Christ's commandment heard in the Gospel lesson of that Sunday: "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me" (Mark 8:34). But we cannot take up our cross and follow Christ unless we have His Cross which He took up in order to save us. It is His Cross, not ours, that saves us. It is His Cross that gives not only meaning but also power to others. This is explained to us in the synaxarion of the Sunday of the Cross: On this Sunday, the third Sunday of Lent, we celebrate the veneration of the honorable and Life-Giving Cross, and for this reason: inasmuch as in the forty days of fasting we in a way crucify ourselves... and become bitter and despondent and failing, the Life-Giving Cross is presented to us for refreshment and assurance, for remembrance of our Lord's Passion, and for comfort... We are like those following a long and cruel path, who become tired, see a beautiful tree with many leaves, sit in its shadow and rest for a while and then, as if rejuvenated, continue their journey; likewise today, in the time of fasting and difficult journey and effort, the Life-Giving Cross was planted in our midst by the holy fathers to give us rest and refreshment, to make us light and courageous for the remaining task... Or, to give another example: when a king is coming, at first his banner and symbols appear, then he himself comes glad and rejoicing about his victory and filling with joy those under him; likewise, our Lord Jesus Christ, who is about to show us His victory over death, and appear to us in the glory of the Resurrection Day, is sending us in advance His scepter, the royal symbol-- the Life-Giving Cross-- and it fills us with joy and makes us ready to meet, inasmuch as it is possible for us, the King Himself, and to render glory to His victory... All this in the midst of Lent which is like a bitter source because of its tears, because also of its efforts and despondency... but Christ comforts us who are as it were in a desert until he shall lead us up to the spiritual Jerusalem by His Resurrection... for the Cross is called the Tree of Life, it is the tree that was planted in Paradise, and for this reason our fathers have planted it in the midst of Holy Lent, remembering both Adams bliss and how he was deprived of it, remembering also that partaking of this Tree we no longer die but are kept alive. Thus, refreshed and reassured, we begin the second part of Lent...
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Palm Sunday Luncheon & Lilies and Kouvouklion flowers Insert