FORGIVENESS But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that course you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which spitefully use you, and persecute you; that you may be the children of your Father which is in Heaven. For He makes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust and the just. (Matthew 5:44-45) And when you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against another: that your Father, Who is in Heaven, also may forgive you your trespasses. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father Who is in Heaven forgive your trespasses. (Mark 11:25-26) For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. (Matthew 6:14) Therefore, if your enemy hungers, feed him: if he thirsts, give him a drink. (Romans 12:20) But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again: and your rewards shall be great, and you shall be the children of the Highest : for He is kind to the unthankful and to the evil. Be merciful therefore, as your father is merciful. Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you shall be forgive. (Luke 6:35-37) ST. ELIAS THE PROPHET GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH MARCH/ APRIL 2016 The glorious Elias, incarnate messenger of God, pillar of prophets, and second forerunner of the coming of Christ Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Denver The MOST Rev. Metropolitan Isaiah, Primate Reverend Fr. Dimitrios A. Pappas, Priest St. Elias the Prophet 46 Calle Electra Santa Fe, NM 87508 A WELCOME NOTE TO OUR GUESTS: We are glad to have you worshipping with us today. Please sign our Guest Register and introduce yourself to Father Dimitrios after the service. Please join us for lunch following the Divine Liturgy. sent grace from on high to Elisha that he might cleanse lepers and heal sickness for all those who honour him.
SERVICES AND INFORMATION Times of Services: Sundays: Orthros/Matins - 9:00am; Divine Liturgy - 10:00am Saturdays: Vespers - 5:00pm MARCH 5 March Saturday and 10:00am Divine 6 March Sunday and 10:00am Divine 12 March Saturday and 10:00am Divine 13 March Sunday and 10:00am Divine 16 March Wednesday Pre-sanctified Liturgy 18 March Friday 1st Xairetismoi 19 March Saturday and 10:00am Divine 20 March Sunday and 10:00am Divine 23 March Wednesday Pre-sanctified Liturgy 25 March Friday Annuciation and 10:00am Divine Liturgy 27 March Sunday and 10:00am Divine Liturgy 30 March Wednesday Pre-sanctified Liturgy APRIL 1 April Friday 3rd Xairetismoi 3 April Sunday and 10:00am Divine Liturgy 6 April Wednesday Pre-sanctified Liturgy 8 April Friday 4th Xairetismoi 10 April Sunday and 10:00am Divine Liturgy 13 April Wednesday Pre-sanctified Liturgy 15 April Friday Akathos Hymn 20 April Sunday and 10:00am Divine Liturgy CHECK HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE 23 April Saturday (Raising of Lazarus) 24 April (Palm Sunday) 25 April (Holy Monday) 26 April (Holy Tuesday) 27 April (Holy Wednesday) Holy Unction 28 April (Holy Thursday) 29 April (Holy Friday) 30 April (Holy Saturday morning and evening) 1 May (Pascha) Agape Service HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE 23 April Saturday of Lazaros and 10:00am Divine Liturgy 24 April (Palm Sunday) and 10:00am Divine Liturgy Bride Groom Service 25 April (Holy Monday) Bride Groom Service 26 April ( Holy Tuesday) Bride Groom Service 27 April(Holy Wednesday) Holy Unction Service 28 April (Holy Thursday) Vesperal The 12 Gospels and Nailing on the Holy Cross 29 April (Holy Friday) Great and Royal Hours 9:00am Docorating the Kouvoukleon 10:00am Apokathelosis 3:00pm Holy Lamentation 6 :00pm 30 April (Holy Saturday morning) 10:00am Vesperal Divine Liturgy Holy Saturday Evening Orthros 11:00pm with Mid-night Divine Liturgy and Anastasi Meal after the Divine Liturgy to break the fast. 1 May (Pascha) Agape Service 12:00pm with a Pascal celebration after the service
sewhat is the meaning of Eternal memory! I sometimes have thoughts hit me about why we do what we do as Orthodox Christians. Often I know the answer but mostly these are thoughts that come up randomly and though I know I was taught the answer, when they pop up, I know it is time to learn more and to give them deeper consideration. Recently a friend/classmate of my mother s passed away and since I know this person s brother I wanted to send a card. But what to write, I only know to say Memory Eternal so the question is why? We can best ap- proach the meaning of this song through following the connection between the Orthodox funeral ser- vices and the crucifixion of Christ. Fr. Pavel Florensky, recently canon- ized by the Church in Russia, ar- ticulated the connection by first asking, What did the wise thief ask for on the cross? ( and then answering by quoting from St. Luke s Gospel: Lord, remember me when Thou comest in Thy kingdom (23:42). Florensky then continues: And in answer, in satisfaction of his wish, his wish to be remembered, the Lord witnesses: Verily, I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in Paradise. In other words, to be remembered by the Lord is the same thing as to be in Paradise. To be in Paradise is to be in eternal memory and, consequently, to have eternal existence and therefore an eternal memory of God. Without remembrance of God we die, but our remembrance of God is possible only through God s remembrance of us. Saint Elias the Prophet Greek Orthodox Church famous in Santa Fe for its delicious Greek pastries is offering its faithful customers delicious, homemade Spinach Pies (spanakopita) 12-piece pie $25. Cheese Pies (tiropita) 12-piece pie $25. Tremendous Success! Our Greco/New Mexican Green-Chile Cheese Pies (12-piece pie) $25. We sell them frozen. They'll keep frozen for weeks till you're ready to bake. Simple baking instructions with each pie. Our usual quality: easily prepared, scrumptious, meatless meal, or perfect accompaniment to meat, fish, poultry. To order: Fill out form below. Mail it to Saint Elias Greek Orthodox Church, 46 Calle Electra, Santa Fe, NM 87508 with a check for your total order, made out to the church. Deadline for orders: March 24 Name. Mailing address and zip code Telephone #...; email address:.. Spinach Pie ($25. ea.) how many?... total $.. Cheese Pie ($25. each) how many?... total $... Green Chile Cheese Pie ($25. ea) how many?------- total $... Grand total $.. PICKUP PLEASE SPECIFY: Sundays April 3, April 10, or April 17 (11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.) St. Elias Greek Orthodox Church 46 Calle Electra, Eldorado (I-25, north, exit 290; Rt. 285 south; right at light, Amistad Street, then first left "Dos Griegos." White church. Park in lot. Follow path from the parking lot to blue door.) Questions? Nia Parry 424-1402
The Annunciation of the Theotokos Celebrated March 25 MARCH 5 March (Soul Saturday) prosforon Diane Tintor 6 March (Sunday) Meat Fare prosforon and coffee hour Anastasia Stevens 12 March (Soul Saturday) prosforon, Diane Tintor 13 March (Cheese Fare 2 prosfora Diane Tintor coffee hour Nia Parry 19 March (Soul Saturday) prosforon Fr. Dimitri Pappas 20 March (Sunday) 2 prosfora Fr. Dimitri Pappas coffee hour Shirley Denko 25 March (Friday) Evangelismos prosforon Fr. Dimitri Pappas 27 March (Sunday) 2 prosfora Iggy Patsalis coffee hour Niki Constantaras Of all the solemn days in Orthodoxy the day of March 25 is one not only of religious significance but of political significance as well, allowing the Greek Orthodox to commemorate God's message to Mary and the independence of Greece on the same day. The expression, "For God and Country," has real meaning for the Orthodox Greek on the 25th day of March, a day on which he can celebrate two events without diminishing either one for the obvious reason that devotion and patriotism have the same emotional root -- love. If Christianity could be compressed into a single word, that word would be love. The same holds true for patriotism. Uppermost in the true Greek's Mary, chosen from all the of Jesus Christ. When the angel sage from God this day, the genpride, but at the same time a pect of this awesome responsimary's answer was a simple: God," and the rest is glorious mind on March 25, however, is women in the world to be the Mother Gabriel brought the momentous mestle Mary must have felt a solemn disquieting apprehension at the prosbility. Assured by the Archangel, "Let it be according to the will of history. The world of Mary of two thouin which life was simple and the modern world, but in that problems which would be insurday was all things to her family, To change your day you must find and give sufficient notice to someone to take your the Archangel Gabriel departed, place.you're also responsible for coffee room clean up. have for several moments felt Rinse coffee urns, wipe down counters and tables, sweep floor, replace soiled table cloths, place bag of garbage in green bin and wheel it down to the church mail- the nativity and the mission of days, months and years in bebox. An important detail. Questions? Call Nia Parry 424-1402. God. sand years ago is envisioned as one free of the complexities that plague age of self-sufficiency there were mountable today. The mother of that and it can safely be said that when the prospective Mother of God must terribly alone, Everyone knows about Jesus Christ, but the details of the tween are known but to Mary and to APRIL 3 April (Sunday) 2 prosfora and coffee hour April Dellas 10 April (Sunday) 2 prosfora and coffee hour Anna Patsalis 17 April (Sunday) 1 prosforon and coffee hour Mac Ennis 23 April (Saturday of Lazarus) prosforon Fr. Dimitri Pappas 24 April Palm Sunday prosforon, Diane Tintor Potluck Luncheon, fish allowed 28 April (Holy Thursday) prosforon, Fr. Dimitri Pappas 30 April (Holy Saturday, Resurrection morning) prosforon Leslie Cook 30 April-1 May (Holy Resurrection evening) prosforon Leslie Cook Potluck Anastasi Meal 1 May (Sunday) Agape service followed by Potluck picnic. Palm Sunday Meal April 23 24th We are looking for volunteers to sing up for our annual Palm Sunday Meal. The sign up sheet is down stairs in our hall or you may contact Nia Parry at 505 4241402 Come and celebrate Pascha with us on May 1st We are looking for volunteers We will be selling our tradito sing up for our annual Anastional sweet bread for Pastasi Meal. The sign up sheet is cha this year after church on down stairs in our hall or you Sunday April 23th 2015. 24, 2016. may contact Nia Parry at 505 4241402 Each tsoureki is $10.00 each. Tsourekia Bake sale The political importance of March 25 is fully realized only when the suffering of four centuries is called to mind. In 1458 the Ottoman hordes overran all of Greece and most of the Balkans and held hostage a people whose culture dated back more than two thousand years, and who gave more to the world than it could ever receive in return, and it seems that the world just stood by while the cradle of democracy and Christianity was being defiled by a scourge that would have undone a less hardy breed. Hopelessly outnumbered, Greece endured nearly four hundred years of brutal oppression, but the spirit of its people knew not a single moment's weakness. The fires of rebellion that the Turks thought they had snuffed out, but which had smouldered in Hellenic hearts for almost 400 years, were kindled into a conflagration on 25 March 1821, not by a bemedalled general but by a man of the cloth, Bishop Germanos of Patras, Greece, who chose the day of the Annunciation knowing God would be on the side of the Greeks. The good bishop held the Cross of Jesus Christ aloft on the 25th day of March, 1821, and proclaimed freedom for all Greek Orthodox Christians. It was a motion seconded by every Greek in the country. In addition to engaging in a war for independence, the Greeks were actually waging a holy war because it was not only Greek against Turk but Christian against Muslim, and the subsequent Greek victory was a triumph of Christianity.
MARCH 2016 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 Thomas Sunday 2 1 3 2 4 3 5 4 6 5 7 Sat of souls 6 8 Myrrh bearers St. John the Theologian MOTHERS DAY 13 15 Paralytic Parish Council Meeting 20 22 Sunday Samaritan Of Women Orthodoxy 29 Blind Man 2 7 St. Gregory Plamas St. Mary of Egypt 7 9 8 10 9 11 10 12 11 13 12 14 Sat of souls 14 16 15 17 16 18 Mid Pentecost Pre-Sanctified Liturgy Divine Liturgy 10:00am Wedding 4:30pm No Vespers 17 19 18 20 1st Hairetismoi 19 21 Sat St. Constantine of souls and Helen Divine Orthros Liturgy 9:00am 10:00am Spinach making 21 23 22 24 23 25 24 26 25 27 Evangelismos 26 28 Cheese Pie making 30 31 18 19 30 MEMORIAL DAY Pre-Sanctified Liturgy Pre-Sanctified Liturgy 31 *SHADED AREAS ARE
APRIL 2016 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 Thomas Sunday 2 3 4 5 61 3 Hairetismoi 72 *SHADED AREAS ARE FASTING DAYS* 38 Myrrh bearers St. John the Theologian MOTHERS DAY 94 105 11 6 Pre-Sanctified Liturgy 129 13 8 4 Hairetismoi 14 9 Wedding 4:30pm No Vespers 10 15 St. Paralytic John Climacas Divine PARISH Liturgy COUNCIL 10:00am 22 17 Samaritan St. Mary of Women Egypt Divine Orthros Liturgy 9:00am 10:00am 16 11 17 12 18 13 Mid Pre-Sanctified Pentecost Liturgy 19 14 20 15 Akathos Hymn 216 St. Constantine and Helen 23 18 24 19 25 20 26 21 27 22 28 23 Saturday of Lazaros Cleaning Church Vespers Great 5:00pm 29 24 Blind Man Orthros Palm Sunday 9:00am Bridegroom Service 30 25 HOLY AND GREAT MEMORIAL MONDAY DAY Bridegroom Service 31 26 HOLY AND GREAT TUESDAY Bridegroom Service 27 HOLY WEDNESDAY Holy Unction 28 HOLY THURSDAY Vesper Liturgy 10am 12 Gospels Nailing on the Holy Cross 29 HOLY AND GREAT FRI- DAY Royal Hours 9 :00am Decorating the Kouvoukleon 10:00am Apokathelosis 3:00pm Lamentations 30 HOLY AND GREAT SATURDAY Vesperal Liturgy 10:00am Pascha Vigil and Anastasi Meal 11:00pm