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A Pan-Orthodox ministry that displays Christian love, mercy and compassion to the individuals, families and facilities it serves.

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A Pan-Orthodox ministry that displays Christian love, mercy and compassion to the individuals, families and facilities it serves.

Prayer List for the Week of March 27, 2022

Gerald Largent

For healing: Archbishop Paul, Fr. Andrew, Fr. Daniel, Matushka Katherine, Matushka Myra, Monk Meletios, Ross, Justin, Steven, Marian, Roger, Claire, Patricia, Mark, Nikolai, Anastasia, Alice, Kathleen, Denise, Denise, Pamela, Robert, Peter, Eric, Michael, Melissa, Marianne, Ryan, Joanne, Rose Mary, Marianne, Emily, Charles, Hank, Nicholas, Katrina, Mary Jane, Nicholas, Alicia, Mary Jo, Clara, Joan, Nicholas, Barbara, Margaret, Patricia, Danielle, Nicholas, Tricia, Christopher, Susan, Kathleen, Walter, Patty, Darlene, George, Paul, Michael, Darina, Robert, Diana, Diana, Artemis, Natalie, Julia, Arthur, Dorina, Bea, Helen, Helena, Audra, Robert, Elizabeth, Rita, Lillian

For God’s protection: all captives; all persecuted Christians throughout the world

For God’s protection: all those in the military

For God’s protection: Rita, Luke and their unborn child

For God’s mercy and peace: those who are in hospice care

For God’s mercy, direction and protection: those who are unemployed, poor, hungry and/or homeless

*** We pray for: those who love us; those who hate us; those who have no one to pray for them; those who have asked us to pray for them, even though we are unworthy. ***

Departed: Doina, John, Paul, Scott, Stephen, John

Readings for the Week of March 27, 2022

Gerald Largent

3/27: Hebrews 4:14-5:6; Mark 8:34-9:1

3/28: Isaiah 14:24-32; Genesis 8:21-9:7; Proverbs 11:19-12:6

3/29: Isaiah 25:1-9; Genesis 9:8-17; Proverbs 12:8-22

3/30: Isaiah 26:21-27:9; Genesis 9:18-29; Proverbs 12:23-13:9

3/31: Isaiah 28:14-22; Genesis 10:32-11:9; Proverbs 13:20-14:6

4/1: Isaiah 29:13-23; Genesis 12:1-7; Proverbs 14:15-26

4/2: Hebrews 6:9-12; 1 Corinthians 15:47-57; Mark 7:31-37; John 5:24-30

Words from the Saints -- March 24, 2022

Gerald Largent

"Let not one think, my fellow Christian, that only priests and monks need to pray with out ceasing and not laymen No, no; every Christian without exception ought to dwell always in prayer." --St. Gregory Palamas

"In everything they the Apostles did, they thought of God and lived in constant devotion to Him. This spiritual state was their unceasing prayer." --St. Basil the Great

"He knows how to live rightly, who has learned how to pray properly." --St. Augustine of Hippo

"If someone shuts a snake and a scorpion up in a bottle, in time, they will be completely destroyed. So it is with evil thoughts: they are suggested by the demons; they disappear through patience." --St. Poemen

"The more numerous the gifts we have received from God, the greater the account we must render to Him." --St. Gregory the Great, Pope of Rome

Penitential Stanzas (Tone 6)

Gerald Largent

Christ, at Your fearsome Second Coming may we not hear the words: I do not know you (Matthew 25:12). For we have put our trust in You, Savior, though in our negligence we do not keep Your Commandments. Still we entreat that You save our souls.

I have no repentance and no tears. Therefore, Savior, I entreat You: Before the end comes convince me to turn back and grant me compunction, that I may be delivered from torment.

Savior and Physician of Our Souls and Bodies: Heal the wounds of my heart inflicted on me through my many sins. For You always grant forgiveness of transgressions to those who ask. Lord, grant me tears of repentance and remission of my transgressions, and have mercy on me.

Finding me naked, stripped of virtues, the Enemy wounded me with the arrow of sin. But God, Physician of Our Souls and Bodies, heal the wounds of my soul and have mercy on me.

Readings for the Week of March 20, 2022

Gerald Largent

3/20: Hebrews 1:10-2:3; 7:26-8:2; Mark 2:1-12; John 10:9-16

3/21: Isaiah 8:13-9:7; Genesis 6:9-22; Proverbs 8:1-21

3/22: Isaiah 9:9-10:4; Genesis 7:1-5; Proverbs 8:32-9:11

3/23: Isaiah 10:12-20; Genesis 7:6-9; Proverbs 9:12-18

3/24: Isaiah 11:10-12:2; Genesis 7:11-8:3; Proverbs 10:1-22; Genesis 28:10-17; Ezekiel 43:27-44:4; Proverbs 9:1-11; Exodus 3:1-8; Proverbs 8:22-30

3/25: Luke 1:39-49, 56; Hebrews 2:11-18; Luke 1:24-38

3/26: Hebrews 10:32-38; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17; Mark 2:14-17; John 5:24-30

Words from the Saints – March 17, 2022

Gerald Largent

"The devil loves and always rejoices over the ungoverned; those who are not subject to one who has power, under God, to help them and to give them a hand." --St. Dorotheos of Gaza

"There is one antidote for evil passions: the purification of our souls which takes place through the mystery of godliness. The chief act of faith in this mystery is to look to Him who suffered the passion for us. The cross is the passion, so that whoever looks to it? is not harmed by the poison of desire. To look to the cross means to render one's whole life dead and crucified to the world." --St. Gregory of Nyssa

"Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading." --St. Benedict of Nursia

"Once the soul starts to feel its own good health, the images in its dreams are also calm and free from passion." --St. Maximos the Confessor

"Beside each believer stands an Angel as protector and shepherd, leading him to life." --St. Basil the Great

"Grace has been given mystically to those who have been baptized into Christ; and it becomes active within them to the extent that they actively observe the commandments. Grace never ceases to help us secretly; but to do good - as far as lies in our power - depends on us." --St. Mark the Ascetic

Penitential Stanzas (Tone 5)

Gerald Largent

Lord, I do not cease my sin; I do not comprehend Your love for mankind, Only Good One! But overcome my blindness, and have mercy on me!

Lord, even though I fear You, I do not cease to do evil. Who at judgment does not fear the Judge? Or who, desiring healing, chases away the Physician as I do? Have compassion on my infirmity, and have mercy on me, O Patient Lord!

Woe is me! Why have I become like the barren fig tree? I fear cursing and cutting down! But, Heavenly Gardener, Christ my God, reveal my parched soul to be fruitful. Accept me as You did the prodigal son and have mercy on me!

Disregard the great number of my transgressions, Lord born of the Virgin. Blot out all my iniquities; grant me, I pray, a firm intention to change, for You are the Lover of Mankind, and have mercy on me!

Prayer List for the Week of March 13, 2022

Gerald Largent

For healing: Fr. Andrew, Fr. Daniel, Matushka Katherine, Matushka Myra, Monk Meletios, Ross, Justin, Steven, Marian, Roger, Claire, Patricia, Mark, Nikolai, Anastasia, Alice, Kathleen, Denise, Denise, Pamela, Robert, Peter, Eric, Michael, Melissa, Marianne, Ryan, Joanne, Rose Mary, Marianne, Emily, Charles, Hank, Nicholas, Katrina, Mary Jane, Nicholas, Alicia, Mary Jo, Clara, Joan, Nicholas, Barbara, Margaret, Patricia, Danielle, Nicholas, Tricia, Christopher, Susan, Kathleen, Walter, Patty, Darlene, George, Paul, Michael, Darina, Robert, Diana, Diana, Artemis, Natalie, Julia, Arthur, Dorina, Bea, Helen, Helena, Audra, Robert, Elizabeth, Scott

For God’s protection: all captives; all persecuted Christians throughout the world

For God’s protection: all those in the military

For God’s protection: Rita, Luke and their unborn child

For God’s mercy and peace: those who are in hospice care

For God’s mercy, direction and protection: those who are unemployed, poor, hungry and/or homeless

*** We pray for: those who love us; those who hate us; those who have no one to pray for them; those who have asked us to pray for them, even though we are unworthy. ***

Departed: Fr. Niketas, Rozalia, Dolores, Helen, Natalia, Doina, John, Paul

Readings for the Week of March 13, 2022

Gerald Largent

3/13: Hebrews 11:24-26, 32-12:2; John 1:43-51

3/14: Isaiah 4:2-6; 5:1-7; Genesis 3:21-4:7; Proverbs 3:34-4:22

3/15: Isaiah 5:7-16; Genesis 4:8-15; Proverbs 5:1-15

3/16: Isaiah 5:16-25; Genesis 4:16-26; Proverbs 5:15-6:3

3/17: Isaiah 6:1-12; Genesis 5:1-24; Proverbs 6:3-20

3/18: Isaiah 7:1-14; Genesis 5:32-6:8; Proverbs 6:20-6:35

3/19: Hebrews 3:12-16; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17; Mark 1:35-44; John 5:24-30

Words from the Saints – March 10, 2022

Gerald Largent

"In doing penance it is necessary to deprive oneself of as many lawful pleasures as we had the misfortune to indulge in unlawful ones." --St. Gregory the Great

"That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become." --St. Augustine of Hippo

"We should love the Lord as we do our friends. Many a time I have seen people bring grief to God, without being bothered about it, and I have seen these very same people resort to every device, plan, pressure, plea from themselves and their friends, and every gift, simply to restore an old relationship upset by some minor grievance." --St. John Climacus