FIFTH SUNDAY OF GREAT LENT – St. Mary of Egypt.
Hieromartyr Januarius, Bishop of Benevento, and his companions (ca. 305).
Hieromartyr Theodore, his mother, Philippa, and Martyrs Dioscorus,
Socrates, and Dionysius (2nd c.). Martyrs Isaac, Apollos, and Quadratus, of
Nicomedia (303). St. Maximian, Patriarch of Constantinople (434).
Hebrews 9:11-14
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Tone 5
Mark 10:32-45
Weekday Readings from Isaiah
Fifth Week of Great Lent:
Isaiah 37:33 - 38:6
Thursday Isaiah 42:5 - 16
Isaiah 40:18 - 31
Friday Isaiah 45:11 - 17
Isaiah 41:4 - 14
On the Fifth Sunday of Lent the Church commemorates our Righteous
Mother Mary of Egypt as a model of repentance. This commemoration accompanies
a Gospel reading in which Jesus tells his disciples they must proceed to Jerusalem,
pointing toward His death and resurrection.
Saint Mary was born in Egypt, and at the age of twelve ran away to the city
of Alexandria where she lived an extremely dissolute life, prostituting herself.
After seventeen years of this life, she travelled to Jerusalem for the Feast of the
Exaltation of the Holy Cross. She undertook the journey as a sort of "antipilgrimage," stating that she hoped to find in the pilgrim crowds at Jerusalem even
more partners in her lust.
When she tried to enter the Church of the Holy Sepulcher for the
celebration, she was barred from doing so by an unseen force. Realizing that this
was because of her impurity, she was struck with remorse, and on seeing an icon of
the Theotokos, she prayed for forgiveness and promised to give up the world. Then
she tried again to enter the church, and this time was permitted in. After venerating
the relic of the true cross, she returned to the icon to give thanks, and heard a voice
telling her, "If you cross the Jordan, you will find glorious rest/ true peace." She
immediately went to the monastery of St. John the Baptist on the bank of the River
Jordan, where she received absolution and afterwards Holy Communion. The next
morning, she crossed the Jordan and retired to the desert to live the rest of her life
as a hermit in penitence.
Before her death, she recounted her life to St. Zosimas of Jerusalem, who
encountered her in the desert. Her death was accompanied by miraculous events
and her body remained incorrupt.
“May God, Who works great miracles and bestows gifts on all who turn to
Him in faith, reward those who hear or read this account, and those who copy it.
May he grant them a blessed portion together with St Mary of Egypt and with all the
saints who have pleased God by their pious thoughts and works.”
St. Zosimas of Jerusalem
Weekly Schedule
Today, Sunday, April 21…………………… .9:30 am – 3rd and 6th Hours
St. Mary of Egypt
10:00 am – Divine Liturgy
4:00 pm – Mission Vespers, Jersey City
and Glen Gardner
Wednesday, April 24..……………………….7:00 – Presanctified Liturgy
followed by pot luck Lenten meal
Saturday, April 27……………………………9:00 Divine Liturgy
Lazarus Saturday
First Confessions
6:00 pm – Great Vespers
Lenten Meal and Study Group
Sunday, April 28….………………………….....9:30 am – 3rd Hour
9:45 a – General Confession
Entry of Our Lord into Jerusalem
10:00 am -- Divine Liturgy
Thank You! To Drew Krause and all others who participated in the church cleanup yesterday.
To the Blazo, Maruschak, and Kraftician families for hosting the
coffee social last week.
NEWS AND EVENTS:
Memorial for Victims of Violence: The Coptic Orthodox Church invites Holy
Trinity parishioners to a prayer service for victims of violence at St. Patrick’s
Cathedral, NYC, at 6:30pm today. See bulletin board for details.
Pussy Willows: We need pussy willow branches for next week’s Feast! Please see
Suzette Eremin.
Help Wanted!
The parish library needs attention! If you are willing to help, and especially if you
have experience with cataloguing by use of the Dewey system, please see Elizabeth
Theokritoff, tel. 973 627 0234; e-mail geoliz@andromeda.rutgers.edu.
Rummage Sale Friday and Saturday, May 17 and 18: Please see posted flyers
with dates and times for delivery of donated goods.
www.holytrinityrandolph.com: Do you have photos of Holy Trinity activities? We
are developing a section of our website containing photos of parish events. If you
have some good ones, please label them and send or give them to Carol Wetmore
or Gene Bohensky.
Food for the Needy: Please remember the Interfaith Food Pantry basket in the
narthex.
A Church pure and untouched by the harshness of our times is not easily found
and…rarely to be seen – a Church that has preserved the apostolic doctrine
unadulterated and inviolate! …Beloved brethren, we are small and humble,
but we have not accommodated our faith according to changing events…The
faith that is professed today is not different from the one that came before; it
is the one and same faith…Be firm in the faith, look around the world and
realize how small the part is that is diseased. All the rest of the Church, which
from one extremity to the other has received the Gospel, abides in sound and
undeviating doctrine. We pray that we may not be cut from her communion
that we may have a part with you on the day of the Lord Jesus Christ, the day
of Judgment, when He comes to render to each one of us according to his
deeds.
St. Basil the Great
Holy Trinity Orthodox Church
Orthodox Church in America
Diocese of New York and New Jersey
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 630 – Ironia, New Jersey 07845
Location: 120 Dover Chester Road, Randolph, NJ 07081
973-366-8360
www.holytrinityrandolph.com
PARISH COUNCIL
Senior Warden…………….. Suzette Eremin
Junior Warden………………William Cullinan
Treasurer…………………….Niki Barna
Financial Secretary…………John Babiak
Secretary…..........................Carol Wetmore
Eugene Bohensky
Marissa Hedge
Peter Dardaganis
Drew Krause
Brian Farbanish
Sandra Masklee
Diane Penola
Saint Mary of Egypt
SUNDAY APRIL, 21, 2013
Rev. David R. Fox, Rector
For this, the Only-begotten Son of God took on the form of our weakness: for this, the
Invisible not only appeared visible, but even despised: for this, He bore mockeries and
insults, derisions and disgrace, suffering and torments, namely, that the humble God
could teach man not to be proud. Therefore, how great a virtue is humility, when
Christ, Who was great beyond measure, was made small even unto suffering, in order
to teach this virtue, truly?
St. Gregory the Great
201-841-7590 (Cell Phone)
fatherdavid@holytrinityrandolph.com
V. Rev. George P. Hasenecz, Attached
Carol Wetmore – Choir Director