Today the faithful celebrate the feast with joy illumined by your coming, O Mother of God. Beholding your pure image we fervently cry to you: “Encompass us beneath the precious veil of your protection; deliver us from every form of evil by entreating Christ, your Son and our God that He may save our souls.” Troparion Tone 4

Great Vespers for Sunday Divine Liturgy. So let us not grow weary of doing what is good; for if we don’t give up, we will in due time reap the harvest. Therefore, as the opportunity arises, let us do what is good to everyone, and especially to the family of those who are trustingly faithful. (Gal 6:9-10)

Sunday Divine Liturgy - Church Musician Appreciation Day - "Shout to God, all the earth;  Sing now to His name;  Give glory to His praise."  (Psalm 65:1-2) 

Enlightener Deadline Today - Please give Barbara articles by today. Thank you.  "So let us not grow weary of doing what is good; for if we don’t give up, we will in due time reap the harvest. Therefore, as the opportunity arises, let us do what is good to everyone, and especially to the family of those who are trustingly faithful."    (Gal 6:9-10)

Great Vespers for Sunday Divine Liturgy.  Followed by General Confession. No unity with God is possible except by an exceedingly great love. This we can see from the story of the woman in the Gospel, who was a sinner; God in His great mercy granted her the forgiveness of her sins and a firm union with Him, “for she loved much.” (Luke 47) (From The Art of Prayer)

General Confession - 6:30 p.m.

Sunday Divine Liturgy- "For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Rom 8:38-39)

St. Demetrius commemorated today also. Memorial Saturday - 9:00 a.m. Divine Liturgy and Panikhida. "The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nought; he frustrates the plans of the peoples. The counsel of the LORD stands for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD , the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!" (Ps 33:10-12)

Great Vespers for Sunday Divine Liturgy.

Sunday Divine Liturgy - "Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption; but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life." (Gal 6:7-9)

St. Demetrius - Commemorated on Saturday, October 20. Great Martyr Demetrios the Myrrh-Flowing and Wonder Worker - He was a Christian and the son of the military commander of Thessalonica in the early fourth century. When his father died, Demetrios was appointed by Emperor Maximian to follow him. Instead Demetrios preached Christianity and confessed his beliefs. He was then placed in a cell. An angel of God appeared to Demetrios telling him to be brave. Soldiers soon came into his cell and killed him with spears. Christians buried him, and his relics began producing a healing fragrant myrrh. A small church was built over his relics, and when a nobleman was healed of an incurable disease, the nobleman built a much larger church there. He is commemorated each year on October 26.

Great Vespers for Sunday Divine Liturgy. Prayer is the raising of the mind and heart to God in praise and thanksgiving to Him and in supplication for the good things that we need, both spiritual and physical. The essence of prayer is therefore the spiritual lifting of the heart towards God. (From The Art of Prayer)

Sunday Divine Liturgy - Prayer is the raising of the mind and heart to God in praise and thanksgiving to Him and in supplication for the good things that we need, both spiritual and physical. The essence of prayer is therefore the spiritual lifting of the heart towards God. (From The Art of Prayer)