Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost

Scripture readings

• Epistle: The Reading is from St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 4:9-16


• Gospel: The Reading is from Matthew 9:9-13
  

Saints commemorated today

• Holy Apostle and Evangelist St Matthew
• St Afan, the Hierarch
• 
  St Fulvianus, Prince of Ethiopia (in Baptism Matthew)
• St Eucherius, Bishop of Lyons

The Living

• the Ordination of the priest Rafic Al-Baba in Sydney today
• Patriarch Pavle of Serbia
• Olga (Soroka)
• Kathleen
• Luba
• June
• the Archpriest Ilyan

The Departed we Commemorated today

• Noura
• Gordana
• Milos
• Nenad
• Katica
• Slavko
• Marjorie

The Nativity Fast

Advent - The Nativity fast began yesterday, the 15^th of November.

Reminder

Fr Ilyan has:

• Orthodox Study Bibles @ $55.00 each plus postage
• The Archdiocesan Orthodox Calendar for 2009 @ $15.00 each
• Christmas cards, religious, available @ $2.50 a pack of 5

 

Presentation of the Theotokos - 21st of November

Next Friday is the celebration of the Presentation of the Theotokos in the Temple, one of the 12 Great Feasts of the Orthodox Church.

This Feast marks the replacement of the Temple in Jerusalem as the dwelling place of God and reminds us that Mary becomes the Ark of the New Covenant, since she her womb will carry Christ, our God.

You can learn about more this feast at the Archdiocesan site