Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt

Sunday, March the 21^st,  2010

Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt

Eternal Memory -Archpriest Ilyan

Reposed in the Lord, 18^th March 2010

O Master, Lord our God.
Who in Thy wisdom hast created man,
and didst honor him with Thy Divine image,
and place in him the spirit of life,
and lead him into this world,
bestowing on him the hope of resurrection and life everlasting;
and after he had violated Thy commandments,
Thou O Gracious lover of mankind, didst descend to the earth that Thou mightest renew again the creation of Thy hands.

Therefore we pray Thee,
O All-Holy Master give rest to the souls of Thy servant Priest Ilyan in a place of brightness,
a place of green pasture,
a place of repose,
and, in that they have sinned in word,
or deed or thought forgive them:

For Thou art a good God and lovest mankind and unto Thee do we ascribe Glory, together with Thy Father, Who is from everlasting and Thine All-Holy and good, and ever giving Spirit, now, and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Scripture readings

• Epistle: St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 9:11-14
• Gospel: Mark 10:32-45

Saints and feasts

• St. James the Confessor, Bishop of Catania
• St. Thomas, Patriarch of Constantinople
• St. Cyril, Bishop of Catania
• St. Serapion, Bishop of Thmuis in Lower Egypt
• St. Pachomius, monk of Nerekhta
• St. Lupicinus, desert-dweller of the Jura Mountains (Gaul)
• New-Martyr Archbishop Theodore Pozdeyev (1938)
• Martyrs Philemon and Domnina of Rome

The living

• June
• Andy
• Sheryl
• Matushka Mary
• George Erakovic

The Departed we Commemorate today

• Archpriest Ilyan
• Archpriest Alexey
• Fanka
• Ankitsa
• Alexandros
• Alexander