March 12,2023
Sunday of
Forgiveness
the true Christian Virtue
On this last Sunday before Great Lent, the last day that traditionally Orthodox Christians eat dairy products until Pascha , the Church remembers the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise. God commanded them to fast from the fruit of a tree (Gen. 2:16), but they did not obey. In this way Adam and Eve and their descendants became heirs of death and corruption.
On Forgiveness Sunday many attend Forgiveness Vespers on the eve of Great Lent. They hear on the Lord's teaching about fasting and forgiveness and enter the season of the fast forgiving one another so that God will forgive them. If you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will forgive you; but if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your heavenly Father forgive you your trespasses (Matthew 6:14).
The Gospel reading of the day also gives advice on fasting. Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. (Matthew 6:16-18).
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This Monday and Tuesday night @ 7:00
We at St. George will be serving
The Great Canon of St. Andrew
All are invited to enter
The GREAT LENT
with us
ALSO SCHEDULED SERVICES
THIS WEEK:
Wednesday, March 20:
Presanctified Liturgy at 7:00 pm
St. Theodore's Saturday : March 23
Divine Liturgy at 10:00 am
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Making the best of time...
Did you know that each week of the Great Lent has a specific commemoration...
Click on the above for details
See the bottom of the E-bulletin for the complete Lenten Vespers Service Schedule
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As we continue...
Don't forget:
Every Wednesday
PRESANCTIFIED LITURGY
at 7:00 p.m. FOLLOWED BY OUR LENTEN SUPPER AND DISCUSSION AND JOIN OUR EVER GROWING FAITHFUL FOR THESE BEAUTIFUL SERVICES
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An answer for some Parishioners
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Our lives worth living
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Teach us to pray!
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Schedule of Lenten Services
Serbian Orthodox Deanery of Detroit
First Sunday, Triumph of Orthodoxy
March 24, 2024
CHURCH: St. Lazarus-Ravanica, Detroit
OR St. Elias, Sylvania, OH
Second Sunday, St. Gregory Palamas
March 31, 2024
CHURCH: St. Petka - Troy –
Sermon- Fr. Radisa Ninkovic
Third Sunday, Holy Cross
April 7, 2024
CHURCH: St. Stevan of Dechani - Warren-
Sermon-Fr. Savo Krco
Fourth Sunday, St. John of the Ladder
April 14, 2024
CHURCH: St. George Monroe -Sermon.
Fr. Aleksandar Vujkovic
Fifth Sunday, Mary of Egypt
April 21, 2024
CHURCH: Holy Ascension- Ecorse –
Sermon- Protodeacon Joseph Appling
Palm Sunday
April 28, 2024
CHURCH: St Prokopius – China –
Sermon- Fr. Zivan Urosev
ALL SERVICES ARE AT 6:00 p.m.
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