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Sunday E-Bulletin of St. Gregory the Illuminator
Armenian Apostolic Church of Granite City


Sunday, May 21st, 2023

 Second Palm Sunday 

Morning Service: 9:15 am
Badarak: 10:00 am
St. Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Apostolic Church
1014 W. Pontoon Road, Granite City, IL 62040
(618) 451-7884

stgregorychurchgranitecity@gmail.com


Rev. Fr. Taniel Manjikian, Pastor
Cell Phone: (617) 599-8277
Email:
manjigianbedros@gmail.com
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THIS SATURDAY!
May 20, 2023
Ladies Guild Tourshi Making Session
10:00 am


THIS SUNDAY!
May 21, 2023 - Graduate Recognition Sunday

May 29, 2023 - Memorial Day Grave Blessings - Sunset Hills Cemetery 

June 3, 2023 -Trivia Night sponsored by St. Gregory Church and Holy Seraphim Choir 
 Details below.

June 17, 2023 --Saturday- 10:00 am
Ladies Guild Nazook Baking Session

June 18, 2023 - Father's Day Luncheon hosted
by the Ladies Guild

June 25, 2023 - Ladies Guild Simit Baking session after church

July 9, 2023 - Vartavar - Lily's Food Truck will be available. Details below

July 23, 2023 - Ladies Guild Choreg Baking session after church

August 13, 2023 - Assumption of the Holy Mother of God and Blessing of the Grapes Picnic/
Annual Armenian Food Fest 
Memorial Day (May 31st) grave blessings at Sunset Hills Cemetery in Glen Carbon beginning with requiem service at the mausoleum - 9:00 am. (weather permitting).  If you wish to have your families' graves blessed at another cemetery, please contact Der Taniel or any Board member via the church email address.

Bible readings for Sunday, May 21, Second Palm Sunday,  1) Luke 19:29-48; 2) Acts 23:12-35; 1 John 5:13-21; John 12:12-23; 3) Matthew 20:29-21:17; 4) Mark 10:46-11:11.    

Acts 23:12-35   

In the morning the Jews joined in a conspiracy and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink until they had killed Paul. There were more than forty who joined in this conspiracy. They went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have strictly bound ourselves by an oath to taste no food until we have killed Paul. Now then, you and the council must notify the tribune to bring him down to you, on the pretext that you want to make a more thorough examination of his case. And we are ready to do away with him before he arrives.”   

Now the son of Paul’s sister heard about the ambush; so he went and gained entrance to the barracks and told Paul. Paul called one of the centurions and said, “Take this young man to the tribune, for he has something to rep ort to him.” So he took him, brought him to the tribune, and said, “The prisoner Paul called me and asked me to bring this young man to you; he has something to tell you.” The tribune took him by the hand, drew him aside privately, and asked, “What is it that you have to report to me?” He answered, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though they were going to inquire more thoroughly into his case. But do not be persuaded by them, for more than forty of their men are lying in ambush for him. They have bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink until they kill him. They are ready now and are waiting for your consent. So the tribune dismissed the young man, ordering him, “Tell no one that you have informed me of this.”   

Then he summoned two of the centurions and said, “Get ready to leave by nine o’clock tonight for Caesarea with two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen. Also provide mounts for Paul to ride, and take him safely to Felix the governor.” He wrote a letter to this effect:   

“Claudius Lysias to his Excellency the governor Felix, greetings. This man was seized by the Jews and was about to be killed by them, but when I had learned that he was a Roman citizen, I came with the guard and rescued him. Since I wanted to know the charge for which they accused him, I had him brought to their council. I found that he was accused concerning questions of their law, but was charged with nothing deserving death or imprisonment. When I was informed that there would be a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once, ordering his accusers also to state before you what they have against him.”   

So the soldiers, according to their instructions, took Paul and brought him during the night to Antipatris. The next day they let the horsemen go on with him, while they returned to the barracks. When they came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they presented Paul also before him. On reading the letter, he asked what province he belonged to, and when he learned that he was from Cilicia, he said, “I will give you a hearing when your accusers arrive.” Then he ordered that he be kept under guard in Herod’s headquarters.   

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John 12:12-23     

The next day the great crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting,   

“Hosanna! 

Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord— 

the King of Israel!”   

Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it; as it is written:   

“Do not be afraid, daughter of Zion. 

Look, your king is coming, 

sitting on a donkey’s colt!”   

His disciples did not understand these things at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written of him and had been done to him. So the crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to testify. It was also because they heard that he had performed this sign that the crowd went to meet him. The Pharisees then said to one another, “You see, you can do nothing. Look, the world has gone after him!”   

Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified

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