(Shawn and his family, and Mike Saba and family joined us for the Diving Liturgy last week)
Sunday March 16, 2025 / March 3, 2025
Second Sunday of the Great Lent. Tone five.
Great Lent. Food with Oil
St. Gregory Palamas the Archbishop of Thessalonica (movable holiday on the 2nd Sunday of the Great Lent).
Synaxis of all Venerable Fathers of the Kiev Caves (movable holiday on the 2nd Sunday of the Great Lent).
Martyr Eutropius of Amasea, and with him Martyrs Cleonicus and Basiliscus (308).
Virgin-martyr Martha and martyr Michael (1938).
Venerable Piama, virgin (337).
Sts. Zeno and Zoilus.
“Volokolamsk” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1572).
St. Alexandra, of Alexandria (4th c.).
St. Caluppan of Auvergne (576) (Gaul).
St. Non, mother of St. David of Wales (6th c.) (Celtic & British).
St. Winwaloe of Brittany (530) (Celtic & British).
St. John (Chrysostom) IV, the Catholicos of Georgia (1049) (Georgia).
Hieromartyr Theodoretus, Priest of Antioch (361-363) (Greek).
The Scripture Readings
Luke 24:12-35 (5th Matins Gospel)
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But Peter arose and ran to the tomb; and stooping down, he saw the linen cloths lying by themselves; and he departed, marveling to himself at what had happened.
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Now behold, two of them were traveling that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was seven miles from Jerusalem.
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And they talked together of all these things which had happened.
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So it was, while they conversed and reasoned, that Jesus Himself drew near and went with them.
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But their eyes were restrained, so that they did not know Him.
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And He said to them, “What kind of conversation is this that you have with one another as you walk and are sad?”
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Then the one whose name was Cleopas answered and said to Him, “Are You the only stranger in Jerusalem, and have You not known the things which happened there in these days?”
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And He said to them, “What things?” So they said to Him, “The things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a Prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,
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and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to be condemned to death, and crucified Him.
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But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, today is the third day since these things happened.
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Yes, and certain women of our company, who arrived at the tomb early, astonished us.
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When they did not find His body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who said He was alive.
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And certain of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said; but Him they did not see.
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Then He said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
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Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?
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And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.
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Then they drew near to the village where they were going, and He indicated that He would have gone farther.
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But they constrained Him, saying, “Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent.” And He went in to stay with them.
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Now it came to pass, as He sat at the table with them, that He took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.
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Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him; and He vanished from their sight.
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And they said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?”
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So they rose up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven and those who were with them gathered together,
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saying, “The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!”
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And:”You, LORD, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the work of Your hands.
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They will perish, but You remain; And they will all grow old like a garment;
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Like a cloak You will fold them up, And they will be changed. But You are the same, And Your years will not fail.”
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But to which of the angels has He ever said:”Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool”?
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Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation?
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Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away.
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For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward,
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how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him,
Hebrews 7:26-8:2 (Saint)
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For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens;
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who does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people’s, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.
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For the law appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son who has been perfected forever.
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Now this is the main point of the things we are saying: We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,
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a Minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man.
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And again He entered Capernaum after some days, and it was heard that He was in the house.
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Immediately many gathered together, so that there was no longer room to receive them, not even near the door. And He preached the word to them.
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Then they came to Him, bringing a paralytic who was carried by four men.
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And when they could not come near Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where He was. So when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying.
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When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”
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And some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts,
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Why does this Man speak blasphemies like this? Who can forgive sins but God alone?
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But immediately, when Jesus perceived in His spirit that they reasoned thus within themselves, He said to them, “Why do you reason about these things in your hearts?
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Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise, take up your bed and walk’?
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But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins-He said to the paralytic,
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I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.
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Immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went out in the presence of them all, so that all were amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”
John 10:9-16 (Saint)
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I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
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The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
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I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.
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But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them.
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The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep.
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I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own.
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As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.
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And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.