Christ is Risen! Truly, He is Risen!
Христос Воскресе! Воистину Воскресе!
Χριστος Ανεστη ! Αλιθως Ανεστη !
Hristos a înviat! Cu adevărat a înviat!
ქრისტე აღსდგა! ჭეშმარიტად აღსდგა!
THE BRIGHT RESURRECTION OF CHRIST
Saturday, April 12th Nocturne 11:20PM,
Pascha Matins and Liturgy Midnight, followed by Blessing of Baskets
Sunday, April 12th, Divine Liturgy offered:
For the Health of:
Peter, Anna, Nicholas, Alaric, Natalia, Alexei, Elya, Andrew, Vadim (Yukhnavets/Seas holtz) by Seasholtz Family
For the Memory of Departed servants:
+Reader Samuel (Sokoluk, Jr) by Alexei, Lucia & Amelia
+Mat. Patricia (Saverino) by the Saverino Family
Bright Week and Upcoming Schedule:
• Monday, April 13, Bright Monday Divine Liturgy 10:00 AM
• Sunday, April 19, St. Thomas Divine Liturgy 10:00 AM, Blessing of Graves at Oakland Cemetery following Liturgy
• Tuesday, April 21, Radonitsa Divine Liturgy at Hermitage of Holy Protection (Pokrov) in Buena, NJ 10:00 AM
• Saturday, April 25, Akathist to St. Tikhon 10:00 AM, Followed by lecture on the life of St. Tikhon
• Sunday, April 26, Holy Myrrhbearers Divine Liturgy 10:00 AM
Sunday School Schedule: Both classes will resume on the Sunday of the Holy Myrrhbearers on April 26.
Rescheduling of Lecture on the life of St. TIkhon on Saturday, April 25 with Professor Scott Kenworthy. For more information and to join us, please view the fflyer here. Please RSVP to Fr. Gregory and advise on how you will help our St. Anna's Women's Fellowship with luncheon duties. Set up, serving, and clean up helpers will be greatly appreciated.
The Bright Resurrection of Christ, Troparion. Tone V Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing life.
The Bright Resurrection of Christ, Kontakion, Tone VIII Though Thou didst descend into the grave, O Immortal One, yet didst Thou destroy the power of hell, and didst rise again as Conqueror, O Christ our God, saying to the myrrhbearing women, Rejoice! and giving peace to Thine Apostles, and offering to the fallen resurrection.
EPISTLE ACTS 1:1-8 The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, until the day in which He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen, to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God. And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, "which," He said, "you have heard from Me; for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now. Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, "Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?" And He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
GOSPEL JOHN 1:1-17 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. This man came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, "This was He of whom I said, 'He who comes after me is preferred before me, for He was before me.' " And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.