Throughout the month of October, we are working to collect NON-PERISHABLE food for our local food pantry!!! Food should be deposited in the “fridge” inside the side entrance of the church. Thank you for your generosity in helping our neighbors in need!
Please, see the flyer.
Epistle: Corinthians 6:1-10;
Gospel: Luke 7:11-16 (Only son of a widow)
Join us for the International Food/Bake Sale & Upscale Yard Sale at St. Michael the Archangel (62 Main Street, Cotuit, MA) on Saturday, October 12, 2019 from 10 AM to 2 PM. Come purchase homemade American, Lebanese, Greek, Moldavian, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Syrian, Tibetan, Ukrainian food to treat your family and invite your friends! Eat in and take some home. Luncheon served.
Gospel: Luke 6:31-36
“…As you wish that men would do to you, do so to them…”
Sunday after the Elevation of the Holy Cross
Gospel: Mark 8:34-9:1
“…let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.”
St. Helen discovered the Cross of Christ in approximately 326 A.D. When Empress Helen’s subjects found not one, but three crosses buried on Golgotha, she consulted with Makarios, the Patriarch of Jerusalem. They concluded that the Lord’s Cross would be the one that healed the sick. To everyone’s joy, someone was indeed healed by being touched with the True Cross. The church held a huge celebration, during which Patriarch Makarios “elevated” – or held up – the Cross for all to venerate as they chanted, “Lord, have mercy!” This event became linked to the dedication of the Church of the Resurrection, built by Helen’s son, Emperor Constantine, on the site of our Lord’s tomb.
Excerpted from”Heaven Meets Earth – Celebrating Pascha and the Twelve Feasts” by John Kosmas Skinas, Ancient Faith Publishing.
