Sunday of Orthodoxy
Excerpt from the Lenten Triodion (Service Book for Great Lent)
On this day the Church commemorates the final ending of the Iconoclast controversy and the definitive restoration of the holy ikons to the churches by the Empress Theodora, acting as regent for her young son Michael III. This took place on the first Sunday in Lent, 11 March 843… …The Feast of Orthodoxy is above all a celebration in honour of the martyrs and confessors who struggled and suffered for the faith: hence its appropriateness for the season of Lent, when we are striving to imitate the martyrs by means of our ascetic self-denial. The fixing of the Triumph of Orthodoxy on the first Sunday is therefore much more than the result of some chance historical conjunction.
The Triodion gives the text of a special ‘Office of Orthodoxy…’ …The Office celebrates not only the restoration of the holy ikons but, more generally, the victory of the true faith over all heresies and errors. Aprocession is made with the holy ikons, and after this extracts are read from the synodical decree of the Seventh Ecumenical Council (787)…
Before the Triumph of Orthodoxy came to be celebrated on the first Sunday, there was on this day a commemoration of Moses, Aaron, Samuel and the prophets. Traces of this more ancient observance can still be seen in the choice of Epistle reading at the Liturgy (Hebrews 11:24–6, 32–40), and in the Alleluia verse appointed before the Gospel: ‘Moses and Aaron among His priests, and Samuel among them that call upon His Name’.
The Lenten Triodion, Service Book for Great Lent, pp. 51-52.
Starting Sunday, March 9th and then every Sunday until Palm Sunday we will be celebrating the Liturgy of St. Basil the Great. Two extra lambs must also be sanctified for the Presanctified liturgies. This will add a little time to the service.
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| Date | Matins | Epistle | |
| Mar 16 | Altschul | Wales | |
| Mar 23 | Skomorucha | Peck | |
| Mar 30 | Burns | Bergwall | |
| Date | Coffee Hour | Service Duty | Church Cleaners |
| Mar 9 |
Long / Hill / Kiflemariam / Guta / McDowell |
Bunitsky / Morjana | Lenon / Immediato / Jaimes |
| Mar 16 |
Morjana / Hamwi / Najemy / Didonato / Gwinn |
Riley / Riley | Bunitsky / Davis / Koehler |
| Mar 23 |
Diehl / Kendall / Koehler / Santana |
Stultz / Najemy | Dempsey / Plummer / Santana |
| Mar 30 |
Baldychev / Prior / Morales / Jaimes |
Bunitsky / Morjana | Long / Huff‑Cadreau |
| Date | Servers |
| Mar 16 | Davis (sub) / Moses |
| Mar 23 | Bergwall / Moses (sub) |
| Mar 30 | Bergwall / Burns |
Important Dates
Tuesday, March 25th
Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos
