Sunday, January 18, 2026
Sts. Athanasius and Cyril of Alexandria
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Today’s Readings
Epistle: 1 Timothy 1:15-17
Gospel: Luke 18:35-43
Schedule of Services:
-Saturday, Great Vespers at 4pm.
-Sunday, Divine Liturgy at 10am. Hours begin at 9:40am.
Announcements:
-Memory eternal to Helen, Byron’s sister!
-Thank you, Andrea and Byron, for hosting coffee hour today.
-There will be a Sisterhood meeting following Liturgy. There is church school, as well.
-The 2026 Annual Parish Assembly will now take place the first Sunday in February, Sunday, February 1st 2026. Please mark this date on your calendar to be present for this important assembly.
-Please sign up for a house blessing asap, so that house blessings can be completed before we begin preparing for Great Lent and be done within the festal spirit of this season.
-For house blessings, please have prepared, as best as possible, on a table in your home, 1.) A bowl for holy water, 2.) a candle to carry around the house, 3.) an icon. Also, have ready a list of “living” and “departed” loved ones you would like prayed for during the blessing. Please do not feel you have to feed the priest.
-A Women and Teens Girls Retreat, sponsored by our Archdiocese will be taking place at Camp Shiloh February 6th to 8th. The retreat is “A Weekend to Grow in Strength and Faith Reflecting on the Life of St. Olympia the Deaconess.” Please see the flyer either posted downstairs or in the weekly parish email.
-For the upcoming parish meeting, the proposed amendment to the Parish By-Laws (from Article VIII Section 4.3 of our Parish By-Laws) is “Council Members are elected for a three-year term of office. Council Members may seek re-election following their three-year appointment for one consecutive term.”
Prayers for:
Departed: Helen, Margaret, Fedora Living: Antonia, Carol, Archpriest Vladimir, Cristi, Pamela, Nissa, Natalie, Stephanie and Forrest, Lawrence, John, Jeannine, Bernard, Nicholas, Galina, Alexey, Sergei, Liona, Amelia, Vera, Eleonora, John, and Ted.
Words for the Day:
A discerning man, when he eats grapes, takes only the ripe ones and leaves the sour. Thus also the discerning mind carefully marks the virtues which he sees in any person. A mindless man seeks out the vices and failings ... Even if you see someone sin with your own eyes, do not judge; for often even your eyes are deceived.
(St. John of the Ladder, Ladder, 10.16-17)
The forgiveness of insults is a sign of true love, free from hypocrisy. For thus the Lord also loved this world.
(St. Mark the Asceticf, Homilies, 2.48)
Next Week’s Readings:
Epistle: 1 Timothy 4:9-15, 1 Corinthians 12:7-11: Brethren, This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance. 10 For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe. 11 These things command and teach. 12 Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity. 13 Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. 14 Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership. 15 Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to them, that your progress may be evident to all. Brethren, the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: 8 for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by]the same Spirit, 10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.
Gospel: Luke 19:1-10, John 10:9-16: At that time, Jesus entered and passed through Jericho. 2 Now behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus who was a chief tax collector, and he was rich. 3 And he sought to see who Jesus was, but could not because of the crowd, for he was of short stature. 4 So he ran ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see Him, for He was going to pass that way. 5 And when Jesus came to the place, He looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, make haste and come down, for today I must stay at your house.” 6 So he made haste and came down, and received Him joyfully. 7 But when they saw it, they all complained, saying, “He has gone to be a guest with a man who is a sinner.” 8 Then Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, I give half of my goods to the poor; and if I have taken anything from anyone by false accusation, I restore fourfold.” 9 And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham; 10 for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.” And Jesus said, I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 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. 11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. 12 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. 13 The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own. 15 As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. 16 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.
