PRAYER REQUESTS One of our most fundamental Christian
responsibilities is to pray. There is truly great power in prayer. During this Divine
Liturgy and throughout this next week your prayers are requested for: Jean Rivard,
Lusine Grigoryan, Toni Golfieri, Tracey Jarvis, Shelley Cotton, Diane Boghosian,
Jessica Thresher, Alex Velez, Shirley Yergatian, Anne Tom Keegan, Eleanor
Demirjian, Alice Vooris, Susie Arslanian, Lisa Omartian, John Trumbull, Kent
Woodard, Susan DerMargosian, Lisa Herrick, Kim Noel, Darlene McKenna, Dr.
David Manning, Jr., the Jozokos family, Joan Bazegian, Laura Wormel, Kate
Heck, Laura Hynds, Laora Grigoryan, Rebecca Meek, Michael O’Connor, Sara
Omartian, Gary Tumasyan, James Anita Assarian, Debbie Manning, Steve Taylor
and all those in need of our prayers.
Calendar of Events
February 5, Wednesday- Diocesan Assembly planning meeting 7 pm
February 23, Sunday – Great Barekendan
March 1, Sunday – Sunday of Expulsion
March 1, Sunday - Annual Parish Assembly – noon
March 8, Sunday – Sunday of the Prodigal Son
March 15, Sunday – Sunday of the Steward
March 22, Sunday – Sunday of the Judge
March 29, Sunday- Sunday of the Advent
April 5, Sunday – Palm Sunday
April 12, Sunday – Easter Sunday
LENTEN DINNERS
This year Lenten dinners will be held on the following Fridays:
March 6 & 13 & 20 and 27.
More details to follow soon.
HOME BLESSINGS
According to the tradition of the Armenian Church, we do Home Blessings at
Christmas. The Home Blessing is very important because as you go to the
House of God, likewise Christ’s representative, the priest, comes to your house
and blesses it. Der Hayr would like to make a visit and do a Home Blessing
during this season and ask that you please call and arrange a day and time for
him to come. Christ called His followers “the salt of the earth” who through
their faith, hope and love made life worth living. The burning incense signifies
the Christian who burns it with the love of God and also the prayers of the
faithful, which rise up as a sweet odot to Heaven. Please call Der Hayr to
make arrangements for him to come to your home and just as a reminder put
on a tray: a small dish of salt, a slice of bread, and a glass of water
ՍԻՐԵՑԷՔ ԶՄԻՄԵԱՆՍ ՈՐՊԷՍ ԵԻ ԵՍ ԶՁԵԶ ՍԻՐԵՑԻ
“LOVE ONE ANOTHER AS I HAVE LOVED YOU”
St. Mark Armenian Church
2427 Wilbraham Road
Springfield, MA 01129
Church Office: 413-783-5793
Der Sevak’s Cell: 914-888-4836
Email: [email protected]
Office Hours: Tuesday-Friday
Welcome to St. Mark Armenian Church
Sunday Bulletin
February 2, 2020 Church Services at 10:00am
Sunday School at 10:15am
Parish Council Greeters:
Steve Berian and Ramela Abramian
Coffee Hour Hosts: Armen and Anahit Tumasyan
Scripture Reading
John 6:22-38
I Am the Bread of Life On the next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had
been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but
that his disciples had gone away alone. Other boats from Tiberias came near the place
where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. So when the crowd
saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and
went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.
When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did
you come here?” Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me,
not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. Do not work for
the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of
Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.” Then they said to
him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?” Jesus answered them, “This is
the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.” So they said to him,
“Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you
perform? Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them
bread from heaven to eat.’” Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was
not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true
bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and
gives life to the world.” They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.”
Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and
whoever believes in me shall never thirst. But I said to you that you have seen me and
yet do not believe. All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes
to me I will never cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will
but the will of him who sent me.
2 Timothy 2:15-25
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need
to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth. Avoid godless chatter,
because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly. Their teaching
will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have
departed from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already taken place, and
they destroy the faith of some. Nevertheless, God’s solid foundation stands firm,
sealed with this inscription: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Everyone who
confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness.”
In a large house there are articles not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and
clay; some are for special purposes and some for common use. Those who cleanse
themselves from the latter will be instruments for special purposes, made holy, useful
to the Master and prepared to do any good work.
Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along
with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. Don’t have anything to do with
foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. And the
Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach,
not resentful. Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant
them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth.
HOKEHANKISD In loving memory of
Samuel Bedrosian On the 40th day of his passing
Requested by: Linda Bedrosian, Susan Turcotte and David Bedrosian
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