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SATURDAY - JUNE 15, 2019 - FEAST OF SATURDAY OF SOULS - DIVINE LITURGY WILL BEGIN AT 9:30AM WITH MEMORIAL SERVICE OFFICIATED BY FATHER PHILIP ARMSTRONG FATHER PHILIP WILL BE HEARING CONFESSIONS FROM 3:00PM TO 5:00PM (NO VESPERS) Via goarch.org Kontakion of Sat. of Souls in the Plagal of the Fourth Tone Give rest, O Christ, among the Saints to the souls of Your servants, where there is no pain, no sorrow, no grieving, but life everlasting.

Friday - June 14, 2019 - Feast Day of Saint Methodius the Confessor Via goarch.org As for Saint Methodius, he was born to wealthy parents in Syracuse of Sicily about the end of the eighth century. Being a presbyter, he was sent as an ambassador to Rome in 815 or 816 on behalf of Patriarch Nicephorus of Constantinople, who had been exiled by Leo the Armenian (see June 2). After Leo's death, he returned to Constantinople; but since he was a zealot for the veneration of the holy icons, he was immediately exiled by Emperor Michael the Stutterer to a fortress near Bithynia. When Michael died, he was freed for a short time; but then, because of his confession of the Orthodox Faith, he was imprisoned again by the Emperor Theophilus in a dark and foul-smelling sepulcher. Since this was not enough for the Emperor's inhumanity, he commanded that two thieves be shut up with Methodius, and when one of them died, that the corpse not be removed. While the Saint was imprisoned there, a certain poor fisherman ministered to his needs. Finally, when the Church received its freedom under Saint Theodora the Empress, the Saint ascended the patriarchal throne of Constantinople in 842. Together with the holy Empress, Methodius restored the holy icons to their proper honor; this is commemorated on the Sunday of Orthodoxy. He governed the Church of Constantinople for four years, and reposed in 846.

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Wednesday - June 12, 2019 - Feast Day of Saint Onuphrius Via GoArch.org Saint Onuphrius flourished in the fourth century, first in the cenobium near Hermopolis of Thebes in Egypt, and later as a solitary in the desert, where he was discovered by Saint Paphnutius. When Paphnutius first encountered him deep in the desert, he was affrighted at the Saint's appearance, seeing him covered with hair like a wild beast and naked except for a garment sewn of leaves covering his loins. After relating his life and the bitter conflicts he had endured as a hermit, Onuphrius told Paphnutius that he was about to die, and that Paphnutius had been sent to bury him, which soon came to pass. Although Paphnutius desired afterwards to remain in the Saint's cave, as soon as he had buried him, the cave fell in and the palm tree, which had furnished the Saint with dates withered up, indicating that it was the will of God that Paphnutius return to his monastery and make Saint Onuphrius known to all.

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Greek Dancers!!! OPA

The Resurrection of Christ - Christ Is Risen, Truly He Is Risen - The light of the candle was passed down from the Light of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem... which arrive to the United States last year. We at Saint Katherine Parish have kept this Holy Light burning ever since! Glory to God - "Christ Is Risen"

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