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O ye incorporeal angels who stand before the throne of God, luminous with the brilliance thereof and everlastingly shining with radiance. As secondary luminaries, entreat Christ, that He grant unto our souls peace and great mercy.

O immortal messengers of the truly incorruptible Life, ye most blessed ones who received life from the first Life, ye have become holy beholders of the eternal Wisdom, full of light, and reflecting lamps shown forth as is meet.

O ye archangels and angels, principalities, thrones, dominions, six-winged seraphim, and divine, many-eyed cherubim, instruments of wisdom, virtues and powers most divine. Pray ye to Christ, that He grant our souls peace and great mercy.

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HOLY RESURRECTION BYZANTINE CATHOLIC MISSION
PASTOR: REV. THOMAS O'CONNELL
HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH
307 BLACK OAK RIDGE ROAD PO BOX 817
SEYMOUR, TN 37865
PHONE: 865-609-1081
www.hrbcc.org

GLORY TO JESUS CHRIST! GLORY FOREVER!
SLAVA ISUSU CHRISTU! SLAVA NA VIKY!

DIVINE LITURGY BEGINS AT 4 P.M. EVERY SUNDAY
NINTH HOUR PRAYER BEGINS AT 3:30 P.M.

March 7, 2004 — Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas
Second Sunday of the Grat Fast

Divine Liturgy Intention:
George Lemak, deceased, uncle of Mary Ann Grant

Our Offerings
Feb. 29: $510 — Candles: $16
God Bless You For Your Generosity

Special Liturgical Service on the Third All Souls Saturday
We will pray the Panichida, a memorial service for our deceased brothers and sisters, at noon on Saturday, March 13, at Calvary Cemetery in Knoxville. Please join us as we commemorate and pray for the faithful departed. Call Ed Klages at 865-xxx-xxxx for details.

We Need Your Help
Holy Resurrection needs volunteers to help staff the CROSS office in Seymour. CROSS, Christians Reaching Out Serving Seymour, provides goods and services to the needy in the Seymour area. Office hours are 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Mondays and Tuesdays, 10 a.m. to noon on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Holy Family volunteers work Thursday mornings. Call Donna Scripa, Holy Resurrection CROSS representative, at 865-xxx-xxxx, or Jay Craft, Holy Family CROSS representative, at xxx-xxxx, for details.

Second Sunday of Lent: Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas
We celebrate the Second Sunday of Lent as the feast of St. Gregory Palamas, the archbishop of Thessaloniki in the 14th century. Like the Restoration of the Holy Icons, this memorial involves historical events but also relates to our understanding of the Christian vocation and the potential of every Christian to achieve genuine holiness. St. Gregory taught that the object of life for all Christians is union with God.
St. Gregory was a great ascetic and a great master of the monastic life, but he teaches that the invitation to union with God is open to every Christian. Accepting this invitation is the specific challenge of Lent, but it is also a challenge to be taken up year-round. It is the challenge of monasticism — but not only for monks and nuns. The Holy Father has expressed it well: “In the East, monasticism was not seen merely as a separate condition, proper to a precise category of Christians but rather as a reference point for all the baptized, according to the gifts offered each by the Lord; it was presented as a symbolic synthesis of Christianity.” Monks and nuns must always remember that in this way they are responsible to and for the whole Christian people, and all of us should seek to nourish our Christian lives with the values they exemplify.
St. Gregory himself has enjoyed an increasing popularity in the past 50 years. His spiritual theology is not absolutely binding, but he is an important and influential figure in patristic spirituality. At one time, his ideas were highly controversial, and his memorial was removed from our liturgical books. But recent studies and a deeper appreciation of the Christian East have led the Holy See to restore St. Gregory’s memorial on the Second Sunday of the Great Lent.
—Bishop Basil Losten, Ukrainian Byzantine Catholic Church

From the Church Fathers
“The Lord Himself said the sign that we are His disciples is Love. When He departed from this world, the fatherly inheritance He left us was Love, and the last prayer He gave us when He ascended to His Father was about Love for one another.”
—St. Gregory Palamas

Pastoral Ponderings: “The Passion of the Christ”
Much has been written recently on the movie “The Passion of the Christ”, and several people have asked for reference materials for further study. Here are some suggestions taken from a variety of sources:
  • The Bible, the Jews and the Death of Jesus: A Collection of Catholic Documents, United States Catholic Conference of Catholic Bishops. Contains important Vatican documents, documents of the Second Vatican Council, papal statements, documents from the U. S. Bishops and catechetical texts.
  • The Death of the Messiah by Fr. Raymond Brown. A scholarly treatment of the passion narratives from a Catholic point of view.
  • Who Killed Jesus? Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus by John Dominic Crossan (Harper San Francisco, 1995)
  • Jesus Before Christianity, by Albert Nolan (Orbis, 1976 and 2001)
  • Consider Jesus: Waves of Renewal in Christology, by Elizabeth Johnson, Crossroads, 1990).
  • Facts, Faith and Film-Making: Jesus’ Passion and its Portrayal, A Study Guide for Viewers and Reviewers, by the Christian Scholars Group on Christian-Jewish elations: www.bc.edu/research/cjl/meta-elements/partners/CSG/passion_guide/htm
  • There will also be available as a handout (look on the bookcase under the bulletin board) a discussion guide for various aspects of the film.
— Father O’Connell

Last updated: 12-Mar-2004