Church Telephone: (781) 585-8907
Church Email: stmarkofephesuskingstonma@gmail.com
Donations: PayPal or Credit Card
Administrator and Dean: Archpriest Vasily Lickwar
Priests: Archpriest John T. Bacon and Fr. Kevin Kalish
Parish Council President/Church Warden: Catherine Condrick
Divine Liturgy begins at 10:00 AM (Third Hour begins at 9:30 AM)
Great Vespers & Confession: 5:00 PM on the 1st Saturday of every month
Reader's Vespers: 5:00 PM on the 3rd Saturday of every month
St. Mark of Ephesus Orthodox Church is blessed with a small, but actively participating congregation. We are a warm, family-oriented body of faithful believers and our members are of all age groups and we embrace many cultural and ethnic backgrounds. The parish conducts a regular and traditional cycle of Orthodox liturgical worship throughout the course of the year, and participates regularly in several community charitable ministries such as on-going charities to aid local shelters, grocery collections for our on-going food pantry, and visiting the ill and shut-ins in our community. All these inititatives are supported by the free-will offerings and volunteer assistance of the parishioners.
Martyr Hyacinth of Caesarea, in Cappodocia and those with him
Troparion - Tone 4
Your holy martyr Hyacinth, O Lord, through is suffering has received an incorruptible crown from You, our God. For having Your strength, he laid low his adversaries, and shattered the powerless boldness of demons. Through his intercessions, save our souls!
Troparion - Tone 4
Like a fragrant hyacinth of the Church of Christ, O all-blessed Hyacinth, you radiate grace to the ends of the world. By the brilliance of your confession of faith, you were illustrious in contest in emulation of God the Word and you ever illumine those who acclaim you.
Kontakion - Tone 2
Come, you faithful, plait a crown of unfading hyacinths today for the Martyr Hyacinth, and let us cry to Him: "Rejoice, glory of Martyrs."
Icon: Martyr Hyacinth of Caesarea
Weekly Liturgical Calender
Monday, June 27: Venerable Sampson, the Hospitable; St. Joanna the Myrrhbearer
Tuesday, June 28: Relics of Saints Cyrus & John; Venerable Sergius and Herman of Valaam
Wednesday, June 29: The Glorious and All-praised Leaders of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul
Thursday, June 30: Synaxis of the Holy, Glorious and All-praised Twelve Apostles: Peter, Andrew, James and John, the sons of Zebedee, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Jude, the brother of James, Simone the Zealot and Matthias
Friday, July 1: Unmercenary Wonderworkers Cosmas and Damian
Saturday, July 2: Placing of the Honorable Robe of the Holy Theotokos at Blachernae; Repose of St. John Maximovich of Shanghai and San Francisco; Catechumen classes at 4:00; Great Vespers at 5:00 PM with Confessions following
Sunday, July 3: Martyr Hyacinth; Hieromartyr Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow
For today's scripture readings, please click on the following link: https://www.oca.org/readings
Remember in prayer: ill & shut-in: James, Priest Ceraphim Mitchell, James, Luis, Ramon, Maria, Marya, Paul, Simon, Alban Frank, Robert, Mat. Eleanor, Priest Antony, Reader George, Alexandra, Conor, Peter, Alexandra, Marilyn, Reader Daniel; Catechumens: Kaitlyn, Judith, Ryan, Rebecca, Ari, Selah, Matthew, Robert; the kidnapped Hierarchs Metropolitan Paul (Boulos Yazigi) & Archpriest John (Yohanna Ibrahim); the suffering Christians of Egypt and Syria; deployed: Andrew; for the cessation of hostilities in the Ukraine; 20th All-American Council of the Orthodox Church in America, Baltimore, MD, July 18-22; Subdeacon Michael Arida who will be ordained Deacon Saturday, July 2 at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Boston.
Icon: Glorious and All-praised Leaders of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul
A Prayer for Today
For My Family to the Mother of God
Most blessed Lady, take my family under thy protection, plant peace in the heart of my wife, husband, parents, children, and siblings, (etc.) and plant there also a love and obedience to everything good, and let none of my family be given over to speration or bitter division, nor to incurable afflictions, nor to untimely or sudden death. Protect our house and all of us living in it from fiery conflagration, attack of thieves, and every evil threat, terror, addiction, or delusion, so that, together and apart, in open and in secret, we might glorify and praise thy holy name, now and ever unto ages of ages. Amen
Another Prayer
Epithimo Panagia Mou
I long very much, my Panagia, for the beauty of paradise, for the scent and the flowers and the sweetest fragrance, and the songs of the angels when they sing to thy Son.
Icon: Placing of the Honorable Robe of the Holy Theotokos at Blachernae
