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Weekly Schedule
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    Saturday
    19 March
    5:00pm Great Vespers: Saturday Worship
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    Sunday
    20 March
    9:30am Divine Liturgy: Sunday Worship
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    Wednesday
    23 March
    11:30am
    Akathist to the Passion of IC
    12:00pm Church Open for Private Prayer
    6:00pm
    Presanctified Liturgy
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    Thursday
    24 March
    6:00pm
    Great Vespers
A Warm Welcome to our Vistors

Saints Peter and Paul Church is a member parish of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the USA serving the Orthodox Christian faithful in the Northern New Jersey counties of Morris, Sussex, Passaic, Essex, and Warren, and the Poconos in Pennsylvania. Above all we are a Eucharistic community worshipping the Holy Trinity in spirit and truth as we seek to know God, conform ourselves to the image of Jesus Christ our God Who became Man, and become partakers of the Divine Nature. 

If you have any questions in regards to our worship schedule or the Orthodox Church in general please contact our Pastor, Father Matthew and he will gladly answer any of your questions to the best of his ability. He looks forward to speaking with you. 

At our best we are known for our welcoming attitude, hospitality, prayerfulness, generosity, and compassion. At our worst we are sinners, but, we're working on our salvation together, and could use your help. 

If you are looking for a Church home, we hope you will prayerfully consider making Saints Peter and Paul Church that place. 

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Saints Peter and Paul Orthodox Church
66 Beach Street; Rockaway, NJ 07866 USA
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A PARISH OF THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE OF CONSTANTINOPLE
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese
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The Holy Apostle Peter
The son of Jonah and brother of Andrew the First-Called, of the tribe of Simeon and the town of Bethsaida, he was a fisherman and was at first called Simon, but the Lord was pleased to call him Cephas, or Peter (JN 1:42). He was the first of the disciples to give clear expression to his faith in the Lord Jesus, saying, "Though art the Christ, the Son of the Living God." (MT 16:16) His love for the Lord was very strong and his faith in Him went from strength to strength. When the Lord was put on trial, Peter denied Him three times, but he needed only one look into the face of the Lord and Peter's soul was filled with shame and repentance. After the descent of the Holy Spirit, Peter became a fearless and powerful preacher of the Gospel. After his first sermon in Jerusalem, about 3,000 souls were converted to the Faith. He preached the Gospel throughout Palestine and Asia Minor, in Italy and in Illyria. Peter was condemned to death on the order of the wicked Emporer Nero. After installing Linus as Bishop of Rome and exhorting and encouraging the flock of Christ there, Peter went to his death with joy. When he saw the cross before him, he asked the executioner to crucify him upside-down, because he felt himself to be unworthy to die in the same way as his Lord. And so, this great servant of the greatest Master went to his rest and received a crown of eternal glory!
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The Holy Apostle Paul
Born in Tarsus and of the tribe of Benjamin, he was formerly called Saul and studied under the teacher Gamaliel. He was a Pharisee and fierce persecutor of Christians. Saul was wondrously converted to the Christian Faith by the Lord Himself, who appeared to him on the road to Damascus. He was baptized by the Apostle Ananias, named Paul and enrolled in the great work of the Apostles. He preached the Gospel everywhere with burning zeal, from the borders of Arabia to the land of Spain, among both the Jews and Gentiles (heathens) and receiving the title 'Apostle to the Gentiles'. His fearful sufferings were matched only by his superhuman endurance. Through all the years of preaching, he hung from day to day like a thread between life and death. Filling his days and nights with toil and suffering for Christ, organizing the Church in many places and reaching a high level of perfection, he was able to say, "It is not I who lives, but Christ who lives in me." (Galatians 2:20) Paul was brutally beheaded in Rome in the reign of Nero, at the same time as St. Peter.
Through all the world their voice resounds; their message reaches to the ends of the earth.
Prokimenon for the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
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