August 9, 2009 - Ninth Sunday After Pentecost
Today’s readings are:
I Corinthians 3:9-17 and Saint Matthew 14:22-34 (9th Sunday)
[Galatians 5:22-6:2 and Saint Luke 6:17-23 (St. Herman)
Weekly calendar:
Today
Procession and the blessing of our church
Coffee hour
August 10-13, Monday - Thursday
— Matushka Lydia and Fr. Michael will be away this week from Monday to Friday. There will be no Daily Vespers this week. AS ALWAYS, IN THE EVENT OF ANY EMERGENY: CALL THE RECTORY
August 14, Friday
6:00pm - Great Vespers of the Dormition – with the blessing of flowers and herbs
August 15, Saturday
9:00am - Divine Liturgy - The Dormition of the Holy Theotokos – with the blessing of flowers and herbs (The Dormition Fast ends.) [I Corinthians 1:10-18 and Saint Matthew 14:14-22]
4:30pm choir rehearsal
5:00pm Great Vespers – with Confession afterward
August 16, Sunday
9:00am Divine Liturgy– Tenth Sunday after Pentecost / Dormition post-feast [I Corinthians 4:9-16 and Saint Matthew 17:14-23] coffee hour
The Women's Fellowship will meet on Tuesday at Susan Papademetris' home, to continue its study of the epistle to the Romans. All women who are interested are welcome. Please speak to Susan Papademetris or to Lea Oksman if you would like to participate.
The Dormition Fast ends on Saturday with the Great Feast of the Dormition of the Holy Theotokos.
This year’s FORCC Banquet is on Sunday, October 4th, and this year’s speaker is His Beatitude Metropolitan Jonah. See either Lea Oksman or Fran Prestash for tickets.
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You were transfigured on the mount, O Christ God, revealing your glory to your disciples as far as they could bear it. Let your everlasting light shine upon us sinners! Through the prayers of the Theotokos, O Giver of light, glory to you! (Transfiguration Troparion)
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Today we celebrate the memory of Saint Herman of Alaska, ‘America’s most glorious doer of wonders’ and honoring him we sing:
Let us gather to glorify the wonderworker, who though earthborn attained the heavens, bringing the light of Christ by word and deed to the ends of the world, to an unenlightened people weighed down by the coldness of idolatry. Through his prayers, O Christ, save our souls!
Having one desire: to bring an unbelieving people to the one God, you were all things to all men, teaching the Holy Scripture and the life that accords with it, instructing in handicrafts, interceding before authorities, nursing men in all things as your own children that you might bring them to God. Forsake us not who sing to you!
In your apostolic teaching you proclaimed, that there is nothing above the Lord and Creator, the Giver of life, who upholds and nourishes all things in beauty. It is fitting to love him who is worthy of all praise and to place our hope in him! Teach us, O holy one, as you taught in days of old, to love God with all our heart!
O joyful North Star of the Church of Christ, guiding all men to the heavenly kingdom; teacher and apostle of the true faith; intercessor and defender of the oppressed; adornment of the Orthodox Church in America: Blessed Father Herman of Alaska. Pray to our Lord Jesus Christ for the salvation of our souls! (Troparion for Saint Herman)
The eternal light of Christ our Savior guided you, O blessed Father Herman, on your evangelical journey to America, proclaiming the gospel of peace. Now you stand before the throne of glory; intercede for your land and its people: Peace for the world and salvation for our souls!
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