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+ A Parish of +
The Orthodox Church in America www.oca.org
Most Rev. Archbishop Benjamin, Diocese of San Francisco and the West
www.dowoca.org
Very Rev. Fr. Archpriest John Armstrong [email protected]
Rev. Fr. Deacon John Manutes [email protected]
+ Worship Services +
Saturdays, 5:30 pm Great Vespers
(3rd & 6th Hour Prayers, 9:10 am)
Sundays, 9:30 am Divine Liturgy
Feast Days (See Monthly Calendar)
+ Parish Prayer List +
Please pray for and ask the Lord to have mercy on:
Hieroschemamonk Ambrose (Young) Mother Theodelphi Peter Anderson Benjamin, Justus, Kalena & Anthony Bertie Ericson; Linda & Kelly Armstrong Kathryn Birmingham Jeanie Cooper Agnes Craig Kafa Dalal Michael & Dagmar Drakulich Lauren Hansen Ronald Maue & Rhonda Grace George; Sarah; Nikolai and “Z” Joshua & Shannon Mead Joyce Mikita Shaun & Cheryl Matthew & Oleg Barbara Murray John & Michael Palmer St. Anthony Mission in Bozeman (Fr. David) St. Elijah Mission in Durango (Fr. Benjamin) St. Sophia Mission in CO Springs (Fr. Lawrence) St. Tikhon Mission in Parker (Fr. Alexander) Jonathan Paul Barbara Payne Natalia Perrin Martha Rapso John Russell John Salmon Sona Sarkissian, Mardig, and Seta Esther Schafer Kathleen Smith Christopher Sprecher Mary Streech Dana Such Don, Norma, Thomas and Jung Sook; Greg & Mary Muriel Weisman Vladimir and Natalia Zolotoochin
Our Missionaries: Archpriest Paul (SAMP); Michael, Lisa & Liam Colburn; Archpriest David Rucker & family; James Hargrave & family
Catechumens: Troy Nunley (Vladimir), Brandon Boyle (Constantine), Kristina Spargo (“Mary” Magdalena), and Vicki (Photini)
Memorial: John Telea (1/8/90), Ioan Nica (1/8/03), Genevieve Andovich (1/10/95)
Saint Herman
Orthodox Church
991 W. Prentice Ave. Littleton CO 80120 303-798-7306 www.sthermanoca.org
+ Pastoral Ministries +
Please contact Fr. John anytime for the following: Confession; Hospital Visits / Holy Unction; Memorial Services; Slavas; Moliebens; or, just to talk ... You can call me at: 720-971-5931, or email me at: [email protected]
Saint Herman Orthodox Church
January 8, 2017
29th Sunday After Pentecost, Tone 4 Afterfeast of the Theophany. Sunday After the Theophany.
Holy Scriptures: Ephesians 4:7-13; St. Matthew 4:12-17
+ Today + January 8, 2017
Welcome to St. Herman Orthodox Church!
We’re glad you came to worship with us!
Patron Saints: St. Tatiana (1/12), St. Nina (1/14)
Birthdays: Dorothy Zang (1/10), Vince Streech (1/14)
“Preserve them, O Lord, for many years!”
Divine Liturgy with the Blessing of Waters and Swearing in of our new Parish Council.
Coffee Hour
+ This Week +
Tuesday, January 10, 7:00 pm, Parish Council
Wednesday, Jan. 11, 10 am & 6:30 pm, Book Study: “Orthodoxy & St. Augustine”
Friday, January 13, 6:30 pm, Intro Class Saturday, January 14:
10:00 am, PC Planning Meeting 5:30 am, Great Vespers followed by
Confession
Handmaiden Schedule for January
Today, Jan. 8, Sophie & Abigail Reynolds January 15, Tori & Katherine Pyle January 22, Tori Pyle & Cassia Brown January 29, Elizabeth & Juliana Gaines
Greeters Schedule for January
Today, January 8, Dorothy Zang January 15, Julia Urdenis January 22, Christine Salmon January 29, Olga Thomas
+ Looking Ahead +
House Blessings will continue through Saturday, February 25. Schedule yours today with Fr. John. (An elaborate meal is not necessary, but okay; a cup of tea and a chat is perfectly fine with me.)
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Monday, January 16, 11:00 am, Monarch Pass Snow Pack Blessing on Continental Divide followed by Lunch in Salida Sunday, Jan. 29, “Zacchaeus Sunday” Wednesday, February 1, 6:30 pm, Great Vespers & Litiya for the Great Feast of the Meeting of the Lord in the Temple (the 40th Day of Christmas)
Thursday, February 2, 9:30 am, Divine Liturgy for the Meeting of the Lord in the Temple The Fast-free Friday before Great Lent is February 10. Our tentative plan is to offer our BBQ/Square Dance, which is great food and fun for all ages! Forgiveness Sunday is February 26 with Great Lent beginning Monday, Feb. 27. Great and Holy Pascha is April 16th.
+ Synaxarion +
The Theophany of God, the Holy Trinity. The Baptism of Our LORD God and Savior Jesus Christ. When our Lord reached 30 years from His physical birth, He began His teaching and salvific work. He Himself signified this "beginning of the beginning" by His Baptism in the Jordan River. St. Cyril of Jerusalem says, "The beginning of the world — water; the beginning of the Good News — Jordan." At the time of the Baptism of the Lord in water, the Mystery of mysteries was declared to the world: that Mystery which was prophesied in the Old Testament; the Mystery about which in ancient Egypt and India was only fabled (i.e. the Mystery of the uncreated God — the Holy Trinity. The Father was revealed to the sense of hearing; the Spirit was revealed to the sense of sight, and in addition to these, the Son was revealed to the sense of sight and touch. The Father uttered His witness about the Son, the Son was baptized in the water, and the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove hovered above the Son of God in the water. When John the Baptist witnessed and said about Christ, "Behold, the Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world" (St. John 1:29), and when John immersed (i.e. baptized) the Lord in the Jordan River, the mission of Christ in the world and the path of our salvation was shown. That is to say: The Lord took upon Himself the sins of mankind and died under them [immersion] and became alive again [the coming out of the water]; and we must die as the old sinful man and become alive again as cleansed, renewed and regenerated. This is the Savior and this is the path of salvation. The Feast of the Epiphany [Theophany in Greek; the epiphany/manifestation of God (Theos)] is also called the Feast of Illumination, a Festival of Light. For us, the event in the Jordan River illuminates, by manifesting to us publicly God as Trinity, consubstantial and undivided. That is one way. And, the second: everyone of us through holy baptism in water is illumined/enlightened by this and we become adopted by the Father of Lights through the righteousness and kingdom of the Son and the power and grace of the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Martyrs Julian and Vasilissa. They were both of rich and noble families and, though married, agreed to live in celibacy as brother and sister. They gave their goods to the poor and embraced the monastic life, Julian founding a men's monastery of about 10,000 monks and Vasilissa one for about a thousand nuns.
When a violent persecution of Christians was launched under Diocletian, Vasilissa besought God that none of her nuns should suffer torture nor repudiate the Orthodox Faith. The Lord hearkened to the petition of His worthy servant and, during the next six months, took all the nuns to Himself, one by one, and finally their abbess Vasilissa. Before her own death, Vasilissa had a vision of her sisters in the other world. They were all bathed in light and were rejoicing like the angels. They appealed to their spiritual mother to join them as quickly as possible.
Julian's monastery was burned by fire, and Julian was inhumanely tortured, being killed only after the most horrible sufferings. The Lord inspired and strengthened him in his torments and he endured them with heroism, keeping faith and glorifying the Name of Christ. Together with Julian were beheaded the son and wife of the persecutor Marcian, Celsus & Maronilla, who, seeing Julian's heroic and patient sufferings, were themselves converted to Christianity. Also martyred with him were twenty Roman soldiers, seven brothers from that locality, a priest named Antony and a man called Anastasius whom Julian, at the time of his own martyrdom, raised from the dead by his prayers. They all suffered with honor for Christ and became citizens of the Kingdom of heaven in about the year 313.
Our Holy Father George the Chozebite. He lived the ascetic life in the 7th C. in the Chozebite community on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho where our holy Father John the Chozebite first lived as a monk.
St. Domnica. A pagan, she came from Carthage in the reign of the Emperor Theodosius to Patriarch Macarius, accompanied by four girls who were likewise ignorant of God. He baptized them and blessed them to live as nuns. St. Domnica devoted herself to asceticism with whole-hearted zeal, and did not falter in that zeal right up to the time of her death at a great age. She entered into rest in about the year 474. By the illumination of the Holy Spirit, she was able to predict the future and perform miracles through prayer.
St. Gregory, Bishop of Ochrid. A pious teacher and pastor of Christ's flock, he entered into rest in the year 1012. On an inscription in the Church of St. Sophia in Ochrid, he is called 'Gregory the Wise'.