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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, 6:00 pm Great Vespers & Confession
(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) Fr. Lawrence & Matushka Sophia Mother Theodelphia Peter Anderson Benjamin, Justus, Debra, Kalena, AJ & Anthony Bertie (Borka) Ericson; Linda & Kelly Armstrong Kathryn Birmingham Rhonda Jeanie (Mary) Cooper Agnes Craig Kafa Dalal Michael & Dagmar Drakulich Jon Douglas Adam Goodman Lauren Hansen Ronald Maue & Rhonda Grace George; Sarah; Nikolai and “Z” Ambrose Joshua & Shannon Mead Joyce Mikita Shaun & Cheryl Matthew, Oleg, & James Barbara Murray John & Michael Palmer Clergy and Parishioners of our Mission parishes: St.
Anthony, St. Elijah, St. Sophia, and St. Tikhon Jonathan Paul Barbara Payne Natalia Perrin Jack & Glenda Pyle and family Martha Rapso Irina Reynolds Leo (Dimitri) & Sheila Roehl John Russell John Salmon Sona Sarkissian, Mardig, and Seta Esther Schafer Kathleen Smith Lyall Spargo Christopher Sprecher Mary Streech Dana Such Muriel Weisman Jack Whitaker Natalia Zolotoochin
Missionaries & Ministries: OCMC: Michael, Lisa & Liam Colburn; Fr. David Rucker & family; James Hargrave & family; OCPM: Fr. Stephen Powley; “Dipes & Wipes”
Catechumens: Troy Nunley (Vladimir)
Newly Departed: PrDn. Gregory Hatrak (7/1); Daniel
Memorial: Joel Perry (Aug.); Paul Horoshak (8/8)
Saint Herman
Orthodox Church
991 West Prentice Avenue Littleton Colorado 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
August 6, 2017
9th Sunday after Pentecost, Tone 8 The Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ
Holy Scriptures: 2 Peter 1:10-19; St. Matthew 17:1-9
Handmaidens Schedule for August
Today, August 6, Tori & Katherine Pyle August 13, Elizabeth & Juliana Gaines August 20, Nika & Sophia Bergbauer August 27, Sophi & Abigail Reynolds
Greeters Schedule for August
Today, August 6, Dorothy Zang August 13, Julia Urdenis August 20, Kevin Donahue August 27, Olga Thomas
+ Today + August 6, 2017
Welcome to St. Herman Orthodox Church! We’re glad you came to worship with us!
Patron Saints: St. Herman of Alaska (8/9)
Birthdays: Maria Gorsevski (8/12)
“Preserve them, O Lord, for many years!”
Please join us for Coffee Hour after Divine Liturgy
+ Looking Ahead +
Next Sunday, Aug. 13, 9:30 am, Liturgy
Monday, August 14, 6:30 pm, Great Vespers w/Litiya for the Great Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos Tuesday, August 15 (Holy Dormition):
• 9:30 am, Divine Liturgy for Dormition. Bring fresh flowers/plants to bless!
• 7:00 pm, Parish Council
Saturday, August 19:
• 8:45 am, IOCC 5K Run/Walk & Picnic: (https://www.iocc.org/events/5k-runwalk-and-picnic-denver-co)
• 2:30 pm, Bridal Shower for Kristina S.
• 6:00 pm, Great Vespers & Confession
Monday, Aug. 28, 6:30 pm, G. Vespers w/Litiya for the Beheading of St. John [Tuesday, August 29, 9:30 am, Liturgy for the Beheading of St. John — only IF I have a choir director] — (Strict Fast)
+ This Week +
Monday, August 7, 6:30 pm, Paraklesis Tuesday, Aug. 8, 6:30 pm, Great Vespers w/Litiya for St. Herman (Patronal Feast); Archbishop Benjamin presiding. Followed by Reception w/Abp. & light refreshments Wednesday, August 9, 9:30 am, Divine Liturgy for St. Herman (w/Abp. Benjamin). Lunch Reception w/Abp. Benjamin Thursday, August 10, 6:30 pm, Paraklesis Friday, August 11, 6:30 pm, Paraklesis Saturday, August 12, 6:00 pm, Great Vespers w/Paraklesis; & Confession
+ Synaxarion +
The Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ. In the 3rd year
of His ministry, the Lord Jesus spoke more frequently to His disciples of His coming
Passion, but linked it always with His glory after His suffering on the Cross. That His
coming suffering should not utterly shatter His disciples, so that they fall away from
Him, He, the All-Wise, decided to show them, before His Passion, something of His
divine Glory. He, therefore, taking with Him Peter, James and John, went by night
onto Mount Tabor and was there transfigured before them. 'And His face shone as
the sun, and His raiment became white as snow', and there appeared beside Him
Moses and Elias, the great Prophets of the Old Covenant. And the disciples saw and
were amazed, and Peter said: 'Lord, it is good for us to be here; if Thou wilt, let us
make here three tabernacles: one for Thee, one for Moses and one for Elias.'
While Peter was still speaking, Moses and Elias disappeared and a Bright Cloud
came and overshadowed the Lord and the disciples, and a Voice came out of the Cloud:
'This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye Him.' Hearing this Voice,
the disciples fell prostrate on the ground as though dead, and remained thus lying
in fear until the Lord came to them and said: 'Arise, and be not afraid' (Matt. 17).
Why did the Lord take only three disciples with Him onto Tabor, and not all of them?
Because Judas was not worthy to behold the divine Glory of the Master whom he was
to betray, and the Lord did not want to leave him alone at the foot of the mountain,
that the betrayer should not thus work his betrayal. Why was He transfigured on
the mountain and not in the valley? That He might teach us two virtues: 1) love of toil
and, 2) pondering on God. To climb to the heights involves toil, and the heights
represent the heights of our thoughts: pondering on God. Why was He transfigured
at night? Because the night is more fitted to prayer and meditation than the day,
and because the night covers all earthly beauty with darkness and reveals the beauty
of the starry heavens. Why did Moses and Elias appear? To shatter the Jewish fallacy
that Christ was one of the Prophets — Elias, Jeremiah or one of the others. This was
why He revealed Himself as King over the Prophets, and why Moses and Elias
appeared as His servants. Up to this moment, the Lord had many times shown His
divine Power to His disciples, but on Tabor He showed them His divine Nature [in its
energetical-hypostatic form]. This vision of His Divinity and the hearing of the
heavenly witness to Him as the Son of God must have been of support to the disciples
in the days of the Lord's suffering, for the strengthening of a steadfast faith in Him
and His final victory.