parish prayer list - sthermanoca.org schedule for dec./january today, dec. 31, tori & katherine...
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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) Mother Theodelphia Fr. Lawrence & Matushka Sophia Matushka Lauren Higgins Peter Anderson Andrew & Rachel Raymond Armstrong Benjamin, Justus, Debra, Kalena, AJ & Anthony Kathryn Birmingham Jeanie (Mary) Cooper Agnes Craig Kafa Dalal Michael & Dagmar Drakulich George Eckert Lee Anthony Adam Goodman Maria Gorsevski Lauren Hansen Gary Jollie Ronald Maue & Rhonda Grace Joshua & Shannon Joyce Mikita Shaun & Cheryl; Charles & Patrick Matthew, Oleg, & James Barbara Murray John & Michael Palmer Clergy and Parishioners of our Mission parishes:
of St. Anthony, St. Elijah, St. Sophia, and St. Tikhon Jonathan Paul Natalia Perrin Jack & Glenda Pyle and family John & Sophia Martha Rapso Irina Reynolds; Nadezhda; Lynita John Russell John Salmon Sona Sarkissian, Mardig, and Seta Esther Schafer Barbara Payne and Kathleen Smith Joel Snyder Lyall Spargo Christopher Sprecher Mary Streech and Dana Such Muriel Weisman; & Viivi Jack Whitaker Natalia Zolotoochin
Missionaries & Ministries: OCMC: Michael, Lisa, and Liam Colburn; Fr. David Rucker and family; James Hargrave and family; OCPM: Fr. Steven Powley; “Dipes & Wipes”
Catechumens: Troy (Vladimir) Nunley
Memorial: Milo Vuyovich (1/6)
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
December 31, 2017
30th Sunday after Pentecost, Tone 5 Sunday After the Nativity of Christ. Holy Righteous Ones: Joseph
the Betrothed, David the King, and, James, the Brother of the Lord. Leavetaking of the Nativity. (Sunday before Holy Theophany.)
Holy Scriptures: Galatians 1:11-19; St. Matthew 2:13-23
Handmaidens Schedule for Dec./January
Today, Dec. 31, Tori & Katherine Pyle January 7, Elizabeth & Juliana Gaines January 14, Nika & Sophia Bergbauer January 21, Nicole & Nina January 28, Tori & Katherine Pyle
Greeters Schedule for Dec./January
Today, December 31, Julia Urdenis January 7, Christine Baker January 14, Olga Thomas January 21, Dorothy Zang January 28, Kevin Donahue
+ Today + December 31, 2017
Welcome to St. Herman Orthodox Church! We’re glad you joined us for prayer & worship!
Patron Saints: Prophet David; Righteous Joseph; James,
the Brother of the Lord (Sun. After); St. Basil and St. Emilia (1/1)
Birthdays: Schema-Monk Fr. David (1/6)
“Preserve them, O Lord, for many years!”
Please join us for Coffee Hour after Liturgy
9:00 pm, Vigil at the Monastery of St. George, 361 Forest, Denver
+ This Week +
(No Fasting on Wednesday)
Friday, January 5 (Strict Fast): • 9:30 am, Royal Hours (Theophany):
Reader’s Service led by Deacon John • 6:30 pm, Vigil for Theophany (???)
Saturday, January 6 (Holy Theophany): • 9:30 am, Festal Divine Liturgy and
Blessing of Water for Holy Theophany • 6:00 pm, Great Vespers & Confession
+ Looking Ahead +
Next Sunday, January 7, 9:30 am, Festal Divine Liturgy & Blessing of H2O; (also, Synaxis of St. John the Forerunner) Wednesday, Jan. 10, 10 am & 6:30 pm, Selected Writings of St. Maximus: “Mystagogy,” his commentary on the Divine Liturgy, part 1 Friday, January 12, 6:30 pm, Intro to the Orthodox Faith/Church Saturday, January 13, 10:00 am, 2018 Parish Council Planning Meeting Tuesday, January 16, 7:00 pm, Parish Council Sunday, January 21:
• Zacchaeus Sunday • “Sanctity of Life Sunday” (collection)
Sunday, Jan. 28, Sunday of Pharisee & Publican No fasting all week! Thursday, February 1, 6:30 pm, Great Vespers w/Litiya (Feast of Meeting) Fast-free-Friday, February 2:
• 9:30 am, Divine Liturgy for the Feast • 6:00 pm, BBQ / Square Dance
+ Synaxarion +
On the Sunday that falls on or immediately after the 26th of December, we make commemoration of the Holy Righteous Ones: Joseph, the Betrothed;
David, the Prophet and King; and James, the Brother of the Lord.
Holy and Righteous Joseph, King David, and James the Lord's Brother. They are commemorated on the Sunday after the Nativity of Christ. One can learn all about King David, the son of Jesse, from the Book of Kings; for the Holy Apostle James see October 23. Righteous Joseph is so named in the Gospel (St. Matthew 1:19), and for this, God entrusted the All-holy Virgin to his protection and gave him great honor in the economy of human salvation. Although Joseph was of the royal lineage of David, he himself was a simple carpenter in Nazareth. He took the All-holy Virgin from the Temple into his home at the age of 80, and entered into rest at the age of 110. Our Holy Mother Melania the Roman. Born in Rome of devout and very wealthy parents, she was forced by them to marry a young nobleman, Pinian. She was taken very seriously ill in giving birth to her second child, and told her husband that she would be healed only if he vowed before God to live with her in future as brother and sister. Her husband agreed and Melanie, in her deep joy, was healed. When it pleased God to take both children to Himself, they agreed to sell all their possessions and give the proceeds to the destitute, the Church and the monasteries. They traveled through many lands and cities, everywhere doing good works. They visited famous spiritual guides in Upper and Lower Egypt, and received much instruction and inspiration from them. During all that time, Melanie lived in strict fasting, fervent prayer and the reading of the Holy Scriptures. She followed the practice of reading the Scriptures right through, the Old and New Testaments, every three years, living with her husband as with a brother and fellow-ascetic. Going to Alexandria, they received the blessing of the Patriarch, St. Cyril. After that, they went to Jerusalem and settled on the Mount of Olives. There Melanie became an anchoress, and gave herself completely to contemplation, fasting and prayer. She lived thus for fourteen years, after which she came out, to help others to salvation, and founded monasteries for men and women. At the invitation of her kinsman, the senator Volusianus, a pagan, she went to Constantinople and brought him to the Christian Faith (something that St. Augustine, whom Volusianus knew, had been unable to do). She then returned to the Mount of Olives, where she went to God in 438, at the age of 57. Our Holy Father, the Martyr Zoticus, Protector of the Poor. He was eminent both of birth and rank. He moved to Constantinople, cast off all worldly things and received ordination to the priesthood, founding a home for the poor, containing a place for the treatment of infectious diseases, and ministering to those cared for in it. He was a close acquaintance of the Emperor Constantine the Great. In retaliation for the gold that Zoticus had had from him for his plague-victims, Constantine's son, Constantius, tied him behind a wild ass, which was driven about until he died of his wounds. He suffered in the fourth century. Blessed Theophylact, Archbishop of Ochrid. Born on the island of Euboea, and educated in Constantinople by the most eminent teachers of his day, he became a priest in the Great Church. He was chosen as bishop, and sent, against his will, to Ochrid, where he spent about 25 years (from about 1082 to 1108). Chomatianus of Ochrid calls him 'the wisest archbishop'. He was a man of enormous learning, both secular and theological, of refined Byzantine tastes, and was by nature melancholy and sensitive. 'Theophylact felt himself among the Slavs of Ochrid like an exile among barbarians. He wrote commentaries an the Four Gospels and on other books of the New Testament. These are the finest works of their sort after St. John Chrysostom, and are read to this day with great benefit. Of his other works, we know of his Letters, and a Life of St. Clement of Ochrid. In old age, Theophylact withdrew from Ochrid to Salonica, and finishing his earthly course, went to the blessedness of eternity.