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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]
+ 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 Theodelphi Mother Susannah (of Our Lady of Kazan Skete) Archpriest Michael Oleksa; Archpriest Lawrence The Clergy & Parishioners of our Mission Parishes Priest Jacob & the Parishioners of St. Mark’s Matushki: Sophia, Lauren, Priscilla, Alice, Teresa & Mary Graham; “Mary”; LeAnne Kathy; Peter & Katherine Andrew; Benjamin; Justus & Kalena Karin, Yancey & children; Brian Kathryn Birmingham; Dale Brinkman George Eckert; Joyce Mikita Jeanie (Mary) Cooper; Agnes Craig; Kafa Dalal Lee Anthony; Adam Goodman Aaron; Olga; Natalia; Kira; Alice Maria Gorsevski; Lauren Hansen Laura Lemco; Esther Schafer Ronald & Rhonda; Joshua & Shannon Charles; Patrick; Jonathan Oleg; James; Joshua; Daniel Barbara Murray; John; Michael Glenda & family John & Sophia; Irina Reynolds; Vitaly Sona, Mardig & Seta Barbara Payne; Joel Snyder John Russell; John Salmon Christopher Sprecher; Barbara Stokilo; Mary Streech Jack Whitaker; Natalia Zolotoochin Missionaries & Ministries: OCMC: Michael, Lisa & Liam Colburn; James Hargrave & family. OCPM: Fr. Steven Powley. “Dipes & Wipes”: Mary, Herman, Ida & friends
Catechumens: Troy (Vladimir) Nunley; Ron (Isidore of Pelusium) & Lisa (Dymphna) Abbot;
Inquirers: Melanie; Marie; Erin & Winslow; Aaron; Danielle & Dalton; Michelle & children; Damian
Newly Departed: Matushka Andrea Fordice (6/5); Archpriest Dimitri Cozby (5/30)
Memorial:
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 any of
the following: Confession; Hospital Visits /
Holy Unction; Memorial Services; Slavas;
Moliebens; or, just to talk… You can call or
txt me at: 720-971-5931; and/or email me at:
Saint Herman Orthodox Church
June 16, 2019
8th Sunday of Pascha, Tone 7 Great & Holy Pentecost (Feast of the Holy Trinity)
Holy Scriptures: Acts 2:1-11; St. John 7:37-52; 8:12
Handmaidens Schedule for June/July
Today, June 16, Katherine P. & Katherine G. June 23, Abigail & Genevieve Reynolds June 30, Juliana & Katherine Gaines July 7, Nika & Sophia Bergbauer
Greeters Schedule for June/July
Today, June 16, Olga Thomas June 23, Christine &/or Garry Baker June 30, Jeny Hardin July 7, Dorothy Zang
+ Looking Ahead +
The Apostle’s Fast is Mon., June 24 through Fri., June 28, and is completed by receiving Holy Communion at the Liturgy of Ss. Peter & Paul on Saturday, June 29. [This Fast always begins on the Mon. after the Sun. of All Saints & continues until the Feast Day of Ss. Peter & Paul on June 29.] Friday, June 28, 6:30 pm, Great Vespers w/Litiya for Ss. Peter & Paul Saturday, June 29, 9:30 am, Divine Liturgy
+ No Fasting This Week +
Wednesday, June 19, 10 am & 6:30 pm, Book Study: Ch. 2
Thursday, June 20, 6:30 pm, Introduction to Orthodoxy
Friday, June 21, 6-9 pm, “Men’s Night Out at the Pyle’s”
Saturday, June 22, 6:00 pm, Great Vespers followed by Confession
+ Today + June 16, 2019
Welcome to St. Herman Orthodox Church! We’re glad you came to worship with us!
Patron Saints:
“Preserve them, O Lord, for many years!”
11:30 am, Kneeling Vespers for Pentecost Monday:
the Day of the Holy Spirit
Coffee Hour
“O Heavenly King, the Comforter, the Spirit of Truth: Who art everywhere present and Fillest all things, Treasury of blessings and Giver of Life: Come and Abide in us, and Cleanse us from every impurity, and Save our souls, O Good One!”
“Come, O peoples, let us worship the Godhead of 3 Hypostases/Persons: the Son in the Father, with the Holy Spirit; for the Father timelessly begat the Son, Who is co-eternal and of one Throne; and the Holy Spirit was in the Father, glorified with the Son; one Might, one Essence, one Godhead, which we all worship, saying: Holy God, Who didst create all things through the Son, with the co-operation of the Holy Spirit. Holy Mighty, through Whom we have known the Father, and through Whom the Holy Spirit came into the world. Holy Immortal, the Comforting Spirit, ‘Who proceeds from the Father’ [John 15:26] and rests in the Son. O Holy Trinity: Glory be to Thee!”
+ Synaxarion +
Pentecost Sunday: Sunday of the Holy Trinity. On this day, the 8th Sunday of Pascha, the 10th day after the Ascension of Χρ and the 50th day after Pascha, at the 3rd hour of the day from the rising of the sun (9 am), suddenly there came a sound from Heaven, as when a mighty wind blows, and it filled the whole house where the Theotokos, the Holy Apostles, and the rest with them were assembled, praying fervently with one heart and mind. Immediately, after the sound there descended what appeared to be tongues of Fire that divided and rested upon the head of each one. Filled with the Holy Spirit, all those present began speaking not in their native tongue, but in other tongues and dialects as the Holy Spirit empowered them. Such are the reasons for today’s Feast: the Coming (or Descent) of the All-holy Spirit into the world, the completion of the Lord Jesus’ Promise (“the Promise of the Father”), and the fulfillment of the hope of the sacred disciples, which we celebrate today. This is the final Feast of the Great Mystery and dispensation of the Incarnation of God the Word. On the last, and great and saving Day of Pentecost, the Apostles of the Savior, who were unlearned fishermen, made wise now suddenly by the Holy Spirit, clearly and with divine authority spoke heavenly doctrines. They became heralds of the Truth and teachers of the whole world. On this day they were ordained and began their apostleship of which the salvation of those 3000 souls in one day was the comely and marvelous first fruits. Today may be considered “the Birthday of the Church” AS THE BODY OF CHRIST, since the “assembly” of the holy angels (eventually including the souls of the Old Covenant righteous) existed before the creation of the world.
St. Tikhon, Bishop of Amathus. A wonderworker, Tikhon was chosen unanimously as bishop on the death of blessed Mnemonius, and consecrated by the renowned Epiphanius for the diocese of Amathus. The purity of his life and his zealous adherence to Orthodoxy recommended him for this rank. There were still pagans in Cyprus at that time, and Tikhon undertook with apostolic zeal to turn the unbelievers into believers, and he had great success in this. After lengthy toil in the Lord's vineyard, he entered into the eternity of the blessed in about 425. He is named a wonderworker because of the many miracles that he performed during his lifetime. His father was a baker, and whenever his father left him alone in the shop, he would distribute the bread to the poor without payment. His father reproached him once for doing this, so he prayed to God and their storehouse became so full of grain that they could open the door only with difficulty. Another time he planted a dry slip from a vine and the vine grew green and bore fruit in its season.
The Holy Martyrs Tigrius and Eutropius. They were both priests with St. John Chrysostom. When evil men drove away St. John from Constantinople into exile, the cathedral was set on fire, the flames from it rising high and falling upon the houses of those who were persecuting this light of the Church. The people saw the finger of God at work in this event, but St. John's enemies blamed his followers for the fire. Many of them suffered because of this, including the priest Tigrius and the reader Eutropius. The civil governor, an unbaptized Greek called Optatius, started a particularly venomous hunt for the followers of St. John. Tigrius had been the slave of a rich man in his youth, and had been castrated. Set free from slavery, he had devoted himself entirely to the service of the Church and shone in that service like a ray of light. Optatius gave this 'meek, humble, merciful and hospitable' man over to vicious torture and then sent him into exile, to Mesopotamia, where he died while still in captivity. Eutropius, chaste and pure from his earliest youth, without vice or guile, was flogged with bull-whips and staves and finally hanged. When Christians took his body for burial, a melodious angelic chanting was heard in the sky above them.
