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Sunday, January 7, 2018 Tone 6Gospel: St. John 1:29-34 Epistle: Acts 19:1-8

31st Sunday After Pentecost / Afterfeast of the TheophanySynaxis of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John

Sunday after Theophany

Liturgical & Events Schedule

Sunday, Jan. 7 9:05am: Third & Sixth Hours 9:30am: D.L. / Molebein of Thanksgiving / Social /

Women’s Club Meeting

Monday, Jan. 8 4:00pm: Monthly Halupki Meeting

Tuesday, Jan. 9 6:00pm: Budget Meeting

Wednesday, Jan. 10 6:00pm: Public Village Meeting

Saturday, Jan. 13 4:00pm: Great Vespers followed by Pre-Commun-

ion Prayers / Confessions

Sunday, Jan. 14 9:05am: Third & Sixth Hours 9:30am: D.L. / 40-Day Panachida / Social

January

Readers Cleaning Coffee Hour

7 - David 7 - Natalie Twarek 7 - Open

14 - Wayne 14 - Matthew Adamcio 14 - Open

21 - Tim 21 - Christi Soski 21 - Open

28 - Natalie 28 - Marguerite Bird 28 - Open

MONTHLY ATTENDANCE: DECEMBERSunday Dec. 3: Attendance: 24 total people (18 members; 2 chil-dren; 4 guests; 15 Communicants; 11 for Vespers)Collections: $6,579 (Offerings $1,279; Anonymous $5,000; $200 for Christmas Flowers; $100 for the Holiday Bureau)

Wednesday, Dec. 6 (St Nicholas Feast Day) Attendance for Vespers: 18 / Attendance for Liturgy 12

Sunday, Dec. 10 Attendance: 24 total people (20 members; 4 chil-dren; 16 Communicants; 9 for Vespers)Collections: $6,385.75 (Offerings $6,385.75; Christ-mas Flowers $225

Sunday, Dec. 17 Attendance: 19 Total people (16 members; 1 child; 2 guests; 12 Communicants; 13 attended Vespers)Collection: $2,799 (offerings: $2,427; $142 Special Collection OCA Stewardship; $30 Christmas Flow-ers; $100 to Holiday Bureau; $100 (to Christmas donation)

Friday, Dec. 22 Royal Hours Attendance: 15

Sunday, Dec. 24 Attendance: 26 Total people (23 members; 3 chil-dren; 21 Communicants; ( 9 people attended Ves-pers) Total Offering: $1,256.50

Monday, Dec. 25 Attendance: 36 Total people (30 members; 6 chil-dren; 21 Communicants)Total offering: $1,721

Sunday Dec. 31 Attendance: 26 total people (22 members; 3 chil-dren; 1 guest; 15 Communicants; 10 people attended Vespers)Collection: $1,734.39 ($477 offering; $20 bakery; $1,237.39 left over from Festival fund)

Annual Parish MeetingSunday, February 21

Following Divine Liturgy

See Father Andrew to ensure you’ve met the required ob-

ligations (financial & spiritual) to have a voice at the meeting.

Have something you want discussed at the meeting?

See Father Andrew or Ron by Sunday, January 14th.

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Young adults invited to serve as stewards at WCC’s June 2018 Central Committee meeting

The Orthodox Church in America invites young adults ages 18 through 30 to apply to serve as stewards at the World Council of Churches [WCC] Central Committee meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, June 7–23, 2018.

The Stewards Program aims to bring together a dynamic and diverse group of 20 young people from all over the world to share their faith in Jesus Christ. English is the working language of the program, although some under-standing of French or German would be useful. Stewards need to be prepared to take part in an intensive schedule of activities and long, tiring work days. Working hours are irregular, and often special programs are planned after work for the stewards. Active participation in the program, pa-tience, the ability to work with people from other countries and cultures, and the willingness to work together as a team are essential.

The deadline for submitting applications is January 31, 2018.

Interested young adults may apply online directly to the WWC. Prior to submitting applications, prospective stew-ards should request a letter of recommendation from the Orthodox Church in America through its Chancellor, Arch-priest John Jillions, at [email protected]. The request should include a summary of the gifts and skills the pro-spective steward would bring to the program and a brief outline of how to continue in leadership within the Ortho-dox Church in America. A second letter of recommendation should be obtained from an ecumenical group with which the prospective steward is involved. In submitting the final application to the WCC, please include the subject line “WCC Stewards” and send a copy to Father John at the aforementioned address. In addition, all completed applica-tions also should include a recent curriculum vitae/resume.

Prospective stewards should display a demonstrated com-mitment and engagement in the Orthodox Church in Amer-ica—locally, regionally and/or nationally—and a willingness to continue to be part of networks of education while offering leadership within the Orthodox Church in America. They also must have a valid passport that does not expire before January 1, 2019.

The WCC will be responsible for accommodation and meals during the program and may provide a small amount for pocket money while in Geneva. Travel costs to and from Geneva are the responsibility of the steward.

All questions regarding the program and the application process should be directed to Father John Jillions at [email protected].

Resolutions or Repentance by Fr. Steven Kostoff

According to the civil calendar, we begin the year of our Lord 2018 on January 1. The year of 2018 is based upon the calculations of a medieval monk who, in attempting to ascer-tain the exact date of the birth of Christ, missed the year 0 by only a few years. According to contemporary scholars, Jesus was actually born between what we consider to be 6 – 4 B. C. These were the last years of Herod the Great, for accord-ing to the Gospel of Saint Matthew, Jesus was born toward the very end of Herod’s long reign (37 – 4 B.C.). Christians therefore divide the linear stretch of historical time between the era before the Incarnation; and the era after the Incarna-tion and the advent of the Son of God into our space-time world. In other words, the years before the Incarnation are treated as something of a “countdown” to the time-altering event of the Incarnation; and the years since are counted forward as we move toward the end of history and the coming Kingdom of God. By entering the world, Christ has transformed the meaning and goal of historical time.

Recently, there has been a scholarly shift away from this openly Christian approach to history, as the more traditional designations of B.C. and A.D. have been replaced by the more neutral and “ecumenically sensitive” designations of B.C.E. (Before the Common Era), and C.E. (Common Era). Understanding and interpreting history from a decidedly Christian perspective, I would still argue in favor of the more traditional B.C. and A.D.

Although an issue of more than passing interest, that discus-sion may appear somewhat academic in comparison to the pressing issues of our daily lives as they continue to unfold now in 2018. We will exchange our conventional greetings of “Happy New Year” probably more than once in the next few days. Under closer inspection, there remains something vague about that expression, and perhaps that is for the better. Do we wish for the other person – as well as for ourselves – that nothing will go (terribly) wrong in the unknown future of the new year? More positively, do we wish that all of our desires and wishes for our lives will be fulfilled in this new year? Or, are we wishing a successful year of the perpetual pursuit of “happiness” (whatever that means) for ourselves and for our friends? At that point we just may be reaching beyond the restrictive boundaries of reality. As Tevye the Dairyman once said, “The more man plans, the harder God laughs.” Perhaps the more realistic approach would be to give and receive our “Happy New Year” greetings as neighborly acknowledgement that we are “all in this together,” and that we need to mutually encourage and support one another.

We also approach the New Year as a time to commit our-selves to those annual “resolutions” that we realize will make our lives more wholesome, safe, Con’t Page 4

Prayer List (Updated December 31)

Priests: His Beatitude, Metropolitan Theodosius; His Beatitude, Metropolitan Herman; John Duranko (Father’s home

pastor); Joseph Gibson; James Gleason (Father’s Spiritual Father); Emilian Hutnyan; Paul Lazor; Myron Manzuk; John Matusiak; Peter Tutko, Demetri Vincent / Protodeacon Theodore Rose

Matushkii: Laryssa Hutnyan; Carol Janecek; Barbara Kopka; Virginia Lecko; Paula Manzuk; Sonya Tutko; Pani Patricia Duranko; Mother Victoria; Barbara Lemmen.

Parishioners / & their Family: Debbie Garnek (sister of Roddie); Michael Glovinsky (Nephew to Basil); Julia Guzy; Joseph Habegger (Laura Kovach’s brother-in-law); Charles Hagmaier (Brother-in-law to Roberta Royhab); James Heffernan (Father-in-law of Jennifer Heffernan) ; Baby Jaxson (grandson of the Cassell’s); Rich Kokinda (Cousin of Greg Twarek); Michael Kouznetsov (Son of Mary Hiser); Victoria Kousnetsov (Daughter of Mary Hiser);Anne Kovalik; Helen Lis; Stanley Lis; Walter Litzie (Fr.’s Cousin); Judy Mazurik (sister-in-law of Paul Mazurik); Darlene Mazurik; Tony Palac (Brother-in-law of Jean

Hileman); Nancy Pipenur (sister-in-law of Jean Hileman) ; William Rentz (Father of Tamara Rentz Blackford); Nancy Sitzler (Mother of Amber Twarek); Diane Tryon; Greg Tryon; Rachel & her unborn baby; Jessica Issler & her unborn baby (Jean Hileman’s daughter)

Other Requests: Victor Abrahamowicz (Friend of Mary Hiser); Brad Biecheler; David Bobb (friend of Nikki Twarek);

John Cox (husband of Pastor Kay Mooney-Cox); Dominic (friend of the Cassell’s); Theodore Geletka (St. Michael Orthodox Church,

Broadview Heights choir director); Mike Jacobson (Fr.’S friend); Baby Lucas Goodman (friend of Christi Soski); Jake Lipstraw (friend of Natalie Twarek); Dana Mahler (Friend of Christi); Violet Mattingly (neighbor of Greg Mazur); Pauline Meath (Friend of

Fr. Andrew’s); Beth Reinhard (friend of Diane Tryon); Cheryl Schell (Co-worker of Jennifer Heffernan); Nick Shortridge (Friend of

Christi); Lavone Silverwood (Student of Jen) ; Karen Simonsen (friend of David Mazurik); Janice Timko; Brian Turner (Fr.’S friend); Mat. Carly Koranda & her unborn baby (Chicago Deanery); Nicole & her unborn Baby (Friends of Fr.Andrew)

Military: Craig Cassell; Justin Issler; James Jerome

Captives: Metropolitan Paul (Orthodox Archdiocese of Aleppo); Archbishop John (Syriac Archdiocese of Aleppo); for the UN & IOCC humanitarian aid workers in & around Syria; those suffering persecution in Iraq, Syria, Israel, Egypt, Ukraine and throughout the world; those held captive throughout the world.

Additions or removals from the list? Please notify Fr. Andrew

JANUARY CELEBRATIONS

BIRTHDAY NAMESDAY ANNIVERSARY

7- Susan Guzy 7- Lueleta Dardovski 8- Barbara Mazurik 13- Mary Elizabeth Blackford 24- Frank Batura 30- Stephanie Warnke 31- Julie Dardovski

2- Retired Bishop Seraphim19- Retired Bishop Mark

31- Fred & Christi Soski24- Third Ann of Consecration of Bish-

op Mark of Santa Rosa 26- Fr. James Gleason, Anniversary to

Holy Priesthood

If there are those names to be added or removed, please contact Fr. Andrew. He would like to list all members of your family Orthodox and non-Orthodox.



Reposed List - January

4- George Bartek (83) 5- Maria Semionow (81) 6- Helen Pender (2016) 11- Anna Tomko (60) 15- Archpriest Pavel Soucek (2009) Former Pastor

20- Joshua Zdinak (2016) 22- Fr. John Stefanik (2000) 23- Helen Beadle (88) 23- Fr. Michael Sopoliga (2009) 29- Anna Kravetz (73)

Fr. Steven Con’t

sound, or even sane—if only we can sustain them. A resolution is to dig deep inside and find the resolve neces-sary to break through those (bad) habits or patterns of living that undermine either our effectiveness in daily life; jeopardize our relationships with our loved ones, our friends and our neighbors; or seriously threaten to make us less human than we can and should be. We know that we should eat less, swear less, lust less, get angry less, surf the computer less, play on our iPhones less, watch TV less, and so on. We further know that we need more patience, more self-discipline, more graceful language, more attention to the needs of others, more “quality time” with our families and friends, more forgiving, more lov-ing, and so on. We know, therefore, that we need to change, and we intuitively realize how difficult this is. Bad habits are hard to break. Therefore, we need this annual opportunity of a new beginning and our New Year resolutions to give us a “fighting chance” to actually change. We may joke about how quickly we break our resolutions, but beneath the surface of that joking (which covers up our disappointments and rationalizations) we are acknowledging, once again, the struggle of moving beyond and replacing our vices with virtues. May God grant everyone the resolve to maintain these resolutions with care and consistency.

And yet I believe that we can profoundly deepen our experience of the above. For, as a “holiday” is a more-or-less secular and watered-down version of a “holy day;” so a resolution is a more-or-less secular and watered-down version of personal repentance. To repent (in Greek, metanoia) is to have a “change of mind,” together with a corresponding change in the manner of our living and a re-direction of our lives toward God. The New Year’s resolution of our secularized culture may be a persistent reminder – or the remainder of—a lost Christian world-view that realized the importance of repentance. “There is something rotten in Denmark,” and an entire industry of self-help and self-reliance therapies – totally divorced from a theistic context—is an open acknowledgement of that reality regardless of how distant it may now be from its religious expression. As members of the Body of Christ living within the grace-filled atmosphere of the Church, we can, in turn, incorporate our

resolutions within the ongoing process of repentance, which is nothing less than our vocation as human beings: “God requires us to go on repenting until our last breath” (Saint Isaias of Sketis). Or, as Saint Isaac of Syria teaches, “This life has been given you for repentance. Do not waste it on other things.”

Summarizing and synthesizing the Church’s traditional teach-ing about repentance, Archbishop Kallistos Ware has formulat-ed a wonderfully open-ended expression of repentance that is both helpful and hopeful: “Correctly understood, repentance is not negative but positive. It means not self-pity or remorse but conversion, the re-centering of our whole life upon the Trinity. It is to look not backward with regret but forward with hope – not downwards at our own shortcomings but upward at God’s love. It is to see, not what we have failed to be, but what by divine grace we can now become; and it is to act upon what we see. In this sense, repentance is not just a single act, an initial step, but a continuing state, an attitude of heart and will that needs to be ceaselessly renewed up to the end of life” [The Orthodox Way, p. 113-114].

Hard not to be inspired by such an expressive passage! In the Service of Prayer for the (Civil) New Year, we incorporate into the litanies of the service some of the following special peti-tions. Thus, in the language of the Church, these petitions served as an ecclesial form of the resolutions we make to break through some of our dehumanizing behavior, as well as a plea to God to strengthen our better inclinations: “That He will drive away from us all soul-corrupting passions and corrupting hab-its, and that He will plant in our hearts His divine fear, unto the fulfillment of His statutes, let us pray to the Lord…; That He will renew a right spirit within us, and strengthen us in the Orthodox Faith, and cause us to make haste in the performance of good deeds and the Fulfillment of all His statutes, let us pray to the Lord…; That He will bless the beginning and continu-ance of this year with the grace of His of His love for mankind, and will grant unto us peaceful times, favorable weather and a sinless life in health and abundance, let us pray to the Lord….”

If you resolve to seek and to “love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your mind … and your neighbor as yourself” [Matthew 22:37-38], then I believe that this new year may not be perpetually “happy,” but that it will truly blessed.”


Matthew 4:12-17 (Gospel, Sunday After)

Now when Jesus heard that John had been put in prison, He departed to Galilee. And leaving Nazareth, He came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the regions of Zebulun and Naphtali, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: “The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles: The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death Light has dawned.” From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

John 1:29-34 (Gospel, Forerunner)

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! This is He of whom I said, ‘After me comes a Man who is preferred before me, for He was before me.’ I did not know Him; but that He should be revealed to Israel, therefore I came baptizing with water.” And John bore witness, saying, “I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and He remained upon Him. I did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘Upon whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’ And I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God.”

Ephesians 4:7-13 (Epistle, Sunday After)

But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore He says: “When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, And gave gifts to men.” (Now this, “He ascended” – what does it mean but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.) And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;

Acts 19:1-8 (Epistle, Forerunner) And it happened, while Apollos was at Corinth, that Paul, having passed through the upper regions, came to Ephe-sus. And finding some disciples he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” So they said to him, “We have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.” And he said to them, “Into what then were you baptized?” So they said, “Into John’s baptism.”

Then Paul said, “John indeed baptized with a baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on Him who would come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.”When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied. Now the men were about twelve in all. And he went into the synagogue and spoke boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading concerning the things of the kingdom of God.

Feast of the Theophany of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

Commemorated on January 6

Theophany is the Feast which reveals the Most Holy Trinity to the world through the Baptism of the Lord (Mt.3:13-17; Mark 1:9-11; Luke 3:21-22). God the Father spoke from Heaven about the Son, the Son was baptized by the Saint John the Forerunner, and the Holy Spirit descended upon the Son in the form of a dove. From ancient times this Feast was called the Day of Illumination and the Feast of Lights, since God is Light and has appeared to illumine “those who sat in darkness,” and “in the region of the shadow of death” (Mt.4:16), and to save the fallen race of mankind by grace.

In the ancient Church it was the custom to baptize catechumens at the Vespers of Theophany, so that Baptism also is revealed as the spiritual illumination of mankind.

The origin of the Feast of Theophany goes back to Apostolic times, and it is mentioned in The Apostolic Constitutions (Book V:13). From the second century we have the testimony of Saint Clement of Alexandria concerning the celebration of the Baptism of the Lord, and the night vigil before this Feast.

There is a third century dialogue about the services for Theoph-any between the holy martyr Hippolytus and Saint Gregory the Wonderworker. In the following centuries, from the fourth to ninth century, all the great Fathers of the Church: Gregory the Theologian, John Chrysostom, Ambrose of Milan, John of Damascus, commented on the Feast of Theophany.

The monks Joseph the Studite, Theophanes and Byzantios composed much liturgical music for this Feast, which is sung at Orthodox services even today. Saint John of Damascus said that the Lord was baptized, not because He Himself had need for cleansing, but “to bury human sin by water,” to fulfill the Law, to reveal the mystery of the Holy Trinity, and finally, to sanctify “the nature of water” and to offer us the form and example of Baptism.

On the Feast of the Baptism of Christ, the Holy Church pro-claims our faith in the most sublime mystery, Con’t Page 6


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incomprehensible to human intellect, of one God in three Persons. It teaches us to confess and glorify the Holy Trinity, one in Essence and Indivisible. It exposes and overthrows the errors of ancient teachings which attempted to explain the Creator of the world by reason, and in human terms.

The Church shows the necessity of Baptism for believers in Christ, and it inspires us with a sense of deep gratitude for the illumination and purification of our sinful nature. The Church teaches that our salvation and cleansing from sin is possible only by the power of the grace of the Holy Spirit, therefore it is necessary to preserve worthily these gifts of the grace of holy Baptism, keeping clean this priceless garb, for “As many as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ” (Gal 3:27).

On the day of Theophany, all foods are permitted, even if the Feast falls on a Wednesday or Friday.

Synaxis of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John

Commemorated on January 7

In the Orthodox Church it is customary, on the day follow-ing the Great Feasts of the Lord and the Mother of God, to remember those saints who participated directly in the sacred event. So, on the day following the Theophany of the Lord, the Church honors the one who participated directly in the Baptism of Christ, placing his own hand upon the head of the Savior.

Saint John, the holy Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord, whom the Lord called the greatest of the prophets, con-cludes the history of the Old Testament and opens the era of the New Testament. The holy Prophet John bore witness to the Only-Begotten Son of God, incarnate in the flesh. Saint John was accounted worthy to baptize Him in the waters of the Jordan, and he was a witness of the Theopha-ny of the Most Holy Trinity on the day of the Savior’s Baptism.

The holy Prophet John was related to the Lord on His mother’s side, the son of the Priest Zachariah and Righ-teous Elizabeth. The holy Forerunner, John, was born six months before Christ. The Archangel Gabriel announced his birth in the Temple at Jerusalem, revealing to Zachariah that a son was to be born to him.

Through the prayers offered beforehand, the child was filled with the Holy Spirit. Saint John prepared himself in the wilds of the desert for his great service by a strict life,

by fasting, prayer and sympathy for the fate of God’s people.

At the age of thirty, he came forth preaching repentance. He appeared on the banks of the Jordan, to prepare the people by his preaching to accept the Savior of the world. In church hymnology, Saint John is called a “bright morning star,” whose gleaming outshone the brilliance of all the other stars, announcing the coming dawn of the day of grace, illumined with the light of the spiritual Sun, our Lord Jesus Christ.

Having baptized the sinless Lamb of God, Saint John soon died a martyr’s death, beheaded by the sword on orders of King Herod at the request of his daughter Salome. (On Saint John the Baptist, see Mt.3:1-16, 11:1-19, 14:1-12; Mark 1:2-8, 6:14-29; Luke 1:5-25, 39-80, 3:1-20, 7:18-35, 9:7-9; John 1:19-34, 3:22-26). The Transfer of the Right Hand of the holy Forerunner from Antioch to Constantinople (956) and the Miracle of Saint John the Forerunner against the Hagarenes (Moslems) at Chios:

The body of Saint John the Baptist was buried in the Samar-itan city of Sebaste. The holy Evangelist Luke, who went preaching Christ in various cities and towns, came to Se-baste, where they gave him the right hand of the holy Prophet John, the very hand with which he had baptized the Savior. The Evangelist Luke took it with him to his native city of Antioch.

When the Moslems seized Antioch centuries later, a deacon named Job brought the holy hand of the Forerunner from Antioch to Chalcedon. From there, on the eve of the Theo-phany of the Lord, it was transferred to Constantinople (956) and kept thereafter.

In the year 1200, the Russian pilgrim Dobrynya, who later became Saint Anthony, Archbishop of Novgorod (February 10), saw the right hand of the Forerunner in the imperial palace. From the Lives of the Saints we learn that in the year 1263, during the capture of Constantinople by the Crusad-ers, the emperor Baldwin gave one bone from the wrist of Saint John the Baptist to Ottonus de Cichon, who then gave it to a Cistercian abbey in France.

The right hand continued to be kept in Constantinople. And at the end of the fourteenth to the beginning of the fifteenth centuries, the holy relic was seen at Constantinople in the Peribleptos monastery by the Russian pilgrims Stephen of Novgorod, the deacon Ignatius, the cantor Alexander and the deacon Zosimus. When Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453, sacred objects were gathered up at the the conquer-or’s orders and kept under lock in the imperial treasury. Con’t Page 7

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