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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 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; Shirley Kathy; Peter & Katherine Andrew; Benjamin; Justus & Kalena Karin, Yancey & children; Brian Kathryn Birmingham; Dale Brinkman Tom & Jane; Megan 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 Barbara Murray; John; Michael Glenda & family John & Sophia; Irina; Vitaly Sona, Mardig & Seta Barbara Payne; John Russell John Salmon; Joel Snyder Christopher Sprecher; Barbara Stokilo; Mary Streech Jack Whitaker; Natalia Zolotoochin Darrell
Missionaries & Ministries: OCMC: Michael, Lisa & Liam Colburn; James Hargrave & family. OCPM: Protopresbyter Steven Powley. “Dipes & Wipes”: Mary, Herman, Ida & friends
Catechumens: Troy (Vladimir) Nunley; Melanie (Ruth) Gardner; Ron (Isidore of Pelusium) & Lisa (Dymphna) Abbott; Erin (Mary Magdalene) Hollingsworth; Marie (Sophia of Thrace)
Inquirers: Michelle & her children; Damian; Aaron; Danielle & Dalton; Mark; Winslow; Patrick
Newly Departed: Archpriests John Matusiak (8/15) & Steven Belonick (8/7); Michael Fedorowicz (8/3)
Memorial: Helen Kozay (9/3); Joel Perry (Aug./Sep.)
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
September 1, 2019
11th Sunday after Pentecost, Tone 2 Church New Year (Indiction). St. Simeon the Stylite.
Scriptures: 1 Tim. 2:1-7 (New Yr.); 1 Cor. 9:2-12; Col. 3:12-16 (St.); St. Luke 4:16-22 (New Yr.); St. Matthew 18:23-35; 11:27-30 (St.)
Handmaidens Schedule for September
Today, Sept. 1, Juliana & Katherine Gaines September 8, Nika & Sophia Bergbauer September 15, Sophie & Abigail Reynolds September 22, Katherine P. & Kyriana K. September 29, Juliana & Katherine Gaines
Greeters Schedule for September
Today, September 1, Jeny Hardin September 8, Christine &/or Garry Baker September 15, Julia Urdenis September 22, Angelica Zolotoochin September 29, Jeny Hardin
+ This Week +
Wednesday, Sept. 4, 10 am & 6:30 pm, Book Study: “Mystical Marriage” (resume…)
Thursday, September 5, 6:30 pm, Intro. to the Orthodox Church/Faith
Saturday, Sept. 7, 6:30 pm, Great Vespers w/Litiya for the Nativity of the Theotokos
+ Today + September 1, 2019
Happy New Year!
Welcome to St. Herman Orthodox Church! We’re glad you came to worship with us!
Patron Saints: Righteous Joshua (9/1); Holy Prophet & God-Seer,
Moses (9/4); Righteous Elizabeth (9/5); Archangel Michael (9/6)
“Preserve them, O Lord, for many years!”
Coffee Hour
Molieben for the Beginning of Instruction [for our Church School Teachers & Students]
+ This Week +
Sunday, September 8th (Nativity of Mary): • 8:30 am, Baptism of Melanie (Ruth) • 9:30 am, Divine Liturgy for the Feast
Tuesday, Sept. 10, 7:00 pm, Parish Council Friday, September 13, 6:30 pm, Vigil for the Elevation/Exaltation of the Cross
Saturday, September 14 (Feast; Strict Fast): • 9:30 am, Festal Liturgy for the Feast • 6:00 pm, Great Vespers & Confession
Sunday, September 15 (Sunday After): • 9:30 am, Divine Liturgy • 11:30 am, Coffee Hour • 12 pm, Church School Begins
Wednesday — Friday, October 15 — 17, 2019 Diocesan Assembly in CO Springs Saturday, Oct. 26 (Memorial Saturday):
• 9:30 am, Liturgy for St. Demetrius • 6:00 pm, Great Vespers & Confession
Thursday, Nov. 14, 9:30 am, Divine Liturgy for St. Gregory Palamas (20th Anniversary of Ordination to the Holy Priesthood, FJ)
Friday, November 15th, Beginning of Nativity Fast (in preparation for Christmas)
Sunday, Nov. 17, 48th Annual Parish Meeting
Wed., Nov. 20 / Thu., Nov. 21, Great Feast of the Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple
Thursday, Nov. 28, 9:30 am, Divine Liturgy for “Thanksgiving Day”
+ Synaxarion +
The Beginning of the Ecclesiastical Year. The 1st Ecumenical Council (325 AD), decreed that
the Church's Year should begin on September 1st. The month of September was, for the Jews,
the beginning of the civil year (see Exodus 12:2), the month of the gathering of fruits and the bringing
to God of sacrifices of thanksgiving. It was at the time of this Feast that the Lord Jesus went into
the synagogue in Nazareth, and opening the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, He read these words:
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight
to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,”
but leaving off the rest of the verse which says, “and the Day of Vengeance of our God,” which will
occur at the 2nd Coming] (Isa. 61:1-2; cf. Luke 4:18-19). This month of September is also noted
in the history of Christianity because it was during September that Constantine the Great was victorious
over Maxentius, the enemy of the Christian Faith, a victory followed by the granting of freedom of
confessing the Christian Faith throughout the whole Roman Empire. For a long time, the civil year
in the Christian world was the same as the Church's year, from September 1st, but it was later changed
to January 1st, first in western Europe, and then also in Russia in the time of ‘Peter the Great’.
Our Holy Father Simeon Stylites. Born in Syria of peasant parents, he fled from them at the age of 18
and became a monk. He gave himself to the strictest asceticism, sometimes fasting for 40 days.
After that, he followed a particular ascesis, until then unknown — standing day and night on a pillar
(style) in unceasing prayer. His pillar was at first 3 meters high [1 m. = 39.37 in. = 3 ft. & 3.37 in.;
thus, 3 m. = 9.84 ft. (i.e. ~10 ft.)]; then, one of 6 m [ = 19.69 ft. = ~20 ft.] was built for him; then,
11 m [~36 ft.]; 18 m [~59 ft.]; &, finally, 20 m [~66 feet]! His mother, Martha, came to see him twice,
but he would not receive her, saying to her from his pillar: 'Don't disturb me now, Mother dear,
if we are to be worthy to meet in the next world’. St. Simeon endured innumerable assaults from demons,
overcoming them all by prayer. He worked great miracles, healing the sick by his prayers & his words.
People from all sides gathered around his pillar: rich & poor, kings & slaves. He helped them all,
restoring bodily health to some, giving comfort & instruction to others & denouncing some for their
heretical faith. The Empress Eudokia was thus turned from the Eutychian heresy back to Orthodoxy.
Simeon lived in asceticism during the reigns of the Emperors Theodosius the Younger, Marcian,
& Leo the Great. This first Christian stylite & great wonderworker, St. Simeon, lived for 70 years,
and entered into rest in the Lord on Sep. 1, 459. His relics were taken to Antioch, to the church
dedicated to his name.
Righteous Joshua the Son of Nun. Joshua was the leader of the Jewish people after the death of Moses.
Only he and Caleb, of the several hundred thousand Jews that left Egypt, entered the Promised Land.
Read of his faithfulness to God, his works and his wonders in the Book of Joshua. He lived for
110 years, and died in ~1440 BC.
Happy New Year! Mnogaya lleta! Chronia polla!
