St. Thomas the Apostle

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7th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST — Tone 6.

Uncovering of the Relics of Ven. Seraphim of Sarov (1903).

Fathers of the 1st Six Ecumenical Councils.

Ven. Macrina, sister of St. Basil the Great (380).

Ven. Dius, Abbot, of Antioch (ca. 430). Rt. Blv. Román, Prince of Riazan’ (1270).

Ven. Paísii of the Kiev Caves (Far Caves—14th c.). Bl. Stephen (1427), King of

Serbia, and his mother, St. Militsa (1405).

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Sunday July 19, 2015

No doubt about it!

Witnessing ancient

Christianity in the modern

world since 1994.

This week’s bulletin:

Liturgical Music

Epistle & Gospel

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Welcome!

Announcements

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Scripture Readings

Wisdom of Solomon 3:1-9

Wisdom of Solomon 5:15-6:3 Wisdom of Solomon 4:7-15

Genesis 1:14-20 Deuteronomy 1:8-11, 15-17

Deuteronomy 10:14-21 Galatians 5:22-6:2

Luke 6:17-23 John 20:1-10

Hebrews 13:7-16 John 17:1-13

Romans 15:1-7 Matthew 9:27-35

WORSHIP

7/25 @ 6:00 p.m. Great Vespers

7/26 @ 10:00 a.m. Divine Liturgy

Wednesday night prayer service will resume in Sep-tember.

NAME DAY

7/20 Elijah McKnight Elias Georgios Atallah 7/21 Sonya Macrina Lakey 7/22 Madeline Mary (Magdalene) Daily ANNIVERSARY

7/19 Radu & Simona Sofronici

BIRTHDAY

7/21 Ben White 7/22 James Barnes 7/24 Richard Gregory Lakey MOWING

Volunteers are needed to mow through the summer and fall. Please sign up on the whiteboard in the fel-lowship area.

8/2 @ 9:00 AM BAPTISM/CHRISMATION Gabriel Allen White and Eliza Mary Catherine White will be received into the Orthodox Church! Gabe will be baptized, and Eliza will be chrismated. Folks are then invited to The White House at 2:00 p.m. to cele-brate.

Clergy

Father Philip Lashbrook,

Priest

Fr. Deacon Raphael (Gary

Fadil), Deacon

Readers

Jerry Columba Roberts

Richard Gregory Lakey

Altar Servers

Jay Gabriel Faust

Jerry Columba Roberts

Glenn Alexander McCroskery

Nathanael Fadil

David Mykut

Joseph Mykut

Choir

Mat. Rebecca Lashbrook

Jenny Eugenia Trusty

Richard Gregory Lakey

Don Patrick Daily

Rick Gregory Boudreau

Michael Trusty

Shirley Mary Hartman

Sarah Fadil

Hannah Fadil

Parish Council

Sonya Macrina Lakey,

President

Glenn Alexander McCroskery,

Vice President

Arlen George Hartman,

Treasurer

Roukoz Elias Atallah,

Secretary

Fr. Deacon Raphael (Gary

Fadil), Member-at-large

Announcements

We thank you for attending St. Thomas today. If this is your first time in an

Orthodox Church, you may find the Liturgy books at the entrance of the nave helpful

for following along (just ask if you feel a little lost!). Sometimes, simply maintaining a

worshipful presence, open to the Holy Spirit, is a good way to start.

After Divine Liturgy, please join us in the back for coffee and conversation. If

Orthodoxy is new to you, you may have lots of questions! We’ll do our best to help.

During Holy Communion, non-Orthodox Christians are warmly welcome to

seek a blessing from the priest, and/or partake of the blessed bread on the small ta-

ble — if you’d like. The Eucharist in the Orthodox Church is intended for those who

have been educated in, and accepted, the beliefs and practices of the Orthodox

Christian Faith, and who have been baptized and/or chrismated into that Faith. We

would not impose on you any profession of belief (through Communion or any other

practice) with which you may not agree or feel comfortable.

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Welcome, Visitors!

For more details, please visit the Upcoming Events/Service Schedule

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7th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST — Tone 6. Uncovering of the Relics of Ven. Seraphim of Sarov (1903).

After the Entrance:

Tone 6 Troparion (Resurrection) The Angelic Powers were at Your tomb; the guards became as dead men. Mary stood by Your grave, seeking Your most pure body. You took hell captive,// not being tempted by it. You came to the Virgin, granting life.// O Lord, Who rose from the dead, glory to You.

Tone 8 Troparion (Holy Fathers) You are most glorious, O Christ our God! You have established the Holy Fathers as lights on the earth. Through them You have guided us to the true Faith.// O greatly compassionate One, glory to You!

Tone 6 Kontakion (Resurrection) When Christ God the Giver of Life, raised all of the dead from the valleys of misery with His mighty hand, He bestowed resurrection on the human race.// He is the Savior of all, the Resurrection, the Life, and the God of all.

Glory…

Tone 8 Kontakion (Holy Fathers) The Apostles’ preaching and the Fathers’ doctrines have established one Faith for the Church. Adorned with the robe of truth, woven from heavenly theology,// it defines and glorifies the great mystery of piety.

...now and ever…

O Steadfast Protectress of Christians, Constant advocate before the Creator! Do not despise the prayers of sinners, but in your mercy help those who call on you in the faith. Hasten to hear our petitions and intercede for us, O Theotokos, for you always protect those who honor you.

Tone 4 Prokeimenon (Song of the Three Children) Blessed are You, O Lord God of our fathers, and praised and glorified is Your name forever! (Song of the three Holy Children, v. 3)

v: For You are just in all that You have done for us! (v. 4)

Tone 7 Prokeimenon Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints. (Ps 115/116:15)

Epistle (NKJV): Romans 15:1-7 Hebrews 13:7-16 (Holy Fathers)

Galatians 5:22-6:2 (St Seraphim)

We then who are strong ought to bear with the scruples of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, leading to edification. 3 For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached You fell on Me.” 4 For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. 5

Now may the God of patience and comfort grant you to be like-minded toward one another, according to Christ Jesus, 6 that you may with one mind and one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 7

Therefore receive one another, just as Christ also received us, to the glory of God.

Remember those who rule over you, who have spoken the word of God to you, whose faith follow, considering the outcome of their conduct. 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. 9 Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be estab-lished by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them. 10 We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat. 11 For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp. 12 Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate. 13 Therefore let us go forth to Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach. 14 For here we have no continuing city, but we seek the one to come. 15 Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name. 16 But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, good-ness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. 1

Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual re-store such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted. 2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Tone 1. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!

v: The Lord, the God of gods, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting. (Ps 49/50:1)

v: Gather to Me, My venerable ones, who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice! (Ps 49/50:5)

Tone 6 v: Blessed is the man who fears the Lord; he will delight exceed-ingly in His commandments. (Ps 111/112:1)

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Gospel (NKJV): Matthew 9:27-35 John 17:1-13 (Holy Fathers) Luke 6:17-23 (St Seraphim)

When Jesus departed from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out and saying, “Son of David, have mercy on us!” 28 And when He had come into the house, the blind men came to Him. And Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They said to Him, “Yes, Lord.” 29 Then He touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith let it be to you.” 30 And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly warned them, say-ing, “See that no one knows it.” 31 But when they had departed, they spread the news about Him in all that country. 32 As they went out, behold, they brought to Him a man, mute and demon-possessed. 33 And when the demon was cast out, the mute spoke. And the multitudes marveled, saying, “It was never seen like this in Israel!” 34 But the Phari-sees said, “He casts out demons by the ruler of the demons.” 35 Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.

Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, 2 as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. 3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. 4 I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do. 5 And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was. 6 I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. 7 Now they have known that all things which You have given Me are from You. 8 For I have given to them the words which You have given Me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came forth from You; and they have believed that You sent Me. 9 I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours. 10 And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them. 11 Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are. 12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. 13 But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves.

And He came down with them and stood on a level place with a crowd of His disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear Him and be healed of their diseases, 18 as well as those who were tormented with unclean spirits. And they were healed. 19 And the whole multi-tude sought to touch Him, for power went out from Him and healed them all. 20 Then He lifted up His eyes toward His disciples, and said: Blessed are you poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. 21 Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh. 22 Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude you, and revile you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake. 23 Rejoice in that day and leap for joy! For indeed your reward is great in heaven, for in like manner their fathers did to the prophets.

Communion Hymn Praise the Lord from the heavens! Praise Him in the highest! (Ps 148:1)

The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance. He shall not fear evil tidings. (Ps 111/112:6b-7a)