St. Alexis of Wilkes-Barre Church
Publish Date: 2014-09-28
Bulletin Contents
Welcome
St. Alexis Parish Calendar
Announcements
Prayers, Intersessions and Commemorations
Hymns of the Day
Saints and Feasts
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Wisdom of the Fathers
Community
Allsaint
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St. Alexis of Wilkes-Barre Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • 860-664-9434
  • Street Address:

  • 108 E Main St

  • Clinton, CT 06413-0134
  • Mailing Address:

  • PO Box 134

  • Clinton, CT 06413-0134

Contact Information

Rector Fr Steven Hosking

frsteve@stalexischurch.org | 860-866-5802

Services Schedule

Weekly Services

Tuesdays at 8:30a - Daily Matins

Wednesdays at 6:00p - Daily Vespers

Thursday at 8:30a - Daily Matins

Saturday at 5:30p - Great Vespers

Sunday at 9:30a - Divine Liturgy

The Church is also open on Wednesdays for "Open Doors" - confession, meditation and reflection.

Please see our online calendar for dates and times of Feast Day services.

Past Bulletins


Welcome

We welcome all visitors to our Divine Liturgy and services. While Holy Communion may only be received by prepared Orthodox Christians, our non-Orthodox guests are welcome to participate in our prayers and hymns and to join us in venerating the Cross and and receiving blessed bread at the conclusion of the Liturgy. Please sign our guest book and join us for refreshments and fellowship after the services.

Feel free to ask questions before or after the services. Any member of our Council or Congregation are glad to assist you. Literature about the Orthodox faith and this parish can be found at the candle desk.

Members of our Parish Council are:

Michael Kuziak - President
Natalie Kucharski - Secretary
Glenn PenkoffLidbeck - Vice President
Susan Egan - Treasurer
Phyllis Sturtevant - Member at Large
Sophia Brubaker - Member at Large

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St. Alexis Parish Calendar

  • Events of the Week

    September 28 to September 29, 2014

    Sunday, September 28

    Bill Kokis - B

    9:30AM Divine Liturgy

    11:15AM Church School

    Monday, September 29

    Annette Andrews - B

    Veneri - A

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Announcements

Dates to Note 

Saturday, October 11, 2014 - Visit by His Eminence Nikon at Great Vespers
Sunday, October 12, 2014 - Hierarchical Divine Liturgy with His Eminence Nikon followed with a catered lunch.
Friday and Saturday, Oct 24th & 25th - Diocesan Assembly, Cumberland, RI
Sunday, November 16, 2014 - Annual Parish Meeting

Parish Events

Please note: Bible Study will start Wednesday, October 15th
As you know, the parish raised just over $3000 at the Tag Sale. The council has stipulated that $1000 be given to the Shoreline Soup Kitchen and Pantry, that $1000 also be given to Our Community Cares Food for all Garden. (We hope that the parish will again seek a matching grant from the Diocese once again.) The remainder of the proceeds will be allocated toward the church school and future local outreach needs.

 Events

Clinton Placemakers Public Forum 

Sunday, Sept 28th
12:30p to 3:30p
Rose Room
Clinton Town Hall

Saint Ann’s Episcopal Church in Old Lyme is pleased to welcome the Lyra Choir from St. Petersburg, Russia, in concert on, Sunday,  September 28, 2014, at 7:30pm.  The Lyra Choir  is a community of professional musicians, many of whom are students or postgraduates of the renowned Saint Petersburg Conservatoire, working in different choirs throughout the city of Saint Petersburg. Please see the web site (online bulletin) for more information. - For more information please click here

From the Food for All Garden: Here’s another request:  Pierson teacher Julia Ballek reports that 16 children have signed up for her after-school garden club and it begins next week! Would any of you be able to help Julia and me on Wednesday afternoons between 3 and 4 during October and November? We’d like to make sure they all have a good learning experience while helping us with harvesting, weeding and watering, then clearing beds and composting…. I have promised to save some harvesting jobs for the afternoon (ones that are manageable for 4th and 5th graders), so that will mean holding back slightly in the morning on one or two vegetables each week. We’re also pondering the possibilities of starting seeds in the greenhouse, or making low tunnels over some of the raised beds, to facilitate the learning experience as long as it’s possible to be outside. Artistic types might think about helping the children make scarecrows, or decorating pumpkins… Margaret Larom

Valley Shore CROP Hunger Walk
Sunday, October 5th beginning at 1p at St Paul Lutheran Church,
56 Great Hammock Road, Old Saybrook.
Registration is at 12:15p. Donation forms/envelops are available from Fr Steven
www.churchworldservce.org


Diocesan and National Church Events

The 51st Diocesan Assembly on October 24-25th in Cumberland, RI
Vinny Melesko will by the parish delegate this year, Marlene will participate as an Observer. John Skrobat will attend as a member of the Diocesan Council and Joan Skrobat will attend as an Observer. Anyone else wishing to attend the Assembly as an observer should talk with Fr Steven as soon as possible.

The 18th All American Council will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, from July 20-24th, 2015. We will need a “lay” representative from parish to attend. If you have any interest in participating, please talk with Fr Steven.
You should also know that there is an assessment of $12.50 per member in each parish to help cover expenses for the AAC.

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Prayers, Intersessions and Commemorations

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Olga, Vera, Richard, Daria, Daria, Evelyn, Alla, June, Nina, Joan, Luke, Anne, Alex, Alan, Nadia, Glenn, Kathryn, Elena, Ivan, Jevon, Dori, Evelyn, Thomas, Christine, David, Kyra, Roderick, Albert, Barbara, Irene, Susan, Eva, Richard, Douglas, Dionysia and Sharon, William, Ezekiel, Elisha and their unborn child.

 

Many Years! This week we celebrate: Susan and Loyd, and Alex and Luba on the occasion of their anniversaries. 

 

We commemorate: Ven. Chariton the Confessor, Abbot of Palestine (ca. 350). Synaxis of the Saints of the Kiev Caves (Near Caves). Ven. Kharitón of Syanzhémsk (Vologdá—1509). Ven. Herodion, Abbot, of Iloezérsk (1541). Prophet Baruch (6th c. B.C.). Martyrs Alexander, Alphius, Zosimas, Mark, Nicon, Neon, Heliodorus, and 24 others in Pisidia and Phrygia (4th c.). Martyrdom of St. Wenceslaus (Viachesláv), Prince of the Czechs (935). Schema-monk Kirill and Schema-nun Maria (parents of Ven. Sergius of Rádonezh).

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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the 7th Tone

Thou didst abolish death by Thy Cross; Thou didst open Paradise to the thief; Thou didst transform the myrrh-bearers' lamentation, and didst bid Thine Apostles to preach that Thou art risen, O Christ God, granting great mercy to the world.

Apolytikion for Chariton the Confessor in the 8th Tone

With the streams of thy tears, thou didst cultivate the barrenness of the desert; and by thy sighings from the depths,thou didst bear fruit a hundredfold in labours; and thou becamest a luminary, shining with miracles upon the world, O Chariton our righteous Father. Intercede with Christ God that our souls be saved.

Seasonal Kontakion in the 2nd Tone

O Protection of Christians that cannot be put to shame, mediation unto the creator most constant: O despise not the voices of those who have sinned; but be quick, O good one, to come unto our aid, who in faith cry unto thee: Hasten to intercession and speed thou to make supplication, O thou who dost ever protect, O Theotokos, them that honor thee.
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Saints and Feasts

Allsaint
September 28

Baruch the Prophet

The Prophet Baruch was the son of Nerias, and the disciple of the Prophet Jeremias ( Jer. 39:12; 43:4 LXX). The extant prophetical book that he wrote is divided into five chapters; it was composed in the fifth year of the Babylonian Captivity of the Jews during the years of Sedekias, 583 B.C. The prophetic lection that is read on the eve of the Feast of Christ's Nativity, which bears Jeremias' name, is taken from the prophecy of Baruch (Bar. 3:35-4:4). His name means "blessed."

Allsaint
September 28

Chariton the Confessor

Saint Chariton was born in the city of Iconium during the reign of Aurelian, about the year 274. He was arrested, tortured, and condemned to death because of his Christian Faith, but finally set free by imperial edict. He came to Palestine, where he took up the ascetic life. He also brought many Jews and pagans to the Faith. Having dwelt in the desert of Judea for many years, and established several monasteries throughout the region, he reposed in peace.

Callapostles
September 28

1st Sunday of Luke

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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Epistle Reading

The Reading is from St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 6:1-10

BRETHREN, working together with him, then, we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain. For he says, "At the acceptable time I have listened to you, and helped you on the day of salvation." Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. We put no obstacle in any one's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, tumults, labors, watching, hunger; by purity, knowledge, forbearance, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love, truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as punished, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

Gospel Reading

1st Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 5:1-11

At that time, Jesus was standing by the lake of Gennesaret. And he saw two boats by the lake; but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon's, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat. And when he had ceased speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch." And Simon answered, "Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets." And when they had done this, they enclosed a great shoal of fish; and as their nets were breaking, they beckoned to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord." For he was astonished, and all who were with him, at the catch of fish which they had taken; and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, "Do not be afraid; henceforth you will be catching men." And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed him.

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Wisdom of the Fathers

There is an old saying: 'Excesses meet.' Too much fasting and too much eating come to the same end. Keeping too long a vigil brings the same disastrous cost as ... sluggishness... Too much self-denial brings weakness and induces the same condition as carelessness. Often I have seen men who would not be snared by gluttony fall, nevertheless, through immoderate fasting and tumble in weakness into the very urge which they had overcome. Unmeasured vigils and foolish denial of rest overcame those whom sleep could not overcome. Therefore, 'fortified to right and to left in the armor of justice,' as the apostle says (2 Cor. 6:7), life must be lived with due measure and, with discernment for a guide, the road must be traveled between the two kinds of excess so that in the end we may not allow ourselves to be diverted from the pathway of restraint which has been laid down for us nor fall through dangerous carelessness into the urgings of gluttony and self-indulgence.
St. John Cassian
Conferences, Conference Two: On Discernment no. 16; Paulist Press pg. 76, 5th century

For now they were well instructed beforehand...But mark both their faith and their obedience. For though they were in the midst of their work when they heard His command, they delayed not, they procrastinated not, they said not, "let us return home, and converse with our kinsfolk," but "they forsook all and followed."
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 14 on Matthew 4, 4th Century

Because such is the obedience which Christ seeks of us, as that we delay not even a moment of time, though something absolutely most needful should vehemently press on us.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 14 on Matthew 4, 4th Century

For many have taken part with the holy apostles in their labors, and still do so, especially those who inquire into the meaning of what is written in the holy Gospels ... For the net is still being drawn, while Christ fills it, and calls to conversion those who, according to the Scripture phrase, are in the depths of the sea, that is to say, those who live in the surge and waves of worldly things.
St. Cyril of Alexandria
Homily XII, Taken from: Cyril of Alexandria. Commentary on the Gospel of St. Luke. Trans. R. Payne Smith. Long Island, N.Y.: Studion Publishers, Inc., 1983, 105., 5th Century

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Community

    Death and Becoming Human

    Death and Becoming Human

    A WEEKEND SEMINAR BY THE VERY REV. DR. JOHN BEHR DEAN & PROFESSOR OF PATRISTICS ST. VLADIMIR’S ORTHODOX SEMINARY CRESTWOOD, NY

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