St. Alexis of Wilkes-Barre Church
Publish Date: 2014-10-26
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
Demetrio
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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

    October 26 to October 26, 2014

    Sunday, October 26

    Thomas & Nora Dudchik - A

    9:30AM Divine Liturgy

    11:15AM Church School

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Announcements

Dates to Note 

Sunday, November 16, 2014 - Annual Parish Meeting. Only “members” may vote at the annual meeting. If you have any question as to your membership status, please talk with a parish council representative.

Parish Events

Saturday, November 1, 2014 - Community Garden Work Day; beginning at 9:30a.
We will be breaking down the irrigation system for the winter. If we have 6 to 9 people we can break into teams and do a lot of work quickly.  With two small teams taking up drip lines and hoses and another team taking up header lines and blowing the system down it could all be done in 3 to 4 hours.  If we have extra time and energy we can help with other necessary chores there . . . lots to do. The following Saturday could be the rain day (the 8th). If we get a bad bout of sub-freezing before then, we might have to do some emergency de-watering of the main parts of the system--but that is unlikely . . .

 Events

The cookbook for sale from the Holy Trinity Church in New Britain is available through Susan Davis (She will leave a sign up sheet at the candle desk with an envelope for cost of $15 per copy).
Cookbook title:  'Celebrating over 100 years - Protection of the Holy Theotokos Sisterhood Cookbook' 2014 Edition:  Holy Trinity Orthodox Church; New Britain, CT.
If interested, may also email her at lad42@comcast.net
Thank you on behalf of the Sisterhood of Holy Trinity Church

The All Saints (Hartford) annual bazaar is only a month away!:
Fri, Nov 7 - 41st Annual Russian Tea Room & Bazaar - 6pm: Yale Slavic (Ladies) Chorus
Sat, Nov 8 - 10am - 4pm: Tea Room & Bazaar ~5pm: Great Vespers
Sun, Nov 9 - 9am: Pre-Communion Prayers & Hours
 9:30am: Divine Liturgy, Noon - 3pm: Tea Room & Bazaar
(Please see our web site or the bulletin board for more details)

Alzheimer’s, Caregiving and Gratitude

November is National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness and National Caregiver Month. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia. It begins with mild memory loss and progresses to an inability to communicate or perform self-care. In the early stage of the disease caregivers provide support and reminders to help the person with memory loss live as normally as possible. During the middle-stage of Alzheimer’s there are changes in behavior and ability to complete daily tasks. Finding the right words to express thoughts becomes harder. Caregivers need lots of patience to provide frequent reminders, and supervision to keep their loved one safe. By the late stage of illness the person with Alzheimer’s needs help eating, walking, bathing and dressing. It takes a loving caregiver to maintain safety, dignity and quality of life. It also takes a community of support.Caregivers need to take time for themselves regularly. Walking with a friend or reading a book without being interrupted can help the caregiver relax. It may mean that a friend provides companionship for the person with dementia while the caregiver takes a break. Home health agencies have caregivers for hire for a few hours at a time. There are programs available to provide respite care so the caregiver can get some much needed rest. Self-care helps caregivers continue to give care to others.As we gather family and friends together to celebrate Thanksgiving let’s remember those who are experiencing Alzheimer’s disease and their faithful caregivers.

More information and resources are available from the Alzheimer’s Association website, www.alz.org or by calling 1-800-272-3900.

Diocesan and National Church Events

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.

HCHC Missions Week and Annual Missions Lecture
We welcome Fr. Nicholas Andruchow, Assoc. Dir. of Project Mexico and St. Innocent Orphanage, and his wife Pres. Merilynn (BA '92) for HCHC Missions Week October 27-31.They'll speak nightly in the chapel, offer classes, and meet with small groups. Fr. Nicholas will offer the annual EFOM Missions Lecture at 7:00 pm on Thursday, Oct 30: “Changing the World: Transformation through Missions with Project Mexico and St. Innocent Orphanage as a Model.” Learn more...

OCAMPR Conference at HCHC, November 6–8, 2014
The Orthodox Christian Association of Medicine, Psychology, and Religion presents "Exploring the Mind-Body-Soul Connection: Spirituality in Illness and Healing." Learn more...

Boston Byzantine Music Festival at HCHC
Boston Byzantine Music Festival, November 14 & 15. Performances by Cappella Romana, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Byzantine Choir, and DÜNYA with HCHC’s own St. Romanos the Melodist Byzantine Choir. Free lectures and workshops. Special HCHC discounts. Information, schedule, and tickets at www.BostonByzantineMusic.org.

"Divine Compassion and Women of the Church" Videos
Saint Catherine's Vision is pleased to announce that videos from the Divine Compassion and Women of the Church: Theological Perspectives conference, which was held at HCHC on June 20, 2014, are now available. For full access to the video series, please visit http://goo.gl/XSFSpE.

Seminary Offers Four Hybrid, Online Public Courses in January

In January 2015, St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary will be offering four public courses, comprising an online and a residential component. Offerings include three pastoral theology courses and one liturgical music course, taught by experts in their fields: "The Therapeutic Encounter," by Dr. Daniel Hinshaw; "The Parish and Prison Ministry," by The Very Rev. Dr. Nicholas Solak and The Rev. Stephen Powley, executive director, Orthodox Christian Prison Ministry (OCPM); "Stewardship in American Orthodoxy," by The Very Rev. Dr. Robert Holet; and "The Music and Faith of Arvo Pärt," with Dr. Peter Bouteneff. Learn more...

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Prayers, Intersessions and Commemorations

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

Many Years! This week we celebrate: Nicholas Melesko on the occasion of his birthday and to everyone who takes ‘Anastasia’ as their patron.

 

We commemorate: Holy and Glorious Greatmartyr Demetrius the Myrrhgusher of Thessalonica (ca. 306). Commemoration of the Great Earthquake at Constantinople in 740 A.D. St. Theóphil of the Kiev Caves, Bishop of Novgorod (Far Caves—1482). Martyr Lupus (ca. 306). Ven. Athanasius of Medikion Monastery (ca. 814). Monk Martyr Joseph of Dionysiou (Mt. Athos—1518).

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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the 3rd Tone

Let the Heavens rejoice; let earthly things be glad; for the Lord hath wrought might with His arm, He hath trampled upon death by death. The first-born of the dead hath He become. From the belly of Hades hath He delivered us, and hath granted great mercy to the world.

Apolytikion for Commemoration of the Great Earthquake in Constantinople in the 8th Tone

O Thou Who lookest on the earth and makest it tremble, deliver us from the fearful menace of earthquake, O Christ our God, and by the intercessions of the Theotokos, send down upon us Thy mercies in abundance and save us.

Apolytikion for The Holy Great Martyr Demetrius the Myrrh-streamer in the 3rd Tone

A Great champion hath the whole world found thee to be when in grave perils; for thou dost put to flight the heathen, O victorious one. As thou didst humble Lyaeus's arrogance and gaveth boldness to Nestor in the stadium, thus, O holy Great Martyr Demetrius, do thou entreat Christ God that we be granted great mercy.

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

Demetrio
October 26

The Holy Great Martyr Demetrius the Myrrh-streamer

Saint Demetrius was a Thessalonian, a most pious son of pious and noble parents, and a teacher of the Faith of Christ. When Maximian first came to Thessalonica in 290, he raised the Saint to the rank of Duke of Thessaly. But when it was discovered that the Saint was a Christian, he was arrested and kept bound in a bath-house. While the games were under way in the city, Maximian was a spectator there. A certain friend of his, a barbarian who was a notable wrestler, Lyaeus by name, waxing haughty because of the height and strength of his body, boasted in the stadium and challenged the citizens to a contest with him. All that fought with him were defeated. Seeing this, a certain youth named Nestor, aquaintance of Demetrius', came to the Saint in the bath-house and asked his blessing to fight Lyaeus single-handed. Receiving this blessing and sealing himself with the sign of the precious Cross, he presented himself in the stadium, and said, "O God of Demetrius, help me!" and straightway he engaged Lyaeus in combat and smote him with a mortal blow to the heart, leaving the former boaster lifeless upon the earth. Maximian was sorely grieved over this, and when he learned who was the cause of this defeat, he commanded straightway and Demetrius was pierced with lances while he was yet in the bath-house, As for Nestor, Maximian commanded that he be slain with his own sword.

Allsaint
October 26

Commemoration of the Great Earthquake in Constantinople

The great earthquake commemorated here took place in 740, during the reign of Leo the Isaurian, the first of the Iconoclast emperors.

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Gospel and Epistle Readings

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Wisdom of the Fathers

Faith is the beginning of our union with God: the true believers are the stone of the church of God, prepared for the edifice of God the Father, which is raised up to the heights by the power of Jesus Christ, that is, by the Cross and help of the grace of the Holy Spirit. "Faith without works is dead" (James 2:26). The works of faith are love, peace, longsuffering, mercy, humility, bearing one's cross and life by the Spirit. True faith cannot remain without works. One who truly believes will also surely perform good works.
St. Seraphim of Sarov
Unknown, 19th century

For if we, going about on the earth which is familiar and well known to us, being encompassed with a body, when we are journeying in a strange road, know not which way to go unless we have some one to lead us; how should the soul, being rent away from the body, and having gone out from all her accustomed region, know where to walk without one to show her the way?
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 28 on Matthew 8, 4th Century

Some say, 'Why do they [demons] possess people?' I answer those who wish to have this explained that the reason of these things is very deep. Somewhere one of His saints addressed God by saying, 'Your judgments are a vast abyss.' As long as we bear this in mind, we will perhaps not miss the mark.
St. Cyril of Alexandria
Commentary on Luke, Homily 44. (Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture; vol 3: Luke, Intervarsity Press)

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Community

    Lenox Adult Retreat

    Lenox Adult Retreat

    hosted by Holy Trinity Orthodox Church Spiritual Preppers: Is Your House in Order? Retreat Master: Rev. Matthew Stagon November 7-9 2014 The Village Inn – Lenox, MA www.holytrinitydanbury.org 203-748-0671

    CT Bible Lecture Series

    CT Bible Lecture Series

    The Connecticut Bible Lecture Series (CBLS) is pleased to announce the fourteenth of its highly successful Semi-annual Lecture Series. Its mission is to educate, inspire, and challenge participants of all backgrounds and education levels to recognize the centrality of sound biblical interpretation for reading, hearing and understanding the Word of God.

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