November 02
St. Alexis of Wilkes-Barre Church
Publish Date: 2014-11-02
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
St. Alexis of Wilkes-Barre Church
General Information
- Phone:
- 860-664-9434
- Email:
- stalexis@dneoca.org
- Street Address:
- 108 E Main St
- Clinton, CT 06413-0134
- Mailing Address:
- PO Box 134
- Clinton, CT 06413-0134
Contact Information
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
- Publish Date:
- 2017-06-04
- Publish Date:
- 2017-05-28
- Publish Date:
- 2017-05-21
- Publish Date:
- 2017-05-14
- Publish Date:
- 2017-05-07
- Publish Date:
- 2017-04-30
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
St. Alexis Parish Calendar
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Events of the Week
November 2 to November 3, 2014
Sunday, November 29:30AM Divine Liturgy
11:15AM Church School
Monday, November 3Albert
Announcements
Dates to Note
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - Soup Kitchen: we are ever in need of volunteers!
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.
Also, any resolutions that you would like to have considered must be provided, in writing, to a council member no later than 11/9.
We are also looking for nominees for next year’s Diocesan Assembly, to be held in Willimantic.
Parish Events
I am looking for a few volunteers who would be willing to spend some of their time reading and visiting Joan Navarro (and possibly other residents of the assisted living home). I would like to get enough volunteers so that Joan could have visitors every other day or so. Please see me if you would like to help with this ministry.
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)
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.
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.
CrossRoad 2015 Applications Now Available
Applications for the 2015 CrossRoad sessions are now available online at www.crossroadinstitute.org. Please share with any high school juniors and seniors you know who may be interested in attending this life-changing, 10-day program on our campus this summer.
"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...
Prayers, Intersessions and Commemorations
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. And for the newly departed Robert.
We commemorate: Synaxis of the Holy Unmercenaries. Martyrs Acindynus, Pegasius, Aphthonius, Elpidephorus and Anempodistus, of Persia (ca. 341-345). St. Marcian of Cyprus (381-391).
Hymns of the Day
Resurrectional Apolytikion in the 4th Tone
Having learned the joyful proclamation of the Resurrection from the Angel, and having cast off the ancestral condemnation, the women disciples of the Lord spake to the Apostles exultantly: Death is despoiled and Christ God is risen, granting great mercy to the world.
Apolytikion for The Holy Martyrs Acindynus, Pegasius, Aphthonius, Elpidephorus, and Anempodistus in the 2nd Tone
Blessed is the earth that drank your blood, O prizewinners of the Lord, and holy are the tabernacles that received your spirit; for in the stadium ye triumphed over the enemy, and ye proclaimed Christ with boldness. Beseech Him, we pray, since He is good, to save our souls.
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.
Saints and Feasts
November 02
The Holy Martyrs Acindynus, Pegasius, Aphthonius, Elpidephorus, and Anempodistus
These Martyrs contested in Persia about the year 330, in the reign of Sapor (Shapur) II, King of Persia (325-379). Acindynus, Pegasius, and Anempodistus, Persian Christians, confessed Christ before the King, and were put to many torments. Aphthonius and Elpidephorus, drawn to the Faith of Christ through the Martyrs, were beheaded with another 7,000. Saints Acindynus, Pegasius, and Anempodistus were at last burned to death. Two churches were dedicated in their honour in Constantinople. As is often the case in church hymns, there is a play on the meanings of the Saints' names here. Acindynus means "unimperilled"; Pegasius is derived from pegazo--"to gush forth"; Aphthonius is derived from aphthonos-"abundant"; Elpidephorus means "hope-bearing"; Anempodistus means "unhindered." These are all Greek translations of their Persian names.
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Epistle Reading
The Reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Galatians 2:16-20
BRETHREN, you know that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law, because by works of the law shall no one be justified. But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we ourselves were found to be sinners, is Christ then an agent of sin? Certainly not! But if I build up again those things which I tore down, then I prove myself a transgressor. For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Wisdom of the Fathers
By these words it is surely shown that in his [the rich man] daily feasting he had frequently sinned by his tongue, seeing that, while burning all over, he demanded to be cooled especially in his tongue. Again, that levity of conduct follows closely upon gluttony sacred authority testifies ... For the most part also edacity leads us even to lechery, because, when the belly is distended by repletion, the stings of lust are excited.
The Book of Pastoral Rule, Chapter XIX, 6th century
The man who has once chosen pleasure in this life, and has not cured his inconsiderateness by repentance, places the land of the good beyond his own reach; for he has dug against himself the yawning impassable abyss of a necessity that nothing can break through.
For if any one becomes wholly and thoroughly carnal in thought, such as one with every motion and energy of the soul absorbed in fleshly desires, is not parted from such attachments, even in the disembodied state; just as those who have lingered long in noisome places do not part with the unpleasantness contracted by that lengthened stay, even when they pass into a sweet atmosphere.
A modern monk heard it said, and taught his brothers, that money is like manure. Unless it is quickly spread around, it does no good, but scorches and defiles what it covers.
Evergetinos
Seest thou how by the place, by the things that waste there, He draws men off from this desire that is here, and rivets them to Heaven, where all things are impregnable? For if ye transfer your wealth there where neither rust nor moth corrupts, nor thieves break through and steal, ye will both expel this disease, and establish your soul in the greatest abundance.
Homily 74 on Matthew 23; Homily 78 on Matthew 6, 20, 25, 4th Century
And together with what we have said, He brings forward an example also to teach thee moderation. And like as the physician, to alarm the sick man ... He also bring in the rich man, laboring indeed, and longing for life and health, but not able to attain thereto, because of having set his heart on covetousness, but going away empty ....
Homily 74 on Matthew 23; Homily 78 on Matthew 6, 20, 25, 4th Century
How then is it possible for the rich man to be saved. By possessing his goods in common with them that are in need, being such as Job was, and exterminating out of his soul the desire of more, and in no points going beyond real need ....
Homily 74 on Matthew 23; Homily 78 on Matthew 6, 20, 25, 4th Century
But what now do we learn from hence? That no man can protect us there, if we are betrayed by our works, not because he will not, but because he cannot. For these too take refuge in the impossibility. This the blessed Abraham also indicated, saying, "Between us and you there is a great gulf," so that not even when willing is it permitted them to pass it ... the end of each one is at the doors, whether he be old or young; and it is not possible for men after they have gone hence, either to buy oil any more, or to obtain pardon by prayers, though he that entreats be Abraham, or Noah, or Job, or Daniel.
Homily 74 on Matthew 23; Homily 78 on Matthew 6, 20, 25, 4th Century
Community
Mystery Dinner
St. John the Baptist Church, Bridgeport
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.
Tag Sale and Flee Market
Holy Trinity Orthodox Church, Bridgeport