October 08
All Saints Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2023-10-08
Bulletin Contents
Weekly Calendar
Parish Announcements
Saints and Feasts
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Wisdom of the Fathers
All Saints Greek Orthodox Church
General Information
- Phone:
- (309) 682-5824
- Fax:
- (309) 682-5824
- Email:
- allsaintspeoria@gmail.com
- Street Address:
- 1812 N Prospect Rd
- Peoria, IL 61603
Contact Information
Services Schedule
SUNDAY MORNING:
8:50 AM - Matins/Orthros
10:00 AM - Divine Liturgy
Sunday School Following Holy Communion
Fellowship Hour after the conclusion of Divine Liturgy in the Hall
Past Bulletins
- Publish Date:
- 2023-10-22
- Publish Date:
- 2023-10-01
- Publish Date:
- 2023-09-24
- Publish Date:
- 2023-09-17
- Publish Date:
- 2023-09-10
- Publish Date:
- 2023-09-03
Weekly Calendar
Sunday, October 1
3rd Sunday of Luke
9:00am Matins 10:00am Divine Liturgy
Weekly Calendar:
Sun, Oct. 8: 3rd Sunday of Luke (Fast Free)
9:00am Matins 10:00am Divine Liturgy
Mon, Oct. 9: The Holy Patriarch Abraham (Fast Free)
Tues, Oct. 10: Ss. Eulampios & Eulampia the Martyrs (Fast Free)
Wed, Oct. 11: St. Phillip the Apostle of the 70 (Strict Fast)
Metropolis Clergy Laity Assembly
Thurs, Oct. 12: St. Symeon the New Theologian (Fast Free)
Metropolis Clergy Laity Assembly
Fri, Oct. 13: St. Benjamin the Deacon (Strict Fast)
Metropolis Clergy Laity Assembly
Sat, Oct. 14: St. Kosmas the Hagiopolite (Fast Free)
NO Great Vespers this Saturday
Sun, Oct. 15: Sunday of the 7th Ecumenical Council (Fast Free)
9:00am Matins 10:00am Divine Liturgy
Parish Announcements
Prosphora Baking Worskshop – Sat. Oct. 21 @ 10am
We will also be holding a prosphora workshop on Oct. 21st @ 10am at the church for those interested in learning. We will be going over how to make the prosphora, and how the priest prepares it for the Liturgy. Children are welcome to attend as well! If you would like to attend, please contact Pres. Lydia to RSVP (951-445-0939), so we can make sure we have enough ingredients.
Family Trip to Tanner’s Orchard – Sun. Oct. 22 @ 3pm
We will be doing a family trip to Tanner’s Orchard (Speer, IL) on Sunday Oct. 22 at 3:00pm. Family and children of all ages are welcome to attend! Please reach out to Pres. Lydia to RSVP and for more details (951-445-0939).
The Way Catechism Class – Wednesdays 6pm – 7pm (via Zoom)
NO CLASS this week due to Fr. Theofanis’ attendance at the Metropolis Clergy-Laity Assembly.
Bible Study – Thursdays 7pm – 8pm (via Zoom)
NO CLASS this week due to Fr. Theofanis’ attendance at the Metropolis Clergy-Laity Assembly.
Sunday School
Sunday School is currently under way! Even if you have not registered, your children are still welcome to attend class! For any questions, please reach out to Trisha Holton (trisha.meier@gmail.com)
Saints and Feasts
October 08
Pelagia the Righteous
This Saint was a prominent actress of the city of Antioch, and a pagan, who lived a life of unrestrained prodigality and led many to perdition. Instructed and baptized by a certain bishop named Nonnus (Saint Nonnus is commemorated Nov. 10), she departed for the Mount of Olives near Jerusalem, where she lived as a recluse, feigning to be a eunuch called Pelagia. She lived in such holiness and repentance that within three or four years she was deemed worthy to repose in an odour of sanctity, in the middle of the fifth century. Her tomb on the Mount of Olives has been a place of pilgrimage ever since.
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Epistle Reading
18th Sunday after Pentecost
The Reading is from St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 9:6-11
Brethren, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must do as he has made up his mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that you may always have enough of everything and may provide in abundance for every good work. As it is written, "He scatters abroad, he gives to the poor; his righteousness endures for ever." He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your resources and increase the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way for great generosity, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God.
Gospel Reading
3rd Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 7:11-16
At that time, Jesus went to a city called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. As he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and a large crowd from the city was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, "Do not weep." And he came and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And he said, "Young man, I say to you, arise." And the dead man sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his mother. Fear seized them all; and they glorified God, saying, "A great prophet has arisen among us!" and "God has visited his people!"
Wisdom of the Fathers
That dead man was being buried, and many friends were conducting him to his tomb. But there meets him Christ, the Life and Resurrection, for He is the destroyer of death and of corruption; He it is "in Whom we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:28); He it is Who has restored the nature of man to that which it originally was; and has set free our death-fraught flesh from the bonds of death.
Commentary on the Gospel of St. Luke, Homily 36.42, p. 153., 5th Century
The virgin's son met the widow's son. He became like a sponge for her tears and as life for the death of her son. Death turned about in its den and turned its back on the victorious one.
Commentary on Tatian's Diatessaron, 6.23. (Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture. vol. 3: Luke, Intervarsity Press)