10th Sunday of Matthew, August 5
8:30 AM - Orthros; 9:30 AM - Divine Liturgy; 5:00 PM - Great Vespers
Holy Transfiguration of Christ, Monday, August 6
8:15 AM - Orthros; 9:00 AM - Divine Liturgy & Blessing of Grapes; 5:00 PM - Great Vespers
Tuesday, August 7
5:00 PM - Great Paraklesis
Wednesday & Friday, August 8 & 10
5:00 PM - Small Paraklesis
Saturday, August 11
5:00 PM - Great Vespers
11th Sunday of Matthew, August 12
8:30 AM - Orthros; 9:30 AM - Divine Liturgy; 5:00 PM - Great Paraklesis
Fasting Guidelines this Week:
Sunday & Saturday - Wine & Oil Allowed; Monday - Fish Allowed; All other days - Strict Fast
10th Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 4:9-16
Brethren, God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men. We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and buffeted and homeless, and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become, and are now, as the refuse of the world, the off-scouring of all things. I do not write this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. I urge you, then, be imitators of me.
10th Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 17:14-23
At that time, a man came up to Jesus and kneeling before him said, "Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and he suffers terribly; for often he falls into the fire, and often into the water. And I brought him to your disciples, and they could not heal him." And Jesus answered, "O faithless and perverse generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me." And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon came out of him, and the boy was cured instantly. Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, "Why could we not cast it out?" He said to them, "Because of your little faith. For truly I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move hence to yonder place,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you. But this kind never comes out except by prayer and fasting." As they were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of man is to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him, and he will be raised on the third day."
WELCOME VISITORS — WE ARE PLEASED THAT YOU HAVE JOINED US TODAY! The Orthodox Church teaches that Holy Communion is a sign of unity. In order to receive Holy Communion in the Greek Orthodox Church, you must have been baptized or chrismated in the Christian Orthodox Faith. If you are interested in learning more about Christian Orthodoxy, please contact our Parish Priest, Father Andreas. Communicants should prepare themselves through fasting, prayer and confession. All Christians are invited to come forward at the end of Divine Liturgy to receive the Antidoron, holy bread, which is offered to all as a blessing.
MANY, MANY THANKS TO ALL WHO VOLUNTEERED AND PARTICIPATED IN LAST SUNDAY'S GREEK FESTIVAL!!!
This morning, we will have a special collection to bring aid, hope and comfort to those who have suffered in the recent fires in Attica, Greece. Over 80 people have lost their lives in this immense tragedy. Those who wish, can mail contributions directly to the parish or to the Archdiocese.
Tomorrow is the feast of the Transfiguration of our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ. Divine Liturgy begins at 9:00 AM. We will have the annual blessing of grapes at the end of the Liturgy - please be sure to bring your first fruits of the harvest to participate in this annual tradition.
This Martyr was from Antioch, and had been a soldier from the time of the reign of Constantius Chlorus (the father of Saint Constantine the Great) to that of Julian the Apostate. He censured Julian's ungodliness and reminded him that he was the nephew of Saint Constantine the Great, the first Christian Emperor. He reminded him further, that from his tender youth he had been nourished on the milk of piety and instructed in the Faith of Christ, had been a fellow student of Basil the Great and Gregory the Theologian, had been a reader of the Church of Nicomedia, and that he had set all these things at nought and become a transgressor of the promises made in his divine Baptism, and had offered to the idols the adoration that is due to God alone. Reminding the Apostate of all these things and reproving him, he was beheaded in the year 361, having lived altogether 110 years, and been a soldier for more than sixty.
AHEPA Golf Tournament, Sunday Aug. 19