Next Week's Services
Thursday, August 15 - The Dormition of the Theotokos
Divine Liturgy..........................................10:00am
Saturday, August 17
Vespers...................................................5:00pm
Sunday, August 18
Orthros....................................................9:00am
Divine Liturgy...........................................10:00am
This Week's Greeter
Mike Kasten
Next Week's Greeter
Jacob Straub
Special Prayer Services during the Dormition Fast
In observance of the Dormition Fast (Aug 1-15), our parish is invited to gather three different evenings during the fast to pray a paraklesis (a special prayer service) to the Theotokos. We will be asking her to intercede on behalf of our parish as well as for any other private concerns that we bring before her. We invite everyone to join us for this beautiful prayer on the following evenings: Thu., Aug. 1; Wed., Aug. 7; and Wed., Aug. 14. All services will be at St Nicholas, will begin at 6:00 p.m., and will last approximately 30 minutes. Please contact Seraphima (Susan) Colón if need more information.
Agape Meal
We will have our monthly potluck the first Sunday of each month following Divine Liturgy. Don't feel like cooking? Store-bought is great, too, just please bring a dish to share with the Parish.
Prayer Requests
"We should pray for our neighbors not because God does not know how to save them, but because He wants us to participate in one another’s salvation." - Metropolitan Hilarion
Please remember these in your daily prayers:
- The Parish Council
- The provision of a full-time priest
- Father Ted, Presvytera Kathy and Paul
- Father Basil, Presvytera Dea and family
- Jennifer Jackson and Desta Sophia
- St. Andrew Parish
- Robyn's cousin, Brandi
- Mary Sulak, wife of Edwin Sulak (who does the Pascha brisket for us) - cancer
- Vicki Klaras as she recovers from recent surgery
- George and Wanda Klaras as she recovers from recent surgery
- Eric Soo as he is working in Washington D.C.
If you have names you would like added, or if situations needing special prayer have been resolved, please let Robyn know. This will keep our list up to date and accurate.
Submissions and E-mail Updates
If you have announcements, new, items of interest, or prayer requests for the weekly bulletin or if you need to update or add an e-mail address to our circulation list, please let Robyn Panayoton know by 5:00pm on Wednesday of each week.
Orthodox Campus Fellowship
If you are interested in O.C.F. (Orthodox Campus Fellowship), please contact Dan Nodes. daniel_nodes@baylor.edu or (254) 710-6019
Cleaning-Prosforo-Refreshments
Please sign up for the above duties on the wall calendar by the office door in the Parish Hall. The church needs all of you. Thank you for your faithfulness. Please keep it up. God will bless you.
Sacrament of Holy Communion (Non-Orthodox Visitors)
It is with the deepest regret that we ask you to abstain from receiving Holy Communion. This is a sacrament reserved only for those who are baptized, chrismated and prepared Orthodox Christians. It pains us to turn away a Christian who loves and worships the Lord Jesus, but because of the separation of the Christian churches and the different understanding we have about the Sacrament of Holy Communion, we ask you to abstain. Do come and receive the blessed bread at the conclusion of the service.
Visitors
We are happy to have you worshiping with us today. Please stay with us after the Divine Liturgy so that we may meet you.