WORD FROM THE HOLY FATHERS According to thy mercy, pour out upon me, who am miserable, at least one small drop of grace to make me Welcome to understand and be converted, that I might make at least Sts. Theodore Orthodox Church 96 Los Robles St., Williamsville NY 14221 some small effort to correct myself. For if thy grace does Tel: 716-634-6712 not illumine my soul, I will not be able to see the www.ststheodore.org carelessness and negligence that the passions have produced in me through my apathy and recklessness. Priest John Boddecker + St. Ephraim the Syrian Deacon Andrew Hammond

PARISH NEWS We are a parish of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, and  Namedays: May God grant many years to those all are welcome to worship with us! Our services are in celebrating their namedays this week. English. Please join us for lunch downstairs after the service.

Archangel (November 8/21) Michael Damiano Michael Moczerniak Michael Gorsky Michael Shevtsov Michael Tkaczewski November 7 / 20, 2016 St. John Chrysostom (November 13/26) Ioann Nikolaev Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost  Thanksgiving Service and Dinner: Tonight we will Thirty-Three of Melitene host our annual parish Thanksgiving Akathist and Venerable Lazarus the Wonderworker Dinner. The service will begin promptly at 5:00 pm and our parish dinner in the hall will begin as soon as This Week’s Schedule the service is over. Wednesday Akathist to Archangel Michael 6:00 pm  Akathist: This week, we will serve the Akathist to Saturday Confession 4:15-4:45 pm the Holy Archangel Michael. The service will begin All-Night Vigil 5:00 pm at 6:00 pm on Wednesday evening. Sunday Hours and Divine Liturgy 9:00 am Lunch following Liturgy  Confession: Please come during the scheduled time before Vigils if you wish to make your confession. Today’s Readings Epistle: Galatians 6:11-18  Fall Russian Bazaar: The Fall Russian Bazaar will Galatians 5:22-6:2 take place on two consecutive Saturdays, December 3 Gospel: Luke 8:41-56 and 10, from 9:00 am – 2:00 pm. Matthew 4:25-5:12 TROPARIA KONTAKIA Resurrection - Tone 5: Let us, O faithful, praise and Resurrection - Tone 4: My Savior and Redeemer hath, as worship the Word / Who is co-unoriginate with the God, / raised up the earthborn from the grave and from their Father and the Spirit, / and Who was born of the Virgin fetters, / and He hath broken the gates of hades, / and, as for our salvation; / for He was pleased to ascend the Master, // hath risen on the third day. Cross in the flesh / and to endure death, // and to raise the St. Theodore Stratelates – Tone 2: Armed with faith and dead by His glorious Resurrection. courage of soul, / and having taken in thy hand the Word of God as a spear, / thou didst conquer the enemy, / O glory of St. Theodore Stratelates – Tone 4: By true strategy, O martyrs, Theodore. // With them cease not to intercede with trophy-bearer / thou wast an illustrious general of the Christ God for us all. Heavenly King, O Theodore. / For thou didst wisely arm St. Theodore the Tyro – Tone 8: Having received the faith thyself with the weapons of faith, / and didst utterly of Christ in thy heart as an inner shield, / thou didst overcome annihilate the hordes of demons, / and didst prove a all the opposing forces, O great champion, / and thou hast victorious athlete, / wherefore with faith // we ever call been crowned with a heavenly crown, O Theodore, // for thou thee blessed. art eternally invincible. St. Theodore the Tyro – Tone 2: Great are the triumphs Holy Martyrs - Tone 8: The radiant choir of martyrs, the of faith! / The holy Theodore rejoiced in a luminous company, / descending to us noetically, hath fountain of flame as in refreshing water. / For having illumined the Church today with wondrous rays, / Wherefore, been made a whole burnt offering by fire, / he was celebrating their honored memory, we ask of Thee, O our offered as a sweetbread to the Trinity, // By his prayers, Savior: // through their supplications deliver us from O Christ God, save our souls. misfortunes, that we may chant unto Thee: Alleluia. Holy Martyrs - Tone 4: In their sufferings O Lord, / St. Lazarus – Tone 4: With gladness the Church of Christ / Thy martyrs received imperishable crowns from Thee, doth glorify thee in psalms/ as a luminary most great. / our God; / for, possessed of Thy might, / they cast down Wherefore, never cease thou to beseech Christ, / that He grant forgiveness of transgressions unto all. the tormentors and set at naught the feeble audacity of the demons. // By their supplications save our souls. – Tone 6: O protection of that cannot be put to shame, / O mediation unto the Creator unfailing, / St. Lazarus – Tone 8: With prayerful vigils and disdain not the suppliant voices of sinners, / but be thou outpourings of tears didst thou water thy pillar, / and with quick, O good one, to help us who in faith cry unto thee; / sighs from the depths of thy soul thou didst bring forth hasten to intercession and speed thou to make supplication, // fruit a hundredfold, / and was a shepherd, granting the thou who dost ever protect, O Theotokos, them that honor petitions of all. / O Lazarus our father, entreat Christ thee. God, that our souls be saved.