ST. N ICHOLAS WEEKLY BULLETIN Oober 19, 2014 This Week’s News A PITA DOUGH ROLLING SESSION is scheduled NEXT SATURDAY, Octo - ber 25th, 9am to 12pm. We need a crew of 10 -14 people, — we already have 10 people committed! e last session re - ally helped to build our supply. No ex - perience necessary. We’ll teach you to roll out the dough, how to butter/fold the dough, and package it for freezing. T Twene Sunday after Pentecost Please speak with Chris Toda or Deb Epistle: Gaans 1:11-19 • Gospel: Luke 7:11-16 Sedares. (Jesus Raises Son of Widow of Nain) Tone 2 • Mans Gospel: 8 PARISH CLEANING. is Tuesday, October 21st, 9:00 am. Please see Chris - prepared. We ask for your cooperation let Gerry Belba know how you can help. tine Masterjohn! during the time aer communion, and (Even for just an hour or two at either PARISH LUNCHEON AND “CAKE during the sermon and coffee-hour. BUFFET” orginally schedule for this Please remain in the Church and do not end!) Sunday has been cancelled. disrupt classes by walking in the coffee hour area, hallway or going to the COFFEE HOUR SPONSORS NEEDED THANKS TO THE MUSTARD SEED kitchen. VOLUNTEERS! ose who cooked and for the coming weeks. Please talk to those who served the meal this past Fri - A BIBLE STUDY LECTURE sponsored Presvytera Maria. day! e Mustard Seed is a Catholic by the Eastern Orthodox Council and Worker home providing dinner to about hosted by St. Mary’s, will feature Fr. Holy Trini News 150 people in need each day. Our next Paul Tarazi, retired Professor of Old scheduled meal is December 19th. Con - Testament at St. Vladimir’s who will Holy Trinity Nursing & Rehabilitation tact Fr. Nick if you’d like to help. speak on St. Paul’s Letter to the Gala - tians. e lectures are open to the pub - Center & Holy Trinity Hospice are Or - PARISH LUNCHEON CANCELLED lic and will start at 9:00 am THIS thodox Charities and rely on your do - Saturday, October 25 , ending at 5:00 THE FALL SEMESTER of Religious nations to continue the mission of Education Classes for children has pm. Registration fee is $20.00 which in - begun. As a reminder, quiet space to cludes lunch and all coffee breaks. All providing the best care possible. students are free. A flier with hold Religious Ed classes is limited. It Dates to Remember takes very little to disrupt a class of chil - all the details is available at dren from lessons their teachers have the candles. Information: [email protected]. Sat, Oct 25 Pita Dough Rolling, 9am Bible Study w/ Fr. Paul T arazi, 9am-3pm Greete Tm 3: E-RECYCLING, Saturday, Sat, Nov 1 e-Recycling, 9am-2pm Evans Tsoules and November 1st from 9:00am Tom Fitzpatrick Staff Orthodox Food Pantry 9am-12pm to 2:00pm. A few folks are Fri, Nov 14 Nativity Lent Begins All Altar Serve Invited needed to help set up traffic Sat, Nov 22 anksgiving Bake Sale/Holiday Mktpls cones and direct folks who Dec 6-7 Feastday Celebration are dropping off items. Please 34 Gold Street, Shrewsbury, MA 01545-6238 Voice: 508.845.0088 Fax: 508.845.8850 e-mail: [email protected] web: www.StNicholasChurch.org A Parish of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese in the Americas Paul. St Luke’s Gospel was written in the years 62-63 at Rome, under the guidance of A Prayer of Fr. Laurence the Apostle Paul. In the preliminary verses (1:1-3), St Luke precisely sets forth the pur - LET US PRAy TO THE LORD , pose of his work. He proposes to record, in chronological order, everything known by e, too, are guests in your Christians about Jesus Christ and His teach - Whouse for a time, Lord like ings. By doing this, he provided a firmer his - torical basis for Christian teaching (1:4). He our ancestors of old. yet, we forget carefully investigated the facts, and made this, forever abusing your goodness generous use of the oral tradition of the and mercy, as well as all your gis, Church and of what the All-Pure Virgin taking your hospitality for granted, Mary Herself had told him (2:19, 51). and never stopping to think on hour In St Luke’s Gospel, the message of the salvation made possible by the Lord Jesus generosity. is takes its toll of us, Christ, and the preaching of the Gospel, are without our realizing it. So we ask for of primary importance. the grace of repentance, that we may St Luke also wrote the Acts of the Holy recover and be healed for our sins. Apostles at Rome around 62-63 A.D. e For yours is the kingdom and Book of Acts, which is a continuation of the the power, and the glory, Father, Son, four Gospels, speaks about the works and the fruits of the holy Apostles aer the As - and Holy Spirit: now and forever, cension of the Savior. At the center of the and unto ages of ages, amen. narrative is the Council of the holy Apostles at Jerusalem in the year 51, a Church event Namedays Apostle & Evangelist Luke of great significance, which resulted in the (October 28) separation of Christianity from Judaism and October 18 its independent dissemination into the e Holy Apostle & Evangelist Luke he Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke, world (Acts 15:6-29). e theological focus Fr. Luke Veronis Twas a native of Syrian Antioch, a com - of the Book of Acts is the coming of the panion of the holy Apostle Paul (Phil.1:24, 2 October 20 Holy Spirit, Who will guide the Church Tim. 4:10-11), and a physician enlightened The Great-martyr Artemius of Antioch “into all truth” John 16:13) until the Second in the Greek medical arts. Hearing about Artemie Gavala Coming of Christ. Christ, Luke arrived in Palestine and fer - Artemis Gouvelis e holy relics of St Luke were taken vently accepted the preaching of salvation from Constantinople and brought to Padua, October 26 from the Lord Himself. As one of the Sev - Italy at some point in history. Perhaps this e Holy Great-martyr enty Apostles, St Luke was sent by the Lord was during the infamous Crusade of 1204. Dimitrios of essalonika with the others to preach the Kingdom of In 1992, Metropolitan Hieronymus (Jerome) Dimitri Soterios Apostola Heaven during the Savior’s earthly life (Luke of ebes requested the Roman Catholic Dhimitra Belica 10:1-3). Aer the Resurrection, the Lord bishop in ebes to obtain a portion of St Dimitri Daniel Christo Jesus Christ appeared to Sts Luke and Luke’s relics for the saint’s empty sepulchre Cleopas on the road to Emmaus. James L. Christo in the Orthodox cathedral in ebes. James Demake Luke accompanied St Paul on his sec - e Roman Catholic bishop Antonio Dhimitri Disho ond missionary journey, and from that time Mattiazzo of Padua, noting that Orthodox they were inseparable. When Paul’s cowork - pilgrims came to Padua to venerate the Dimitraq Lolo ers had forsaken him, only Luke remained relics while many Catholics did not even Dimitraqi Lolo to assist him in his ministry (2 Tim. 4:10-11). know that the relics were there, appointed a Dimitri Michael Saffron Aer the martyric death of the First-Ranked committee to investigate the relics in Padua, James Seferi Apostles Peter and Paul, St Luke le Rome and the skull of St Luke in the Catholic James Evan Stamoulis to preach in Achaia, Libya, Egypt and the Cathedral of St Vico in Prague. James Trakadas ebaid. He ended his life by suffering mar - e skeleton was determined to be that James Vlamis tyrdom in the city of ebes. of an elderly man of strong build. In 2001, a Tradition credits St Luke with painting tooth found in the coffin was judged to be the jawbone of the skull. the first icons of the Mother of God. “Let the consistent with the DNA of Syrians living grace of Him Who was born of Me and My near the area of Antioch dating from 72-416 Bishop Mattiazzo sent a rib from the mercy be with these Icons,” said the All- A.D. e skull in Prague perfectly fit the relics to Metropolitan Hieronymus to be Pure Virgin aer seeing the icons. St Luke neck bone of the skelton. e tooth found venerated in St Luke’s original tomb in the also painted icons of the Apostles Peter and in the coffin in Padua was also found to fit Orthodox cathedral at ebes. T Widow’s Son
here is, perhaps, no more heart- Twrenching a story in the whole of the New Testament than this week’s Gospel lesson, the story of the Widow of Nain’s Son (Luke 7:11-17). e Evan - gelist conveys such depth of human emotion and pain in this very short nar - rative of only six verses. yet these few carefully chosen words, the St. Luke tells us volumes. Jesus is travelling to the town of Nain aer he had healed the Centurion’s servant (Luke 7:1-10). A crowd follows him, and as they enter the gates they en - counter a funeral procession. e dead man on the bier was “his mother’s only son, and she was a widow” (v. 12). St. Luke also records that “a large crowd from the town” accompanied her in the funeral cortège. Look at how much information Still, we can learn even more from while, it is the eotokos who will be we’ve been given in this one verse. We the text. When Jesus sees him he calls the grieving mother, and Jesus the learn that the poor woman was a widow. him “young man” (v. 15). is means young man. St. Gregory of Nyssa tells us is likely means she has little, if any, that he was in his late teens or early that the Lord is preparing us to under - source of income. We learn that this was twenties. He was just entering man - stand the Resurrection from the dead, her only son. is means that the focus hood. young, handsome, and strong, his own and also ours. He prepares us of her life is now dead and gone. More - did he fancy some young woman? Or, by raising the daughter of Jairus (Luke over, if her son is a “young man” (v. 14), were there young women who fancied 8:41) and now raising this widow’s son this probably means that she has been a him? What plans or hopes did he have — who, unlike Jairus’ daughter, had widow for some time. If there were for his future? e prime of his life was been dead for some time and was on his other children (daughters), surely St. before him. How can we not, even two way to the grave. He will days before his Luke would have mentioned it. Given thousand years later, be moved by this own death raise his friend Lazaros, four her age it is unlikely she will remarry, es - scene? It is a story we know all too well. days dead (John 11:1-44). pecially if she had not up until now. And Jesus encounters this entourage. He Jesus rescues this widow’s son, like given the fact that she hadn’t remarried, sees the poor mother and “had compas - he did the daughter of Jairus, like he did it means that her son was the center of sion for her and said to her, ‘Do not Lazaros, in order to give us hope. Each her life. you can only imagine how she weep’” (v. 13). Do you see how compas - of them would die again, to await the must have doted on the boy. sionate God is? How shares our pain? Resurrection we all have been promised. e young man and his mother en he goes up to the bier and touches As for us, we live our lives by faith (cf. must have been well liked in the town, it and says: “young man, I say to you, Galatians 2:20). We trust in the Son of because “a large crowd” was in the fu - rise!” (v. 14) e dead man sat up and man, the Son of God, who showed his neral procession. Each of those persons began to speak (v. 15) and Jesus gave him compassion on the poor widow of Nain. also felt and shared the tragedy of the to his mother. We know he will be compassionate with situation. It is not hard to imagine the It is hard not to see in this event, us as well. grief. All of this and more can be in - this miracle, a prefiguring of the Lord’s ferred from this one Scriptural verse. own death and resurrection. In a short Fr. Nichos Aposto Holiday Bake Sale, Luncheon & Marketpce Saturday, November 22 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
BAKE SALE & LUNCHEON ensure that we will be able to fill your orders do not ➢ We are asking for donations of home baked goods wait until the last minute to get your orders in. Ab - to sell. We need to know in advance what you are solutely no orders will be accepted aer the order bringing, and it must brought to the church during deadline. the day on Friday, Nov. 21 ➢ You may download flyers using the links in the e- ➢ We also need volunteers to help with set up and packaging of items for sale on Friday, Nov 21 and mail Bulletin or pick up hard copies here. with the sale and luncheon on Saturday, Nov 22. If you have questions please speak to or email: Chris HOLIDAY MARKET PLACE: Toda or Deb Sedares. ➢ A Holiday Market Place will once again, be part of ➢ ere is a sign up sheet on the bulletin board for do - our annual Holiday Bake Sale and Luncheon. We are nations and for volunteers to help with set up and seeking Vendors to rent table space at a cost of $25 with the sale. per table. If you or a vendor you know is interested in participating, please contact Tim Rucho. We PITA & PASTRY HOLIDAY ORDER DEADLINES would like to include a variety of vendors and ensure ➢ Help is needed with the ongoing baking effort of there is no duplication of products or services. pitas and pastries here at the Church and and for help with packaging pastries — For specifics, see Chris PAPOU’S ATTIC: Toda and Betty Anderson. ➢ As part of the Holiday Marketplace and Bake Sale on ➢ We need everyone’s to help to sell our pastries and November 22nd, we will sell unique “antique shop” pits to our family, friends, coworkers, and anyone else type items for the benefit of the Church. We are seek - you can think of — for more information, see Betty ing donations of new and gently used giware, Anderson. knick-knacks, and ornaments. (To be clear, we are ➢ anksgiving Orders need to be in by November 9, for pick-up Sat/Sun November 22 & 23. NOT looking for the usual “yard-sale” fare, but spe - ➢ Christmas Orders must be in by December 7, for cialty items.) All things must be dropped off at the pick-up Sat/Sun December 20 & 21. We are only able Church no later than Sunday, November 16th. For to make a certain quantity of pitas and pastries. To more information, contact Tim Rucho.