Holy Bread of Oblation

Holy Bread of Oblation St. George Orthodox Church If you would like to offer the Holy Bread, please fill out this form and leave Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of North America it outside of Fr. Fred’s office 3650 Cottage Grove Avenue SE Cedar Rapids, IA 52403 U.S.A. Rev. Fr. Fred Shaheen, Pastor Your name ______Date of offering ______Rev. Dn. Edmund Abodeely Office Phone (319) 363-1559 FAX# (319) 247-0606 Daytime phone # ______Pastor’s cell Phone (319) 651-6452 Parish House (319) 363-3449 Regular office hours – Tuesday and Thursday 9:00 am - 2:30 pm Offered for Health and Salvation of: ______Parish E-mail: [email protected] ______Parish website: www.stgeorgecedarrapids.org ______Sunday November 2, 2008 Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost ______Tone 3 Eothinon 9 Offered in Memory of: ______On this day we commemorate: Martyrs Akindinos, Pegasios, Aphthonios, Elpidophoros and ______Anempodistos of Persia. ______WELCOME VISITORS We thank you for coming to worship with us today. Please join us after Divine Liturgy in the Michael G. Nassif Center for coffee and fellowship with our parish family. If you have any Please check one: questions regarding our parish or the Orthodox Christian Faith, please feel free to speak to Fr. Fred Shaheen following the dismissal. If you would like to be on our mailing list, fill out ______I will be making the bread myself. a visitor card or see William Shadid for assistance. Please prepare six loaves and have them ready by 5:00 p.m. on Saturday.

______I would like the Ladies Auxiliary to provide the bread. Please attach $20.00 to REGARDING HOLY COMMUNION this form. Since we understand Holy Communion to mean that we have all things in common, sharing an identical faith, only those who are members of the Orthodox Church and have prepared themselves through prayer, fasting, and periodic Confession, may participate in Holy  With your offering, it is customary to make a donation to St. George Church. This is Communion. We invite all, however, to partake of the blessed bread, which is distributed at optional - If you would like to make a donation, you may attach it to this form. the dismissal.  If you would like to request a Memorial Service, contact Fr. Fred at (319) 363-1559. GLORY TO JESUS CHRIST! If you are unable to attend church services due to illness and Holy Bread of Oblation would like me to visit you, please call me at the church office or on my cellular phone.  Offered today by Pierre & Cheryl Saba in honor of George & Midge PLEASE NOTE: Hospitals do not inform clergy when their parishioners are admitted. Family Saba’s 50th wedding anniversary! May God grant you many years! members must call me to let me know. Offered for the health & salvation of George, Midge, Mike, Pierre, Nick, EPISTLE READERS NEEDED – No prior experience is necessary. If you would like to be put on a regular schedule of readers, give your name to Edmund Abodeely, Sr. & the entire Saba family. Many years! Also offered in memory of Nick, Today’s reader: Jean Maher Next Sunday: Al Kacere Shakeeba, Carl, Jessie, George, Anthony, Gordon, & respectfully the FEAST OF ST. MICHAEL AND THE BODILESS POWERS – We will celebrate with families of the Saba’s who have reposed. Memory Eternal. Great Vespers Friday, November 7 at 6:00 pm and Divine Liturgy Saturday, November 8 at  Offered today by Ron & Melanie Stahlberg in memory of her 9:00 am. Please be with us. STEWARDSHIP LUNCH – Please join us for fellowship and a free lunch on Sunday, grandmother, Katharine Penny (5 years), her grandfather, Harry Penny November 16 following Divine Liturgy as we begin our 2009 Pledge Campaign. Come for (17 years), and her great-aunt, Edna Bueno (3 years). Memory Eternal. Liturgy, stay for lunch, and fill out your 2009 pledge card. Offered for the health & salvation of Emma Stahlberg on the occasion of COMMITTEE PERSON NEEDED – We are looking for someone to serve on the Rental her 1st birthday, and her cousins, Kathie Kish, Kate, John, & Mark Schulz, Committee. This committee oversees the use of the Church for Sacraments, and the rental of & Carl Stahlberg. May God grant you many years! the Michael G. Nassif Cultural and Educational Center for special events. Please speak to me Trisagion Prayers will be offered before dismissal on behalf of the departed. or Nick AbouAassaly if you are interested. SPECIAL TRAY TODAY – We will take up a special collection for our Archdiocesan Seminarians. Please be generous! Fellowship Hour PARISH COUNCIL ELECTIONS – Nick George, Anthony Issa, and Joseph Nassif have Fellowship Hour is offered today by Ron & Melanie Stahlberg in celebration of been nominated to serve on the Parish Council. Additional candidates may be nominated st during the next two weeks. How to nominate someone: 1) speak to the person and ask if they Emma’s 1 birthday and for the health & salvation of their family! Happy are willing and/or able to serve; 2) give the name to me or to someone on the nominating Birthday! May God grant you many years! committee (Gene Nassif, Jr., Jim Pape, Marie Svatek, and Kelly Sachtschale). Ballots for election to the Parish Council will be mailed out the third week of November. If you would like to host a fellowship hour, fill out an available date on the large HOLY RELIC OF ST. RAPHAEL – We now have a relic of our Father among the Saints, calendar located outside Father’s office. If you need to cancel your scheduled date, RAPHAEL of Brooklyn attached to his icon and shrine. As you come into Church or as you please contact the church office (363-1559) two weeks prior. Thank you! leave, please take a moment to venerate both the icon and relic. LITURGICAL SUPPLIES – We are accepting donations for the following liturgical items: Upcoming Schedule: November 9 –Dr. Jeff & Heidi Nassif communion wine ($100.00 per case); seven-day candles ($60.00 per case); tea-lights for November 16 – Stewardship November 23 – Lowry November 30 - iconostasis ($5.00 per 100). You may also make donations for incense and charcoal – please open see me or Dn. Edmund for prices. MISSING FROM CHURCH – If you know anyone who has not been coming to Church in a while give them a call and tell them we miss them. Or kindly notify me so I can make contact with them. Notes from Fr. Fred The Epistle Sing praises to our God, sing praises. Let the heavens rejoice and the earth be glad; for the Lord hath done a mighty act with his Verse: Clap your hands, all you nations. own arm. He hath trampled down death and become First-born from the dead. He hath Lesson from St. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians 1:11-20 delivered us from the depth of hades, granting the world the Great Mercy.

Brethren, I would have you know that the gospel which was preached by me is not TROPARION OF THE MARTYRS – TONE 3 man’s gospel. For I did not receive it from man, for was I taught it, but it came through a Victorious Martyrs of the Lord, blessed is the earth that received thy blood! Holy are the revelation of Jesus Christ. For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I heavenly places that opened to thy souls! Thou didst vanquish the enemy in battle, persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it; and I advanced in Judaism proclaiming Christ with courage! Intercede with Him for He is good, that He may save our beyond many of my own age among my own people, so extremely zealous was I for the souls! traditions of my fathers. But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and had called TROPARION OF ST. GEORGE – TONE 4 me through his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him As deliverer of captives, and defender of the poor, healer of the infirmed, champion of kings, among the Gentiles, I did not confer with flesh and blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to victorious Great Martyr George, intercede with Christ our God for our soul’s salvation. those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia; and again I returned to Damascus. KONTAKION OF THE THEOTOKOS – TONE 4 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas, and remained with him O Undisputed intercessor of Christians, the mediatrix unrejected by the Creator, turn not fifteen days. But I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord’s brother. away from the voice of our petitions, though we be sinners. Come to us in time, who cry to thee in faith, with assistance; for thou art good. Hasten to us with intercessions O The Gospel Theotokos, who dost ever intercede for those who honor thee. Luke 16:19-31 NOTES ON DECORUM IN THE CHURCH The Lord said, “There was a rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen and o It is important that we arrive on time for the Divine Services. Matins begins at 8:45 a.m. and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate lay a poor man named Laz’arus, full of Liturgy at 10:00 a.m. Anyone who arrives after the readings should not approach the chalice sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table; moreover, the dogs for Holy Communion, even if they are otherwise prepared. Also, it is not proper or respectful came and licked his sores. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s to leave before the dismissal. bosom. The rich man also died and was buried; and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up o We must refrain from talking during the Divine Services. Private conversation during the his eyes, and saw Abraham far off and Laz’arus in his bosom. And he called out, ‘Father services is improper and disrespectful to our worship. It also distracts others who are trying Abraham, have mercy upon me, and send Laz’arus to dip the end of his finger in water and to follow the service. cool my tongue; for I am in anguish in this flame.’ But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that o Children over the age of seven should not be eating and drinking on Sundays before receiving you in your lifetime received your good things, and Laz’arus in like manner evil things; but Holy Communion. Coming in and going out during the services for drinks of water is now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish. And besides all this, between us and you a inappropriate and disrupts our worship. great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’ And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father’s house, for I have five brothers, so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’ But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’ And he said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if some one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if some one should rise from the dead.’” . TROPARION OF THE RESURRECTION – TONE 3 How to Prepare for the Holy Eucharist … Donations To all those who partake of the Body & Blood of Christ St. George Church has received: when they participate in the Divine Liturgy:  a $100.00 donation from Ron & Melanie Stahlberg for the health & As Orthodox Christians, we are called to the Chalice each and every time that we celebrate the Divine Liturgy; st however, it is most essential that we prepare ourselves to receive the Lord, so that we will not approach unworthily salvation of Emma Stahlberg on the occasion of her 1 birthday, and and risk experiencing the “consuming,” rather than the “purifying” fire of the Eucharist. for the health & salvation of her cousins. Many Years! With this in mind, the following guidelines will help us in our preparation:  a $100.00 donation from Ron & Melanie Stahlberg in memory of +++ No excessive partying or socializing on Saturday evening…we should keep ourselves in a Katharine Penny, Harry Penny, & Edna Bueno. Memory Eternal. quiet & prayerful atmosphere, reading the gospels and epistles of the New Testament and praying  a $50.00 donation from Pierre & Cheryl Saba in celebration of George the “Prayers of Preparation” before Communion (these latter prayers can also be done on Sunday th Morning if there is time); & Midge Saba’s 50 wedding anniversary. Congratulations! Many +++ Maintain a prayerful atmosphere on Sunday morning … (difficult with children, yes, but not Years! impossible … try it!);  a $100.00 donation from Alan & Marlene Johnson for the health & +++ No consumption of food or drink past a reasonable bedtime the night before (Midnight is preferred)…this includes no smoking and no chewing gum on Sunday morning as well; salvation of their granddaughters, Emma Katherine and Katherine Ava. +++ If you need your medicine in the morning, please take it … if you are supposed to eat or drink May God grant you many years! something with it, then do so as moderately as possible;  a $200.00 donation from George & Marie Chalhoub in memory of +++ As always, we should partake of the Sacrament of Confession at least 2 - 4 times a year if we George & Nesemma Nassif. Memory Eternal are taking Communion frequently (hint: use the 4 fasting periods of the liturgical year…Advent, Great Lent, Apostles’ Fast & Dormition Fast) … if we are not frequent communicants (3-4 times per  a $100.00 donation from Robert & Lory Easton and a $100.00 donation month), then Confession is necessary each time we come for Communion; from Dr. Edward Nassif in honor of Andrew Nassif Easton on the +++ At the very least, attend the Sunday cycle of prayer…Saturday Evening Vespers, Sunday occasion of his baptism. Many Years! Morning Matins (morning prayers) and Sunday Divine Liturgy … if we attend Sunday Liturgy irregularly (e.g. – missing more than once a month), then we should not be taking Communion each time we attend, unless we have had Confession in the recent days prior; *** Donations will be announced in the bulletin after they have been received by St. George Church. If you would like a donation announced in the Sunday bulletin, be sure to submit the +++ Be on time to the Divine Services and be at peace with all people … if we arrive at Church after check before the bulletin for that Sunday is printed (Thursday before) *** the Little Entrance with the Gospel, we should not receive Communion on that day … it is truly a sign of disrespect when we enter the services late and / or when we leave the Liturgy early (before the Dismissal) … and … our Lord tells us that we cannot love God and hate our brother … for whoever PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS: is “angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment;” (Matthew 5:22) … and … Dennis Shaheen, Debby Haddy, Louis Kacere, Betty Haddad, Cheryl George, Alexander George and his family, Edna Abodeely, Lillian Haddy, Emma David, Dianne David, Inez David, Clark Haddy, +++ Fellowship Hour is not to be started until after the Liturgy is completed! Bart Haddy, Mamie Shaheen, Joe Hidder, Louise Kustes, Danny Masse, Krisanne, Midge Saba, the Please strive to practice these Spiritual Disciplines. expecting mothers Nicole Nassif, Christine Engel, Hirut Belayneh and Miriam Kang, newborn infant Mekala, Jason Zogaib, Eva Akrouche, Maria Akrouche, Erica Miller, Rania Shaheen, Jessica Elias, Patti Dean, Mark Nimmer, Elsie Mack, Velma Sleem, Eid Nassif, Laura Hidder, Marika Tzortzoudakis, Nadia Ellerhoff, George Haddy, Joe Kohl, Annmarie Abodeely, Andrew Aramouni, Kh. Joanne Bitar, Vickie Nimmer, college students Tony Haddad, Sarah Schneider, Mary Nemer, & Chase Hepker, all who are travelling abroad, all who have lost homes and suffered in the floods, all who are suffering due to hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, and the Orthodox suffering persecution throughout the world. Please R.S.V.P. to Kh. Michelle Shaheen by phone at (363-3449) or email at Altar Boys [email protected]. Today’s Servers (Team 4) – Nicholas AbouAssaly, Elias Daoud, Eugene Nassif, Tristan Stevens Ladies Auxiliary Teen S.O.Y.O. Thank you to everyone who was able to help with the success of yesterday’s bake sale! From baking to packaging to helping on the day of the bake sale, to purchasing items…thank you! President: Nicole Haddad We couldn’t have done it with you! Vice-President: Michael Khouri The next Ladies Auxiliary meeting will be on Tuesday, November 11th at 7:00 p.m. If you have any questions, please contact Joyce Ingels. Thank you! Secretary: Gabrielle AbouAssaly Sunday School Treasurer: Jacob Aucutt Thank you to everyone who helped with this year’s All Saints Fall Party this past Historian: Sarah Aucutt Wednesday evening. The children arrived dressed as saints or another favorite person or character to enjoy dinner, games, treats & to learn more about the Saints as they visited the various rooms. It was Be sure to see the slideshow of recent Teen SOYO activities on the home page of our parish a great evening of fun and fellowship for all! website – www.stgeorgecedarrpaids.org Perfect Attendance for October: Preschool - Gabe Svatek, Gabrielle Issa, Yvette Easton, William Shaheen; K/1 st - Grace AbouAssaly, Simone Bardawil, Joseph Elessais, Jeffrey Abraham; 2/3 - Alexa AbouAssaly, Zayna Bardawil, Jessica Elessias, Kristin Saba, Nicholas AbouAssaly, When you see a member of SOYO, be sure to ask them about a meal with St. David Abraham, Elias Daoud, Mikhael Elessais; 4/5 - Adel Elessais, Rita Daoud, Peter Nassif, John Chrysostom. Thomas Elessaia; Middle School - Sonia Elossais, Alex David, Kathryn Saba; High School – Jacob Aucutt, Sarah Aucutt, Abbie AbouAssaly. Great Job! St. Romans Junior Choir Announcements and Upcoming Events Junior Choir will rehearse at 4:30 p.m. on November 8 th ; sing for Vespers at 5:00 p.m., followed by an outing to Chuck E. Cheese (you need to attend Vespers to go to Chuck E. Cheese). We will also rehearse on the following Saturdays at 4:00 p.m.: November 22, and December 13. We 2008 ORTHODOX INSTITUTE – This weekend Dee Kacere and Kari Abodeely are will meet in the Michael G. Nassif Center. We will not rehearse on Saturday, December 6 th , however, attending the Orthodox Institute at Antiochian Village. Please pray for their safe travels and please plan to attend the St. Nicholas Vesperal Liturgy and program on Friday, December 5 th at 5:30 for a fruitful conference for all participants. p.m. Junior Choir is open to any school age children, kindergarten and up. Please see Vickie Nimmer, Fr. Fred, or Nick AbouAssaly if you have any questions. Thank you! BOOKSTORE – The brand-new Orthodox Study Bible with Old Testament is available now Fellowship of St. John the Divine in both hard cover and leather bound. Agape Fellowship LOST & FOUND – We have place a lost & found box on the shelf in the coat room (next to November – Harold and Joyce Ingels will host on November 20 at 11:30 am at the Church. The main the bookstore). Please feel free to place any left behind items, such as gloves, jewelry, dish will be provided. If anyone would like to bring a side item, please see Joyce. December – Hanna and Marie AbouAssaly will host Agape Fellowship the week between Christmas glasses, etc. in this box. Also, please leave the box in the coat room after use. Thank you! and New Years. More information to follow. Mothers of Orthodoxy FOOD PANTRY – If you are able, please remember to donate items to our food Friday, November 7 – Play date at Bever Park at 10:00 a.m. Rainy day plan – meet at Lindale Mall pantry. We are currently very low on food and we have ongoing visitors who are in need of play area. this service. Food items which can be used as a meal (such as soup, stews, etc.), items Tuesday, November 25 – Children’s Museum in Coralridge Mall. Meet at St. George Church at children will enjoy, and paper products are appreciated. Thank you for your generosity. 10:00 a.m. St. Euphrosynos Society A Ministry of the Fellowship of St. John the Divine

Serving the Mission of Hope in Cedar Rapids

The community of St. George provides and serves a meal at the Mission of Hope (1500 block of 1st Ave. SE in Cedar Rapids) on the second Wednesday of each month. Individuals, families and Church organizations are encouraged to be a part of this ministry. Each meal requires: . A hot main dish . two sides (salad and veggies) . dessert . drinks (Kool-Aid, lemonade, milk) . four or five people to help serve (this takes about an hour and a half - 11:30 am-1:00 pm).

Many Thanks to those who participated in October: Sheila Behn, Gayle Goodale, Jo Ellen Haddad Jean Maher and Linda Yuza

Upcoming schedule:

November 12 – Donna Abraham, Janice Abraham, Jeannete Abraham, Lisa Abraham, and Kim Parks

December 10 – Vickie Nimmer and the children of St. Romanos Jr. Choir

If you would like to participate, see the sign-up sheet on the bulletin board. Additionally, if you have any questions about the St. Euphrosynos Society or the Mission of Hope, you may speak to Heidi Nassif or Kh. Michelle Shaheen.