Feasts and Commemorations for this Week Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church

Address: 6134 Black Bill Rd., Flagstaff, AZ 86004 Mailing Address: PO Box 2164, Flagstaff, AZ 86003 Phone: (928) 225-3814 Web: www.holycrossflagstaff.org Strict Fast Cheese / Dairy Allowed Wine / Oil Allowed Fish Allowed Email: [email protected] Prayer List: Rev. Earl J. Cantos

Phone: (928) 225-3814 Please keep the following intentions in your prayers this week:  For the health and safety of our entire community as we are out and about enjoying Services Schedule: our summer breaks. Orthros 9:00 AM Divine Liturgy 10 AM  For His Eminence, Archbishop Elpidophoros, to be enthroned June 22nd. May God Church School 9:15 AM (currently on recess) grant him many years! AXIOS!

Bulletin for Sunday, June 16, 2019 Save the Dates! HOLY PENTECOST 6/22 8:00am Highway 89 cleanup. Contact Mary Grove to volunteer. No Confessions, No Vespers (Fr. Earl will be out-of-town) Father’s Day

6/23 9:00am Orthros, 10:00am Divine Liturgy - Fr. Virgil Suciu Prayer of the Holy Spirit Sunday of All Saints 6/29 5:00pm Evening Vespers, Confessions will be heard after Vespers Heavenly King, Comforter, the Spirit of Truth, every- Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul where present and filling all things, Treasury of bless- 6/30 9:00am Orthros, 10:00am Divine Liturgy ings and Giver of life: come and abide in us, cleanse us 7/6 3:30pm—6:00pm Flagstaff Family Food Center—Contact Mary Grove to from every impurity and save our souls, O Good One. volunteer. 5:00pm Evening Vespers, Confessions will be heard after Vespers 7/7 9:00am Orthros, 10:00am Divine Liturgy 7/13 “Toss & Gloss” clutter removal and church cleaning—time TBD Hymns of The Day

5:00pm Evening Vespers, Confessions will be heard after Vespers 7/14 9:00am Orthros, 10:00am Divine Liturgy Apolytikion for Pentecost in the Plagal Fourth Mode 9/15 General Church School meeting—time TBD 9/22 First day of new Church School year. O blessed are You, O Christ Our God, Who by sending down the Holy Spirit upon them made the fishermen wise and through them illumined Refer to e-mailed Parish Updates and website for additional events and details. the world and to You the universe was ever drawn all glory to You O Lord.

Church School needs one more teacher for the 2019-2020 Seasonal Kontakion in the Plagal Fourth Mode school year. When the Most High God came down and confused the tongues, * He divided the nations. * When He distributed the tongues of fire, * He Love the Church? Love kids? called all to unity. * And with one voice we glorify the all-holy Spirit. Be that person who makes a difference. Contact Jaci Norton. Epistle Reading Saints and Feasts Commemorated

Prokeimenon. Plagal Fourth Mode. Psalm 18.4,1. Holy Pentecost (see special bulletin insert) Their voice has gone out into all the earth. , Verse: The heavens declare the glory of God. Tychon the Wonderworker

The reading is from Acts of the Apostles 2:1-11 This Saint was born of pious Christian parents and flourished in the fifth century. Because of his piety and purity of life he WHEN THE DAY of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Amathus, and later And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it was made Bishop of Amathus by the great Epiphanius (see filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them May 12). He worked many signs and wonders and turned tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them. And they were many from the worship of idols unto Christ. Once he planted all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit a vine in the ground and it wondrously sprouted and brought gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jews, devout men forth ripe grapes. After his death, on his annual feast-day on from every nation under heaven. And at this sound the multitude came June 16, it being yet early in the season, that vine would be together, and they were bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in laden with unripe grapes, as is natural; but as the Divine his own language. And they were amazed and wondered, saying, "Are not all Liturgy began, the grapes would begin to darken, and by the end of it, they these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each of us in his would be fully ripened. The third of the Vespers stichera in the own native language? Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of service to Saint Tychon alludes to this yearly miracle. Mesopotamia, Judea and , Pontos and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from 40 of Rome (Sebaste) Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians, we hear them telling The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste or the Holy Forty were a in our own tongues the mighty works of God." group of Roman soldiers martyred in 320 for the Christian

faith. They were killed near the city of Sebaste, in Lesser Gospel Reading Armenia (present-day in ), victims of the persecutions of Licinius, who after 316, persecuted the Holy Pentecost Christians of the East. The earliest account of their The Reading is from John 7:37-52; 8:12 existence and martyrdom is given by Bishop (370–379) in a homily he delivered on their feast On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and proclaimed, "If day. any one thirst, let him come to me and drink. He who believes in me, as the According to Basil, forty soldiers who had openly scripture has said, 'Out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water.'" Now this he confessed themselves Christians were condemned by the said about the Spirit, which those who believed in him were to receive; for as prefect to be exposed naked upon a frozen pond near Sebaste on a bitterly yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. cold night, that they might freeze to death. Among the confessors, one yielded When they heard these words, some of the people said, "This is really the and, leaving his companions, sought the warm baths near the lake which had prophet." Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "Is the Christ to come been prepared for any who might prove inconstant. One of the guards, from Galilee? Has not the scripture said that the Christ is descended from Aglaius, was set to keep watch over the martyrs and beheld at this moment a David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?" So there supernatural brilliancy overshadowing them. He at once proclaimed himself a was a division among the people over him. Some of them wanted to arrest him, Christian, threw off his garments, and joined the remaining thirty-nine.Thus the but no one laid hands on him. number of forty remained complete. At daybreak, the stiffened bodies of the The officers then went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to confessors, which still showed signs of life, were burned and the ashes cast them, "Why did you not bring him?" The officers answered, "No man ever into a river. Christians, however, collected the precious remains, and spoke like this man!" The Pharisees answered them, "Are you led astray, you the were distributed throughout many cities; in this way, veneration of also? Have any of the authorities or of the Pharisees believed in him? But this the Forty Martyrs became widespread, and numerous churches were erected crowd, who do not know the law, are accursed." Nikodemos, who had gone to in their honor. him before, and who was one of them, said to them, "Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?" They replied, "Are you from Galilee too? Search and you will see that no prophet is to rise Mark the Just of Apollonia from Galilee." Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world; he who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."