November 4, 2018 for Our Newly Illumined and Their Families
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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 Wine / Oil Allowed Fish Allowed Strict Fast Cheese / Dairy Allowed Email: [email protected] Rev. Earl J. Cantos Prayer List: Phone: (928) 225-3814 Please include the following in your prayers this week: Services Schedule: For the souls of the eleven victims of the horrific tragedy and senseless and violent Orthros 9:00 AM Divine Liturgy 10 AM act of hate at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA on October 27th, the healing of the many wounded and for the healing of their entire community. Bulletin for Sunday, November 4, 2018 For our newly illumined and their families. Welcome to the Orthodox faith! Fifth Sunday of Luke For the unity of the Orthodox churches of the world. Hymns of The Day Save the Dates! Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Plagal Second Mode 11/10 Orthodoxy 101 4:30p, Confessions 5:45p When the angelic powers appeared at your tomb and those who guarded You became 11/11 Orthros 9:00a, Divine Liturgy 10:00a , Church School begins 9:15a as though dead, and standing by Your sepulchre was Mary seeking Your pure and 11/15 Nativity Fast Begins sacred body. For You did vanquish Hades and uncorrupted by its touch You came unto 11/17 Decorate Church for Christmas (time TBD) contact Tammy Kretsedemas the virgin woman, bestowing the gift of life O You who rose from the dead. Lord we give glory to You. Orthodoxy 101 4:30p, Confessions 5:45p 11/18 Orthros 9:00a, Divine Liturgy 10:00a, Church School begins 9:15a Apolytikion for Joannicius the Great in the Plagal Fourth Mode Fall General Assembly & PC Elections @ Noon With the streams of thy tears, thou didst cultivate the barrenness of the desert; and by 11/24 Vespers 4:30p (no Orthodoxy 101 class), Confessions 5:45p thy sighings from the depths,thou didst bear fruit a hundredfold in labours; and thou 11/25 Orthros 9:00a, Divine Liturgy 10:00a, Church School begins 9:15a becamest a luminary, shining with miracles upon the world, O Joannicius our righteous Father. Intercede with Christ God that our souls be saved. 12/1 Flagstaff Family Food Center—contact Mary Grove Orthodoxy 101 4:30p, Confessions 5:45p Holy Cross Church Apolytikion in the First Mode 12/2 Commitment Sunday Save, O Lord Your people, and bless Your inheritance; grant victory to the faithful Orthros 9:00a, Divine Liturgy 10:00a , Church School begins 9:15a against the adversaries of the Faith, and protect Your people by the power of Your 12/8 Orthodoxy 101 4:30p, Confessions 5:45p Cross. 12/9 Orthros 9:00a, Divine Liturgy 10:00a , Church School begins 9:15a Seasonal Kontakion in the Second Mode O Protection of Christians that cannot be put to shame, mediation unto the creator most constant: O despise not the voices of those who have sinned; but be quick, O We are seeking candidates to fill four vacancies in good one, to come unto our aid, who in faith cry unto thee: Hasten to intercession and the Holy Cross Parish Council for 2019. speed thou to make supplication, O thou who dost ever protect, O Theotokos, them that honor thee. Elections will be held November 18. Youth assignments for today This is an important way to support your church, Choir: Sophia Padilla, Grace Schulz Candles: Grace Schulz please contact any Parish Council member if you Kneelers: Isaiah Joiner Antidoron: Dena Pappas are interested. Offering: Jaydon Joiner Epistle Reading Saints and Feasts Commemorated Prokeimenon. Mode Plagal 2., Psalm 27.9,1 O Lord, save your people and bless your inheritance. Verse: To you, O Lord, I have cried, O my God. The Reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Ephesians 2:4-10 5th Sunday of Luke Brethren, God who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with him, and made us sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward Joannicius the Great us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God: not because of works, lest any man Saint Joannicius was born in Bithynia about the year 740. His should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good father was named Myritrikes and his mother Anastaso When works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. he had reached maturity, he excelled in soldiery and was counted worthy of royal honours for his bravery. He had been brought up an iconoclast, but while yet a soldier, he was con- Gospel Reading verted to Orthodoxy by a certain holy elder. He later forsook all things and departed for Mount Olympus, where he spent 5th Sunday of Luke the remainder of his life in asceticism. Becoming great in vir- The Reading is from Luke 16:19-31 tue, he reposed in the Lord in the year 834, having lived some ninety-four years. To this Saint is ascribed the brief prayer, "My hope is the The Lord said, "There was a rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen Father . ." and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazaros, full of sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich George Karslidis of Pontos man's table; moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. The poor man died The Blessed Elder Georgios Karslidis of Pontos (1901-1959), and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died latter day saint of the Saintly Orthodox Church in Greece, glo- and was buried; and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes, and saw rified by the Patriarchate of Constantinople in 2008, was the Abraham far off and Lazaros in his bosom. And he called out, 'Father Abraham, first “resident” and founder of the Taxiarches and the Analip- have mercy upon me, and send Lazaros to dip the end of his finger in water seos Monastery (Sipsa) in Greece in the year 1930. He is one and cool my tongue; for I am in anguish in this flame.' But Abraham said, 'Son, of few saints known to bear an imprint of the sign of the cross remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazaros in on his skull. There is a flourishing multitudinous sisterhood of like manner evil things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish. nuns there today, who occupy themselves with the Iconogra- And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in or- phy of handheld pictures, gold embroidery,knitting and waxwork. der 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 The Holy Hieromartyrs Nicander, Bishop of Myra, and Hermi- to my father's house, for I have five brothers, so that he may warn them, lest as the Presbyter they also come into this place of torment.' But Abraham said, 'They have Mo- ses, and the prophets; let them hear them.' And he said, 'No, father Abraham; The holy Martyrs Nikandros and Hermias were ordained by the holy Apostle but if some one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.' He said to them, Titus. When they had drawn many to the Faith of Christ, they were accused to 'If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if Libanius, the Count of the city of Myra, where, after suffering many torments, some one should rise from the dead.'" they were enclosed in a tomb alive, and thus surrendered their spirits into the hands of God. Emperor John Batatze, the Merciful We are seeking volunteers to decorate the church for Christmas on Saturday 11/17. Contact Tammy Kretsedemas. Porphyrios the Mime Holy Cross is conducting a warm clothing drive. A box will be placed in the Narthex for CLEAN, WASHED donations. .