Sunday, February 21, 2021 St. Herman of Alaska Orthodox Church A PARISH OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH OUTSIDE OF RUSSIA—EASTERN AMERICAN DIOCESE Great Vespers & Confessions each Saturday at 6 pm – Bible Study each Wednesday at 7 pm – Divine Liturgy each Sunday at 10 am 60 Clifton Chapel Lane, Stafford, Virginia 22555 – Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1295, Stafford, VA 22555 – Website: www.sthermanorthodox.org

Liturgical Services/Activities: (please remember to sign up for services and communion) Sun. Feb. 21/Feb. 8 Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee. Great-martyr ("the General") of Heraclea ( AD 319). FAST FREE WEEK 9:00 a.m. 9:30 a.m. Reading of the Hours 10:00 a.m. Divine Liturgy followed by Fellowship Mon. Feb. 22/Feb. 9 Martyr Nicephorus of (ca. 257). 8:00 p.m. Parish Council Meeting via Skype Wed. Feb. 24/Feb. 11 Hieromartyr Blaise , of Sebaste ( AD 316). 6:30 p.m. Vespers 7:15 p.m. Adult Religious Education Class Sat. Feb. 27/Feb. 14 Prophet Zechariah , from among the 12 Minor Prophets (520 BC). 3:00 p.m. Catechumen Class 4:45 p.m. Confessions 5:00 p.m. Vigil Sun. Feb. 28/Feb. 15 Sunday of the Prodigal Son. Tone five. Apostle Onesimus of the Seventy ( AD 109). 9:30 a.m. Reading of the Hours 10:00 a.m. Divine Liturgy followed by Fellowship The risk of the COVID virus has compelled some of our parishioners to absent themselves from public contact including attendance at the Divine Liturgy. If you have been unable to come to church and would like to have communion brought to your home, please contact Fr. Alexander at 540-212-1855 or [email protected].

Attendance Great Vespers, 2/13-- Divine Liturgy, 2/14–

2021 Finances The Parish needs TBA/week to meet budget Week Amount Received Difference from amount needed Year-to-date $ 26,319.83 + $ 00.00 February 7 $ 1,412.26 $ TBA February 14 $ 10,982.25 $ TBA

Honor the Lord from your righteous labors and offer Him the first fruits from the fruits of righteousness, that your storehouses may be filled with an abundance of grain and your wine presses may gush with wine. J

Intercessory Prayer List Metropolitan requests that you send him the full name and general reason for intercessory prayer (such as health or illness, unemployment, family issues, military deployment to Afghanistan, etc.) for his pastoral care. Only the names of the living (and recently deceased) will be included in the prayer list in the weekly bulletin. He also requests that the faithful who have requested intercessory prayers for various persons let him know when there is no longer a specific need for prayer, so that we may keep the list current. LIVING: Sarah, Emmanuel, Mark, Claudia, Katherine, Erika, Victoria, , Tate, Renate, Dieter, Rebekah, Sofia, Ioannis, Anastasia, Elizabeth, Georgia, John, Elena, Alice, Matthew, Boris, Elizabeth, Davis (Columba), , Emma, Kristin, Monk Sergius, Priest John, Priest , Priest Costa, Priest Michael, Presbytera Cindy, Priest George, Presbytera Areti, Aimiliane, Priest Charalambos, Monk Serapheim, Elizabeth, Katje, Rachel, Mandi, Clive, Clair, Rebecca, Janis, Paisley, George, Archpriest Alexander, Matushka Kathleen, Emma Nicole, Alexa Kate, Steven, Millicent, Archpriest Victor, Matushka Masha, Pdn. Patrick, Matushka Joanna, Matushka Sophia, Mother Theodora, Archpriest Alexander, James, Leonidas, Sophia, Maria, Larry, Bill, Modestos, Ephraim, Reader Moses, Jo Ann, Sarah, Paul, Brianna, Robert, Baby Nina, Charley & Alexandra, Irina & baby, Rebecca, Melissa &Xenia & Theodore, Kathy Miroy, Priest Alexander Laymon

MEMORY ETERNAL: Readings for the Week of Pledge Forms February 21st @ @ @ 2021 Pledge forms are available and will be handed out after Liturgy. Your pledges are needed for preparing our budget and Fellowship Hour Sunday 2/21 Luke 24:1-12 (4th Matins Gospel) are used for salaries, rent, utilities and all the other necessities Feb. 28 Fellowship provided by 2 Timothy 3:10-15 for our church. Please fill them out and return them in the Team 4 Luke 18:10-14 envelope provided ASAP. There will be a basket in the hall for Mar. 7 Fellowship provided by completed forms. We also request that you provide the contact Team 1 Monday 2/22 and family information so that the church records may be 2 Peter 1:20-2:9 updated. Thank you. If anyone would like to join a team or Mark 13:9-13 be put on the list of substitutes, or is interested in hosting a particular Tuesday 2/23 Financial Statements Sunday please contact Brianna Lessin 2 Peter 2:9-22 or Mat. Veronica Sirko. Mark 13:14-23 Financial statements have gone out via email. If you have not received your statement and would like one, please send your @ @ @ Wednesday 2/24 email address to Stella Jordan 2 Peter 3:1-18 Reader Schedule Mark 13:24-31 Feb. 28 ~ Rdr. John Raccanello Thursday 2/25 Annual Sisterhood Meeting on February 21st! Mar. 7 ~ Rdr. McLeod Luke 1:39-49, 56 Matins Gospel The Sisterhood of the Myrrhbearing Women will be having their If you are interested in assisting with the 1 John 1:8-2:6 annual meeting February 21st. All women in the parish are reading and becoming a tonsured reader Mark 13:31-14:2 invited to join. We will have the yearly elections, information please contact Fr. Alexander Laymon. Philippians 2:5-11 updates, and a look ahead at the upcoming year, so please plan to Luke 10:38-42; 11:27-28 Theotokos attend! It will take place during/towards the end of fellowship @ @ @ Hebrews 13:17-21 St. Alexis hour. If you cannot make it but would still like to know what's Luke 6:17-23 St. Alexis going on, please email Brianna Prosfora Friday 2/26 Nancy St. Clair and Brianna Lessin are 1 John 2:7-17 currently providing the Prosfora. If you “When we teach children to be good, to be gentle, to be Mark 14:3-9 are interested in helping to make forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love Prosfora for the church, please contact Saturday 2/27 their fellow men, to regard this present age as nothing, we instill Nancy St. Clair. 2 Timothy 3:1-9 virtue in their souls, and reveal the image of God within them.” Luke 20:46-21:4 — St John Chrysostom

Progress on Our Feast Day Icons Project: For the Glory of God and the beauty of our church. Please help!

Lettering, lines, and lights remain, with a few more floats for transparency and golden rays on Christ's robe. The final details for the finishing touches of our feast icon project will soon follow.

The icons of the Entrance and the Dormition of the Theotokos have been fully sponsored, so now please take this opportunity to help sponsor the icon of the Nativity of the Holy Theotokos. Our goal is to raise $3000 per icon, of which $2000 is also applied to our building fund. Simply indicate with your donation that it is for the Nativity icon. See Mat. Joanna for more information.

“Are you fighting against your passions? Fight, Many Years, fight, and be good soldiers of Christ! Do not James & Christina! give in to evil and do not be carried away by the weakness of the flesh. During the time of “Marriage is not only temptation, flee to the Physician, crying out a state of nature but a with the Holy Church, our mother: “O God, state of grace. Married number me with the thief, the harlot, and the life, no less than the publican (i.e., with the repentant), and save life of a monk, is a me!” special vocation, requiring a particular St. Anatoly of Optina, quoted from Living gift or charisma from Without Hypocrisy: Spiritual Counsels of the the Holy Spirit; and Holy Elders of Optina this gift is conferred in the sacrament of Holy Matrimony.” --Timothy Ware

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