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Parish Council Meeting Parish Council Meeting Handy “Person” Needed There Will be a meeting of Holy There are many “jobs” in and around the Holy Trinity Trinity’s Parish Council on Monday, Cathedral (some small, others — not so January 13, 2014 at 6:00p. Open much) that need a Handy-person to Forum before beginning of meeting. attend them. Cathedral All Parish Council members are One must be able to: urged to attend. 1. Patch and paint 2. Clean/PoWer Wash Healing Service A Parish of the Orthodox Church in America 3. Lift at least 30 lbs safely 1121 North Leavitt Street On Wednesday, January 15, at 4. Repair/replace parts on doors and Chicago, IL 60622 7:00p, We Will celebrate a Healing windows Our 122nd year of Orthodox witness in Chicago Service for all Who Wish to come. 5. Perform minor electrical and pluming Tel: 773.486.6064 The Holy Apostle James instructs repairs/ maintenance Fax: 773.486.4545 us that if We are sick, We should 6. Perform minor repairs/ maintenance Email: [email protected] contact the elders (the bishops and 7. Perform minor carpentry repairs/ WWW.holytrinitycathedral.net priests) of the Church, Who Will pray maintainance WWW.friendsofholytrinity.com and anoint With oil for the healing of 8. Perform minor HVAC repairs/main- [email protected] soul and body. [email protected] Baptism of Jesus Christ tenance [email protected] One does not have to be Orthodox 9. Police the grounds Blessed art Thou, O Christ our God, to participate in the service, or be Think about it! You just might enjoy Who hast revealed the fishermen as anointed. it! most wise by sending down upon them the Holy Spirit: through them Thou Archpriest John S. Adamcio didst draw the world into Thy net. Dean O Lover of Man, Glory to Thee! Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral (Pentecost Tropar) 1121 N. Leavitt St. Archpriest Sergei Garklavs Chicago, IL 60622-3502 Dean Emeritus Welcome to Holy Trinity Cathedral! Thank you for Worshiping With us today! The parish Was founded in 1892 as St. Vladimir’s Russian Orthodox Church, Deacon Thomas Keith rebuilt in 1903 as Holy Trinity, under the direction of St. John (Kochurov) of Chicago, Louis Sullivan, architect. It became a cathe- Joseph Mamczij dral in 1922, When Bishop THEOPHILUS was Parish Council President consecrated as Bishop of Chicago. A landmark in the city of Chicago, and listed on the National Register of Historic Reader Yury Orlov Places, Holy Trinity continues its Witness of Orthodox Christianity in Chicago. Director of Music Ministries If you have any questions, are looking for a spiritual home, or Wish to talk to Fr. John, please inquire at the Candle Desk. Why then is this day called Theophany? Because Christ made Schedule of Services DouBle-mindedness… (Con’t) result he began to sink. Challenged at Himself known to all—not then when Sunday, January 12, 2014 Twenty-ninth Sunday after Pentecost—Tone 4 He was Born, But when He was Afterfeast of the Theophany a moment of danger on the night Jesus was arrested, he denied even baptised. Until this time He was not Sunday after Theophany known to the people. And that the Martyr Tatiana of Rome and those who suffered knowing the Lord he had been with for years. people did not know Him, Who He with her; St. Sava I, first Archbishop of Serbia; was, listen to what John the Baptist Ven. Eupraxia of Tabenna, in Egypt The Epistle of James reminds us that we can ask God for wisdom and says: “Amidst you standeth Him He will give it to us “generously and Whom ye know not of” (John 1:26). 9:10a Hours And is it surprising that others did 9:30a Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom without reproaching...” But we need to ask in faith, with no doubting. The not know Him, when even the Baptist Epistle: Ephesians 4:7-13 did not know Him until that day? Gospel: Matthew 4:12-17 person who asks “must not suppose that a double-minded man, unstable “And I—said he—knew Him not: But in all his ways, will receive anything He that did send me to Baptise with from the Lord” (James 1:8). water, aBout this One did tell unto me: over Him that shalt see the Spirit descending and aBiding upon Him, this One it is Who Baptiseth in the Holy Spirit” (John 1:33) Saturday, January 18 Why is not that day, on which the 4:30p Vigil Resurrection Gospel VIII g{tÇ~ lÉâ4 We wish to thank Tamara DeryaBina Lord was Born, considered for her generous donation of the Theophany—But rather this day on flowers which adorn the icons of which He was Baptised? This present Theophany. day it is, on which He was Baptised May God grant her Many Years! and sanctified the nature of water. Because on this day all, having obtained the waters, do carry it home and keep it all year, since Sunday, January 19 Thirtieth Sunday after Pentecost—Tone 5 Envelopes and today the waters are sanctified. And Ven. Macarius the Great of Egypt; Ven. Macarius of an oBvious phenomenon occurs: Alexandria; St. Mark, Archbishop of Ephesus; Stewardship Statements these waters in their essence do not Virgin Martyr Euphrasia of Nicomedia The offering envelopes for 2014 have spoil with the passage of time, but 9:10a Hours arrived, and the numbers are obtained today, for one whole year 9:30a Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom currently being assigned. When they and often for two or three years, they Epistle: Colossians 3:12-16 have been completed, they will be remain unharmed and fresh, and Gospel: Luke 18:35-43 available for pick-up. afterwards for a long time do not Also, the Stewardship statements stop being water, just as that will be ready by the end of January. obtained from the fountains. Thank you for your patience! St. John Chrysosotom 7 2 Double Mindedness Happy Birthday! During the week of January 12th, th Happy Name’s Day! On January 16 is the Veneration of Nominations the Church remembers two saints the Chains of the Holy Apostle Peter, It’s really not too early to be thinking who suffered because of the double- who was also the victim of a double- We take this opportunity to extend our about the Annual Meeting, which mindedness, or indecision, of minded ruler. This was Herod best wishes for: will be held on Sunday, February 9, powerful people. They are Saint Agrippa, who, as we read in Acts 12: and especially for the election to Tatiana of Rome (12th) and Saint 1, laid violent hands on some A Happy Birthday to: Parish Council. Peter the Apostle (16th). members of the Church. He went on Alexander Zvodinsky (1/19) We will need several people to Tatiana lived in the early third to kill James, one of the sons of accept being nominated for these century, and belonged to an Zebedee. And then, “...when he saw A Happy Name’s Day to: very important posts within the eminent Christian family. Well- that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded Tatiana Proctor (1/12) parish community. educated in the faith, she was a to arrest Peter also.” Peter had Anthony (Lewis) Moseley (1/17) If you are interested in serving on deaconess, and could speak about committed no crime; it was only that the Parish Council, and able to take Jesus Christ with conviction and Herod didn’t take seriously enough We hope and pray that our Lord Jesus on those added responsibilities, effectiveness. his responsibility to be a just ruler. Christ will bless them with His choicest please either see one of the members The Emperor of Rome at the He allowed a competing desire to blessings, granting them peace, long life, of the Nominating Committee, or time, Alexander, was the son of a please the Jews to overwhelm him, good health, and all good things. contact Joseph Mamczij. Christian mother, but he himself and so the innocent Peter found May God Grant Them Many Years! could not make up his mind about himself imprisoned in chains. the faith. He kept statues of Christ The Book of Acts goes on to relate and Apollo, and of Abraham and the coming of an angel who awakens Orpheus, in his palace—an obvious Peter as he sleeps in his cell late at sign of his double-mindedness. His night. The angel commands him to advisers apparently became get up quickly, get dressed, and put impatient with his hesitation, and on his sandals. on their own began to persecute the As he does so, the chains fall from Volunteers Are Needed troublesome Christians in the his hands. He follows the angel past St. Joseph Services (SJS, 1501 N. empire. Tatiana was a victim of two guards to the prison’s iron gate, Oakley Blvd.) are looking for these persecutions, though she had which opens by itself and lets them volunteers, including after-school many miraculous recoveries from pass freely out to the city. In tutoring, English Second Language torture before being beheaded, gratitude for this saving miracle, the instructor, administrative help, public resolutely praying up to the Church designates a day to venerate relations and much more. moment of death for her Peter’s chains as a tangible sign of Flyers are posted around the persecutors. Perhaps if Alexander God’s care. rectory and in the vestibule. For had been as decisive about the faith Peter, of course, had his own more information see Steve Durham, as Tatiana was, she would not have moments of double-mindedness.
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