The Reading from the of St. Paul to the Colossians. (4:5-55,014-18) Saint George Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church rethren, conduct yourselves wisely toward outsiders, making the most of the time. Let your 1250 Oakdale Avenue, West Saint Paul, Minnesota 55118 speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to B answer everyone. Parish Website: http://www.saintgeorge-church.org Tychicus will tell you all about my affairs; he is a beloved brother and faithful minister and Church Phone: 651-457-0854 fellow servant in the Lord. I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are and that he may encourage your hearts, and with him , the faithful and beloved The Most Reverend Metropolitan JOSEPH, Archbishop of New York, brother, who is one of you. They will tell you of everything that has taken place. Metropolitan of all North America Aristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, and Mark the cousin of (concerning Right Reverend ANTHONY, Auxiliary Bishop whom you have received instructions—if he comes to you, receive him), and who is called Diocese of Toledo and the Midwest Justus. These are the only men of the circumcision among my fellow workers for the kingdom of God, and they have been a comfort to me. Luke the beloved physician and greet you. Give Right Reverend Archimandrite John Mangels, Pastor my greetings to the brethren at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house. And when Reverend Father John Chagnon, attached Very Reverend Archpriest Paul Hodge, attached this letter has been read among you, have it read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and see that Reverend Deacon John Mikhail, attached you read also the letter from Laodicea. And say to , “See that you fulfill the ministry Very Reverend Archpriest Thomas Begley, retired Rt. Reverend Archimandrite Duane Pederson, retired which you have received in the Lord.” Reverend Father Daniel Simon, retired I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. Remember my fetters. Grace be with you. Amen. Pastor’s email: [email protected] Pastor’s Cell: 303-520-0981 Signing up for services: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0444A8AC23ABF85-stgeorge : The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke. (10:16-21) Sunday, October 18, 2020 he Lord said, “He who hears you hears Me, and he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who The Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me.” The Seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Thy Tone 2 Eothinon 8 T Name!” And Jesus said to them, “I saw fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I have given

Commemoration: Martyr Marinos the Elder at Anazarbos; Venerable Theodore, and Euphrosyne; you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing New-martyrs and Kyrmidoles of Egypt; Venerable Peter of Cetinje shall hurt you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you; but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.” THE DIVINE LITURGY OF ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the spirit and said, “I thank Thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that Thou hast hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to babes; yea, Father, for such was Thy gracious will.” RESURRECTIONAL APOLYTIKION IN TONE TWO When Thou didst submit Thyself unto death, O Thou deathless and immortal One, then Thou didst HOLY BREAD destroy hell with Thy Godly power. And when Thou didst raise the dead from beneath the earth, all the powers of Heaven did cry aloud unto Thee: O , Thou giver of life, glory to Thee. Holy Bread is offered for the health and welfare of Etoll, Vanlerberghe's and the Hutchens families all Covid 19 victims, their families and all St. George parishioners.

APOLYTIKION OF ST. LUKE IN TONE THREE In loving memory of the departed members of the Etoll and Ablan families O holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke, intercede with the merciful God, to grant our souls forgiveness and all departed members of St. George parish. of sins. Now sing the apolytikion of the patron saint ELCOME to all our guests and visitors. We are delighted to have you visiting and worshipping with us this morning and hope that you return soon. We invite you to KONTAKION IN TONE TWO W participate in the Divine Liturgy, but, sadly, due to the divisions in Christianity, O protection of Christians that cannot be put to shame, mediation unto the Creator most constant, only baptized/chrismated members of the Orthodox Church who have made their O despise not the suppliant voices of those who have sinned; but be thou quick, O good one, to Confession before an Orthodox priest and prepared themselves by fasting may re- come unto our aid, who in faith cry unto thee: Hasten to intercession, and speed thou to make ceive Holy Communion. Please come forward after Liturgy to venerate the Cross and supplication, thou who dost ever protect, O Theotokos, them that honor thee. partake of the Antidoron-Holy Bread. Please turn off your cell phones and all electronic devices. EPISTLE: Their voice has gone out into all the earth. Wisdom from the Church Fathers: Acknowledge your sinfulness and pride and impatience. And hum- The heavens declare the glory of God ble yourself under the strong hand of God, accusing no one except yourself. Then you will see divine help: how God will calm you and cause the hearts of your opponents to soften towards you. St. Macarius of Optina (+1860) BAKE SALE—OCTOBER 31 ANNOUNCEMENTS We are doing very well on sales but we want to sell out! Please help us advertise by taking fliers PRAY FOR THE SICK and distributing them as well as letting you friends know on FACEBOOK and social media. If you Please pray for Lorraine Hartwig, Ethen Leff, Elizabeth Henry, Father John Chagnon, Boulos Bitar, are able to help us by delivering the food to our curbside patrons on Saturday, October 31, please Mary Rudquist, James and Emily, Corrie Fox, Hanna Colliander, Lauretta Villareal, Genevieve let Mary Rudquist ([email protected] or 651-890-6817) know so she can get a schedule to- Lehnen, Jim Etoll, Mike Etoll, Dwight Johnson, George & Ellie Saba, Anna Windsor, Peter Hafiz, gether. Shop online now at http://mideastfest.com/shop/ and pick up on Oct. 31, 9am-6pm at St. Fr. Duane, John and John Etoll, Wally, Maria, Allen, Nick, Jackson & Hunter Golden, Yasmin George Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church in West St. Paul. All sales made and paid for Kakish, Carol Haddad, Camille Goll, Kh. Vergin Khoury, Margaret Boalbey, Norm Holmes, Phyl- online. We are committed to following all local COVID-19 safety guidelines. lis Hodge, Joe Etoll, Lamese McDowell, Edgard Siouffy, Berhane Haliemichael, Fr. Dan & Eileen All sales made and paid for online. We are committed to following all local COVID-19 safety Simon, Joseph Kammeyer, Emmanoulakis, Marilyn Perry, Nancy Maker, Mike & Sandy guidelines. See and share fliers on the Candle Table. Brown, Natalie Mozey, Sarah Vanlerberghe, Alan, Mary Poulsen, Mervat and Abigail Lotfalla & Samira Shehata. THIS WEEK AT ST. GEORGE If you are ill or having surgery and wish to be remembered in the Liturgy and daily prayers of the priest, please contact Fr. Mangels. UPCOMING SERVICE • Saturday, October 24, Great Vespers at 5:00pm BULLETIN & NEWSLETTER ANNOUNCEMENT PROCEDURE • Sunday, October 25, Orthros at 9:00am ANY announcement in the weekly bulletin and Newsletter is subject to approval by Fr. Man- • Sunday, Octover 25, Divine Liturgy at 10:00am gels/and the Council. It is important to notify Brigitte by e-mail ([email protected]) or phone with all your bulletin information by NOON Wednesday of the week before you offer the UPDATED ANNOUNCEMENT CONCERNING CHURCH SERVICES, ETC. Holy Bread in order to print the bulletin in a timely manner. Newsletter Deadline: 9/17/2020 Governor Waltz issued a new Emergency Executive Order regarding the use of face masks in Church. From now until we hear otherwise, Face Masks shall be used in Church. Please refer to HOLY BREAD LIST the Update, I sent out on Friday, July 24 for more information. As the Governor said, if someone Oct. 25, Percy (memorial Pete & Rosa) is not wearing a mask we must assume they have a reason and not make a scene and certainly not Nov. 01, shame people. is is the House of God. Nov. 08, With the new directives from Metropolitan Joseph and the Emergency Executive Order 20- Nov. 15, 62 of Governor Waltz, we have been allowed to increase the number of people attending Divine Nov. 22, Services to 25% of capacity with people practicing social distancing. Please go online to Nov. 29, https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0444A8AC23ABF85-stgeorge to sign up for the Services. We have 50 slots available for each Service. PLEASE DO NOT SIGN UP FOR TWO SUNDAYS To schedule Holy Bread and/or memorial, contact Joan Alevizos (651-453-1894). It is completely IN A ROW. We must let people come back to the Church. Look on the signup sheet early on proper to offer more than one memorial or Holy Bread on the same Sunday. When signing up for Sunday morning and if there is room, then you can sign up again. e Services continue to be Holy Bread, please indicate “yes” or “no” if you will also be providing coffee hour. Coffee hour available via Livestreaming on YouTube thanks to the efforts of Heath Nelson, Mike Varian and Due to the restrictions of the Covid-19 pandemic, Coffee Hour has been suspended in the Parish James Baker! Hall. ose who might be afraid to come back to Church in a larger setting can sign up to receive Holy Communion after all Services. We are able to have small gatherings at the Church as long as OCTOBER: ORTHODOX SEMINARY MONTH masks are used and social distancing is observed. We still do not have permission to use the Parish Traditionally, throughout the Month of October, we take a SECOND OFFERING for the support of the Hall for Coffee Hours, etc. If you have any questions, concerns, or needs, please contact Father Orthodox Schools of Theology in this country where our future priests and leaders are trained. A John Mangels at 303-520-0981 or [email protected]. letter will be read today from Metropolitan Joseph regarding this special offering. Thank you in advance for your kind support of our Seminaries! Please earmark your contribution “Seminaries” AID TO THE PEOPLE OF BEIRUT so that it goes to the right place. Following the tragic explosion in the city of Beirut, Antiochian Orthodox Christians from around the world are being asked to help with prayers and financial offerings. You can make an offering ANNUAL MEETING 2020 using this link provided by Metropolitan Joseph: https://antiochian.networkforgood.com/pro- Because of Covid restrictions, we are unable to have a traditional Annual Meeting. The Parish jects/106179-financial-aid-following- Beirut-explosion Thanks to all of you who have contributed Council decided to send out the Financial Report and Ballots for Council elections. This afternoon to this worthy effort. at 3:00pm, we will host a ZOOM MEETING for those who would like to ask any questions about the Financial Report and Budget. You received the information about this in Fr. Mangels’ latest email CHURCH SCHOOL blast on Friday. If you do not have access to the internet, you can call the Church during that time Our next monthly, virtual church school lesson is scheduled for Sunday, October 18 at 2pm. A and ask your questions. Please make sure your ballots are postmarked by October 24. If you did reminder with Zoom link will be emailed to families. See Christina Worrall if you have questions not receive the packet, please let Kh Jane Chagnon know. She is the Secretary of the Council or comments. Keep the faith!!! Please use the Church Sign Up Genius to let us know your chil- (651)249-9134. dren will be attending: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0444a8ac23abf85-stgeorge.

ST GEORGE BOOKSTORE NEWS October 15th. We have two Officers who are continuing a second term. We need two volunteers to e Bookstore has a new look! Featured books from now till the end of November are Mother run for President and Secretary. Your sister in Christ, Sue Perry Alexandra’s books on her life and e Holy , which is the book the Ladies are featuring in their book club. e store offers many new books and has been stocked for the upcoming holidays. Book Club, Round 2! The St. George Ladies will be hosting the second online book club featuring “The Holy Angels” by Mother Alexandra. All parish members are welcome, men or women! If you Patristic Wisdom: By the name of Jesus Christ we must destroy sinful thoughts and feelings, be- don’t already have the book you can purchase one in our church bookstore. Our next of three gotten of our sin-damaged nature and demonic intrigue before they grow and take root. The only monthly meetings will be October 22nd at 7:00p.m., covering the second section of the book, An- means is to: Watch, therefore, and pray always (Luke 21:36). By patience, labor and struggle don’t gels in the . If you would like to sign up for this session, contact Lisa Hartwig give in to the enemy. Abbot Nikon Vorobiev (+1963) at [email protected] or Cindy Karos at [email protected]. We look forward to visiting and learning with you. INTRO TO ORTHODOXY, PAN-ORTHODOX CATECHISM Our 12-week Fall 2020 catechism class on the basics of Eastern Orthodox Christianity will be on Wisdom from the Church Fathers: We have within us deeply rooted weaknesses, passions, and Tuesday evenings 7-9 pm. The course is open to all, especially inquirers, and those interested in defects. These cannot be all cut out with one sharp motion but rather with patience, persistence, converting to Orthodoxy. Classes will be held virtually via Zoom. If we move to in-person, classes care and attention. The path to perfection is long but pray to God and He will strengthen you…Do will take place here at St. George. See link for schedule; register online not despair if you keep falling into your old sins. Many of them are strong because they have re- at https://forms.gle/JuYZfmJGMWEUPpfE6. Feel free to join us for individual classes without reg- ceived the force of habit. Don’t let anything deprive you of hope. St. Nectarios of Aegina (+1920) istering. FOCUS MN Think About It: Do not say, "this happened by chance, while this came to be of itself." In all that Check out the FOCUS website focusmn.weebly.com or contact either Vera (651-324-2705) or exists there is nothing disorderly, nothing indefinite, nothing without purpose, nothing by chance Judy (612-490-8611) to see what their needs are. ... How many hairs are on your head? God will not forget one of them. Do you see how nothing, Clothes Closet: Operating on an appointment basis. Need on site volunteers willing and able to even the smallest thing, escapes the gaze of God? St. Basil the Great meet face to face (with masks) with clients. We are only accepting donations of winter wear for men, women and children; coats, boots, hats, scarves, gloves and mittens. CHURCH SUPPORT DURING THIS TIME Reception: We need of a few volunteers who are willing to be receptionist for the building. You ank you so much for your continued support of your parish during this time! We are very much will answer the phone, take messages, let people into the building and direct them to where they aware of what a hardship this crisis is putting on people throughout the country. If you are able, need to go, answer questions about our programming, and perhaps make inquiries for us or confirm please continue to financially support your Church during this time. Your weekly/monthly contri- clothes closet appointments. In general, hours will be 10-2:00. This can be divided between two bution can be mailed to the Church so that we can keep up with our commitments. Many, many different people; be split 10:00-12:30 and 12:30-2:30 Food Shelf: operating on the 2nd and 4th thanks! Saturdays of the month. Occasional help is needed stocking shelves, filling bags of staples for dis- e Parish Council has approved numerous ways to donate to St. George. tribution, dividing large quantities into smaller bags for distribution/picking up food. Bagged 1. Venmo is a free secure app that can be downloaded and installed on a mobile phone. Donors Lunch: Approximately 200 bagged lunches made weekly for various youth partners and for neigh- that install the Venmo app can directly transfer money from their bank account to St. George's borhood distribution. Production of the sandwich/lunch bags occurs Thursdays from 10:00 - 12:00 Old National Bank account with no fees incurred. However, if a credit card transaction is used and distributed Mondays and Thursdays from 11:30-12:30 outside FOCUS House Volunteers are by the donor, the donor will incur a 3% fee. Venmo your donation to @stgeorgeaoc. e needed to make sandwiches, pack bags, and distribute /deliver the lunches. church is automatically emailed a notification of your donation. 2. From your online bank account, do an External Transfer directly to the church's Old National HELP FOR THOSE IN NEED Bank account. Info you will need: Routing Number 086300012 Account Num- If anyone, particularly our older or shut-in parishioners needs help with anything, please call either ber 322042 Please send an email to [email protected] so that our Financial Fr. John or George/Brigitte Khoury. We have a number of parishioners who are willing to help Secretary can properly record your donation. with bringing food or supplies to you. It is important that we follow the guidelines that have been 3. From your online bank account, schedule Bill Pay and a paper check will be written to the given us but in an emergency or time of need, don’t hesitate to call. church. 4. A paper check can be written and mailed to the church. MISCELLANEOUS 5. When you come to Church, the collection tray will not be passed. Please leave your offering If you order something for the church or have an order sent to the church instead of your home, in the plate on the Candle Table before or after Services. please make arrangements to be there for delivery! PROFOUND THANKS TO ALL OF YOU! Patristic Wisdom: Some say they are atheists, but there is no such thing as an atheist. Even the ANTIOCHIAN WOMEN devil believes and trembles (James 2:19), but he refuses to do good. There is no rational being that ELECTION FOR ANTIOCHIAN WOMEN OFFICERS All ladies 18 and over are eligible to does not long after life with all their heart, especially eternal life. We complicate our lives with serve on the church board. If you would like to submit your name, call Debbie Etoll 651-455-7740. negative thoughts. Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica (+2003) The Antiochian Women work where needed to help our church. It is interesting and I encourage women to serve the church in this way. All women should take a turn. Deadline for names is Saint Luke, was of Greek origin born in the Hellenistic city of Antioch, and was extremally educated. His studies included Greek philosophy, medicine, and art in his youth. He was also a professional physician. St. Luke came to where he came to believe in the Lord. He and met the resurrected Lord on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24). After , Luke returned to Antioch and worked with the Apostle Paul, trav- eling with him to , and converting Jews and pagans to the Christian Faith. "Luke, the beloved physician, ... greets you," writes the Apostle Paul to the Colossians (Colos- sians 4:14). At the request of Christians, St. Luke wrote his Gospel in the first century. Ac- cording to some accounts this took place around 60 A.D., and according to others around 80 A.D. After St. Paul's martyrdom, St. Luke preached the Gospel throughout Italy, Dal- matia, Macedonia, and other regions. He painted icons of the Most-holy Theotokos—not just one, but three—as well as icons of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. For this reason, St. Luke is considered the founder of Christian iconography. In his old age, he visited Libya and Upper Egypt; from Egypt he returned to Greece, where he continued to preach and convert many with great zeal despite his age. In addition to his Gospel, St. Luke wrote the and dedicated each of these works to , the governor of Achaia. Luke was 84 years old when the wicked idolaters tortured him for the sake of Christ and hanged him from an olive tree in the town of Thebes, in Beothia of Greece. St. Luke wrote the first icon, of the Most Holy Theotokos Directress or Hodigitria, mentioned in the Paraklesis to the Theotokos: Speechless be the lips of impious ones, Those who do not reverence Your great icon, the sacred one Which is called Directress, And was depicted for us By one of the apostles, . —The Service of the Small Paraklesis

The Holy Apostle & Evangelist St. Luke October 18, 2020