PARISH NEWS  Congratulations to the Newly-Illumined: We Welcome to congratulate Nina Emmelia Watkins on her baptism and Sts. Theodore Orthodox Church chrismation and ask God’s blessing on her, her baptismal 96 Los Robles St., Williamsville NY 14221 sponsors, and family. May God grant you many years! Tel: 716-634-6712 www.ststheodore.org  All-Night Vigil Class: Today, we will continue our series entitled Heaven on Earth: The Meaning of the All- Priest John Boddecker Night Vigil with our study of the service of Vespers. The Deacon Andrew Hammond class will examine the historical and scriptural roots of Deacon George Hammond the Church’s cycle of daily prayer as well as pointing out the Patristic understanding of the significance of this We are a parish of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, and cornerstone our Orthodox liturgical life. Copies of Fr. all are welcome to worship with us! Our services are in Sysoev’s book Christian Mystery: The Order of English. Please join us for lunch downstairs after the service. Divine Services with Commentary are available in the June 19/ July 2, 2017 bookstore as a study companion for this course.  Holy Apostles Peter and Paul: The Feast of the Chiefs Fourth Sunday after Pentecost among the Apostles, Peter and Paul, is coming up next Holy Apostle Jude, Brother of the Lord week. We will serve the Vigil for the Feast on Tuesday,

July 11, at 6:00 pm and the Hours and Liturgy on This Week’s Schedule Wednesday, July 12, starting at 8:00 am. That evening we will share a potluck dinner together in honor of the Monday Midnight Office and Typika 7:00 am Holy Apostles. While it is a Wednesday, the Fast is Tuesday Midnight Office and Typika 7:00 am lessened to allow for Fish, Wine and Oil. Wednesday Midnight Office and Typika 7:00 am Small Compline with Akathist 6:00 pm WORD FROM THE HOLY FATHERS to Holy Apostles There are two gifts of God which Paul points out here. First Thursday Midnight Office and Typika 7:00 am there is the freeing from sin, and then there is the making of Friday Midnight Office and Typika 7:00 am slaves of righteousness, which better than any freedom. For Akathist to the Mother of God 6:00 pm God has done the same as if a person was to take an orphan The Healer of Cancer Saturday Confession and Communion Rule 4:00 pm who had been carried away by savages into their own All-Night Vigil 5:00 pm country, and was not only to free him from captivity but to set Sunday Hours and Divine Liturgy 9:00 am a kind father over him and raise him to a very great dignity. Meal in Trapeza after Services This is what has happened in our case. For it was not just that God freed us from our old evils; he also led us into the life of the . TROPARIA with a heavenly crown, O Theodore, // for thou art eternally Resurrection - Tone 3: Let the heavens be glad; let earthly things invincible. rejoice; / for the Lord hath wrought might with His arm. / He hath St. Jude - Tone 2: For thine adamantine mind thou wast shown to trampled down death by death; / the first-born of the dead hath He be a chosen / and a steadfast pillar of the Church of Christ; become. / From the belly of Hades hath He delivered us // and / and thou didst preach the word of Christ to the nations, / telling Hath granted to the world great mercy. them to believe in the one Godhead; / and, glorified by Him, thou St. Theodore Stratelates – Tone 4: By true strategy, O trophy- hast received the gift of healings, / to cure the infirmities of those bearer / thou wast an illustrious general of the Heavenly King, O who have recourse unto thee, // O most lauded apostle Jude. Theodore. / For thou didst wisely arm thyself with the weapons of – Tone 6: O protection of that cannot be put faith, / and didst utterly annihilate the hordes of demons, / and to shame, / O mediation unto the creator unfailing, / disdain not the didst prove a victorious athlete, / wherefore with faith // we ever suppliant voices of sinners, / but be thou quick, O good one, to call thee blessed. help us who in faith cry unto thee; / hasten to intercession and St. Theodore the Tyro – Tone 2: Great are the triumphs of faith! / speed thou to make supplication, // thou who dost ever protect, O The holy Theodore rejoiced in a fountain of flame as in Theotokos, them that honor thee. refreshing water. / For having been made a whole burnt offering by PROKEIMENON fire, / he was offered as a sweetbread to the Trinity, // By his Third Tone: O chant unto our God, chant ye; chant unto our King, prayers, O Christ God, save our souls. chant ye. St. Jude – Tone 1: Tone 1: Knowing thee to be the kinsman of Refrain: Clap your hands, all ye nations; shout unto God with a Christ and a steadfast martyr, O Jude, / with sanctity we praise thee voice of rejoicing. who trampled falsehood underfoot and preserved the Faith. / Eighth Tone: Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth, and Wherefore, celebrating thy most holy memory today, // through thy their words unto the ends of the world. supplications we receive remission of sins. ALLELUIARION KONTAKIA Third Tone: In Thee, O Lord, have I hoped, let me not be put to Resurrection - Tone 3: Thou didst rise today from the tomb, O shame in the age to come. Merciful One, / and didst lead us out of the gates of death. / Today Refrain: Be Thou unto me a God to defend me and a house of Adam danceth and Eve rejoiceth; / and together with them both the refuge to save me. prophets and patriarchs // unceasingly praise the divine might of Second Tone: The heavens shall confess Thy wonders, O Lord, Thine authority. and Thy truth in the congregation of . St. Theodore Stratelates – Tone 2: Armed with faith and courage of soul, / and having taken in thy hand the Word of God as a spear, Today’s Readings / thou didst conquer the enemy, / O glory of , Theodore. // Epistle: Romans 6:18-23 With them cease not to intercede with Christ God for us all. Jude 1:1-25 Gospel: Matthew 8:5-13 St. Theodore the Tyro – Tone 8: Having received the faith of John 14:21-24 Christ in thy heart as an inner shield, / thou didst overcome all the opposing forces, O great champion, / and thou hast been crowned