Orthodox in America SS Peter & Paul Orthodox Church July 2018 June Council Highlights

 May’s Operating Income was $13,905.30 and Operating Ex- penses were $9,774.98, result- ing in a net Operating Income of $4,130.32 for the month.  Church youth spent a week at On July 14 we remember two (which means "of the Holy that the book is meant to in- All Saints Camp. Pictures pg. 2. saints, one who lived during Mountain," referring to Mount spire all Chrisans, not just the first years of the Chrisan Athos) was born in 1748. He monascs. He was always ea-  Installation of new church win- Church and the other who lived became a monasc on that ger to share good Chrisan dows nearing completion. just a few hundred years ago. mountain when he was twenty teaching from any source. For  Blinds for hall being priced. They are the apostle Aquila -six. For the rest of his life, he example, he produced an edi- from among the Seventy, and would work at wring and on of "Unseen Warfare" by Saint Nicodemus the Hagiorite. eding some of the most im- Father Lorenzo Scupoli, a Ro- portant books and texts we man Catholic. Aquila and his wife Priscilla, were friends and co-workers of have in the Church. He pre- During the remaining years of pared himself well for this Saint Paul. All three were born his life Saint Nectarios conn- work, using his prodigious SS Peter & Paul Orthodox into Judaism, became Chrisans, ued to work intensity. He memory to learn by heart the Church and taught the faith to others. wrote hymns, a book on Chris- 1614 E. Monte Vista Rd. Scriptures and many wrings an morality, a manual for Phoenix, AZ 85006 In Romans 16:3 Paul writes of the Fathers, and bringing his confession and accounts of the 602.253.9515 that Aquila and Priscilla "risked knowledge of Greek to a level lives of saints. He produced a www.sspeterpaulaz.org their own necks for my life." It www.oca.org of near perfecon. new edion of the "Rudder" www.orthodoxfellowship.org isn't clear what he is specifical- The work began when he was and translated a three-volume ly referring to, but obviously The Right Reverend DANIEL assigned, along with Saint Mac- work on the Pauline epistles by Bishop of Santa Rosa the couple acted bravely at arius of Corinth, to edit a manu- Saint Theophylact. Rector some me when their courage 480.287.0240 Mobile script of the "," a col- [email protected] saved Paul's life. Exhausted and ill, he died at lecon of spiritual wrings of Archpriest David Balmer the age of sixty, having given Paul then writes that not only Fathers from the fourth to Attached the best of his great learning he, but "all the churches of the Retired fieenth centuries. The two and energy to the service of Genles" are thankful to the John Weiss chose the contents of the Church. He le encourag- pair, who offered their home Andrew Evans the book based on their availa- ing words for every Chrisan: Council President for Chrisans to meet in. This bility. They included pieces that "...the more a man acts in ac- 480.948.7929 was another way in which Aq- had never been published and cordance with the command- Barbara Harp uila and Priscilla gave the best were not accessible anywhere ments of Christ, the more he is Choir Director they had so that the Church [email protected] else. Some pieces had appeared cleansed of the passions and could flourish and its great Stephanie A. Homyak in other publicaons, but these the more the fire of Divine Church School Director leaders could connue to were worm-eaten, crumbling grace lights in his heart, illu- Newsletter Editor teach. According to tradion, 623.869.0470 texts that were nearly impossi- mines and deifies him." [email protected] Aquila gave his very life, killed ble to read. by jealous pagans. Mike Wagner Saint Nicodemus' preface to Web Master Saint Nicodemus the Hagiorite [email protected] the "Philokalia" emphasizes PAGE 2 SSPETER&PAULORTHODOXCHURCHNEWSLETTER PAGE 3 SSPETER&PAULORTHODOXCHURCHNEWSLETTER

Fr. Lawrence Farley would have meant for the man we have that we will never be celebries, or that only to read of the trauma caused by a we are lonely. Our real problem is that we The story of the deliverance of the Gada- single demon leaving a boy in Mark 9:26), are twisted and broken inside, and our rene demoniac reappears oen in our and they immediately le. When the de- real name is legion. We may appear out- Orthodox leconary, so it seems that mons suddenly entered the swine, they wardly respectable, and may live funcon- someone thought we really needed to animals panicked and stampeded over the al lives, hiding our brokenness from the hear its message. You know the sto- cliff and drowned in the sea below. But view of others, but in reality we live in the ry: Our Lord crossed the Sea of Galilee the man from whom the legion had de- tombs of death like the poor wretch that with His disciples and disembarked on the parted was saved. He sat restored and met Christ by the shore. A moment’s hon- eastern shore, in the region whose main calm at the Lord’s feet, and begged to go est introspecon will reveal this. C. S. city was Gadara. There He met a demoni- with Him. Lewis reported the same thing. In his ac, accompanied according to Saint book Surprised by Joy, he admied to Mahew’s version of the story by a sec- The queson that Christ asked the man is what he found the first me he looked ond demoniac. The man ran up to Christ the queson we must answer as inside himself: “For the first me I exam- and fell down before Him, asking for well. What is your name? That is, what ined myself with a seriously praccal pur- help. He was in dire straits indeed: his do we think is our real problem, our ul- pose. And there I found what appalled afflicon drove him far from society, and mate need, the one thing that stands be- me; a zoo of lusts, a bedlam of ambions, he lived among the unclean tombs, tween us and happiness? a nursery of fears, a hareem of fondled screaming and cung himself on the hatreds. My name was legion.” Lewis The of course offers its own false rocks. His neighbors had aempted what answered the Lord’s queson with the diagnoses of the human dilemma, and we would call an intervenon: they rigorous honesty which characterized all suggests a number of things that we really bound him with a strait-jacket of chains his subsequent work, and learned his true need. Taught by the world, when the Lord and tried to take him home, but with de- name and his true need. Of course we asks us, “What is your name?”, some monic strength he broke the chains and have other needs as well. We cannot live would answer, “Poverty,” for they believe returned to his solitary haunt and his without money, and it is nice to have our that insufficient money is their main prob- wretched life of screaming and self- worth recognized by our peers, and many lem. If only they had more money, they destrucon. Something within him recog- find marriage to be the blessed path for would be happy, and all would be nized Jesus as his only hope when He them. But these needs are not our funda- well. Some would answer, emerged on the sea-shore, and he ran to mental ones, for neither poverty, nor lack “Unappreciated,” for they believe that if Him for help. When our Lord saw him, He of recognion, nor loneliness can keep us only they could be famous like the celebri- had one queson for him: “What is your from God and from eternal joy. Only sin es then they would be fulfilled. Fame name?” To know a person’s name was to can keep us from God. The Gadarene de- and recognion of their gis and abilies have power over him, and our Lord’s first moniac was not alone, for he had one who are all they need to be happy. Some assault on the demonic within the man shared his misery, and who by the sea- would answer the Lord’s queson by say- was extract the name. The man replied, shore that day shared his salvaon. Let us ing, “Loneliness,” for they feel that if only “Legion,” for a veritable legion of demons join them as well. It is no use denying our they were married, then their life would had entered him. A legion, according to true name and refusing to acknowledge be complete and all their needs would be Roman figuring, was a force of about what is our fundamental problem. Let us met. To the queson of what is our basic 6,000 men. We all know how the story look within and speak our true name dilemma, the world offers a variety of an- ends: when the demons knew that their when Christ bids us, and like the demoni- swers, and it suggests that money, fame, defeat was at hand, they asked permission acs of the Gadarene region find our salva- and marriage would solve everything. to enter the herd of swine feeding nearby, on in the Lord. rather than be cast into the abyss. Our The Gospel story of the Gadarene demoni- Lord gave the requested permission in Reprinted from the Orthodox Church in ac reveals our true need, which is deliver- order to spare the man the trauma that America web site, hps://oca.org/ ance from sin. Our real problem is not would come from having the demons ex- reflecons/fr.-lawrence-farley/what-is- that we do not have enough money, or pelled involuntarily (to imagine what this your-name PAGE 4 SSPETER&PAULORTHODOXCHURCHNEWSLETTER

Fr. Lawrence Farley will be thorough — not a lile pruning of a repentance, which alone gives meaning to few stray sinful branches, but the felling of our inclusion in the Body of Christ. Re- The importance of John the Bapzer may the whole tree. And repentance is urgent- pentance is not something we do before be gauged by the amount of paint and ink ly required, that that judgment is even we can serve God; it is what serving God the Church spends on him. His portrait is now impending and threatening. The axe consists of. of divine judgment is being laid at the root painted and is found on every single - Secondly, we may ask what do we repent to the tree; the first blow of the axe is screen in all the churches, regardless of of? What does God want from us? The imminent, and there is no me to lose. whether or not he is that church’s patron Pharisees were sure that repentance con- saint. And many hymns have been wrien One might perhaps imagine that being sisted of scrupulous aenon to the minu- to celebrate his life. Much ink is required part of a religious body would be enough ae of the Law, and fasdious care in for these hymns — he has many to save. It is not so. Many Jews imagined keeping the Sabbath and ritual purifica- feasts. Fiy-seven feasts each year in fact: that as the children of Abraham and mem- on. A truly devout person would wash the feasts of his concepon on September bers of the Chosen People they were im- one’s hands before eang just in case they 23, his birth on June 24, his beheading on mune and safe from divine wrath. That had contracted ceremonial defilement in August 29, the synaxis celebrang his role the marketplace (see Mark 7:3f). Is that as the Lord’s bapzer on January 7, the what repentance consists of? Does God feasts of his relics on February 24 and May primarily want us to be more reli- 25, and every Tuesday of the 52 weeks of “ John was not just the Baptizer, he was gious? John taught otherwise. Repent- the year, which celebrate him in the week- ance consisted of care for the poor and ly liturgical cycle. That is a lot of feasts, the Forernner, and his life had no other of contentment with one’s lot. “He who requiring a lot of hymns. purose than to reveal Christ and prepare has two coats, let him share with him This should only be expected for someone who has none; and he who has food, let the Lord described as the greatest born of His way. From his place on our icon- him do likewise” (Luke 3:11). Notoriously women (Mahew 11:11). Yet, as the Lord sinful tax-collectors? Let them “collect went on to say, even the least of those in screens, John tells us that we also have no no more than was appointed” for them, the kingdom was greater than John, for cheang no one. Soldiers? “Rob no one John stood outside the coming kingdom, other purose but to sere the Lord. “ by violence, and be content with your suffering death at the hands of Herod be- wages” (v. 12-14). fore he could enter it himself. John was, in Here we see the explicaon of the con- wrath was for the Genles, not for fact, the embodiment of the Old Testa- stant theme of the Old Testament proph- Jews. They were the children of Abraham, ment’s message, and as such he stood at ets. All the prophets denounced social and were therefore safe. John thundered the end of the long line of sacred histo- injusce and said that to know God was against such presumpon. Being a child of ry. “All the prophets and the Law prophe- not to be religious, but to be kind to the Abraham was no great thing: “Do not pre- sied unl John” (v. 13), who was the final poor (Jeremiah 22:16). One of them, Mi- sume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abra- prophet, the seal of the prophets, for aer cah, summed it all up: “He has showed ham as our father,’ for I tell you God is him there could be no more Old Testament you, O man, what is good — what does able from these stones to raise up chil- prophecy. He was the prophec hinge, Yahweh require of you but to do jusce dren to Abraham” (Mahew 3:9). (This connecng the Old Covenant with the and to love kindness and to walk humbly probably involves a play on words which New. In his ministry and message we find with your God?” (Micah 6:8). The first and vanishes in translaon: from these stones the enrety of the Old Testament dislled great commandment to love God mani- [Hebrew eben] God is able to raise up and offered to the Church. Of that mes- fests itself in its corollary, the command- servants/ sons [Hebrew ebed].) If the sage, I would menon three things. ment to love your neighbour as your- Jews of old were not saved by racial mem- Firstly, John tells us to repent and that self. If you love God Whom you have not bership, neither are we Genles by eccle- repentance is the only way to avoid the seen, you will surely also love your neigh- siascal membership. What maers is coming judgment of God. That judgment (Continued on page 5) PAGE 5 SSPETER&PAULORTHODOXCHURCHNEWSLETTER

On July 13 we read the account of Jesus On this day the Church commemorates drinking, washing, and watering their teaching, and healing a leper, in Saint Julian of Le Mans. According to Church animals and plants. The city's leaders and Mahew 7:24-8: 4. Tradion, he is this same leper, then known people were ready now, with their need as Simon, who was healed by Christ. He met, to accept Julian. They were able to Jesus astounds the people gathered to befriended the apostles, and hear his words about Jesus Christ. listen to Him. They have Peter made him a bishop. He never heard another But Julian's concern for the people of Le was sent to the territory of person speak the way He Mans went far beyond that first miracle Gaul, which includes what does: "He taught them that allowed him to find acceptance. He we now know as Italy and as one having authority, became well known for the care and love France. Having been given and not as their scribes." he gave to the poorest cizens, to or- the name Julian, his mission phans, and to the many sick he was able As Jesus comes down was to preach to the pagan to comfort, and somemes to heal. He from the mountain where Cenomani tribe there. himself knew the Lord as One who did He has been teaching, The capital city of the more than great miracles. He knew Jesus one man emerges from Cenomani, modern Le Christ as the One who had been willing to the crowd. This man, a Mans, faced the terrible touch him—a simple act of love. leper, kneels before Him and begs, "Lord, problem of a shortage of drinking water. if You are willing, You can make me clean." A leading nobleman of Le Mans was con- Children, especially, were severely affect- Lepers were considered to be unclean, verted to Chrisanity, and soon most of ed. There was lile chance anyone would and the Old Testament Law even prohibit- the cizens followed. The nobleman gave listen to the newly-arrived bishop's ed others from touching them. Julian part of his castle to serve as the preaching when they were suffering from city's first cathedral church. That enabled But just as Jesus has disnguished Himself such a desperate basic deprivaon. Julian to have a long and successful minis- from the scribes by the manner of His Julian prayed for a miracle, and it was try, dying peacefully at an advanced age. teaching, He now shows Himself to be granted. He plunged his walking staff into unhindered by the law of the Book of Le- An imposing cathedral stands in Le Mans, the ground, and water gushed forth. vicus. He answers the leper by saying, "I France. It is named for Saint Julian, who Soon there was enough to relieve the am willing; be cleansed." As He does so, once was an unclean outcast to everyone people's suffering. They joyfully began He touches the man and heals him. except the Lord who loves us all.

(Continued from page 4) own disciples, they were incensed and we must decrease, and let our egos shrink jealous on John’s behalf. John was se- bour whom you have seen (1 John 4:20). back to a normal size. Jesus Christ must rene, recognizing in this the hand of increase in our lives so that all our aen- Thirdly, John teaches us that Christ is eve- God. Of course all men were going to Je- on is on Him. rything. Technically Jesus became John’s sus and He was winning the hearts of Isra- John was not just the Bapzer, he was the disciple when He was bapzed by el. Should not the bridegroom win the Forerunner, and his life had no other pur- him. Yet when John had his vision of a bride? John was simply the friend of the pose than to reveal Christ and prepare His harmless dove descending upon Jesus bridegroom, the Best Man, and like the way. From his place on our icon-screens, aer He was praying on the riverside aer Best Man he rejoiced to see the bride- John tells us that we also have no other His bapsm, John knew that Jesus was the groom win his bride. “He must increase, purpose but to serve the Lord. sinless Messiah, the One Who would bap- and I must decrease” (John 4:25-30). ze in the Holy Spirit, the One Whose way Reprinted from the Orthodox Church In John speaks these words to us as he was preparing. When John’s disciples America web site, hps://oca.org/ well. When our egos swell and we be- found out that Jesus branched out on His reflecons/fr.-lawrence-farley/the-seal-of- come angry at others, this is the sign that own and was bapzing and making His the-prophets PAGE 6 SSPETER&PAULORTHODOXCHURCHNEWSLETTER Icon of the Mother of God “It Is Truly Meet”

The “It is Truly Meet” Icon of the Mother The stranger sang the next verse, “For He Gabriel. The angel said, “Sing in this man- of God is in the high place of the altar of has regarded the low estate of His hand- ner, and all the Orthodox as well.” Then the cathedral church of the Karyes monas- maiden....” Then he chanted something he disappeared, and the icon of the Moth- tery on . the disciple had never heard er of God connued to radiate light for One Saturday night an before, “It is truly meet to some me aerward. bless Thee, O , Elder went to Karyes for The Eleousa Icon of the Mother of God, ever-blessed and most pure, the all-night Vigil. He le, before which the hymn “It Is Truly Meet” and the Mother of our instrucng his disciple to was first sung, was transferred to the God...” Then he connued remain behind and read katholikon at Karyes. The le, with the with, “More honorable than the service in their cell. hymn wrien on it by the Archangel Ga- the Cherubim....” As it grew dark, the disci- briel, was taken to Constannople when ple heard a knock on the While the hymn was being Saint Nicholas Chrysoberges (December door. When he opened sung, the icon of the The- 16) was Patriarch. the door, he saw an un- otokos shone with a heav- Numerous copies of the “It Is Truly Meet” known who called enly light. The disciple was Icon are revered in Russian churches. At himself Gabriel, and he invited him to moved by the new version of the familiar the Galerna Harbor of Peterburg a church come in. They stood before the icon of the hymn, and asked his guest to write the with five cupolas was built in honor of the Mother of God and read the service to- words down for him. When the stranger Merciful Mother of God, and into it they gether with reverence and compuncon. asked for paper and ink, the disciple said put a grace-bearing copy of the “It Is Truly that they did not have any. During the Ninth Ode of the , the Meet” icon sent from Athos. disciple began to sing “My soul magnifies The stranger took a roof le and wrote Reprinted from the Orthodox Church in the Lord...” with the Irmos of Saint Cos- the words of the hymn on its surface with America web site, hps://oca.org/saints/ mas the Hymnographer (October 14), his finger. The disciple knew then that this lives/2012/07/13/102022-icon-of-the- “More honorable than the Cherubim....” was no ordinary monk, but the Archangel mother-of-god-it-is-truly-meet Around SS Peter & Paul

JULY BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES PRAYER LIST July 14 Barbara Harp CONGRATULATIONS! “I was sick and you visited me.” Azuriah Merriwether Matt 25:36 16 John Yavornitzky 17 Mark Andrews July 1st marks We offer prayers to all of our parishioners Sophia Anderson who are ill or unable to aend services: 20 Wesley Holmes Dennis Tarasevich Matushka Mary Balmer Bishop Daniel’s Bill Osolinsky Fr David/Matushka Mary Balmer Harold Homyak 22 Nadya Moriarty twelfth anniversary at Ann Garza Jarrod Zaremba Marilyn Bezkorovainy 23 Nicholas Enoch Sr. SS Peter and Paul! Rose Kurowski 25 Sbdn. Rodion Pfeiffer Tillie (Taana) Kulek 27 Phil O’Brien Anna Michkofsky 28 Joanna Andrews Nicholina Joy Mazur 29 David Homyak Many years! Frank Kulik Victoria Andrews Vickie Kulik 31 Sammy Valencia Многая лета! If you know of anyone else in need of our Многая лета! Many Years! prayers, please contact Bishop Daniel. PAGE 7 SSPETER&PAULORTHODOXCHURCHNEWSLETTER

THANK YOU! On June 2, a dedicated group BLESSING OF VEHICLES It is SUMMER STEWARDSHIP of parishioners answered the call to assist in our parish custom to bless Throughout the summer months, a deep cleaning of the hall kitchen. The vehicles on the Sunday near- many of our parishioners will be group was organized by David Bieber of the est to the Feast of the Holy Prophet Elijah. taking vacations, seeking cooler climes, or Volunteer Commiee. We scheduled the This year, that commemoraon falls on visiting family and friends throughout the cleaning to start at 8 am. At 7 am. I was Sunday, July 22. Cars and other vehicles country and world. It is also during the sum- grateful to see Bill and Julio show up to as- will be blessed that day, following the mer, when church attendance decreases sist me in moving items out of the kitchen celebraon of the . because of vacations, that our parish ex- and to start cleaning the ceiling, the ceiling penses rise, due to the greater use and vents and fans, the lights, and to change out A COMMUNITY OUTREACH SOCCER PARTY higher cost of electricity in the heat of the light bulbs. At 8 am, when the core group was held on Saturday, June 23rd. Steve summer. However, the life and work of arrived, volunteers were able to move easily Doerksen (a catechumen at our Parish) your parish community continues even throughout the kitchen. Work pares organized and hosted a soccer party for when you are traveling and away and en- cleaned the pantry, the cabinets and draw- our neighbors in the apartments down the joying your vacation. You are asked to kind- ers, the stove and ovens, the sinks and street. Mexico played (and beat) South ly remember this and to maintain—and drains, trash and recycling bins, the wood, Korea in a World Cup match. Coffee, juice even increase—your stewardship during glass and metal on all the kitchen doors, the and baked goods were served. There was the summer months. May the Lord bless floors and numerous other task. All items lots of cheering for the Mexican team, your travels and bring you safely home. on the to-do list were accomplished “under both among our guests and parishioners. budget and under me”. Lunch, provided MID-YEAR STATEMENT OF CONTRIBUTIONS by Barbara, was set for 11 am. A COMMUNITY BACK-TO-SCHOOL EVENT will be through June 30, 2018 will be available on By 10:45 everyone was eang and taking a held on Saturday, July 21 at 10am. Steve the table at the back of the church later this break. We finished up by returning all Doerksen will host another outreach month. items, pung new labels on cabinets and event for our neighborhood families. Da- drawers and hanging new signs. vid Bieber will be accepng donaons CHURCH HUMOR I’d like to also say “Thank you” to: Dan, from parishioners so that we can pur- Terri asked her Sunday School class to Linda, Rita, Gina, Steve, Nick E., Anne, Iri- chase school necessies like backpacks, draw pictures of their favorite Bible sto- na, Elizabeth, Luka, Heather, Greg & Nico- notebooks, pencils, etc. for the local chil- ries. She was puzzled by Kyle's picture, la, Paul, Nick, Kaylee, Tania, Pam and dren. Please be as charitable as possible. which showed four people on an airplane, Sue. These parishioners sacrificed me so she asked him which story it was and effort for the goal of keeping our hall SUMMER READING starts and ends at the meant to represent. kitchen clean and efficient. church bookstore and parish library! The Flight to Egypt, was his reply. Nick Bock Don't fill your free days with senseless Poinng at each figure, Ms. Terri said, drivel! Redeem the me! Nourish and "That must be Mary, Joseph, and Baby TYAL MEMBERS gathered in the Cultural refresh your soul! There is something for Jesus, But who is the fourth person? Center library for TYAL Movie Night on everyone! Advice for everyday living, Oh, that's Ponus-the pilot. Friday, June 15, 2018. Members brought stories from centuries ago to present along a collecon of snack foods and re- day, history, adventure . . . you name  it, we've got it. And if we don't have it, freshments to enjoy during the screening, Six-year old Angie and her four-year old Katrina Delsante can get it for you. which featured a gripping two-hour docu- brother Joel were sing together in mentary film tled Becoming Truly Hu- church. Joel giggled, sang, and talked out WE WELCOME all visitors to man. The film follows the story of a loud. Finally, his big sister had had SS Peter & Paul. We hope man who fell away from Chrisanity as he enough. "You're not supposed to talk out your visit was enriching and grew up and later came to discover the loud in church." Orthodox Church and bring his wife and enlightening. Please join us in children into the faith. The film also in- the Cultural Center, behind the church, for "Why? Who's going to stop me?" Joel cludes interviews with a series of young our Fellowship Hour. It’s a chance to meet asked. adults who explain how their spiritual some of our members, other visitors, and Angie pointed to the back of the church challenges pulled them away from various enjoy some coffee and fellowship. We and said, "See those two men standing by churches and calls aenon to the rise of invite you to visit our website at the door? irreligion in contemporary society. www.sspeterpaulaz.org. They're hushers." July 2018

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1 2 3 Milk-Giver Icon at 4 Galatian Icon 5 Ven. Athanasius 6 7 Blachernae Icon of Mt. Athos 8:30am Hours Mt. Athos Relics Ven. Sergius of 9:00am Divine Liturgy Radonezh SS Peter & Paul Feast Day Pot Luck We welcome all of our guests and visitors. Please join us in the Cultural Center Luncheon for Fellowship Hour following Divine Liturgy each Sunday.

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15 Great Prince Vladimir, 16 17 18 Tolga Icon 19 Relics Ven. 20 Holy Prophet 21 Amatia Icon Equal to the Apostles, Seraphim of Sarov Elijah Enlightener of Lands of Rus 10:00 am Communi- Fathers of the 1st Six ty Back-To-School Ecumenical Councils Event 8:30am Hours 9:00am Divine Liturgy FOCA Naonal Convenon • St. Louis, MO

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