August 27, 2017 Weekly Bulletin

Holy Trinity Orthodox Church

Fr. Luke Mihaly Welcome to Holy Trinity Parish 74 Joes Hill Road Today is the Twelfth Danbury, CT 06811 Sunday after Pentecost. Rectory (203) 748-0671 Cell (203) 482-6223 The Epistle is 1 Corinthians 15:1-11. The [email protected] Gospel is from Matthew www.holytrinitydanbury.org 19:16-26. Venerable https://www.facebook.com/htocdanbury/? the Great. fref=hovercard Holy Trinity is a diverse Diocesan Website: www.acrod.org and welcoming parish of the Carpatho Russian Camp Nazareth: Diocese, under the http://www.campnazareth.org Ecumenical Patriarchate.

Facebook: His Grace, https://www.facebook.com/acroddiocese , is our diocesan ruling hierarch. Everyone is invited study and learn more about Twitter: https://twitter.com/acrodnews downstairs following Divine Jesus Christ and His Holy Divine Liturgy is offered Liturgy for Coffee Hour and Orthodox Church. Sunday at 10 am. As You Tube: Fellowship. https://youtube.com/acroddiocese reminder only those If you have any questions Orthodox who Come down and meet Fr. about the Orthodox Recommended Orthodox Internet are properly prepared are Luke and the parishioners. Church, our Faith, or our Ministries invited to receive Holy parish please feel free to Our parish offers many http://myocn.net/ Communion. contact Fr. Luke. He is opportunities to pray, to more than happy to meet http://www.ancientfaith.com/ with you and talk. Schedule of Services and Events for this week

Sunday, August 27, 10 AM – Tuesday, August 29, 7:30 PM Sunday, September 3, 10 AM – Divine Liturgy Church School 2 – Play Rehearsal Divine Liturgy – Petitions for the new school year Sunday, August 27, 12 noon Icon of Inexhaustible Cup 2 Wednesday, August 30, 7 PM – Parish Council Meeting – Catechism Class Sunday, September 3, 12:30 PM – Medieval Mayhem 2 Play Rehearsal Sunday, August 27, 1 PM – Thursday, August 31, 8:30 AM OYMT Presentation 2 Play Rehearsal – Akathist Today is the second of three DDD Dinner 2 Monday, August 28, 6 PM – Thursday, August 31, 7 PM - wedding banns for Christopher Dorothy Day 3 Vespers Beheading of St. John Adult Mission Trip Meeting to St. John the Compassionate Mihaly and Brenna Singer. Upcoming events 3 Monday, August 28, 7 PM – Anyone who knows any reason Spirituality Class Friday, September 1, 9 AM – why they should not be married Music on the Mount 3 Old Testament Class Tuesday, August 29, 9 AM – please see F. Luke Adult Mission Trip 3 Liturgy Beheading so St. John Friday, September 1, 1 PM to The Children’s Word 4 – Strict Fast Day 5 PM – Dorothy Day Soup Kitchen Perogie Sessions Starts 4 Tuesday, August 29, 10 AM – Prayer Group Saturday, September 2, 5 PM

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Readers Schedule Alcoholism and Addiction | New Rectory | Coming Soon: Medieval 8/20 – Paul Toaso MayhemThe Akathist Service to New Rectory Moving Coming Soon: Medieval the Icon of the 8/27 – Susan Paltauf Forward! Last week Mayhem—The Trinity Inexhaustible Cup has 9/3 – Robert Faubel our parish voted Troubadours are hard at work proven to be a great help to 9/10 – Harry Fong overwhelmingly to sign preparing their next dinner all those who know the contract with theater show which will take 9/17 – Suzanne Molineaux someone or who Westchester Modular to place here on Saturday, 7/24 – Sandi Fong themselves are struggling begin work on our new September 16th starting at 5:00 Coffee Hour with alcoholism and rectory. Thank you to p.m. Reserve your tickets now 8/20 – Nicu/Anna addiction. We at Holy everyone who took the by contacting Sandi Fong at 8/27 – Suzanne Trinity have quietly started time to attend the [email protected]. See 9/3 – OPEN serving the Akathist to the special parish meeting attached flyer for more details. 9/10 – Bob Young Icon of the Mother of God of and cast your vote. Stay 9/17 – Bob & Carolyn the Inexhaustible Cup. If tuned for updates and if 9/24 - OYMT you are interested in you haven’t already

attending the service please done so, subscribe to Help restock our Kitchen: see Fr. Luke. This service is our website: small plates (cake size), open to all parishioners. www.holytrinitydanbury. bowls, and decaf coffee. Look here for our next org to see construction service. photos and updates. Woodpecker Food—They’re back!! Our woodpecker friends are back and going th | through a good amount of Orthodox Youth Mission Team—Save the Date: Sept. 24 Music on the Mount Orthodox Youth Mission th Calling All Artists—During suet. Donations of suet cakes on Sunday, September 24 to keep them happy and off Team—Save the Date: following liturgy. We’ll share the reception for the Music th on the Mount Concert our church would be greatly Sept. 24 —we’re back and photos and tales from our the mission trip to Alaska trip. This is also a great scheduled for Saturday, appreciated! st exceeded all opportunity for teens who October 21 , we would like expectations! We met to have an art show Please remember to sign up are thinking about joining incredibly hospitable and the Orthodox Youth Mission featuring works from the and subscribing on our parish pious people and Faith was Team next year to learn many artists in our parish. If web site deepened as relationships more about it. Youth who you would be willing to www.holytrinitydanbury.org in Christ grew with them will be entering 9th Grade display some of your and our fellow team (in Sept. 2018) and older artwork, please contact And to those with a Facebook members. We are grateful are eligible to join. If you Carolyn Kaiser, Chrissanth accounts please like our for your prayers and all haven’t seen them yet, Gross or Suzanne Facebook page posts your support and can’t wait check out the trip on Molineaux. associated with the to tell you all about it, so Facebook at OYMT#1. please plan to come to our fundraising events here https://www.facebook.com/hto “Thank You Coffee Hour” cdanbury/?fref=hovercard so Distinguished Diocesan Donors (DDD) the word gets out. Prayer Group | Prayer Group: Starting Distinguished Diocesan each donor of $100 or the week of September Donors (DDD) We invite you to more but all are welcome— 11th our prayer class will join with other Holy Trinity’s tickets are $30 per person. be meeting on Thursday faithful in giving to the annual mornings following the DDD program. The giving Akathist (about 9 am) levels are $100, $250, $500 & due to perogie sessions above. This program greatly on Tuesday. We are supports our ministry at Camp about to start a new Nazareth. Those who give section in our book--all $100 (& up) are invited to the are welcome. Annual Banquet, which this year will be held on October 22st at the Roberto’s Restaurant in Monroe. The dinner is complimentary to What’s New

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Clothing Drive | Kitchen Clean Out | Adult Mission Trip Birthdays August |Our next Clothing Kitchen Clean Out: Have you Adult Mission Trip to St. John Drive is ON! Thank noticed? Our kitchen has been the Compassionate Mission Mariana Bundra 28 you, Ann and the entire cleaned out and reorganized. We will be taking an adult Todosiev Huott Family. Start Many thanks to Elaine Toaso mission trip to St. John the saving all your extra and helpers who spent Compassionate Mission which is part of our diocese in Kristen Szymanowicz 31 clothes, shoes, pillows, countless hours purging, etc. for our clothing Toronto, Canada. St. John’s rearranging, labeling, etc. September drive. The last clothing has a parish, soup kitchen, Please try to put items back bakery, thrift store and refuge drive we collected more Luke Mihaylo 8 than a tone of clothes where they came from. Most house. Trip participants will spots in the kitchen are and we received more observe, learn about and Suad Behrend 10 than $400.00 labeled. Elaine will be happy to participate in mission at St. give anyone a tour through the John’s. We will be leaving on Valentina Zubek 14 kitchen to help acquaint you Mon., Sept. 18th and returning on Fri., Sept. 22nd. If you have Orestes & Monika 21 with where things go. \ not already let Fr. Luke or Mihaly - Anniversary Susan Sulich know that you are interested, please do so ASAP. Bethany Mihaly 22 Upcoming Events nd Julia Huott 23 Perogie Sessions Start – October 22 at 4:30 p.m. at Adult Mission Trip Meeting to Roberto’s in Monroe, CT St. John the Tuesday, September 12 9 AM Paul Sulich, Sr. 26 Compassionate —Thursday, Trinity Troubadours Dinner August 31st at 7:00 p.m. at the Lorraine Fedyna 28 Theater—Saturday, Sept. 16th church hall. Alex & Elaine Sirak - 28 Adult Mission Trip to St. Dorothy Day—Friday Anniversary John the Compassionate September 1st 1:00-5:00 p.m. Mission in Toronoto, Jeff & Kristen 29 Monthly Bake Sale—Thursday Canada—Monday, Sept. 18- Szymanowicz - Friday, Sept. 22nd. September 7th 4:00-6:00 p.m. Anniversary Distinguished Diocesan

Donor Dinner—Sunday,

Trip to Slovakia | Music on the Mount | Dorothy Day Coffee Hour - We need people to sign up for coffee hour. As a reminder, coffee hour need not Music on the Mount—We Dorothy Day: We will be Trip to Slovakia—We be elaborate. Bagels or rolls are pleased to announce serving at the soup kitchen are working to put and butter are fine or anything that we have two concerts on Friday, Sept.1st from 1:00- together a parish trip to simple. Consider signing up booked for our 2017-2018 5:00 p.m. If you can help for Slovakia for August with someone else to make it season. On October 21st, all or part of the afternoon, 2018. We have been in easier. contact with Fr. Ilya Robyn Freeman will be please let Susan Sulich Gotlinsky who did an bringing a group of female know. Just a heads up that it excellent planning singers from St. Vladimir’s is Labor Day Weekend. High and making Seminary to perform school students can get arrangements for our trip sacred music and on community service hours for th to Greece and Saturday, May 5 we will participating. Macedonia two years have a concert featuring a ago and he has given us choral ensemble from St. some suggested sites to Tikhon’s . Mark see. your calendars and stay tuned for more details.

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Holy Trinity Orthodox Church For the Children 74 Joes Hill Rd Danbury, CT 06811

“… a place of refuge full of love and joy.”

Have you ever had to tell somebody a summary of a book or a movie? “What’s the book about?” “What’s that movie about?” somebody might say. Then you tell what happened, right?

In today’s epistle reading, we hear the summary of the whole Gospel, the good news of Jesus Christ. Donations—Going forward we Paul writes, “I would remind you…of the good news that I proclaimed to you…That Christ died for would like to institute a new policy our sins…and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day…and that he appeared to regarding donations of items to the Peter, then to the twelve.” Then, Saint Paul tells how the good news spread and spread, from one church. While we are very grateful person to another. that parishioners want to offer the church items that might be useful, Somebody might ask you one day, “What’s that book about?” What is the Bible about? Why do you we have a limited amount of space. read it? Why are you a Christian? As we try to reorganize the hall and maximize the storage space that we Well, how can you answer that? Try to remember these words from today’s epistle. “Christ died for our have available we ask you to go sins, he was buried, and he was raised on the third day.” Those words of good news have spread from through our new Donations one person to another for almost 2,000 years now, and you can spread the good news too! When Coordinator, Elaine Toaso, if you somebody asks you for a summary, tell him, “Christ died for our sins, he was buried, and he was raised wish to donate something to the on the third day.” God showed His love for us by sending His Son to do all this. And that is what the church. Please speak to Elaine Good Book is about! ([email protected]) before bringing any items in and she will be SAINT THE ETHIOPIAN: WE CAN ALWAYS TURN BACK TO GOD! able to tell you (or find out from the If you watch the news, you always hear stories about some really bad criminals, don’t you? parish council) if the items can be utilized. Thank you! St. Moses was one of the worst criminals of his time—about 1,700 years ago in ! He was an awful robber and murderer, and people were very scared of him because he was so strong and so sneaky. He Perogie Sessions: We will be starting up our perogie sessions on was so strong that a bunch of criminals even chose him to be their leader. Tuesday, Sept. 12th at 9:00 am in Once, St. Moses was about to get caught by the authorities, so he hid in a monastery. He was so preparation for our Thanksgiving amazed at how the lived, peacefully and lovingly, that he wanted to change his life and follow and Christmas bake sales. All help Christ, too! He was baptized as a Christian and became a . Later on, four other criminals from is appreciated. No previous pinching Moses’s group came to the same monastery. Moses tied them up, and asked the elder what to do with experience required! them. The elder told him to let them go free, so he did. These four criminals followed Moses’s example. They asked God to forgive them, and they became Christians and then monks too!

St. Moses (some people call him St. Moses the Black or St. Moses the Ethiopian) tried very, very hard to be like Christ. It was hard for him to change, because he had spent his whole life as a criminal, but God helps anybody who wants to follow Him!

We celebrate the nameday of Saint Moses on August 28th (Sept. 10th, OC).

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