St. : . . . the devil strives to lead a man into despair. . . .

Just as the Lord is solicitous about our salvation, so too the murderer of men, the devil, strives to lead a man into despair. A lofty and sound soul does not despair over misfortunes, of whatever sort they may be. Our life is as it were a house of temptations and trials; but we will not renounce the Lord for as long as He allows the tempter to remain with us and THE for as long as we must wait to be revived through patience and secure passion- less! Judas the betrayer was fainthearted and unskilled in battle, and so the enemy, St. Orthodox Church seeing his despair, attacked him and forced him to hang himself, but Peter, a firm rock, when he fell into great sin, like one skilled in battle did not despair nor lose St. Clair, Pennsylvania heart, but shed bitter tears from a burning heart, and the enemy, seeing these tears, his eyes scorched as by fire, fled far form him wailing in pain. And so brothers, St. Antioch teaches, when despair attacks us let us not yield to it, but being strengthened and protected by the light of faith, with great courage let us say to the evil spirit: “What are you to us, estranged from God, a fugitive from heaven and evil servant? You dare do nothing to us. Christ, the Son of God, has authority both over us and over everything. It is against Him that we have sinned, and before Him that we will be justified. And you, destroyer, leave us. Strengthen by His venerable Cross, we trample under foot your serpent’s head” (St. Antioch, Discourse 27).

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Liturgical Schedule

July 30, SUNDAY Marina

9:00 a.m. Confessions 9:30 a.m. Hours of Prayer 10:00 a.m. The Divine Liturgy of St.

August 01, Tuesday +Wally Vacula (40th Day) 9:00 a.m. Memorial Liturgy, offered by Anna Vacula

August 02, Wednesday Prophet Elias ~ St. Michael’s Calendar of Events ~ 9:00 a.m. The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom

Aug. 14: Dormition Fast Begins! How will you keep the Fast? August 05, Saturday 6:00 p.m. Vespers (Tone-8) Aug. 17: Parish Council Meeting, 7:00 p.m. August 06, SUNDAY Great Martyr Christina Aug. 19: Holyday Liturgy: Transfiguration of the Lord, 9:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. Confessions Aug. 28: Holyday Liturgy: Dormition of the Mother of God, 9:00 a.m. 9:30 a.m. Hours of Prayer

10:00 a.m. The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom

THE CHURCH, through the ordering of the church building and her di- August 08, Tuesday +Elsie Stencovage vine service, acts upon the whole man, educates him wholly: acts upon 9:00 a.m. Memorial Liturgy, offered by Mr. & Mrs. Kyle Stencovage

his sight, hearing, smelling, feeling, taste, imagining, mind and will, by August 10, Thursday +Proto Gregory Hatrak (40th Day) the splendor of the images, and of the building in general, by the fra- 9:00 a.m. Memorial Liturgy, offered by Fr. Jeff & Family grance of the incense, by the of the gospels, cross and imag- August 12, Saturday - es, by the singing, and by the reading of the scriptures. 6:00 p.m. Vespers (Tone-1) August 13, SUNDAY Righteous Eudocimus

MAY CHRISTIANS attach themselves wholly, with all their hearts, to 9:00 a.m. Confessions the Church of Christ, that in her they may be firmly established unto the 9:30 a.m. Hours of Prayer end of their days on earth. May they all be zealous to fulfill her com- 10:00 a.m. The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom mandments and ordinances, and in her may they obtain eternal salva- tion through Christ Jesus our Lord.

—St. John of Kronstadt

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