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St. Innocent Orthodox Z 50th Anniversary:1967-2017 Z Moscow Patriarchal Parishes Z 23300 W. Chicago _ Redford, MI 48239 _ 313-538-1142 _ Fax: 313-538-8126 Church Website: www.stinnocentchurch.com _ E-Mail: [email protected] St. Innocent Monastic Community: 9452 Hazelton, Redford, MI 48239 _ 313-535-9080 PASTOR: Rt. Rev. Mitered Archpriest ROMAN STAR _ Cell: 313-319-0590 Dean, Central States , Patriarchal Parishes MARCH 5, 2016 ASSISTANT PRIEST: Rev. DANEIL SHIRAK _ 313-295-3073 : Rev. Dn. Dr. Joshua Genig : Hebrews 11:24-26, 32-12:2 (#329-ctr) Rev. Dn. Michael Comerford, Attached : St. John 1:43 - 51 (#5) ATTACHED: Sister Ioanna TONE: 4 CHOIR DIRECTOR: Elizabeth Star Hatfield READER: George Hanoian

Z 1st Sunday of Z TRIUMPH OF Z

_ 9:15AM — HOURS, and/or ; & CONFESSIONS _ _ 10am — OF ST. BASIL THE GREAT & with _

COMMEMORATED TODAY: Sunday of Orthodoxy. Martyr Conon of Isauria (1st c.). Finding of the Relics of Rt. Blv. Theodore, Prince of Smolensk and Yaroslavl’, and his children Ss. David and Constantine, Wonderworkers of Yaroslavl’ (1463). Monk Martyr Adrian of Poshekhónsk (Yaroslavl’—1550). Martyr Onesimus of Isauria (1st c.). Virgin Martyr Raíssa) of Antinoë in Egypt (ca. 308).

FOR THE REPOSE OF: Estelle & Joseph Star; Anna & John Witkowski; Michael Sr. & Margaret Rusko; Mary, Andrew, Daniel, Michael & Lottie Yakuber; Ross & Margaret Falsetti; Helen, John & Carole Andrayko; Peter & Theresa Harvilla; Betty Martell; Frances, Todd & John Smoly; Peter Glover; Irene Adams; Ethel Elizabeth & Wayne Joshua deVyver, David Horka; Michael Rusko; Anna Lichagina, Yelena & Zinaïda Korniyevskaya; Joseph Nossal; Michelle Tucker; Todd Comerford, John Manier, Jr. MEMORY Matushka Julianna Schmemann (newly reposed, 1/29/17, age 93; 40th-Day, 3/9), (wife of Fr. Alexander Schmemann) ETERNAL! Michael Rusko (1975), whose anniversary of his repose is Monday, 6 March

FOR THE HEALTH OF: Archimandrite Seraphim; Priest Daneil, Matushka Debra & Corrina Shirak; Michael, Matushka Mary Ellen & Julius Comerford; Deacon Joshua, Matushka Abigail, Emma, Clare, Rose & Anna Genig; Matushka Mary Donahue; Reader Robert Latsko, Reader George & Betty Hanoian, Rose Nossal, Mary Glover, Nancy Cupp, Vasiliki Stamoulis, Gerald Martell, Azbehat, Donald Yakuber, Carl deVyver, Jo Anne Nicholas, Joan Rusko, Daria, Joseph Nossal, Ed Manier, Pat Harbut (recovering from auto accident). ALSO FOR: Liliana Wess, who celebrates her birthday on Thursday, 9 March Aleksey Korniyevskiy, who celebrates his birthday on Saturday, 11 March Š MAY GOD GRANT THEM MANY YEARS! Š

SCHEDULE FOR THE COMING WEEK (GREAT LENT: No meat, fish, dairy, eggs, alcohol until Pascha.) TODAY: Sun, 3/5 6pm COCC LENTEN VESPERS #1: at St. Clement Macedonian-Bulgarian Church, 19600 Ford Rd, Dearbn. Wednesday 3/8 6:30pm PRESANCTIFIED LITURGY & pot-luck supper #2 Saturday 3/11 10am SOUL-SATURDAY MEMORIAL DIVINE LITURGY FOR THE DEPARTED #2 4pm GREAT VESPERS & CONFESSIONS [Turn clocks ahead 1 hour: Daylight Savings Time begins] Sunday 3/12 2nd Sunday of Great Lent — St. Sunday 9:15am HOURS, AKATHIST &/or CANON; CONFESSIONS 10am DIVINE LITURGY OF ST. BASIL; followed by Coffee Hour 6pm COCC Lenten Vespers #2, at Assumption Greek Church, 21800 Marter Rd., St. Clair Shores

PROSPHORA FOR TODAY IS OFFERED BY: Deacon Joshua & Matushka Abigail Genig In of: Karl & Emma Genig, Dale & Pauline Moore, Arthur & Hermine Just, Gertrude Genig, Harry Genig, Linda Genig, Barbara Hoppe, and all departed family & friends; and For the Health of: Dennis & Martha Genig, Hannah Genig, Arthur & Linda Just, Nicholas Just, Jacob Just, Paul & Carol Hoppe, Rev. William & Emily Willenbrock, Catherine & Elizabeth Willenbrock, Fr. Roman & Mat. Rose Marie, Fr. Daneil & Mat. Debra, Fr. Dn. Esteban & Mat. Amanda Vazquez, Fr. John & Mat. Julie Fenton, Fr. Lawrence Bacik, Fr. Walter Ptak, Matthew & Rachel Strutzel, Drake, Charlie, Maddox, August, Beckham, and Esme Strtuzel, William Hand, Amelia Grobien, Audrey Nelson, Liam Herman, and all St. Innocent parishioners, family & friends. CANDLES FOR LAST SUNDAY, 26 FEBRUARY YEARLY CHURCH VIGIL LAMPS: Royal Doors Lamp: In Memory of Husband, Joseph; Son, Kenneth; parents, Michael & Margaret Rusko, & John & Martha Nossal, by Rose Nossal Altar Candelabra: In Memory of Parents, Nicholas and Susan Yakuber, by son, Donald Yakuber Altar Candles (2): In Memory of Irene Adams, by Goddaughter, Rose Ann Everhardt Lamps: In Memory of departed family & friends; & Health of family & friends, by Fr. Protodeacon Daniel & Mat. Irene Sudol Candles on the Solea: In Memory of Peter & Theresa Harvilla, Norman & Monica Holst, & Ricky Ellis, by Jason & Debra Truskowski Table of Oblation Lamp: In Memory of Parents, Helen & John Andrayko, Sr. & sister, Carole Andrayko, by John Andrayko, Jr. Reliquary- Lamps: Sts. Innocent, Tikhon & Herman: Health of Joseph/Sue; Robert/Diane; Pat/John; Joseph B., Jared, Jay; Rachelle/, Gabriel; Tricia, Lindsey; & In Memory of sisters, Anna, Margaret, Theresa & Irene; & brothers, John, Edwin & Michael by Rose Nossal Reliquary-Icon Lamps: Sts. Elizabeth & Raphael: Health of the Genig and the Just Families, by Fr. Deacon Joshua & Abigail Genig Reliquary-Icon Lamps: St. Seraphim & St. Alexis: In Memory of Ross & Margaret Falsetti, by daughters, Rose Ann Everhardt & Margie Martell Reliquary-Icon Lamps: St. Nestor & St. Gerontius; In Memory of Rusko Family: Grandparents, Anna, Alexandra, Mike, Margaret, John, Mary, George, Pauline, Pete, Irene, Andrew, Anna, Grandparents Nicklous & Anna Schulik, by Rose Nossal Reliquary-Icon Lamps: St. Hilarion & Sts. Alexandra & Martha: In Memory of Parents, Ethel Elizabeth & Wayne Joshua; Robert David H; // IN MEMORY OF (MEMORY ETERNAL!) //& Health of brother, Carl, by Sister Ioanna Joseph & Estelle Star, by son Father Roman and family Paul & Alexandra Yupco, Basil & Ellen Starinshak, by grandson, Father Roman and family John & Anna Witkowski, by daughter, Matushka Rose Marie and family & Mary Kupec, by granddaughter, Matushka Rose Marie and family Parents, Helen & John Andrayko, and sister, Carole Andrayko, by John Andrayko + + + My husband, Michael Rusko, by Joan Rusko My husband, Joe; my sisters, Margaret & Ross Falsetti, Anna & Mike Elaschat, Theresa & Pete Harvilla, Irene, & brothers, Michael, John & Edwin Rusko; niece, Rose Mary & Dean Hough; Joe’s brothers, Raymond & Walter Nossal, & sisters, Theresa, Florence & Helen Nossal, by Rose Nossal ++ + Pete & Theresa Harvilla, by Mary Ann Harvilla & Kay Truskowski + + + Jaimie Truskowski, by daughter Kay T. Parents, Ethel Elizabeth & Wayne Joshua; David H; Nina I; Marion P; Fr. Photius; Mo. Benedicta; Archm. Roman; Molly; Olive, by Sr Ioanna My Father, William Shirak, by Fr. Daneil + + + Karen Smith (newly departed), by Mary Ann Harvilla Thelma Ratcliff, Louis Pitts, Gloria Robinson, Reginald Bell, Lessie Favor, Lois Hamby, John Manier III, by Manier family Child Lana, Shirley, Betty, Marsha, Paul, by Becky Jurczyszyn FOR THE HEALTH OF: (MANY YEARS!) Elizabeth & Lawrence, Caitlin & Zachary, by parents & grandparents, Father Roman & Matushka Rose Marie Gregory & Tamiko Star, by parents, Father Roman & Matushka Rose Marie Children, Grandchildren & Great-grandchildren; Monk Fr. Sdn. Tikhon (Dade); by Rose Nossal Father Roman & Matushka & family; Sister Ioanna; John Andrayko; Nancy; Mary G; Jo Anne N; Grandson Joey (in the Navy Reserves) & all people in the Armed Forces; & all St. Innocent Church parishioners, by Rose Nossal + + + Family & Friends, by Mary Ann Harvilla & Kay Brother, Greg & Donna; nephew, Gregory & Liz; & nephew, Alex, by Mary Ann Harvilla & Kay + + + Ed Manier, by Mary Ann Harvilla&Kay Archimandrites Nafanail, Gregory & Seraphim; Fr. Roman & Mat. Rose Marie; Fr. Lawrence & fam; Fr. Laurence & fam; Fr. Daneil & fam; Fr. Dcn. Michael & fam; Fr. Dcn. Joshua, Abigail & children; Mat. Mary D; Carl; Monk Fr. Tikhon; Sdn Andrew; Rdr Robert; Robert M; David Samuel/Sky & Avi; JoAnne/Nick; Athanasius; John A; Ed/Tiffany & fam; Kim & fam; Vasiliki; Rose; Emil; Billy/Fonda, by Sr Ioanna Rose Nossal, by John Andrayko + + + John Andrayko (May God watch over him), by Rose Nossal Leia, Mike, Reece & Wyatt Wilson; Bob/Joan Jurczyszyn; Toni /Richard Bussen; Pete, Krista, Jacob, Clair, Matt & Paul Stelmaszek; Damon Trestain, Levi Troyer, Briana Saylor, by Becky Jurczyszyn + + + Scott Minnick, by daughter, Caitlin + + + Tamiko Star, by Family Health & Salvation of: Children & grandchildren, & entire family, by Manier Family + + + Corzem (?) (booze & tumor (ca), by Manier Family ANNOUNCEMENTS (1) COCC INTER-ORTHODOX SUNDAY LENTEN VESPERS. On each of the 5 Sundays in Great Lent the COCC sponsors its annual Inter- Orthodox Lenten Vespers at different churches in the Metro-Detroit area. The services start at 6:00pm. There is a guest speaker/homilist each week, and refreshments are served in the church hall afterwards. Tonight’s Vespers is to be held at St. Clement’s Macedonian-Bulgarian Church, 19600 Ford Rd. in Dearborn, a little East of Evergreen. Children from the age of 7 through high school are especially invited to participate with the in the procession with icons. They should bring an icon to carry in the procession, and meet in the narthex at 5:45 for instructions. (2) 2nd PRESANCTIFIED LITURGY THIS WED., MARCH 8th, AT ST. INNOCENT AT 6:30PM. The Presanctified Liturgy is one of the most beautiful of the special Services of Great Lent. All 6 Presanctified Liturgies are being held at St. Innocent. We have a casual pot-luck supper afterwards. (See Matushka about what to bring.) Do make a special Lenten effort to come to as many of the Lenten Services as possible. (3) PROSFORA DONORS FOR 2017 NEEDED: Please contact Sr. Ioanna to save your month. $25 for a month. (4) LENTEN SCHEDULE AND MONTHLY CALENDARS AVAILABLE ON WEBSITE. Go to our church website’s Home Page (http://stinnocentchurch.com) to view and print our complete Lenten Schedule, and also the monthly calendars for March and April. 5) PASCHA FLOWERS & BOWS: Please donate for our Pascha flowers to decorate Christ’s tomb and the church for Pascha. (You get to take them home after Pascha.) Also, Pascha Bows, like Christmas Bows, are our two annual fund-raisers, vital for paying our bills. Please donate at least 1 ‘Bow’ for the living and 1 for the departed, with a $5 donation for each. Use the cards Mary Ann has already decorated, or write the names of your loved ones and friends for whom you are praying on index-cards and your cards will be decorated and attached to our large cross until Ascension. See Mary Ann Harvilla for both the flowers and Pascha Bows. Please help us to meet our goal of having at least 100 Pascha ‘Bows.” (6) MOTHER GABRIELLA TO GIVE LENTEN RETREAT. Saturday, March 18th, 9am – 3pm, St. Thomas Albanian Church, 29150 W. 10 Mile Road, Farmington Hills, MI. Topic: “An Unchanged Church in a Changing World.” Mother Gabriella is Abbess of Dormition Monastery. WHAT IS ORTHODOXY SUNDAY?

Every year, the first Sunday of the Great Lenten Fast is called "Orthodoxy Sunday." This year it is observed on March 5th, 2017. It is dedicated to the Restoration of Icons on the first Sunday of the Great Lent/Fast in the year 843. It is always celebrated as the "Triumph of Orthodoxy," a triumph over those who sought to defeat and undermine the Orthodox Faith of the Apostles and the by prohibiting the use and of icons. Thousands of devout Orthodox Christians were martyred for their Faith during the approximately 125 years that the Holy Orthodox Church endured the imposition of .

In the United States, because of the presence of various different ethnic expressions of the one Orthodox Faith, it has become traditional in many cities on Orthodoxy Sunday, especially in large metropolitan areas, for Orthodox Christians of all ethnic traditions and jurisdictions to come together and witness to, and proclaim the unity of the Faith of the Apostles, the Faith that has been maintained in the Orthodox Church for 2,000 years.

How can we understand the meaning of this day, this Triumph or Feast of Orthodoxy? How can the victory over iconoclasm be a triumph of Orthodoxy itself? The triumph of icons is a triumph of Orthodoxy: without icons, there is no Orthodox . Icons affirm the basic principle of the preaching of the — interpreted in the decisions of the Seven Ecumenical Councils — namely, that God became man in the Christ, in order to reconcile the world to Himself. It is precisely because God took on a material form in Jesus, that we can make images of Jesus and of His true servants, the . These images or icons furthermore affirm that the material world participates in salvation — that is, in the process of the transfiguration and resurrection of humanity and of all the cosmos. The material world is good, because God created it and incarnated in it, and He continues to manifest Himself to us in material form — especially in the Holy Mysteries (), in icons, in the Gospels and in the cross. We do not these things, for worship is given only to God. Neither is it their material substance which we venerate when we kiss them; rather, our veneration is passed on to the prototype. We can express our love for Jesus by kissing His icon or cross, but it is Christ — not paint and wood — whom we venerate by means of His icon or cross.

KONTAKION FOR ORTHODOXY SUNDAY No one could describe the Word of the Father; but when He took flesh from you, O , He accepted to be described, and restored the fallen image to its former state by uniting it to divine Beauty. We confess and proclaim our salvation in word and images.

By Sister Ioanna, St. Innocent of Alaska Monastic Community, Redford, MI Source: http://stinnocentchurch.com/whyorthodoxysunday.html

SUNDAYS OF GREAT LENT By Fr. Thomas Hopko From: The Orthodox Faith: Vol. 2, Worship

Each of the Sundays of Great Lent has its own special theme. The first Sunday is called the Feast of the Triumph of Orthodoxy. It is a historical feast commemorating the return of the icons to the churches in the year 843 after the of iconoclasm was overcome. The spiritual theme of the day is first of all the victory of the True Faith. “This is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith” (1 Jn 5:4). Secondly, the icons of the saints bear witness that man, “created in the image and likeness of God” (Gen 1:26), becomes holy and godlike through the purification of himself as God’s living image.

The Second Sunday of Lent is the commemoration of St Gregory Palamas. It was St. Gregory (d.1359) who bore living witness that men can become divine through the grace of God in the Holy Spirit; and that even in this life, by prayer and fasting, human beings can become participants of the uncreated light of God’s divine glory.

The Third Sunday of Lent is that of the Veneration of the Cross. The cross stands in the midst of the church in the middle of the lenten season not merely to remind men of Christ’s redemption and to keep before them the goal of their efforts, but also to be venerated as that reality by which man must live to be saved. “He who does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me” (Mt 10:38). For in the Cross of Christ Crucified lies both “the power of God and the wisdom of God” for those being saved (1 Cor 1:24).

The Fourth Sunday of Lent is dedicated to St. John of the Ladder (Climacus), the author of the work, The Ladder of Divine Ascent. The abbot of St Catherine’s Monastery on (6th century) stands as a witness to the violent effort needed for into God’s Kingdom (Mt 10: 12). The spiritual struggle of the Christian life is a real one, “not against flesh and blood, but against… the rulers of the present darkness… the hosts of wickedness in heavenly places ...” (Eph 6:12). John encourages the faithful in their efforts for, according to the Lord, only “he who endures to the end will be saved” (Mt 24:13).

The Fifth Sunday recalls the memory of Saint Mary of Egypt, the repentant harlot. Mary tells us, first of all, that no amount of sin and wickedness can keep a person from God if he truly repents. Christ himself has come “to call sinners to repentance” and to save them from their sins (Lk 5:32). In addition, Saint Mary tells us that it is never too late in life—or in Lent—to repent. Christ will gladly receive all who come to him even at the eleventh hour of their lives. But their coming must be in serious and sincere repentance. Source: www.oca.org BRIGHT SADNESS by Father Andrew Morbey

The American poet and Orthodox convert, Scott Cairns, writes in a chapter of God For Us: Rediscovering the Meaning of Lent and Easter: .... at first, I was surely among the crew that Father Alexander Schmemann acknowledges when he writes (in his amazing and very helpful book, Great Lent), “For many, if not for the majority of Orthodox Christians, Lent consists of a number of formal, predominantly negative, rules and prescriptions…. Such is the degree of our alienation from the real spirit of the Church that it is almost impossible for us to understand that there is ‘something else’ in Lent — something without which all these prescriptions lose much of their meaning.” Father Schmemann goes on to explain that this “something else” is another disposition altogether. He characterizes it as an “atmosphere,” a “climate,” and “a state of mind, soul, and spirit.” In my own experience — which, as I say, required some years of practice before I so much as noticed — Lent can become an incentive and a powerful means by which we can enter the kingdom of God, even as we abide here on earth. This disposition is the harmolype — the bright-sadness — of which the fathers and the mothers speak. Even in the dryness of our desert journey, we are offered a sustaining taste of the sweet, the living waters. Even amid the gloom, we apprehend a glimmer of the light.

This bright sadness permeates much of the wonderful poetry of the Lenten Triodion. These hymns fill our liturgical services with a sadness that is at once bitter, as we consider the wretched state we find ourselves in, and yet leavened with joy, the bright promise of God’s presence and forgiveness. Bright sadness is connected with tender-heartedness, that is, compassion, a compassionate heart, from out of which a loving gaze embraces the suffering of others. What begins as something inward, and deeply personal — being touched by the poetry and melodies of bright sadness — is meant to be a source or well-spring of empathy, of mercy and forgiveness, of loving acts. Father John Breck wrote in a meditation many years ago: Bright sadness may be the most powerful and important experience we can know. It brings to our mind and heart, in the most direct and personal way, the ultimate purpose of our life and the object or end of our most passionate desire. It reminds us of who we are, as beloved children of God, created in His image and invited to glorify and enjoy Him forever. That conflicted emotion of bright sadness is a blessed gift, bestowed by the God who loves us with a “love without limit.” It comes to us through our ascetic struggle during the Lenten season, as it does through the solemn beauty of the Church’s liturgical services. But it can come to us as well when we observe it in the people around us: people with whom and for whom we pray, people who in many cases pray for us without our being aware of it. We find that bright sadness in communion with them, in hearing their stories, in sharing their hopes, fears and longings. We find it through being attentive to the beauty and truth of their life and their unique presence. The elder Paisios once said that for love to blossom in the heart, we must pray with pain of heart. In explaining this he noted that when we hurt some part of our body — our hand, for example — all our attention and energy focuses on where we hurt. So too it is a hurting and broken heart that focuses our spiritual attention. When asked what can we do if, in fact, we are not suffering and our heart is not hurting, the elder replied: “We should make the other’s pain our own! We must love the other, must hurt for him, so that we can pray for him. We must come out little by little from our own self and begin to love, to hurt for other people as well, for our family first then for the large family of Adam, of God.” May our attention to the bright sadness of Lent bring us to the joy of the Resurrection! On Monday of the first week of the Fast, at Matins we sing: Let us joyfully begin the all-hallowed season of abstinence; and let us shine with the bright radiance of the holy commandments of Christ our God, with the brightness of love and the splendor of prayer, with the purity of holiness and the strength of good courage. So, clothed in raiment of light, let us hasten to the Holy Resurrection on the third day, that shines upon the world with the glory of eternal life. Father Andrew Morbey is Dean of Saint Mary’s Cathedral, Minneapolis, MN. Source: oca website