MONTHLY SERVICE SCHEDULE: CHRIST THE SAVIOR ORTHODOX CHURCH SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT July 22, 2018 July 22 Car Blessings 23 24 25 26 27 28 1802 Pershing Ave. Rockford, Illinois 61108 - Father Jonathan Bannon Father’s Cell Phone: 815-721-4952 www.CTSRockford.org Divine Liturgy Fr. Jonathan 10AM Vacation Sisterhood Meeting Three Week Parish Bulletin August 29 Fr Mark 30 31 1 2 3 4 CONFESSION: Consider attending Holy Confession Ask Sisterhood President Nancy Grewe and Paraklesis Taste of Paraklesis serving Fr. Jonathan Orthodoxy every Fasting Season of the Church Year. August 1st orSisterhood Vice President Nadya Opri if you would Divine Liturgy Returns home 6PM Chicago 6PM through 15th is a special season dedicated to Christ’s like to learn more about this! 10AM Fast Begins Event Mother the Virgin Mary as we honor her life and when Class to follow (see details) she falls asleep in the Lord (Her Dormition) Fr. MEN’S BOOK-STUDY GROUP: Blessing Fruit Jonathan will be hearing Confessions Mondays and Book: The Forgotten Faith by LeMasters 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Fridays after the Paraklesis Services as Wednesday there August 6th following Paraklesis service. Divine Liturgy Parish Feast Paraklesis Paraklesis is classes to follow. Liturgy 9AM What do you bring to confession? Your Sins. What 10AM 6PM 6PM weighs on your heart? Where could we have loved God 2018 SCIENCE AND NATURE CAMP Paraklesis Class to follow more? PROGRAM 6PM AUGUST 5 - 12, 2018 (AGES 8 - 18) Sisterhood Meeting Today! CAMP NAZARETH - MERCER, PA 12 13 14 15 9AM 16 17 18 Presentations will be offered by officials from the Divine Liturgy Paraklesis Divine Liturgy SEMI-ANNUAL PARISH MEETING Carnegie Science Center and more. 10AM 6PM Parish Board Feast: August 26th Following Divine Liturgy registration : campnazareth.org/science-camp Meeting Dormition of 6:30PM Theotokos UPCOMING FASTING PERIODS: Class to follow Banns of Marriage: Bans of Marriage are hereby announced for the first time for AUGUST 1 - 15 DORMITION OF MARY FAST John Horowy and Linda Thrasher. The marriage is scheduled to take This Fast is 15 Days of Strict Fasting similar to Great PROSFORA MINISTRY: This week’s Prosfora is offered by Pani Marianna. place here at Christ the Saviour Orthodox Church on Saturday, Lent refraining from Meat, Dairy, Oil and Wine. To Catechumens: Please speak with Fr. Jonathan before THIS WEEK: September 2nd. If anyone is aware of any canonical impediment that ONLINE RESOURCES FROM would preclude this couple from entering the Sacrament of Marriage, attempting any fasting. Sunday: July 22nd: Divine Liturgy 10AM Car Blessings to follow, July Sisterhood Meeting to follow DIOCESE: let them notify the parish priest. Car Blessings and Coffee Hour. Rockford New Parish Website: To All Parishioners: www.CTSRockford.org JULY THIRD STEWARDSHIP BASKET INFO: Please see your Spiritual Father for all questions and Monday: July 23rd: 6:00PM Diocesan Website: http:// Our parish covers the costs for all Altar Boys and Young concerns regarding your fasting. Do your best and www.acrod.org Women attending the Retreats 10hours away in remember fasting is only effective if you are praying. August 24th - 31st Fr. Jonathan will be attending the American Association of Physics Teachers Summer Windber and Johnstown, PA including travel and a Fasting is not about “giving up things” but “replacing” Meeting in Washington DC with Pani Marianna. Please our family in your prayers for safe travels and I Camp Nazareth: http:// www.campnazareth.org priest to cover while Fr. Jonathan is driving and We pray more and confess our sins to prepare for the look forward to returning home to be with you again. - Fr. Jonathan :) attending. We give 200 dollars to Fr. Mark for his time feasts. Facebook: https:// www.facebook.com/acroddiocese with us serving the Divine Liturgy in Fr. Jonathan’s place SERVICES IN AUGUST: and with three young people attending, this year’s FAMILY FRIENDLY EVENT OPEN TO ALL: WHAT IS PARAKLESIS? This is a Service where we ask the Theotokos to pray for us! Twitter: https://twitter.com/acrodnews You Tube: https://youtube.com/ registrations is $100 per person at 300 dollars year. Taste of Orthodoxy Around the World Thurs. Aug. 2nd We also offer names of the Living and those in sickness. Thank you for helping these young people attend Come explore the diverse expressions of Orthodoxy in acroddiocese without any concern of needing funds. Russian, Serbian, Romanian, Greek, Antiochian and Parish Feast Day AUGUST 6th Feast of the Transfiguration of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Divine Liturgy August 6th 9:00PM Blessing of Fruit. Diocese of North America OCA cathedrals and parishes meeting clergy, seeing ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE OF architecture and iconography and hearing the chant that Why Fruit? On the Feast of the Transfiguration we offer the first fruits of the harvest to the Lord. It is CONSTANTINOPLE GOING ON VACATION? Nothing is more important than worshiping God on the makes the beautiful mosaic of Orthodox communities in around this time tomatoes start showing up and the fruits on many bushes. So we bring them to the Chicago. We will end our day with a service to the Lord asking that he bless the entire crop / year. day He resurrected from the dead. Explore canonical churches in America on this website if you are going Theotokos at the new chapel of the Guardian Angel with icons of bright colors and some modern saints with **Dormition Fast: August 1st through 15th honoring the death (falling asleep) of the Theotokos. away on Vacation: http://www.assemblyofbishops.org/directories/parishes a special speaker to follow. Always ask your spiritual father about your fasting when preparing for fasting seasons. A WAY TO SERVE OUR PARISH: A LOOK AHEAD! Please consider helping with coffee hour / clean up! STEWARDSHIP MONTH: SEPTEMBER! VICE: SUMMER SLOTH END OF SUMMER PARISH RETREAT Thursday August 2nd. Why are you downcast, O my soul?“ Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God. for I will“ yet praise Him, my Saviour and my God. Psalm 42:5 TASTE OF ORTHODOXY Above: A Victorian engraving called the “Sluggard” Notice the weeds growing around AROUND THE WORLD him and his relaxed pose far from the church in the background. Don't forget your guardian angel assigned to you at SERBIAN, ROMANIAN, We are tempted to be indifferent towards the your baptism and your patron saint. You do’nt Lord in every season of our lives however in the have one? We will talk about patrons another day summer Christ often takes a back seat in place but for now stop thinking about where you think GREEK, RUSSIAN, OCA of recreation. Even when surrounded by His you need to be spiritually and just pray. Pray as beautiful creation that we enjoy from the rising you know how. Stand or sit before an icon and Come explore the rich mosaic that makes up Orthodoxy in the Sun, the gentle showers of rain to the night sky say the Jesus Prayer with a prayer rope. Don't over United States in Iconography, Chanting, Architecture and more on filled with stars, we see praying to God can be think anything. Be still and set aside at least 5 difficult to become habitual. minutes a day to being still, leaving your cell phone this family friendly retreat to Chicago. RSVP to Pani Marianna. in another room (more on that later.) Simply be f a i t h f u l w i t h If left unattended, that is to say if we simply stop honoring a set time 10:00 - 11:00AM St. George in Cicero - Meeting with Fr. Dahdal from Jerusalem) praying daily or talking with Christ, it is like you spend with the 11:30 - 12:30 Holy Trinity OCA Cathedral in Chicago with Fr. Alexander Koranda leaving a lawn un-mowed after a big storm… it Lord and never miss Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 (Bagged Lunch - Bring Your Own - Oriole Park Chicago becomes overgrown with weeds and appears a Liturgy if are able. hard to manage and that lawn is our heart and 2:00 - 3:00 Saints Constantine and Helen Romanian Orthodox Cathedral in Chicago minds… both are thirsting daily for the Lord, Go for quality over 3:15 - 4:15 Holy Resurrection Serbian Orthodox Cathedral in Chicago His Spirit and His Peace. quantity and never 4:30 - 5:30 Holy Protection (Pokrov) Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Des Plaines give up… remember Dinner (On your own on Miner Street in Des Plaines - many to pick from) It may seem daunting to begin a life of prayer Jesus destroyed 6:30 - 8:00PM Small Vespers and Paraklesis at Guardian Angel Day Chapel Greek Orthodox in but remember you are not alone. You have a death by His death. Spiritual Father / Parish Priest praying for you He is the victor! Des Plaines with special guest speaker. and available to offer guidance and direction. The Christ the Saviour PARENTING PRAYERFULY Spiritual Weather Report Elder and now Saint Porphyrios (See image below) guides parents to remember that children model themselves on the sanctity of parents. Children are EVERYDAY sponges and will learn about the world around them without pause, they are constantly taking in everything. Being examples to them in living our faith will do more than any lecture they could ever hear. SUN = God is always Present. CLOUDS = Temptation to lose hope is always present. Struggling through the clouds is how we “What saves and makes for good children is the life of the parents in the grow and prove to be God’s sons or daughters.