HIS EMINENCE, ARCHBISHOP ALEXANDER OF TOLEDO: RECTOR REV. FR. GREGORY BRUNER: DEAN (779) 875-1084 | [email protected] 738 GLENWOOD ROAD. ROSSFORD, OHIO 43460 | HTTP://WWW.STGEORGEROSSFORD.ORG June 28, 2020 3rd Sunday After Pentecost - Tone 2 Translation of the Relics of the Holy and Wonderworking Unmercenaries Cyrus & John From the Fathers... “Unexpected trials are sent by God to teach us to practice the ascetic life; and they lead us to repentance even when we are reluctant.” - St. Mark the Ascetic Welcome Visitors! We are delighted to have visitors worship with us, and Let us all honor in hymns the two martyrs,/ Cyrus and with him the magnificent John;/ they possess the radiance of the Trinity,/ we pray that you will be blessed through your they are the foundation of the Faith; / they are flowers emitting participation with us. In the Orthodox Church, the the true fragrance of the understanding of Christ;// and they ever reception of Holy Communion is a mark of pray to the Lord for us. membership in the Church. Only those who have been united to the Orthodox Church through Baptism or Thou didst shine forth with fasting and a radiant life,/ and later Chrismation, and have prepared themselves through thou didst adorn thy soul with suffering, O glorious Cyrus./ In regular Confession, prayer and fasting are permitted to wisdom, O John, didst thou forsake an earthly army and didst partake of Holy Communion. We encourage visitors to attain the army of heaven./ As ye entreat the Savior, O blessed participate in our prayers and hymns and to join us in ones,// pray for those who bless your memory! venerating the Cross and receiving blessed bread at the O blessed ones, ye are revealed as physicians of the sick/ conclusion of the Divine Liturgy. Literature about the and never-fading lamps of the divine Father./ Ye uttered your Orthodox faith and this parish can be found in the confession together and shared in the lot of martyrs./ Having vestibule. Please feel free to ask questions before or truly received crowns from Christ, O glorious Cyrus and wise after the service, as well as join us in the Parish Hall John,// ever pray to the Savior for those who hymn you with for refreshments and fellowship after the Liturgy. faith! (Stichera of Lord, I Call) A PARISH OF THE BULGARIAN DIOCESE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH IN AMERICA TODAY’S WORSHIP - HYMNS AND SCRIPTURE READINGS Resurrection Troparion in Tone 2 Great Martyr George Kontakion in Tone 4 When Thou didst descend to death, O Life immortal,/ As we the faithful flee to thee for refuge and seek thy Thou didst slay hell with the splendor of Thy Godhead./ protection and speedy help,/ We entreat thee, O Champion of And when from the depths Thou didst raise the dead,/ all Christ, that we who sing thy praises may be delivered from the powers of heaven cried out:// “O Giver of life, Christ the snares of the enemy/ and from every peril and our God, glory to Thee!” adversary,// that we may cry: “Rejoice, O martyr George!” Great Martyr George Troparion in Tone 4 Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. As deliverer of captives/ and defender of the poor;/ healer of the infirm,/ champion of kings;/ victorious Great Holy Unmercenaries Cyrus & John Kontakion in Tone 3 Martyr George,/ intercede with Christ our God;// for our Having received the gift of miracles through divine grace, O souls’ salvation. saints,/ ye work wonders in the world unceasingly./ Ye remove all of our passions through your invisible surgery,/ Holy Unmercenaries Cyrus & John Troparion in Tone 5 divinely-wise Cyrus and glorious John,// for ye are truly Thou hast given us the miracles of Thy martyrs, Cyrus divine physicians. and John, / as an invincible rampart, O Christ God;/ through their prayers, frustrate the plans of the heathens,/ Now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen. and strengthen the faith of the Orthodox Christians,// for Thou alone art good and the lover of man. Steadfast Protectress of Christians in Tone 6 Steadfast Protectress of Christians,/ constant advocate before Resurrection Kontakion in Tone 2 the Creator;/ despise not the entreating cries of us sinners,/ Hell became afraid, O almighty Savior,/ seeing the but in your goodness come speedily to help us who call on miracle of Thy Resurrection from the tomb!/ The dead you in faith./ Hasten to hear our petition and to intercede for arose! Creation, with Adam, beheld this and rejoiced with us, O Theotokos,/ for you always protect those who honor Thee,// and the world, my Savior, praises Thee forever. you! Epistle: Romans 5:1-10 bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only that, but other. You cannot serve God and mammon. we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you character, hope. Now hope does not disappoint, because the will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than Spirit who was given to us. clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will can add one cubit to his stature? one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if when we were today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or by His life. ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these Gospel: Matthew 6:22-33 things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is EMERGENCY SICK CALLS ARE ALWAYS AVA I L A B L E ! CALL FR. GREGORY: (779) 875-1084 THIS WEEK AND LIFE IN CHRIST Sunday, June 21st Clint Eastwood Looks at the Hereafter 10:00 AM Divine Liturgy (Livestream and In Person) Translation of the Relics of Cyrus and John The Church honors the two great apostles Peter St. Paul the Physician, of Corinth and Paul. Both men faced hostility, danger and Ven. Sergius and Herman, Wonderworkers of Valaam powerful enemies as they traveled and preached the good news of the Gospel. Both, in their own Romans 2:10-16, Hebrews 11:33-12:2 ways, spoke about what happens after we die. Matthew 4:18-23, Matthew 4:25-5:12 Saint Paul famously described the mystery of Monday, June 29th our resurrection: "We shall not all sleep, but we 7:00 PM Adult Education (Online) shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at Holy, Glorious, and All-Praised Leaders of the Apostles, the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be Peter and Paul raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable 2 Corinthians 11:21-12:9, Matthew 16:13-19 nature must put on the imperishable, and this mortal nature must put on immortality" (I Corinthians 15: 54). Tuesday, June 30th Saint Peter, to encourage his fellow Christians who were facing Synaxis of the Twelve Apostles: Peter, Andrew, James persecution, wrote: "You have been born anew, not of perishable and John, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew, seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of James, Jude, Simon the Zealot, and Mathias God" (I Peter 1: 23). In the same letter he reminded them after Romans 10:11-11:2, 1 Corinthians 4:9-16 they suffer on earth, "the God of all grace, who has called you to Matthew 11:16-20, Mark 3:13-19 His eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, establish, and strengthen you" (5:10).