St. John The Baptist Greek St. John The Baptist Orthodox Church Mission Statement: Greek Orthodox Church To foster the spiritual maturity of the Orthodox Christian faithful of St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America * Metropolis of San Francisco and reach out to inquirers, the unchurched and inactive Orthodox on the west side of Rev. Fr. Theodore Dorrance * Rev. Fr. Timothy Pavlatos * Dn. Innocent Duchow-Pressley metropolitan Portland through worship, the sacramental life, education, philanthropy, hospitality, fellowship and the practice of Christian Stewardship, thereby serving as an 14485 SW Walker Road, Beaverton, Oregon 97006 instrument in the growth and expansion of the Orthodox Christian Church. 503.644.7444 Fax: 503.296.2507 * [email protected] Mochas for Missions Special Drawing TODAY - Help us pick up the pace and reach our $4,000 Visit our Parish website at www.stjohngoc.org goal. Give $20 or more by 12:15p today to be entered into a drawing for a special edition red cof- Witnessing the Truth of Apostolic Christianity fee mug with Theotokos design and a bag of Fr. Michael’s Roastery coffee. The winner will be an- nounced at the end of Theology 101. ASA warmly welcomes the newest addition to our school community, Mrs. Emily Rollison (Rayl). Mrs. Rollison and her husband are relocating to Portland from Colorado so she can teach 1st & 2nd sunday of the Myrrhbearers grades at ASA this fall. ASA families and interested St. John members are invited to join us for a meet & greet this afternoon at 1:15pm in the K/1 classroom. Sts. Joseph of Arimathea & Nicodemus Seniors! Tomorrow is our Lunch and Sing-a-Long with our ASA children from 11a to 1p. Brown bag lunches will be provided for seniors, see you there! AY Young Adults-Join us tomorrow, Monday, May 16th, at 6:30p for discussion and fellowship at the M 15, 2016 Dorrance home. Please bring $5 to help with food costs as dinner will be provided. If you have any 2ND MODE/FOURTH MORNING GOSPEL questions please contact Beth Carper. This third Sunday of Pascha we comemmorate the Holy Myrrhbearing Women, St. Joseph of Arimathea LOST AND FOUND IS BRIMMING! Please check the lost and found cupboard for items belonging and St. Nicodemos. We remember the women because they were the first to truthfully bear witness to the to you and yours. After such a busy time, it is full of left behind items. Anything remaining after May Resurrection, while Joseph and Nicodemos were the first to bear witness to the burial of Christ. 22nd will be donated. Thank you! Since Christ died the Friday preceding the Saturday of the Passover, Joseph and Nicodemos had to bury Pan-Orthodox V C S 2016 is June 27nd-July 1st at Holy Trinity. This will be a week-long day camp him hurriedly before the holy day. They buried him in Joseph’s own tomb and annointed him with some filled with an abundance of activities, fun, and fellowship! Go to: www.goholytrinity.org for details and aloes and myrrh, but it was not done befitting the usual custom. So the women went on the third day to sign ups! the tomb with expensive myrrh-oils and spices to properly annoint Christ’s body. Going to the tomb, Camp Angelos 2016 “Keep Calm and Pray On!” is July 10th-15th. On line registration is open for youth they found it open and the angel said to them “Why do ye with lamentation seek Him that liveth and hath (ages 9-17) Go to: www.goholytrinity.org for details and sign ups! given life unto the race of mortals? Christ our God hath risen from the dead, since He is Almighty, grant- Attention Philoptochos Ladies! Sign-up today after church to serve at “Camp Agape,” a week of fun ing us all incorruption, life, illumination, and great mercy.” This in turn they proclaimed to the Apostles, and a break from the hospital routine for children with cancer and their families. It will be held at Camp therefore becoming the apostles to the apostles. Angelos (on the Sandy River) from July 31st to Aug 4th. You can sign up for a couple hours or a whole day. Everyone who participates will receive much more than is given. There were seven Myrrh bearing women: The Theotokos, Mary Magdalene, Salome, the wife of Zebe- dee, Joanna, the wife of Chouza, Mary and Martha, the sisters of Lazarus, Mary, the wife of Cleopas, and Susanna. Welcome Visitors! All non-Orthodox visitors to our parish are welcome and may receive the blessed bread The noble Joseph, a wealthy man and member of the Jewish Sanhedrin, was secretly a follower of at the end of the Divine Liturgy. To receive Holy Communion, you must be baptized and confirmed in the Christ. Because of the honor he showed Christ by burying him and in his own tomb, he was shackled Orthodox Church. You must also have prepared under the spiritual direction of your Father Confessor, by the Jews and thrown into prison. But the resurrected Lord appeared to him and convinced him of His which presumes participation in the Sacrament of Confession. Before approaching the Communion Chal- resurrection. Later the Jews released him from prison and banished him from his homeland. He went ice, we should not have any foreign matter in or on our mouths; this includes food, gum, lipstick, etc. throughout the world to preach the Holy Gospel of Christ, and that “good news” he brought to England Please come up the middle aisle with reverence and humility. When receiving, please place the cloth under where he reposed in the Lord. your chin, wipe your mouth and then hand the cloth to the next person. PC: Poulos G: Blankenstein Altar Boys Team B: Anthony/Christos/Stathi/Nicholas/Makaros/Ncholas Clean-up Team 8: Patsche/Rich/McKenzie/Reiter/Downs/Inescu/Walker/Hafez tomb?” And looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back;—it was very large. And entering the MALL NTRANCE YMNS tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe; and they were amazed. S E H And he said to them, “Do not be amazed; you seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen, Hymn for Pascha (Plagal 1st Mode): he is not here; see the place where they laid him. But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going Christ is risen from the dead, by death He has trampled upon death and on those in the tombs He is before you to Galilee; there you will see him, as he told you.” And they went out and fled from the bestowing life. tomb; for trembling and astonishment had come upon them; and they said nothing to any one, for they Hymns for Sunday of the Myrrhbearing Women (2nd Mode): were afraid. When You descended to the realm of death, You as Life Immortal rendered to Hades a mortal blow by Your all radiant divinity. And when You from infernal depths and the darkness below did raise the dead, all the hosts of heaven’s powers did proclaim and cry out, “O Life-giving Christ and our God, we give glory.” PARISH ACTIVITIES FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 15TH The noble Joseph, taking Thine immaculate Body down from the Tree, and having wrapped It in pure Sunday, May 15 Sunday of the Myrrhbearers linen and spices, laid it for burial in a new tomb. But on the third day Thou st arise, O Lord, granting Orthros & Divine Liturgy 8:45AM great mercy to the world. Sunday School / Theology 101 12:15 PM Unto the myrrh-bearing women the Angel cried out as he stood by the grave; Myrrh-oils are meet for the dead, but Christ has proved to be a stranger to corruption. But cry out: The Lord is risen, granting Monday, May 16 Young Adults-Dorrance Home 6:30 PM great mercy to the world. Hymn of St. John the Baptist (2nd Mode): Tuesday, May 17 Bible Study 9:30 A The memory of the just is celebrated with hymns of praise, but the Lord’s testimony is sufficient for Parish Council Meeting 6:45 PM thee, O Forerunner; for thou hast proved to be truly more venerable than the Prophets, since thou wast granted to baptize in the stream Him Whom they proclaimed. Wherefore having contested for the Wednesday, May 18 Choir Practice 7:00 PM truth, thou didst rejoice to announce the good tidings even to those in Hades: that God hath appeared Almsgiving Meeting 7:00 PM in the flesh, taking away the sin of the world and granting to us great mercy. Friday, May 20 No Bible Study Kontakion of Pascha (Plagal 4th Mode): Men’s Trip to the Monastery Though Thou didst descend into the grave, O Immortal One, yet didst Thou destroy the power of Ha- des, and didst arise as victor, O Christ God, calling to the myrrh-bearing women, Rejoice, and giving Saturday, May 21 Sts. Constantine and Helen peace unto Thine Apostles, O Thou Who dost grant resurrection to the fallen. Orthros & Divine Liturgy 8:30AM Vespers 5:00 PM EPISTLE READING: Acts 6:1-7 (Sunday of the Myrrhbearers) In those days, when the disciples were increasing in number, the Hellenists murmured against the Sunday, May 22 Sunday of the Paralytic (4th Sunday after Pascha) Hebrews because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution. And the twelve summoned Orthros & Divine Liturgy 8:45AM the body of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to Sunday School / Theology 101 12:15 PM serve tables.