St. Archangel Michael Serbian Orthodox Church Rev. Fr. Dean Franck, Priest (218) 969-5511 [email protected] Ms. Gina McGuire, Choir Director 701 East 40th Street Hibbing, MN 55746 (218) 263-5473 Church Website: http://www.saintarchangelmichael.org (Also find us on Facebook) Schedule of Services and Activities: Today: Martyr Mamas of Cæsarea in Cappadocia (3rd C) and his parents Theodotus and Rufina St. John the Faster, Patriarch of Constantinople († 595) Wednesday: Choir practice 6:30 PM. Thursday: Salvation Army Soup Kitchen - 3:30 to 5:00 PM Saturday: The Nativity of Our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary. 1. Vespers at St. Michael's - 5:00 PM. Please remember to check the “Caring Board” in the hall and also to post notices for those who are in need of prayer or visitation. Upcoming Events: November 16th Mr. Paul Karos will present an all day retreat with the theme: “The Struggle of the Passions and Virtues in Daily Life” Join us for coffee hour in the fellowship hall! Make yourself friendly to any new visitors! Confessions: Confessions can be done anytime, during some services, before or after services, or by appointment, feel free to ask even if I’m in the altar. Thank you, Fr. Dean (218) 969-5511 While Holy Communion is reserved for Orthodox Christians who prepare themselves by prayer, fasting, and recent confession; non-Orthodox visitors are welcome to come forward to venerate the cross and receive the antidoron (blessed bread) at the conclusion of the service. 13th Sunday After Pentecost 15 September 2019 Troparion of the Sunday, Tone III — Let the heavens rejoice, / let the earth be glad! / For the Lord has shown might with His arm,/ He has trampled down death by death. / He has become the first- born of the dead. / He has delivered us from the depths of hell, / and has granted the world great mercy! Kontakion of the Sunday, Tone III — On this day Thou didst rise from the tomb, O Merciful One, / leading us from the gates of death. / On this day Adam exults as Eve rejoices; / with the prophets and patriarchs they unceasingly praise / the divine majesty of Thy power! Meeting of the "Vladimir" Icon, Troparion, in Tone IV — Today the most glorious city of Moscow is adorned, having received thy wonder-working icon like the radiance of the sun; and we, hastening to it and entreating thee, O Mistress, do thus cry out: O all-wondrous Mistress Theotokos, entreat Christ our God, Who became incarnate through thee, that He deliver this city, and all cities and lands where Christians dwell, unharmed by all the assaults of the enemy, and save thou our souls, in that thou art compassionate. Epistle I Corinthians 16:13-24 13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. 14 Let all your things be done with charity. 15 I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,) 16 That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth. 17 I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied. 18 For they have refreshed my spirit and your's: therefore acknowledge ye them that are such. 19 The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house. 20 All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one another with an holy kiss. 21 The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand. 22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha. 23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. 24 My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen. 13th Sunday After Pentecost 15 September 2019 Gospel Matthew 21:33-42 133 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: 34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. 35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise. 37 But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. 38 But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. 39 And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him. 40 When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? 41 They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons. 42 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? St. John the Faster, Patriarch of Constantinople († 595) Source: The Clergyman’s Handbook. Moscow. 1978. English translation Copyright 1997 Fr. S. Janos. Saint John IV the Faster, Patriarch of Constantinople (582-595), is famed in the Orthodox Church as the compiler of a Penitential nomokanon (i.e. Law-Canon of penances), which has come down to us in several distinct versions. But their foundation is one and the same. This—is an instruction for priests, how to hear a secret confession of secret sins, be this a sin already committed or constituting merely a sin of intent. Ancient churchly rules address the manner and duration of churchly public penances, established for obvious and evident sinners. But it 13th Sunday After Pentecost 15 September 2019 was necessary to effectively adapt these rules for the secret confession of undetected things being repented of. Saint John the Faster because of this issued his Penitential nomokanon (or “Canonaria”), so that the good-intentioned confession of secret sins, unknown to the world, already testifies to the disposition of the sinner and his conscience in being reconciled to God, and therefore the saint shortened the penances by the ancient fathers by half or more. Yet on the other hand, he set more exactly the character of the penances: severe fasting, daily performing of an established number of prayerful prostrations to the ground, the distribution of alms. The length of penance is determined by the priest. The main purpose of the nomocanon, compiled by the holy Patriarch, consists in establishing penances not simply by the measure of sins, but by the measure of admitting the confessed, and through the appraisement of penitence not by continual punishment, but through the extent of the experience to be confessed, one’s spiritual state. Among the Greeks, and afterwards also in the Russian Church the rules of Saint John the Faster are honoured on a level “with other saintly rules,” and the law- canons of his book are accounted “applicable for all the Orthodox Church.” The Monk Nicodemos of the Holy Mountain (Nikodim Svyatogorets, Comm. 1 July) included him in the Greek handbook for priests (Exomologitaria), first published in 1796, and in the Greek “Rudder Book” (Pedalion), published by him in 1800. The first Slavonic translation was done quite possibly by the holy Equal-to-the- Apostles Methodios, at the same time as he produced the “Nomocanon in 50 Titles” of the holy Patriarch John Scholastikos, whose successor on the Constantinople cathedra-seat was Saint John the Faster. This ancient translation was preserved in Rus’ in the “Ustiug Rudder” (XIII), published in 1902. From the XVI Century in the Russian Church was circulated the nomocanon of Saint John the Faster in another redaction, compiled by priest-monks and clergy of Holy Mount Athos. In this form it was repeatedly published at the Kievo- Kiev Caves Lavra (in 1620, 1624, 1629). In Moscow the Penitential Nomokanon was published in the form of a supplement to the Trebnik (“Book of Needs”): under Patriarch Joasaph in 1639, under Patriarch Joseph in 1651, and under Patriarch Nikon in 1658. The last edition since that time invariably is that printed in the Large Trebnik. A scholarly edition of the nomocanon with parallel Greek and Slavonic texts and with detailed historical and canonical commentary was done by A. S. Pavlov (Moscow, 1897)..