HOLY TRINITY ORTHODOX CHURCH 140 Horseheads Blvd., Elmira Heights, NY ● 607-732-3980 Rector: Fr. David Cowan ● Deacon S. Michael Karney Email: [email protected] ● www.holytrinityorthodoxchurch.org Sunday, July 4, 2021 – Tone 1 Second Sunday After Pentecost – All Saints of North America SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES Most Services May Be Joined by Live Stream at Web Address www.facebook.com/htocelmiraheights or go to www.YouTube.com and search for “Holy Trinity Church Elmira Heights NY” Today – 2nd Sunday After Pentecost: All Saints of North America; Independence Day 8:40 AM Third and Sixth Hours 9:00 AM Divine Liturgy Followed By Fellowship Hour Downstairs Wednesday, July 7 6:30 PM Akathist – The Sitka Icon of the Most-Holy Theotokos Saturday, July 10 5:00 PM Great Vespers; Private Confession Available Afterward Sunday, July 11 – 3rd Sunday After Pentecost: All Saints of Britain and Ireland 8:40 AM Third and Sixth Hours 9:00 AM Divine Liturgy Followed By Fellowship Hour Downstairs VEHICLE BLESSING – SUNDAY, JULY 18, 11:45 AM The Sunday Before the Feast of the Prophet Elijah Cars, trucks, boats, bikes (don’t forget your helmet!), scooters, trikes, pogo sticks … Line them up outside, and we’ll ask the Lord to bless whatever gets you from Point A to B! THE SAINTS OF NORTH AMERICA (SO FAR … ) Tikhon, Archbishop of the North American Diocese and Patriarch of Moscow• Innocent, missionary Bishop to Alaska and Metropolitan of Moscow • John (Maximovitch) the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco • Mardarije (Uskokovic), Serbian Bishop of America and Canada • Nicholas (Velimirović), bishop of Žiča, rector of St. Tikhon's Seminary • Raphael (Hawaweeny), vicar bishop of Brooklyn under the Moscow Patriarchate • Peter the Aleut, protomartyr of America • Seraphim (Samoylovich) of Uglich, missionary in Alaska and hieromartyr under the Soviets • Barnabas (Nastić), the New Confessor, born in Gary, Indiana • Anatole (Kamensky), Archbishop of Irkutsk and Martyr under the Soviets • Alexander Hotovitzky, priest-martyr under the Soviets • Basil Martysz, priest-martyr in Poland • John Kochurov, priest-martyr under the Soviets • Juvenaly of Alaska, priest-monk missionary who accompanied St. Herman and Martyr • Brendan the Navigator, leader of short-lived 6th c. Irish monastic community in Canada • Herman, missionary to Alaska and first glorified Saint of America • Alexis of Wilkes-Barre, leader of ex- Uniates into Orthodoxy • Jacob Netsvetov, first Orthodox priest born in North America, in Alaska • Sebastian (Dabovich), archimandrite, "Serbian Apostle to America", first Orthodox priest born in USA PASTORAL CARE – GENERAL INFORMATION Emergency Sick Calls can be made at any time. Please call Fr. David at 732-3980, when a family member is admitted to the hospital. Anointing In Sickness: The Sacrament of Unction is available in Church, the hospital, or your home, for anyone who is sick, however severe. If you are preparing for surgery (or recovering from it), please call Father. Marriages and Baptisms require early planning, scheduling, and selection of sponsors (crown bearers or godparents). See Father before booking dates, choosing sponsors, and reserving reception halls. Funerals are celebrated for practicing Orthodox Christians who have not declined the Sacraments. The Church opposes cremation; we cannot celebrate funerals for cremations. Epistle: Romans 2:10-16 & Hebrews 11:33-12:2 Brethren: Glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. For God shows no partiality. All who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. When Gentiles who have not the law do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or perhaps excuse them on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus. Brethren: And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets-- who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, received promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, won strength out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight. Women received their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, that they might rise again to a better life. Others suffered mocking and scourging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, ill-treated--of whom the world was not worthy--wandering over deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. And all these, though well attested by their faith, did not receive what was promised, since God had foreseen something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect. Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us. Gospel: Matthew 4:18-23 & Matthew 4:25-5:12 At that time, Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. Then He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” They immediately left their nets and followed Him. Going on from there, He saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. He called them, and immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed Him. And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people. At that time, great multitudes followed Jesus – from Galilee, and from Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan. And seeing the multitudes, He went up on a mountain, and when He was seated His disciples came to Him. Then He opened His mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.” Prayer List Memory Eternal: Adele; Nancy; Helen; Chelsea, Olga, Michael. All those taken from us by the Coronavirus, by sickness, violence, and injury. All soldiers, civil leaders and civil servants departed this life who have devoted themselves to serving this nation, remembered on this Independence Day. For Health: Archpriest Jason, Archpriest Nicholas, Archpriest Daniel & Mat. Myra, Archpriest Herman & Mat. Cynthia, Archpriest Ken James; Archpriest Michael; Rdr. Alexander, Rdr. Thomas & Mildred, Rdr. William; Mat. Anastasia; Kristy, Mary Ann; Jeremy; Gregory & Margaret; Peter; Ilsa, Jaime; Michelle, Joan; Nancy; Joan; Nicholas; Scott, Steven; Juliana, Antonina; Ryan; expecting mothers Kelly & Matushka Lillian; Jane Ann, Susan, James, James, Child Hannah, Joshua, Chloe, Helen, Nadezhda, Kathleen, Erica, Sherri, Ruth, Harriett, Katherine, Kristin, Sierra, Maria, Michael, Kate, Lorraine, Barry, Abigail, David. Diocesan Prayer Requests: Archbishop BENJAMIN; Protopresbyter Leonid Kishkovsky, Archimandrite Joseph (Hoffman); Archpriest Sergei & Matushka Genevieve Glagolev; Archpriest Jason Vansuch; Archpriest Matthew Searfoorce, Fr. Michael Dudas, Fr. Joseph Chupeck; Deacon Edward Dawson; Matushka Elizabeth Maliniak, Mat. Olga Andrejuk; Sub-deacon Peter; Reader Joshua, Reader Basil; Nicholas; Tamara, Anastasia; Iuliya, Mihail, Ioann; Krista, Vincent, Ioannis, Maria, Harry, Dianne; Theodore, Ellie, Irene, Byron, Natasha; Joseph & Olga; Maddie, Mary Ann; Helen, John, Michael. All of the healthcare and public safety personnel in our parish and our communities; all those afflicted with the Coronavirus and those caring for them, those afflicted by sickness, violence, and injury. All soldiers, veterans, civil leaders and civil servants who devote their lives to serving this nation. Birthdays: Nadia Powers (7/5), Thomas Cheplick (7/9). Parish Children: Lucia Hannah Jeremiah Andrew Myra Ezekiel Anysia Lydia Natalie Emilia Patrick Sophia Dmitri Jonah Gabriel Angelina John Thomas Nikolai Melania Alexei Larissa Julianna Nadia Gabriel Justus College Students: Anna McKane – Duke University • Katherine McKane – Sarah Lawrence College • Nathan Devens – Corning Community College • Larissa Cheplick – Daemen College Please give prayer requests to Fr. David, Dn. Michael, Subdcn. Walter, or a Reader. Typically, prayers