SAINT NICHOLAS ORTHODOX CHURCH P.O. Box 777 Barton, OH

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1 A Parish of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople Follow our Diocese online: Diocesan Website: Camp Nazareth: Facebook: Twitter: You Tube: Very Rev. Father Michael C. Kabel Pastor & Dean OFFICE PHONE (740) Church Hall Phone (740) WEB SITE: PARISH FACEBOOK: ACRY FACEBOOK: MYSTERY OF HOLY CONFESSION: Before & after Saturday evening Vespers. Other Sacraments by appointment. GOING TO THE HOSPITAL? Please notify Father when you are admitted if you want him to visit. Kindly notify Father also when you are discharged. SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 2017 GLORY TO JESUS CHRIST! SLAVA ISUSU CHRISTU! SAINT NICHOLAS ORTHODOX CHURCH P.O. Box 777 Barton, OH DIVINE LITURGY 10:00 AM GLORY FOREVER! SLAVA NA V'IKI! THE SUNDAY OF PENTECOST: Special Antiphons and all Propers as given on pp Kneeling Prayers will be said after the announcements. There will be Mirovanije (festive anointing) at the conclusion of the Divine Liturgy. EPISTLE: Acts of the Holy Apostles 2:1-11. GOSPEL: John 7:37-52; 8:12. SCHEDULE OF DIVINE SERVICES For the week of June 4: Sun., June 4: (After Liturgy) Panachida in memory of +Eve & +Harold Kozak and +Helen Chukayne. Requested by Joyce and Brian. Mon., June 5: (9:00 AM) Divine Liturgy for Spirit Monday. Rubrics as given on pp Procession Gospels at the four sides of the church. Wed., June 7: (6:30 PM) Moleben to the Most Holy Theotokos at the Prayer Garden. Sat., June 10: (6:00 PM) Great Vespers with Litija for the Sunday of All Saints.

2 JUNE 11: The Sunday of ALL SAINTS 8:00 AM: Divine Liturgy for the Sunday of All Saints. Regular Sunday Antiphons and the Beatitudes. Propers as given on pp There will be Mirovanije (festive anointing) at the conclusion of the Divine Liturgy. THE ETERNAL LAMP burns in memory of +Andrew Rose. Requested by Virginia Polinsky. THE LEFT SIDE ALTAR LAMPS (Prothesis) burn with prayers for Laney & Anna Ross. Requested by Laney & Cindi Ross. THE RIGHT SIDE ALTAR LAMPS (Diakonikon) burn with prayers for the Health & Salvation of Pat Thomas. Requested by Arleen Koval. THE TETRAPOD LAMPS burn with prayers for Special Intentions. Requested by Theresa Reese. ************************************************ TODAY S SUNDAY BULLETIN is sponsored with prayers and best wishes for a Happy Birthday to Brodi Foster. Requested by Uncle Jim, Aunt Joni, Ethan & Sophia. GRADUATES SUNDAY. TODAY we honor our high school graduates, Noah Zitterich and Alexis Marovich. We will offer special prayers on their behalf, and present each of them with a Bible and a holy icon. Congratulations and best wishes in your future endeavors! Many Blessed Years! A CHURCH SCHOOL TEACHERS MEETING will be held TODAY after the Divine Services. All church school teachers are kindly asked to attend. THE GREEN LEAFY BRANCHES which we see in our church today speak to us of a new season of growth and life in the natural world around us. They also symbolize the new spiritual life which we enjoy because of the coming of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost. Special thanks to all of our helpers for adorning the church with the festive greens. AFTER THE KNEELING PRAYERS are said today, kneeling is once again permitted in church and during your private prayers. THIS WEEK following Pentecost is FAST-FREE. Meat may be eaten on both Wednesday & Friday of this week. OUR BIBLE STUDY GROUP will meet for the first time this coming Thursday, June 8 at 6:30 PM in the church basement. If you signed-up or expressed interest, please try to come to this initial meeting! LAST CALL FOR CAMP NAZARETH FAMILY DAY RAFFLE TICKETS. Please see Pan i if you are interested in purchasing a ticket. Last chance! Family Day is next Sunday CAMP NAZARETH FAMILY CAMP will be held from Friday, June 9 thru Sunday, June 11, The theme is Your Family s Sacred Story. Register online at campnazareth.org FAMILY DAY at Camp Nazareth in Mercer, PA will be held next Sunday, June 11. All parishioners are strongly encouraged to join the rest of our Diocesan Family for this yearly event of prayer & fellowship. Divine Liturgy at Camp is at 10:00 AM. PLEASE NOTE. Divine Liturgy will begin here at 8:00 AM next Sunday, June 11, due to Family Day at Camp. As many parishioners as possible should be planning to attend Family Day. There is a lot to see and experience! THE 31 ST ANNUAL GRECIAN FOOD FESTIVAL will be held at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church grounds in Steubenville from Tuesday, June 13 through Friday, June 16. The festival will open each day at 11:00 AM and close at 9:00 PM.

3 ORTHODOX CHURCH FINDER. If you are traveling or vacationing, and need to locate a nearby Orthodox church, you can use this site to quickly and easily find a place to worship: *************************************************************************************************************************** ICON PRAYER CARDS with a prayer for those who are traveling are again available in the back of church. Please feel free to take one! SUMMER is upon us! It is a time of vacations and many special activities. Please remember that there is no vacation from God and church attendance. We still need to be present at the Sunday Divine Liturgy and Holy Day services. If we miss Liturgy for frivolous reasons, or just because we want to do something else, we need to come to Confession first before we approach to receive the Holy Eucharist. Putting anything or anyone ahead of God is a form of idolatry. CHURCH ATTENDANCE Saturday Evening Vespers (5/27) 6 Sunday Divine Liturgy (5/28) 86 Moleben to the Theotokos (5/31) 8 5 th All Souls Saturday Liturgy (6/3) 6 UPCOMING EVENTS IN 2017 Please mark your calendars now! Friday, June 9 thru Sunday, June 11 Family Camp at Camp Nazareth in Mercer, PA. Sunday, June th Annual Family Day Celebration at Camp Nazareth in Mercer, PA. Sunday, June 18 Father s Day. Sunday, June 25 thru Wednesday, June 28 Diocesan Altar Boys Retreat & Young Women s Retreat. Sunday, July 17 to Saturday, July 23 Tri-State Deanery Summer Camp Week. THE FIRE OF PENTECOST The fire of Pentecost is nothing less than the profound presence of the Holy Spirit. It is the only power that constitutes the Church. That Holy Fire is what transforms a society of common folk into the mystical Body of Christ - common folk who become partakers of the divine nature, a chosen people, a royal priesthood who are called by God the Father, fashioned by the Son, and realized by the indwelling and filling of the Holy Spirit. That Holy Fire, which is at the same time a single flame, but set individually upon each person, is the sign and reality of sanctification in the present, and the perfection of theosis in the ages to come. ACROD Pentecost Reflection

4 30 Orthodox Things to do this Summer! 1. Go to Church Lots of Feast Days to Celebrate! 2. Read Orthodox Books and Magazines. 3. Spend a week at Camp Nazareth with other Diocesan Orthodox Christians. 4. Visit a Monastery. 5. Read the Bible. 6. Visit shut-ins from your Church. 7. Grow a garden, take care of it, use and share it! 8. Recycle and use less!!! 9. Meet someone new at your Church. 10. Visit all of the Orthodox Churches in your area. 11. If you are traveling, visit the Orthodox Church in that area. 12. Take pictures of Icons in your Church and learn more about them. 13. Learn how to make Prosphora and then bring it to Church for Liturgy. 14. Write your Bishop, Clergy and Camp Staff a thank you letter for all they do. 15. Write a note to brighten someone s day. 16. Help clean your Church, and ALWAYS leave it better than you found it! 17. Feed the birds and animals at a park (if it is allowed). 18. Explore nature, go for a walk with your family 19. Have Alone with God time. 20. Do something nice for your family and your neighbor. 21. Go to the Moleben & Paraklis services held in the prayer garden. 22. Write a story about your favorite Saint. 23. Learn how to chant. 24. Ask your Grandparents (or anyone in your family) lots of questions about their life, and tell them about yours! 25. Give away things you don t need or use to someone who does. 26. Share!! 27. Learn about your Church s Feast Day! 28. Limit how much TV you watch, so you can have interesting stories to tell when it s time to go back to school. 29. Learn something new and teach it to someone else. 30. Pray!!

5 On Stewardship and the Orthodox Life Part 145: Unimaginable Potential (5/07/17) Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.. (Genesis 1:26 RSV) What an amazing revelation we find in the first book of the First (Old) Testament. God made us to be like Him! Our potential is infinite, we have the potential to be sons and daughters of God! God gave us rule over all creation that we might steward it, multiple it and give it back to God in gratitude. Have we lived up to that unimaginable potential that God provide for us? You see, there is nothing that we cannot do if only we placed God as the center of our life. Christ came to us healing the sick and the lepers, casting out demons and exposing injustice. If only we could do that? Newsflash, we can! What you say? What was Christ comment to the disciples after they had witnessed the healings and casting out of demons? After giving them the new commandment, He tells them in John 14:12, Truly, truly I say to you, he who believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do. Can you only imagine what potential we have? To do works greater than what Christ has done! So what limits us from using all the gifts that God has given us to do greater works than Jesus Christ? In order to reach that unimaginable potential, we have to over a lifetime learn to be grateful. We have to learn how to take the gifts God has given to us, multiply them and return them to God so that He may multiply them and give them back to us. We have to learn to be the sons and daughters, the kings/queens and priests of creation and offer the creation which He gave us rule over back to the Creator as gift and thanksgiving. We will never reach our full potential by being intoxicated by our own passions, desires and hungers. We will never reach our full potential by being self-centered and ungrateful. We were made in the image of God, each person is our brother or sister yet we do not treat all people in the same way, even though all were all made in the image of God. In 1 John 4:20 we read, If any one says I love God and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. Ghandi had rephrased this passage in this way, If you haven t found God in the faces of those around you, don t bother looking for Him anywhere else. We show our love for God by keeping His commandments. We received the fullness of grace at baptism along with the many gifts God has given us to live to the fullness of our potential. St. Maximus the Confessor states, Each of us possesses the manifest energy of the Spirit in proportion to the faith that is in him. Each person thus is the steward of his own grace. And St. John Chrysostom further elaborates, After God s grace, everything depends on us and our application. If we don t truly love God (we show this by disregarding His commandments), can we really expect to live to our full potential? How many gifts has He given us that we will never realize when we don t obey His commandments. And if we don t realize those gifts, how will that affect the body of Christ with whom we are commanded to share our gifts. Will we ever reach our full potential? This weekly series of brief thoughts on stewardship and Orthodox life is brought to you by your Diocesan Stewardship Commission.