BULLETIN, MAY 27, 2018

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1 BULLETIN, MAY 27, 2018 St. George Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church 237 Long Hill Rd, Little Falls, NJ Parish Office (973) Pastor Office (973) Church Website: Church office His Eminence Metropolitan JOSEPH Archbishop of New York And Metropolitan of North America V. Rev. Father Dimitri Darwich Rev. Father Jeremiah Phillips Rev. Deacon Scott Miler Parish Council Officers Amin Amireh (Chairman) Ziad Juzdan (Vice Chairman) Michael Nafash (Treasurer) Donna Starke (Secretary) 1 St. George s Organizations Ladies Society Abir Yazigi Teen SOYO Donna Starke (609) Young Adult George Juzdan (President) Choir Director Jane Tadros Sunday School Director Claire Levash churchschool@stgeorgenj.com PTA Mary Ellen Saba Suzy Kukutanov Charity Committee Julie Abboud immalbert@aol.com Hall Rental Maher Louis hallrental@stgeorgenj.com Capital Campaign Fund Souhel Shehady Stewardship Committee Paul Juzdan pjuzdan@gmail.com

2 Tone The Great Fast of Pentecost Eothinon Altar Servers James Alain, Michael Handal, Jeremey Nashid, Tyler Rotella, George Saad, Michael Saykali, Alex Saykali. THE EISODIKON (ENTRANCE HYMN) OF THE FEAST Be Thou exalted, O Lord, in Thy strength; we shall praise and sing of Thy mighty acts. Save us, O Good Comforter, who sing to Thee. Alleluia. ونرتل نسبح بقوت ك رب يا ارتفع اإليصوذيكون لعزت ك. خلصنا أيها المعزي هللوييا لك المرتلين نحن الصالح APOLYTIKION OF PENTECOST IN TONE EIGHT BLESSED art thou, O Christ our God, Who hast revealed the fishermen as most wise having sent upon them the Holy Spirit, and through them thou hast fished the universe. O Lover of mankind Glory to thee. مبارك أنت أيها المسيح إلهنا, يا اصطدت المسكونة, يا محب البشر طروبارية العيد على اللحن الثامن الحكمة, غزيري الصيادين أظهرت من لك. المجد وبهم القدس, الروح عليهم أنزلت إذ TROPARION OF SAINT GEORGE IN TONE 4 As deliverer of captives, as defender of the poor, healer of the infirm, champion of kings, Victorious, Great Martyr George, intercede with Christ our Lord, intercede for the soul s salvation. أي ها طروبارية القديس جاورجيوس باللحن ال اربع بما أن ك للمأسورين م ح ر ر وم عت ق وللف ق ارء والمساكين عاض د وناص ر وللمرضى طبيب وشاف وعن المؤمنين م كاف ح وم حار ب. في الش هداء جاورجيوس الم ظ ف ر.ت شف ع إلى المسيح اإلله في خالص نفوس نا. العظيم KONTAKION OF THE FEAST IN TONE EIGHT When God Most High descended, confusing tongues, He divided all the nations, and when spreading fiery tongues, He called us all to unity, so accordingly we glorify the All-Holy Spirit. قنداق العيد على اللحن الثامن 2

3 الوحدة. مقسماا, مبلبلا الروح لما نزل األصوات العلي نمج د األلسنة كان الكلي قدسه. لألمم األلسن وزع ولما إلى الجميع دعا النارية, فباتفاق THE EPISTLE Their sound has gone forth into all the earth. The heavens declare the glory of God! The reading is from the book of the Acts of the Apostles (2:1-11) WHEN THE DAY OF PENTECOST HAD COME, the apostles were all together in one place. And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in different tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. And at this sound the multitude came together, and were bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in his own language. And they were all amazed and marveled, saying: Behold, are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each of us in our own language where we were born? Parthians and Medes and Elamites and the residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphilia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs, we hear them speaking in our own tongues the mighty works of God. الرسالة إلى كل األرض خرج صوت هم, السماوات تذيع مجد هللا. فصل من أعمال الرسل القديسين األطهار ولما جاء اليوم الخمسون, كان الرسل كل هم مجتمعين في مكان واحد, فخرج من السماء فجأة دوي كريح عاصفة, فمأل كل البيت الذي كانوا فيه. فظهرت لهم ألسنة كأنها من نار قد انقسمت فاستقر لسان على كل منهم, فامتألوا كلهم من الروح القدس, وأخذوا يتكلمون بلغات غير لغتهم, على ما آتاهم الروح القدس أن ينطقوا. وكان في أورشليم أناس أتقياء من اليهود جاؤوا من كل أمة تحت السماء. فلما حدث ذلك الصوت تجمهر الناس, وأخذتهم الحيرة, الن كل واحد كان يسمعهم يتكلمون بلغته. فدهشوا وتعجبوا وقالوا: "أما هؤالء 3

4 المتكلمون كلهم من الجليل فكيف يسمعهم كل واحد منا بلغة بلده نحن من برثية ومادية وعيالم وما بين النهرين واليهودية وكبدوكية وبنطس وآسية وفريجية وبمفيلية ومصر ونواحي ليبية المجاورة لقيروان, ومنا من هم رومانيون يقيمون هنا ويهود ودخالء وكريتيون وعرب! فإننا نسمعهم يتكلمون بلغاتنا على أعمال هللا العظيمة. THE GOSPEL The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Saint John (7:37-52; 8:12) On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and proclaimed, "If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the scripture has said, Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.' Now this he said about the Spirit, which those who believed in him were to receive; for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. When they heard these words, many of the people said, "This is really the prophet." Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "Is the Christ to come from Galilee? Has not the scripture said that the Christ is descended from David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?" So there was a division among the people over Him. Some of them wanted to arrest Him, but no one laid hands on Him. The officers then went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, "Why did you not bring Him?" The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!" The Pharisees answered them, "Are you led astray, you also? Have any of the authorities or of the Pharisees believed in Him? But this crowd, who do not know the law, are accursed". Nicodemus, who had gone to Him before, and who was one of them, said to them, "Does our law judge a man without first giving him hearing and learning what he does?" They replied, "Are you from Galilee too? Search and you will see that no prophet is to rise from Galilee." Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." االنجيل فصل شريف من بشارة القديس يوحنا في آخر يوم من العيد, وهو أعظم أيامه وقف يسوع وقال بأعلى صوته: "إن عطش أحد فليجئ إلي ليشرب, ومن آمن بي, كما قال الكتاب, تفيض من جوفه أنهار ماء حي." وأ ارد بقوله الروح الذي سيناله المؤمنون به, فلم يكن الروح القدس قد أعطي حتى اآلن, الن يسوع لم يتمجد بعد. فقال كثيرون ممن سمعوا كالم يسوع: "بالحقيقة هذا هو النبي." وقال غيرهم: "هذا هو المسيح!" وقال 4

5 آخرون: "أمن الجليل يجيء المسيح أما قال الكتاب إن المسيح يجيء من نسل داود, ومن بيت لحم مدينة داود فوقع بين الناس خالف في شأنه. وأ ارد بعضهم أن يمسكوه, ولكن لم يمد أحد يدا عليه. ورجع الحرس إلى رؤساء الكهنة والفريسين, فقال لهم هؤالء: "لماذا لم تأتوا به " فأجاب الحرس: "ما تكلم إنسان قط مثل هذا!" فقال لهم الفريسيون: "أخ دعتم أنتم أيضا أ أريتم واحدا من الرؤساء أو الفريسيين آمن به أما هؤالء العامة من الناس الذين يجهلون الشريعة فهم ملعونون." فقال نيقوديموس, وكان من الفريسيين, وهو الذي جاء قبال إلى يسوع: "أتحكم شريعتنا على أحد قبل أن تسمعه وتعرف ما فعل " فأجابوه: "أوأنت أيضا من الجليل فتش تر أنه ال يقوم من الجليل نبي." وكلمهم أيضا يسوع قال: "أنا نور العالم من يتبعني ال يمشي في الظالم, بل يكون له نور الحياة". Holy Bread The Holy Bread is being offered by Kh. Ghada Darwich and family for the good health and in eternal memory of their beloved ones. The Spirits of the Righteous Made Perfect Hafez Juzdan, Alife Shama, Kamil Shama, Alfred Haggar, Robert Lynch, Alfred Fadil, Albert Shawy, Edward Kassab, Virginia Sowma, Alice Kabbash, Sadalla Bitar, Shamsey Azar, Ameen Najjar, John Gorab, Anton Gousen, Rose Affsa. May the Lord God rest their souls in peace and grant comfort to their families. Donations In memory of William Jarjoura offered by Robert & Katherine Kassab, Michael & Lisa Nafash, Raymond & Jacqueline Peche, John & Mary Balonze, George & Diane Haweeny. Michael & Lisa Nafash in memory of Arthur Nasfash. St. George Church (Calendar) Arabic Bible Study (7:30 pm) May 28th Saturday of Souls (Trisagion for the Departed 10:00 am) May 26th Feast of Holy Pentecost (Liturgy 10:00 am) May 27th All Saints Sunday (Liturgy 10:00 am) June 3rd Apostles Fast Begins June 4th Second Sunday after Pentecost (Liturgy 10:00 am) June 10th FESTIVAL June فماذا قال اآلباء عن نار الروح القدس يقول القديس يوحنا ذهبي الفم :كما تحرق النار األشواك هكذا يمحو الروح القدس الخطايا. 5

6 وي صو ر لنا القديس كيرلس اإلسكندري هذا الحلول بمثال الحديد المشتعل بالنار فيقول: إن البشرية التي ق ب ل ت إليها كلمة هللا غير الفاسد الم حيي قد تحر رت من الفساد واستنارت بأشعة معرفة هللا الحقيقية كما ي شار ك الحديد المشتعل في قوة النار. وي عب ر القديس باسيليوس الكبير عن عمل الروح القدس في تقديس النفوس بقوله] :كما أننا ال نستطيع أن نفصل النار عن فعل التدفئة وال النور عن فعل اإلضاءة هكذا ال نستطيع أن نفصل عن الروح القدس فعل التقديس وتجديد الحياة واإلصالح والتقويم. والقديس باسيليوس وهو يشرح رؤيا العل يقة المشتعلة يقول: إن النار ظهرت )لموسى النبي( بلمعانها فقط واحتجزت إلى حين قوتها الحارقة كيما ت عل منا أنه في يوم المجازاة ستتقس م الخواص الطبيعية للنار وسيكون النور ليتنع م فيه األبرار أما اإلحراق الرهيب فسيكون ل م ن يستحقون العقاب. لقد ظهر الروح القدس على شكل ألسنة نار كيما ي لق نا نموذج المحبة التي يبلغ تشبيهها إلى سر األقنوم الثالث هكذا يقول القديس أوغسطينوس في إحدى عظاته الفصحية للمعتمدين الج د د: إن الروح القدس أ ظه ر نفسه في شكل ألسنة نار ألنه يوصي بالمحبة التي تجعلنا حارين فيما هلل وتجعلنا نحتقر العالم. إنه يحرق فينا شوائب اإلنسان العتيق وي طه ر قلبنا مثل الذهب. هذا هو سر المسحة المقدسة التي تهبنا نار الروح القدس بعد المعمودية بالماء. القديس أوغسطينوس في موضع آخر أن : النار اإللهية تحل ليس فقط في النفس بل في الجسد أيضا وتحرق منه كل ما هو بشري حتى ي بتل ع الموت إلى نصرة. THE KNEELING PRAYERS THE FIRST PRAYER PRIEST: O Most merciful Lord and lover of mankind, hear us when we call upon You, and especially on this day of Pentecost, on which, after our Lord Jesus Christ had ascended into the heaven, and had sat down at the Your right hand, the God and Father, he sent down the Holy Spirit upon his holy disciples and apostles, which also sat upon each of them. They were filled with his grace, and they spoke with different languages of Your majesty, and they prophesied. Blessed are You, O Lord, Master Almighty, for You have lightened the day with the light of the sun and have illuminated the night with flashes of fire, and have made us worthy to pass through the length of the day and to approach the beginning of the night. Hear our prayer and that of all Your people. Pardon us all our sins, receive our evening supplications; and send down Your great mercy and compassions upon Your inheritance. Fortify us with Your holy angels. Arm us with the armor of Your righteousness. Strengthen us with Your truth. Guard us with Your power. Deliver us from every adverse circumstance and every plot of the adversary. Grant us also that all the days of our life may be perfect, holy, peaceful, 6

7 sinless, harmless and without fantasy, through the intercessions of the holy Theotokos and of all the saints, who have pleased You throughout the ages. THE SECOND PRAYER DEACON: Again and again, on bent knees, let us pray to the Lord. PEOPLE: Lord, have mercy. PRIEST: O Lord Jesus Christ our God, You granted Your peace to all men. And while You were still on earth, You granted the gift of the all-holy Spirit to the faithful, as an inheritance that shall never be taken away from them. Today, You send down in a more visible manner this grace upon Your holy disciples and apostles, and you place tongues of fire in their mouths, and upon their lips. Through them every human race has received, through the hearing of the ear, the knowledge of God in our own languages. We have been enlightened by the light of the Spirit, and we have been set free from delusion as from darkness, and through the distribution of the sensible tongues of fire and their wondrous operation, we have learned the faith that is in You, and we have been illumined, so as to praise You with the Father and the Holy Spirit, in one Godhead and Power and Authority. Wherefore, on this day of the descent of the Holy Spirit, I, the sinner, implore Your goodness: Grant me whatever I have asked for salvation. Yes, O Lord, the good and abundant Giver of every benefit, for You grant most abundantly that which we ask. You became without sin the compassionate, merciful partaker of our flesh and to those that bend their knees before You graciously bend down and become the propitiation of our sins. Sanctify them by the power of Your saving right hand. Shelter them with the shelter of Your wings. Do not forsake the works of Your hands. Receive the prayer of all as an acceptable incense, rising before Your most-good kingdom, by the good will and goodness of Thine only begotten Son, with whom Thou art blessed, together with Thy good and most Holy and life-giving Spirit, now and always, and unto ages of ages. Amen. THE THIRD PRAYER DEACON: Again and again, on bent knees, let us pray to the Lord. PEOPLE: Lord, have mercy. PRIEST: O Christ our God, ever-flowing Fountain of life and light, creative Power, co-eternal with the Father; You have most excellently fulfilled the whole divine plan of 7

8 the salvation of mortals, You broke the indestructible bonds of death and the bolts of Hades, and have trampled down the great number of evil spirits; You offered Yourself as a blameless sacrifice, and, through that awesome and inexpressible act of sacrifice, you granted us eternal life; You went down into Hades and broke down its eternal bars, showing forth the way up to those who sat in the lower world. You manifested yourself a great Helper to the oppressed, and enlightened those that sat in darkness and in the shadow of death; You are the Lord of everlasting glory, the beloved Son of the Father most high, eternal Light of eternal light, Sun of righteousness: Hear us who pray to You, and give rest to the souls of your servants, our fathers and brethren, who before us have slept the sleep of death, and our other relatives after the flesh, and Your own believers who live in faith, whose commemoration we celebrate today. For in You is the power over all, and in Your hand You hold all the ends of the earth. O great and most high God, You alone are immortal and You dwell in an unapproachable light, in wisdom You have made all creation. You have separated the light from the darkness and have made the sun to rule the day, the moon and stars also to rule the night. You have made us sinners worthy at this present hour also to come before Your presence, to give thanks to you, and to offer to You our evening praise: O Lord, lover of mankind, direct our prayer as incense before You, and accept it as an "odor of sweet fragrance", and grant that we may pass the present evening and the coming night in peace. Endue us with the "armor of light". Deliver us from the terror of the night and from every terror by darkness, and grant that the sleep which You have appointed for the repose of our weakness may be free from every imagination of the devil. Yes, O Master, Bestower of all good things, may we the repentant upon our beds, remember Your name in the night, that, enlightened by meditation on Your commandments, we may rise up in joyfulness of soul to glorify Your goodness, and to offer prayers and supplications to Your tender love, for our sins and for those of all Your people, for whom You care in mercy, through the intercessions of the holy Theotokos. 8