+ + + Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke Friday 10/31 Wine and Oil allowed on this day

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1 SAINT JAMES ORTHODOX CHURCH 195 N. Main Street Milpitas, Ca Matins 8:00 a.m. Liturgy 10:30 a.m. The Very Reverend Fr. Jiris Hanna (408) Fr. Dcn. Joseph Kawar (408) Sunday November 2 (10/20), st Sunday after Pentecost Great-martyr Artemius at Antioch (362) St. Gerasimus the New األحد الحادي والعشرون بعد العنصرة تذكار القديس العظيم في الشهداء ارتاميوس والبار جراسيموس الجديد Matins (Eothina X): John 21:1 41 Epistle: Galatians 2:16 20 Gospel: Luke 8:26 39 Don t forget to set your time one hour backwards this Saturday Night 11/1. Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke Friday 10/31 Wine and Oil allowed on this day On October 31 every year, Orthodox Christians around the world do the same thing they do every day: deny themselves, take up their cross, and follow Christ. We say our prayers, keep the fast as prescribed, practice virtue, avoid temptation, worship corporately as our local parish gives opportunity, live discerningly with our neighbor, and make every effort to raise up our families in Christ. Why? Because Christ is our God, our Savior, our Redeemer, and our path to eternal life, that is, immortality. We are free to follow or deny Him. We are free to choose Heaven or to choose Hell. Our free will is a divine gift from Him by which we save or condemn ourselves. In this manner, every day, for all of our lives, we construct our own future and determine our own destiny through our devotion and desire to know and be with Christ. One of the salvific tools provided for us by the Church is the celebration of the lives of the saints. Every day of the year, there is at least one person (usually many to choose from) whom we remember as an example of Christian victory that we can imitate. The celebration of these spiritual compatriots awakens our soul and draws the grace of God (spiritual power, divine energy) into our own lives. On October 31 (10/18), Orthodox Christians celebrate the life and victory of, among others, the Holy Apostle Luke. Saint Luke was a physician by trade,

2 an iconographer, and a disciple and companion of the Apostle Paul. He is the author of the Gospel that bears his name as well as the Book of the Acts of the Apostles. His apostolic work took him from France to North Africa and everywhere in between. At the age of eighty-four he was crucified on an olive tree by pagans. Such are the true horrors of October 31. Yet the sufferings of the saints lead us not to fear or despair, but to hope in the transforming power of faith in Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit. Death is not to be feared. There is no boogey man, zombie apocalypse, or monsters under the bed. There is only God in Trinity, angels, demons, and us. Angels serve God. Demons serve evil. Whom do we serve? And how does everything we think and do everything aid or hinder our spiritual destiny? Our immortality, and the immortality of those we influence, is in our hands. Our hands. The battle between good and evil is real. And the choice is ours. We are all on the eve of sanctity and the verge of holiness. But the edge is no place to stay: make a choice and dive in. - Fr. Thaddaeus Hardenbrook تذكار القديس الرسول لوقا األنجيلي الجمعة 13 تشرين اول )31 تشرين اول( كان من مدينة أنطاكية عاصمة إقليم سوريا الروماني كان طبيبا و رساما اعتمد للرب يسوع المسيح على يد التالميذ الذين نزحوا من أورشليم و أتوا أنطاكية و أخذوا يبشرون باسم الرب يسوع المسيح و ذلك نحو سنة " 53 م " أي عقب اإلضطهاد الذي أثاره اليهود على الكنيسة تعرف على بولس الرسول و أصبح تلميذا و رفيقا مالزما له في أسفاره حتى آخر أيام حياته و ذهب معه إلي رومه و احتمل معه الشدائد و الزوابع في البحر و بقى بقربه في رومه مدة األسرين األول و الثاني. اتصف هذا القديس بالفضائل السامية و الغيرة الرسولية المقرونة بالتواضع العميق و كتب اإلنجيل الثالث ووضع كتاب أعمال الرسل معتمدا في كتابتها على وثائق ثابتة منها الكتابية كأنجيل متى و مرقس الذين سبقاه في الكتابة و بعض الكتب الخاصة التي منها استقى ما كان صحيحا و مقبوال في الكنيسة و منها الشفهية و هي التي سمعها من بشارة الرسول بولس في رحالته الرسولية ومن كرازة الرسولين بطرس و برنابا PERSECUTION Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you; and you shall be hated of all nations for My name s sake. (Matt. 24:9). These words refer to all Christians who lived in the first centuries of Christianity, and who will live in the last times of the Church of Christ on this earth. - St. Barsanuphius May his memory be eternal Please join Samira Nassar and all the Nassar and Habash families for the 1-year Trisagion memorial service for the servant of God سالم نصار - Nassar Salem This Sunday November 2 after the liturgy service. فليكن ذكره مؤبدا sjoc@earthlink.net or call (408) for your bulletin personal announcements, comments, or feedback. SCRIP Season With Christmas season is just around the corner, please keep our SCRIP program in mind when you plan your shopping. A great and very easy way to benefit the church without costing you any extra money. Big variety of vendors including AMEX cards that can be used in almost any store including. Not familiar with it? No problem please call Lilian Kawar (408) and she can answer all your questions about how to use it. You can also visit the Scrip table at the church hall every Sunday and have an idea about what Scrip is and how you can help. We try to raise funds for our church in every possible way please help us accomplish this goal and be part of it. Thank you for your support to your church.

3 Parents: Mark Your Calendar Fall Festival 6pm 9pm Keep your children safe! Keep their souls safe! Please bring your children to our kids Fall Festival event at the church hall this Friday October 31. Food and candy and fun activities for the kids. Please see flier for more details Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. - I John 2:15 Happy Birthdays Lunch This Sunday November 2 Sami Iseid 10/28 Irina Mihaila 10/28 Rita nijmeh 10/30 Richard Bateh 10/31 Suad Khoury 1/1 عقبال المئة سنة!!! will be provided by A parish family Thank you and God bless you. من كتاب " إلى اإلنسان المعاصر بمحبة مع ألم" للناسك المغبوط باييسيوس اآلثوسي منشورات دير الشفيعة الحارة - لبنان - ياروندا )الشيخ(! الناس يشعرون بفراغ رغم امتالكهم كل شيء. ما سبب ذلك... + الفرح الحقيقي غير الزائف يكون مع المسيح. ستعاينين ذلك وتحصلين على التعزية إن التصقت بالمسيح بواسطة الصالة الدائمة. العالميون يطلبون الفرح بالملذات. وبعض الروحانيين يطلبونه بالمناقشات الالهوتية والمواعظ وعندما ينتهون منها يجدون أنفسهم في فراغ ويتساءلون عن كيفيه الحصول على الفرح بشكل متواصل. ينشغلون بأمور خاطئة أو تافهة واألمر سيان. + عندما تحقق رغبات القلب العالمية فإن الفرح الروحي ال يحصل وإنما الذي يحصل هو القلق. والفرح العالمي يسبب قلقا لدى الروحانيين خاصة. الفرح العالمي ليس فرحا حقيقيا. وال يدوم وإنما هو مؤقت ألنه فرح مادي وليس روحيا. واألفراح المادية )ال تمأل ) نفس اإلنسان.

4 St James Orthodox Church Sponsored by Sunday School Friday October 31 st :00 pm 9:00 pm Luma Theodossy (408) or Heba Khoury (510)

5 St. Basil / St. James Joint Family Retreat Saturday, November 8 "Orthodox Family Life in Contemporary Society" Holy Cross Monastery Palomares Castro Valley, CA Guest Speaker: Father Ninos Oshaana, Assistant Priest, Ascension Cathedral, Oakland RSVP by Monday, November 3 (St. James) Dcn. Joseph Kawar: dcn.joseph@earthlink.net, Cell: (St. Basil) Karen Ambus: karenambus@yahoo.com, Cell: Agenda 9:00 am Orthros 10:00 am Divine Liturgy 12:00 pm Lunch 1:00-3:00 pm Father Ninos's Presentation 1:00-3:00 pm Children's Activities 3:00 pm Free Time / Depart Goodwill donation appreciated (All proceeds to go to Holy Cross Monastery)

6 About Wandering Thoughts What can be done about thoughts running about every which way during reading and prayer? No one is free from this. There is no sin in this, but it is out of place. It is a sin when someone willfully develops within himself alien thoughts, but when they run off involuntarily, is there any fault? The fault comes about when somebody who has noticed straying thoughts continues to stray in them. It is necessary to do this: As soon as you notice Your thought wandering off, immediately put it back In its place. For diminishing the straying of thought during prayer, it is necessary to make an effort to pray with warm feeling. To do this, it is necessary to warm the soul before prayer with meditation and with bows. Learn to pray with your own prayers. For example, the essence of evening prayer is to thank God for the day and for everything that one has met in the course of it, both good and bad. For the wrong which has been done, one must repent and ask forgiveness, promising to make amends the following day; then one prays to God for protection during sleep. Say all of this to God from your mind and from your heart. The essence of morning prayer is to thank God for sleep and revitalizing, and to ask Him to help to do things throughout the day for His glory. Again, say this to Him with all your heart and mind. While you are at it, both in the morning and the evening, make known your vital needs to the Lord, both inner needs and outer ones, speaking to Him like a child: "See, Lord, my illness and weakness! Help me and heal me!" All this and similar things you may say to God in your own words, without using your prayerbook. Maybe this will be better. Try this, and if it works, you may put aside your prayerbook altogether; if it does not work, however, then you should pray with your prayerbook, or else you may be left entirely without prayer. So that the words of the prayers in the prayerbook take on meaning and warm the heart, you should sit down in your free time, other than the time when you are at prayer, and think out thoroughly the content of the prayers, and become keenly aware of them. Then when you read the prayers during prayer-time, whether in the morning or evening, all those thoughts and feelings which came to you during meditation will be renewed, and they will collect your attention and warm your heart. Never read a prayer hurriedly. Another thing: Try to learn the prayers by heart. This greatly aids undistracted prayer. A prayer must be learned Just like anything else. Learn to think of God not only when you are standing at prayer, but also at every hour and at every minute, for He is everywhere. From this peace will pour into your heart, giving strength for daily business and a regulating of affairs. Your present desire of drawing closer to God will be completely realized in this way. Just as someone standing in the sunshine is warm, so too is the person who always remembers God. Add to remembrance of God the remembrance of death and of eternal bliss or damnation. These two remembrances will divert us from everything evil, even in thought, and direct us to everything good, not just for show, but in truth. Some think mistakenly that remembrance of death poisons life. It does not poison life, but instead teaches us to be careful and to abstain from everything that does poison life. If we were to remember death a little more, there would be less confusion in our lives, both personal and collective. You reproach yourself for pride. Good, very good. Be on the lookout for its appearance and immediately cut it off. Pride likes to do everything for itself, but you are to do everything for the glory of God and the good of others, not thinking of yourself, not having pity for yourself. Indeed, the proud outwardly do most of the very same things that those who are nor proud do, except that they have a different direction and different intentions in everything. Our Job is to redirect these intentions from pride to self-reproach, and then direct our actions in line with this. This must be learned. Learn, learn. Lord give the blessing! You want me to scold you without mercy. Nothing would come of this. To me, you have been chaste and pure so far. It remains for me to wish that the Lord always keep you the way you have seemed to me; if you are not like that in actual fact, may He vouchsafe to make you so. - From The Spiritual Life, pp (St. Theophan the Recluse)

7 St. James Upcoming Events Stay Away From Halloween Fall Festival Bring your children to our kids Fall Festival event at the church hall. Food and candy and fun activities for the kids. Please see flier in this bulletin. 6pm 9pm This Friday 10/31/14 Joint Retreat to the Holy Cross Monastery Castro Valley St. James Orthodox Church & St. Basil Greek Orthodox Church are having joint retreat at the Holy Cross Monastery in Castro Valley. Please see flier for details. Saturday 11/8/14 Deadline to sign-up Monday 11/3/14 Can-Food Drive St. James Orthodox Church is sponsoring Thanksgiving Food Drive again this year. Three large bins are now available at the church entrance and in the church hall for your food donation. Deadline - Sunday 11/24/14 Project Mexico & St. Innocent Orthodox Orphanage Sponsoring an orphan for Christmas St. James Orthodox Church is sponsoring Kevin an orphan from Mexico to our St. James family with his Christmas list of basic needs. Please see Kevin s wish list in this bulletin. Please call Heba Khoury (714) for questions or information. More details coming soon. Deadline - Sunday 11/30/14 St. James Annual Dunlap/Hume Lake trip St. James Orthodox Church Annual fun retreat to Dunlap (Life Giving Spring Monastery) & Hume Lake for fun time on snow. Sign-up sheet available on bulletin board at the church entrance. Please contact Dcn. Joseph for information. Deadline to RSVP - Sunday 12/7/14 Christmas Gift Wrapping St. James Orthodox Church annual volunteering at a warehouse to wrap gifts given to the poor and needy. Fun event all ages are welcome Maximum 12 people only! Please contact Heba Khoury (714) to sign-up Saturday 12/22/14 from 12pm 2pm

8 Favorite: Color: Red Subject: Spanish Book: The Bible Movie: Ironman Kevin Likes to: Play with his brothers at the Ranch Likes to read about: Animals He wants to be a: Elementary Teacher 2014 Santa s Helpers Wish List ITEM SIZE 2 Pairs Casual Pants Men s 30x30 1 Pair Slacks/Suit Pants Men s 30x30 1 Pair Jeans Men s 30x30 1 Pair Shorts Men s Small 1 Belt Men s Small 1 Warm-up Suit Men s Small 1 Pair Pajamas Men s Small 2 Collared Shirts Polo Men s Small 1 Collared Dress Shirt Men s Small 1 Casual Shirt T-shirt Men s Small Tennis Shoes Men s 9 Casual Dress Shoes Men s 9 Indoor Soccer Shoes Men s 9 Dress & Sports Socks Swim Trunks Underwear White Undershirts Men s Small Men s Small Men s Small Men s Small Shower Sandals Men s 9 Thank you for helping us to make this Christmas special for our boys! Special Wish List Items Nike Indoor Soccer Shoes Neon Size 9 Available at: soccercorner.com DC Hoodie BLACK Available at: DCShoes.com Aeropostale Zip Hoodie BLACK Available at: aeropostale.com

9 St. James Annual Thanksgiving Food Drive For I was hungry and you gave Me food - Matthew 25:35 It is that time again Time of giving and thinking of others who are less fortunate. St. James Orthodox Church is sponsoring Thanksgiving Food Drive again this year. Three big bins are now available at the church entrance and in the church hall for your food donation. The Food bank is in need of the following: The bins will be available through Monday November 24 th. Meals in a can (stew, chili, soup) Tuna and canned meat Peanut butter Canned foods with pop-top lids Low-sugar cereals 100% fruit juices in single serving boxes Canned fruit packed in juice Canned vegetables (low salt) Frozen whole Turkeys or Ham are also acceptable Please avoid donating items packaged in glass. Please do not donate bulk quantities of rice, flour, or sugar. God gave us a gift by having food on the table. Please share this gift with the poor and needy families in the community. St. James Orthodox Church 195 N. Main Street Milpitas, CA Sunday 11/2 (10/20) Greatmartyr Artemius at Antioch

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