September 14, 2014 Bulletin St. Nicholas Orthodox Church

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1 September 14, 2014 Bulletin St. Nicholas Orthodox Church Orthodox Church in America 2143 S. Center Rd, Burton, MI Served by: Fr. Matthew-Peter Butrie Rector Deacon Kerry Luke Gonser Web Page: EXALTATION OF THE PRECIOUS AND LIFEGIVING CROSS

2 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST Tone 5. THE UNIVERSAL EXALTATION OF THE PRECIOUS AND LIFEGIVING CROSS. Repose of St. John Chrysostom (407). Monk Martyr Macarius of Dionysiou (Mt. Athos 1507). Monk Martyr Joseph of Dionysiou (Mt. Athos 1819). FIRST ANTIPHON God, my God, attend to me! // Why hast Thou forsaken me? Through the prayers of the Theotokos, O Savior, save us! Why art Thou so far from helping me, // from the words of my groaning? Through the prayers of the Theotokos, O Savior, save us! O my God, I cry by day, but Thou dost not answer; // and by night, but find no rest. Through the prayers of the Theotokos, O Savior, save us! Thou dwellest in the sanctuary, // the praise of Israel. Through the prayers of the Theotokos, O Savior, save us! Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen. Through the prayers of the Theotokos, O Savior, save us! SECOND ANTIPHON O God, why dost Thou cast us off forever? O Son of God, who arose from the dead, save us who sing to Thee! Alleluia! Remember Thy congregation, // which Thou hast gotten of old. O Son of God, who arose from the dead, save us who sing to Thee! Alleluia! Remember Mount Zion, // where Thou hast dwelt. O Son of God, who arose from the dead, save us who sing to Thee! Alleluia! God is our King before the ages; // He has worked salvation in the midst of the earth. O Son of God, who arose from the dead, save us who sing to Thee! Alleluia! Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen. Only-begotten Son and immortal Word of God, Who for our

3 salvation didst will to be incarnate of the holy Theotokos and ever-virgin Mary, Who without change became man and wast crucified, Who art one of the Holy Trinity, glorified with the Father and the Holy Spirit: O Christ our God, trampling down death by death, save us! THIRD ANTIPHON The Lord reigns; let the peoples tremble! the Orthodox Christians over their adversaries and by virtue of Thy Cross preserve The Lord reigns; let the peoples tremble! He sits enthroned upon the Cherubim; let the earth quake! the Orthodox Christians over their adversaries and by virtue of Thy Cross preserve The Lord is great in Zion; He is exalted over all peoples! the Orthodox Christians over their adversaries and by virtue of Thy Cross preserve Bow down in worship to the Lord in His holy court. the Orthodox Christians over their adversaries and by virtue of Thy Cross preserve THE LITTLE ENTRANCE Deacon: Wisdom! Arise! Priest: Extol the Lord our God; / worship at His footstool for it is holy! TROPARIA (Tone 5) Let us, the faithful, praise and worship the Word, / co-eternal with the Father and the Spirit, / born for our salvation from the Virgin; / for He willed to be lifted up on the Cross in the flesh, / to endure death, / and to raise the dead // by His glorious Resurrection.

4 the Orthodox Christians over their adversaries and by virtue of Thy Cross preserve (Tone 4) In truth you were revealed to your flock as a rule of faith, a model of meekness, and teacher of abstinence, so you won the heights by humility, and riches by poverty, O Holy Father Nicholas, intercede with Christ God to save our souls. KONTAKION (Tone 4) As Thou wast voluntarily crucified for our sake, grant mercy to those who are called by Thy name; make all Orthodox Christians glad by Thy power, granting them victories over their adversaries, by bestowing on them the invincible trophy, Thy weapon of peace. INSTEAD OF HOLY GOD Before Thy Cross, we bow down in worship, O Master, and Thy holy Resurrection, we glorify! The Prokeimenon in the Seventh Tone: Extol the Lord our God; / worship at His footstool for it is holy! v. The Lord reigns; let the people tremble! THE READING IS FROM THE FIRST EPISTLE OF THE HOLY APOSTLE PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS (1:18-24) Brethren: the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the cleverness of the clever I will thwart. Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. Alleluia, Tone 1 v: Remember Thy congregation which Thou hast purchased of old. v: God is our King before the ages; He hath wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.

5 THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SAINT JOHN (19:6-11,13-20,25-28,30-35) When the chief priests and the officers saw Jesus, they cried out, Crucify him, crucify him! Pilate said to them, Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no crime in him. The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he has made himself the Son of God. When Pilate heard these words, he was the more afraid; he entered the praetorium again and said to Jesus, Where are you from? But Jesus gave no answer. Pilate therefore said to him, You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have power to release you, and power to crucify you? Jesus answered him, You would have no power over me unless it had been given you from above; therefore he who delivered me to you has the greater sin. When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Pavement, and in Hebrew, Gab batha. Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, Behold your King! They cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him! Pilate said to them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar. Then he handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called the place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew Golgotha. There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them. Pilate also wrote a title and put it on the cross; it read, Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews. Many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek. So the soldiers did this. But standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, Woman, behold, your son! Then he said to the disciple, Behold, your mother! And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home. After this Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfil the scripture), I thirst. When Jesus had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished ; and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. Since it was the day of Preparation, in order to prevent the bodies from remaining on the cross on the sabbath (for that sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him; but when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water. He who saw it has borne witness -- his testimony is true, and he knows that he tells the truth -- that you also may believe.

6 HYMN TO THE THEOTOKOS Magnify, O my soul, the most precious Cross of the Lord. You are the mystical Paradise, O Theotokos, in which Christ blossomed through Him the life-bearing Wood of the Cross was planted on earth. Now at its Elevation, as we bow in worship before it, we magnify you. COMMUNION HYMN The light of Thy countenance has shone on us, O Lord! Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia! September 14th is the Feast of the Exaltation (or Elevation) of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross. There are two events in history to which this feast takes us, as Eugen J. Pentiuc writes in his book "The Old Testament in Eastern Orthodox Tradition" (Oxford University Press 2014). The first took place in the year 335, when the church built by Constantine over the traditional site of Christ's tomb was consecrated in Jerusalem. It was named the Church of the Resurrection; it is now known as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The second event occurred in 629, fifteen years after the Persians had sacked and looted the church, taking as part of their spoils a relic of the True Cross. In 629 the Byzantine emperor Heraclius was able to recover the relic, and to bring it to Constantinople. There he carried it into the great church of Hagia Sophia, and elevated it as a sign of victory. Father Pentiuc notes that one of the readings for the Great Vespers of the feast is Exodus 15: 22-16: 1. This is the account of Moses leading the people of Israel on from the Red Sea, after the exodus from Egypt, into the wilderness of Shur. They come, thirsty and tired, to the waters of Marah, only to find that the water is too bitter to drink. As so often, the people complain and "murmur against" poor Moses. He, in turn, cries out to God. The Lord shows him a tree, which he flings into the water. At once the water becomes sweet enough to drink. Soon the people come to Elim where they encamp under seventy palm trees, surrounded by twelve springs and buoyed by God's promise that if they will keep His statutes, He will spare them the diseases He has used to chastise the arrogant, heedless Egyptians. Reading this passage reminds us that the Old Testament often prepares us for what happened to Jesus Christ. The tree at Marah is like the wood of the Cross, which sweetens everything bitter because it gives us eternal life. The crucified Christ rises from the dead, "upon those in the tomb bestowing life." One of the stikhera for the festal Great Vespers speaks about another tree: "Come, all you nations, let us worship the blessed Tree through which was wrought the everlasting righteousness. For he who by a tree beguiled our forefather Adam is himself ensnared by the Cross." Here the blessed Tree is the cross, but the tree with which Satan beguiled Adam is the tree in the Garden. Saint John Chrysostom also makes reference to Satan, as the one who conquered Adam by tempting him to eat of the forbidden tree in Paradise. But the conqueror is conquered by the Resurrection, which robs Satan of his fatal power over humankind. The tree in the Garden, the tree at Marah, and in fact the whole Old Testament, lead us to the Tree by which Jesus Christ will conquer death once and for all.

7 September 14, 2014 CANDLE INTENTIONS FOR THE HEALTH & BLESSINGS OF Danny & Stojan Prusac, Anne Smith and Tula Nastos. Love & God s blessings to Krista Panoff on her birthday (Sept. 13 th ). Feodosiy, Adelaida, Oleg, Irina, Nicolay, Galina. Anna Branoff. Health and Blessings Mary Papadopoulos. Nedeljko, Deni, Milica, Nikolina, Joshua, Bogdan, Rade, Jacob, Ilija, Brian Janja. Joe & Dorothy Goodman, Anne Smith, Gloria & John Zelenko.. Gerald Foy, Ted Lafay.. Special Intention The Sredich Family Angelo & Christine Irina Sivergina Alex and Magda Popoff Mom & Dad Janja Beslach Joann Havens Joann Havens Angelo & Christine CANDLE INTENTIONS FOR THOSE IN BLESSED REPOSE +Vasily, +Galina, +Vitaliy.... Irina Sivergina Blessed Repose +Peter Popoff... Alex and Magda Popoff +Bogdan, Vaso, Ilinka, Mara, Tode, Stefan, Edna, Milica, Marta, Ilija... Janja Beslach + Marko Vuvkovich -12 years and +Rosemary Vuckovich.. Bosa Kantar + Joe Goodman Eternal Memory!.. The Sredich Family We welcome all of our friends and visitors to St. Nicholas. Please join us in the parish hall for coffee and donuts. DONUTS are being donated today by Walt & Zina Pyatenko, in honor of Zina s 80 th birthday. Servers are needed today. Thank you. FR. MATTHEW is in Chicago this weekend, serving the Slavonic liturgy at our sister parish, St. John of Rila. Thank you to Fr. Philip Drennan for serving here at St. Nicholas with us. THANK YOU to everyone who signed up for serving coffee and donuts. All Sundays in November and December are still available. Please sign up on the sheet by the kitchen window. Consider pairing up with another family, if you have a smaller household. HOPE IN A BOX for the month of September is Soap: both bar and hand. Please place the items in the blue Hope in a Box container located in the parish hall. The soap will be distributed by Catholic Charities Community Closet. FOOD DRIVE Our next pick up is Monday, September 15. A list of food items is located next to the Hope in a Box. SPECIAL PARISH MEETING will be held on Sunday, September 21 following the Divine Liturgy. The sole purpose of this meeting is to vote on reducing the current number of Parish Council members from 15 to 9. A Sloppy Joe luncheon will be served. PARISH DIRECTORY If you did not have your picture taken for the upcoming parish directory, there is still time to get one submitted. There is a $10 fee with Lifetouch to submit photos, but you will then receive a copy of the directory when it is printed. Please see Matushka Lisa for full details. THE RUMMAGE SALE will take place this week. If you have any items to donate, please bring them no later than Wednesday during office hours. Items that are clean and in good repair are always welcome! BISHOP ALEXANDER TO SPEAK on Thursday, September 25 th. The Pan-Orthodox talk, titled: Orthodoxy & Nationalism: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly will be held at St. George Orthodox Church at 7:00 pm, with refreshments following. MEMORY ETERNAL +Joseph Goodman, husband of Dorothy Goodman, father of Debbie Neely and David Goodman and brother of John Goodman fell asleep in the Lord on Thursday, September 11. Viewing and Parastas will be at Swartz Funeral Home on Sunday, September 14 with funeral at church on Monday, September 15 followed by interment at Evergreen Cemetery. May God grant His newly-departed servant +Joseph a blessed repose and eternal memory.

8 Schedule of services and events for the Week of September 7: Sunday, September 14 1 to 3 pm +Joseph Goodman viewing at Swartz Funeral Home 5 to 8 pm +Joseph Goodman viewing at Swartz Funeral Home 7:00 pm Parastas at Swartz Funeral Home - +Joseph Goodman Monday, September 15 OFFICE CLOSED 10 am +Joseph Goodman viewing at church 11 am Funeral Service - +Joseph Goodman Interment at Evergreen Cemetery Tuesday, September am Nominating Committee meeting 1 pm Fr. Matthew at interment of +Sarah A. Cyr (Paul Hildreth s mother) Cohoctah, MI Set- up for Rummage Sale Wednesday, September 17 9:00 am Divine Liturgy 10:30 am Adult Education Set-up for Rummage Sale Thursday, September 18 Friday, September 19 Office Closed Rummage Sale Fr. Matthew in Toledo Rummage Sale Saturday, September 20 4:30 pm Great Vespers followed by Confessions Sunday, September 21 9:30 am Third Hour 10:00 am Divine Liturgy Sunday Offerings for September 7, 2014 Weekly Offering Envelope $ 1, Children s Offering $ 0.00 Cemetery Maintenance $ 5.00 Charity Envelope $ Love Inc $ 5.00 Diocesan Support $ 0.00 OCA Envelope $ 0.00 Candle Fund $ Coffee Hour $ 0.00 Seminarian Fund $ 0.00 Loose Offering $ Kiosk $ 0.00 Total Sunday Income Sept. 7, 2014 $1, Estimated Average Weekly Expenses $ 3, Actual Income Actual Expense +/- to date 130 people were in attendance on Sunday, September 7, 2014.