Galatians 2:16-20:  We hear from St Paul's letter to the Galatians that we are justified by faith in Christ, not by works of the Law;  and that we now live our lives by faith in the Son of God.
 
Luke 16:19-31:  In the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, our Lord teaches us that giving mercy to others, regardless of the form, is essential to holiness.

 

Troparion of the Resurrection:  Having learned the joyful message of the Resurrection from the angel, the women Disciples cast from them their parental condemnation, and proudly broke the news to the Disciples, saying, Death has been spoiled.  Christ God is risen, granting the world Great Mercy.

 

Troparion of the Unmercenary Healers: O holy unmercenaries and wonder-workers, visit our infirmities; freely have ye received, freely give to us.

 

Troparion of the Chains of St. Peter: O Holy Apostle, Peter, thou dost preside over the Apostles by the precious chains which thou didst bear.  We venerate them with faith and beseech thee that by thine intercessions we be granted the great mercy.

 

Kontakion for Usual Sundays:  O undisputed intercessor of Christians, O mediatrix, who is unrejected by the Creator, turn not away from the voice of our petitions though we be sinners; come to us in time, who cry to thee in faith, for thou art good.  Hasten to us with intercessions, O Theotokos, who didst ever intercede for those who honor thee.

 

 

 

Sunday, November 1  (Saints Cosmos and Damian)
 8:50 a.m. – Orthros
 9:00 a.m. – Christian Education
 10:00 a.m. – Divine Liturgy, FOLLOWED BY POT LUCK LUNCH
 5:30 p.m. – Young Adults

 

Monday, November 2
 Office Closed – Father John's Day Off

 

Tuesday, November 3
 NO Daily Orthros
  
Wednesday, November 4
 NO Catechism Class
 6:30 p.m. – Daily Vespers
 7:30 p.m. – Choir Practice

 

Thursday, November 5
 NO Daily Orthros

 

Friday, November 6
 6:00 a.m. – Daily Orthros
        
Saturday, November 7
 9:30 a.m. – Sacrament of Holy Baptism for Simeon Root (in lieu of Orthros)
 10:00 a.m. – Divine Liturgy for feast of St. Raphael followed by reception for Simeon
 5:45 p.m. – Ninth Hour and Great Vespers
 
Sunday, November 8  (Archangels Michael and Gabriel)
 8:50 a.m. – Orthros
 10:00 a.m. – Divine Liturgy
 9:00 a.m. – Christian Education
 5:30 p.m. – Youth Group

 

 

 

Eucharist Bread: ...was offered by the Hendersons for the Divine Liturgy this morning.

 

Please be very careful with the Blessed Bread when you take after communion or at the end of the liturgy.  Because this bread has been blessed, we should take care not to let crumbs fall on the floor.  Parents, especially, please help your children to choose a small piece and treat it carefully.

 

Eucharist Bread and Coffee Hour Schedule:
                                  Eucharist Bread   Coffee Hour
 November 1                    Hendersons      POT LUCK
 November 7 (Sat. a.m.)    Algoods           Katools
  (St. Raphael)
 November 8                    Katools            Hendersons
 November 15                  Schelvers         Chamblees
 November 21 (Sat. a.m.) Morrises 
  (Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple)
 November 22                  Joneses            Freundts
 November 29                  Milnors             Schelvers

 

Schedule for Epistle Readers   –  Page numbers refer to the Apostolos (book of the Epistles) located on the front pew.  Please be sure to use this book when you read.
                                              Reader                  Reading         Page #
November 1                    Sh. Charlotte Algood     Gal. 2:16-20           193
November 7 (Sat. am)     Kh. Sharon Meadows     Heb. 7:26-8:3         334
November 8                    Warren Strain               Heb. 2:2-10            332
November 15                  Mildred Morris               Eph. 2:4-10            202
November 21 (Sat. am)    Brenda Baker               Heb. 9:1-7              337
November 22                  Kh. Be'Be' Schelver       Eph. 2:14 to end     207
November 29                  Tom Willingham            Eph. 4:1-7              212

 

We rejoice with Daniel and Elizabeth Root on Simeon's reception into the Church through the Sacrament of Holy Baptism.  The Baptism will take place next Saturday morning at 9:30 a.m.  It will be followed by the Divine Liturgy for the feast of St. Raphael of Brooklyn and a reception afterwards. (There will be no Orthros due to the Baptism.)  The Reader Basil Baker will be Simeon's godfather.  Please pray for Simeon, his parents and godfather.

 

Please remember the following in your prayers: Amy and Michael Surratt; Brian and Robin Sellers and their unborn child ( she is scheduled to be induced on Nov. 11th); Mary Catherine Long; Bobby and Sue Webb (Deborah Finley's parents); Tom Skirtech, Amy and Brantley Oliver ;  Reader Basil's family (Dad, Bill; sister Betty; and uncle and aunt, James and Sarah Powell),  Aidan Milnor, the Milnor family; Jared and Stacy Autrey and their daughter Olivia Kate (St. Ignatius in Franklin).

 

New Time for Great Vespers on Saturdays!!  We are praying Ninth Hour on Saturday evenings prior to Great Vespers.  It was also decided by the Parish Council to move Great Vespers to an earlier time.  So, in the future, Ninth Hour will begin at 5:45 p.m., followed immediately by Great Vespers (around 6:00 p.m.).  Please make a note of this change in times.

 

Please supervise your children to avoid spills, ink stains or marks from their writing and drawing on our new chairs.  We also ask that you not allow them to stand on the kneelers.  Thank you for your help with this.

 

Sunday Pot Luck!!  The Parish Council has agreed that we will begin having a Pot Luck meal on the first Sunday of each month instead of Coffee Hour.  There will be a sign-up sheet posted on the Bulletin Board in the Fellowship Hall in the weeks prior to the meal, so that we can have an idea of the food that will be brought.  If you can't bring a dish, sign up for set-up or clean-up.  Participation is open to all (men as well as children!!)  This is a wonderful chance for some fellowship.  Please be sure to mark it on your calendars!!

 

 
 * Father John will be attending the MS Valley Deanery's annual Clergy Retreat November 2-4, 2009.  He will be going to Chattanooga from there to visit family and will be returning home late on the 5th.

 
 * Simeon Root's Baptism next Saturday (November 7th ) followed by the Divine Liturgy for the feast of St. Raphael.

 
 * The Fast of the Nativity will begin on Sunday, November 15th and run through December 24th .  During this time, instead of Daily Vespers on Wednesday evenings,we will pray the Advent Paraklesis to the Theotokos.

 
 * January 24th  – Pot Luck Meal and Fund-raising Auction for the Ladies of St. Peter. (Please note that the auction has been rescheduled)

 
 * The MS Valley Deanery will hold its annual Teen Retreat the week-end of January 29-31, 2010 at John W. Kyle State Park in Sardis, MS.  Father James Coles, pastor of St. Ignatius Mission in Mesa, AZ, will be the speaker.  His topic will be "How to Experience the Peace of God in a Chaotic World."  More details will be available at a later date.

 

If you are the last to leave the building, please make sure that the heating and cooling unit in the Fellowship Hall is set to the optimum temperature for the building when unoccupied.

 

Auction Rescheduled.....the Ladies of St. Peter have rescheduled their fund-raising auction that was planned for November 1st .  It will now be held January 24th, which will also be the date for our monthly Pot Luck meal. (We will not be having Pot Luck on January 3rd, due to the business of the season.)
  
Fasting Discipline for November
 The traditional fasting discipline (no meat, fish, dairy, wine or oil)  in October is observed on all Wednesdays and Fridays in the first half of the month.  Then beginning on November 15th, the first day of the Nativity Fast, the traditional fasting is observed each day of the week.  Note, however, that through December 19 there is katalysis on Tuesdays and Thursdays when wine and oil are permitted, and on Saturdays and Sundays when fish, wine and oil are permitted.

 

Major Commemorations During November
 November 1 Saints Cosmos and Damian
 November 4 St. Raphael
 November 8 Archangels Gabriel and Michael
 November 9 St. Nektarios the Wonder-worker
 November 13 St. John Chrysostom
 November 14 Apostle Philip
 November 16 Apostle and Evangelist Matthew
 November 21 Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple
 November 23 St. Amphilochios of Iconium
 November 25 St. Catherine the Great-martyr
 November 30 Apostle Andrew, the First Called

 

Quotable: "God in His goodness has granted us to see the sun and its light and allows us to enjoy it.  He will grant us also to enjoy His own inaccessible light.  Let the light of the sun be a pledge to us of this, but especially the tranquil light of the holy glory of the Heavenly Father, His only Son, and the Spirit of love bestowed upon our hearts."
    - St. John of Krondstadt 

 

    - Saint Theophan the Recluse

 

 Scriptures:  Hebrews 2:2-10; Luke 8:41-56
 Celebrant:  Father John
 Deacon:  Deacon Terry
 Epistle Reader: Warren Strain
 Prosphora:  Katools
 Coffee Hour:  Hendersons

 

 

 

 

 

Galatians 1:11-19:  St. Paul defends his ministry in his letter to the Galatians, telling them of how his former way of life was changed by a direct revelation from the Lord, and of his actions immediately afterwards.

 

Luke 8:27-39:  From the reading in St Luke, we see Jesus heal a man possessed by demons;  in doing so, Jesus demonstrates His authority over His creation, even when it rebels against Him.

 

Troparion of the Resurrection:  Let the heavens rejoice and the earth be glad; for the Lord hath done a mighty act with his own arm.  He hath trampled down death and become the First-born from the dead. He hath delivered us from the depths of hades, granting the world the Great Mercy.

 

Troparion of the Martyrs:  Thy Martyrs, O Lord, by their struggles have received from thee, our God, imperishable crowns; because acquiring thy strength, they demolished usurpers and crushed the powerless might of Satan.  Therefore, through their intercessions, O Christ God, save our souls.

 

Troparion of the Chains of St. Peter: O Holy Apostle, Peter, thou dost preside over the Apostles by the precious chains which thou didst bear.  We venerate them with faith and beseech thee that by thine intercessions we be granted the great mercy.

 

Kontakion for Usual Sundays:  O undisputed intercessor of Christians, O mediatrix, who is unrejected by the Creator, turn not away from the voice of our petitions though we be sinners; come to us in time, who cry to thee in faith, for thou art good.  Hasten to us with intercessions, O Theotokos, who didst ever intercede for those who honor thee.

 

 

 

Sunday, October 25   (Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost)
 8:50 a.m. – Orthros
 10:00 a.m. – Divine Liturgy
 9:00 a.m. – Christian Education
 5:30 p.m. – Youth Group

 

Monday, October 26   (Great-martyr Demetrios)
 Office Closed – Father John's Day Off

 

Tuesday, October 27
 6:00 a.m. – Daily Orthros
  
Wednesday, October 28
 5:00 p.m. – Catechism Class
 6:30 p.m. – Daily Vespers followed by Parish Council Meeting
 7:30 p.m. – Choir Practice

 

Thursday, October 29
 6:00 a.m. – Daily Orthros

 

Friday, October 30
 6:00 a.m. – Daily Orthros
        
Saturday, October 31
 11:30 a.m. – Serving meal at Stewpot
 5:45 p.m. – Ninth Hours followed by Great Vespers
 
Sunday, November 1   (Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost; Sts Cosmas and Damian)
 8:50 a.m. – Orthros
 10:00 a.m. – Divine Liturgy
 9:00 a.m. – Christian Education
 5:30 p.m. – Young Adults

 

 

 

Eucharist Bread: ...was offered by the Dn Richard Roots for the Divine Liturgy this morning.

Please be very careful with the Blessed Bread when you take after communion or at the end of the liturgy.  Because this bread has been blessed, we should take care not to let crumbs fall on the floor.  Parents, especially, please help your children to choose a small piece and treat it carefully.

 

Eucharist Bread and Coffee Hour Schedule:
                                   Eucharist Bread   Coffee Hour
 October 25                       R. Roots             Algoods
 November 1                      Hendersons        POT LUCK
 November 7 (Sat. a.m.)      Algoods             Katools
  (St. Raphael)
 November 8                      Katools              Hendersons
 November 15                    Schelvers           Chamblees
 November 21 (Sat. a.m.)    Morrises 
  (Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple)
 November 22                     Joneses             Freundts
 November 29                     Milnors              Schelvers

 

Schedule for Epistle Readers   –  Page numbers refer to the Apostolos (book of the Epistles) located on the front pew.  Please be sure to use this book when you read.
                                            Reader                   Reading           Page #
October 25                    Walt Wood                    Gal. 1:11-19           188
November 1                   Sh. Charlotte Algood      Gal. 2:16-20           193
November 7 (Sat. am)     Kh. Sharon Meadows     Heb. 7:26-8:3         334
November 8                   Warren Strain                Heb. 2:2-10            332
November 15                  Mildred Morris               Eph. 2:4-10            202
November 21 (Sat. am)   Brenda Baker                Heb. 9:1-7              337
November 22                  Kh. Be'Be' Schelver       Eph. 2:14 to end     207
November 29                  Tom Willingham            Eph. 4:1-7              212

 

Please remember the following in your prayers: Tom Skirtech, Amy and Brantley Oliver ;  Reader Basil's family (Dad, Bill; sister Betty; and uncle and aunt, James and Sarah Powell),  Aidan Milnor, the Milnor family; Jared and Stacy Autrey and their daughter Olivia Kate (St. Ignatius in Franklin).

 

Auction Rescheduled.....the Ladies of St. Peter have rescheduled their fund-raising auction that was planned for November 1st .  It will now be held January 24th, which will also be the date for our monthly Pot Luck meal. (We will not be having Pot Luck on January 3rd, due to the business of the season.)

Sunday Pot Luck!!  The Parish Council has agreed that we will begin having a Pot Luck meal on the first Sunday of each month instead of Coffee Hour.  There will be a sign-up sheet posted on the Bulletin Board in the Fellowship Hall in the weeks prior to the meal, so that we can have an idea of the food that will be brought.  If you can't bring a dish, sign up for set-up or clean-up.  Participation is open to all (men as well as children!!)  This is a wonderful chance for some fellowship.  Please be sure to mark it on your calendars!!

 

 
 * Future date for Stewpot is next Saturday, October 31st.

 
 * Father John will be attending the MS Valley Deanery's annual Clergy Retreat November 2-4, 2009.

 
 * January 24th  – Pot Luck Meal and Fund-raising Auction for the Ladies of St. Peter. (Please note that the auction has been rescheduled)

 
 * The MS Valley Deanery will hold its annual Teen Retreat the week-end of January 29-31, 2010 at John W. Kyle State Park in Sardis, MS.  Father James Coles, pastor of St. Ignatius Mission in Mesa, AZ, will be the speaker.  His topic will be "How to Experience the Peace of God in a Chaotic World."  More details will be available at a later date.

 

Fasting Discipline for October
In October, the traditional fasting (no meat, poultry, fish, eggs, dairy, wine and oil)  is observed on all Wednesdays and Fridays.

 

Major Commemorations During October
 October 18 Apostle Luke
 October 23 Apostle James, the Brother of the Lord
 October 26 Great Martyr Demetrios

 

Please supervise your children to avoid spills, ink stains or marks from their writing and drawing on our new chairs.  We also ask that you not allow them to stand on the kneelers.  Thank you for your help with this.

 

If you are the last to leave the building, please make sure that the heating and cooling unit in the Fellowship Hall is set to the optimum temperature for the building when unoccupied.
  
Quotable: "Let your prayer be completely simple.  For both the publican and the prodigal son were reconciled to God by a single phrase."
    - St. John Climacus 

 

Weekly Quote: "Therefore if I pray, 'Hallowed be Thy Name,' I ask that these words may effect in me things such as these: May I become through Thy help blameless, just and pious, may I abstain from every evil, speak the truth and do justice.  May I walk in the straight path, shining with temperance, adorned with incorruption, beautiful through wisdom and prudence.  May I meditate on things that are above and despise what is earthly, showing forth the angelic way of life.  These and similar things are comprised in this pettion by which we pray to God. . .for a man can glorify God in no other way save by his virtue, his way of life, which bears witness that the Divine Power is the cause of his goodness."

    - Saint Gregory of Nyssa

 

 

 Scriptures:  Galatians 2:16-20; Luke 8:41-56
 Celebrant:  Father John
 Deacon:  Deacon Terry
 Epistle Reader: Sh. Charlotte Algood
 Prosphora:  Hendersosns
 Coffee Hour: POT LUCK

 

 

 

 

October 18, 2009
Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Holy Apostle Luke the Evangelist
 

 

Colossians 4:5-18:  As we read from St.  Paul's letter to the Colossians, we hear him encourage us to walk in wisdom regarding those outside the Church and to speak to them with grace.  We also hear him commend those who were his fellow workers, including St.  Luke the Evangelist, whom we honor on this day.

 

Luke 10:16-21: Our Lord reminds His disciples that the joy of discipleship is not in authority over demonic power, but in the citizenship of God's Kingdom.

 

Troparion of the Resurrection:  When thou, O immortal Life, didst humble thyself unto death, then didst thou destroy death by the brightness of thy Godhead; and when thou didst raise the bowels of the earth, then all the heavenly powers exclaimed, O Christ, thou art the Giver of life!  Glory to thee, O our God!

 

Troparion of the Apostle Luke the Evangelist:  O Holy Apostle Luke, intercede with our merciful God to grant our souls forgiveness of sins.

 

Troparion of the Chains of St. Peter: O Holy Apostle, Peter, thou dost preside over the Apostles by the precious chains which thou didst bear.  We venerate them with faith and beseech thee that by thine intercessions we be granted the great mercy.

 

Kontakion for Usual Sundays:  O undisputed intercessor of Christians, O mediatrix, who is unrejected by the Creator, turn not away from the voice of our petitions though we be sinners; come to us in time, who cry to thee in faith, for thou art good.  Hasten to us with intercessions, O Theotokos, who didst ever intercede for those who honor thee.

 

 

 

Sunday, October 18 (Nineteentth Sunday after Pentecost and Holy Apostle Luke the Evangelist)
 8:50 a.m. – Orthros
 9:00 a.m. – Christian Education
 10:00 a.m. – Divine Liturgy
 5:30 p.m. – Young Adults

 

Monday, October 19
 Office Closed – Father John's Day Off

 

Tuesday, October 20
 6:00 a.m. – Daily Orthros
  
Wednesday, October 21
 5:00 p.m. – Catechism Class
 6:30 p.m. – Daily Vespers
 7:30 p.m. – Choir Practice

 

Thursday, October 22
 6:00 a.m. – Daily Orthros

 

Friday, October 23   (St. James, the Apostle, Brother of the Lord)
 6:00 a.m. – Daily Orthros
        
Saturday, October 24
 NINTH HOUR AND GREAT VESPERS – CANCELLED
 6:45 p.m. – Hayride! 
 (NOTE: Please be on time for the start of the hayride!!)
 
Sunday, October 25   (Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost)
 8:50 a.m. – Orthros
 10:00 a.m. – Divine Liturgy
 9:00 a.m. – Christian Education
 5:30 p.m. – Youth Group

 

 

 

Eucharist Bread: ...was offered by the Woods for the Divine Liturgy this morning.

 

Please be very careful with the Blessed Bread when you take after communion or at the end of the liturgy.  Because this bread has been blessed, we should take care not to let crumbs fall on the floor.  Parents, especially, please help your children to choose a small piece and treat it carefully.

 

Eucharist Bread and Coffee Hour Schedule:
                           Eucharist Bread Coffee Hour
 October 18                   Woods         Woods
 October 25                   R. Roots       Algoods
 November 1                  Hendersons  POT LUCK
 November 7 (Sat. a.m.)  Algoods       Katools
  (St. Raphael)
 November 8                  Katools        Hendersons
 November 15                Schelvers     Chamblees
 November 21 (Sat. a.m.) Morrises 
  (Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple)
 November 22                Joneses        Freundts
 November 29                Milnors         Schelvers

 

Schedule for Epistle Readers   –  Page numbers refer to the Apostolos (book of the Epistles) located on the front pew.  Please be sure to use this book when you read.
                                            Reader                   Reading           Page #
October 18                    Tom Skirtech                 Col. 4:5-18             324
October 25                    Walt Wood                    Gal. 1:11-19           188
November 1                   Sh. Charlotte Algood      Gal. 2:16-20           193
November 7 (Sat. am)     Kh. Sharon Meadows     Heb. 7:26-8:3         334
November 8                    Warren Strain               Heb. 2:2-10            332
November 15                  Mildred Morris               Eph. 2:4-10            202
November 21 (Sat. am)    Brenda Baker               Heb. 9:1-7              337
November 22                  Kh. Be'Be' Schelver       Eph. 2:14 to end     207
November 29                  Tom Willingham            Eph. 4:1-7              212

 

Please remember the following in your prayers: Tom Skirtech; Amy and Brantley Oliver;  Reader Basil's family (Dad, Bill; sister Betty; and uncle and aunt, James and Sarah Powell),  Aidan Milnor, the Milnor family; Jared and Stacy Autrey and their daughter Olivia Kate (St. Ignatius in Franklin).

 

New Time for Great Vespers on Saturdays!!  We are praying Ninth Hour on Saturday evenings prior to Great Vespers.  It was also decided by the Parish Council to move Great Vespers to an earlier time.  So, in the future, Ninth Hour will begin at 5:45 p.m., followed immediately by Great Vespers (around 6:00 p.m.).  Please make a note of this change in times.

 

Sunday Pot Luck!!  The Parish Council has agreed that we will begin having a Pot Luck meal on the first Sunday of each month instead of Coffee Hour.  There will be a sign-up sheet posted on the Bulletin Board in the Fellowship Hall in the weeks prior to the meal, so that we can have an idea of the food that will be brought.  If you can't bring a dish, sign up for set-up or clean-up.  Participation is open to all (men as well as children!!)  This is a wonderful chance for some fellowship.  Please be sure to mark it on your calendars!!

 

Hay Ride!!!  Our annual Hay Ride is scheduled for next Saturday, October 24th at the Nichols Boyd Pumpkin Patch where we have gone in the past.  We will not have Great Vespers that evening due to this activity

 

Auction Rescheduled.....the Ladies of St. Peter have rescheduled their fund-raising auction that was planned for November 1st .  It will now be held January 24th, which will also be the date for our monthly Pot Luck meal. (We will not be having Pot Luck on January 3rd, due to the business of the season.)

 

 
 * October 24th – Hay Ride at Nichols-Boyd Pumpkin Patch!!

 
 * Future date for Stewpot is October 31st .

 
 * Father John will be attending the MS Valley Deanery's annual Clergy Retreat November 2-4, 2009.

 
 * January 24th  – Pot Luck Meal and Fund-raising Auction for the Ladies of St. Peter. (Please note that the auction has been rescheduled)

 
 * The MS Valley Deanery will hold its annual Teen Retreat the week-end of January 29-31, 2010 at John W. Kyle State Park in Sardis, MS.  Father James Coles, pastor of St. Ignatius Mission in Mesa, AZ, will be the speaker.  His topic will be "How to Experience the Peace of God in a Chaotic World."  More details will be available at a later date.

 

Fasting Discipline for October
In October, the traditional fasting (no meat, poultry, fish, eggs, dairy, wine and oil)  is observed on all Wednesdays and Fridays.

 

Major Commemorations During October
 October 18 Apostle Luke
 October 23 Apostle James, the Brother of the Lord
 October 26 Great Martyr Demetrios

 

Please supervise your children to avoid spills, ink stains or marks from their writing and drawing on our new chairs.  We also ask that you not allow them to stand on the kneelers.  Thank you for your help with this.

 

If you are the last to leave the building, please make sure that the heating and cooling unit in the Fellowship Hall is set to the optimum temperature for the building when unoccupied.
  
Quotable: "Worthy, sincere and reverent service to the Lord in the temple, accompanied by lively faith is a source of peace, joy, and blessedness to our souls."
    - St. John of Krondstadt 

 

 

 

 Scriptures:  Galatians 1:11-19; Luke 8:26-39
 Celebrant:  Father John
 Deacon:  Deacon Terry
 Epistle Reader: Walt Wood
 Prosphora:  R. Roots
 Coffee Hour: Algoods

 

 

 

 

 

Titus 3:8-15:  On this Sunday we read from St. Paul's letter to Titus, whom he warns to avoid delving into unprofitable and foolish questions about doctrine, and to reject heretics after two admonitions.

 

Luke 8:5-15:  Our Lord tells the parable of the sower in which he teaches us that the believer who perseveres with honest and good hearts will bear much fruit.

 

Troparion of the Resurrection:  The stone being sealed by the Jews, and thy pure body being guarded by the soldiers, thou didst arise on the third day, O Saviour, granting life to the world.  Wherefore, the heavenly powers acclaimed thee, O Giver of life, crying, Glory to thy Resurrection, O Christ! Glory to thy kingdom! Glory to thy gracious providence, O only Lover of mankind.

 

Troparion of the Holy Fathers: Thou, O Christ, art our God of exceeding praise who didst establish our holy Fathers as luminous stars upon earth, and through them didst guide us unto the true Faith, O most merciful One, glory to thee.

 

Troparion of the Chains of St. Peter: O Holy Apostle, Peter, thou dost preside over the Apostles by the precious chains which thou didst bear.  We venerate them with faith and beseech thee that by thine intercessions we be granted the great mercy.

Kontakion for Usual Sundays:  O undisputed intercessor of Christians, O mediatrix, who is unrejected by the Creator, turn not away from the voice of our petitions though we be sinners; come to us in time, who cry to thee in faith, for thou art good.  Hasten to us with intercessions, O Theotokos, who didst ever intercede for those who honor thee.

 

 

 

Sunday, October 11  (Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost and Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council)
 8:50 a.m. – Orthros
 9:00 a.m. – Christian Education
 10:00 a.m. – Divine Liturgy
 5:30 p.m. – Youth Group

 

Monday, October 12
 Office Closed – Father John's Day Off

 

Tuesday, October 13 
 6:00 a.m. – Daily Orthros
  
Wednesday, October 14
 5:00 p.m. – Catechism Class
 6:30 p.m. – Daily Vespers
 7:30 p.m. – Choir Practice

 

Thursday, October 15
 6:00 a.m. – Daily Orthros

 

Friday, October 16 
 6:00 a.m. – Daily Orthros
        
Saturday, October 17
 5:00 p.m. – Catechism Class
 5:45 p.m. – Ninth Hour, followed by Great Vespers
 
Sunday, October 18  (Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost and Sunday of the Holy
   Apostle Luke the Evangelist)
 8:50 a.m. – Orthros
 9:00 a.m. – Christian Education
 10:00 a.m. – Divine Liturgy
 5:30 p.m. – Young Adults

 

 

 

Eucharist Bread: ...was offered by the Fahmys for the Divine Liturgy this morning. 

 

Please be very careful with the Blessed Bread when you take after communion or at the end of the liturgy.  Because this bread has been blessed, we should take care not to let crumbs fall on the floor.  Parents, especially, please help your children to choose a small piece and treat it carefully.

 

Eucharist Bread and Coffee Hour Schedule:
               Eucharist Bread  Coffee Hour
 October 11     Bakers            R. Roots
 October 18     Woods            Woods
 October 25     R. Roots         Algoods

 

Schedule for Epistle Readers   –  Page numbers refer to the Apostolos (book of the Epistles) located on the front pew.  Please be sure to use this book when you read.
                       Reader               Reading         Page #
October 11  Tom Willingham      Titus 3:8-15          322
October 18  Tom Skirtech          Col. 4:5-18           324
October 25  Walt Wood             Gal. 1:11-19         188

 

Please remember the following in your prayers: Tom Skirtech, Amy and Brantley Oliver ;  Reader Basil's family (Dad, Bill; sister Betty; and uncle and aunt, James and Sarah Powell),  Aidan Milnor, the Milnor family; Jared and Stacy Autrey and their daughter Olivia Kate (St. Ignatius in Franklin).

 

New Time for Great Vespers on Saturdays!!  We are praying Ninth Hour on Saturday evenings prior to Great Vespers.  It was also decided by the Parish Council to move Great Vespers to an earlier time.  So, in the future, Ninth Hour will begin at 5:45 p.m., followed immediately by Great Vespers (around 6:00 p.m.).  Please make a note of this change in times.

 

Sunday Pot Luck!!  The Parish Council has agreed that we will begin having a Pot Luck meal on the first Sunday of each month instead of Coffee Hour.  There will be a sign-up sheet posted on the Bulletin Board in the Fellowship Hall in the weeks prior to the meal, so that we can have an idea of the food that will be brought.  If you can't bring a dish, sign up for set-up or clean-up.  Participation is open to all (men as well as children!!)  This is a wonderful chance for some fellowship.  Please be sure to mark it on your calendars!! 

 

Hay Ride!!!  Our annual Hay Ride is scheduled for Saturday, October 24th at the Nichols Boyd Pumpkin Patch where we have gone in the past.  We will not have Great Vespers that evening due to this activity.  Jennifer Skirtech is in charge and will have more information available shortly.

 

"What do I hear for....."  The Ladies of St. Peter will be auctioning off household "white elephants" as a fund-raising activity during the Pot Luck meal on November 1st.  Please stay to enjoy the fun as Sandi Strain conducts our auction...and remember "one man's trash is another man's treasure!"

 

Fasting Discipline for October
In October, the traditional fasting (no meat, poultry, fish, eggs, dairy, wine and oil)  is observed on all Wednesdays and Fridays.

 

Major Commemorations During October
 October 18 Apostle Luke
 October 23 Apostle James, the Brother of the Lord
 October 26 Great Martyr Demetrios

 

 * October 24th – Hay Ride at Nichols-Boyd Pumpkin Patch!!

 
 * Future date for Stewpot is October 31st .

 
 * November 1st – Fund-raising Auction for the Ladies of St. Peter.

 
 * Father John will be attending the MS Valley Deanery's annual Clergy Retreat November 2-4, 2009.

 
 * The MS Valley Deanery will hold its annual Teen Retreat the week-end of January 29-31, 2010 at John W. Kyle State Park in Sardis, MS.  Father James Coles, pastor of St. Ignatius Mission in Mesa, AZ, will be the speaker.  His topic will be "How to Experience the Peace of God in a Chaotic World."  More details will be available at a later date.

 

Please supervise your children to avoid spills, ink stains or marks from their writing and drawing on our new chairs.  We also ask that you not allow them to stand on the kneelers.  Thank you for your help with this.

 

If you are the last to leave the building, please make sure that the heating and cooling unit in the Fellowship Hall is set to the optimum temperature for the building when unoccupied.

 

Quotable: "Patience is the root and guardian of all the virtues.  We gain possession of our lives by patience, since we learn to govern ourselves, we begin to gain possession of the very thing we are."
  "True patience consists in bearing calmly the evils others do to us, and in not being consumed by resentment against those who inflict them.  Those who only appear to bear the evils done them by their neighbors, who suffer them in silence while they are looking for an opportunity for revenge, are not practicing patience, but only making a show of it.  Paul writes that 'love is patient and kind.'  It is patient in bearing the evils done to us by others, and it is kind in even loving those it bears with.  Jesus himself tells us: 'Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, pray for those who persecute you and calumniate you.'"
    - St. Gregory the Great

 

 

 Scriptures:  Colossians 4:5-18; Luke 10:16-21 (both readings for the Apostle Luke)
 Celebrant:  Father John
 Deacon:  Deacon Terry
 Epistle Reader:  Tom Skirtech
 Prosphora:  Woods
 Coffee Hour:  Woods

 

 

 

 
II Corinthians 6:16-7:1:  St Paul reminds us that as God has promised to dwell with us, we are to be holy, cleansing ourselves from ungodliness.

 

Luke 6:31-36:  From St Luke's account of the Sermon on the Mount we hear our Lord teach us to love our enemies, to be unselfish in our giving, and to have mercy upon those who do us wrong rather than condemning them.

 

Troparion of the Resurrection:  O compassionate One, thou didst descend from the heights; thou didst submit to the three-day burial, that thou might deliver us from passion.  Thou art our Life and our Resurrection, O Lord, glory to thee.

 

Troparion of the Chains of St. Peter: O Holy Apostle, Peter, thou dost preside over the Apostles by the precious chains which thou didst bear.  We venerate them with faith and beseech thee that by thine intercessions we be granted the great mercy.

 

Kontakion for Usual Sundays:  O undisputed intercessor of Christians, O mediatrix, who is unrejected by the Creator, turn not away from the voice of our petitions though we be sinners; come to us in time, who cry to thee in faith, for thou art good.  Hasten to us with intercessions, O Theotokos, who didst ever intercede for those who honor thee.

 

 

 

Sunday, October 4 ( Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost)
 8:50 a.m. – Orthros
 9:00 a.m. – Christian Education
 10:00 a.m. – Divine Liturgy followed by Pot Luck Meal
 5:30 p.m. – Young Adults

 

Monday, October 5
 Office Closed – Father John's Day Off

 

Tuesday, October 6   (Apostle Thomas)
 NO Daily Orthros
  
Wednesday, October 7
 NO Catechism Class
 6:30 p.m. – Daily Vespers
 7:30 p.m. – Choir Practice

 

Thursday, October 8
 NO Daily Orthros

 

Friday, October 9   (Apostle James, Son of Alphaeus)
 NO Daily Orthros
        
Saturday, October 10
 5:00 p.m. – Catechism Class
 5:45 p.m. – Ninth Hour, followed by Great Vespers
 
Sunday, October 11  (Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost and Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council)
 8:50 a.m. – Orthros
 9:00 a.m. – Christian Education
 10:00 a.m. – Divine Liturgy
 5:30 p.m. – Youth Group

 

 

 

Eucharist Bread: ...was offered by the Dansereaus for the Divine Liturgy this morning.

 

Please be very careful with the Blessed Bread when you take after communion or at the end of the liturgy.  Because this bread has been blessed, we should take care not to let crumbs fall on the floor.  Parents, especially, please help your children to choose a small piece and treat it carefully.

Eucharist Bread and Coffee Hour Schedule:
             Eucharist Bread  Coffee Hour
 October 4     Fahmys         POT LUCK
 October 11   Bakers           R. Roots
 October 18   Woods           Woods
 October 25   R. Roots        Algoods

 

Schedule for Epistle Readers   –  Page numbers refer to the Apostolos (book of the Epistles) located on the front pew.  Please be sure to use this book when you read.
                     Reader                   Reading         Page #
October 4    Brenda Baker           II Cor. 6:16-7:1     173
October 11  Tom Willingham       Titus 3:8-15          322
October 18  Tom Skirtech           Col. 4:5-18           324
October 25  Walt Wood              Gal. 1:11-19         188

 

Please remember the following in your prayers: Tom Skirtech, Amy and Brantley Oliver ;  Reader Basil's family (Dad, Bill; sister Betty; and uncle and aunt, James and Sarah Powell),  Aidan Milnor, the Milnor family; Jared and Stacy Autrey and their daughter Olivia Kate (St. Ignatius in Franklin).

 

New Time for Great Vespers on Saturdays!!  We are praying Ninth Hour on Saturday evenings prior to Great Vespers.  It was also decided by the Parish Council to move Great Vespers to an earlier time.  So, in the future, Ninth Hour will begin at 5:45 p.m., followed immediately by Great Vespers (around 6:00 p.m.).  Please make a note of this change in times.

 

Sunday Pot Luck!!  The Parish Council has agreed that we will begin having a Pot Luck meal on the first Sunday of each month instead of Coffee Hour.  There will be a sign-up sheet posted on the Bulletin Board in the Fellowship Hall in the weeks prior to the meal, so that we can have an idea of the food that will be brought.  If you can't bring a dish, sign up for set-up or clean-up.  Participation is open to all (men as well as children!!)  This is a wonderful chance for some fellowship.  Please be sure to mark it on your calendars!! 

 

Hay Ride!!!  Our annual Hay Ride is scheduled for Saturday, October 24th at the Nichols Boyd Pumpkin Patch where we have gone in the past.  We will not have Great Vespers that evening due to this activity.  Jennifer Skirtech is in charge and will have more information available shortly.  In the meantime, however, we need to get a head count.  A sign-up sheet is in the Fellowship Hall.  Please let us know if you are planning to attend.

 

 
 * October 24th – Hay Ride at Nichols Boyd Pumpkin Patch!!

 
 * Future date for Stewpot is October 31st .

 
 * The MS Valley Deanery will hold its annual Teen Retreat the week-end of January 29-31, 2010 at John W. Kyle State Park in Sardis, MS.  Father James Coles, pastor of St. Ignatius Mission in Mesa, AZ, will be the speaker.  More details will be available at a later date.

 

Fasting Discipline for October
In October, the traditional fasting (no meat, poultry, fish, eggs, dairy, wine and oil)  is observed on all Wednesdays and Fridays.

 

Major Commemorations During October
 October 6 Apostle Thomas
 October 9 Apostle James, Son of Alphaeus
 October 18 Apostle Luke
 October 23 Apostle James, the Brother of the Lord
 October 26 Great Martyr Demetrios

 

Please supervise your children to avoid spills, ink stains or marks from their writing and drawing on our new chairs.  We also ask that you not allow them to stand on the kneelers.  Thank you for your help with this.

 

If you are the last to leave the building, please make sure that the heating and cooling unit in the Fellowship Hall is set to the optimum temperature for the building when unoccupied.

 

Quotable: "True faith does not contradict its words by its conduct.  That is why Paul said of certain false believers: 'They profess that they know God, but they deny him by their deeds;' and why John said that 'He who says that he knows God and does not observe his commandments is a liar.'"
  "Since this is so, we must confess the reality of our faith by expressing it in our lives.  Then are we true believers when we fulfill by our works what we promise by our words.  On our baptismal day we promised to renounce all the works of the devil, our ancient enemy, and all his delights.  We must all of us recall this before our minds.  If you are sure that you are preserving after baptism what you promised before it, you can rejoice that you are believers!"
    - St. Gregory the Great

 

 

 Scriptures:  Titus 3:8-15; Luke 8:5-15
 Celebrant:  Father John
 Deacon:  Deacon Terry
 Epistle Reader:  Tom Willingham
 Prosphora:  Bakers
 Coffee Hour:  R. Roots