PARISH ANNOUNCEMENTS WELCOME to all who are visiting with us today! We hope you

will feel at home here and, if you do not already have a church

home, will consider becoming a part of the Saint Herman

Church community.

CGS RUMMAGE SALE – July 29-30. Please contact Brigitte

Dahl if you can volunteer to set up, work the sale, or donate

items to be sold. Items will be stored above the rectory garage

until the week of the sale. The Bishop’s Attic will pick up all

unsold items July 30 at 5:00pm.

THE DORMITION FAST – August 1-15 ST. JOHN SUMMER CAMP will be August 11-14.

Applications are in the narthex and are due by August 1. Contact

Fr. Matthew if you need any financial assistance.

A NOTE REGARDING HOLY COMMUNION Welcome! In the Orthodox Church, reception of the Holy Eucharist is

reserved for baptized, chrismated Orthodox Christians who have prepared

by prayer, fasting and a recent confession. If you are visiting from a non-

Orthodox church or otherwise are not prepared to commune today, you are

welcome to receive some of the unconsecrated, blessed bread which the

acolytes are holding. We pray for all to be united in the Body and Blood of

Christ! If you would like to learn how you can enter into communion with

the Orthodox Church, please speak with our clergy.

SAINT HERMAN ANTIOCHIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America

Diocese of Los Angeles and the West

PRIMATE and DIOCESAN HIERARCH

His Eminence, the Most Reverend Metropolitan JOSEPH

PASTOR

Rev. Fr. Matthew Howell

DEACON

Rev. Dn. Thomas Ross

Contact Information 6988 N. En Dove Road

Wasilla, Alaska 99654 Pastor’s Phone: (907)373-5254

priest@sainthermanwasilla.org

www.SaintHermanWasilla.org

5th Sunday after

Pentecost & Saint

Christina of Tyre

July 24, 2016

From Pascha Sunday to theSAINTS AND FEASTS OF THE DAY

Fifth Sunday after Pentecost & Fifth Sunday of Matthew;

Great-martyr Christina of Tyre; New-martyrs Athanasios of Ikia and

Theophilos of Zakynthos; Athenagoras the Confessor;

Passion-bearers Boris (Roman) and Gleb (David)

THIS WEEK’S SERVICES July 24 – July 31

Mon. July 25 – 9:30am: “Akathist to the Mother of God, Nurturer of

Children”, followed by knitting/coffee group from 10:00am-Noon.

Tues. July 26 – 6:30pm: Daily Vespers

Sat. July 23 – 6:30pm: Great Vespers

Sun. July 24 – 9:00am: Matins

Sun. July 24 – 10:00am: Divine Liturgy

CHRISTIAN EDUCATION On break until August 23

V

THE EPISTLE (For the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost)

How great are Thy works, O Lord! In wisdom hast Thou made them all. Bless the Lord, O my soul.

The Reading from the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans. (10:1-10)

Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is that it

may be saved. I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but it is

not enlightened. For, being ignorant of the righteousness that comes

from God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to

God’s righteousness. For Christ is the end of the law, that everyone who

has faith may be justified. Moses writes that the man who practices the

righteousness which is based on the law shall live by it. But the

righteousness based on faith says: Do not say in your heart, “Who will

ascend into Heaven?” (that is, to bring Christ down) or “Who will

descend into the abyss?” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). But

what does it say? The word is near you, on your lips and in your heart

(that is, the word of faith which we preach); because, if you confess with

your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised

Him from the dead, you will be saved. For man believes with his heart

and so is justified, and he confesses with his lips and so is saved.

THE GOSPEL (For the Fifth Sunday of Matthew)

The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew.

(8:28-9:1) At that time, when Jesus came to the country of the Gergesenes, two

demoniacs met Him, coming out of the tombs, so fierce that no one

could pass that way. And behold, they cried out, “What have we to do to

Thee, O Son of God? Art Thou come here to torment us before the

time?” Now a herd of many swine was feeding at some distance from

them. And the demons begged Him, “If Thou castest us out, send us

away into the herd of swine.” And He said to them, “Go.” So they came

out and went into the swine; and behold, the whole herd rushed down

the steep bank into the sea, and perished in the waters. The herdsmen

fled, and going into the city they told everything, and what had

happened to the demoniacs. And behold, all the city came out to meet

Jesus; and when they saw Him, they begged Him to leave their

neighborhood. And getting into a boat He crossed over and came to His

own city.

A GOOD WORD

VITAMINS FOR THE SOUL All quotes are from Saint Basil the Great

“If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving

the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.”

“Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not

that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.” – St. Basil

“When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief.

Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the

naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the

hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs

it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no

shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor.”

“The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes

no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is

subject to the penalty for homicide.”

“All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that,

by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of

blasphemy against Him.”

“We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son,

from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature;

for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same

honors.”

“Just as a very little fresh water is blown away by a storm of wind

and dust, in like manner the good deeds, that we think we do in this

life, are overwhelmed by the multitude of evils.”

“Through the Holy Spirit comes our restoration to paradise, our

ascension into the kingdom of heaven, our return to the adoption

of sons, our liberty to call God our Father, our being made

partakers of the grace of Christ, our being called children of light,

our sharing in eternal glory, and, in a word, our being brought

into a state of all ‘fullness of blessing,’ both in this world and in

the world to come, of all the good gifts that are in store for us, by

promise hereof, through faith, beholding the reflection of their

grace as though they were already present, we await the full

enjoyment.”

“They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant

kindness gather love.”

SAINT HERMAN OF ALASKA ORTHODOX CHURCH6988 N En Dove Rd - Wasilla, AK 99654

Reverend Matthew Howell, Pastor (907)373-5254

AUGUST 2016Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

Jul 31

9:00am Orthros10:00am Divine Liturgy

1 Procession of the

Cross

Fast

2

6:30pm Paraklesis

Fast

3

Fast

4 Seven Holy Youths

of Ephesus

Fast

5

6:00pm Great Vespers with Litia6:45pm Divine Liturgy with Blessing of Grapes at end of service

Fast

6 TRANSFIGURATION

OF THE LORD

6:30pm Great Vespers

Fast: fish, wine, & oil

7

9:00am Orthros10:00am Divine Liturgy

Fast: wine & oil

8

Fast

9 Translation of the

Relics of St. Herman of Alaska

St. Mathias

6:30pm Paraklesis

Fast: wine & oil

10

Fast

11

Fast

12

Fast

13

6:30pm Great Vespers

Fast: wine & oil

14

9:00am Orthros10:00am Divine Liturgy

Fast: wine & oil

15 DORMITION OF

THE THEOTOKOS

See bulletin for service times

16

6:30pm Daily Vespers

17

Fast

18 19

Fast

20

6:30pm Great Vespers

21

9:00am Orthros10:00am Divine Liturgy

22 23

Family Night5:30-6:00pm Dinner6:00-7:30pm Christian Education for all Ages7:00pm Daily Vespers

24

Fast

25 26

Fast

27

6:30pm Great Vespers

28

9:00am Orthros10:00am Divine Liturgy

29 Beheading of the

Baptist

See bulletin for service times

Fast: Strict fast

30

Family Night5:30-6:00pm: Dinner6:00-7:30pm: Christian Education for all Ages7:00pm: Daily Vespers

31

Fast

Sep 1 The Church New

Year

Sep 2

Fast

Sep 3

6:30pm Great Vespers

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