THE PARISH WEEKLY Holy Assumption Orthodox Church 110 East Main Street Marblehead, OH 43440 419-798-4591 A parish of the Orthodox Church in America Website: holyassumptionmarblehead.org ♦ e-mail: holyassumptionmarblehead@frontier.com Archpriest David A. Lis, B.A., M.A., M.Div., Rector Mr. Ronald F. Royhab, Parish Council President

25 June 2017

Schedule of Services:

25 June – The 3rd Sunday after Pentecost; The Virgin-Martyr Febronia 9:15AM………The Third Hour 9:30AM………The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom 28 June – The Venerable Cyrus and John, Unmercenary Healers 6:00PM……….Great Vespers for the Feast of the Holy Apostles, Peter & Paul

29 June – The Holy, Glorious, and All-Praised Apostles, Peter and Paul 9:30AM……….Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom

1 July – The Unmercenary Healers, Cosmas and Damian No Services Today

Confessions by appointment

2 July – The 4th Sunday after Pentecost; St, John Maximovich, Archbishop of Shanghai & San Francisco 9:15AM………The Third Hour 9:30AM………The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom

From the Book of Ecclesiasticus:

“Do no evil and evil will not befall you; shun wrong, and it will avoid you.

- Ecclesiasticus 7:1-2

Attendance and Collection 6/18/2017 – Total Attendance: 37: 24 parishioners; 1 child; 13 guests; Collection: $974.00; Baking Supplies: $70.00; Festival Vendor Fees: $40.00; Danbury Food Pantry: $25.00 (private donation)

“For the Service of Thy House, O Lord…” Reader Schedule:

For the week of June 25: Ron Royhab For the week of July 2: David Mazurik For the week of July 9: Wayne Golob For the week of July 16: Tim Glovinsky For the week of July 23: Natalie Twarek For the week of July 30: Ron Royhab

Vigil Lamps Offered by:

Diane Tryon (6) In loving memory of Aunt Jean; In loving memory of Dad; “Father’s Day” blessings to Uncle Bill; Retirement blessings to Father David; In loving memory of my Mom (22 years – “singing with the angels!” For the health of Joe Rose, and Ed Garrows.

Ron & Roberta Royhab (1) For the healing of Joe Rose. Basil Glovinsky (3) In loving memory of father, Anthony, grandfather, Lucas, and godfather, John Beadle. Marguerite Bird (1) Julia Guzy (1) In loving memory of father, John. Sandy Martin (2) In memory of my Dad; Special Intentions. Tim Glovinsky (2) In memory of Mom; “Father’s Day” blessings for Dad. David & Roddie Mazurik (2) Blessings for our fathers, grandfathers, and godfathers; Special Intentions. Basil Glovinsky (Eternal Lamps – Altar) In loving memory of wife, Jean on the 1st Anniversary of her Falling Asleep in the Lord.

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Let us pray for Our Sick and Shut-ins:

Dennis Milano – Reposed 6/18/2017 – May God grant him Eternal Rest (brother-in-law of Wayne Golob) Metropolitan Paul of Aleppo – Greek Orthodox Bishop kidnapped in Syria; we pray for his safe return Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim – Syriac Orthodox Bishop kidnapped in Syria; we pray for his safe return Karen Milano – for continued healing and restored health (Heidi Golob’s sister) Lois Tuttamore – in treatment for a re-occurrence of cancer (wife of Bill Tuttamore and friend of Ron Royhab) Lynn Ruggles – for health and recovery Alison Pinckney – for healing and restored health (daughter of a good friend of Wayne Golob) Brad Biecheler – for healing and restored health (son of George Biecheler) Martin Veronic – for successful surgery and full recovery Violet Mattingly – neighbor of Greg Mazur, dealing with lung issues Daria Petrykowsky - diagnosed with Stage 4 Lung Cancer (dear friends of Ron & Bobbie Royhab) William Rentz – for healing and restored complete health Beth Reinhard – (friend of Diane Tryon) preparing for surgery, we pray for healing and restored health James Heffernan – in treatment for cancer – we pray for healing and restored health Baby Lucas Goodman – undergoing several surgeries to repair a rare heart defect (friend of Christi Soski) Diane Tryon – now receiving dialysis three times per week – we pray for her healing and restored health Joseph Habegger – for healing & restored health (Laura Kovach’s brother-in-law) John Mazurik – struggling with progressive dementia (brother of Paul Mazurik) – we pray for God’s care and comfort Judy Mazurik – recuperating from successful surgery to remove a tumor on her colon – we pray for healing & health Howard Bailey – undergoing treatment for cancer – we pray for healing and complete recovery Jake Lipstraw – in treatment after surgery for the removal of a tumor on the spine (friend of Natalie Twarek) John Cox – in treatment for Parkinson’s disease, and bone cancer (husband of Pastor Kay Mooney-Cox) Carolyn Zeigler – just diagnosed with lung cancer (friend of Jean Hileman) Charles Nowak – now home & adjusting to new medications (grandson of Scott & Jose Kluding) Joseph Rose – now home and recuperating from successful colon surgery – no sign of any further cancer Thaddeus Geletka – (choir director of St. Michael Orthodox Church, Broadview Heights) for healing and restored health Ron Stevens – recuperating from emergency heart surgery (future father-in-law of Fred & Teri Cassel’s son, Craig) Leonard Reeves – in treatment for a serious heart attack & other complications (husband of Nikki Twarek’s co-worker) Cheryl Schell – in treatment for cancer (Principal of Oak Harbor High School – working with Jennifer Heffernan) Joseph Juniper – diagnosed with a treatable tumor – we pray for healing (friend of Fred & Teri Cassel)

Please remember to update Father David on the condition of those for whom you have requested prayers so that we can keep this prayer list current.

Danbury Food Pantry Here’s the breakdown for donations we are asked to collect for the Danbury Food Pantry for 2017. We need your donations by the second Sunday of each month as the distribution of the donated food takes place on the third Saturday of the month. Please refer to the following chart for the monthly donations:

DANBURY FOOD PANTRY - Donations requested for each month:

JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER

Peanut Tomato, Boxes of

Apple Butter Canned Vegetable, Macaroni Apple Canned Laundry St. JOhnJars of

Tuna Sauce & Vegetables or cereal & Cheese Sauce Fruit Detergent spaghetti sauce

Jelly Chicken Mix

Soup

There is a new Al-Anon Group now in Marblehead! “Thursday Night Lakeside Reflections” began meeting on Thursday, 22 June at St. John Lutheran Church, located at 117 Stone Street, in Marblehead.

These meetings gather every Thursday from 7-8PM and are open to both residents and summer guests whose lives have been affected by addiction of a loved one.

The general theme for these meetings is: “Providing serene waters to see ourselves more clearly. If you have any questions, please contact Jane D at 419-341-1525, or Pastor Chris Young at 419-635-6062 or 419-734-1662.

Coffee Hour Today – “Farewell to Father David

As today is Father David’s last Sunday with us as our Rector, Coffee Hour today will be for most of us, our last opportunity to thank him for his twelve years with us. It is sponsored by Ms. Tina Rindfleisch. Please join us to wish Father David God’s blessings as he moves into retirement on July 1st.

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Chicago’s landmark Holy Trinity Cathedral celebrates 125th Anniversary

Chicago’s historic Holy Trinity Cathedral celebrated its 125th anniversary on the weekend of June 10-11, 2017. The celebration also marked the 125th anniversary of Orthodox Christianity in Chicago.

According to parishioner Larisa Fetterly, the weekend celebration began on Saturday afternoon, June 10 as the cathedral’s Dean, Archpriest John S. Adamcio, offered a tour of the historic cathedral, designed by renowned American architect Louis H. Sullivan. The cathedral has been blessed to have had several saints worship in its sanctuary, including Saints John [Kochurov] of Chicago, Tikhon the Confessor of Moscow and Alexis Toth. After the celebration of the Vigil, a light dinner was served in the cathedral hall, allowing for fellowship with many visitors from Chicago area parishes and guests from as far away as New York and Texas.

What is today Holy Trinity Cathedral traces its roots to the establishment of Saint Vladimir’s Church — believed to be the first Orthodox Christian parish in Chicago — in 1892. Services initially were held in a house on North Noble Street and later in a rented home on Armitage [then Centre] near Racine. In 1899 the church’s pastor, Father [now Saint] John Kochurov, commissioned Sullivan to construct a church at 1121 North Leavitt Street in Chicago. The new church was consecrated by Saint Tikhon of Moscow in 1903 and designated a cathedral in 1922. After his return to Russia, Father John became the first clergyman to be martyred at the outset of the Bolshevik Revolution. He was glorified as Saint John of Chicago and Tsarskoye Tselo in December 1994.

In its early years, the cathedral parish served as a catalyst for the establishment of several other Orthodox. It stands today as the center of religious life for many Orthodox faithful and their families and serves as the See Cathedral of the Diocese of the Midwest of the Orthodox Church in America. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 and designated an official City of Chicago Landmark in 1979.

The Church: A Body in Motion by Archpriest Daniel C. Kovalak

“With what garlands of praise shall we crown Peter and Paul, the greatest among the heralds of the word of God, distinct in their person but one in spirit.

The one, the chief ruler of the Apostles; the other who labored more than the rest. Christ our God fittingly crowned them with immortal glory, for He alone possesses great mercy”

[Vespers, the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul].

How wonderfully the feast of Saints Peter and Paul fits into the liturgical scheme of our Holy Church as yet another manifestation of the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. These two great pillars of the Church offer us significantly more practical wisdom than we imagine. The confession of Peter—that Jesus is “truly the Christ, the Son of the Living God”—is the rock of faith upon which the Church is built. And the perils of Paul, wherein he came to rely totally on the sufficiency of God’s grace, is something for all of us to consider. But in addition to their individual lives and struggles as recounted in the festal readings, it is their combined witness and testimony from which we can learn a great deal.

We’ve probably all heard of Sir Isaac Newton, the 17th century English mathematician who, among other things, formulated the laws of gravity and motion. In doing so, Newton coined two words to describe the forces of motion: centripetal and centrifugal. Centripetal force is what keeps things down on earth though the planet revolves at incredible speed. Centrifugal force moves things away from a center point—like going around a curve on a roller coaster and your body is forced toward the outside. Can’t we see these ‘forces of motion’ wonderfully illustrated in the persons of Peter and Paul?

Peter, as seen in his epistles, was always encouraging the early Church and Christians in the Roman diaspora to maintain unity within a hostile environment. He instructed Christians to band and keep together, regardless of the

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distance that separated them, in order to bear witness to Christ. “Finally, all of you, have unity of spirit, sympathy, love of the brethren, a tender heart and a humble mind” (1 Peter 3:8). Peter was a centripetal force for the Church.

Paul, on the other hand, was the missionary apostle; the centrifugal force of the Church that challenged her, and led the challenge, to expand her mission to include the Gentiles: “...I am eager to preach the Gospel to you also who are in Rome. For I am not ashamed of the Gospel: it is the power of God for salvation to every one who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek” (Romans 1:15-16).

Do you see the wisdom here? The Church was, is and must always be ‘a Body in motion;’ living and active, never stagnant. And the forces of motion and perfectly exemplified, respectfully, by Peter and Paul. Without the centripetal force of Peter, the Church would have become little more than loosely connected groups ‘doing their own thing’ with no cohesiveness or foundation upon which to build in a unified manner. And without the centrifugal force of Paul, the Church would have remained a relatively small Jewish sect in Palestine. The Church needed both of these ‘forces’ to implement the great Commission of Our Lord to teach and baptize all nations!

In like manner, we—as individuals and members of parish communities—need to practically apply these same forces of motion today. Our lives must be centered on Jesus Christ, anchored in intimate communion with Him Who alone is the Source of our being and the Author of our Salvation. We need centripetal force to keep us grounded in faith as we go about our daily activities and face the trials and tribulations of life. And the Church wonderfully provides this in her worship, sacraments, and ascetic life. But we also need the centrifugal force that ‘moves’ us to adapt to changing circumstances and relationships, helps us to gain new insights into God’s love for us, and share our faith with others!

The laws of motion are also important for practical administrative purposes within the Church. Every parish must recognize two types of goals in its collective life: maintenance and growth. We must be good stewards of what God has entrusted to us and concerned with the welfare of our parishioners. But we must also be willing to adapt, expand and widen our scope to fulfill our function as the Church to ‘teach all nations’.

May we learn from the example of Peter and Paul of the diversity of spiritual gifts within the Church that, though they may not always reflect uniformity, nevertheless serve a common purpose: to reveal, manifest and announce the living God that all may know Him and love Him as we do, and keep the Body of Christ ‘in motion’!