+ a Parish of the +
Orthodox Church in America www.oca.org
Most Rev. Archbishop Benjamin, Diocese of San Francisco &
the West
www.dowoca.org
VRev. Fr. Archpriest John Armstrong [email protected]
+ Worship Services +
Saturdays, 6:00 pm Great Vespers & Confession
(3rd & 6th Hour Prayers, 9:10 am) Sundays, 9:30 am
Divine Liturgy
Feast Days (See Monthly Calendar)
+ Parish Prayer List +
Please pray for and ask the Lord to have mercy on:
Hieroschemamonk Ambrose (Young) Mother Theodelphi Archpriest
Michael Oleksa; Archpriest Lawrence Priest Jacob and St. Mark
parish Matushkas: Sophia, Lauren, Priscilla, Alice, Teresa &
Mary Subdeacon Brett (John) Peter & Katherine; Andrew &
Rachel Benjamin, Justus, Kalena & Debra Karin & Yancey;
Kathryn Birmingham Dale Brinkman; George Eckert; Joyce Mikita
Jeanie (Mary) Cooper; Gary (Paul) Jollie Agnes Craig; Kafa Dalal
Lee Anthony; Adam Goodman Aaron; Olga; and Natalia Maria Gorsevski;
Lauren Hansen Ronald Maue & Rhonda Grace Joshua & Shannon;
Shaun & Cheryl Charles; Patrick; and Jonathan Paul Matthew
& Chelsea; Oleg; James; and Joshua Barbara Murray; Bill (Peter)
Parrish John and Michael Palmer The Clergy & parishioners of
our Mission parishes Glenda Pyle and family John & Sophia;
Irina Reynolds & Vitaly Martha Rapso; Esther Schafer John
Russell; John Salmon Sona, Mardig & Seta Barbara Payne;
Kathleen Smith Joel Snyder; Lyall Spargo Christopher Sprecher; Mary
Streech Jack Whitaker; Natalia Zolotoochin
Missionaries & Ministries: OCMC: Michael, Lisa & Liam
Colburn; James Hargrave & family; OCPM: Fr. Steven Powley;
“Dipes & Wipes”: Mary, Herman, Ida & friends
Catechumens: Troy (Vladimir) Nunley
Inquirers: Melanie; Ron, Lisa (& Graham); Michelle &
children; Erin; Mark; Aaron; Danielle & Dalton, and Erin.
Newly Departed: Dana Such (12/29), Victoria Haloulakos
(12/11)
Memorial: Elizabeth Telea (1/17)
Saint Herman
Orthodox Church
991 West Prentice Avenue Littleton Colorado 80120 303-798-7306
www.sthermanoca.org
+ Pastoral Ministries +
Please contact Fr. John anytime for any of the following:
Confession; Hospital Visits / Holy Unction; Memorial Services;
Slavas; Moliebens; or, just to talk… You can call me at:
720-971-5931; and/or email me at: [email protected]
Saint Herman Orthodox Church
January 13, 2019
33rd Sunday after Pentecost, Tone 8 Afterfeast of the Theophany.
Sunday After Theophany.
Today’s Scriptures: Ephesians 4:7-13; St. Matthew 4:12-17
http://www.oca.org/http://www.ocadow.org/http://www.ocadow.org/mailto:[email protected]
Handmaidens Schedule for January 2019
Today, Jan. 13, Katherine P. & Katherine G. January 20,
Abigail & Genevieve Reynolds January 27, Juliana &
Katherine Gaines
+ Today + January 13, 2019
Welcome to St. Herman Orthodox Church! We’re glad you joined us
for prayer & worship!
Patron Saints: Ven. Anthony the Great (1/17), St. Athanasius the
Great (1/18)
Birthdays: Dorothy Zang (90!)
“Preserve them, O Lord, for many years!”
Induction of the 2019 Parish Council*
Coffee Hour
Church School
Greeters Schedule for January 2019
Today, January 13, Jeny Hardin January 20, Dorothy Zang January
27, Olga Thomas
+ This Week +
Wednesday, January 16, 10 am & 6:30 pm: No Classes this
week!
Thursday, January 17, 6:30 pm: No class this week!
Saturday, January 19, 6:00 pm, Great Vespers followed by
Confession
+ Looking Ahead +
Annual House Blessings began Jan. 6th + Schedule a time with Fr.
John to have your house blessed! +
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Next Sunday,
January 20th, is “Sanctity of Life Sunday” in the OCA. We will
collect an offering to support “Zoe,” an Orthodox Christian
ministry for unwed mothers. Monday, February 1, 6:30 pm, Great
Vespers & Litiya for the Feast
Tuesday, February 2, 9:30 am, Divine Liturgy for the Feast of
the Meeting
*2019 Parish Council Members
Henry (Herman) Pyle, Warden Kevin (Ignatius) Donahue, Facilities
Manager Colton (Gregory) Marshall, Comptroller Mathew Busch,
Treasurer Brenda (Brigid) Pyle, Secretary
“God did not despise the one who was robbed by trickery in
Paradise and lost the garment woven by God, for He came towards him
calling to the disobedient once again with His holy Voice, “Adam,
where art thou? From now on, do not hide from Me; I want to see
thee. Though thou art naked, though thou art poor, be not ashamed,
for I have become like thee. Though thou didst desire it, thou
didst not become a god; but now, by My own will, I have become
flesh. Draw near Me then and recognize Me, so that thou mayest say,
‘Thou hast come, Thou hast appeared: the unapproachable Light’.” (a
Kontakia of St. Romanos, the Melodist)
+ Synaxaria +
The Epiphany [Theophany] of Our LORD God and Savior Jesus Christ
(January 6). When our Lord reached thirty years from His physical
birth, He began His teaching and salvific work. He Himself
signified this
"beginning of the beginning" by His Baptism in the Jordan River.
St. Cyril of Jerusalem says, "The beginning of
the world — water; the beginning of the Good News — Jordan." At
the time of the Baptism of the Lord in water,
that Mystery was declared to the world: that Mystery which was
prophesied in the Old Testament; the Mystery about
which in ancient Egypt and India was only fabled (i.e. the
Mystery of the Divine Holy Trinity). The Father was revealed
to the sense of hearing; the Spirit was revealed to the sense of
sight, the Son was revealed to the sense of touch.
The Father uttered His witness about the Son; the Son was
baptized in the water; and the Holy Spirit in the form
of a dove, hovered above Christ in the water. When John the
Baptist witnessed and said about Christ, "Behold,
the Lamb of God, Who takes away the sin of the world" (St. John
1:29), and when John baptized (i.e. immersed)
the Lord in the Jordan, the Mission of Christ in the world and
the path of our salvation was shown. That is to say:
The Lord took upon Himself the sins of mankind and died under
them [immersion] and became alive again
[the coming out of the water, Resurrection]; and our the old
sinful man must die and become alive again as cleansed,
renewed and regenerated in the sacred waters of the Font. This
is the Savior and this is the path of salvation:
death and resurrection. The Feast of the Epiphany is also called
the Feast of Illumination. This event in the Jordan River
reveals to us, “the manifestation of God” [Gk. = Theophany:
Theos = God; epiphany = manifestation] as Trinity,
consubstantial and undivided. It also reveals to us that we are
illumined through Holy Baptism in water and
become adopted by the Father of Lights, through the
righteousness of the Son, and the power of the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Martyrs Hermylas and Stratonicus. The Emperor Licinius
launched a violent persecution against the
Christians. St. Hermylas, a Christian and a deacon in one of the
churches, was arrested and condemned to death.
When he was told that he was being taken out to martyrdom, he
rejoiced greatly. The Emperor threatened him in vain;
Hermylas openly confessed his faith in Christ and, in reply to
the Emperor's threats, said: "The Lord is my Helper,
I will not fear what man doe to me" (Psalm 117:6). After harsh
torture, Hermylas was flung into prison. But the jailer
was one Stratonicus, a secret Christian who was filled with
whole-hearted compassion for Hermylas's sufferings.
When he too appeared before the Emperor as a Christian, Licinius
ordered that they both be thrown into the Danube.
So Hermylas and Stratonicus were bound together in one net and
cast into the river. After three days, the river
threw their bodies onto the bank, and fellow-Christians took
them and buried them a little way outside Belgrade.
These glorious martyrs suffered for Christ and entered into
glory in the year 315.
St. James, Bishop of Nisibis. In summer in an open field and in
winter in a cave, St. James lived as a hermit.
On one occasion he went down into the city of Nisibis in
Mesopotamia, to look into the Faith and Life of the Christians,
and was there elected by the people as their bishop. He took
part in the 1st Ecumenical Council at Nicea in 325
and defended Orthodoxy against the Arians.
It happened at one time that the pagan Persian army attacked
Nisibis. St. James went out onto the ramparts
with the banner-icon from the church, himself raising it aloft
and walking round the ramparts fearless of the arrows
the enemy was aiming at him. Walking thus, the Saint prayed to
God to save the city and the faithful in it by sending
flies and mosquitoes on the Persians, thus driving them away
from the city walls. He did not, we see, seek the destruction
of the enemy but some sort of catastrophe, no matter what, even
some quite small occurrence, that would overcome
them and remove them from the vicinity. God heard the prayer of
His chosen one and sent a plague of flies and
mosquitoes on the Persians, driving them away and saving the
city of Nisibis. St. James lived long and with honor,
and died peacefully in great old age in the year 350.
Our Holy Father Maximus of Kapsokalyvia. Maximus lived in the
fourteenth century, following the ascetic life
as a monk on the Holy Mountain according to his own particular
way: that is to say, he pretended to be slightly crazed
and constantly changed his abode. This being a hut of boughs, he
built them and burned them down in rapid succession,
thus earning himself the name 'of Kapsokalyvia', that is, 'of
the burnt huts'. He was regarded as a fool until St. Gregory
the Sinaite came to the Holy Mountain and perceived in Maximus a
unique ascetic, a wonderworker with the gift
of prayer and an 'angel in the flesh'. He went to the Lord in
the year 1320.
