_ 9:15am — HOURS & AKATHIST &/OR CANON; CONFESSIONS __ 10am —DIVINE LITURGY OF ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM _

Z ALL SAINTS’ SUNDAY Z 1st

Sunday After Pentecost Z

June 7, 2015

EPISTLE: Hebrews 11:33 – 12:2 (#330)GOSPEL: Matthew10:32-33, 37-38; 19:27-30TONE: 8

St. Innocent Orthodox ChurchZ Founded in 1967 Z Moscow Patriarchal Parishes Z

23300 W. Chicago _ Redford, MI 48239 _ 313-538-1142 _ Fax: 313-538-8126Church Website: www.stinnocentchurch.com _ E-Mail: frroman@firebirdvideos.com

St. Innocent Monastic Community: 9452 Hazelton, Redford, MI 48239 _ 313-535-9080PASTOR: Rt. Rev. Mitered Archpriest ROMAN STAR _ Cell: 313-319-0590

Dean, Central States Deanery, Patriarchal ParishesASSISTANT PRIEST: Rev. DANEIL SHIRAK _ 313-295-3073

DEACON: Rev. Dn. Michael ComerfordSUBDEACON: Dr. Joshua Genig

ATTACHED: Sister IoannaCHOIR DIRECTOR: Elizabeth Star Hatfield

READERS: Robert Joseph Latsko & George Hanoian

SCHEDULE FOR THE COMING WEEKMonday 6/8 The Apostles Fast begins (ends on Sunday, 6/28)

Saturday 6/13 4pm GREAT VESPERS for the FEAST OF ALL SAINTS, & CONFESSIONS

Sunday 6/14 2nd Sunday After Pentecost — Regional All Saints — All Saints of North America & Russia 9:15am Hours & Akathist or Canon

10am DIVINE LITURGY, followed by Coffee Hour

FOR THE HEALTH OF: Archimandrite Seraphim; Priest Daneil, Matushka Debra & Corrina Shirak; Deacon Michael, Matushka MaryEllen & Julius Comerford; Matushka Mary Donahue; Reader Robert Latsko, Reader George & Betty Hanoian, Jordan Manier, Rose Nossal,Mary Glover, Nancy Cupp, Deborah Dade, Vasiliki Stamoulis, Gerald Martell, Jaime Truskowski, Azbehat, Donald Yakuber, Carl deVyver,Jo Anne & Nick Nicholas, Joan Rusko, Daria, Alice Ladhu (cancer); Helen Hall (cancer),Michael Benton; Abigail Genig & her unborn childALSO FOR: Jason Truskowski, who celebrates his birthday Saturday, June 13th

� MAY GOD GRANT THEM MANY YEARS! �

FOR THE REPOSE OF: Estelle & Joseph Star; Ellen Starinshak; Anna & John Witkowski; Michael Sr.& Margaret Rusko; Mary,Andrew, Daniel, Michael & Lottie Yakuber; Ross & Margaret Falsetti; Helen, John & Carole Andrayko; Peter & Theresa Harvilla; MarcDade; Betty Martell; Frances & Todd Smoly; Peter Glover; Irene Adams; Ethel Elizabeth & Wayne Joshua deVyver; David Horka;Michael Rusko, Anna Lichagina, Yelena & Zinaïda Korniyevskaya, Joseph Nossal, Michelle Tucker, Rose Mary & Dean Hough, InfantJasper Eliot (Il’ya) Blum, Todd ComerfordALSO FOR: Archimandrite Roman (Braga) (40th-Day, yesterday, 6/6) (Holy Dormition Monastery, Rives Junction, MI)

MEMORY Archimandrite Il’ya (Fr. Michael Barna) (newly departed, May 8th; 40th-Day, 6/16) (St. Michael’s Church, Redford, MI)ETERNAL! Mary Stankovich (newly departed) (previously at St. Andrew’s Church, East Lansing) Andrew Volk (newly departed, last Sunday, May 31st), (Reader Robert Latsko’s uncle, in Cleveland)

Andrew Yakuber, for the anniversary of his repose Today, Sunday, 7 June

COMMEMORATED TODAY: All Saints. Hieromartyr Theodotus, Bishop of Ancyra (303). Hieromartyr Marcellinus, Pope of Rome, and with him Claudius,Cyrenus, and Antonina (304). Hieromartyr Marcellus, Bishop of Rome, and those with him: Sisinius and Cyriacus—Deacons, Smaragdus, Largus, Apronian,Saturninus, Papias, Maurus, Screcentian, Priscilla, Lucina, and Princess Artemia (304, 305, 306, 310). Martyrs Cyriaca, Caleria, and Mary, of Cæsarea inPalestine (284-305).

Z CHRIST IS IN OUR MIDST! Z HE IS NOW AND EVER SHALL BE! Z

ALL SAINTS SUNDAYBy Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

A Sermon delivered on June 25, 1989

In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

The Mother of God and the Saints whose memory we keep today,those who are known to us because God has revealed them andbecause they have been understood and recognized, either by theircontemporaries, or years, at times - centuries later, all the Saints arethe response of the earth to the love of God. And this response isgiven by them not only in their own name but in the name of allcreation and in our names also; because each of us has the privilegeto be called by one name, our Christian name, the name of one ofthose Saints. And the Saints whose names are ours stand beforeGod and pray that their name should not be made unworthy in theeyes of the Lord. The Saints of God embrace the whole of Creationin their love, in their intercession, in their prayer, in their real,continuous presence. How wonderful it is that we belong to thisvast family of men, of women, of children who have understood

what the Lord meant when He came, and lived, taught and died for us! They responded with their own heart,they understood with all their mind, and they accepted His message with all their determination, to overcomein themselves all that has been the cause of the crucifixion; because if only one person on earth had strayed,fallen away from God, Christ would have come to save at the cost of His life. This is His own testimony toa Saint of the early centuries who had been praying that the sinners should be confounded; and Christappeared to him, and said, “Never pray that way! If one sinner have existed, I would have died for him.”

The Saints are people who responded to love by love, people who realized that if someone can die for them,their only response of gratitude is to become such that he should not have died in vain. To take up our crossmeans exactly this: to turn away from all those things which are Christ's death and crucifixion, from all thosethings which surrounded Christ with hatred and lack of understanding. We are all free to do this, more thanthose who lived in His time because they could be mistaken in Him in those days; but in our days, after twothousand years, when we can read the Gospels, and see emerging from the story the stature, the Person ofChrist, when we have got millions of witnesses that tell us that He truly gave His life for us, and that the onlyresponse we can give is to give our lives for one another in His name - how can't we respond?

Let us therefore, on this day make a new resolve: to listen in the way in which they listened, with all theirheart, all their mind, all their will, all their self to see what happened, to hear what He said, to respond bygratitude and by determination. And then, if we offer this little to God — our gratitude and our good will— the strength, the power for us also to grow into the stature which God has willed, dreamt for us — thepower will be of God; as He had said, My strength deploys itself in weakness, My grace sufficeth... AndPaul, who knew that, added, in another passage, All things are possible unto us in the power of Christ Whosustains us...

Let us make a new start, so that the Saints whose names we wear should rejoice in us, so that the Motherof God Who gave Her Son unto death that we may respond, that we may understand, that we may be savedshould rejoice, and that Christ should see that it is not in vain that He lived, taught, and died. Let us be Hisglory, a light; it may be a small light, just like a small candle, it may be a bright light as one of the greatSaints - but let us be a light that lights the world and makes it less dark! Let us be joy so that others maylearn to rejoice in the Lord. Amen!

NEW MARTYR, GRAND DUCHESS,

ST. ELIZABETH ROMANOVA

(1864 - 1918)

Feast Day: July 5th

http://stinnocentchurch.com/grandduchessstelizabethromanova.html

The New Martyr, Grand Duchess St. Elizabeth Feodorovna Romanova, is a real“Olympic hero” of the Faith, and provides for us a 20th century model of how to truly livethe Christian life. The future saint and holy martyr of the Russian land was born into apious Protestant princely family in southern Germany, a grand-daughter of England’sQueen Victoria. Although high-born and wealthy, these meant little to her, and she learnedfrom her devout mother to have compassion on those who are poor, destitute, sick,orphaned, and to be actively engaged in charitable works, helping those in need. When shewas only 14, Princess Elizabeth (or Ella, as she was called), had to cope with the tragicdeath of her mother. Several years later Elizabeth met Grand Duke Sergei AleksandrovichRomanov, brother of Tsar Alexander III of Russia; they fell in love—a love affair thatlasted their whole lives. In 1884 they married and Princess Ella moved to Russia, andbecame Grand Duchess Elizabeth Romanova. A few years later her younger sister,Alexandra, married Tsar Nicholas II, making Elizabeth both the sister-in-law of the Tsar,

and the wife of the Tsar’s uncle. The future saint and martyrquickly came to truly love her adopted homeland—its peopleand its Faith. She reveals her feelings in her numerous letters:she tells her father how of her own free will she came to lovethe Orthodox Faith, and begs his blessing for her to convert.Orthodoxy truly spoke to the future saint’s profoundly faithful,loving and compassionate heart.

Having been involved in doing charitable works sincechildhood, she continued such works in her new home,Russia— personally caring for the needy, and buildingchurches and monasteries. She and her husband were alsomuch involved in the Russian Spiritual Mission in the HolyLand, and in building and maintaining churches andmonasteries at its holy places, especially the Women’s

Monastery of St. Mary Magdalene in the Garden of Gethsemane. The future saint was especially devoted to St.Seraphim, and she and her husband were present at Diveyevo for his glorification/canonization in 1903.

The brutal assassination of her husband by revolutionaries in 1905 significantlychanged the saint, and several years later she became the founding abbess of Moscow’sMary and Martha Women’s Monastery, Hospital, School and Orphanage, foundedthrough the sale of her own possessions. She dedicated herself and the sisterhood tocharitable work: visiting, nursing, feeding and teaching the poor; teaching and caring forpoor children and orphans; and nursing and caring for the wounded during World WarI. She continued her holy work for 6 months after the Communist Revolution, until theCommunists led her away to a martyr’s death near the Siberian town of Alapayevsk onJuly 5th/18th. She had rejected many pleas for her to flee Russia, accepting, instead, tofollow Christ’s path to Golgotha, with faith and humility. Her relics, and those of hercell-attendant, Sr. Barbara, were smuggled out of Russia, and brought to the Holy Land— to the St. Mary Magdalene Women’s Monastery in Gethsemane, where she hadwanted to be buried. Finally the Church was able to glorify/canonize St. Elizabeth in April 1992.

Note: The group of 5 women saints and the detail of St. Elizabeth at the top, was painted by the master iconographer,Fr. Theodore Jurewicz, on the rear nave wall of St. Innocent Church, Redford, Michigan in 1997. (To see the othericons at St. Innocent Church by Fr. Theodore, go to: http://stinnocentchurch.com/ouricons.html

By: Sister Ioanna, St. Innocent of Alaska Monastic Community, Redford, Michigan

Mother Maria of Paris (left), Blessed Matrona ofMoscow (center), Mother Gavrilia of Athens (right).St. Innocent Orthodox Church, Redford, MI, narthex

MOTHER MARIA SKOBSTOVA OF PARIS1891-1945

Feast Days: 31 March & 20 July; Glorified: 2004http://stinnocentchurch.com/stmothermariaofparis.html

She is called a “rebel nun.” She is called too unconventional and uncompromising, and evena radical, by “traditionalists.” It is true. She is a radical, a rebel, and unconventional—but in exactlythe same way that Jesus is also these things. She was absolutely uncompromising with injustice andhypocrisy. She was radical in that she fully believed in following Christ’s radical commandment tolove all people. She said that at the Last Judgment, she would not be asked how many prostrationsshe had made, but whether she had fed the hungry, clothed the naked, and visited the sick andprisoners in jail. She believed so totally in the sacrificial power of love, that she willingly walkedthe path to Golgotha with Christ for many years prior to her freely accepting the cross of martyrdomin the Nazi Ravensbrück concentration camp on Western Good Friday and the eve of Easter. She wasin one of the last groups to be gassed and burned to ashes just before the allied forces liberated thecamp. Not long after that, World War II ended: the Nazis were defeated and their savage, brutal,

dehumanizing and hideous systematic extermination of Jews — and Christians, such as Mother Maria, who dared to help them— ended. It is believed that she willingly joined that last group to be exterminated in order to give strength and comfort tothe despairing, and perhaps to take the place of another. This is not surprising, because she had been giving her life for othersfor years, in order to help the poor, the sick, the suffering, the destitute, the despairing. Ever since her youth, she had beena pioneering and passionate idealist, and felt ready to give her life in the name of justice and to help the poor anddown-trodden; she had premonitions since her youth that her life would end ona martyr’s cross of fire.

Some accuse her of being a “bad” nun, because she didn’t strictly adhere tothe external forms of conventional monasticism. On the contrary, sheexemplifies what monastics and all Christians are commanded to strive for: shehad totally died to herself, and lived for God alone, serving others in need withunconditional love and compassion. She had emptied herself of self, just asChrist emptied Himself by incarnating as a human being. She totally gave ofherself to the world, offering her heart filled with God’s love to all those inneed, just as Christ gave of Himself on the cross out of love, and gives ofHimself to us in the Eucharist. She had completely died to herself and to theworld, so that Christ could live in her, and through her, to give Himself to theworld. She put into daily practice the words of St. John the Forerunner andBaptist: “I must decrease and He must increase.” She didn’t live in amonastery, but lived in the world, in order to more fully minister to sufferingpeople: the world was her monastery, as her bishop, Metropolitan Yevlogii,stated. For this reason she is an exceptional model for us who also live in theworld, and strive not to be of the world—a daily struggle for those who aretotally committed to following Christ.

What was Mother Maria life’s journey that led her to martyrdom? Elizabeth (Liza) Pilenko was born in December 1891into a Russian aristocratic family that owned land and vineyards in the city of Anapa, by the Black Sea in southern Russia.She was an idealistic, devout, talented, precocious and impetuous youth. During her teens, her idealism and desire to helpthe Russian people led her to be temporarily involved with social revolutionaries. Liza was a pioneer even from her youth.She was a talented poet, writer, artist, intellectual—an educated and creative thinker, when this was rare for women. Duringher precocious early and mid-teens, her friends were the pre-Revolutionary leaders of the St. Petersburg intelligentsia — poetsand writers. She attended the University and was the first woman to ever complete studies at the St. Petersburg TheologicalSeminary. But she married impetuously, idealistically thinking that she could save the young man from despair andalcoholism. The bad marriage quickly ended; a daughter, Gaiana, was born. Late World War I saw her back home in Anapa,running the family’s estate, vineyards and wine-making business. Just as the Revolution reached the South, she became themayor of her city of Anapa — unheard of for a woman. Liza handled this task with great skill and wisdom, and it seems thatshe drew upon this experience in her later work in Paris. Of course, the Revolution changed everything in her life, as it didfor all Russians. She experienced a great deal of suffering, first at the hands of revolutionaries in Russia, then, just barelyescaping from Russia in 1921 with her daughter and her mother, Sophia, she lived a terrible life as a refugee in Istanbul,Greece and Serbia. She married Daniel Skobstov, whom she had met in Anapa before their escape, and two more childrenwere born: Yuri, who was to die in 1944 in a Nazi concentration camp, and Anastasia (Nastia). In 1923 the family eventuallyreached Paris, which became a major center for many Russians who fled the Communist Revolution. In the 1920’s and 30’s

the poverty, illness and despair of émigré life was almost overwhelming.

In 1926 Liza’s youngest child, Nastia, died of meningitis, with Liza by her side. This was a major turning point inLiza’s spiritual life. The reality of Christ’s love filled Liza’s heart, and she committed her life to serving Christ by servingthe needy and destitute. She started working with the Russian Student Christian Movement that provided educational, spiritualand material aid to thousands of destitute Russian refugee émigrés in France. She became friends with the leaders of theRussian Orthodox community in Paris, including theologians Fr. Sergei Bulgakov, Prof. George Fedotov, Prof. NikolaiBerdiaev, Fr. Lev Gillet, and Metropolitan (Bishop) Yevlogii, the head of the Russian Church in Western Europe. Shetraveled around France, supposedly to give Russian Student Christian Movement lectures, but usually ended up doingpastoral, diaconal work— listening to and counseling despairing people.

She meditated and prayed about how she could better serve God’s neediest people. Should she become a nun? Shespoke with the greatly admired Metropolitan Yevlogii, who supported and encouraged her call to the monastic path. Havingalready separated from Daniel Skobstov in 1927, a divorce was granted. In 1932 Liza was tonsured a nun by her bishop andgiven the monastic name of Maria. She immediately established a “hostel” for the homeless and destitute at Villa de Saxein Paris. She quickly outgrew this house, and two years later she moved to 77 Rue de Lourmel, which remained the centerof her work until she was arrested by the Nazis in 1943. It was here that hundreds of people were fed at a “canteen” everyday, and where homeless and crushed and wounded souls could find shelter. She enlisted volunteers to help her raise funds,to gather and prepare food every day, and to shelter those who needed her help. She converted a stable into a chapel.“Orthodox Action,” the Orthodox successor to the Russian Student Christian Movement, had its home here at Lourmel, andon Sunday afternoons, some of the most noted clergy, theologians and intellectuals of Paris would gather for lectures anddiscussions. Mother Maria was right at home in the midst of them. She continued her trips to other parts of France, to ministerto destitute and despairing Russian émigrés, wherever she could find them, especially helping those with tuberculosis andthose in mental hospitals. In 1936 Mother Maria experienced yet more personal sorrow and suffering: her older daughter,21-year old Gaiana, who had chosen to return to her Russian homeland the previous year, died in Moscow of typhus. Now,as throughout her life, Mother Maria expressed her deepest thoughts, pain and struggles in her poetry. Being a gifted writerof both poetry and prose, she wrote many articles for newspapers and journals that brought public awareness to the desperateneeds of Russian refugees in France, resulting in some necessary political changes, and attracting donations to help those inneed from benefactors in France and other countries, especially Britain and the USA.

In 1939 Metropolitan Yevlogii assigned a young married priest, Fr. Dimitri Klepinin, as the pastor of the Lourmelchurch, and he became Mother Maria’s close ally and co-martyr in the Nazi camps in 1944. In 1941 Hitler invaded andoccupied France. Jews and Russians were required to be registered. By 1942 things got much worse, and the open attacks,arrests and deportations of Jews began. Mother Maria’s diaconal-pastoral ministry at Rue de Lourmel intensified with therise of Nazi power. Fearlessly risking their lives everyday, Mother Maria, Fr. Dimitri, her son Yuri, and other members ofOrthodox Action, did everything possible to help save Jews, working closely with the underground French Resistance againstthe Nazi satanic power. Mother Maria believed that monastic life was meaningless if it were not an incarnation of love forGod and one’s neighbor. Therefore they provided forged baptismal certificates for Jews in order to smuggle them out ofNazi-occupied France, sheltered Jews at Rue de Lourmel, and transported Jews to safe places of refuge. They saw the imageof Christ in every needy person, and firmly believed that Jesus would have done the same as they were doing. Finally theinevitable happened: in early 1943 Mother Maria, her 21-year-old son Yuri Skobstov, and Fr. Dimitri Klepinin were arrestedand imprisoned by the Nazis. Yuri and Fr. Dimitri both died of disease within 4 weeks of their transfer to a concentrationcamp. But 53-year-old Mother Maria, being accustomed to many years of ascetic deprivation, actually managed to survivefor two years. During this time she willingly accepted her situation and never complained. She gave freely of herself, offeringspiritual and emotional support and strength to many others in the camp. The Nazis did everything possible to dehumanizethe prisoners and turn them into beasts. But thanks to Mother Maria, many preserved their souls intact as they went to thegas chambers. On March 31st , 1945, the world lost a truly great soul when the Nazis gassed her and burned her body in theirovens. After the war many survivors testified to Mother Maria’s heroic, martyric and self-sacrificing example in the camps.May we also be inspired by her example, and joyfully accept Christ’s radical challenge of living a life of self-emptying loveof neighbor, bearing our crosses, and living in the world, but not being of the world.

Postscript: Fr. Sergei Hackel—priest, professor and author, creator of the journal Sobornost, who emigrated with his mother to Englandin 1940 at the age of eight to escape the Nazis—worked for over forty years to have Mother Maria Skobstova of Paris universallyglorified/canonized as a saint. In 1965 he published his first edition of the life of Mother Maria, and in 1982 published his second edition,entitled Pearl of Great Price. His efforts finally bore fruit, and in May 2004, he participated in her formal glorification (and that of her son,Yuri Skobstov, and her priest, Fr. Dimitri Klepinin), held at the Cathedral in Paris. He wore vestments that Mother Maria herself hadembroidered. He reposed nine months later, on 9 February 2005, at the age of 73. March 31, 2005, approximately one year after hercanonization/ glorification, marked the fortieth anniversary of the martyrdom of Mother Maria. Her icon shown here (above) waswritten/painted by Archpriest Fr. Theodore Jurewicz at St. Innocent Church, Redford, Michigan, in October 2004.

By: Sister Ioanna, St. Innocent of Alaska Monastic Community, Redford, Michigan

CANDLES FOR LAST SUNDAY, 31 MAY (Pentecost)

CHURCH VIGIL LAMPS: Royal Doors Lamp:In Memory of Husband Joe; Son Kenneth; parents Michael & Margaret Rusko & John & Martha Nossal, by Rose NossalAltar Candles: In Memory of Nicholas and Susan Yakuber, by son, Donald Yakuber Iconostasis Lamps: In Memory of parents, Ethel Elizabeth & Wayne Joshua; Robert David H; Health of brother, Carl, by Sister IoannaCandles on the Solea: In Memory of Pete & Theresa Harvilla, Norman & Monica Holst, & Ricky Ellis, by Jason & Debra Truskowski Nave Reliquary-Icon Lamps: (1) In Memory of Ross & Margaret Falsetti, by daughters, Margie Martell & Rose Ann EverhardtNave Reliquary-Icon Lamps: (2) In Memory of Edwin Rusko, by the Nossal FamilyTable of Oblation Lamp: In Memory of parents, Helen & John Andrayko, Sr. & sister, Carole Andrayko, by John Andrayko, Jr.

IN MEMORY OF (MEMORY ETERNAL!)Joseph & Estelle Star, by son Father Roman and familyPaul & Alexandra Yupco, Basil & Ellen Starinshak, by grandson, Father Roman and familyJohn & Anna Witkowski, by daughter, Matushka Rose Marie and familySamuel & Mary Kupec, by granddaughter, Matushka Rose Marie and familyParents, Helen & John Andrayko and sister, Carole Andrayko, by John Andrayko My husband, Joe; my sisters, Margaret & Ross Falsetti, Anna & Mike Elaschat, Theresa & Pete Harvilla, Irene, & brothers, Michael, John & Edwin Rusko; niece, Rose Mary & Dean Hough; Joe’s brothers, Raymond & Walter Nossal, & sisters, Theresa, Florence & Helen Nossal, by Rose Nossal ++ + Pete & Theresa Harvilla, by Mary Ann Harvilla & Kay Truskowski + + + My husband, Michael Rusko, by Joan Rusko Parents, Ethel Elizabeth & Wayne Joshua deVyver; David Horka; Nina I; Marion P; Fr. Photius; SchemaNun Benedicta; Andrew Volk (5/31); Archimandrite Il’ya; Archimandrite Roman; SchemaNunTheodora-Amphilochia; Frederico Cain; Mat. Melanya Sviridov, by Sr IoannaThelma Ratcliff, Louis Pitts, Gloria Robinson, Reginald Bell, Lessie Favor, Lois Hamby, by Manier Family

FOR THE HEALTH OF: (MANY YEARS!)Elizabeth & Lawrence, Caitlin & Zachary, by parents & grandparents, Father Roman & Matushka Rose Marie Gregory & Tamiko Star, by parents, Father Roman & Matushka Rose Marie Children & Grandchildren; Monk Fr. Tikhon (Dade);by Rose NossalFather Roman & Matushka & family; Sister Ioanna; John Andrayko; Nancy; Mary G; Jo Anne N; Grandson Joey (in the Navy Reserves) & all people in the Armed Forces; & all the people of St. Innocent Church, by Rose Nossal My Mom, Jaime Truskowski, by Kay Truskowski + + + Family & Friends, by Mary Ann Harvilla & Kay T. Brother, Greg & Donna, nephew, Gregory & Liz & nephew, Alex, by Mary Ann Harvilla & Kay Archimandrites Nafanail, Gregory & Seraphim; Fr. Roman & Mat. Rose Marie; Fr. Lawrence & fam; Fr. Daneil & fam; Dcn. Michael & fam; Mat. Mary D; Carl; Fr. Sdn. Tikhon; Sdn Andrew; Rdr Robert; Robert M; David Samuel & Sky; Jo Anne & Nick; Martha; Athanasius & Angelica; John A; Elaine R; Ed & Tiffany; Vasiliki; Rose; Emil; Azbehat; Korniyevskiy Family; Genig Family, by Sister Ioanna Jay Nossal, by Rose Nossal + + + John Andrayko (May God watch over him), by Rose Nossal + + + Rose Nossal, by John Andrayko Karen Phillips (cancer of lower abdomen), by Tiffany Manier + + + Salvation of Manier Children & Family, by Tiffany

PROSPHORA FOR TODAY IS OFFERED BY: John Andrayko

In Memory Eternal of: sister, Carole Andrayko (6/5); parents, Helen (10/24) & John Andrayko, Sr. (1/28); and all other departed family, friends& loved ones; and for the Health of: John Andrayko, Fr. Roman & Matushka Rose Marie; Rose Nossal; Fr. Daneil & all parishioners.

PROSPHORA SCHEDULE FOR 2015: June: John Andrayko; July: Matushka Rose Marie; August: Sister Ioanna; September: Deborah Hartz;October: John Andrayko; November: Sister Ioanna; December: Nicholas Family. Thank you to Prosfora donors.

ANNOUNCEMENTSCONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 3 OTHER HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES! We extend our warmest CONGRATULATIONS to 3 otherof our teens who are graduating high school this year: Christopher Shirak (Fr. Daneil’s grandson), Ricky (Elaine) Clark, and Trevor Lennon. These3 are in addition to Caitlin Minnick, whom we congratulated last Sunday. May God grant each of them strength, health, peace, salvation, andpreserve and protect them for MANY YEARS!

NEW ADDITIONS TO OUR CHURCH WEBSITE: (1) PHOTO-SLIDE SHOW: Take a look at our latest News & Photo slide-show at:http://stinnocentchurch.com/april26th_baptismofdariakorniyevskaya.html — to see a 39- photo slide-show of the Baptism, Chrismation and FirstCommunion of Daria Korniyevskaya on Sunday, April 26th. (2) MONTHLY CALENDAR FOR JUNE: http://stinnocentchurch.com/calendar.html; (3) 5 NEW ARTICLES/POEMS: Visions, In the Beginning, Without the Word, Wrapped in Dew, Suspended.

NEW FIREBIRDVIDEOS.COM WEBSITE HAS BEEN LAUNCHED: ST. INNOCENT / FIREBIRD Videos, Audios & Books, an importantministry of the St. Innocent Monastic Community, which is a part of our St. Innocent Parish, launched a revised website on June 1st . Take a look.

THANK YOU to John Andrayko for mowing the lawn, and to Fr. Roman and Mat. Rose Marie for taking care of the beautiful flower-gardens.

MONTHLY LUNCH & DISCUSSION HAS RESUMED. Our parish monthly fellowship gatherings will continue to meet on the 3rd Sundayof each month after coffee-hour, for a pot-luck lunch and discussion, at the St. Innocent Monastic Community. Next gathering: Sunday, June 21st.

COMING SCHEDULE: Apostles Fast: Monday, 6/8 thru Sunday, 6/28. Next Sunday, 6/14, Regional All-Saints. Sunday, 6/21, after CoffeeHour – Monthly Lunch & Discussion. Wednesday, 6/24, 9am, Divine Liturgy for Birth of St. John the Baptizer feastday. Sunday, 6/28, 6:00pm,Great Vespers for Ss. Peter & Paul Feastday. Monday, 6/29, 9:00am, Divine Liturgy for the Ss. P&P Feastday.