June 13, 2010 Church Bulletin

Sunday, June 13, 2010

THIRD SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST 

VARIATION IN TODAY’S DIVINE LITURGY

At the entrance (Service Book page 97):

1. TROPARION OF THE RESURRECTION  - Tone 2: When Thou didst submit Thyself unto death, O Thou deathless and immortal One, then Thou didst destroy Hell, with Your Godly power.  And when Thou didst raise the dead from beneath the earth, all the powers of Heaven did cry aloud unto Thee, O Christ Thou giver of life, Glory to Thee, O our God.
2. THE ENTRANCE HYMN:  O Come, let us worship and fall down before Christ.  O son of God, who art risen from the dead save us who sing unto thee:  Alleluia.
3. REPEAT No.1 ABOVE.
4. TROPARION OF ST. GEORGE – Tone 4:  As deliverer of captives and defender of the poor, healer of the infirm, champion of kings, victorious, Great Martyr George, intercede with Christ our God for our soul’s salvation.
5. KONTAKION FOR THE THEOTOKOS – Tone 2:  O undisputed intercessor  of Christians, the mediatrix who is unrejected by the Creator, turn not away from the voice of our petitions, although we be sinners, come to us with aid in time who cry unto Thee in faith, for thou art good.  Hasten to us with intercessions, O Theotokos, who dost ever intercede for those who honor thee.

Prokeimenon:  The Lord is my strength and my song.

                                    The Lord has chastened me sorely.

EPISTLE:  The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Romans.  (Chapter 5:1-10)

BRETHREN, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.  Through him we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God.  More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us.

While we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.  Why, one will hardly die for a righteous man--though perhaps for a good man one will dare even to die.  But God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.  Since, therefore, we are now justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.  For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.  Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received our reconciliation.

THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW (Chapter 6:22-33.)

The Lord said:  "The eye is the lamp of the body.  So, if your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light; but if your eye is not sound, your whole body will be full of darkness.  If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

"No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.  You cannot serve God and mammon.

"Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on.  Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?  Look at the birds of the air:  they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.  Are you not of more value than they?  And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his span of life?  And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.  But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O men of little faith?  Therefore do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or "What shall we drink?' or "What shall we wear?"  For the Gentiles seek all these things; and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.  But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well.

Special note:  Except for those who are elderly and/or disabled, please remain standing during Holy Communion.

NEXT WEEK’S HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Romans 6:18-12; Matt. 8:5-13; Romans 10:1-1-; Matt. 8:28-34; 9:1.

DATES TO REMEMBER:

GREEK FESTIVAL – Sts. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church, 14 Magazine St., Cambridge, MA, is sponsoring a three day outdoor Grecian Festival on Friday, June 18, Saturday, June 19 and Sunday, June 20 from 11AM to 11PM.  Live Greek & American music and dancing, a delicious variety of Greek foods and pastries, Gyro, Taverna, Coffee House, children’s game room, flea market, many handicraft booths, including pottery, ceramics, jewelry, knitted articles and plants.  FREE ADMISSION.  Proceeds to benefit the church building fund.  For further info, please call (617) 876-3601.

CHARLES M. DOWD MEMORIAL GOLF TOURNAMENT HOSTED BY THE MENS’ CLUB OF ST. GEORGE, WORCESTER – At Mount Pleasant Country Club, Boylston, MA, Tuesday, June 29^th at 12:30PM, shotgun start; golfers please arrive by 11:30AM.  Cost:  $150 per golfer, includes dinner; $175 for one golfer and one dinner guest; $30 for dinner only. Middle Eastern Dinner Buffet at the Cathedral, 30 Anna St., Worcester beginning with cocktails at 5:30PM.  Sponsorships are available starting at $125.  For applications and more info please call Michael Dowd 508-752-9150.