St. Alexis of Wilkes-Barre Church
Publish Date: 2015-09-06
Bulletin Contents
Welcome
Announcements
Parish Calendar
Prayers, Intersessions and Commemorations
Hymns of the Day
Saints and Feasts
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Wisdom of the Fathers
Bulletin Inserts
Miracleatchonae
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St. Alexis of Wilkes-Barre Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • 860-664-9434
  • Street Address:

  • 108 E Main St

  • Clinton, CT 06413-0134
  • Mailing Address:

  • PO Box 134

  • Clinton, CT 06413-0134

Contact Information

Rector Fr Steven Hosking

frsteve@stalexischurch.org | 860-866-5802

Services Schedule

Weekly Services

Tuesdays at 8:30a - Daily Matins

Wednesdays at 6:00p - Daily Vespers

Thursday at 8:30a - Daily Matins

Saturday at 5:30p - Great Vespers

Sunday at 9:30a - Divine Liturgy

The Church is also open on Wednesdays for "Open Doors" - confession, meditation and reflection.

Please see our online calendar for dates and times of Feast Day services.

Past Bulletins


Welcome

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We welcome all visitors to our Divine Liturgy and services. While Holy Communion may only be received by prepared Orthodox Christians, our non-Orthodox guests are welcome to participate in our prayers and hymns and to join us in venerating the Cross and and receiving blessed bread at the conclusion of the Liturgy. Please sign our guest book and join us for refreshments and fellowship after the services.

Feel free to ask questions before or after the services. Any member of our Council or Congregation are glad to assist you. Literature about the Orthodox faith and this parish can be found in the narthex (back of the Church).

Members of our Parish Council are:

Deborah Bray - Secretary

Natalie Kucharski - Treasurer

Glenn PenkoffLidbeck - Member at Large

Demetra Tolis - Member at Large

Phyllis Sturtevant - President

Sophia Brubaker - Vice President

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Announcements

Hi Everyone,

 

It’s time for that Tag Sale reminder email, the countdown starts this weekend!  Please start bringing your washed and cleaned, in working order treasures to church this Sunday.  We are starting a pile in the 2 school rooms.  Unfortunately, I am out of town this weekend, but Glenn will be there to help with bringing and putting stuff downstairs.  I plan to start Monday at noon organizing and sorting through everything, please feel free to come and help out.  I will be bringing snacks!!  If you are unable to bring things on Sunday, please try to bring them within the hours below and have them at church no later than Wednesday.  Any questions please feel free to contact me.  

 

During the week prior to the Tag Sale.. drop off will be as follows...

Sunday 9/13 after Divine Liturgy

Monday 9/14  at noon-4:00

Tuesday 9/15  at noon-4:00

Wednesday 9/16  10:00-4:00 ...open doors 4:30 Vespers 6:00

 

Help to sort, organize and price donations

Wednesday 15th noon-4:00

Thursday 16th noon-4:00 

Friday 18th 10:00-4:00 

Saturday 19th 

7:00am-9:00 set up

 9:00am-2:00pm..sale runs

1:00-2:00... 1/2 price

2:00-2:30...fill a bag $1.00 

2:30-4:00 (during Clean up) all is free

 

Help Clean-up 2:30-4:00pm (get clean up crew volunteers)

We are still looking for volunteers, never to late to sign up…or just show up.  The more the merrier!!  Also, don’t forget to sign up to bring something to the bake sale, Daria will be more than happy to put your name on the list!!

Lastly, Tag Sale flyers will be at the back of the church…please feel free grab a few and post them in your town’s library, grocery store, post office or where ever...  

Thank you again for volunteering  to help our church and especially for your fellowship!  I look forward to working together with you all in support of such a worthy cause.  Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions.   See you next week.

 

Stasia

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Parish Calendar

  • Parish Calendar

    September 6 to September 14, 2015

    Sunday, September 6

    14th Sunday of Matthew

    9:30AM Divine Liturgy

    Monday, September 7

    The Forefeast of the Nativity of the Theotokos

    6:00PM Great Vespers with Litya (Cancelled)

    Tuesday, September 8

    The Nativity of Our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary

    Nativity of the Holy Theotokos

    Maxwell Freeman - B

    Ann Pavlik - B

    8:30AM Akathist to the Theotokos (Cancelled)

    Wednesday, September 9

    The Holy & Righteous Ancestors of God, Joachim and Anna

    10:00AM Viewing for Richard Anselmo

    11:00AM Funeral & Burial of Richard Anselmo

    4:30PM Open Doors - cancelled

    6:00PM Daily Vespers - cancelled

    6:30PM Bible Study: 1st Corinthians - cancelled

    Thursday, September 10

    Menodora, Metrodora, & Nymphodora the Martyrs

    8:30AM Daily Matins - cancelled

    Friday, September 11

    Theodora of Alexandria

    Saturday, September 12

    Saturday before Holy Cross

    Kathryn Jankura - B

    5:30PM Great Vespers

    Sunday, September 13

    Sunday before Holy Cross

    9:30AM Divine Liturgy

    12:00PM Parish Picnic - Cancelled

    12:45PM Vespers

    Monday, September 14

    The Elevation of the Venerable and Life-Giving Cross

    Exaltation of the Holy Cross

    Isaac Freeman - B

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Prayers, Intersessions and Commemorations

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Joseph, Christine, Raymond, Olga, Daria, Daria, Dori, John, Evelyn, Alla, June, Nina, Joan, John, Alex, Alan, Nadia, Glenn, Kathryn, Ivan, Elena & Jevon and Jocean, Kyra, Roderick, Albert, Barbara, Irene, John, Jennifer, Nicholas, Isabel, Elizabeth, John, Jordan, Michael, Lee, Eva, Neil, Gina, Joey, Michael, Madelyn,Sofie, Katrina, Olena,Valeriy, Dionysia, and Nona.

For the newly departed servant of  God, Richard.

 

We commemorate: 

Forefeast of the Elevation of the Cross. Commemoration of the Founding of the Church of the Resurrection (Holy Sepulcher) at Jerusalem (335). Sunday before Elevation. Hieromartyr Cornelius the Centurion (1st c.). Martyrs Chronides, Leontius and Serapion, of Alexandria (237). Martyrs Seleucus in Scythia, and Stratonicus (3rd c.). Martyrs Macrobius and Gordian at Tomi in Romania (4th c.). Hieromartyr Julian of Galatia (4th c.). Martyrs Elias, Zoticus, Lucian, and Valerian (4th c.). St. Peter of Atroë (9th c.). Greatmartyr Ketevan, Queen of Georgia (1624). Ven. Hierotheus the Younger of Iveron (Mt. Athos—1745).

 

Many Years! to Isaac Freeman, and Melissa Josefiak on the occasion of their birthdays.

 

 

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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the 5th Tone

Let us worship the Word, O ye faithful, praising Him that with the Father and the Spirit is co-beginningless God, Who was born of a pure Virgin that we all be saved; for He was pleased to mount the Cross in the flesh that He assumed, accepting thus to endure death. And by His glorious rising, He also willed to resurrect the dead.

Apolytikion for Miracle of Michael in Colossae in the 4th Tone

Supreme Commanders of the Hosts of Heavens, we, the unworthy, importune and beseech thee that by thy supplications thou encircle us in the shelter of the wings of thine immaterial glory, guarding us who now fall down and cry to thee with fervour: Deliver us from dangers of all kinds, as the great marshal of the heavenly hosts on high.

Seasonal Kontakion in the 4th Tone

In your holy birth, Immaculate One, Joachim and Anna were rid of the shame of childlessness; Adam and Eve of the corruption of death. And so your people, free of the guilt of their sins, celebrate crying: "The barren one gives birth to the Theotokos, who nourishes our life."
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Saints and Feasts

Miracleatchonae
September 06

The Commemoration of the Miracle Wrought by Archangel Michael in Colossae (Chonae)

The feast today in honour of the Archangel Michael commemorates the great miracle he wrought when he delivered from destruction a church and holy spring named for him. The pagans, moved by malice, sought to destroy the aforesaid church and holy spring by turning the course of two rivers against them. But the Archangel appeared and, by means of the Cross and a great earthquake that shook the entire area, diverted the waters into an underground course. Henceforth, the name of that place changed from Colossae to Chonae, which means "funnels" in Greek.

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September 06

14th Sunday of Matthew

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September 07

The Forefeast of the Nativity of the Theotokos

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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Epistle Reading

The Reading is from St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 1:21-24; 2:1-4

BRETHREN, it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has commissioned us; he has put his seal upon us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.

But I call God to witness against me - it was to spare you that I refrained from coming to Corinth. Not that we lord it over your faith; we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith. For I made up my mind not to make you another painful visit. For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained? And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all. For I wrote you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.

Gospel Reading

14th Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 22:2-14

The Lord said this parable, "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a marriage feast for his son, and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast; but they would not come. Again he sent other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited, Behold, I have made ready my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves are killed, and everything is ready; come to the marriage feast.' But they made light of it and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them. The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy. Go therefore to the thoroughfares, and invite to the marriage feast as many as you find.' And those servants went out into the streets and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good; so the wedding hall was filled with guests.

But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment; and he said to him, 'Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?' And he was speechless. Then the king said to the attendants, 'Bind him hand and foot, and cast him into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.' For many are called, but few are chosen."

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Wisdom of the Fathers

For unto Christ he would pass all on, saying, "He must increase, I must decrease;" by the Son Himself again, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will refresh you;" ... But not by words only, but also by actions did He bid them.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 69 on Matthew 22, 4th Century

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