July 02
St. James Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2017-07-02
Bulletin Contents
Hymns of the Day
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Saints and Feasts
Upcoming Services, Events, and Information
St. James Orthodox Church
General Information
- Phone:
- 770 639-3641
- Email:
- info@stjamesorthodox.org
- Street Address:
- 1651 Horizon Parkway Suite 400
- Buford, GA 30518
Contact Information
Services Schedule
Great Vespers - 5:30 PM Saturday; Orthros - 9:00 AM Sunday; Divine Liturgy - 10:00 AM Sunday
Confessions are available after Services, or contact Fr. Steven
Tone 4 / Eothinon 5; Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
& Fifth Sunday of Matthew
Hieromartyr Pankratios, bishop of Taormina in Sicily; Martyrs Andrew and Probus; Venerable Dionysios the Orator, first settler of Small St. Anne skete on Athos, and his disciple Venerable Metrophanes
WELCOME! WE WISH TO EXTEND A GRACIOUS WELCOME TO ALL WHO ARE VISITING TODAY! A FRIENDLY REMINDER: Only Orthodox Christians who have properly prepared themselves through fasting, prayer, and recent confession may approach the Chalice to receive Holy Communion.
Past Bulletins
- Publish Date:
- 2017-07-09
- Publish Date:
- 2017-06-25
- Publish Date:
- 2017-06-18
- Publish Date:
- 2017-06-11
- Publish Date:
- 2017-06-04
- Publish Date:
- 2017-05-28
Hymns of the Day
Resurrectional Apolytikion in the 3rd Tone
PAGE 95: Let the heavens rejoice and the earth be glad; for the Lord hath done a mighty act with his own arm. He hath trampled down death and become the First-born from the dead. He hath delivered us from the depth of hades, granting the world the Great Mercy.
Apolytikion for Robe of the Theotokos in the 8th Tone
Thou best bestowed upon thy city, O ever virgin Theotokos and shelter of mankind, the robe and the belt of thy pure body, at a secure mantle, which by thy seedless birthgiving have remained without corruption for by thee are nature and time regenerated Wherefore, we implore thee to grant thy city safety, and our souls the Great Mercy.
Seasonal Kontakion in the 4th Tone
O godly shelter that dost cover all mankind, the sacred robe that covered thy sacred body hast thou bestowed on all the faithful graciously, O pure Virgin, as a robe of divine incorruption. As we celebrate with love its august deposition, we cry to thee with fear, O graced of God: Rejoice, O modest one, boast of the Christian race.
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Epistle Reading
Prokeimenon. 3rd Tone. Luke 1: 46-48.
My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.
Verse: For he has regarded the humility of his servant.
The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 9:1-7.
BRETHREN, the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary. For a tent was prepared, the outer one, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the Presence; it is called the Holy Place. Behind the second curtain stood a tent called the Holy of Holies, having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, which contained a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant; above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail. These preparations having thus been made, the priests go continually into the outer tent, performing their ritual duties; but into the second only the high priest goes, and he but once a year, and not without taking blood which he offers for himself and for the errors of the people.
Gospel Reading
4th Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 8:5-13
At that time, as Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, beseeching him and saying, "Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, in terrible distress." And he said to him, "I will come and heal him." But the centurion answered him, "Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I am a man under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to one, 'Go,' and he goes, and to another, 'Come,' and he comes, and to my slave, 'Do this,' and he does it." When Jesus heard him, he marveled, and said to those who followed him, "Truly, I say to you, not even in Israel have I found such faith. I tell you, many will come from east and west and sit at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth." And to the centurion Jesus said, "Go; be it done for you as you have believed." And the servant was healed at that very moment.
Saints and Feasts
July 02
Deposition of the Precious Robe of the Theotokos in Blachernae
During the reign of Leo the Great (457-474) two patricians and brethren on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land lodged with an old widow, a Christian of Jewish descent. Seeing the many miracles wrought at a small shrine in her house, they pressed her until she revealed to them that she had raiment of the most holy Theotokos kept in a small coffer. Our Lady had had two virgins in her lifetime who attended upon her; before her holy dormition, she gave each of them one of her divine garments as a blessing. This old widow was of the family of one of those two virgins, and it had come through the generations into her hands. With the permission of God, that this holy relic might be had for the profit of many, the two men took the garment by stealth and brought it to Blachernae near Constantinople, and building a church in honor of the Apostles Peter and Mark, they secretly enshrined the garment therein. But here again, because of the multitude of miracles that were worked, it became known to the Emperor Leo, and a magnificent church was built, as some say, by that same Leo, but according to others, by his predecessors Marcian and Pulcheria, and enlarged by Leo when the holy raiment was found. The Emperor Justin the Younger completed the church, which the Emperor Romanus IV Diogenes raised up immediately again after it had burned in 1070. It burned again in 1434, and from that time it remained a small house of prayer together with the renowned holy spring. After the seventh century, the name Blachernae was given to other churches and monasteries by their pious founders out of reverence for this famous church in Constantinople. In this church John Catacuzene was crowned in 1345; also, the Council against Acindynus, the follower of Barlaam, was convoked here (see the Second Sunday of the Great Fast).
July 02
Juvenal the Protomartyr of America & Alaska
Saint Juvenal was (together with Saint Herman; see Dec. 12) a member of the first mission sent from Russia to proclaim the Gospel in the New World. He was a priest-monk, and a zealous follower of the Apostles, and baptized hundreds of the natives of Alaska. He was martyred by enraged pagans in 1796.
Upcoming Services, Events, and Information
DAILY VESPERS this WEDNESDAY @ 6:30 PM (followed by the catechumen class)
NEXT SUNDAY: COFFEE HOUR CLASS The Devil Made Me Do It--ON SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT! We will have a potluck dinner during the presentation, so please bring a dish and participate in the food and discussion!
THE PRAYER LIST will get reset this week, so please submit any names for intercession to bulletin@stjamesorthodox.org, or frstevenr@gmail.com.
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY! Remember to pray for our country! *****
Remember in your prayers those in need Nicholas, Brian, Tamara, Theodore, Aubrey, Elizabeth, Alexandra, Mary, James, Daren, Florence, Josephine, Pelagia, Tara, Lani, Douglas, Mary, Anastasia, Reader Miguel, Jesse, Timothy, Andrea, Patricia, Pasquale, Robert, Jesse, Angelina, Kevin, Peter, Mary, Jude, Maria, Salwa, Alexander, Patricia, Jennifer, Tom, Debbie, Newly-departed Daniel, the catechumens, Thomas, Theophylact, Richard, Alexandra.
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St. James Orthodox Church is a mission of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.