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 2 / Eothinon 11; Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
& Eleventh Sunday of Matthew
After-feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos
Prophet Samuel; Martyr Photeini of Blachernae; Martyrs Heliodoros and Dosai of Persia
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.
Prokeimenon. 1st Tone. Psalm 32.22,1.
Let your mercy, O Lord, be upon us.
Verse: Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous.
The reading is from St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 4:9-16.
Brethren, God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men. We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and buffeted and homeless, and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become, and are now, as the refuse of the world, the off-scouring of all things. I do not write this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. I urge you, then, be imitators of me.
10th Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 17:14-23
At that time, a man came up to Jesus and kneeling before him said, "Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and he suffers terribly; for often he falls into the fire, and often into the water. And I brought him to your disciples, and they could not heal him." And Jesus answered, "O faithless and perverse generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me." And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon came out of him, and the boy was cured instantly. Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, "Why could we not cast it out?" He said to them, "Because of your little faith. For truly I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move hence to yonder place,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you. But this kind never comes out except by prayer and fasting." As they were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of man is to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him, and he will be raised on the third day."
The divine Maximus, who was from Constantinople, sprang from an illustrious family. He was a lover of wisdom and an eminent theologian. At first, he was the chief private secretary of the Emperor Heraclius and his grandson Constans. But when the Monothelite heresy became predominant in the royal court, out of hatred for this error the Saint departed for the Monastery at Chrysopolis (Scutari), of which he later became the abbot. When Constans tried to constrain him either to accept the Monothelite teaching, or to stop speaking and writing against it - neither of which the Saint accepted to do - his tongue was uprooted and his right hand was cut off, and he was sent into exile, where he reposed in 662. At the time only he and his few disciples were Orthodox in the East. See also January 21.
The Dormition Fast continues until Tuesday!
COFFEE HOUR CLASS TODAY: Orthodox QUIZ SHOW! Please join us!
MONDAY: Great Vespers and Lamentations of the Mother of God @ 6:30 PM.
TUESDAY: Hours & Divine Liturgy for the Dormition of the Mother of God @ 9:50 AM
WEDNESDAY: Daily Vespers @ 6:30 followed by Catechumen Class
MARK YOUR CALENDARS for Sunday, AUGUST 27th after Liturgy - Parish Outing to the GWINNETT BRAVES GAME at Cool Ray Field. See Steven Reif for details!
Our parish will also be involved in a volunteer activity with Meals by Grace on SEPTEMBER 10 after Liturgy. Please plan on attending! "Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me." See Tara Freeman for more information!
Remember in your prayers Nicholas, Tamara, Jamie, Jalen, Tara, Allyn, Theodore, Elizabeth, Pelagia, Miguel, Jesse, Salwa, Timothy, Khouria Barbara, Vera, Ashby, Christine, Mary, Newly-departed Lani and Daniel, the catechumens,Thomas, Deborah, Thomas, Theophylact, Richard, Alexandra.
If you have an announcement for the bulletin, please send an email to bulletin@stjamesorthodox.org by THURSDAY.