June 28
Saint Paul Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2026-06-28
Bulletin Contents
Announcements
Bulletin Inserts
Diakonia Newsletter
Hymns of the Day
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Wisdom of the Fathers
Saints and Feasts
Saint Paul Orthodox Church
General Information
Contact Information
Services Schedule
Please call ahead for schedule of services
Confessions Prior to all Divine Liturgies
Past Bulletins
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- 2026-08-16
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- 2026-07-19
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- 2026-07-05
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- 2026-06-21
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- 2026-06-07
Announcements
Welcome to St. Paul Orthodox Church - Freehold, NJ
Mission Parish of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of North America
Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
We celebrate the diverse gifts that everyone brings and we are committed to making our church accessible so that everyone can participate fully in Holy Orthodox Church.
We are happy to welcome the new families that have moved to our area.
All are welcome!
Upcoming Church Schedule:
Sunday June 28 - 4th Sunday of Matthew
Divine Liturgy 11:30AM
Please pray for our Bishop and all of our Hierarchs!
2026 STEWARDSHIP COMMITMENTS & PARISH DONATIONS
Greetings in Christ! We kindly ask that you participate in Parish Stewardship Commitment for 2026! Your Stewardship Commitment allows us to plan for and manage the Christ-centered ministries of our community. Please consider being a part of the support of our parish family by filling out a Stewardship Commitment Form attached to the bulletin or find the form online at www.spaoc.org. For questions, please see Albert Vira or Father Thomas.
Donations can be made via check, cash (in a stewardship envelope with your name on it), Paypal or Venmo, or use credit/debit card through givebutter.com. You can click or scan the link below.
SCAN ME
DIGITAL DONATIONS
Please support our diocesan seminary bookstore:
If you have any religious items to purchase such as icons, jewlery, books, and various Orthodox decor, please visit: www.orthodoxgoods.com
Also, please continue to pray for vocations:
O Lord, the High Priest of God's people, You have shown us that it is Your will that men be called to the service of Your Holy Church. From the ranks of fishermen, You called Andrew and Peter and James and John, and made them and their successors in every age to be the "fishers of men." We, your people in this age, call upon Your great love to inspire for our churches, young men to be Your future priests. Touch their lives with Your Holy Spirit; give them the courage to answer Your call and the strength to work all the days of their life for Your service. Continue to shower upon our Diocesan Seminary Your choicest blessings and make us aware of her needs so that it may continue to be a place where the souls of those called to Your service may be trained and prepared to teach and preach, to pray and labor, to forgive and heal - to care in every way as priests of Your fold, O Good Shepherd. You told us with Your precious lips, "Without me, you can do nothing." As we call upon Your Name for more vocations, O Great High Priest, hear us and have mercy.
Bulletin Inserts
St Paul's Celebrating America's 250th Anniversary
St Paul's Orthodox Church Barbeque Celebrating America's 250th Anniversary
Letter on Priest Pension dues from the Diocesan Chancery
Please read the correspondence from the Diocesan Chancery regarding Priest Pension Parish Assesment Due. As a mission parish of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese St. Paul the Apostle Orthodox Church is obligated to pay this assesment.
Diocesan-Wide Outreach Program To Benefit Zoe For Life
Please support Zoe for Life Outreach Program https://zoeforlife.org/zoe-house/
Preparation for Confession
The Mystery of Confession - from the Diocese of the South Orthodox Church of America
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese Prayer Book
Diocesean Prayer Book for Orthodox Christians - ACROD
An Orthodox Prayer Book - Holy Mount Athos Greece
An Orthodox Prayer Book
An Orthodox Prayer Book - Ukrainian Toronto Canada
Prayer Book - Morning Prayers - Small Compline
SAINT PAUL STEWARDSHIP AND REGISTRATION FORM
We encourage all new and existing parishioners to complete the Saint Paul Stewardship Form
Diakonia Newsletter
Read the latest Diakonia Newsletter for this Sunday
https://bulletinbuilder.org/diakonia-newsletter/2026-06-28?source=bulletin_web
June 28, 2026
Hymns of the Day
Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Third Tone
Let the heavens rejoice and let the earth be glad!* For the Lord has shown strength with His arm,* trampling down death by death, He has become the first-born of the dead.* He has delivered us from the depths of the realm of death,* and has given great mercy to our souls.
Reading is under copyright and is used with permission, all rights reserved by: American Carpatho-Russian Diocese
Seasonal Kontakion in the Second Tone
O Protection of Christians that cannot be put to shame, mediation unto the creator most constant: O despise not the voices of those who have sinned; but be quick, O good one, to come unto our aid, who in faith cry unto thee: Hasten to intercession and speed thou to make supplication, O thou who dost ever protect, O Theotokos, them that honor thee.
Reading is under copyright and is used with permission, all rights reserved by: Holy Transfiguration Monastery
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Epistle Reading
Prokeimenon. Third Tone. Psalm 46.6,1.
Sing praises to our God, sing praises.
Verse: Clap your hands, all you nations.
The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 6:18-23.
Brethren, having been set free from sin, you have become slaves of righteousness. I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once yielded your members to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now yield your members to righteousness for sanctification.
When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. But then what return did you get from the things of which you are now ashamed? The end of those things is death. But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the return you get is sanctification and its end, eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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
June 28
Finding of the Relics of Cyrus and John the Unmercenaries
These Saints lived during the years of Diocletian. Saint Cyrus was from Alexandria, and Saint John was from Edessa of Mesopotamia. Because of the persecution of that time, Cyrus fled to the Gulf of Arabia, where there was a small community of monks. John, who was a soldier, heard of Cyrus' fame and came to join him. Henceforth, they passed their life working every virtue, and healing every illness and disease freely by the grace of Christ; hence their title of "Unmercenaries." They heard that a certain woman, named Athanasia, had been apprehended together with her three daughters, Theodora, Theoctiste, and Eudoxia, and taken to the tribunal for their confession of the Faith. Fearing lest the tender young maidens be terrified by the torments and renounce Christ, they went to strengthen them in their contest in martyrdom; therefore they too were seized. After Cyrus and John and those sacred women had been greatly tormented, all were beheaded in the year 292. Their tomb became a renowned shrine in Egypt, and a place of universal pilgrimage. It was found in the area of the modern day resort near Alexandria named Abu Kyr.
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