+ A Parish of +

The Orthodox Church in America www.oca.org

Most Rev. Archbishop Benjamin, Diocese of San Francisco and the West

www.dowoca.org

VRev. Fr. Archpriest John Armstrong frjohnarm@hotmail.com

+ Worship Services +

Saturdays, 6:00 pm Great Vespers & Confession

(3rd & 6th Hour Prayers, 9:10 am) Sundays, 9:30 am

Divine Liturgy

Feast Days (See Monthly Calendar)

+ Parish Prayer List +

Please pray for and ask the Lord to have mercy on:

Hieroschemamonk Ambrose (Young) Mother Theodelphi Archpriests: Michael, Lawrence & David Deacon Gregory (Jewett) & family The Clergy & Parishioners of our Mission Parishes Newly-illumined infant “Paul” & parents Priest Jacob & the Parishioners of St. Mark’s Matushki: Sophia, Lauren, Priscilla, Alice, Teresa & Mary Graham; LeAnne; Shirley; Kathy Peter & Katherine; Andrew & Rachel Benjamin & Kelly; Justus & Kalena Karin, Yancey & family; Brian & family; Julia & family Shaun; Kathryn Birmingham; Dale Brinkman Thomas & Jane; Megan; Johnny; David George Eckert; Mika Farer; Joyce Mikita Agnes Craig; Kafa Dalal Lee Anthony; Adam Goodman Aaron; Olga; Natalia; Kira; Alice Maria Gorsevski; Lauren Hansen Laura Lemco; Esther Schafer Ronald & Rhonda; Joshua & Shannon Charles; Patrick; Jonathan Oleg; James; Joshua Barbara Murray; John; Michael Glenda & family; Sona, Mardig & Seta John & Sophia; Irina; Nadejda Barbara Payne; John Russell; John Salmon; Joel Snyder Christopher Sprecher; Barbara Stokilo; Mary Streech Eda Vallens; Christopher, Anna & family Jack Whitaker; Natalia Zolotoochin; Darrell; Kyra

Missionaries & Ministries: OCMC: Michael, Lisa & Liam Colburn; James Hargrave & family. OCPM: Protopresbyter Steven Powley. “Dipes & Wipes”: Mary, Herman, Eda & friends

Catechumens: Troy (Vladimir) Nunley; Erin (Mary Magdalene) & Winslow Hollingsworth; and, Marie (Sophia of Thrace)

Inquirers: Michelle & her children; Damian; Aaron; Patrick; Michael; Stuart; Aaron & Holly

Newly Departed: Deacon Henneck Soot (12/31)

Memorial: Elizabeth Telea (1/17); Raymond (John) (1/10); Elizabeth; and, Daniel.

Saint Herman Orthodox Church

991 West Prentice Avenue Littleton Colorado 80120 303-798-7306 www.sthermanoca.org

+ Pastoral Ministries +

Please contact Fr. John anytime for any of

the following: Confession; Hospital Visits /

Holy Unction; Memorial Services; Slavas;

Moliebens; or, just to talk… You can call or

txt me at: 720-971-5931; and/or email me at:

frjohnarm@hotmail.com

Saint Herman Orthodox Church January 12, 2020

30th Sunday after Pentecost, Tone 5 Sunday After Theophany. Martyr Tatiana of Rome

Holy Scriptures: Ephesians 4:7-13; St. Matthew 4:12-17

Handmaidens Schedule for January

Today, Jan. 12, Sophie & Abigail Reynolds January 19, Juliana & Katherine Gaines January 26, Katherine P. & Kyriana K.

Greeters Schedule for January

Today, Jan. 12, Dorothy Zang &/or Olga Thomas January 19, Christine &/or Garry Baker January 26, Angelica Zolotoochin

+ This Week +

Annual House Blessings continue thru Mar. 31. Schedule yours today with Fr. John!

Monday, Jan. 13, 7:00 pm, Parish Council

Wednesday, January 15, 10 am & 6:30 pm, Book Study: “Great Lent” by Fr. Schmemann

Thursday, January 16, 6:30 pm, Intro. to Orthodoxy: “The Orthodox Way” by Ware

Saturday, January 18, 6:00 pm, Great Vespers & Confession

+ Today + January 12, 2020

Welcome to St. Herman Orthodox Church! We’re glad you came to worship with us!

Patron Saints: St. Tatiana & St. Sava of Serbia (1/12);

St. Anthony the Great (1/17);

Baptisms: Ron (Isidore of Pelusium) & Lisa (Dymphna) Abbott

“Preserve them, O Lord, for many years!”

Coffee Hour

+ Looking Ahead +

Saturday, Feb. 1, 6:00 pm, Great Vespers w/Litiya for the Meeting of the Lord

Sunday, February 2 (Meeting of the Lord): • 8:30 am, Baptism of Erin & Winslow • 9:30 am, Liturgy for the Feast

Sunday, February 9: (Publican & Pharisee)

“Fast-free” Friday: February 14

Monday, March 2: Beginning of Great Lent

Saturday, April 11: Lazarus Saturday Sunday, April 12: Palm Sunday Holy Week: 4/12, 6:30 pm—4/18, 11:30 pm Sunday, April 19: Great & Holy Pascha

Selected Sayings of St. Anthony the Great (+1/17)

3. Someone asked Abba Anthony, “What must one do in order to please God?” The geronda [elder] replied, “Pay attention to what I tell you: Whoever you may be, always have God before your eyes; whatever you do, do it according to the testimony of the Holy Scriptures; in whatever place you live do not easily leave it. Keep these three precepts and you will be saved.”

4. Abba Anthony said to Abba Poemen, “This is the great work of a man: always to take the blame for his own sins before God and to expect temptation to his last breath.” 5. He also said, “Whoever has not experienced temptation cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.” He even added, “Without temptations no one can be saved.”

7. Abba Anthony said, “I saw the snares that the enemy spreads out over the world and I said groaning, “What can get through from such snares?” Then I heard a voice saying to me, “Humility.”

24. It was revealed to Abba Anthony in his desert that there was one who was his equal in the city. He was a doctor by profession and whatever he had beyond his needs he gave to the poor, and everyday he sang the Sanctus: “Holy, holy, holy…” with the angels.

25. Abba Anthony said, “A time is coming when men will go mad, when they see someone who is not mad they will attack him saying, ‘You are mad, you are not like us.’”

16. A brother said to Abba Anthony, “Pray for me.” The geronda said to him, “I will have no mercy on you, nor will God have any, if you yourself do not make an effort and if you do not pray to God.”

+ Synaxarion +

The Epiphany [Theophany] of Our LORD God & Savior Jesus Christ (Jan. 6). When our Lord reached 30 years from His physical birth, He began His teaching and salvific work. He Himself signified this "beginning of the beginning" by His Baptism in the Jordan River. St. Cyril of Jerusalem says, "The beginning of the world — water; the beginning of the Good News — Jordan." At the time of the Baptism of the Lord in water, that Mystery was declared to the world: that Mystery which was prophesied in the Old Testament; the Mystery about which in ancient Egypt and India was only fabled (i.e. the Mystery of the Divine Holy Trinity). The Father was revealed to the sense of hearing; the Spirit

was revealed to the sense of sight; the Son was revealed to the sense of touch. The Father uttered His witness about the Son; the Son was baptized in the water; and the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove, hovered above Christ in the water. When John the Baptist witnessed and said about Christ, "Behold, the Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world" (St. John 1:29), and when John baptized (i.e. immersed) the Lord in the Jordan, the Mission of Christ in the world and the path of our salvation was shown. That is to say — the Lord took upon Himself the sins of mankind and died under them [immersion] and became alive again [the coming out of the water, Resurrection]; and our the old sinful man must die and become alive again as cleansed, renewed and regenerated in the sacred waters of the Baptismal Font. This is the Savior and this is the path of salvation: death and resurrection. The Feast of Epiphany is also called the Feast of Illumination and the Feast of Lights. This event in the Jordan River reveals to us, “the manifestation of God” as Trinity [Gk. = Theophany: Theos = God; epiphany = manifestation], 3 uncreated Persons, of one Nature, one Glory, and undivided. It also reveals to us that we are illumined through Holy Baptism in water and become adopted by the Father of Lights, through the righteousness of the Son, and the power of the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Martyr Tatiana of Rome. She was a Christian, of an eminent family, a deaconess in the Church. After the death of the Emperor Heliogabalus, the Emperor Alexander came to the throne in Rome. His mother, Julia Mammaea, was a Christian, but the Emperor himself was unsure and hesitant about his faith; an uncertainty that was clearly expressed by his keeping statues of both Christ and Apollo, of both Abraham and Orpheus, in his palace. His chief advisors took it into their own hands to persecute the Christians without his orders.

When the virgin Tatiana was led to martyrdom, she prayed for her executioners. And lo, their eyes were opened and they saw four angels around the martyr. Seeing this, 8 of them were converted to Christ, for which they were tortured and killed. St. Tatiana's martyrdom was long-drawn-out: she was flogged, parts of her flesh were cut off, she was sawn with an iron saw, and then, all disfigured and bleeding, she was flung that evening into prison to be brought out on the following day for further torture. But God sent His angel to the prison, to give her courage and heal her wounds. Tatiana, therefore, appeared before her torturers each morning in perfect health. She was thrown to a lion, but the lion became tame before her and did her no harm. Her hair was shorn, from an idea that occurred to their godless minds that some sorcery might be hidden in it, some magical strength. Finally, she was led out, together with her father, and the two were beheaded. In such manner this heroic maiden finished her earthly life in about the year 225, and was crowned with an immortal crown of glory. She had the weak body of a woman, but a manly and valiant spirit.

St. Sava I, 1st Archbishop of Serbia. The son of Stefan Nemanja, the great Serbian national leader, he was born in 1169. As a young man he yearned for the spiritual life, which led him to flee to the Holy Mountain, where he became a monk and with rare zeal followed all the ascetic practices. Nemanja followed his son's example and himself went to the Holy Mountain, where he lived and ended his days as the monk Simeon. Sava obtained the independence of the Serbian Church from the Emperor and the Patriarch, and became its first archbishop. He, together with his father, built the monastery of Hilandar and after that, many other monasteries, churches and schools throughout the land of Serbia. He travelled to the Holy Land on two occasions, on pilgrimage to the holy places there. He made peace among his brothers, who were in conflict over their rights, and also between the Serbs and their neighbors. In creating the Serbian Church, he created the Serbian state and Serbian culture along with it. He brought peace to all the Balkan peoples, working for the good of all, for which he was venerated and loved by all on the Balkan peninsular. He gave a Christian soul to the people of Serbia, which survived the fall of the Serbian state. He died in Trnovo in the reign of King Asen, being taken ill after the Divine Liturgy on the Feast of Holy Theophany in 1236. King Vladislav took his body to Milegeva, whence Sinan Pasha removed it, burning it at Vracar in Belgrade on April 27, 1595.