+ 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

Very Rev. Fr. Archpriest John Armstrong frjohnarm@hotmail.com

Rev. Fr. Deacon John Manutes john.manutes@gmail.com

+ Worship Services +

Saturdays, 6:30 pm Great Vespers

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

Sundays, 9:30 am Divine Liturgy

Feast Days (See Monthly Calendar)

+ Parish Prayer List +

Please pray and ask the Lord to have mercy on:

Hieroschemamonk Ambrose (Young) Archpriest Ian McKinnon Protodeacon Alexis Mother Theodelphi Peter Anderson Benjamin, Justus & Kalena David Armstrong Bertie Ericson; Linda & Kelly Armstrong Kathryn Birmingham Jeanie Cooper Agnes Craig Kafa Dalal Michael & Dagmar Drakulich Lauren Hansen Ronald Maue & Rhonda Grace Joshua & Shannon Mead Vicky & Drew; Mary & Fred Matthew & Oleg Barbara Murray John & Michael Palmer St. Anthony Mission in Bozeman (Fr. David) St. Elijah Mission in Durango (Fr. Benjamin) St. Sophia Mission in CO Springs (Fr. Lawrence) St. Tikhon Mission in Parker (Fr. Alexander) Jonathan Paul Barbara Payne Natalia Perrin Sam Pyle and family Martha Rapso Irina Reynolds John Russell John Salmon Sona Sarkissian Esther Schafer Kathleen Smith Subdeacon James & Deena Spencer Christopher Sprecher Mary Streech Muriel Weisman Natalia Zolotoochin Vladimir Zolotoochin Our Missionaries: Archpriest Paul (SAMP); Michael, Lisa & Liam Colburn; Archpriest David Rucker & family Catechumens: Troy (Vladimir), Brandon (Constantine), Kristina (Kassiani), and Vicki (Photini) Newly Departed: Shamassy Janice (8/17) Memorial:

Saint Herman

Orthodox Church

991 W. Prentice Ave. Littleton CO 80120 303-798-7306

www.sthermanoca.org

+ Pastoral Ministries +

Please contact Fr. John anytime for the following: Confession; Hospital Visits / Holy Unction; Memorial Services; Slavas; Moliebens; or, just to talk. You can call me at: 720-971-5931, or email me at: frjohnarm@hotmail.com

Saint Herman Orthodox Church

September 4, 2016

11th Sunday after Pentecost, Tone 2 Holy Prophet and God-Seer Moses

Scriptures: 1 Corinthians 9:2-12; St. Matthew 18:23-35

+ Today + September 4, 2016

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

Patron Saints:

Birthdays: Matthew Roberts (9/7)

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

Coffee Hour

+ This Week +

Wednesday, September 7, 6:30 pm, Great Vespers w/Litiya for the Feast of the Nativity of the Mother of God

Thursday, September 8, 9:30 am, Divine Liturgy for Feast Saturday, September 10, 6:30 pm, Great Vespers followed by Confession

Handmaiden Schedule for September

Today, September 4, Tori & Katherine Pyle September 11, Elizabeth & Juliana Gaines September 18, Nika & Sophia Bergbauer September 25, Tori Pyle & Cassia Brown

Greeters Schedule for September

Today, September 4, Dorothy Zang September 11, Julia Urdenis September 18, Olga Thomas September 25, Christine Salmon

Moses said, “Please, show me Your Glory.”

Then He said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the Name of the LORD before you: I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.” But He said, “You cannot see My Face; for no man shall see Me, and live.” And the LORD said, “Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock. So it shall be, while My Glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by. Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen.” (Exodus 33:18-23)

+ Happenings in September +

Next Sunday, September 11th, New Church School classes begin! Tuesday, September 13, 6:30 pm, Vigil for the Feast of the Elevation/Exaltation of the Precious Cross

Wednesday, September 14, 9:30 am, Festal Divine Liturgy for the Feast Thursday, September 15, 7:00 pm, Parish Council Meeting Wednesday, Sep. 21, 10 am & 6:30 pm, Book Study: “Acquiring the Mind of Χρ”

Thursday, September 22, 6:30 pm, Intro to Orthodoxy resumes...

+ Synaxarion +

The Hieromartyr Babylas. This `great and wonderful man, if one can call him a man', as St John Chrysostom expresses it, was archbishop in Antioch in the time of the wicked Emperor Numerian. This Numerian made a peace treaty with some barbarian king, who was of better character and a greater lover of peace than himself. As a sign of his sincere desire for a lasting peace, the king gave his little son to be brought up at Numerian's court. One day, Numerian butchered the boy and offered him as a sacrifice to the idols. Still hot from his wicked shedding of innocent blood, this evildoer went to a Christian church to see what was happening there. Holy Babylas was at prayer with the people. He heard that the Emperor was coming with his retinue and intended to enter the church. Babylas stopped the service, went out in front of the church and told the Emperor that, as an idolater, he was not permitted entry to the holy church where the one, true God was worshipped. Speaking of Babylas, Chrysostom says: 'Who else in the world would he fear, having with such authority withstood the Emperor? By this he taught kings not to spread their power further than the measure given them by God, and also showed the clergy how to use their authority.' The shamed Emperor turned back, but planned revenge. The following day, the Emperor summoned Babylas, and began to berate him and bid him offer sacrifice to idols, which the Saint, naturally, steadfastly refused to do. The Emperor then bound him with chains and threw him into prison. He also tortured three children: Urban, aged twelve, Prilidian, aged nine and Hippolinus, aged seven. Babylas was their spiritual father and teacher, and they had stayed near him out of love for him. They were the sons of a Christian woman, Christodoula, who herself suffered for Christ. The Emperor first ordered that each child be beaten with the number of blows that totaled his age, and then had them thrown into prison. Babylas, in bonds, was present at the beheading of the children, giving them courage, and then laid his honored head under the sword. He was buried by Christians, in the chains in which he was bound at his death, in one grave with the three children. Their holy souls flew off to the company of heaven, and their wonderworking relics remained to be of support to the faithful, along with the enduring witness of their heroism in the Faith. They suffered in about 283. The Holy Prophet Moses, the God-seer. A great leader and lawgiver of Israel, he was born in Egypt in about 1550 BC. He spent 40 years in Egypt at Pharaoh's court, 40 years [married with a family] as a shepherd in meditation on God and the world, and his last 40 years he led the people through the wilderness to the Promised Land, which he saw, but did not enter, having at one time sinned against God (Numbers 20:12). He entered into rest at the age of a 120. He appeared from the other world on Mount Tabor at the Lord's Transfiguration, and, according to the testimony of St. John of the Ladder, appeared to the monks of Sinai. The Holy Martyrs Marcellus and Cassian. The Emperor Maximian Hercules (285-305) ordered that all the army offer sacrifice to idols. Marcellus was a soldier at this time, and Cassian a notary. Marcellus, as a Christian, said: 'If a soldier's calling is tied up with the offering of sacrifice to idols, I cannot be a soldier', and he took off his military belt and weapons and threw them from him. He was immediately condemned to death. Cassian had to put this death-sentence into writing, and he refused to do so. They were beheaded together, and their souls went to the heavenly Kingdom. The Nativity of the Mother of God (September 8). The holy Virgin Mary was born of her aged parents, Joachim and Anna. Her father was of the tribe of David and her mother of the tribe of Aaron, and so she was of royal blood from her father and priestly blood from her mother. By this, she foreshadowed Him who would be born of her as King and High Priest. Her parents were already old and had no children, and, because of this, were ashamed before men and humble before God. In their humility, they prayed with tears that God would bring joy to their old age with the gift of a child, as He had once given joy to the aged Abraham and Sarah, giving them their son Isaac. God, almighty and all-seeing, gave them a joy far exceeding all their expectations and their wildest dreams, for He gave them not just a daughter, but the Mother of God; He illumined them not only with temporal joy but with eternal. God gave them just one daughter, who later gave them just one grandson — but what a daughter and what a Grandson! Mary Full_of_Grace, blessed among women, the temple of the Holy Spirit, altar of the living God, table of living bread, ark of God's holy things, tree of the most delicious fruits, glory of the human race, praise of womanhood, fount of virginity and purity — this was the daughter given by God to Joachim and Anna. Born in Nazareth, she was after three years taken to the Temple in Jerusalem, whence she returned again to Nazareth and shortly afterwards heard the tidings of the holy Archangel Gabriel concerning the birth of the Son of God, the Savior of the world, from her most pure and virginal body.