Saint Herman
Orthodox Church
991 W. Prentice Ave.
Littleton, CO 80120
303-798-7306
www.sthermanoca.org
+ A Parish of +
The Orthodox Church in America
www.oca.org
Archbishop Benjamin
of San Francisco and the West
www.dowoca.org
Archpriest John Armstrong
[email protected]
(Deacon Michael Tarris)
+ Worship Services +
Saturdays, 6:30 pm
Great Vespers
rd
(3 & 6th Hour Prayers, 9:10 am)
Sundays, 9:30 am
DIVINE LITURGY
Feast Days (See Monthly Calendar)
+ Pastoral Ministries +
+ Parish Prayer List +
Pray for the health and salvation of:
Hieromonk Ambrose (Young)
Gerondissa Theodelphi
Alaskan prisoners here in CO
Benjamin Armstrong
Eva Baker
Garry Baker
Olivia Botha
Daniel Christus
Kafa Dalal
Michael & Dagmar Drakulich
George Eckert
Bertie Ericson
Gregory, Samuel, Nicholas, and Artemi
Jesus, Michael, & Lenny
Sheree Huskey
Susanna Mikita
Barbara Murray
John & Michael Palmer
Alexandra
Eugenia Pazalos
Barb Payne
Esther Schafer
Pam (Panayiota) Scooros
Olga Thomas
Joan Wagner
Thomas Wells
Lou & Dorothy Zang
Maria
Our Missionaries:
James & Daphne Hargrave (to W. Tanzania)
[email protected]
Christina Semon (to Moldova)
c.semon.ocmc.org
Faith Young (candidate to Albania, or ?)
[email protected]
Our Catechumens:
Call (or email) Fr. John anytime for: Brandon Warren, Rachel Kretchman, and
Confession / Counseling; Hospital Visit / Brian Doyle
Unction; Molieben; Memorial Service; Newly Departed: VRev. Peter Gillquist (7/1)
Slava; or, just to talk: 720-940-8619 (c), Memorial:
[email protected].
+ Today +
July 15, 2012
+ Looking Ahead +
Wedding Bans: If anyone knows why
this marriage should not take place,
Welcome to St. Herman Orthodox Church! please speak with Fr. John.
We’re glad you’re here! May the Lord bless you!
Birthdays:
Jon Douglas (7/17), Phoebe Teter
(7/18), Emily Pyle (7/21)
2:00 pm, Wedding
of Sarah DeLeo & Ricky Gomez
Rocky Mountain Orthodox Youth Camp
July 22 — 25 (Sun.— Wed.)
ALL ages welcome, though children’s
cabins start for age 6 and going through
high school age. This year’s cost is $140.
Please see Leslie Farley if you have
questions. RSVP by July 15. Scholarships
are available.
+ This Week +
“Whom have I in Heaven, but Thee?
And there is none upon the earth that
Saturday, July 21:
I desire besides Thee. My flesh and
11 am, Parish Picnic at Laura Lemco’s my heart faileth, but God is the strength
6:30 pm, Great Vespers + Confession of my heart and my portion forever!”
Greeter Schedule for July
Today, July 15, Rachel Kretchman
July 22, Jeanie Cooper
July 29, Christine Baker
Handmaiden Schedule for July
Today, July 15, Phoebe Teter, Mairead M.
July 22, Madeline Streech, Juliana Gaines
July 29, Jackie Pyle, Lilly Ann Davies
Reader Schedule for July
Today, July 15, Reader Nathaniel Brown
July 22, Reader Paul Farley
July 29, Reader Steve Martin
“In the Russian Primary Chronicle, Vladimir, Prince
of Kiev, while still a pagan, desired to know which
was the true religion, so he sent his followers to visit
the various countries of the world. They went first
to the Moslem Bulgars of the Volga, but observing
that when they prayed they gazed around like men
possessed, the Russians continued on their way
dissatisfied. ‘There is no joy among them,’ they reported
to Vladimir, ‘but mournfulness and a great smell; and there
is nothing good about their system.’ Next, they traveled
to Germany and Rome, and found the worship more
satisfactory, but complained that here too it was without beauty. Finally, they journeyed to Constantinople,
and here at last, as they attended the Divine Liturgy in
the great Church of the Holy Wisdom, they discovered
what they desired. ‘We knew not whether we were in
heaven or on earth, for surely there is no such splendor or
beauty anywhere else upon the earth. We cannot describe it
to you: We know only this— God dwells there among men;
their service surpasses the worship of all other places. For we
cannot forget that beauty.’” “Beauty will save the world”!
+ Synaxarion +
St. Vladimir, Great Prince of Russia, Equal-of-the-Apostles. Vladimir was the son of Prince
Svyatoslav, and grandson of Igor and Olga, and was at first completely pagan in faith and life.
Learning of the existence of various faiths, he began to examine them, to decide which was
best. He therefore sent envoys to Constantinople. When they returned, they told the Prince
that they had been at a service in the Orthodox Church of Hagia Sophia, and that they had been
'out of ourselves, not knowing if we were on earth or in heaven'. This inspired Vladimir to
be baptized, receiving the name Vasilii, and to baptize his people. The chief idol, Perun,
was dragged off the hill of Kiev and thrown into the Dnieper. Embracing the Christian Faith,
Vladimir utterly changed his way of life and devoted all his labor to the perfect fulfilling of the
demands of his Faith. He decreed that churches be built throughout the land on the places
where the idols had been pulled down, and himself built a beautiful church in Kiev to the most
holy Mother of God. This church was built on the selfsame spot where St. Theodore and his son
John suffered martyrdom for Christ (see July 12). With the same irresistible force with which
Vladimir earlier upheld idolatry, he now spread Christianity. He entered into rest in the Lord
in 1015.
Chalcedonian Definition of Faith, 4th Ecumenical Council (451).“Following the holy Fathers,
we all with one voice confess our Lord Jesus Christ, one and the same Son, the same perfect
in Divinity, the same perfect in humanity, truly God and truly man, the same consisting of
a rational soul and a body, homoousios with the Father as regarding the Divinity, the same
homoousios with us as regarding the humanity, like us in all things apart from sin; begotten of
the Father before all ages as regarding the Divinity, the same in the last days, for us and for our
salvation, born from Mary, the Virgin Mary, the Theotokos, as regarding the humanity, one and
the same Christ, Son, Lord, Only-begotten, to be acknowledged in two natures — without_ confusion, without_change, without_division, without_separation — the distinction of natures
being in no way abolished because of the union, but rather the characteristic property of each
nature being preserved, and concurring in one Person (prosopon) and one Hypostasis, not as if
Christ were parted or divided into two persons, but one and the same Son and Only-begotten
God, Word, Lord, Jesus Christ; even as the Prophets from the beginning spoke concerning Him,
and our Lord Jesus Christ instructed us, and the [Nicene-Constantinopolitan] Creed of the
Fathers was handed down to us.
“Since we have formulated these things with all possible accuracy and attention, the sacred and
ecumenical (i.e. universal) synod decreed that no one is permitted to produce, or even to write
down or compose, any other creed or to think or teach otherwise. As for those who dare either
to compose another creed or even to promulgate or teach or hand down another creed for those
who wish to convert to a recognition of the Truth from Hellenism or from Judaism, or from
any kind of heresy at all: if they be bishops or clerics, the bishops are to be deposed from
the episcopacy and the clerics from the clergy; if they be monks or of the laity, they are to be
anathematized.”