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
Most Rev. Archbishop Benjamin,
Diocese of San Francisco and the West
www.dowoca.org
Very Rev. Fr. Archpriest John Armstrong
[email protected]
Rev. Fr. Deacon John Manutes
[email protected]
+ Worship Services +
Saturdays, 5:30 pm
Great Vespers
(3rd & 6th Hour Prayers, 9:10 am)
Sundays, 9:30 am
Divine Liturgy
Feast Days (See Monthly Calendar)
+ 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:
[email protected]
+ Parish Prayer List +
Please pray and ask the Lord to have mercy on:
Hieroschemamonk Ambrose (Young)
Mother Theodelphi
Peter Anderson
Benjamin, Justus, Kalena & Anthony
David Armstrong
Bertie Ericson; Linda & Kelly Armstrong
Kathryn Birmingham
Karla & Meg
Jeanie Cooper
Agnes Craig
Kafa Dalal
Michael & Dagmar Drakulich
Lauren Hansen
Ronald Maue & Rhonda Grace
George; Sarah; Nikolai and “Z”
Joshua & Shannon Mead
Joyce Mikita
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, Mardig, and Seta
Esther Schafer
Kathleen Smith
Christopher Sprecher
Mary Streech
Don, Norma, Thomas and Jung Sook
Muriel Weisman
Vladimir and Natalia 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: Hieromonk Alexander (10/5),
Protodeacon Alexis (10/2), Matushka Lila Regan
Memorial: Hieromonk Kallistos (11/11)
Saint Herman Orthodox Church
November 6, 2016
20th Sunday after Pentecost, Tone 3 (7th of St. Luke)
St. Paul the Confessor, Archbishop of Constantinople (350 AD)
Scriptures: Galatians 1:11-19; St. Luke 8:41-56
+ Today +
+ Looking Ahead +
November 6, 2016
Monday, November 14, 9:30 am,
Divine Liturgy for St. Gregory Palamas
Welcome to St. Herman Orthodox Church!
We’re glad you came to worship with us! Tuesday, November 15, 7:00 pm,
Parish Council
Patron Saints:
Archangel Michael (11/8)
Sunday, November 20, 45th Annual
Parish Meeting
Birthdays:
Julia Urdenis (11/9)
Thursday, November 24, 9:30 am,
“Preserve them, O Lord, for many years!” Thanksgiving Liturgy
Coffee Hour
Church School
Saturday, December 3, 7:00 pm,
Women’s Fellowship at the church
+ This Week +
Monday & Tuesday, December 5 & 6,
Divine Services for St. Nicholas
Tuesday, November 8, 6:00 pm,
Vespers & Molieben to St. Anna
followed by a talk by Archimandrite
Sergius, “The Praxis of Prayer at Holy
Theophany OC in CO Springs
Friday, December 23, 9:30 am,
Royal Hours for the Nativity of Christ
Saturday, December 24, 5:30 pm,
Festal Vigil for the Nativity of Christ
Wednesday, Nov. 9, 10 am & 6:30 pm, Sunday, December 25, 9:30 am,
Book Study: “Seeds of Heaven and Hell: Festal Divine Liturgy for Christmas
Passions, Virtues and Life After Death” Monday, December 26, 9:30 am,
Festal Divine Liturgy for the Theotokos
Friday, November 11, 6:30 pm,
Tuesday, December 27, 9:30 am,
Intro to Orthodoxy: Part 2, Ch. 11
Festal Divine Liturgy for St. Stephen
Saturday, November 12, 5:30 pm, Wed.-Fri., Dec. 28-30, Teen Retreat:
Great Vespers followed by Confession
Dr. David Ford: Orthodox Marriage
Greeters Schedule for November
Today, November 6, Kevin Donahue
November 13, Dorothy Zang
November 20, Julia Urdenis
November 27, Olga Thomas
Handmaiden Schedule for November
Today, Nov. 6, Sophie & Abigail Reynolds
November 13, Tori & Katherine Pyle
November 20, Elizabeth & Juliana Gaines
November 27, Nika & Sophia Bergbauer
+ Synaxarion +
St. Paul the Confessor, Patriarch of Constantinople. When the blessed Patriarch Alexander was lying on
his deathbed, the lamenting faithful asked him whom he would leave to follow him as chief pastor of the flock
of Christ. Then the sick Patriarch said to them: 'If you want to have a shepherd who will teach you and whose
virtues will illumine you, choose Paul; but, if you want a suitable man as a figurehead, choose Macedonius’.
The people chose Paul. This was not acceptable to the Arian heretics, nor to the Emperor Constantius, who was
at that time in Antioch, and so Paul was quickly deposed and fled to Rome together with St. Athanasius the
Great. There, both Pope Julian and the Emperor Constans gave them a warm welcome and upheld them in their
Orthodoxy. The Emperor and the Pope sent letters which restored Paul to his episcopal throne, but, after the
death of Constans, the Arians raised their heads again and drove the Orthodox Patriarch off to Cucusus in
Armenia. While Paul was celebrating the Divine Liturgy one day in exile, he was attacked by the Arians and
strangled with his pallium. This was in the year 351. In the time of the Emperor Theodosius, in 381, his relics
were translated to Constantinople, and, in 1236, to Venice, where they still lie.* His beloved priests and
secretaries, Marcian and Martyrius, suffered soon after their Patriarch, on October 25, 355. *A small piece of
their relics is kept at the Russian Cathedral in London.
Our Holy Father Varlaam of Chutinsk, the Wonderworker. Born and brought up a Christian in Novgorod
the Great, he became a monk on the death of his parents and devoted himself to strict asceticism. He founded
a monastery on the bank of the Volkhov river, on a site shown to him by a heavenly light. He was a great
wonderworker both during his lifetime and after his death, being able to penetrate human secrets, to drive out
unclean spirits and to heal all sicknesses. A servant of Prince Vasilii Vasilievitch was taken seriously ill, and he
asked to be carried to the grave of St. Varlaam, and further asked that, if he should die on the way, they should
take his dead body to the Saint. And so it came to pass: he died on the road, and they brought him dead into the
monastery, where he was restored to life, stood up and prostrated himself before the tomb of the Saint. In 1471,
Tsar Ivan the Terrible gave orders that the Saint's grave be dug up. As soon as they had begun to uncover it,
a flame sprang from the grave and blazed along the walls of the church. The Tsar was so terrified that he fled
from the church and, in his haste, forgot his staff, which is kept to this day beside the Saint's tomb.
In commemoration of this wonder, St. Varlaam is also remembered on the Friday after the Sunday of All Saints.
Commemoration of the falling of ash from the air. This occurred in Constantinople in 472 (or 475, according
to the Greek Synaxarion), during the reign of the Emperor Leo the Great and Patriarch Gennadius.
The Holy Archangel Michael and all the Bodiless Powers of Heaven (11/8). The Angels of God have been
commemorated by men from the earliest times, but this commemoration often degenerates into the divinization
of angels (2 Kings 23:5). Heretics always wove fantasies round the angels. Some of them saw the angels
as gods and others, if they did not so regard them, took them to be the creators of the whole visible world.
The local Council in Laodicea, that was held in the 4th century, rejected in its 35th Canon the worship of angels
as gods, and established the proper veneration of them. In the time of Pope Sylvester of Rome and the
Alexandrian Patriarch Alexander, in the 4th century, this Feast of the Archangel Michael and the other heavenly
powers was instituted, to be celebrated in November. Why in November? Because November is the 9 th month
after March, and it is thought that the world was created in the month of March. The 9 th month after March
was chosen because of the nine orders of angels that were the first created beings. St. Dionysius the Areopagite,
a disciple of the Apostle Paul (that Apostle who was caught up to the 3 rd heaven), writes of these nine orders in
his book: 'Celestial Hierarchies'. These orders are as follows: Six-winged Seraphim, many-eyed Cherubim,
Godly Thrones, Dominions, Virtues, Powers, Principalities, Archangels and Angels. The leader of the whole
angelic army is the Archangel Michael. When Satan, Lucifer, fell away from God, and carried half the angels
with him to destruction, then Michael arose and cried to the unfallen angels: 'Let us give heed! Let us stand
aright; let us stand with fear!', and the whole angelic army sang aloud: 'Holy, holy, holy Lord God of Sabaoth;
heaven and earth are full of Thy glory!' (See on the Archangel Michael: Joshua 5:13-15 and Jude v.9). Among
the angels there rules a perfect unity of mind, of soul and of love; of total obedience of the lesser powers to the
greater and of all to the holy will of God. Each nation has its guardian angel, as does each individual Christian.
We must keep in mind that, whatever we do, o or in secret, we do in the presence of our guardian angel and that,
on the Day of Judgement, a great multitude of the holy angels of heaven will be gathered around the Throne
of Christ, and the thoughts, words and deeds of every man will be laid bare before them. May God have mercy
on us and save us by the prayers of the holy Archangel Michael and all the bodiless powers of heaven. Amen.