Christ has Ascended!
From earth to heaven!

Today: 8:00 am Matins; 9:30 am Liturgy; Pot-Luck; Watershed Stewards Hike & Exploration from St. Nicholas to the Willamette River

Tuesday: 6:00 pm Vespers

Thursday: 6:00 pm Vespers

Saturday: 6:00 pm Pentecost Vigil & Panikhida

Sunday: 8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy, Kneeling Prayers & BBQ

Looking Ahead:
June 13: IOCC Training Workshop

June 25: “Naming the Child” presentation by Jenny Schroedel
June 27: The Five–Year Plan Forum #1

July 6 – 11: Iconography Workshop with Heather MacKean
July 10 – 11: Teen Hike to Mt. Hood

The Sunday of the Blind Man (John 9:1-38)

Christ is Risen!

Today: Matins, Liturgy, Picnic

Monday:  7:00 pm Discussion of For the Life of the World by Fr. Alexander Schmemann

Tuesday:  6:00 pm Vespers

Wednesday:  6:00 pm Vespers & Litia (Ascension)

Thursday:  6:00 am Divine Liturgy; 6:00 pm Vespers

Saturday:  6:00 pm Vespers

Sunday:  8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy; Pot Luck Brunch (sign-up on Candle Desk); Watershed Stewards Hike for Church School Families

Looking Ahead:
Sunday, June 7: Pentecost BBQ
Saturday, June 26: 5-Year Plan Forum #1

You will notice a special summertime sign-up on the white board in the hall.  Rather than the usual “Works of the People” schedule, we are asking you to sign up on the board for the various tasks this summer.  If you find you cannot follow-through with something you have signed-up for, it will be your own responsibility to find a substitute / replacement.  Please note that lunches will be only every other week.  On the alternate weeks we will be holding coffee hour and light (but healthy) refreshments.  Pot-lucks will be suspended until further notice.  Please call to mind The Little Red Hen…

Thanks to all who have worked behind the scenes this past week to beautify our grounds and church interior.  God loves cheerful givers and the parish community is grateful to you.  Blessings.

The Sunday of The Samaritan Woman (St. Fatima / Photini / Fiona / Clare / Svetlana) John 4:5-42

Christ is Risen!

Today: Matins, Divine Liturgy, Classes, Brunch

Monday: 7:15 pm Discussion of Patriarch Bartholomew’s writings

Tuesday:  6:00 pm Vespers

Thursday:  6:00 pm Vespers

Friday – Saturday: Parish Council Retreat

Saturday: 6:00 pm Vespers

Sunday:  8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Liturgy; Classes; Akathist for the Departed; Picnic

Indeed He is Risen!

Sunday of the Paralytic (John 5:1-15)

Monday: 7:15 pm Discussion of M. Webber: Bread and Water, Wine and Oil, pp. 9-28 & 29-50.
Tuesday:  6:00 pm Vespers
Wednesday:  6:00 am Mid-Pentecost Divine Liturgy
Thursday:  6:00 pm Vespers
Saturday:  6:00 pm Vespers
Sunday:  8:30 am Matins, 9:30 am Divine Liturgy, Classes, Brunch

Christ is Risen!
Indeed He is Risen!

Ua ala Hou ‘O Kristo!
Ua ala ‘i ‘o no ‘oia!

Kriost Ergim!
Ergim!

From the Jerusalem Catechesis by St. Cyril (+386)
Let no one imagine that baptism consists only in the forgiveness of sins and in the grace of adoption. Our baptism is not like the baptism of John, which conferred only the forgiveness of sins. We know perfectly well that baptism, besides washing away our sins and bringing us the gift of the Holy Spirit, is a symbol of the sufferings of Christ. This is why Paul exclaims: Do you not know that when we were baptised into Christ Jesus we were, by that very action, sharing in his death? By baptism we went with him into the tomb.

This is something amazing and unheard of! It was not we who actually died, were buried and rose again. We only did these things symbolically, but we have been saved in actual fact. It is Christ who was crucified, who was buried and who rose again, and all this has been attributed to us. We share in his sufferings symbolically and gain salvation in reality. What boundless love for men! Christ’s undefiled hands were pierced by the nails; he suffered the pain. I experience no pain, no anguish, yet by the share that I have in his sufferings he freely grants me salvation.

Christ is Risen!
Indeed He is Risen!

Christos a inviat!
A de verat a inviat!

Ua ala Hou ‘O Kristo!
Ua ala ‘i ‘o no ‘oia!

Al Maseekh qam!
Hakan’ qam!

Tuesday:  6:00 pm Vespers & Quietude
Thursday:  6:00 pm Vespers
Saturday:  6:00 pm Vespers & May Panikhida
Sunday:  8:45 am Baptism; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy, Classes & Brunch

From Metropolitan Anthony Bloom:
St. Joseph of Arimathea was a rich man who listened to Christ with an open mind and did not commit himself. Neither did Nicodemus; but Nicodemus was a learned man, part of the Sanhedrin. He had been listening to Christ, he had been asking questions from Him, he wanted to understand, he wanted to be sure. But neither of them had committed themselves to follow Christ, to declare themselves as His disciples.

And yet, when Christ in the eyes of everyone was defeated, when victory had come to His enemies, when He was dead, about to be buried, their faithfulness to Him who had taught them words of life came to the fore. And they joined the Mother of God to bring down the body of Christ and to bury him. Daringly they went to Pontius Pilate and asked for this body so that they could bury Him with veneration. In the course of His life they had been listening to Him with a hesitant yet open mind. When death came their faithfulness sprang to the fore. And seeing the pain of the Mother of God and St. John the apostle there was no doubt left in them; they must declare themselves, because they could not accept that He should be rejected through defeat after having been their teacher, their guide and their friend….