Today:  Matins, Divine Liturgy, Classes, Pot-Luck Brunch, Parish Council, Bible Study

Tuesday:  6:00 pm Vespers, Quietude; 7:10 pm Theology Class (Christology)

Wednesday:  6:00 pm Presanctified & Confessions

Thursday:  6:00 pm Vespers & Confessions

Friday:  6:00 pm Presanctified & Confessions

Saturday:  6:00 pm Vespers

Sunday:  8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy, Classes, Brunch, Bible Study

Our Lenten Discipline —

• There are many extra divine services each week until Pascha.

• There are 10 more evenings where Confession is scheduled.  Confession can also be by appointment.

• Our Lenten almsgiving will focus on Gulf Coast II — helping to send a Portland team to assist the IOCC in New Orleans.

• Monthly participation at the St. Francis Dining Hall (3^rd Sunday).

• Mark your calendars for the parish-wide Work Party on Lazarus, Saturday, March 27, following Divine Liturgy.

Plan to take advantage of these as part of your Lenten discipline and spirituality.

Pysanki —

Here’s your invitation to “write” those colourfully decorated Ukrainian Easter Eggs – common to most all Slavic Peoples.  See fliers in the Hall for details.

as the Apostles taught,

as the Church has received,

as the Teachers express in dogma,

as the inhabited world understands together with them,

as grace illumines,

as the truth makes clear,

as error has been banished,

as wisdom makes bold to declare,

as Christ has assured,

so we think,

so we speak,

so we preach,

honoring Christ our true God, and his Saints,

in words, in writings, in thoughts, in sacrifices, in churches, in icons, worshipping and revering the One as God and Lord,

and honoring them because of their common Lord as those who are close to him and serve him, and making to them relative veneration.

This is the faith of the Apostles; this is the faith of the Fathers; this is the faith of the Orthodox; this faith makes fast the inhabited world.

Today: 8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy, Classes, Lenten Brunch; Friday Fellowship Bible Study; 3:00 pm St. Francis Dining Hall

Tuesday:  6:00 pm Vespers & Quietude; 7:00 Dogmatic Theology Class

Wednesday:  6:00 pm Presanctified at St. John the Baptist

Thursday:  6:00pm Vespers, Confessions; 7:00 pm Choir

Friday:  6:00 pm Presanctified & Confessions

Saturday, 2/27:  9:30 am – 1:00 pm Lenten Quiet Day of Prayer and Reflection hosted by the Fellowship of New Skete; 5:00 pm Inquirers’ Class; 6:00 pm Vespers & Confessions

Sunday:  8:30 am Matins, 9:30 am Liturgy, Classes, Pot-Luck Brunch; Friday Fellowship Bible Study; Parish Council Meeting

• There are many extra divine services each week until Pascha.

• There are 13 more evenings where Confession is scheduled.  Confession can also be by appointment.

• Our Lenten almsgiving will focus on Gulf Coast II — helping to send a Portland team to assist the IOCC in New Orleans.

• Lenten Quiet Day of Prayer and Meditation on Saturday, February 27.

• Monthly participation at the St. Francis Dining Hall (3^rd Sunday).

• Mark your calendars for the parish-wide Work Party on Lazarus, Saturday, March 27, following Divine Liturgy.

Plan to take advantage of these as part of your Lenten discipline and spirituality.

Pysanki —

Here’s your invitation to “write” those colourfully decorated Ukrainian Easter Eggs – common to most all Slavic Peoples.  See fliers in the Hall for details.

By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion. On the willows there we hung up our lyres. For there our captors required of us songs, and our tormentors, mirth, saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!” How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a foreign land? If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither! Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy! Remember, O LORD, against the E’domites the day of Jerusalem, how they said, “Rase it, rase it! Down to its foundations!” O daughter of Babylon, you devastator! Happy shall he be who requites you with what you have done to us! Happy shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!

The Great Prokeimenon  (from Psalm 69)

Turn not Your face away from Your child, for I am afflicted/ hear me speedily, draw near unto my soul, and deliver it!

v: Let Your salvation, O God, uphold me!

v: Let the poor see and be glad!

v: Seek God, and your soul shall live!

Today:  Matins, Divine Liturgy, Enrollment into the Catechumenate, Rite of Forgiveness, Brunch

Monday:  7:00 pm Canon of St. Andrew of Crete

Tuesday:  6:00 pm Vespers & Quietude

Wednesday:  6:00 pm Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts & Confessions

Thursday:  6:00 pm Canon of St. Andrew of Crete

Friday:  6:00 pm Liturgy of the Presanctified & Confessions

Saturday:  5:00 pm Catechumen Class; 6:00 pm Vespers & Confessions

Sunday:  8:30 m Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy, Brunch & Bible Study (i.e., Friday Fellowship morphed) (Pan-Orthodox Liturgy & Procession at Holy Trinity at 10:00 am)

Looking Ahead:

Saturday, 2/27:  9:30 am – 1:00 pm Lenten Quiet Day of Prayer and Reflection hosted by the Fellowship of New Skete

Please note that Great Lent begins tomorrow.  There are many extra divine services each week until Pascha.  There are 15 evenings where Confession is scheduled.  Confession can also be by appointment.  Additionally, our Lenten almsgiving will focus on Gulf Coast II — helping to send a Portland team to assist the IOCC in New Orleans.  As stated above, we’ll also be holding a Lenten Quiet Day of Prayer and Meditation on Saturday, February 27.  Don’t forget our monthly participation at the St. Francis Dining Hall (3^rd Sunday).  And finally, mark your calendars for the parish-wide Work Party on Lazarus, Saturday, March 27, following Divine Liturgy.  Plan to take advantage of these as part of your Lenten discipline and spirituality.

Pysanki —

Here’s your invitation to “write” those colourfully decorated Ukrainian Easter Eggs – common to most all Slavic Peoples.  See fliers in the Hall for details.

A Psalm of Exile (Ps. 137) for the Pre-Lenten Sundays:

By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept,

when we remembered Zion.

On the willows there we hung up our lyres.

For there our captors required of us songs,

and our tormentors, mirth, saying,

“Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

How shall we sing the LORD’s song

in a foreign land?

If I forget you, O Jerusalem,

let my right hand wither!

Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth,

if I do not remember you,

if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy!

Remember, O LORD, against the E’domites

the day of Jerusalem,

how they said, “Rase it, rase it!

Down to its foundations!”

O daughter of Babylon, you devastator!

Happy shall he be who requites you

with what you have done to us!

Happy shall he be who takes your little ones

and dashes them against the rock!

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Today:  Matins, Divine Liturgy, Classes, Brunch

Tuesday:  6:00 pm Vespers & Quietude 7:10 pm Theology Class “The Creation”

Thursday:  6:00 pm Vespers; 7:00 pm Choir

Saturday:  House Blessings 5:00 pm Inquirers’ Class; 6:00 pm Vespers

Sunday:  8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy, Enrollment into the Catechumenate, Rite of Forgiveness, Brunch; House Blessings conclude

Looking Ahead:

Please note that Great Lent begins Monday the 15th.  There are many extra divine services each week until Pascha.  There are 15 evenings where Confession is scheduled.  Confession can also be by appointment.  Additionally, our Lenten almsgiving will focus on Gulf Coast II — helping to send a Portland team to assist the IOCC in New Orleans.  We’ll also be holding a Lenten Quiet Day of Prayer and Meditation on Saturday, February 27.  Don’t forget our monthly participation at the St. Francis Dining Hall (3^rd Sunday).  And finally, mark your calendars for the parish-wide Work Party on Lazarus, Saturday, March 27, following Divine Liturgy.  Plan to take advantage of these as part of your Lenten discipline and spirituality.

Triodion Hymns of Repentance (sung at Sunday Matins through the 5th Sunday of Lent):

Open the gates of repentance to me, O Giver of Life, for my spirit rises early in the morning to your holy temple, bearing a temple of the body all defiled. But as you are full of pity, cleanse it by your compassionate mercy.

Guide me to paths of salvation, Mother of God, for I have befouled my soul with shameful sins and have squandered all my life in sloth. By your intercessions deliver me from all uncleanness.

Have mercy on me, O God, in accordance with your great mercy. According to the multitude of your compassion blot out my offences.

As I ponder the multitudes of dreadful things that I have done, wretch that I am, I tremble for the fearful day of judgment. But confident in your merciful compassion, like David I cry to you, ‘Have mercy upon me, O God, in accordance with your great mercy.’

Today: Matins, Liturgy, Annual Parish Meeting, Pot-Luck Brunch; Church School Meeting; IOCC Metro Committee; House Blessings

Tuesday:  6:00 pm Festal Divine Liturgy (Purification of the Theotokos / Meeting of the Lord); 7:15 pm DTP Dogmatic Theology Class

Thursday:  6:00 pm Vespers; 7:00 pm Choir

Saturday:  House Blessings; 5:00 pm Inquirers’ Class; 6:00 pm Vespers & Panikhida

Sunday:  8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy, Classes & Brunch; House Blessings

There is a general dispensation from fasting throughout the coming week.

Triodion Hymns of Repentance (sung at Sunday Matins through the 5th Sunday of Lent):

Open the gates of repentance to me, O Giver of Life, for my spirit rises early in the morning to your holy temple, bearing a temple of the body all defiled. But as you are full of pity, cleanse it by your compassionate mercy.

Guide me to paths of salvation, Mother of God, for I have befouled my soul with shameful sins and have squandered all my life in sloth. By your intercessions deliver me from all uncleanness.

Have mercy on me, O God, in accordance with your great mercy. According to the multitude of your compassion blot out my offences.

As I ponder the multitudes of dreadful things that I have done, wretch that I am, I tremble for the fearful day of judgment. But confident in your merciful compassion, like David I cry to you, ‘Have mercy upon me, O God, in accordance with your great mercy.’

Today:  Matins, Liturgy, Classes, Brunch; House Blessings

Monday:  7:15 pm Church History Class (18th – 21st centuries)

Tuesday:  6:00 pm Vespers & Quietude

Thursday:  6:00 pm Vespers; 7:00 pm Choir

Friday:  7:00 pm IOCC Benefit Concert @ HTC

Saturday:  5:00 pm Inquirers’ Class; 6:00 pm Vespers

Sunday:  8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Liturgy; Annual Parish Meeting; Pot-Luck Brunch; House Blessings

Friday, January 29 @ 7:00 pm: IOCC Benefit Concert & Reception at Holy Trinity GOC

Info: iocc.portland@gmail.com

Pre-purchase tickets: www.iocc.org/portland

(Tickets are also being sold in the parish hall every Sunday during Brunch.)

Sunday, January 31:  Annual Parish Meeting — Agenda: Roll, Minutes from last year; Reports, Election of the Parish Council Class of 2013; Old Business; New Business; Adjournment

Additionally, Paschalis Papouris from the IOCC will be with us at St. Nicholas that day.  He’ll be speaking in lieu of the homily.

Monday:  7:15 pm Church History (17th – 19th centuries)

Tuesday:  6:00 pm Vespers & Quietude

Thursday:  6:00 pm Vespers; 7:00 Choir

Saturday:  House Blessings; 5:00 pm Inquirers’ Class; 6:00 pm Vespers

Sunday: 8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Liturgy, Classes, Brunch; House Blessings

Friday, January 29 @ 7:00 pm: IOCC Benefit Concert & Reception at Holy Trinity GOC.  Info: iocc.portland@gmail.com Pre-purchase tickets: www.iocc.org/portland (Tickets are also being sold in the parish hall every Sunday during Brunch.)

Sunday, January 31:  Annual Parish Meeting — Agenda: Roll, Minutes from last year; Reports, Election of the Parish Council Class of 2013; Old Business; New Business; Adjournment

Note: there is a Pot-luck scheduled for the week after next: Sunday the 31st.

Monday:  7:15 pm Church History Class

Tuesday:  6:00 pm Vespers & Quietude

Thursday:  6:00 pm Vespers; 7:00 pm Choir

Saturday:  House Blessings; 5:00 pm Inquirers’ Class; 6:00 pm Vespers

Sunday:  8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy; Classes; Brunch; Parish Council Meeting; House Blessings

Friday, January 29 @ 7:00 pm: IOCC Benefit Concert & Reception at Holy Trinity.  Info: iocc.portland@gmail.com — Pre-purchase tickets: www.iocc.org/portland (Tickets are also being sold in the parish hall every Sunday during Brunch.)

Sunday, January 31:  Annual Parish Meeting — Agenda: Roll, Minutes from last year; Reports, Election of the Parish Council Class of 2013; Old Business; New Business; Adjournment

Please turn in all HUGS and IOCC Offering Boxes this week.  We would like to get these donations to the beneficiaries in a timely manner.

Liturgical Calendars for 2010 are available following Liturgy today.  Offering Envelopes for 2010 are available in the Hall.  If you picked your calendar up last Sunday, please do not take a second calendar until all families have at least one.  Thanks.

Tuesday:  6:00 pm Vesperal Divine Liturgy & Blessing of Waters (Twelfth Night / Theophany)

Wednesday:  6:00 am Divine Liturgy

Thursday:  6:00 pm Vespers; 7:00 pm Choir

Saturday:  5:00 pm Inquirers’ Class; 6:00 pm Vespers

Sunday:  8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy; Classes, Mt. Athos Pilgrimage Presentation; Brunch

House Blessing Sign-up is on the white board in the parish hall.

Any IOCC boxes and HUGS that you have yet to bring to church will be gladly received.  We would like to close these projects down by Theophany.  Thanks.

Should the weather ever be threatening-enough to warrant a cancellation of divine services or events at church, please check this website for the latest announcements.

Christ is born, glorify him!
Christ from heaven, go out to meet him!
Christ on earth, be exalted!
Sing to the Lord all the whole earth!

And that I may join both in one word, let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad, for him who is of heaven and then of earth.

Christ in the flesh, rejoice with trembling and with joy; with trembling because of your sins, with joy because of your hope.

Christ of a Virgin; matrons live as virgins, that you may be mothers of Christ.

Who does not worship Him who is from the beginning?
Who does not glorify Him who is the last?

(The introduction to St. Gregory the Theologian’s 38th Theological Oration on The Winter Pascha, ca., A.D. 380 — This text is the basis of the Canon at Matins for the Feast of the Nativity of Christ.)
www.orthodoxa.org/GB/orthodoxy/patrology/gregoiredenazianzenoelGB.htm

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Ua hanau ‘ia ‘o Kristo!
E ho’onani ia Ia!

12/24: Nativity Eve — 4:00 pm Vesperal Divine Liturgy; 11:30 pm Nativity Vigil

12/25: Nativity — 12:00 am (midnight) Festal Divine Liturgy & Carols

12/26: Synaxis of the Theotokos — 6:00 pm Vespers

12/27: Sunday of the Righteous Joseph the Betrothed, King David & James the Brother of the Lord — 8:30 am Matins; 9:30 Divine Liturgy & Pot-Luck Brunch

12/29 (Tuesday): Holy Innocents — 6:00 pm Vespers

12/31 (Thursday): Leave-Taking of The Nativity — 6:00 pm Vespers & Molieben for the New Year

1/2 (Saturday): Pre-Feast of the Theophany — Vespers & Panikhida

1/3 (Sunday): Pre-Feast of the Theophany; Prophet Malachi; St. Genevieve — 8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy; Brunch