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Virginity is foreign to mothers; childbearing is strange for virgins.

But in you, O Theotokos, both were accomplished.

Therefore all we nations of the earth unceasingly magnify you.

Today: 8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy & Brunch

Tuesday: 6:00 pm Vespers

Wednesday: 6:00 pm Vespers & Litia

Thursday: 6:00 am Divine Liturgy (Nativity of the Theotokos); 6:00 pm Vespers

Saturday: 6:00 pm Vespers & Unction

Sunday: 8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy & Brunch

Looking Ahead:

The Sole Support for Parkinson’s Walk will be held Sunday, September 25.  For more information, see www.solesupport.org/

St. Moses of Skete, martyr

Today: 8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy & Benefit Salmon BBQ

Tuesday: 6:00 pm Vespers

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

Saturday: 6:00 pm Vespers & Panikhida

Sunday: 8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy & Brunch

Looking Ahead:

The Sole Support for Parkinson’s Walk will be held Sunday, September 25.  For more information, see www.solesupport.org/

Today we will be having a special fund-raising benefit luncheon to assist in the costs of repairing and renewing the exterior of the church.  When you place your lunch donation in the basket, we ask you to consider what it would cost in a restaurant to order a BBQ salmon entreé with salad, side dish, libation and dessert, and also remember that this is a fund-raising event.

Today: 8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy; Picnic

Tuesday: 6:00 pm Vespers

Thursday: 6:00 pm Vespers

Saturday: 6:00 pm Vespers

Sunday: 8:30 am Matins; 9:30 pm Divine Liturgy & Salmon BBQ Lunch (fund-raiser for church building repairs)

O Daughter of David, Virgin full of grace, Mother surpassing in beauty and faithfulness!  Gethsemane’s soil was made fruitful by receiving your body.  O Second Eden!  The cosmos itself was blessed by your passing into the world to come.  Therefore, let there be no funeral dirges.  Instead, let us sing your praises, as did the disciples.  Let us lift our voices in song and dance as did Miriam and Judith, celebrating with garlands of praise and with olive wreaths of integrity.  Like Queen Esther, intercede for your devoted people.  Keep us always faithful to our loving Jesus, so that when we are embraced by the earth, we, too, may be taken into Life by the One Who dwelt in your ever-virgin womb. (Ikos of the Feast, Rite of New Skete)

In giving birth you preserved your virginity; in falling asleep, you did not forsake the world, O Theotokos…

Today: 8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy, Blessing of Flowers & Fragrant Herbage; Lenten Brunch; 6:00 pm Readers’ Vespers for Dormition

Tuesday: 6:00 pm Vespers

Thursday: 6:00 pm Vespers

Saturday: 6:00 pm Vespers

Sunday, 8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy & Picnic in Mulino

Transfiguration of Christ — St. Catherine Monastery, Mt. Sinai

You were transfigured on the mountain, O Christ God, revealing your glory to your disciples as far as they could bear it so that when they saw you crucified they would know that your suffering was voluntary…

Today: 8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy, Lenten Brunch & Christian Education Forum for the whole parish community

Tuesday: 6:00 pm Vespers

Thursday: 6:00 pm Readers’ Vespers

Saturday: 6:00 pm Vespers

Sunday, 8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy & Blessing of Flowers & Fragrant Herbage; 6:00 pm Readers’ Vespers (Dormition)

The Transfiguration of Christ (symbolic representation) – Ravena, 6th century

Today: 8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy & Pot Luck Brunch; Blood Pressure Screening; St. Elizabeth Committee Presentation on Health and Wellness & Walk to Marshal Park

Tuesday: 6:00 pm Vespers

Thursday: 6:00 pm Vespers

Friday: 6:00 pm Transfiguration Vespers & Litia

Saturday: 9:30 am Transfiguration Divine Liturgy & Blessing of Fruit; 6:00 pm Vespers & Panikhida

Sunday: 8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy; Brunch; Christian Education Forum for the whole parish

Today: 8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy & Brunch; St. Elizabeth Committee Presentation on Health and Wellness

Tuesday: 6:00 pm Vespers

Thursday: 6:00 pm Vespers

Friday & Saturday: Parish Council Retreat

Saturday: 10:00 am to 1:00 pm Work Party: weeding and tidying-up the grounds; 6:00 pm Vespers

Sunday: 8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy & Coffee Hour; St. Elizabeth Committee Presentation on Health and Wellness; 4:00 pm Wedding

July 31: St. Elizabeth Committee sponsored Walk to Marshal Park

“But the saints of the most High shall take the Kingdom and possess the Kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever” Daniel 7:18

Abased and oppressed in the kingdoms of the world, the saints will reign eternally in the Kingdom of Heaven. The last on earth, they will rejoice as the first in heaven.

Hungry, thirsty, barefoot and naked in the transitory kingdoms, they will be like king’s sons, satisfied and clothed in royal raiment in the enduring Kingdom. Strangers in the kingdoms of decay, they will be lords in their Kingdom, the Kingdom of Incorruption.

This is the final Kingdom; in truth, the only kingdom that can be called a kingdom. All others are transitory, temporary schools of deceit and vanity. For the Eternal Kingdom, the saints were recruited on earth from the citizens of all earthly kingdoms through the ages. They are the sons and daughters of Christ the Savior, the children of the Living God. They are those who have passed from this life to the other life and who now reign. But all the splendor and all the majesty of their reign has not yet been revealed. This will be displayed after the Second Coming of Christ, the Judge of the living and the dead. Then will all the splendor and all the majesty of the Kingdom of the saints be shown.

This is the Eternal Kingdom of Christ our God. Of this Kingdom there will be neither change nor end for ever, even for ever and ever.

O Lord Jesus, the Builder of the Kingdom of the saints, have mercy on us sinners and prepare us for the Eternal Kingdom of Thy saints. To Thee be glory and praise forever. Amen.

- St. Nikolai Velimirovich

Today:  8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy & Brunch

Tuesday:  6:00 pm Vespers

Thursday:  6:00 p Vespers

Saturday:  6:00 pm Vespers

Sunday:  8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy & Brunch

Please note that the Iveron Theotokos Myrrh Streaming Icon will be at St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Orthodox Church today at 2:30 and at Annunciation Orthodox Church this evening at 5:30.

Looking Ahead:

July 17 & 24: St. Elizabeth Ministry Presentations / Health and Wholeness Information

Saturday, July 23: Work Party (grounds and church)

July 31 — St. Elizabeth sponsored Walk (or drive) to Marshal Park

Did you know that Timothy Ware wrote The Orthodox Church when he was 28 years old?  Check this out — Bishop Kallistos interview:

/www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2011/july/fullnesscenter.html

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St. Nikolai Velimirovich:

You work wonders through created things, O Lord, while men have lost the gift of wonder working.

To wood and metal You give Your power; through earth and grass You bestow mercy on Your chosen ones, while people make themselves too impure to be channels of mercy.

Through fabric and paper Your might shines, while human carnality dominates the spirit.

The relics of the saints proclaim Your name and Your presence, while the tongue of people has been struck dumb by disbelief.

You have filled lifeless objects with fire, so that they may shine. When Your image in the human soul vanishes, You give power and might to Your image in wood.

Those, who in the end will weep bitterly, laugh and say: “How can lifeless objects work wonders, which even we cannot work?”

Indeed, the Logical Lord is always ready to do good to men through men.  But when people become impure, and become bereft of logic and holiness, the All-Merciful rushes to help them through inanimate objects.

O All-Merciful and Long-suffering Lord, do not leave the world without channels of Your might and mercy.

from Prayers By the Lake

Ss. Protus &Hyacinth, martyrs

Today: 8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy & Pot-Luck

Tuesday: 6:00 pm Vespers

Thursday: 6:00 pm Vespers

Friday: 6:00 pm Myrophores Iveron Icon of the Theotokos visitation www.orthodoxhawaii.org/icons.html

Saturday: 6:00 pm Vespers & Unction

Looking Ahead:

July 17 & 24: St. Elizabeth Ministry Presentations / Health and Wholeness Information

July 31 — St. Elizabeth sponsored Walk (or drive) to Marshal Park

July 31 — Walk or drive to Marshal Park

Saint Hyacinthus, a native of Caesarea in Cappadocia, was raised in a Christian family. The emperor Trajan made the boy his chamberlain, unaware that he was a Christian.

One day, while the emperor and his entourage were offering sacrifice to idols, Hyacinthus remained at the palace, shut himself up in a small room, and prayed fervently to the Lord Jesus. One of the servants overheard him praying and denounced him to the emperor. He said that although Hyacinthus was entrusted with an imperial position, he did not honor the Roman gods, and was secretly praying to Christ.

Hyacinthus was brought to trial before Trajan, who tried to persuade him to deny Christ and sacrifice to idols, but he remained steadfast and declared that he was a Christian. He was whipped and thrown into prison, where the only food given to him was what had already been offered to the idols. They hoped that he would be overcome with hunger and thirst and eat it. Hyacinthus did not eat the food, and he died after thirty-eight days. When they came to torture him again, they found his dead body.

The twelve-year-old Hyacinthus suffered for Christ in the year 108 in the city of Rome. Later, the saint’s relics were transferred to Caesarea.

All Saints of North America (Gomartly)

Today: 8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy & Pot Luck; Parish Council

Tuesday: 6:00 pm Vesperal Divine Liturgy (Ss. Peter & Paul)

Thursday: 6:00 pm Vespers

Saturday: 6:00 pm Vespers & Panikhida; 7:00pm New City Initiaitive Workshop & Pot Luck

Sunday: 8:30 am Matins; 9:30 am Divine Liturgy & Pot Luck

The Sunday following All Saints Sunday (i.e., the second Sunday after Pentecost) is set aside as a commemoration of all locally venerated saints, such as All Saints of America. The third Sunday after Pentecost may be observed for even more localized saints, such as “All Saints of Alaska.”

Lord I Call for the Feast (5)

Rejoice, O Continent of North America

Illumined by the Holy Gospel!

Rejoice every province, state, city and town

Which raised up citizens of the Heavenly Kingdom

Rejoice our venerable Father Herman, first saint of our Land.

Rejoice, O Martyrs Juvenal and your companion and guide;

Saints John, Alexander, Basil and Peter the Aleut,

For your blood has watered the seed of Faith planted throughout the world.

Rejoice, O holy hierarchs Innocent, Tikhon, Nikolai, John, Barnabas  and Raphael!

Rejoice O righteous Fathers Alexis and Jacob with holy Mother Olga!

Rejoice All Saints of North America,

For your Light has shone forth to the ends of the Earth.//

We beseech you to pray to Christ our God that our souls may be saved.