10th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST – Tone 1

Monk-Martyr Eutychius (1^st cent.)

Monk-Martyr Cosmas the Aetolian (1779)

Matins: St. John 21:1-14

Divine Liturgy:

1 Cor. 4: 9-16; St. Matthew 17:14-23

THIS WEEK:

Wednesday - 6:00 p.m. Daily Vespers, followed by Class

NIKO DIACOU has finished his work with AmeriCorps here and will return to his home in New York next weekend to investigate career opportunities and continue his training in fencing. Today his last Sunday here. He has been a good member the last two years and a joy to have with us. We will give him a blessing after Liturgy and honor him at Coffee Hour today.

STEWPOT - We will be serving at the Stewpot with St. Peter's on Saturday, August 30th. Servers should be there around 11:15 a.m. Please come to the parking lot on the side of the building that faces east. If it is full, you may park on the street or in the big lot between the church (Stewpot) and the Masonic Lodge. You can walk to the side entrance from there. Casseroles must be cooked and, if possible, still warm. If you are baking a casserole and not serving, you may drop it off at Stewpot or send it with a server. Sam Leonard has a list of all cooks and servers. Thanks to everyone who volunteered for this important ministry.

CHURCH SCHOOL will begin September 7.

SS. MARY AND MARTHA WOMEN'S GROUP will meet at 12:00 on September 6th, at Biaggi's in Ridgeland for lunch and our first meeting of the year.

WHO IS CHRIST? will be the subject of three talks by Fr. Paul on September 10, 17, and 24 at 7 p.m. These will be advertised to the public and will inaugurate a new series of classes on Orthodoxy. Please begin to invite people you know who may have some interest. Titles will be The Messiah of Israel on September 10, The Son of the Living God on September 17, and The One Risen from the Dead on September 24. A flyer is attached.

DAVID DIETRICH leaves for Antiochian Village in Pennsylvania this morning for a week of classes in the St. Stephen's Diploma Program. This completes his second year of a three year course. Check the bulletin board to see a photo of David with the faculty and staff last year.

SPECIAL DAYS:

Aug. 26, Micah and Amanda Helmintoller, Anniversary, 2007

Aug. 27, Anesia McNeely, Repose, 1989

PLEASE PRAY FOR – Nada Rustom, Anita McLeod, at home; Nathan Kennedy, River Oaks Hospital; Esther Thompson, mother of former member Bill Thompson, Forest; Charles and Vivian Haddad; Fr. Matthew Jackson; Rick Chaffin (Cora’s son), Korea; Martha Wood (Norman’s mother); Aidan Milnor (Fr. John Henderson’s grandson); Ben Bast (Debbie Abraham’s father); Military: David Romine, Atlanta; Sara Sims, Afghanistan (civilian medic); Adam Lewis, Bahrain; Sam Boyd, Virginia.

REFRESHMENTS SCHEDULE:

8/24 Lawson, Chaffin, Dietrich A/J, Lewis M, Lipking, McLeod, Pittman, Prewitt, Rials, Slater, Young

8/31 Long, Haddad M, Haddad V, Kalil, Khalaf, Lewis S, Marble, Rohrig, Rustom I/R, Rustom H

9/7 Ainsworth, Caldecott, Cano, Clark, Hancock, Hegwood, Helmintoller, Stein

9/14 (FAST DAY) Kennedy, Dietrich J/M, Freels, Hunsinger, Leonard, Mahecha, Paukku, Robinson, Rukhlina, Varner, Wilbourn, Wood

LOOKING AHEAD:

August 30 – Stewpot Ministry

September 6 – Women’s Group Lunch

September 7 – Church School begins

September 8 – Nativity of the Theotokos

September 14 – Elevation of the Holy Cross (fast day)

November 15 – Nativity Fast begins

WORDS OF ST. COSMAS THE AETOLIAN:

WOMAN - My Christian, you must love your wife as your companion, not consider her as your slave, for she is a creature of God, just as you are. God was crucified for her as much as for you. You call God Father, she calls Him Father, too. Both of you have the same Faith, the same Baptism, the same Book of the Gospels, the same Holy Communion, the same Paradise to enjoy. God does not regard her as inferior to you.

LOVE - If you wish to be saved, seek no other thing here in this world as much as love. .. I have a loaf of bread to eat; you do not have. Love tells me: Do not eat it alone, give some to your brethren and you eat the rest. ... I open my mouth to accuse you, to tell you lies, to deceive you; but at once I remember love and it deadens my mouth, and does not allow me to tell you lies. I stretch out my hands to take what belongs to you, your money, all your possessions. Love does not allow me to take them. Do you see, my brethren, what gifts love has?

Those of you who earn your bread by means of your toil and sweat should rejoice, because that bread is blessed; and if you give a little of it as alms it is reckoned as much. But those who live by means of injustice and grasping should mourn, for what you thus acquire is cursed; and if you give alms out of these they do not benefit you at all, being fire that consumes you.

The Martyrs won Paradise through their blood; the Ascetics, through their ascetic life. Now you, my brethren, who have children, how will you win Paradise? By means of hospitality, by giving to your brothers who are poor, blind, or lame.

REGULAR SERVICES

Saturdays–Women’s Bible Class 4:30 p.m., Vespers 5:30 p.m.

Sundays – Matins (Orthros) 8:30 a.m.

Divine Liturgy 9:30 a.m.

Wednesday – Vespers 6:00 p.m., followed by Class

Bookstore open after services.