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274-4119
www.stjohnmemphis.org
V.
Rev.
Pastor
Assistant Pastor
V. Rev. Fr. Basil Cushman Rev. Fr. Donald Berge
Associate
Pastor Attached
GREAT
VESPERS ORTHROS and
Saturday, 6:00 p.m. Sunday, 9:00 a.m. Sunday,
10:00 a.m.
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of
“…the
Disciples were called Christians first in
Commemoration of the Great Martyr Demetrios
Epistle: II Timothy 2:1-10 Gospel: Luke
8:27-39
The Holy Bread for Eucharist is offered this morning by
Welcome
to all those visiting St. John Orthodox Church.
We are honored by your presence.
It is our sincere desire that your participation today in the Divine
Liturgy will draw you closer to Christ and His Church.
If you are from a non-Orthodox background you may
see new things such as icons, incense, the sign of the
cross, the veneration of saints, and a great deal of standing. These can be perplexing to the uninitiated
eye. Rest assured that everything we do
has a solid biblical foundation and a long history among Christian people. Please feel free to participate where you
feel comfortable, and feel equally as free only to observe when you prefer.
The Orthodox Church understands the Eucharist, or
Lord’s Supper, to be – among other things – the paramount expression of
Sunday - Teen Group – Corn Maze & Bible Bowl
-
Young Adult Group, at Fr. John & Kh. Pamela’s home,
Monday - First
Hour, 6:45 a.m.
Tuesday - Third Hour, 9:00 a.m.
- Men’s Lunch,
-
Choir Practice,
-
Catechumen/Inquirer’s Class,
Wednesday - Third
Hour, 9:00 a.m.
-
Vespers,
-
Wednesday Dinner,
-
Wednesday Teaching,
Thursday - Third
Hour, 9:00 a.m.
- OCF will meet at
Memphis Pizza Cafe,
Friday - First Hour, 6:45 a.m.
- Third Hour,
- Stay & Play Group will meet in the
fellowship hall after third hour.
- Sixth Hour,
- Great Vespers for St. Raphael,
Finger
Food Potluck to follow
Saturday - Divine Liturgy for St. Raphael, 9:00
a.m.
Breakfast
Coffee Hour to follow
- Ninth Hour and Great Vespers,
Sunday -
- Orthros,
- Divine Liturgy,
Divine Liturgy for St. Raphael Saturday, November 1st, 9:00
a.m.
PRIEST: Fr.
John HOMILY: Fr. John
DEACONS: Dns.
Tim & James READER: Subdeacon
HOLY BREAD:
COFFEE HOUR: Kh. Jeanette Meyers & Kh.
Schedule
for Divine Liturgy Sunday, November 2nd
PRIEST: Fr.
Basil HOMILY: Fr. Basil
DEACONS: Dns.Charles
& James READER: Billy Scrantom
HOLY BREAD: Sue &
ALTAR SERVERS: Ethan, J. Morgan, Luke L., Benji
COFFEE HOUR: John &
COMMEMORATIONS
Oct. 26: Great-martyr Demetrios the
myrrh-streaming of Thessalonika; Venerable-martyr Joasaph of Dionysiou monastery on
Athos.
Oct. 27: Martyr Nestor of Thessalonika;
Procla the wife of Pontius Pilate; Kyriakos, patriarch of Constantinople; Venerable Nestor the
Chronicler of the
Oct. 28: Martyrs Terence and Neonilla
and their children; Athanasios I, patriarch of Constantinople;
New-martyrs Angelis, Manuael, George and Nicholas of
Crete; Venerable Stephen of Mar Sabbas monastery in
Oct. 29: Venerable-martyr Anastasia the Roman; Venerable
Abraham and his niece Mary of Mesopotamia; New-hieromartyr
Athanasios of Sparta; Venerable-martyr Timothy of Esphigmenou monastery on Athos; Abraham, bishop of Rostov.
Oct. 30: Martyrs Zenobios, bishop
of Aegae, and his sister Zenobia
in Cilicia; Apostles Cleopas and Artemas
of the Seventy; Venerable Joseph and Kyriakos,
patriarchs of Constantinople; Therapont and John the
wonder-workers; Milutin, Serbian king.
Oct. 31: Apostles Stachios, Apellos, Amplias, Urban, Aristoboulos and Narcissos of the
Seventy; Martyr Epimachos of Alexandria; New-martyr
Nicholas of Chios.
Nov. 1: The holy
wonder-working unmercenaries Cosmas
and Damian of Mesopotamia and their mother Theodota;
Venerable-martyr James and his disciples James the deacon and Dionysios of Prodromou Skete on Athos; Venerable David.
Nov. 2: Martyrs Akindinos, Pegasios, Aphthonios, Elpidophoros and Anempodistos of
**For reading material on the
saints for this week, visit the display in the church library.
DAILY
SCRIPTURE
Sunday II Corinthians
Monday Philippians 2:12-16 Luke 10:22-24
Tuesday Philippians 2:17-23 Luke 11:1-10
Wednesday Philippians 2:24-30 Luke 11:9-13
Thursday Philippians 3:1-8 Luke 11:14-23
Friday Philippians 3:8-19 Luke 11:23-26
Saturday II Corinthians 1:8-11 Luke 8:16-21
Sunday Galatians 1:11-19 Luke 16:19-31
Pray for our catechumens: In
Please remember in your
prayers: His
- ALMS-GIVING -
FOOD PANTRY -
Please remember that we give items from the food pantry to a few specific
families all year long and this is a wonderful way to give alms all throughout
the year. We will continue to keep a bin
just outside the parish hall for collection of these items.
OTHER CONTINUING ALMS-GIVING OPPORTUNITIES
Diocese of
Michael Bittle Fund – Holy Trinity
Orthodox Church –
Wednesday nights –This Wednesday night, October 29 our schedule will
change. The revised schedule for
Wednesdays will be as follows:
Vespers
Dinner
Teaching
The teaching time
will be limited to no more than 45 minutes, so we plan to be finished at
Antiochian Women of St. John’s Calendar
Upcoming Book Club Dates ~ Monday, November 3rd
– The Bishop’s Mantle
Upcoming Bridal Shower for Gigi Snowden ~ Sunday, November 9th
Women’s Teaching ~ Upcoming Dates:
November 13 ~ December 4
Mark Your Calendars! ~ Saturday, November 22nd at 8:00 a.m.
The women have purposed to meet quarterly to
pray an Akathist. This last quarter of the year we will meet on November 22nd
at
Coffee hour – Since we initiated our “Small changes in Coffee Hour” as I termed them, we have had many comments, mostly
negative. To that end, we are putting
together another revision which we hope will better match the desires and needs
of our parishioners. Thanks to everyone
who offered your thoughts. If you have
additional thoughts or suggestions, please feel free to forward them to
me. Obviously it is impossible to please
everyone completely, but we hope to structure coffee hour to best facilitate
hospitality for our visitors and fellowship for our parishioners.
OCF –
Orthodox
Will meet at the Memphis Pizza Cafe at
Any questions contact Ethan vanDrimmelen
Mark
your calendars – Fr. Michael Dahulich, Dean of St. Tikhon Seminary, is scheduled to be with us for the Divine
Liturgy next JUNE –
WELCOME
TEAM – Next
meeting date - November 10th at
LIBRARY
LINES – This week we honor two sets of sibling saints. As often occurs in our Tradition they were
offspring of pious parents.
St. Zenobios
(10/30) lived during the reign of the emperor Diocletian, a great persecutor of
Sts. Cosmos and Damian
(11/1) belong to a group of saints known as the Holy Unmercenaries,
pious physicians known for their powers of healing. These powers could truly be called gifts
because they vowed never to charged anyone they cured.
Actually there were about twelve men given this designation; among them three
brothers named Cosmos and Damian and two named Cyrus and John. All of the Church’s hymns to these men praise
them with words that speak to us, “Freely ye have received, freely
give.”
Once, St. Damian healed a
seriously ill woman. In gratitude, she offered him a gift in the name of the
Father, Son and Holy Spirit. He did not refuse her in honor of the
Trinity. When St. Cosmos, from his
deathbed, heard that his brother had accepted a gift, he thought St. Damian had
accepted a payment and said that he should not be buried beside him. Shortly
afterward, St. Damian died. Before his
burial, a camel, which the saints had healed, miraculously spoke and declared
that St. Damian had received the woman’s gift in respect for the Trinity. Their
relics are buried together in
See the icons and stories
of these devoted siblings in St. John Library.
NEW
ADDITIONS TO
(Some are new titles;
others are duplicates.)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Brothers
Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The
Children’s
Bible Reader by the Greek Bible Society
Daily Life at
the Time of Jesus by Miriam Vamosh
The Forgotten
Medicine, the Mystery of Repentance
by Arch. Aleksiev
Ordained For
Men in the Things of God (about
Metropolitan Phillip)
Joseph Allen, ed.
The Synaxarion July-August & The Synaxarion Appendix
and General Index
These are on the
display cart below the commemoration books.
GOOD LIBRARY
MANNERS: Please do not put library books, tapes, CDs
or DVDs back on the shelves. This applies to ones you have looked at and decided
not to check out as well as returned items. Recently several new, music CDs
have been placed on the wrong shelves and other parishioners have been unable
to find them. Unwanted and returned items need to be placed on the second shelf
of the circulation cart.
Mark your calendars!
Sunday, November 9th after coffee hour
The Women of
are invited
to a
Bridal Shower
for Gigi
Snowden
at the home
of Fran Tylavsky
Gigi & Chase are registered at Bed, Bath & Beyond
If you are interested in participating in the group gift,
please
contact Shanna
Massouh at 262-6781 or shanna_snowden@yahoo.com
Personal and Home Security
The
following are “Good Practices” as distributed in Evergreen
Historic District Association’s weekly email:
· Program
545-COPS (545-2677) into your cell phone.
·
Look up and down the alleys every day as you walk, bike or drive by - immediately
report suspicious activity to the police.
·
Don’t leave intriguing items visible in your car. Stow it, don't show it!
·
Lock your doors when you are in your yard.
·
Discourage walk-up workers by never hiring them – Hire folks recommended by
your neighbors.
·
Use porch and other outdoor lights at night. Lights on motion detectors can
help with security AND save energy.
· Don’t
look like a victim. Keep your head up, be alert, make
eye contact.
·
Close blinds where possible so would-be burglars can’t see potential loot.
·
Report street lights that are not working properly- http://www.mlgw.com/SubView.php?key=res_streetlight
Teen Group Events
TODAY,
October 26th – Corn Maze & Bible Bowl
Next
Sunday, November 2nd – Meeting with Middlers
Bulletin Boards –
Remember to check the bulletin boards!!
PLEDGE CARDS – I
will start working on the budget for next year this Tuesday morning. If you
have not already turned-in your pledge cards, please do so before then. There are pledge cards available on the counter in the church
office as well as an envelope to put them in once completed. Thank you. -
Pro-life
Corner - While visiting my mother at Manhattan Nursing
and
As
Father Basil and I visited with Mom and the sitter on Saturday afternoon,
looking at photographs of our three adopted children, the sitter told us her
"story." She has two children, ages 16 and 17. When she was pregnant
with her 17-year-old, she almost had an abortion. She didn't think she could
raise a child in her personal and financial situation. But somehow "God
spoke to her" and she chose to have the baby. And when she became pregnant
shortly thereafter, again she chose to give birth and to keep her second
child.
Sixteen
years later she is working, putting herself through school, and thanking God
for the blessing that her two children are in her life. She didn't mention a
husband or father as part of the picture, and I didn't ask. I was just caught
up in her joy. In her faith. In her
love for life. In her peace. She seemed to
communicate all of these things to my mother in her care for her. Love, peace, joy. The name of the company she works for is
"Comfort Keepers." They seem to hire people who put a high value on
life, whether it's an elderly woman with Alzheimer's or an unborn child in the
womb. Both equally helpless and dependent upon the kindness
of others.
Thank
God for Comfort Keepers, and especially for this young woman who continues to
make good choices in her life.
Kh.
Susan Cushman,
Apartment for Rent - At the beginning of November, the first-level apartment
in the duplex next door will be available for rent. It has two bedrooms, an
office and one bathroom. If you are interested or have any questions, please
contact the church office.
“Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is
holding back to give us that chance. It
won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.”
C.S. Lewis
THE FOOD PANTRY
IS IN NEED OF RESTOCKING
We have lots of soup,
canned pasta and green beans. We need canned items such as meat, vegetables,
fruit and juice, crackers in sleeves, toilet paper (in individual rolls or
small packages).
This year we'll be
assembling Thanksgiving and Christmas baskets for a small group of individuals
and families in need. As in prior years, we'll post a list of the needed items
on the AWOSJ bulletin board so you can sign up for what you and your family
would like to contribute. If the slots fill fast for Thanksgiving, remember
that you'll have an opportunity to give for the Christmas baskets. The AWOSJ
will meet on Saturday, November 22nd from
Special services for St. Raphael – Remember, we will pray vespers
for the saint this Friday
night at 6:00 p.m. with a finger food potluck to follow.
Saturday we will
celebrate the Divine Liturgy for the saint at 9:00 a.m.
Sue Brownlow will also be
chrismated prior to the liturgy.