ST.
JOHN
ORTHODOX CHURCH
1663 TUTWILER AVENUE
(901)
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,
Antiochian Orthodox
“…the
Disciples were called
Acts 11:26
Sunday of the Pharisee and the Publican
Epistle: II Timothy 3:10-15 Gospel: Luke 18:10-14
The Holy Bread for Eucharist is offered this morning by Kh. Pamela
Mashburn.
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
The Orthodox Church understands the Eucharist, or
Lord’s Supper, to be – among other things – the paramount expression of
Sunday - Teen Group – Bible Bowl practice,
Monday - First Hour,
Tuesday -
Third Hour,
- Men’s
Lunch,
-
Catechumen/Inquirers Class,
Wednesday - Third Hour,
- Vespers,
- Story time for the children is
directly following Vespers
- Wednesday dinner,
- Wednesday teaching
Thursday -
Third Hour,
Friday -
Third Hour,
- Paraklesis,
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Teen Group Deanery Youth Retreat
Saturday - Ninth Hour and Great Vespers,
Sunday - Orthros,
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- Divine
Liturgy,
Divine
Liturgy Sunday, January 31, 10:00 a.m.
PRIEST: Fr.
John HOMILY: Fr. John
DEACONS: Dns. James & Charles READER:
HOLY BREAD: Ellie Moore USHER:
ALTAR SERVERS: Caleb, Luke S., Alex, Jake, Joe
COFFEE HOUR: Mickey &
WELCOME TEAM:
- ALMS-GIVING –
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Diocese of
Michael Bittle Fund – Holy Trinity Orthodox Church –
COMMEMORATIONS
January 24: Hieromartyr Babylas of Sicily;
Venerable Xenia the merciful of Rome; Venerable Philonos,
bishop of Karpason; Venerable Neophytos
the recluse of Cyprus; Venerable Dionysios of Olympos, abbot of Philotheou
monastery on Athos; Hieromartyr Felician,
bishop of Folingo in Umbria, Italy; Blessed Xenia of
St. Petersburg, fool-for-Christ.
January 25: Gregory the
Theologian, archbishop of
January 26: Venerable
Xenophon, his wife, Mary, and their two sons, Arkadios
and John, of
January 27: The translation of the relics of John Chrysostom; Marciana the empress; New-martyr Demetrios
of Constantinople; Venerable Clement.
January 28: Venerable Ephraim the Syrian; Venerable Palladios of Antioch; Martyr Charita;
Venerable Theodosios of Totma;
Isaac the Syrian, bishop of Ninevah.
January 29: The translation
of the relics of Ignatios the God-bearer of
January 30: The three great
hierarchs and ecumenical teachers, Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and
John Chrysostom; Hieromartyr Hippolytos,
pope of Rome; Virgin-martyr Chrissa of Rome;
New-martyr Theodore of Mitylene; Julian, priest of
Aegina.
January 31: Unmercenaries Cyros and John; Martyrs Athanasia
of Egypt and her daughters Theodota, Theoktiste and Eudoxia; Martyr Papias of Corinth; New-martyr Elias; Nikita of the Kiev
Caves, bishop of Novgorod.
DAILY
SCRIPTURE
Sunday 2 Timothy
Monday 2
Peter 1:20-2:9 John 10:9-16
Tuesday 2 Peter 2:9-22 Mark
Wednesday 2
Peter 3:1-18 Mark 13:24-31
Thursday 1 John 1:8-2:6 Mark
Friday 1 John 2:7-17 Mark 14:3-9
Saturday 2 Timothy 3:1-9 Luke
Sunday 1
Corinthians
Pray for our catechumens: In
Please remember in your prayers: His Eminence, Metropolitan PHILIP, His Grace, Bishop
ANTOUN, Buddy Taylor, Margaret Layman, Chris Hodges, Judy Smith (Julie Sanderlin’s mother), Shirley Gore (
Teen Group
Events
TODAY, January 24 – Bible Bowl Practice
Next week, January 29 – 31 Deanery Youth Retreat,
At John W. Kyle State Park in
Catechumen/Inquirers class will meet Tuesday,
Annual
THANKS BE TO GOD! – Sue Ingram
had another
Wednesday Dinners - As we get back into the swing of things after the holidays, please
remember to sign up for Wednesday dinners.
We are in the process of trying to find some new meals to offer and it
is a great help to Trish to have as accurate a headcount as possible before
placing the catering order. If you are not able to sign the list in the parish
hall, please leave a phone message in the office (274-4119) or email her at tratliff@stjohnmemphis.org by Tuesday morning. That being said, last minute guests are
always welcome. Come share a meal with us!
**This week: Lasagna, Stuffed Shells, Salad, Garlic
Bread**
Great Lent approaches – Great Lent begins on February 15. It will be here before we know it! Today,
Remember –
The opening service of Great Lent is Forgiveness Vespers on the evening of
February 14, which is followed by the Rite of Forgiveness. Begin today to prepare yourselves for that
very important and powerful service which begins our annual school of
repentance.
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Aid to
Last Tuesday, I sent an email
commending IOCC (http://www.iocc.org/) as a well run
pan-Orthodox organization which has proved to be very effective in crisis
situations all over the world. Should
you wish to donate money for
Beyond
handling monetary donations, the IOCC has issued a call for hygiene/health kits, to be distributed
in
The
IOCC notes that such hygiene/health kits help prevent continued suffering and
death by buffering the spread of disease. As one priest notes, the earthquake
did its damage, but resulting sickness and disease could exact even more. This is another way the parishioners of
These are the IOCC required items to be
included in each hygiene kit:
1
hand towel 1 washcloth
1
comb 1 metal nail file or
nail clipper
1
toothbrush (NO TOOTHPASTE) 6
Band-Aids
1 bar
of soap (bath size, new and wrapped in original packaging)
These items are easy for any
parishioner to obtain, as they can be purchased at any grocery or convenience
store.
If you are interested in
participating, drop off any of these items you can at the church. We will have a container to receive
them. Several of our young people have volunteered to
assemble and ship them. If you would
like to cover the cost of shipping them, you can simply donate money for that
purpose.
Antiochian Women of
Sweets & Cheesy Treats Bake
Cheese Fare Sunday, February 7 during Coffee
Hour
Women’s Book Club
Monday, February 8,
We will be reading The Glass Castle by
Jeannette Walls.
Women’s Teaching
Thursday, February 11,
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Many times saints capture our
attention simply because of their unusual names.
Today we honor two Xenias
(1/24). Blessed Xenia of St. Petersburg
was widowed in her mid twenties. She was
considered a fool for Christ, partially because she dressed like her
husband and asked to be called by his name. She gave her inheritance away and
roamed the poor sections of the city.
She spent her nights praying in a field outside of town and brought
bricks to a new church being built near the
St. Xenia of
Tuesday we commemorate St.
Xenophon and his wife and sons (1/26).
They were fifth century, pious parents who sent their children to
Several times a day
throughout Lent we repeat the prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian (1/28). He was a contemporary of St. Basil the Great
who wanted to ordain him to the priesthood. He refused, considering him self
unworthy. In his youth he had a
reputation for fighting because of his quick temper. He turned his life around
and went to live with the hermits, becoming a disciple of St. James of Nisibis. This saint saw promise in the young man and took
him with him to the First Ecumenical Council in 325. St. Ephraim was given the
gift of teaching. He became a strict ascetic and continually studied the
Scriptures. Besides his famous Lenten prayer, he wrote a commentary on the Penateuch and prayers to the Most Holy Trinity, the Son of
God and the Most Holy Theotokos. He also composed hymns for the Twelve Great
Feasts of the Lord and funeral hymns.
Handouts
for Great Lent
There are copies of a
number of handouts downstairs for your taking:
Comments on the
Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
The Lenten Prayer of
St. Ephrem the Syrian
Reflections on the
Akathist Hymn
The Sundays of Great
Lent
Daily Scriptural
Reading, entitled “Spiritual Calendar”
The prayer of
repentance used at Forgiveness Vespers
The schedule of
services for the Great Fast through Bright Week
“The Rules of Fasting”
- by Bp KALLISTOS
“The Four Canonical Fasting
Seasons” – by Bp BASIL
Fasting Guidelines –
Some nice comments on fasting
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FASTING IN THE SEASON OF THE TRIODION
While the hymnography of the Church reminds us of the primary
importance of keeping the spiritual aspect of the Great Fast, it
also counsels us to keep the physical aspect -- reducing
our consumption of food and drink and abstaining from
certain categories.
§
During the week following the Sunday of the Publican and
Pharisee there is katalysis for all
things, meaning that there is no fasting on any day of the week.
§
The week following the Sunday of the Prodigal Son we
observe the traditional fasting discipline (no meat, poultry, eggs,
cheese, milk or other dairy products, fish, wine and olive oil) on
Wednesday and Friday.
§
During the week following Judgment (or Meatfare)
Sunday we abstain from meat and poultry; note, however, that there is katalysis for eggs, cheese, milk and
other dairy products, fish, wine and oil on all days of that
week.
§
From the first day of the Great Fast, known as Pure
Monday, the day following Forgiveness (or Cheesefare)
Sunday, we observe the traditional fasting discipline (no meat,
poultry, eggs, cheese, milk or other dairy products, fish, wine and olive
oil) on weekdays through Great and Holy Friday, while on Saturdays
and Sundays there is katalysis
for wine and olive oil; EXCEPTIONS on Annunciation (March 25th) and
Palm Sunday there is katalysis for fish,
wine and oil; on Great and Holy Thursday there is katalysis
for wine and oil; on Great and Holy Saturday, if we eat anything at all, we
observe the traditional fasting discipline (no meat, poultry, eggs,
cheese, milk or other dairy products, fish, and olive oil) with katalysis for wine. We break the
Lenten Fast only following the Paschal Orthros and Divine Liturgy.
Note, also, that on the first day of the Great Fast, Pure Monday,
it is a good practice, and kept by many, to make that a day of abstinence. In keeping with ancient practices, some are
abstinent on more days of the first week, as well, as outlined in Metropolitan KALLISTOS’s article.
Be sure and seek counsel from one of the priests if you have any
questions.
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From
the Fathers
“We who have received baptism offer good works, not by
way of repayment, but to preserve the purity given to us.”
St. Macarius of Optina
“When
you cultivate prayer the Tempter's blustering will not trouble you. Prayer
diminishes his strength; he cannot do anything to us.”
Elder Amphilochios Makris
“The
eyes of pigs have a natural conformation which makes them turn toward the
ground and they can never look up to heaven, so is the soul of one who lets
himself be carried away by pleasure. Once the soul is allowed to slip into the
slough of enjoyment, she can no longer get out again.”
Wisdom of the Desert Fathers
“If
but ten among us lead a holy life, we shall kindle a fire which shall light up
the entire city.”
“Affliction
was allowed to make those afflicted more careful and more pious. What
rain is for seeds tears are for those who are afflicted . . .”