(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
Sunday of the Samaritan Woman
Epistle: Acts
The Holy Bread for Eucharist is offered by Laura Graham.
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 -
Holy Mystery of Matrimony for Caitlyn Manning &
Monday
-
First Hour,
Tuesday - Third Hour,
- Men’s Lunch,
- Catechumen/Inquirers Class,
- Choir,
Wednesday - Third
Hour,
- Vespers,
- Children’s reading time immediately following
Vespers
- Wednesday
Teaching,
Thursday - Third Hour,
- AWSJ
Women’s Teaching,
Friday - First Hour,
- Third Hour,
- Stay & Play, downstairs in parish hall
- Sixth Hour,
- AWSJ First Friday Brown Bag Lunch, following Sixth
Hour
Saturday - Divine Liturgy for
- Ninth Hour and Great Vespers,
Sunday -
-
Divine Liturgy,
Divine
Liturgy for the Feast of
PRIEST: Fr.
John HOMILY: Fr. John
DEACONS: Dns.
James & Tim READER: Matt Spinolo
HOLY BREAD: Fran Tylavsky ALTAR SERVERS: Any available
POTLUCK COFFEE HOUR: Ethan & Claire van Drimmelen, Matt &
Lynda Spinolo
Divine Liturgy Sunday, May 9,
PRIEST: Fr. John HOMILY: Fr. John
DEACONS: Dns. James
& Tim READER: Matt Spinolo
HOLY BREAD: Meribeth
Harvey USHER: John
Sneed
ALTAR SERVERS: Ethan, J.
Morgan, Luke L., Deon, Pavel
COFFEE HOUR: Charlie
& Meribeth Harvey, Caleb McGee
WELCOME TEAM: Clifford
McWhorter and David Twombly
*Fasting Note: With the blessing of the Synod of Antioch, a
katalysis for fish, wine and oil is granted for all Wednesdays and Fridays of
the Pentecostarion (the period between Pascha and Pentecost).
COMMEMORATIONS
May 2: Athanasios the Great,
patriarch of
May 3: Martyrs Timothy the Reader and his wife Maura of
Egypt; Peter, archbishop of
May 4: Venerable-martyr Palagia of
Tarsus; Athanasios, bishop of
May 5: Great-martyr Irene of Thessalonika;
Venerable Euthymios,
bishop of Maditos in
May 6: Righteous Job the long-suffering; Venerable Seraphim
of Mount Domvu; translation of the relics of Sabbas, first archbishop of
May 7: The commemoration of the apparition of the sign of
the Cross over Jerusalem (351 AD); Martyr Akakios the
centurion at Byzantium; Venerable Kodratos; Venerable
Neilos the myrrh-streaming of the Great Lavra on Athos; Venerable Neilos
of Sora; Venerable-martyr Pachomios
of Athos; repose of Venerable John of Beverly; Priest Alexis, confessor and
defender of Orthodoxy in America.
May 8: Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian; Venerable
Arsenios the Great.
May 9: Prophet Isaiah; Martyr Christopher of Lycia;
Venerable-martyr Nicholas; translation to
DAILY SCRIPTURE
Sunday Acts
Monday Acts
Tuesday Acts
Wednesday Acts
Thursday Acts
Friday Acts 15:5-34 John
Saturday Acts
Sunday Acts
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Pray for our catechumens: In
Please remember in your prayers: His Eminence, Metropolitan PHILIP, His Grace, Bishop
ANTOUN, Dn. Sidney & Sh. Mary Elliott and family, Buddy Taylor, Margaret
Layman, Chris Hodges, Judy Smith (Julie Sanderlin’s
mother), Shirley Gore (
Catechumen/Inquirers class will meet on Tuesday,
Choir will practice Tuesday at 7:00 p.m.
Secret
Sisters - There was not enough
interest this time to do a round of secret sisters. We are saving the
forms that were turned in and will check again at the end of the summer.
Annunciation
Greek Festival – May 7th
& 8th rain or shine at Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church on
Lost & Found – We still have a significant number of dishes, baskets, and umbrellas
along with other items left at the church on and under the tables in the parish
hall. With the church’s growth, we have
limited storage space, so please claim your items as soon as possible.
Updated Directories – Updated church directories (not the pictorials) are
now available in the parish hall. Be
sure to pick one up. Please remember
that these are for personal use only.
Future Icons in the church - Several have asked about approved subjects for the
remaining icons to be added in the church.
There is a list available in the parish hall containing the individual
saints already present in the iconography in the church, as well as those which
are “approved” or under consideration.
Please
remember the St. John Food Pantry! Your
donations are always appreciated by those in need. Currently we have the following needs:
Snacks Canned Meat
Fruit Boxed Meals
Soup Peanut Butter
Upcoming special
services:
May
May
May
May 23 - PENTECOST, regular service times for Sunday
- Potluck to Liturgy during Coffee Hour
- Vespers
for the Kneeling prayers of Pentecost that evening
May 30 -
*NOTE:
The APOSTLES
Teen Group Events
Today
May 2 - NO
Teen Group
NEXT WEEK
May 9 - Game Night,
Upcoming
Weddings
Caitlyn Manning &
Parish Life Conference in
June 16-20
There is registration
information on the Parish Life Conference (
Next year our parish is hosting the conference. We will need
most of our parishioners to be involved in some way to adequately host our
diocesan gathering. Attending this
year’s conference is a great way to get prepared to assist for next year. Consider attending!
Prolife Cornerff
A
veteran researcher into post-abortion trauma, David Reardon, writes that some
abortionists readily admit feelings of guilt.
“I do feel you’re an abnormal person if you could really honestly say
that abortion didn’t bother you at all,” said one abortionist he
interviewed. “It goes against all things
which are natural. It’s a termination of
life, however you look at it.” ~LifeDate, Lutherans for Life newsletter, Spring, 1998
Worship
& Liturgical Reminders
Appropriate dress in the temple
With the approach of summer,
there is always a temptation to “dress down.”
We are called to enter the
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Today is the
movable feast of St. Photini. Her feast days are the fourth Sunday after Pascha
and February 26. She is the patron of
several parishioners and is known to all of us as the woman to whom Christ
asked water at Jacob’s well. She is commemorated with her two sons, five
sisters, St. Sebastian, and Domnina, the daughter of
Nero. When St. Photini learned that her sons and Sebastian had been arrested by
Nero, she and her sisters journeyed to
Pelagia of Tarsus (5/4) was the daughter of
well-known pagans. Nevertheless, she
leaned of Christ and vowed to remain faithful to him and preserve her
virginity. The heir of Diocletian desired to marry her but she rebuffed his
advances. She made a secret journey to
Bishop Linus to receive baptism by dressing in fine
apparel then changing into simple garb and distributing her jewels to her the
poor on the way home. She told her servants about her new Lord and upon hearing
of this, her suitor realized she was lost to him and took his own life in
despair. When she told her mother about her baptism, she tied her up and
delivered her to the emperor and denounced her as a
Thursday we
remember Job (5/6). As we learned on
Holy Friday, he was a fifth generation descendent of Abraham. He is an icon to
us of faith and patience in the face of grief, poverty, rejection and bodily
suffering. The Book of Job is considered a masterpiece of world literature, and
we rejoice in his story because he is a picture of Christ. He is remembered at
Pascha as the later verses of the Book record that he will “rise
again with those whom the Lord resurrects.”
Antiochian Women of
Women’s
Teaching
Thursday, May 6h,
Join us May 7thfor
lunch following Sixth Hour prayers
Upcoming
Book Club Titles
May 10th,
We will be discussing The
Help by Kathryn Stockett
KROGER
AND SCHNUCK’S CARDS
SCHNUCKS
Simply register your existing
Schnucks grocery card online or over the phone. If you do not currently have a Schnucks card, they are available free of charge in the
office (see Trish).
Group Name:
Group ID: 500024054
Go to: www.escrip.com and follow the directions
or
Call 1-800-931-6258
*
KROGER
The Kroger program works
differently than the Schnucks program. You will need to purchase a $5 Gift Card from Trish in the office. You would then take the card to Customer
Service at any Kroger store and have them load the desired amount (up to $500)
onto your card. You may reload it as
often as you like! You would then use
your card to pay for your groceries, prescriptions or gas.
Remember our
"Friends in Need"
Diocesan Activity
Our
local and diocesan Antiochian women maintain a list
of those who cannot participate fully in the life of their parish, or who have
a serious illness, and would be encouraged by receiving periodic cards and
letters from us. This year, we're expanding participation in this program to
include our entire parish of
Nicholas
has a real talent for calligraphy and uses it to provide hand-made pieces of
encouragement to those whom he writes.
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From
the Fathers
“We have put the light burden on
one side, that is to say, self-accusation, and we have loaded ourselves with a
heavy one, that is to say, self-justification.” ~Abba John the Dwarf
“Let us strive to enter by the
narrow gate. Just as the trees, if they
have not stood before the winter's storms cannot bear fruit, so it is with us;
this present age is a storm and it is only through many trials and temptations
that we can obtain an inheritance in the kingdom of heaven.”
~Amma Theodora
“You cannot destroy the passions
on your own, but ask God, and He will destroy them, if this is profitable for
you.”
~St. Anatoly of Optina
“A seed will not grow without
earth and water; and a man will not develop without voluntary suffering and
divine help.”
~St. Kosmas Aitolos
“Whether you pray with
brethren or alone, try to pray not simply as a routine, but with conscious
awareness of your prayer. Conscious awareness of prayer is concentration
accompanied by reverence, compunction and distress of soul as it confesses its
sin with inward sorrow.”
~Evagrius Ponticus