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Orthodox Word August 30, 2008

annunciationakron.org — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:06:36 +0400

I Corinthians 1:3-9; Matthew 19:3-12

Annunciation Church, Akron, OH

Orthodox Word August 29, 2008

annunciationakron.org — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:07:34 +0400

Acts 13:25-33; Mark 6:14-30

Annunciation Church, Akron, OH

Orthodox Word August 28, 2008

annunciationakron.org — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:07:33 +0400

II Corinthians 4:1-12; Matthew 24:13-28

Annunciation Church, Akron, OH

Sunday School News

stnicholasdc.org — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:00:00 +0400

For important and current information about the Cathedral's Sunday School program, please click on the "Sunday School" tab to the left (fall schedule, changes to class time, registration forms, contact info...).

Saint Nicholas Cathedral, Riggs Place, Washington, DC

Strategic Planning workshop

saintinnocent.org — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:00:00 +0400

The diocesan Parish Health Facilitator, Mr Joe Kormos, was invited to St Innocent's to lead a group of 18 parishioners in process to begin some strategic planning for our future. Considering the current status of the parish, where we would like to be in five years, and asking how we might get there, generated a lot of enthusiasm, discussion and ideas, which we will be reviewing and working up into a feasable plan in the weeks ahead.

Saint Innocent Orthodox Church, Cleveland

Orthodox Word August 25, 2008

annunciationakron.org — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:21:37 +0400

Titus 1:1-5; 2:15; 3:1-2, 12-15; Matthew 5:14-19

Annunciation Church, Akron, OH

Orthodox Word August 24, 2008

annunciationakron.org — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:23:06 +0400

I Corinthians 4:9-16; Matthew 17:14-23

Annunciation Church, Akron, OH

Orthodox Word August 23, 2008

annunciationakron.org — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:36:32 +0400

Philippians 2:5-11; Luke 10:38-42, 11:27-28

Annunciation Church, Akron, OH

Orthodox Word August 22, 2008

annunciationakron.org — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:22:53 +0400

II Corinthians 1:12-20; Matthew 22:23-33

Annunciation Church, Akron, OH

Orthodox Word August 21, 2008

annunciationakron.org — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:28:01 +0400

II Corinthians 1:1-7; Mark 3:13-21

Annunciation Church, Akron, OH

Orthodox Word August 20, 2008

annunciationakron.org — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:21:31 +0400

I Corinthians 16:4-12; Matthew 21:28-32

Annunciation Church, Akron, OH

Orthodox Word August 19, 2008

annunciationakron.org — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:07:54 +0400

I Corinthians 15:29-38; Matthew 21:23-27

Annunciation Church, Akron, OH

The Dormition of our Most Holy Lady the Mother of God

stgeorgeoftroy.com — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:09:05 +0400

The Dormition of our Most Holy Lady the Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary
Commemorated on August 15

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Concerning the Dormition of the Theotokos, this is what the Church has received from ancient times from the tradition of the Fathers. When the time drew nigh that our Savior was well-pleased to take His Mother to Himself, He declared unto her through an Angel that three days hence, He would translate her from this temporal life to eternity and bliss. On hearing this, she went up with haste to the Mount of Olives, where she prayed continuously. Giving thanks to God, she returned to her house and prepared whatever was necessary for her burial. While these things were taking place, clouds caught up the Apostles from the ends of the earth, where each one happened to be preaching, and brought them at once to the house of the Mother of God, who informed them of the cause of their sudden gathering. As a mother, she consoled them in their affliction as was meet, and then raised her hands to Heaven and prayed for the peace of the world. She blessed the Apostles, and, reclining upon her bed with seemliness, gave up her all-holy spirit into the hands of her Son and God.

With reverence and many lights, and chanting burial hymns, the Apostles took up that God-receiving body and brought it to the sepulchre, while the Angels from Heaven chanted with them, and sent forth her who is higher than the Cherubim. But one Jew, moved by malice, audaciously stretched forth his hand upon the bed and immediately received from divine judgment the wages of his audacity. Those daring hands were severed by an invisible blow. But when he repented and asked forgiveness, his hands were restored. When they had reached the place called Gethsemane, they buried there with honor the all-immaculate body of the Theotokos, which was the source of Life. But on the third day after the burial, when they were eating together, and raised up the artos (bread) in Jesus' Name, as was their custom, the Theotokos appeared in the air, saying "Rejoice" to them. From this they learned concerning the bodily translation of the Theotokos into the Heavens.

These things has the Church received from the traditions of the Fathers, who have composed many hymns out of reverence, to the glory of the Mother of our God.

To read more on this click here.

St. George Church, Troy, MI

Orthodox Word August 18, 2008

annunciationakron.org — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:37:25 +0400

I Corinthians 15:12-19; Matthew 21:18-22

Annunciation Church, Akron, OH

Orthodox Women in Healing Ministries

stnicholasdc.org — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:00:00 +0400

On Tuesday, September 30, OWHM will present Helen and Peter evans on "Bioethics: The Christian Perspective" For full details.

Saint Nicholas Cathedral. Riggs Place, Washington, DC

Sunday School Registration

stgeorgeoftroy.com — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:12:34 +0400

Sunday school starts September 7, 2008.
Click here to register!

St. George Church, Troy, MI

Orthodox Word August 14, 2008

annunciationakron.org — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:07:13 +0400

I Corinthians 14:6-19; Matthew 20:17-28

Annunciation Church, Akron, OH

Orthodox Word August 13, 2008

annunciationakron.org — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:34:49 +0400

I Corinthians 13:4-13; 14:1-5; Matthew 20:1-16

Annunciation Church, Akron, OH

Orthodox Word August 12, 2008

annunciationakron.org — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:06:38 +0400

I Corinthians 12:12-26; Matthew 18:18-22;19:1-2; 13-15

Annunciation Church, Akron, OH

Transfiguration of our Lord

stgeorgeoftroy.com — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:09:38 +0400

Description of Transfiguration of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

Our Lord had spoken to His disciples many times not only concerning His Passion, Cross, and Death, but also concerning the coming persecutions and afflictions that they themselves would endure. Since all these evils were near at hand, but the enjoyment of good things which they hoped to receive in their stead was yet to come, our Savior desired to give them full assurance, evidently and openly, concerning that glory which is prepared for those who endure to the end. Therefore, fulfilling that which He had promised shortly before, that "there be some standing here which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in His Kingdom" (Matt. 16:28), He took His three foremost disciples and ascended Mount Tabor, where He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became white as the light. Suddenly, together with this dread and marvelous effulgence of light, there appeared those pinnacles of the Prophets, Moses and Elias, who spoke with the Lord Jesus concerning His saving Passion which was about to take place. Standing before Him as reverent servants, they showed that He is the Lord of both the living and the dead, for Moses came forth from Hades, having died many centuries before, and Elias, as it were from heaven, whither he had been taken up while yet alive. After a little while a radiant cloud overshadowed them and out of the cloud they heard that same voice which had been heard at the Jordan at the Baptism of Christ, testifying to the Divinity of Jesus and saying: "This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well-pleased; hear ye Him" (Matt. 17: 5).

Such are the marvels, truly worthy of God, celebrated in this present feast, which is an image and prefiguring of the future state of the righteous, whose splendor the Lord spoke of, saying: "Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun" (Matt. 13:43). It is because of this that the Kontakion of this Feast is said daily (when there is not a great feast) in the Service of the Typica in perpetual commemoration of the glory that will be the lot of the Saints. According to tradition, the Lord's Transfiguration came to pass forty days before His Crucifixion; this is why the Transfiguration is celebrated forty days before the Exaltation of the Cross.

St. George Church, Troy, MI