Latest Church Bulletin
6/19/22
St. Catherine Orthodox Church
433 Liberty St.
Hagerstown, MD 21740
301-790-2616
www.saintcatherineorthodoxchurch.org
Schedule: Pastor:
Saturday, 6:30 PM—Vespers V. Rev. Dennis Buck
Sunday, 10 AM—Divine Liturgy 825 Harrington Rd.
11:30 AM—Church School Rockville, MD 20852 h) 301-424-7730; c) 202-209-4395 frdbuck@juno.com
Today is the 1st Sunday after Pentecost. All Saints. Tone 8. Today we also commemorate the Holy Apostle Jude, the Lord’s kinsman; St. Paisios the Great; and St. Job, Patriarch of Moscow.
TROPARIA, (T. 8)— Thou didst descend from on high, O Merciful One./ Thou didst accept the three-day burial to free us from our sufferings./ O Lord, our Life and Resurrection, glory to Thee!
(All Saints, T. 4)—As with fine porphyry and royal purple,/ Thy Church has been adorned with Thy martyrs’ blood shed throughout all the world./ She cries to Thee, O Christ God:/ “Send down Thy bounties on Thy people./ Grant peace to Thy habitation and great mercy to our souls.”
Glory… now and ever…
KONTAKION, (All Saints, T. 8)—The universe offers Thee the God-bearing martyrs/ as the first-fruits of creation, O Lord and Creator./ By their prayers, keep Thy Church in abiding peace,/ through the Theotokos, O most Merciful One!”
PROKEIMENON, (T. 8, Ps. 75)—Pray and make your vows before the Lord our God.
EPISTLE: Hebrews 11:33-12:2
ALLELUIA (T.4, Ps. 33)—The righteous cried and the Lord heard them and delivered them from all their troubles.
GOSPEL: Matthew 10:32-33, 37-38; 19:27-30
KOINONIKON, (Pss. 148 & 32)—Praise the Lord from the heavens. Praise Him in the highest. Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous. Praise befits the just. Alleluia!
Monday, 6/20—Martyr Methodios, Bishop of Patar. Martyr Inna, Pinna and Rimma, disciples of Apostle Andrew. St. Kallistos, Patriarch of Constantinople. St. Nicholas Cabasilas..
Rom. 2:28-3:18 Matt. 6:31-34; 7:9-11
Tuesday, 6/21—Martyr Julian of Tarsus. Martyr Terence, Bishop of Iconium.
Rom. 4:4-12 Matt. 7:15-21
Wednesday, 6/22—Martyr Eusebius, Bishop of Samosata. Martyr Nikitas, Bishop of Remesiana, the hymnographer.
Rom. 4:13-25 Matt. 7:21-23
Thursday, 6/23—Martyr Agrippina of Rome..
Rom, 5:10-16 Matt. 8:23-27
Friday, 6/24—Nativity of St. John the Baptist.
Vespers: from Gen. 17-19; from Judges 13; from Isaiah 40-54
Rom. 13:11-14:4 (St. John) Luke 1:1-25, 57-68, 76, 80
Rom. 5:17-6:2 Matt. 9:14-17
Saturday, 6/25—Martyr Febronia of Nisibis. Sts. Peter and Febronia of Murom.
Rom. 3:19-26 Matt. 7:1-8
Sunday, 6/26—2nd Sunday after Pentecost. . Tone 1. All Saints of North America, Russia and Mt. Athos.
Vespers:
Rom. 2:10-16 Matt. 4:18-23
Heb. 11:33-12:2 (Saints) Matt. 4:25-5:12
We welcome guests and visitors to St. Catherine’s today, and we thank God you are able to be with us! Please join us in the hall for refreshments and fellowship, and please sign the guest book on the candle stand in the rear of church before you leave—make sure to include your email address, so you may receive our calendar, newsletter and other news of the parish. We pray God brings you to us again soon and often.
The Apostles’ Fast begins tomorrow and extends to the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, June 29.
Included in the Augmented (i.e., “Triple”) Litany this Sunday are petitions for peace and an end to aggression in Ukraine. A message from Metropolitan Tikhon is available at www.oca.org.
Instruction class (pt. 2) will be held this Friday at 8 PM on the parish Facebook page: www.facebook.com/saintcatherineOCA . Next in person instruction class (pt. 1) is Saturday, June 25, at 4:30 PM until the beginning of Vespers. We also have received more of the catechetical materials which we offer freely to those seeking instruction in the Orthodox faith. We have The Faith We Hold by Archbishop Paul of Finland, good for reading even before formal instruction; Fr. Thomas Hopko’s The Orthodox Faith, v. 1, Doctrine, which is the main text of instruction classes; plus one copy of Liturgy and Life by Fr. Alexander Schmemann, which we are using Friday nights online. We will be restocking again soon for copies of Metropolitan Kallistos Ware’s The Orthodox Church and The Orthodox Way.
The baptism of Ellie McFarland will take place Sunday, July 3, beginning at 9:30 AM. We will go directly into Liturgy from the baptism.
Volunteers from throughout the diocese are needed to help with the All American Council of the Orthodox Church in America July 18-22 in Baltimore, especially with registration procedures. See Fr. Dennis if you can be of assistance. Thanks to those who have volunteered so far.
Communion is still being distributed via the “no contact” method. Take a paper towel when you approach to wipe off your mouth rather than doing so on the cloth. We will dispose of the paper towels properly.
There remains a number of Russian language books, icons, holy cards, etc. on a table in the hall. These have been donated by Olga Tolskaya-Talbot. We are also culling through the books in the parish library. Some are also on that table. Feel free to take any of these. A small donation will always be appreciated.
Blessed palms are still available in the hall on the same table as the above-mentioned books, to take home with you.
Many thanks to Mazikinses for church cleaning this week. Salcutans are up for next week. Thanks to Daria Reigler for prosphora for today. To get on the task rotations, contact Fr. Dennis.
We need to address coffee hour clean up more seriously. We are calling out again for volunteers to serve in rotation for this task. Last time, two families responded. We need more for this to work. If you would like to serve, contact Fr. Dennis or a parish council member and we will set you up. We’ll post the specific tasks that need to be addressed.
We call to your attention the statement of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, our diocesan bishop as well as the Primate of the Orthodox Church in America, concerning the shootings at the school in Uvalde, Texas, even as we also have mourned the shootings in Buffalo, NY. It is posted on the OCA’s website: www.oca.org, and posted on the bulletin board in the hallway. Please take his call for prayer and concern to heart—let us not lose sight of these as well as do what we can to spread Our Lord’s own message of love and mercy. We will add our prayers that God keep the victims in His eternal memory, and for comfort to those who have lost children, friends and family members.
Please remember in your prayers for the departed the mother of Jon Metcalf, Marjorie, who fell asleep in the Lord last week. Also keep in your prayers Metropolitan Hilarion of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, Archbishop Paul of Chicago; Protodeacon Sergius Miller of St. Matthew’s in Columbia; the father of Paul Koch, John; the brother of Natalia Terina, Nicholas, and her mother Albina; former parishioner Bob (Bogdan) Vunovich; Ann Anderson, Mike Castelgrande; Fr. Michael Koblosh,; Olga Tolskaya-Talbot’s father, Vladimir; those who have perished in war, persecution or terrorism in the Middle East, Ukraine, here, including victims of the recent shootings, and elsewhere; and from storms, flood, fire, earthquake and from disease here and elsewhere. May their memory be eternal!
Keep in your prayers for the living Vicki Hughes, suffering from breast cancer; the Lutai family, traveling in Romania; Presbytera Diane, recovering from a separated shoulder; the wife of Paul Koch, Karen, with heart trouble; a brother-in-law of Eva Koenig’s, Gregory, suffering from cancer; a little friend of Sophia Guendel, Finn, recovering from a brain infection; Sophia Klein, Lisa Thompson, Cyprian Lutai Sr., Gabriel Lutai, Leanne Kuehnle, Valentina Barbuta, Lydia, Larissa and Sophia Guendel, and those who suffer from war, persecution and terrorism in the Middle East, Ukraine, here and elsewhere, including those grieving over the recent shootings; and from storms, floods, fire, earthquake and disease here and elsewhere.
St. Catherine Orthodox Church
433 Liberty St.
Hagerstown, MD 21740
301-790-2616
www.saintcatherineorthodoxchurch.org
Schedule: Pastor:
Saturday, 6:30 PM—Vespers V. Rev. Dennis Buck
Sunday, 10 AM—Divine Liturgy 825 Harrington Rd.
11:30 AM—Church School Rockville, MD 20852 h) 301-424-7730; c) 202-209-4395 frdbuck@juno.com
Today is the 1st Sunday after Pentecost. All Saints. Tone 8. Today we also commemorate the Holy Apostle Jude, the Lord’s kinsman; St. Paisios the Great; and St. Job, Patriarch of Moscow.
TROPARIA, (T. 8)— Thou didst descend from on high, O Merciful One./ Thou didst accept the three-day burial to free us from our sufferings./ O Lord, our Life and Resurrection, glory to Thee!
(All Saints, T. 4)—As with fine porphyry and royal purple,/ Thy Church has been adorned with Thy martyrs’ blood shed throughout all the world./ She cries to Thee, O Christ God:/ “Send down Thy bounties on Thy people./ Grant peace to Thy habitation and great mercy to our souls.”
Glory… now and ever…
KONTAKION, (All Saints, T. 8)—The universe offers Thee the God-bearing martyrs/ as the first-fruits of creation, O Lord and Creator./ By their prayers, keep Thy Church in abiding peace,/ through the Theotokos, O most Merciful One!”
PROKEIMENON, (T. 8, Ps. 75)—Pray and make your vows before the Lord our God.
- In Judah God is known; His Name is great in Israel.
EPISTLE: Hebrews 11:33-12:2
ALLELUIA (T.4, Ps. 33)—The righteous cried and the Lord heard them and delivered them from all their troubles.
- Many are the afflictions of the righteous, and the Lord will deliver them out of them all.
GOSPEL: Matthew 10:32-33, 37-38; 19:27-30
KOINONIKON, (Pss. 148 & 32)—Praise the Lord from the heavens. Praise Him in the highest. Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous. Praise befits the just. Alleluia!
Monday, 6/20—Martyr Methodios, Bishop of Patar. Martyr Inna, Pinna and Rimma, disciples of Apostle Andrew. St. Kallistos, Patriarch of Constantinople. St. Nicholas Cabasilas..
Rom. 2:28-3:18 Matt. 6:31-34; 7:9-11
Tuesday, 6/21—Martyr Julian of Tarsus. Martyr Terence, Bishop of Iconium.
Rom. 4:4-12 Matt. 7:15-21
Wednesday, 6/22—Martyr Eusebius, Bishop of Samosata. Martyr Nikitas, Bishop of Remesiana, the hymnographer.
Rom. 4:13-25 Matt. 7:21-23
Thursday, 6/23—Martyr Agrippina of Rome..
Rom, 5:10-16 Matt. 8:23-27
Friday, 6/24—Nativity of St. John the Baptist.
Vespers: from Gen. 17-19; from Judges 13; from Isaiah 40-54
Rom. 13:11-14:4 (St. John) Luke 1:1-25, 57-68, 76, 80
Rom. 5:17-6:2 Matt. 9:14-17
Saturday, 6/25—Martyr Febronia of Nisibis. Sts. Peter and Febronia of Murom.
Rom. 3:19-26 Matt. 7:1-8
Sunday, 6/26—2nd Sunday after Pentecost. . Tone 1. All Saints of North America, Russia and Mt. Athos.
Vespers:
Rom. 2:10-16 Matt. 4:18-23
Heb. 11:33-12:2 (Saints) Matt. 4:25-5:12
We welcome guests and visitors to St. Catherine’s today, and we thank God you are able to be with us! Please join us in the hall for refreshments and fellowship, and please sign the guest book on the candle stand in the rear of church before you leave—make sure to include your email address, so you may receive our calendar, newsletter and other news of the parish. We pray God brings you to us again soon and often.
The Apostles’ Fast begins tomorrow and extends to the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, June 29.
Included in the Augmented (i.e., “Triple”) Litany this Sunday are petitions for peace and an end to aggression in Ukraine. A message from Metropolitan Tikhon is available at www.oca.org.
Instruction class (pt. 2) will be held this Friday at 8 PM on the parish Facebook page: www.facebook.com/saintcatherineOCA . Next in person instruction class (pt. 1) is Saturday, June 25, at 4:30 PM until the beginning of Vespers. We also have received more of the catechetical materials which we offer freely to those seeking instruction in the Orthodox faith. We have The Faith We Hold by Archbishop Paul of Finland, good for reading even before formal instruction; Fr. Thomas Hopko’s The Orthodox Faith, v. 1, Doctrine, which is the main text of instruction classes; plus one copy of Liturgy and Life by Fr. Alexander Schmemann, which we are using Friday nights online. We will be restocking again soon for copies of Metropolitan Kallistos Ware’s The Orthodox Church and The Orthodox Way.
The baptism of Ellie McFarland will take place Sunday, July 3, beginning at 9:30 AM. We will go directly into Liturgy from the baptism.
Volunteers from throughout the diocese are needed to help with the All American Council of the Orthodox Church in America July 18-22 in Baltimore, especially with registration procedures. See Fr. Dennis if you can be of assistance. Thanks to those who have volunteered so far.
Communion is still being distributed via the “no contact” method. Take a paper towel when you approach to wipe off your mouth rather than doing so on the cloth. We will dispose of the paper towels properly.
There remains a number of Russian language books, icons, holy cards, etc. on a table in the hall. These have been donated by Olga Tolskaya-Talbot. We are also culling through the books in the parish library. Some are also on that table. Feel free to take any of these. A small donation will always be appreciated.
Blessed palms are still available in the hall on the same table as the above-mentioned books, to take home with you.
Many thanks to Mazikinses for church cleaning this week. Salcutans are up for next week. Thanks to Daria Reigler for prosphora for today. To get on the task rotations, contact Fr. Dennis.
We need to address coffee hour clean up more seriously. We are calling out again for volunteers to serve in rotation for this task. Last time, two families responded. We need more for this to work. If you would like to serve, contact Fr. Dennis or a parish council member and we will set you up. We’ll post the specific tasks that need to be addressed.
We call to your attention the statement of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, our diocesan bishop as well as the Primate of the Orthodox Church in America, concerning the shootings at the school in Uvalde, Texas, even as we also have mourned the shootings in Buffalo, NY. It is posted on the OCA’s website: www.oca.org, and posted on the bulletin board in the hallway. Please take his call for prayer and concern to heart—let us not lose sight of these as well as do what we can to spread Our Lord’s own message of love and mercy. We will add our prayers that God keep the victims in His eternal memory, and for comfort to those who have lost children, friends and family members.
Please remember in your prayers for the departed the mother of Jon Metcalf, Marjorie, who fell asleep in the Lord last week. Also keep in your prayers Metropolitan Hilarion of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, Archbishop Paul of Chicago; Protodeacon Sergius Miller of St. Matthew’s in Columbia; the father of Paul Koch, John; the brother of Natalia Terina, Nicholas, and her mother Albina; former parishioner Bob (Bogdan) Vunovich; Ann Anderson, Mike Castelgrande; Fr. Michael Koblosh,; Olga Tolskaya-Talbot’s father, Vladimir; those who have perished in war, persecution or terrorism in the Middle East, Ukraine, here, including victims of the recent shootings, and elsewhere; and from storms, flood, fire, earthquake and from disease here and elsewhere. May their memory be eternal!
Keep in your prayers for the living Vicki Hughes, suffering from breast cancer; the Lutai family, traveling in Romania; Presbytera Diane, recovering from a separated shoulder; the wife of Paul Koch, Karen, with heart trouble; a brother-in-law of Eva Koenig’s, Gregory, suffering from cancer; a little friend of Sophia Guendel, Finn, recovering from a brain infection; Sophia Klein, Lisa Thompson, Cyprian Lutai Sr., Gabriel Lutai, Leanne Kuehnle, Valentina Barbuta, Lydia, Larissa and Sophia Guendel, and those who suffer from war, persecution and terrorism in the Middle East, Ukraine, here and elsewhere, including those grieving over the recent shootings; and from storms, floods, fire, earthquake and disease here and elsewhere.