Sunday of the Holy Fathers of Fourth Ecumenical Council

Great-martyr Marina of Antioch in Pisidia

Venerable Irenarchos of Solovky

Thought for Today: “Prayer is a guard of prudence, control of wrath, restraint of pride, cleansing of malice, destruction of envy, righting of impiety. Prayer is strength of bodies, prosperity of a household, good order of a city, might of a kingdom, trophy of war, assurance of peace. Prayer is a seal of virginity, fidelity in marriage, weapon of travelers, guardian of sleepers, courage of the wakeful, abundance for farmers, safety of those who sail. Prayer is an advocate for those being judges, remission for the bound, consolation for the grieving, gladness for the joyful, comfort for the mourners, a feast on birthdays, a crown for the married, a shroud for the dying. Prayer is converse with God, equal honour with the Angels, progress in good things, averting of evils, righting for sinners. Prayer made the whale a house for Jonas, brought Ezechias back to life from the gates of death, turned the flame to wind of moisture for the youth of Babylon. Through prayer Elias bound the heaven not to rain for three years and six months.”

+ St. Ephraim the Syrian+

Receiving the Eucharist: We invite you to receive the Holy Eucharist if you are an Orthodox Christian who has prepared yourself through fasting, prayer, and recent confession. If you are not Orthodox, or are Orthodox but have not prepared, we invite you to receive a piece of the blessed bread.

Epistle and Gospel Readings

The Epistle

Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O ye righteous.

Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven!

The Reading from the Epistle of St. Paul to St. Titus. (3:8-15)

Titus, my son, faithful is the saying, and concerning these things I desire you to affirm confidently, that those who have believed in God may be thoughtful of how to preside in honorable occupations. These things are good and profitable to men. But avoid foolish disputes, and genealogies, and contentions, and controversies about the Law; for they are unprofitable and vain. A man who is a heretic after the first and second admonition reject, knowing that such a one is subverted, and sins, being self-condemned. When I send Artemas to you, or Tychicós, give diligence to come to me to Nicopolis; for I have determined to winter there. Set forward Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that they may be lacking in nothing. And let our people also learn how to preside in honorable occupations, so as to help in cases of urgent need, that they should not be unfruitful. All who are with me salute you. Salute those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.

The Gospel

The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew. (5:14-19)

The Lord said to His Disciples: “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid. Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father Who is in heaven. Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come not to abolish them, but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”

VARIABLES for CHOIR and PARISH

Ressurrectional Apolytikion Tone 4

Having learned the joyful message of the Resurrection from the angel the women disciples of the Lord cast from them their parental condemnation. And proudly broke the news to the Disciples, saying: Death hath been spoiled; Christ God is risen, granting the world Great Mercy.

Apolytikion of the Holy Fathers Tone 8

Thou, O Christ, art our God of exceeding praise Who didst establish our Holy Fathers as luminous stars upon earth, and through them didst guide us unto the true Faith, O most merciful One, glory to Thee.

Apolytikion of St. Marina Tone 4 (** Joseph was amazed**)

O Lord Jesus, unto Thee Thy lamb doth cry with a great voice: * O my Bridegroom, Thee I love; and seeking Thee, I now contest, * and with Thy baptism am crucified and buried. * I suffer for Thy sake, that I may reign with Thee; * for Thy sake I die, that I may live in Thee: * accept me offered out of longing * to Thee as a spotless sacrifice. * Lord, save our souls through her intercessions, since Thou art great in mercy.

Coffee Hour Host: Nina Roger’s Team with Parishioners H-R.

Next Week: Rhonda Webb’s Team with Parishioners S-Z

THIS WEEK

Father Peter will be attending The Clergy Symposium in Pennsylvania all week. Traveling Sunday after Divine Liturgy; returning late Saturday

Wednesday, July, 20: Readers Vespers at 6:00pm.

Saturday, July, 23: Adult Bible Study will be at the Webb’s at 9:00 am. All are welcome to attend – 3960 E Fenbrook Ln 47401 – (314) 313-4275 –webbrk1@gmail.com.

Saturday, July, 23: Readers Vespers at 5:00; Jr SOYO at 4:00 and Teen SOYO at 6:00

Sunday, July, 24: Matins at 9:00 am; Divine Liturgy at 10:00 am

LOOKING AHEAD

Saturday, July 30: Maryanna Couloubaritsi and Franco Storino will wed in Memphis, Tenn.

Sunday, August 21: Coran Kerr and Matthew Robertson’s wedding will be at All Saints

FAMILY NEWS

Birthday Celebrations: James Tabbal (19^th), Neumann Jones (21^st), Mallory Finchum (23rd), Amari Ramanos Swank (23^rd)

Names Day Celebration: Marina Stant, Vivian Margaret Garletts, Great Martyr Macrina (17^th), Elise Arnold, Wendy Elizabeth Carter, Elizabeth the new Martyr (18^th), Linda Barrett, Neumann Jones, Leanne Bissell, St. Seraphim (19^th), Coran Kerr, St. Macrina the younger (19^th),Alicia Barrett, Prophet Elijah/Elias (20^th), Miriam Stant, Marija Kuproves, Mariam Gillquist, Mary Magdalene (22^nd)

Anniversary Celebrations: Dn Lucian and Dnssa.Miriam Stant (21^st), Gillquists’ Anniversary at All Saints (23^rd)

Memory Eternal: Metropolitan Sotirios; John, Helen (Wendy Elizabeth’s Aunt); Jim (Jennifer Rigsby’s father); Styliani (Petroulla’s mother in Cyprus); Cindi (Rhonda’s niece); Elmo(Deacon and Marcia’s Friend); Marla, David, Pam, Lenochko (Elena’s Radchenko friend in Ukraine.)

Prayer List: Rigsby/Young family; the suffering community of Uvalde, Texas; Displaced Ukrainian refugees, those who remain in their war-torn country, those with loved ones in Ukraine; Mat. Raisa (now at home, Bell Trace #309);Emma Griggs (Mary Ann’s granddaughter) and George (Mary Ann’s brother); Melanie & daughter (Adrian’s coworker and child – loss of parent and serious health issues);Bob & Bonnie Thelen; Wes (infant with brittle bone disorder); Megan (lymphoma); Mark (congestive heart failure) and Barbara (Mark’s caregiver); Wes’s grandfather;Josiah; Terra (formerly Terra Pitzak with cancer); Peace talks; our nation and all nations’ leaders; Vicki;Vicki’s granddaughter; Hermione with child;Arianna Vician;Mary Ann; Linda; Steve Crandall; Fr. Athanasius; Fr. Gabriel;Jack;Christopher; schools: school children, youth and personnel across the nation; Nancy; Don and Dee; Fr. Jerome; Catherine; Anastasia with child; Wadia; Jayci; Patricia, Marvin, Alice; Michael; Olga; Eileen; Soren; Kitsa; Apthrodite and Angelos; Kim; Kristy, Dusty, Cari; Betsy, Josh; Allison; Andrew and Isaac (Korea/military); Leanne; Heather; Nancy; Sharon Catherine; Lexi, Ross and Vivian; Theo; Doug; Jeremy; Marcia & Deacon; Elias; Waded; Seraphima; Lilly’s family; Jennifer; Christy; Megan; Nelson; Rhea and John, Howard and Rhonda; Stanley (Marcia’s uncle).

Donations to the church are being made online at www.allsaintsbloomington.org and by U.S mail. Many thanks to all who continue supporting All Saints.

Sunday July 10, 2022

Posted on July 8, 2022 by Fr. Peter Jon Gillquist

Hieromartyr Joseph of Damascus & His Companions

The 45 Martyrs at Nikopolis in Armenia; Venerable Anthony of the Kiev Caves; Venerable-Martyrs Nikodemos the Albanian and Nektarios of St. Anne Skete on Athos

Thought for Today: “Remember that all people are weak and sometimes unjust. Learn to forgive and not take offence. Step away from those who do you wrong—you cannot force them to love you. Do not seek friends among people. Seek them in Heaven—among saints. They will never leave you or betray you.” + Elder Nikolai Guryanov of Russia +

THIS WEEK

Wednesday, July 13: Daily Vespers at 6:00pm; Ask Abouna to follow.

Saturday, July 16: Adult Bible Study at The Storm’s. 603 N Park Ridge Rd. Bloomington, 47408; lstorm70@gmail.com; randstorm53@gmail.com;

217-828-0753 (Randy) 217-737-1525 (Linda). All are welcome!

Saturday, July 16: Great Vespers at 5:00; Jr SOYO at 4:00 and Teen SOYO at 6:00

LOOKING AHEAD

Saturday, July 30: Maryanna Couloubaritsi and Franco Storino will wed in Memphis, Tenn.

Sunday, August 21: Coran Kerr and Matthew Robertson wedding at All Saints.

Coffee Hour Host: Wendy Carter’s Team with Parishioners C-G;

Next Week: Nina Roger’s Team with Parishioners H-R.

Epistle and Gospel Readings

The Epistle

The saints shall boast in glory, and they shall rejoice upon their beds. Sing unto

the Lord a new song; His praise is in the church of the saints.

The Reading from the 2nd Epistle of St. Paul to St. Timothy. (2:1-10)

Timothy, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus; and what you have heard from me before many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus No soldier on service gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to satisfy the one who enlisted him. An athlete is not crowned July 10, 2022 Liturgy Variables 2 Joseph of Damascus unless he competes according to the rules. It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops. Think over what I say, for the Lord will grant you understanding in everything. Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, descended from David, as preached in my gospel, the gospel for which I am suffering and wearing fetters like a criminal. But the word of God is not fettered. Therefore, I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain salvation in Christ Jesus with its eternal glory.

The Gospel

The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew. (8:5-13)

At that time, as Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, beseeching Him and saying, “Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, in terrible distress.” And Jesus said to him, “I will come and heal him.” But the centurion answered Him, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I am a man under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” When Jesus heard him, He marveled, and said to those who followed him, “Truly, I say to you, not even in Israel have I found such faith. I tell you, many will come from east and west and sit at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven, while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.” And to the centurion Jesus said, “Go; be it done for you as you have believed.” And the servant was healed at that very moment.

VARIABLES for CHOIR and PARISH

Resurrectional Apolytikion Tone 3 Let the heavens rejoice and the earth be glad, for the Lord hath done a mighty act with His own arm. He hath trampled down death by death, and become the first-born from the dead. He hath delivered us from the depths of Hades, granting the world the Great Mercy.

Apolytikion of St. Joseph of Damascus Tone 5

Come, ye faithful, let us honor the martyr of Christ, a priest of the Church of Antioch; who by the word of the Word, and by his blood and the blood of his companions, baptized the land of Syria, its Church and its people. Being immersed in the light of the Gospel from his youth, he worked and taught and defended the Church of Christ and her flock. O Father Joseph of Damascus, be for us an example, defending us and interceding for us fervently before the Savior.

FAMILY NEWS

Birthday Celebrations: Wyatt Crandall (10^th), Juliana Barber (12^th), Randel Storm (12^th), Abby Blair (14^th), Christopher Pierce (15^th).

Names Day Celebration: Olga Impey, Vicki Gans St. Olga of Kiev (11^th), Ryan Shanahan

St. Sophorony (11^th), Gabe Stant, Gabby Crandall, Randal Storm Archangel Gabriel (13^th)

Donations to the church are being made online at www.allsaintsbloomington.org and by U.S mail. Many thanks to all who continue supporting All Saints.

Sunday, July 3, 2022

Posted on July 1, 2022 by Fr. Peter Jon Gillquist

Sunday, July 3, 2022

Third Sunday of Pentecost

Martyr Hyacinth and his Companions of Caesarea; Anatolios, Patriarch of Constantinople; Venerable-Martyr Gerasimos the New of Carpenision; Venerable Nicodemus of Kozhe Lake

Thought for Today: “A person knows that nothing in life is unchangeable, and that all things pass. Thus he is not troubled or anxious about any of them, but leaves all things in the hands of God, for He has us in His care.” + St. Anthony the Great

THIS WEEK

Today, July 3: Myrrh Bearers meet briefly after Divine Liturgy.

Wednesday July 6: Daily Vespers at 6:00pm; Ask Abouna to follow.

Saturday, July 9: Adult Bible Study at Linda & Randy Storm’s. 603 N Park Ridge Rd. Bloomington, 47408; lstorm70@gmail.com; randstorm53@gmail.com;

217-828-0753 (Randy) 217-737-1525 (Linda). All are welcome!

Saturday, July 10: Great Vespers at 5:00; Jr SOYO at 4:00 and Teen SOYO at 6:00

Coffee Hour Host: Melissa Barbarick’s Team with Parishioner A-B

Next Week’s Coffee Hour Host: Wendy Carter’s Team with Parishioners C-G

Donations to the church are being made online at www.allsaintsbloomington.org and by U.S mail. Many thanks to all who continue supporting All Saints.

Epistle and Gospel Readings

The Reading from the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans. (5:1-11)

The Lord is my strength and my song. The Lord has chastened me sorely

Brethren, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through Him we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us. While we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. Why, one will hardly die for a righteous man—though perhaps for a good man one will dare even to die. But God shows His love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we are now justified by His blood, much more shall we be saved by Him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. Not only so, but July 03, 2022 Liturgy Variables 2 3rd Sun. of Pentecost we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received our reconciliation.

The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew. (6:22-33)

The Lord said, “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light; but if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore, I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink; nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not the soul more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of heaven: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his stature? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon himself in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O men of little faith? Therefore, do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek all these things; and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well.

VARIABLES for CHOIR and PARISH

Resurrectional Apolytikion – Tone 2

When Thou didst submit Thyself unto death, O Thou deathless and immortal One, then Thou didst destroy hell with Thy Godly power. And when Thou didst raise the dead from beneath the earth, all the powers of Heaven did cry aloud unto Thee: O Christ, Thou giver of life, glory to Thee.

Apolytikion of All Saints -Tone 4

Throughout the world Thy church, O Christ our God, is adorned with the blood of Thy Martyrs, as with purple and fine linen; through them she cries unto Thee. Send down Thy pity upon Thy people. To Thy community give peace, and to our souls the Great Mercy.

. FAMILY NEWS

Anniversary Remembrances: Aaron & Johanna H (6^th)

Birthday Celebrations: April B (3^rd); Matthew C (4^th); Elise A (6^th)

Memory Eternal: Metropolitan Sotirios; John, Helen (Wendy Elizabeth’s Aunt); Jim (Jennifer Rigsby’s father); Styliani (Petroulla’s mother in Cyprus); Cindi (Rhonda’s niece); Elmo (Deacon and Marcia’s Friend); Marla, David, Pam.

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