St. James Parish News
September 16, 2022
Feast of the Great Martyr Euphemia
Spiritual Quote
Whoever will not love his enemies cannot know the Lord and the sweetness of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit teaches us to love our enemies in such way that we pity their souls as if they were our own children.
– St. Silouan the Athonite
Work Day
Hopefully this is the one last one for this summer (and there is no rain this time…): next Saturday Sept. 24. (9:00 AM)
Name days, Birthdays and Anniversaries
Nathanael Vidaurri – Birthday: 09-22
Silouani King – Nameday: 09-24
May God grant you many years!
Upcoming Feasts / celebrations
Wednesday September 7 | |
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5:30 PM | Divine Liturgy |
6:45 PM | Spirituality class |
Nativity of the Theotokos | |
Thursday September 8 | |
5:30 PM | Divine Liturgy |
Elevation of the Cross | |
Wednesday September 14 | |
5:30 PM | Divine Liturgy |
6:45 PM | Catechumens class |
Saturday September 17 | |
10:00 AM | Men’s Group |
Tuesday September 20 | |
6:30 PM | Women’s Group |
Wednesday September 21 | |
5:30 PM | Divine Liturgy |
6:45 PM | Spirituality class |
St. James Feast Day | |
Sunday October 23 |
Please remember that our full calendar continues to be available at our parish web site. Here is a link:
http://stjfc.org/Pages/Calendar/calendar.php
Prosphora
September 18 | Tadros (Vidaurri) |
September 25 | Tadros |
October 2 | Yadlowsky |
October 9 | Majors |
Readers
September 18 | Nate | Sunday after Elevation of the Cross | Gal. 2:16-20 |
September 25 | Thomas | 15th after Pentecost | II Cor. 4:6-15 |
October 2 | Christos | 16th after Pentecost | II Cor. 6:1-10 |
October 9 | Isaac/Micah | 17th after Pentecost | II Cor. 6:16-7:1 |
Scripture Readings for this coming Sunday
Epistle: ST. PAUL’S LETTER TO THE GALATIANS 2:16-20
Brethren, knowing that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law, because by works of the law shall no one be justified. But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we ourselves were found to be sinners, is Christ then an agent of sin? Certainly not! But if I build up again those things which I tore down, then I prove myself a transgressor. For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Gospel: MARK 8:34-38; 9:1
The Lord said: “If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it. For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? For what can a man give in return for his life? For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of man also be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.” And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God come with power.
Spiritual Reading
The Zeal of the Forerunner
Hieromonk Gabriel
It is especially necessary for us — the Christians of the latter days — to honor and emulate the holy zeal of the Forerunner, since so many of us are all but overwhelmed by spiritual lukewarmness, laziness, and acedia. But it is also necessary to consider precisely what kind of zeal is set before us today, for there are also those of us who are beset by “a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge” (Rom. 10:2). Indeed, it can be one of the great temptations of the modern age to forget the great truth spoken by St. Joseph of Optina: “Zeal that desires to uproot all evil is in fact the very worst evil.” So what can we learn from the Forerunner about that true and holy zeal, which is both wise and well-pleasing to God?
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It is precisely such joyful love — the joyful love that caused St. John to leap within his mother’s womb at the sound of the Mother of God’s voice, the joyful love that drove him to a lifetime of deprivation in the desert, the joyful love that caused him to lay down his own life in attempting to bring a sinner to repentance, the joyful love with which he preached the coming of Christ even to those in hades — it is this and nothing else that is the genuine mark of true and godly zeal. For as the Apostle says: “the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance… they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit” (Gal. 5:22-25).
Read the entire article:
The Zeal of the Forerunner
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