THE MESSENGER

Newsletter of All Holy Spirit Greek Orthodox Church

May 2015

“The Lord comes to the heart of the person who carries out the commandments and makes his heart a temple and dwelling of God. In due time, you will understand this by blessed experience, if you so do it.”

St. Ignatius of Stavropol ~ May 13th St. Ignatius has a very simple idea: doing God’s Commandments! He teaches that the way to God is through His own Commandments. It sounds so simple, but have we ever learned what the Commandments are? A spiritual person should believe that the encounter with God takes place in the interior of a human being, in the soul. This is an abstract idea, and difficult for us to understand. The world around the Christian has developed its own ways of obtaining knowledge. Modern man holds the supremacy

of the mind in acquiring understanding and knowledge. In Orthodoxy, these are two sides of the same coin. They are compli-mentary, and both essential. Spiritual growth occurs only when the mind is connected to the heart. The ancients used the expression “the heart” to refer not to the organ but something deep inside him, just as moderns, should recognize that the brain is also an organ, and the intellect, the mind is just as deep. We should never stop thinking in life, just as we should never stop using our minds in spiritual pursuits. There is no knowing God, He is unknowable., so we will not approach Him as if He were a science. The only way to encounter God is through faith, and when faith is lived or exercised through the mind, and body, (asceticism, GR askesis ‘enacted’) a man can have a Blessed experience. This experience of the Divine Nature, experiential knowledge becomes our unshakable faith, our anchor in life, by which we sail through all the storms and arrive in Paradise. St Ignatius makes a very helpful connection for modern Christians who are unbalanced, either too rational, or too spir-itual, but who are seeking God in their lives. He shows that the heart of man (faith) + the commandments of God (the mind) = a Blessed Life! It sounds so easy, but how do I start? In the Gospel of John, Jesus says, “If you love Me, you will do My commandments.” So, we start by learning the commandments of God, in order to do them! A few examples, “forgive those who hurt you.” (Luke 17.4) OK, in my desire for God…I will forgive. “Do this in remembrance of Me, for when you eat this Bread and drink this Cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till he return.” (1. Cor. 11.26) OK, I will attend and participate in the Liturgy. “Repent! And Believe in the Gospel.” (Mark 1.15) OK, I will change my life style and study the Gospel. These are but a few of God’s Commandments. There are many more that you will have to learn, if you desire the Lord to come to you, and if you even dare that He make His home with you. If you want to become a “Temple of God,” you must en-act your faith through the commandments. St Ignatius uses a wonderfully helpful expression, “Study the Commandments of the Gospel.” Have you ever thought of putting these two concepts together: commandments of God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ? In modern Christian denomi-nations, they have been severed, in order to change Christianity for our own evil purposes. Orthodoxy holds firm to the Gos-pel of Jesus, and its wholeness, as handed down to us through the Holy Fathers and Mothers of the Church!

December 2013 2

PARISH INFOMATION Address:

9012 “Q” Street ,

Omaha, NE 68127

Office Hours:

Monday—Friday:

10am—5pm

Phone:

402-934-3688

Website:

www.allholyspirit.com

Email:

Church:

AHSoffice@allholyspirit.com

Fr. Alexander Lukashonok:

FrAlexander@allholyspirit.com

Services:

Each Sunday

Morning Prayers 8:30 am

Divine Liturgy 9:30 am

2 All Holy Spirit Greek Orthodox Church

Thanks to all of you for cards, calls

and get well wishes. It is so good to

be in a Church with such good

friends.

-Mary Dounias

SOCIAL HOUR

SIGN UPS NEEDED! We still have

many openings for social hour. A

chart is posted in the

fellowship hall if you would like to

donate treats for a special Sunday.

Let the office know if you are

going to bring your own treats. If

not, donuts will be picked up and the

cost is $30. Please Make checks out

to All Holy Spirit.

Thank you to The Detisch Family

and Nick Bitzes for sponsoring coffee

hour in April.

Thank you to Chris & Nadine Saklar for picking up donuts, making coffee, setting up and cleaning for the Sunday Morning Social Hour.

Memorials A memorial was offered on

April 26 for Georgia Mallas

the godmother of Lauren Cloeter

MAY HER MEMORY BE ETERNAL

A memorial was offered on April 26 for

Archbishop Iakovos MAY HIS MEMORY BE

ETERNAL

PROSPHORA

It’s a great honor to

offer the bread that will

become the body and

blood of Christ during

Divine Liturgy. We still have a few

openings. A Prosphora chart is

posted in the fellowship hall. If you

would like to offer Prosphora please

sign on the Sundays you prefer.

Thank you to Hillary Detisch,

Joanne Sgourakis, Gust Rakes, and

Joan Rakes for providing Prosphora

in April .

We have several fellowship events coming up in the next few

months. If you are interested in sponsoring an event,

please contact Tammy Gill at 402-578-9719.

Thank you all for your continued support!!

It is greatly appreciated.

ALTAR FLOWERS

Would you like to

beautify the Altar

for a special occa-

sion? We still have

openings on the

chart.

Please sign up in the fellowship

hall on the Sunday you would like

and contact Nikki Moravec at

402-502-2384 for more infor-

mation.

THANK YOU ! Thank you to everyone who

Donated funds for the palm plants, items for Holy Unction, Nymphios

Wreath, and flowers for the icons and kouvouklion.

Thank you to everyone who gave their time and talents throughout

Holy Week helping to decorate, clean, cook, chant, sing, and

prepare the church and community for Pascha .

A big thank you to The McDonnell and Rakes Families for providing

and preparing all of the food for the Resurrection Dinner on Pascha.

We would also like to thank John

Sgourakis for preparing the lamb and ham at our Pascha Picnic and

everyone who brought food to share.

A Special thank you to Dave Elfering, Alex Elfering, Peter

Wilger, and Hillary Detisch for capturing the pictures seen throughout the newsletter.

May 2015 3

Coming up! Help is needed for the organization,

setup, AND cleanup for our ASH name day Pentecost celebration.

Please contact Tammy Gill at 402-578-9719 to get involved!

December 2013 4 4 All Holy Spirit Greek Orthodox Church

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL All Holy Spirit will be holding

Vacation Bible School this summer,

June 1 through June 5, 8:00am - 1:00pm.

We need coordinators!!

Please contact

Deb McDonnell if this is

something you would

like to coordinate

or be able to assist with.

PENTECOST NAME DAY CELEBRATION Mark your calendars for the All Holy Spirit Pentecost celebration! Great Vespers Saturday, May 30 -5:00pm

Orthros and Divine Liturgy Sunday, May 31-8:30am Akathist to the All-Holy Spirit Sunday, May 31 - 4:00pm Followed by a dinner to celebrate our church name day! Divine Liturgy Monday, June 1 -9:30 am

Bible Study The Gospel of Mark & Spiritual Topics

fralexander@allholyspirit.com

Wednesdays at 7pm

All Are Welcome!~Bring a Bible.

May 6th—Passion of Christ

May 13th—The Appearances of Christ

May 20th —Vespers @ 7pm---No Class!

May 27th—Redemption/The End

June 3rd —Holy Spirit

Mother’s Day May 10, 2015 DON"T FORGET to order your Mother's Day cards!! Make the women in your life feel special this Mother's Day by remembering them with a beautiful card from Philoptochos.

Mothers, mother-in laws, grandmothers, nouna's, sisters, aunts, neighbors and special friends would all love knowing that they are being remembered. For a minimum of $5.00,

Philoptochos will send your loved ones a card to let them know you are thinking of them and inform them that a special artoklasia will be done in their honor and they will also be invited to join you in church.

For our mothers who have passed into Eternal Life , Submit their names (baptismal names) to be prayed

for at the Divine Liturgy. All names will be listed in a special program that will be handed out to all of the parishioners on Mother's Day.

Please see Maria Knowles, Maria Laws, Darcy Jackson or Tammy Honke to place your order. Email orders to: mariaknowles@cox.net.

May 2015 5

Christ is risen!

Truly He is risen!

Χριστός ἀνέστη!

Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη!

Christ est ressuscité!

Il est vraiment ressus-

Христос воскрес!

Воистину воскрес!

Christus resurrexit!

Resurrexit vere!

¡Cristo ha

resucitado!

¡En verdad ha

resucitado!

Christos tensiou!

Bahake tensiou!

المسيح قام!حقا قام!

Hristos a înviat!

Adevărat a înviat!

6 All Holy Spirit Greek Orthodox Church

Archbishop Iakovos ~May his memory be eternal ~

Though God may intend man to destroy himself, he also has given man free will and

the ability to cleanse himself and his world. The church will not be pessimistic, nor sit

quietly in its handsome houses of worship while the war rages outside its churches for

the bodies, minds and souls of its parishioners."

His Eminence, the Most Reverend Archbishop Iakovos (Coucouzis) of America

(1911-2005) was primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America from 1959 to 1996, making him the longest serving.

Iakovos was well-known for his work to make Orthodoxy visible in American society and for his tireless work in civil rights. The dream and continual struggle of his episcopacy was to see the full union of Orthodoxy in America,

to be transfigured from "parochial to truly Orthodox Christian people," from "separate

jurisdictions to one jurisdiction," from "many ethnic groups to one group, headed and dominated by Christ our Saviour and our Lord," as he said at the 1994.

Iakovos was born on the Greek island of Imvros, Turkey in 1911 to Maria and Athanasios Coucouzis, one of four

children, including two sisters (Virginia and Chrysanthi) and a brother (Panagiotis).

Shortly after his appointment as primate of Greek Orthodoxy in the Western Hemisphere, Archbishop Iakovos founded the Standing Conference of the Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas (SCOBA), serving as its

president until his retirement in 1996. It was his first major step in attempting to bring about Orthodox Christian

unity in America, a cause he championed and with which he was strongly associated for all the years of his episco-pacy.

Archbishop Iakovos made national headlines while marching alongside Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for civil

rights in the 1960s, an act which characterized his commitment to social justice as part of the ministry of the

Church. His march with King was immortalized on the cover of the March 26, 1965 issue of Life Magazine, where

he stands photographed alongside King as part of the latter's march in Selma, Alabama. In doing so, Iakovos was

one of the first national religious leaders to take a role in American civil rights.

In January of that same year, he accompanied Patriarch Athenagoras to Jerusalem to meet with Pope Paul VI and then later to Rome, where the

two primates declared a lifting of the anathemas of 1054.

On March 26, 1965, LIFE Magazine featured an iconic photo on its cov-er of Greek Orthodox Archbishop Iakovos marching with Dr. Martin Lu-

ther Jr.

Sixteen days earlier, the events that gave rise to that photo took place in

Selma, Alabama. On March 11, 1965, white American Unitarian Uni-versalist minister James Reed was brutally clubbed to death by segrega-

tionists while marching for civil rights. Days later, Archbishop Iakovos

would travel to Selma and march arm in arm with King for equality. The photo on LIFE’s cover is of Archbishop Iakovos marching with King as

King holds a wreath for Reed’s memorial service.

Professor Albert J. Raboteau at Fordham University, Bronx, reported that “[a]s the congregation waited for King to arrive for the service, distinguished leaders, who had gathered from around the country (including Archbishop

Iakovos) eulogized Reeb and linked arms to sing “We Shall Overcome” and other movement hymns.” This was what Archbishop Iakovos said that day:

“I came to this memorial service because I believe this is an appropri-

ate occasion not only to dedicate myself as well as our Greek Orthodox communicants to the noble cause for which our friend,

the Reverend James Reeb, gave his life; but also in order to show

our willingness to continue this fight against prejudice, bias, and persecution. In this God-given cause, I feel sure that I have the full

and understanding support of our Greek Orthodox faithful of America. For our Greek Orthodox Church and our people fully

understand from our heritage and our tradition such sacrificial

involvements. Our Church has never hesitated to fight, when it felt it must, for the rights of mankind; and many of our Churchmen have

been in the forefront of these battles time and again….The ways of

God are not always revealed to us, but certainly His choice of this dedicated minister to be the victim of racial hatred and the hero of this struggle to gain unalienable constitutional

rights for those American brethren of ours who are denied them, and to die, so to speak, on this battlefield for hu-man dignity and equality, was not accidental or haphazard. Let us seek out in this tragedy a divine lesson for all of

us. The Reverend Reeb felt he could not be outside the arena of this bitter struggle, and we, too, must feel that we

cannot. Let his martyrdom be an inspiration and a reminder to us that there are times when we must risk every-thing, including life itself, for those basic American ideals of freedom, justice, and equality, without which this land

cannot survive. Our hope and prayer, then, is that we may be given strength to let God know by our acts and deeds,

and not only by our words, that like the late Reverend James Reeb, we, too, are the espousers and the fighters in a struggle for which we must be prepared to risk our all.”

~Archbishop Demetrios ~

Archbishop Demetrios (Trakatellis) of America was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. In 1950 he

graduated with distinction from the University of Athens School of Theology. He was odained

a deacon in 1960, and a priest in 1964.

He was elected Bishop of Vresthena in 1967, auxiliary to the Archbishop of Athens, responsi-

ble for the theological education of the clergy. From 1965 to 1971, he studied New Testament

and Christian Origins at Harvard University, and was awarded a Ph.D. “with distinction” in

1972. He earned a second doctorate in Theology from the University of Athens “with distinc-

tion” in 1977. From 1983 to 1993, he was the Distinguished Professor of Biblical Studies and

Christian Origins at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, Massachu-

setts. He also taught at Harvard Divinity School as Visiting Professor of New Testament. He

was inducted in 2003 into the Academy of Athens as a member who resides abroad. In August

1991 he was elevated to be the Titular Metropolitan of

Vresthena.

On August 19, 1999, he was elected Archbishop of

America by the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumeni-

cal Patriarchate. He was enthroned on September 18,

1999 in New York City. In over a decade of leading the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of

America, with more than one and a half million members in the United States, he has

touched and inspired the lives of

thousands of people with his incessant, methodical and loving archpastoral ministry.

As Exarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, he is the Chairman of the Assembly of Canonical

Orthodox Bishops of North and Central America. He has been the recipient of many

governmental, ecclesiastical, interfaith, and academic honors, both in the USA, Greece and

Europe.

Do you know our current Archbishop in America?

May 2015 7

PHILOPTOCHOS NEWS Christos Anesti! Thank you to everyone who stayed for the Palm Sunday luncheon and

supported Philoptochos with your free will offering. A special thank you to Helen Lazanas for

donating the fish and Tom Denich for making the plaki sauce. We'd also like to thank

Jason Gill, George Rakes and Voula Kotrotsios for doing the cooking of the fish and spaghetti as

well as all the ladies who helped with set up and clean up. THANK YOU!

Our May election meeting will be held at the Greek Islands on

Thursday, May 7th. at 6:30p.m.

8 All Holy Spirit Greek Orthodox Church

St. Nicholas Church Slava Honored Kumovi Metro & Marion Sasich

Saturday, May 16th

5:30 pm Akathist

6:30 pm Authentic Serbian Menu (including: Cevapi, Burek & Gibanica) 7:00 pm Dance

Admission to Dance: $5.00 (age 12 & Older)

Music provided by Majstori

Evening Prayer Service Thursday, May 7, 2015

6:30 p.m.

The National Day of Prayer was created in 1952 by a

joint resolution of the United States Congress, and signed into law by President Harry S Truman. In 1988,

President Ronald Reagan amended the law decreeing that the

National Day of Prayer should be held on the first Thursday of May.

Invite your family and friends to join us as we pray for our neighborhood, our community, our nation, and the

world.

St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church 602 Park Avenue

Omaha, Nebraska 68105 Phone (402) 345-7103

www.stjohnsgreekorthodox.org

LITURGY ON THE LAND!

Please join us Sunday, May 10th

for Liturgy on our land at 180th and Harney!

We will have 9:30 Liturgy followed by

a Mother’s Day picnic.

Please check the Sunday morning bulletin and

Email for more information!

May 2015 9

I think the best way to do this is give a brief statement about myself, how I came to orthodoxy, and how specifically

this church has helped to preserve my faith. I was born in the Benson area of town and became a Christian, or as we use to

say a believer by having the Gospel preached to me by my Grandmother. My parents are not "religious" in the traditional

sense, so I would hitch a ride with the lady down the street to St. Pius X for fellowship in my early days. We then moved

from a school where half of the class could not read to District 66, where some where starting to study high school algebra.

During this time, I had become aware that my father had descended from a line of Quakers and I started to attend the local

evangelical Friends church where I met Pastor Kelly Birks. Pastor Kelly had a huge influence on my life. This is were I

would learn the principle of Sola Scriptura, or that the Word of God (the Bible) is sufficient for faith alone. Later, rejection

of the principle as absolute, would bring tremendous relief and myself to Orthodoxy. But, while I attended Kelly's church, I

ceased from a lot of the negative activities I was involved and became very involved with church activities instead. But with

Kelly and my other protestant Pastors there would be a continual-negative regularly occurring theme that would help drive

me to Orthodoxy, and that is church break ups. Ultimately, the underlying-driving force behind all these fights was Sola

Scriptura. This may seem foreign to some of you, but these doctrinal tempests arise from this principle because of an indi-

vidual comes to some conclusion (and therefore feels that everyone else needs to know about and follow this newly formed

doctrine), and if this conclusion is violated it is seen as an attack on that individual's conscience. And for the majority of

Protestant churches, an attack on an individual's conscience is something worthy of the death penalty, being sent to a Gulag

or concentration camp, etc. And then the battle begins. We really do not have that here (I am an expert at recognizing these

things) and when there have, the issues get resolved.

Every two to three, there would be these awful break-ups over issues, such as Calvinism, candles in worship, Christ's

Second Coming, women wearing pants to church ( yeah, really ), etc. And I am fully aware that this particular church has

gone through a break up of its own, but it is not the same. At least to my knowledge, no one from this church or the other has

any sort of restraining against a party they railed against concerning the Regulative Principle of Worship or whatever. Sever-

al times during these disputes, I heard threats, plots, violations of others' property, etc., and it crushed me.

So, to skip ahead, I left the church for several years in my early twenties. I decided to pursue research instead of medicine

and met the mother of my children. After Lola was born (during the first-big blizzard that we had back in 2007) I decided

that I needed help. So, I began to attend Corum Deo church. The church was great, but not immune from "schisming" (sorry

that is probably not a word). And it did. But before these things could rock my children's and my world, I started to pursue

Orthodoxy. Dr. Theodore Letis and Richard Swinburne, both scholars were great witnesses of Orthodoxy (the former was

not even Orthodox). Both helped me to see what the Word of God is and that is the Message, not only the written word. I

then attended a Saturday night vesper service and fell in love with it. It did not have a rock n' roll band (and I love heavy

metal, just not at church), the Psalms were there (growing up we would always sing the Psalms in church and that was a

huge thing for me), and there was a small population of Russian speaking people who I thought would help me ministry the

Gospel to my wife at the time. Most importantly, I felt Christ was here.

Being in fellowship with yall has also taught me one thing that was anathema in all of my Protestant churches. And

that is the importance of the church itself. With Sola Scriptura, the individual is supreme and ultimately, if one wants rage

some sort of revolution, it happens. I have learned that God operates through individuals within the church, for me this is

quite earth shattering. I do not think I am able to convey it right now, but like that Barbara Streissand clone, Mike Myers use

to portray on SNL, I am getting very verklempt here. If it had not been through the relationships I developed with Father Al-

exander, Mike B., Ramez, and Zack, I think I would have left the faith. They have helped me to better understand the suffer-

ing version of our Savior and "turn the cheek." Seeing everyone else doing their own thing in the church and how you inter-

act with each other, etc., is also amazing. I do not think it is easy for you all to see and when you are continuous around

something, you tend to take it for granted, but there is a lot of maturity here and I believe it is because of God's work. We

have things to work on as a church, but maybe the best way for me to express this is that we are able to do that. We are not

hindered by some 17th century principle or whatever ( now that I think of it, our principles are even more ancient ).

This church has meant a lot to me, so I will conclude with a big, tear-filled "thank you." Thanks for helping me to see that

one can look forward to growing closer to God during times of personal distress/problems, thank you for the way you inter-

act with my kids. Please pray for their own and their mother's salvation. It is really hard to convey how much I appreciate

what everyone has done in this small space, but I am very sincere with my "thank you."

Finally, this is off topic, but has anyone else noticed that huge growth of mildew on the ceiling up above the altar? I

am not the only one that has seen that, right? Also, even though we are not supposed to eat before communion, you all still

brush your teeth before you come to church, right? ;) Thank you and peace, Ted ( Ambrose ).

By Ted Warren

My Life in Christ

A Courageous Cinderella and a Fool for Christ On May 10 the Church honors the Holy Mother Isidora, who lived in the sixth century.

Isidora spent most of her life in the monastery of Tabenna in Egypt. She chose to serve God in an extreme way, as a fool for

Christ, living in complete self-denial and base servitude. In this way Isidora, like others who chose this way, made sure she would

not be praised for her virtues, her constant prayer, or her service to God. When she ate thrown-away scraps and drank used dish-

water, others treated her with contempt rather than honor. When she took on the most menial and unpleasant tasks she wasn't

thanked; others considered that such an odd person might be expected to demean herself with those jobs.

A monk named Pitirim was told about Isidora in a blunt way. An angel directed him to find her, comparing her to Pitirim himself:

"She serves others and bears their contempt every day. Her heart and thoughts are always with God. You have the ease of solitude

with nobody to disturb you, yet your thoughts and your heart are constantly distracted."

Pitirim found Isidora, bowed before her, and revealed her holiness to the other nuns. But she fled from their praise, and they never

saw her again.

The recent movie "Cinderella," directed by Kenneth Branagh, has a few

interesting parallels to this saint's life. The young heroine, Ella, loses the

parents with whom she shared a deep love and a happy life. Her dying

mother gives her a standard to live by: "Have courage and be kind."

When her father remarries and then dies, Ella honors her mother's

words, rather in the same way that saints live in a way that honors the

commands of Christ. She cheerfully does the chores forced on her by a

cruel stepmother and her daughters, who contemptuously call her Cin-

derella because she is constantly dirtied by ashes and soot. She doesn't

seek revenge against their meanness, but takes comfort in the animals

whose trusting companionship she wins, again like some well-known

saints.

The patience to endure unjust suffering in life takes courage, even if

some critics of the movie have wrongly said that this Cinderella is weak

because she doesn't stand up to her stepmother. But the movie is realistic

about how hard it is to maintain this courage. At one point, when her

harsh life has become unbearable, she rides away on a horse to escape.

She meets a young huntsman named Kit, not knowing that he is actually

the prince who will change her life. It's noteworthy that she first meets

him not in a dazzling ballgown, as in the animated 1950's Disney ver-

sion, but in her servant's clothes. He falls in love with a lowly servant,

just as Christ loves us in our lowly sinfulness.

Near the end of the movie, Cinderella confronts her stepmother, not to

gloat in triumph at having won the prince's love, but to forgive this

woman who has caused her such suffering. She knows that forgiveness

is another act of courage and kindness—and of true strength.

10 All Holy Spirit Greek Orthodox Church

9 All Holy Spirit Greek Orthodox Church

USHER SCHEDULE If you are unable to usher on your assigned Sunday please find a replacement within your group.

June 6/7 Brian & Sheila Zacharaie,

Dora Bitsos, Paul Kosel

6/14 Josh Busch & Jim McDonnell, Chris Hoegemeyer, Bill Lewis

6/21 Bill & Cindy Lambert, Andy Karavas, Joe Papke

6/28 Mike & Nikki Moravec,

Nick Petrow, John & Laura Pavalis

May 5/3 Bill & Cindy Lambert,

Nick Petrow, Zach Hennings

5/10 Mike & Nikki Moravec, John Sgourakis, Jeff Johannesmeyer

5/17 George Poullos, Paul Bitsos, John & Kathy Treantos

5/31 John & Elaine Berger,

John Birge, Bob Knowles

~ May 2015 ~

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1

2

3

8:30 Matins

9:30 Divine Liturgy

4

7:00pm Choir

Practice

5

6

7:00pm Bible Study

7

6:30 Philoptochos

St. John’s night of

prayer

8

9

9:30 Divine Liturgy

Prophet Isaiah

10 Mother's Day

9:30 Divine Liturgy on

the land

Mother’s Day picnic to

follow

11

6:30pm Parish

Council meeting

12

13

9:30 Divine Liturgy for

St. Ignatius

7:00 Bible Study

14

15

16 Armed Forces

Day

5:30pm Akathist at

St. Nicholas

17

8:30 Matins

9:30 Divine Liturgy

General Assembly

18

7:00pm Choir

Practice

19

LEAVETAKING

OF PASCHA

7:00 Vigil & Divine

Liturgy

20

ASCENSION

7:00pm Vesperal

Divine Liturgy for St.

Constantine and Helen

21

22

23

24

8:30 Matins

9:30 Divine Liturgy

Sunday School

Graduation

25 Memorial Day

Cemetery Visitation

26

27 9:30 Divine Liturgy St.

John the Russian

7:00pm Bible Study

28

29

30

5:00pm Pentecost

Vespers

31HOLY

PENTECOST

8:30 Matins 9:30 Divine Liturgy 4:00 Akathist 5:00 Dinner

Memorial Day

Father Alexander will be visiting

10:00am– West Lawn/Hillcrest, 5701 Center St.

11:00am– Evergreen/Resurrection, 2300 S. 78th St.

Please meet father at the main gate at the assigned times so he can be directed to the grave site

May 2015 11

All Holy Spirit Greek

Orthodox Church 9012 “Q” Street

Omaha, NE 68127-3549 (402) 934-3688 office www.allholyspirit.com

PRESORT

STANDARD

U.S. Postage

PAID

Permit No. 1830

Omaha, NE

Address Service Requested

Faith ................................................. 1

Community Activity .......................... 2 Pascha 2015…………………………….3

Upcoming Events .............................. 4 Christ is Risen ................................... 5

Archbishop Iakovos .......................... 6

Archbishop Demetrios ...................... 7 Community Activity

& Around Omaha………......8 My life in Christ………………………..9

Meet the Church Fathers……………….10 May Calendar …………………………..11

Join us May 10th for

Liturgy on the Land!

Mother’s Day Picnic to follow!