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ST. GEORGE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF PRESCOTT (928) 777-8750

Priest: Fr. John A. Peck Emeritus: Fr. William John Clark

Parish Council: Dr. George Rizk, Vicki Brannock, Raymond Zogob, Kris Wells, Marnie Butts, Kally Key, Mike Winney, Bob Hunt. Choir Director: Pres. Deborah

Find us online at www.prescottorthodox.org

Schedule of Services

Tues. May 25 6:30 pm CV Synodia at the Niarkos Home

Wed. May 26 6 pm Vespers 6:45 pm Parish Council Mtg

Thurs. May 27 10 am Matins 6:30 pm PV Synodia at the Frisby Home

Fri. May 28 10 am Divine Liturgy

Sat. May 29 5 pm Great Vespers

Gyro Booth Weekend is coming up in June 12th and 13th! Keep the dates open, and please sign up early for our semi-annual Gyro Booth event. It’s a lot of fun, and requires a lot of work.

Get ready for a weekend of work, worship, fellowship and fun!

Please note that Divine Liturgy will begin at 9 am on June 13th!

Remember to read your Bible

and pray every day!

Sun. May 23, 2010 Tone 7

The Sunday Of

Pentecost

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Date Readers

5-23 John & Sheila Lakin

5-30 Jelena Timotijevich

Matins Gospel: John 20:19-23

Resurrection Hymn - Tone 7 Thou didst shatter death by Thy Cross. Thou didst open Paradise to the thief. Thou didst turn the sadness of the Myrrhbearing women into joy, And didst bid Thine Apostles proclaim that Thou art Risen, O Christ, granting to the world great mercy.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to

the Holy Spirit,

Hymn of GreatMartyr George - Tone 4 Liberator of captives, defender of the poor, physician of the sick, and champion of kings, O trophy-bearer, Great Martyr George, intercede with Christ God that our souls be

saved.

now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Hymn of the Theotokos - Tone 7 In that you are the treasury of our Resurrection, O all praised One. Lead forth from the bottomless pit of transgressions those who set their hope in you. For you have saved those who were guilty of sin in that you gave birth to our Salvation, O You who, before and after giving birth, were a Virgin.

Instead of the Trisagion, (Gal. 3:27) As many as have been baptized into

Christ have put on Christ!

Prokeimenon in the 7th Tone (Ps 29)

The Lord shall give strength to His people. The Lord shall bless His people with peace!

Offer the Lord, O you sons of God! Offer young rams to the Lord!

Epistle: Acts of the Apostles 2:1-11

I N THOSE DAYS, WHEN THE DAY of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly a sound came from

heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in his own language. And they were amazed and wondered, saying, "Are not all these who are speak-ing Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language? Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontos and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians, we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God." +

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Alleluia in the 7th Tone (Ps 92)

Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to Thy Name, O Most High!

To declare Thy mercy in the morning, and Thy truth by night!

Gospel: John 7:37-52; 8:12

! T THAT TIME, on the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and proclaimed, "If any one

thirst, let him come to me and drink. He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, 'Out of his heart shall flow rivers of

living water.'" Now this he said about the Spirit, which those who believed in him were to receive; for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. When they heard these words, some of the people said, "This is really the prophet." Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "Is the Christ to come from Galilee? Has not the Scripture said that the Christ is descended from David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?" So there was a division among the people over him. Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him. The officers then went back to the chief priest and Pharisees, who said to them, "Why did you not bring him?" The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!" The Pharisees answered them, "Are you led astray, you also? Have any of the authorities or of the Pharisees believed in him? But this crowd, who do not know the law, are accursed." Nikodemos, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them, "Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?" They replied, "Are you from Galilee too? Search and you will see that no prophet is to rise from Galilee." Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world; he who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."+

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LIVING: : : :

James Anthony, Jim Burns, Alex, Sandy, Adrian, Boyd Jackson, Melanie Schlapfer, Steven & Cassandra Landis, Bill Mueller, Judy Raessler, Viola Ham-merstrom, John Berkholtz, Kris Wells, Helen Vlahakis, Dr. & Mrs. Oden, Mr & Mrs Seth Burgess, Ovi Lungu, Bill Kountanis, Darrell and Patty Bostic, Deon Christensen and family, Helen Ko, Helen Shugrue, Campbell Mackenzie, Betty Dudney, Fr. Alexis Washington, Will Degenhart & family, Nathan & Mer-ilee Peck, Sky Rizk, Dumitri Popita, Susan Hill, Tanya, Darlene, Glenn, Fr. Hans & Susan Jacobse, Fr. John Stavropoulos, Fr. Earl Cantos, Fr. Bill Clark, Tom & Geris Kourkoumelis, Kristi & Dan Thanos, Philip Winney, Lindsay, Gail & Vicki Bran-nock, George Peter Rizk, Steve & Robin Hyduke, Barbara Wright, Boyd Jackson, Marnie Butts, Luke Glen, Charity Books, Kathy Hunt, the Borza family, Elizabeth, Seraphima, Macrina, Mary, Silas, Fr. Daniel & Theresa, Gray, Susana, Robert, Kayla, Briana, Joel, Kelsey, Shaun, Theresa, Chris’ 2 grandmothers, Raymond Zogob’s father,

DEPARTED:

Elizabeth Higbee, Janet Maissen, James, Abp Job, Abp Anthony, Don, Anastasia Jones, Jack Christensen, Ethel Hunt, Child Nicholas, John, Delores, Lydia (Letitia) Preda, Fr. Gabriel Cooke, Richard & Larry Peck, Chuck, Lisa Coving-ton, Andrew Lubnick, Dennis Kontanis, Julia Sedon, Ariel Borza, Michael Hicha, Tom Pallad, Peter Rizk; Demos Vlahakis; Rhonda Dawson; Nicholas, Peter, Kay, Shirley, George Cosmakos, Andrew De-genhart, Annuncio Aaflaq; Bishop Inno-cent (Gula); Fr. Michael St. Andrew.

Parish Prayer List Have Mercy, O Lord, on your servants,Have Mercy, O Lord, on your servants,Have Mercy, O Lord, on your servants,Have Mercy, O Lord, on your servants, Give Rest, O Lord, to your servants, Give Rest, O Lord, to your servants, Give Rest, O Lord, to your servants, Give Rest, O Lord, to your servants,

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Visitors We are happy that you joined us today, and we want you to know the following;

• Visitors and children are always welcome at all of our worship services.

• You won't be asked to do anything that would make you uncomfortable.

• We don't expect visitors to contribute anything financially support our parish.

• Our children worship with us, and we love having them here.

If you are an Orthodox Christian, please introduce yourself to Fr. John before the service begins, so that, if possible, you may receive the Holy Mysteries of our Lord Jesus Christ.

If you are not an Orthodox Christian, we invite you to partake of the blessed bread distributed at the end of the service, to fill out a “Welcome” card (available in the Narthex), and to join us after the service for some hospitality!

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SAINTS ALIVE The Lives and Deeds of the Heroes of our Faith

St. Michael the Black Robed

The Saint who refused to sin against virtue or his faith.

Hieromartyr Michael the Black-Robed lived in the ninth century, and came from the city of Edessa (Mesopotamia) of Christian parents. He was a zealous disciple of St Theodore of Edessa (July 9).

He distributed to the poor the inheri-tance left him by his parents, then went to Jerusalem to venerate the Holy Places.

Jerusalem at the time was under the control of the Muslims. St Michael remained in Palestine and settled in the monastery of St Sava. Once, he was sent from the monastery to Jerusalem to sell goods for the monks. At the market-place, the eunuch of the Muslim empress Seida, seeing that the monas-tery goods were both fine and well-made, took him along to the empress.

The young monk caught the fancy of the empress, who tried to lead him into sin, but her intent proved to be in vain.

Then by order of the enraged Seida they beat the monk with rods, and then ac-cused him of being an enemy of Islam.

Having interrogated the monk, the em-peror began to urge him to accept the Moslem faith, but St Michael answered, "I implore you, either send me back to the monastery to my instructor, or be baptized in our Christian Faith, or cut off my head, and then I shall go to Christ my God." The emperor gave the saint a cup with deadly poison, which St Michael drank and remained unharmed. After this the emperor gave orders to cut off his head.

The death of the martyr occurred in Jerusalem, but the monks of the monas-tery of St Sava took the body of the saint to their Lavra and buried it there with reverence. At the beginning of the twelfth century the relics of the holy martyr were seen there by Daniel, the igumen of the Kiev Caves monastery, while on pilgrimage to the Holy Places.

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