14TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
TRANSLATION OF THE RELICS OF ST. PETER, METROPOLITAN OF KIEV (1479)
SYNAXIS OF ALL SAINTS OF MOSCOW
HIEROMARTYR EUTYCHIUS (1ST C.) DISCIPLE OF ST. JOHN THE THEOLOGIAN

Confessions heard, Third and Sixth Hours, 9:00 AM
Divine Liturgy – 9:30 AM

Sunday, September 6th, Divine Liturgy offered:
For the Health of:
Igumen Savvatey by Fr. Gregory
Peter, Anna, Nicholas, Alaric, Natalia, Alexei, Elya, Andrew, Vadim (Yukhnavets/Seasholtz) by Seasholtz Family

For the Memory of Departed servants:
+Eleanor (Patrick Bokonok) newly departed by James Patrick and Janet Patrick Weber
+Reader Samuel (Sokoluk, Jr) by Alexei, Lucia & Amelia
+Alexander (Sokoluk) by Alexei, Lucia and Amelia

Services Schedule:
• Sunday September 6 – Divine Liturgy 9:30 AM
• Friday September 11 – Beheading of St. John the Baptist Divine Liturgy 10:00 AM
• Sunday September 13 – Divine Liturgy 9:30 AM, Moleben for Students on the Start of the New School Year
• Monday September 21 – Birth of the Theotokos Divine Liturgy 10:00 AM

Strict Fast on Friday, September 11th, the Beheading of the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John

Troparion of the Sunday, Tone V Let us, the faithful, praise and worship the Word, / Co-eternal with the Father and the Spirit, / born for our salvation from the Virgin, / for He willed to be lifted up on the cross in the flesh, / to endure death / and to raise the dead by His glorious resurrection.

Kontakion of the Sunday, Tone V Thou didst descend into hell, O my Savior, / shattering its gates as almighty; / resurrecting the dead as Creator, / and destroying the sting of death. / Thou hast delivered Adam from the curse, O Lover of Man, / and we all cry to Thee: "O Lord, save us!"

EPISTLE 2 CORINTHIANS 1:21-2:4 Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God, who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee. Moreover I call God as witness against my soul, that to spare you I came no more to Corinth. Not that we have dominion over your faith, but are fellow workers for your joy; for by faith you stand. But I determined this within myself, that I would not come again to you in sorrow. For if I make you sorrowful, then who is he who makes me glad but the one who is made sorrowful by me? And I wrote this very thing to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow over those from whom I ought to have joy, having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all. For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you, with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have so abundantly for you.

GOSPEL MATTHEW 22:1-14 And Jesus answered and spoke to them again by parables and said: The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who arranged a marriage for his son, and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding; and they were not willing to come. Again, he sent out other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited, See, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fatted cattle are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding." ' But they made light of it and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his business. And the rest seized his servants, treated them spitefully, and killed them. But when the king heard about it, he was furious. And he sent out his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city. Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy. 'Therefore go into the highways, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding.' So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together all whom they found, both bad and good. And the wedding hall was filled with guests. But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man there who did not have on a wedding garment. So he said to him, 'Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?' And he was speechless. Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.' For many are called, but few are chosen.