COMMEMORATION OF THE MEETING OF THE "VLADIMIR" ICON OF THE MOST HOLY THEOTOKOS AND THE DELIVERANCE OF MOSCOW FROM THE INVASION OF TAMERLANE IN 1395

11TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST

MARTYRS ADRIAN AND NATALIA AND 23 COMPANIONS OF NICOMEDIA (4TH C.)
 SYNAXIS OF ALL SAINTS OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD

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

Prayer List: Mother Raphaela and Arleen (Pauluch)

Sunday, September 8th, Divine Liturgy offered:
For the Health of:  Peter, Anna, Nicholas, Alaric, Natalia, Alexei, Elya, Andrew, Vadim by Seasholtz Fami
For the Memory of Departed servants: +Reader Samuel (Sokoluk, Jr) by Alexei, Lucia and Amelia +Alexander (Sokoluk) on the first anniversary of his falling asleep in the Lord by Alexei, Lucia and Amelia

Flowers on the tetrapod and on the altar are in memory of +Reader Samuel (Sokoluk, Jr.) and +Alexander (Sokoluk) on the first anniversary of his falling asleep in the Lord, by Alexei, Lucia and Amelia. Vechnaya Pamyat! Memory Eternal!

Today we will serve a moleben for the health, academic well being, and furtherance in all good things for all students at the start of the new school year. We will begin the service prior to the veneration of the Cross.

Schedule of services this week:
Sunday, September 8, 11th Sunday After Pentecost Divine Liturgy 9:30 AM
Wednesday, September 11, Beheading of St. John the Baptist, Divine Liturgy at 10 AM
Sunday, September 15, 12th Sunday After Pentecost Divine Liturgy 9:30 AM
Saturday, September 21, Birth of the Virgin Feastday, Divine Liturgy at 10 AM
Sunday, September 22, Synaxis of Sts. Joachim and Anna, Divine Liturgy at 9:30 AM
Friday, September 27, Exaltation of the Cross Feastday, Divine Liturgy at 10 AM


Troparion of the Sunday, Tone II When Thou didst descend to death, O Life immortal, / Thou didst slay hell with the splendor of Thy Godhead! / And when from the depths Thou didst raise the dead, / all the powers of heaven cried out: / O Giver of life, Christ our God, glory to Thee!

Kontakion of the Sunday, Tone II  Hell became afraid, O Almighty Savior, / seeing the miracle of Thy Resurrection from the tomb! / The dead arose! Creation, with Adam, beheld this and rejoiced with Thee! / And the world, O my Savior, praises Thee forever.

Martyrs Adrian and Natalia, Troparion In their sufferings, O Lord,/ Thy martyrs received imperishable crowns from Thee our God;/ for, possessed of Thy might,/ they set at nought the tormentors and crushed the feeble audacity of the demons.// By their supplications save Thou our souls.

Meeting of the "Vladimir" Icon, Troparion, Today the most glorious city of Moscow is adorned, having received thy wonder-working icon like the radiance of the sun; and we, hastening to it and entreating thee, O Mistress, do thus cry out: O all-wondrous Mistress Theotokos, entreat Christ our God, Who became incarnate through thee, that He deliver this city, and all cities and lands where Christians dwell, unharmed by all the assaults of the enemy, and save thou our souls, in that thou art compassionate.

EPISTLE 1 CORINTHIANS 9:2-12 If I am not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. My defense to those who examine me is this: Do we have no right to eat and drink? Do we have no right to take along a believing wife, as do also the other apostles, the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas? Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working? Who ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk of the flock? Do I say these things as a mere man? Or does not the law say the same also? For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it oxen God is concerned about? Or does He say it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written, that he who plows should plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope. If we have sown spiritual things for you, is it a great thing if we reap your material things? If others are partakers of this right over you, are we not even more? Nevertheless we have not used this right, but endure all things lest we hinder the gospel of Christ.

GOSPEL MATTHEW 18:23-35 Therefore the kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. And when he had begun to settle accounts, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. But as he was not able to pay, his master commanded that he be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and that payment be made. The servant therefore fell down before him, saying, 'Master, have patience with me, and I will pay you all.' Then the master of that servant was moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt. But that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii; and he laid hands on him and took him by the throat, saying, 'Pay me what you owe!' So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, 'Have patience with me, and I will pay you all.' And he would not, but went and threw him into prison till he should pay the debt. So when his fellow servants saw what had been done, they were very grieved, and came and told their master all that had been done. Then his master, after he had called him, said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me. 'Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?' And his master was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due to him. So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses.