March 14th, 2010


Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading:

http://www.saintjonah.org/bltn/lent4.pdf


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Propers for the Sunday Liturgy:

http://www.saintjonah.org/lit/lit_lent4.htm


Announcements:

If you have not already submitted your response to the Fund-raising appeal for our Phase II building, please do so.


The Schedules of Services for Lent and Holy Week are both now available online, and in the back table of the Church.

The Choir will have a rehearsal immediately following trapeza.

 

There is a container on the back table for donations flowers to decorate the Church on Pascha.  We will be collecting donations through Palm Sunday.

 

On Sunday March 21st, we will host Sunday Evening Lenten Vespers for the parishes to the North of Houston (St. Elias, St. Cyril, and St. Anthony), and will have lenten refreshments afterward.  This will be a 5:00 p.m.

Trapeza:

This Sunday: 3/14/10 (Fast day: Wine and oil permitted) – The Nahlous Family

Next Sunday: 3/21/10 (Fast day: Wine and oil permitted) – The Whiteford Family

Epistle:

This Sunday, 3/14/10:  Benjamin Bryant

 

Next Sunday, 3/21/10:  Rdr. Steven Pennings

 

Altar Servers:

This Sunday, 3/14/10: Rdr. Innocent Reichert; Rich Lippold, Abe Chalhoub, John Bauserman, Panos Stevens.

 

Next Sunday, 3/21/10: Rdr. Innocent Reichert; Benjamin Bryant, Abe Chalhoub, Nick Stevens, Tomas Maldonado.

Commemorations from the past week:

Franchesca (Michelle) Jabbour's Birthday -- Sunday, March 14th.

If you have corrections or additions, e-mail frjohnwhiteford@gmail.com

Prayer Requests:

For the repose of Torsten’s Mother, Gudrun.

 

Thekla Podrasky, who is ill.

For our Phase II Building project.

If you have prayer requests you would like announced, please e-mail frjohnwhiteford@gmail.com

Sunday School:

 

     Toddlers: God, My Friends, and Me.  Taught by Rosa Mahand.

     Younger Children: New Life in the Church.  Taught by Riad and Fayrouz Chalhoub.

 

     Older Children & Teens: The Way, The Truth, and The Life.  The girls class will be taught by Bobbi Bauserman and Titika Stevens.  The boys class will be taught by Bronson Mahand.

 

     Adults: The Gospel of Mark, Introduction. Taught by Fr. John Whiteford.  Read through Mark, chapter 5 to prepare.

     After the Liturgy, Eugenia Charytoniuk will conduct a session with the Toddlers.

Schedule of Services in the Coming week:

 

Wednesday, March 17th

 

6:30 p.m. Matins with the Canon of St. Andrew

of Crete             

 

Friday, March 19th   

 

6:30 p.m. The Service of the Laudation of the

Theotokos

 

Saturday, March 20th    

 

5:00 p.m. Vigil, with confession following

Sunday, March 21st 

 

9:00 a.m. Church School

9:40 a.m. Hours

10:00 a.m. Liturgy

 

 

 

The Schedule of Services for Lent 2010 is posted here:

http://www.saintjonah.org/lent2010.htm

 

The Schedule of Services for Holy Week is posted here:

 

http://www.saintjonah.org/holyweek2010.htm

 

Fasting in the Coming week:

On Monday, March 15th through Thursday, March 18th, wine and oil are allowed.  On Friday, March 19th, wine but not oil is allowed.  On Saturday, March 20th, and Sunday, March 21st, wine and oil are permitted.

Miscellaneous Items of Interest:

You can read “Mental Imagery in Eastern Orthodox Private Devotion” by Fr. Sergei Sveshnikov, here (correct link):

 

http://frsergei.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/mental-imagery-in-eastern-orthodox-private-devotion/

 

You can listen to Part 6 of Deacon Michael Hyatt’s discussion of Fr. Alexander Schmemann’s book Great Lent: Journey to Pascha:

http://ancientfaith.com/podcasts/eastwest/great_lent_part_six


You can also listen to a podcast Orthodox Bible Study series which is conducted by Presbytera Eugenia Constantinou (who is an Orthodox Bible scholar, in addition to being a priest's wife) by going to this page:

http://ancientfaith.com/podcasts/searchthescriptures

You can read about upcoming events at other parishes in the Houston area on this yahoo group:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/orthodox-houston-events/


If you join it, you will get updates mailed directly to you.

Click here for a very nice online Church Calendar with detailed fasting rubrics

 

St. Jonah Orthodox Church

2910 Spring Cypress Rd, Spring, TX 77388

www.saintjonah.org

281-467-0264