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A Pan-Orthodox ministry that displays Christian love, mercy and compassion to the individuals, families and facilities it serves.

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A Pan-Orthodox ministry that displays Christian love, mercy and compassion to the individuals, families and facilities it serves.

Prayer List for the Week of July 24, 2022

Gerald Largent

For healing: Fr. Andrew, Fr. Daniel, Fr. Gregory, Matushka Katherine, Matushka Myra, Monk Meletios, Ross, Justin, Steven, Marian, Roger, Claire, Patricia, Mark, Nikolai, Anastasia, Alice, Kathleen, Denise, Denise, Pamela, Robert, Peter, Eric, Marianne, Ryan, Joanne, Marianne, Emily, Charles, Hank, Nicholas, Katrina, Mary Jane, Nicholas, Alicia, Mary Jo, Clara, Joan, Nicholas, Barbara, Margaret, Susan, Danielle, Nicholas, Tricia, Kathleen, Walter, Patty, Darlene, George, Paul, Michael, Darina, Robert, Diana, George, Artemis, Natalie, Julia, Arthur, Dorina, Bea, Helen, Helena, Robert, Elizabeth, Rita, John, Joyce, Nicole, Patricia, Rene, Jennifer, Pat, Eleni, Dorina, Elena, Lori

For God’s protection: all captives; all persecuted Christians throughout the world

For God’s protection: all those in the military

For God’s mercy and peace: those who are in hospice care

For God’s mercy, direction and protection: those who are unemployed, poor, hungry and/or homeless

 *** We pray for: those who love us; those who hate us; those who have no one to pray for them; those who have asked us to pray for them, even though we are unworthy. ***

 Departed: Michele, Mary, David, Vasiliki

Readings for the Week of July 24, 2022

Gerald Largent

7/24: Romans 12:6-14; Matthew 9:1-8

7/25: Galatians 4:22-31; Luke 8:16-21

7/26: 1 Corinthians 6:20-7:12; Matthew 14:1-13

7/27: 2 Timothy 2:1-10; Mark 10:29-31, 42-45

7/28: 1 Corinthians 7:12-35; Matthew 14:35-15:21

7/29: 1 Corinthians 7:35-8:7; Matthew 15:29-31

7/30: Romans 12:1-3; Matthew 10:37-11:1

Words from the Saints -- July 21, 2022

Gerald Largent

"These three things God requires of all the baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, abstinence in the body." --St. Gregory the Theologian

"Arise, O soul that has grown old in sins, and renew yourself with repentance. From contrition and tears mix yourself an ointment and heal the wounds of the fallen image in you." --St. Ephraim the Syrian

"Those who have grieved the Holy Spirit...will, according to one of the Evangelists, be completely 'cut asunder', which means utter separation from the Spirit:...the eternal alienation of the soul from the spirit...Thus 'in hell there is no one who confesses, no one in death who remembers God,' because the help of the Spirit is no longer available." --St. Basil the Great

"There are three things which produce love of material wealth: self-indulgence, self-esteem and lack of faith. Lack of faith is more dangerous than the other two." --St. Maximos the Confessor

Prayer List for the Week of July 17, 2022

Gerald Largent

For healing: Fr. Andrew, Fr. Daniel, Fr. Gregory, Matushka Katherine, Matushka Myra, Monk Meletios, Ross, Justin, Steven, Marian, Roger, Claire, Patricia, Mark, Nikolai, Anastasia, Alice, Kathleen, Denise, Denise, Pamela, Robert, Peter, Eric, Marianne, Ryan, Joanne, Marianne, Emily, Charles, Hank, Nicholas, Katrina, Mary Jane, Nicholas, Alicia, Mary Jo, Clara, Joan, Nicholas, Barbara, Margaret, Susan, Danielle, Nicholas, Tricia, Kathleen, Walter, Patty, Darlene, George, Paul, Michael, Darina, Robert, Diana, George, Artemis, Natalie, Julia, Arthur, Dorina, Bea, Helen, Helena, Robert, Elizabeth, Rita, John, Joyce, Nicole, Patricia, Rene, Jennifer, Pat, Eleni, Dorina, Elena

For God’s protection: all captives; all persecuted Christians throughout the world

For God’s protection: all those in the military

For God’s protection: Rita, Luke and their unborn child

For God’s mercy and peace: those who are in hospice care

For God’s mercy, direction and protection: those who are unemployed, poor, hungry and/or homeless

*** We pray for: those who love us; those who hate us; those who have no one to pray for them; those who have asked us to pray for them, even though we are unworthy. ***

Departed: Michele, Mary, David, Vasiliki

Readings for the Week of July 17, 2022

Gerald Largent

7/17: Romans 10:1-10; Hebrews 13:7-16; Matthew 8:28-9:1; John 17:1-13

7/18: Romans 16:17-24; Matthew 13:10-23

7/19: 1 Corinthians 1:1-9; 2:9-3:8; Matthew 13:24-36

7/20: James 5:10-20; Luke 4:22-30

7/21: 1 Corinthians 3:18-23; 4:5-8; Matthew 13:36-54

7/22: 1 Corinthians 9:2-12; Luke 8:1-3

7/23: Romans 9:1-5; Matthew 9:18-26

Words from the Saints – July 14, 2022

Gerald Largent

"Watch your heart during all your life—examine it, listen to it, and see what prevents its union with the most blessed Lord. Let this be for you the science of all sciences, and with God’s help you will easily observe what estranges you from God, and what draws you towards Him and unites you to Him. It is the evil spirit more than anything else that stands between our hearts and God; he estranges God from us by various passions, or by the desires of the flesh, by the desires of the eyes, and by worldly pride." --St. John of Kronstadt

"If you pray truly, you will receive assurances of many things, and angels will come to you as they came to Daniel, and will enlighten you with understanding of causes, the wherefore of all things." --St. Nilus of Sinai

"Brethren, let us endeavor to be a holy material for a holy house of the Kingdom of Christ which He builds day and night that He, by the end of time, finishes it completely." --St. Nikolai Velimirovich

"God, heal your creature, that he not be ruled by the enemy." --St. Poemen

Prayer List for the Week of July 10, 2022

Gerald Largent

For healing: Fr. Andrew, Fr. Daniel, Fr. Gregory, Matushka Katherine, Matushka Myra, Monk Meletios, Ross, Justin, Steven, Marian, Roger, Claire, Patricia, Mark, Nikolai, Anastasia, Alice, Kathleen, Denise, Denise, Pamela, Robert, Peter, Eric, Marianne, Ryan, Joanne, Marianne, Emily, Charles, Hank, Nicholas, Katrina, Mary Jane, Nicholas, Alicia, Mary Jo, Clara, Joan, Nicholas, Barbara, Margaret, Susan, Danielle, Nicholas, Tricia, Kathleen, Walter, Patty, Darlene, George, Paul, Michael, Darina, Robert, Diana, George, Artemis, Natalie, Julia, Arthur, Dorina, Bea, Helen, Helena, Robert, Elizabeth, Rita, John, Joyce, Nicole, Patricia, Rene, Jennifer, Pat, Eleni, Elena

For God’s protection: all captives; all persecuted Christians throughout the world

For God’s protection: all those in the military

For God’s protection: Rita, Luke and their unborn child

For God’s mercy and peace: those who are in hospice care

For God’s mercy, direction and protection: those who are unemployed, poor, hungry and/or homeless

*** We pray for: those who love us; those who hate us; those who have no one to pray for them; those who have asked us to pray for them, even though we are unworthy. ***

Departed: Michele, Mary, David, Vasiliki, Irene, Maria

Readings for the Week of July 10, 2022

Gerald Largent

7/10: Romans 6:18-23; Matthew 8:5-13

7/11: 2 Corinthians 6:1-10; Luke 7:36-50

7/12: Romans 12:4-5, 15-21; 14:9-18; Matthew 12:9-16, 22-30

7/13: Romans 15:7-16; Matthew 12:38-45

7/14: Romans 15:17-29; 16:1-16; Matthew 12:46-13:9

7/15: Galatians 1:11-19; John 10:1-9

7/16: Romans 8:14-21; Matthew 9:9-13

Words from the Saints – July 7, 2022

Gerald Largent

"Holiness is not simply righteousness, for which the righteous merit the enjoyment of blessedness in the Kingdom of God, but rather such a height of righteousness that men are filled with the grace of God to the extent that it flows from them upon those who associate with them. Great is their blessedness; it proceeds from personal experience of the Glory of God. Being filled also with love for men, which proceeds from love of God, they are responsive to men’s needs, and upon their supplication they appear also as intercessors and defenders for them before God." --St. John (Maximovitch) of San Francisco

"True, one may know man’s final goal: communion with God. And one may describe the path to it: faith, and walking in the commandments, with the aid of divine grace. One need only say in addition: here is the path-start walking!" --St. Theophan The Recluse

"Just as water and fire cannot be combined, so self-justification and humility exclude one another." --St. Mark the Ascetic

"In the eyes of the sovereign Judge the merit of our actions depends on the motives which prompted them." --St. Gregory the Great

"With what hope will we meet Christ if we are still enslaved to the pleasures of the flesh?" --St. Thalassios the Libyan

"On our own, without Divine help, we are not even capable of praying. We cannot pray as needed, and we do not know how to pray or what to pray for." --St. Nikon of Optina

Typica Service on July 4, 2022: St. Andrew of Crete

Gerald Largent

Glory to Jesus Christ! Glory Forever!

Today is July 4, 2022. On this day of the month the Orthodox Church commemorates St. Andrew the Hymnographer, Archbishop of Crete.

The prescribed readings are Romans 9:18-33 and Matthew 11:2-15.

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