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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 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.

*** Our next live broadcast on Facebook will be tomorrow, July 5, at 7pm (Eastern). ***

Prayer List for the Week of July 3, 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, Patricia, Danielle, Nicholas, Tricia, Christopher, Kathleen, Walter, Patty, Darlene, George, Paul, Michael, Darina, Robert, Diana, George, Artemis, Natalie, Julia, Arthur, Dorina, Bea, Helen, Helena, Robert, Elizabeth, Rita, Lillian, James, John, Joyce, Nicole, Patricia, Rene, Jennifer, Pat, Eleni, Christina

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, Irene, Maria, Vasiliki

Readings for the Week of July 3, 2022

Gerald Largent

7/3: Romans 5:1-10; Matthew 6:22-33

7/4: Romans 9:18-33; Matthew 11:2-15

7/5: Romans 10:11-11:2; Matthew 11:16-20

7/6: Romans 11:2-12; Matthew 11:20-26

7/7: Romans 11:13-24; Matthew 11:27-30

7/8: Romans 11:25-36; Matthew 12:1-8

7/9: Romans 6:11-17; Matthew 8:14-23

Typica Service on July 1, 2022:

Gerald Largent

Glory to Jesus Christ! Glory Forever!

Today is July 1, 2022. On this day of the month the Orthodox Church commemorates the Holy Wonderworking Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian, at Rome.

The prescribed readings are Romans 9:6-19 and Matthew 10:32-36; 11:1.

*** Our next live broadcast on Facebook will be on Monday, July 4, at 8am (Eastern). ***

Words from the Saints – June 30, 2022

Gerald Largent

"Cease rebuking a man who has stopped sinning and who has repented. If you say that you are rebuking him in God's name, first reveal the evils in yourself." --St. Mark the Ascetic

"Cursed be he who looks for the refreshment of the body before that of the soul. Let us pray, let us sing, let us do our duty to God, and then we will hasten to the vineyard." --St. Hilarion

"If you would know of the Lord’s love for us, hate sin and evil thoughts, and day and night pray fervently. The Lord will then give you His grace, and you will know Him through the Holy Spirit, and after death, when you enter into paradise, there too, you will know the Lord through the Holy Spirit, as you knew Him on earth." --St. Silouan of Mt. Athos

"Our alms are judged not by the measure of our gifts, but by the largeness of our heart." --St. John Chrysostom

"If you have anything against any man, forgive it: you come here to receive forgiveness of sins, and you also must forgive him that has sinned against you. Else with what face will you say to the Lord, "Forgive me my many sins," if you have not yourself forgiven your fellow-servant even his little sins." --St. Cyril of Jerusalem

"God judges our intention, but in that which is within our power He, in man-befriending wise, also requires us to act. Great is he who leaves undone nothing that is within his power; but greater is he who humbly attempts what is beyond his power." --St. John Climacus

"A helpful word indicates an understanding mind; a good action reveals a saint-like soul." --St. Thalassios the Libyan