HOLY RESURRECTION ORTHODOX CHURCH
10201 DEMOCRACY BOULEVARD
POTOMAC, MARYLAND 20854
www.holyresurrection.com
Very Reverend Father Miles Paul Zdinak - (301) 299-5120, Hall & Fax - (301) 983-0847
April 15, 2007 “Gregorian” | April 02, 2007 “Julian”
Saint Thomas Sunday: Acts of The Apostles 5:12 - 20 | John 20:19 - 31
Christ Is Risen! Indeed He Is Risen!
Services: April 16 - 21, Sundays: 10:00 a.m., Daily Liturgy: (as scheduled) 9 a.m., Eve of Feasts: 7 p.m.
Saturday: Baptism of Stella Madeline Hallberg – 1:00 p.m.
Confessions can be heard on Sunday after the Divine Liturgy or prior to the Liturgy by appointment.
First Confession Class
Those preparing for their First Confession will meet on Saturday, May 5, for final instruction and the Mystery of Confession. They will be honored at the Liturgy on Sunday, May 6.
Spring Bake
There is kolbassi and a few bake items from the bake still available. Please see Debi Myers, Irene Dzubak, or Father if you want any of these items from the baking.
Egg Hunt
On behalf of the parish, I would like to thank the Sr. ACRY and Nick & Cyndi Dzubak for sponsoring the children’s Egg Hunt last Sunday. Even though it was cold, the children had a lot of fun. God Bless and Christ Is Risen!
Family Day
This year’s Camp Nazareth Family Day will be held on Sunday, June 3. The tickets for the Family Day Raffle are also available. Please see Chris Hudack to purchase a ticket.
Social Concerns
The Social Concerns Committee is sponsoring a food drive to aid The Manna Food Center. The purpose of the drive is to collect items which will provide nutritious and kid-friendly foods for children. You can help by donating items that are found on the flyer posted in the hall. The container is located in the hall for these items.
Bake Meeting
There will be a meeting on Sunday, May 20, following the Divine Liturgy to discuss the baking for the Fall of this year. Suggestions, input, insight, are all welcome. Plus, everyone is invited to attend.
Deanery Three D
The Washington Deanery DDD dinner is April 29. Donations can now be given through the parish or directly to the diocese. Your donation of $100.00 or more goes to benefit Camp Nazareth. Please make note of the change of date and make plans to attend this year’s Three D dinner.
Iconastas Project
There is a donation form which has information about the Iconastas Project in the hall. The project will extend the current wood work and add doors. You can use this form to make a donation towards the project or you can use a regular envelope.
Jr. ACRY
The Jr. ACRY is going bowling on Sunday, April 22, following the Liturgy. The Jr. ACRY will pay for the lanes for any and all of the children who would like to go bowling, members and non-members alike.
Paschal Season
There is no kneeling from now until Pentecost.
Camp Forms
Our Deanery’s camp week at Camp Nazareth, in Mercer, PA, is July 15 - 21. Children who are ages 8 - 18 are eligible to attend. Registration forms and booklets with information on the camp week are in the hall. The children who attend camp not only learn about their faith. They make friends that last a life time.
Also, the Camp employment forms for those who are of college age or older, who are interested in working at the camp this summer, are available. The camp is a great place to work and to live and learn about your faith. See Father if you have a question.
Prayer List
Please keep in your prayers all those who are ill:
Metropolitan Nicholas: Healing
Les Miller: Improved Health
Steve Sheftic: Healing
Rudy Kormanik: Healing & Recovery
Jason Janowick: Improved Health
Lois Erhard: Improved Health
Mary Ann Muchesko: Healing & Recovery
Ivan Pop: Improved Health
Pañi Yvonne Lysack: Healing
Carol Miller: Healing
John Kloss: Healing & Recovery
Mary Kesselak: Improved Health
Daniel Kormanik: Healing & Recovery
Marge Chica: Healing & Recovery
Alexandra Delare: Health & Healing
Fr. Ronald Hazuda: Healing & Recovery
Michael Hall: Healing & Recovery
Fr. David Wine: Improved Health
Fr. Stephen Jula: Improved Health
Ann Thear: Healing & Recovery
Ronald Koval: Improved Health
Matthew Muhlenberg: Healing & Recovery
Cindy Russell: Healing
Deborah Delare: Healing & Recovery
Mary Matuga: Healing & Recovery
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Bible Lecture
Fr. Peter Gillquist will talk at a day retreat held on Saturday, April 28, at St Nicholas Cathedral in DC, on the Bible in the life of an Orthodox Christian. Please see the flyer in the hall for details.
Sunday of Saint Thomas
Though the doors were shut at the dwelling where the disciples were gathered for fear of the Jews on the evening of the Sunday after the Passover, our Saviour wondrously entered and stood in their midst, and greeted them with His customary words, "Peace be unto you." Then He showed unto them His hands and feet and side; furthermore, in their presence, He took some fish and a honeycomb and ate before them, and thus assured them of His bodily Resurrection. But Thomas, who was not then present with the others, did not believe their testimony concerning Christ's rising from the dead, but said in a decisive manner, "Except I shall see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into His side, I will not believe." Wherefore after eight days, that is, on this day, when the disciples were again gathered together and Thomas was with them, the Lord Jesus came while the doors were shut, as He did formerly. Standing in their midst, He said, "Peace be unto you"; then He said to Thomas, "Bring hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and bring hither thy hand, and thrust it into My side: and be not unbelieving, but believing."
And Thomas, beholding and examining carefully the hands and side of the Master, cried out with faith, "My Lord and my God." Thus he clearly proclaimed the two natures (human and divine) of the God/man (Luke 24:36-49; John 20:19-29).
This day is called Antipascha (meaning "in the stead of Pascha," not "in opposition to Pascha") because with this day, the first Sunday following Pascha, the Church consecrates every Sunday of the year to the commemoration of Pascha, that is, the Resurrection.
Christ Is Risen!
Indeed He Is Risen!
