Nineteenth Sunday of Pentecost

Scripture readings

• Epistle: The Reading is from St. Paul's Second Letter to Timothy 2:1-10


• Gospel: The Reading is from Luke 8:26-39
  

Commemorated Saints

• Glorious Great Martyr St Demetrios, the Myrrh-flowing of Thessalonika
   
• Commemoration of the Great Earthquake at Constantinople in 740 AD
   
• St Eata, Bishop of Hexham and Abbot of Lindisfarne
   
• St Theophilus of the Kievan Caves, Bishop of Novgorod
   

The Living in need of our prayers

• Patriarch Pavle of Serbia
• the Archpriest Ilyan
• Olga (Soroka)
• Kathleen
• Luba
• June
• the newly Baptised Alexander Emil , Romeo , Cristina & Family, Lučiana and Dragoş

The Departed we Commemorated today

• Nicholas
• Irina
• Sarandos
• Julia

Patriarch Pavle

Patriarch Pavle of Serbia has asked the Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church to be released from his duties due to ill health.

The Patriarch, who has served as head of the Serbian Orthodox Church since 1990 was hospitalized for several months ago, suffering from heart and lung problems.

The Holy Synod next meets on November the 11^th.

Orthodox Study Bibles and next years wall calendar

A new shipment of the Orthodox Study Bible has arrived. It is recommended for all Orthodox Christians and those interested in Orthodoxy.

Next years Archdiocesan Calendar will soon be available, price to be announced. They will be available from Fr Ilyan once they arrive.

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