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733 Starkweather Ave.Cleveland, Ohio 44113

Mailing:733 Starkweather Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44113

T 216 741.1310F 216 623 1092www.sttheodosius.org

• Archpriest John Zdinak Dean

• Dn. Daniel Boerio

• Subdeacon Theodore Lentz Sacristan

• Reader Julius Kovach Ecclesiarch & Choirmaster

Divine ServicesEve Sundays & Feast Days5:00 PM Confessions6:00 PM Great Vespers

Sundays and Feast Days8:40 AM 3rd and 6th Hour9:00 AM Divine Liturgy

Fr. John Office HoursTuesday & Wednesday10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

*Articles for publication in the AMBO should be sub-mitted to:AMBO@sttheodosius.org by Wednesday of each week before noon.

AmboST. THEODOSIUS ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL

August 16, 200910th Sunday After Pentecost

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The Transfer from Edessa to Constantinople of the Icon of our Lord Jesus Christ Not-Made-by-Hands occurred in the year 944.

Eusebius, in his HISTORY OF THE CHURCH (I:13), relates that when the Savior was preaching, Abgar ruled in Edessa. He was

stricken all over his body with leprosy. Reports of the great miracles worked by the Lord spread throughout Syria (Mt.4:24) and

reached even Abgar. Without having seen the Savior, Abgar believed in Him as the Son of God. He wrote a letter requesting Him to

come and heal him. He sent with this letter to Palestine his own portrait-painter Ananias, and commissioned him to paint a likeness

of the Divine Teacher.

Ananias arrived in Jerusalem and saw the Lord surrounded by people. He was not able to get close to Him because of the large

throng of people listening to the preaching of the Savior. Then he stood on a high rock and attempted to paint the portrait of the

Lord Jesus Christ from afar, but this effort was not successful. The Savior saw him, called to him by name and gave him a short

letter for Abgar in which He praised the faith of this ruler. He also promised to send His disciple to heal him of his leprosy and guide

him to salvation.

Then the Lord asked that water and a cloth be brought to Him. He washed His Face, drying it with the cloth, and His Divine Coun-

tenance was imprinted upon it. Ananias took the cloth and the letter of the Savior to Edessa. Reverently, Abgar pressed the holy

object to his face and he received partial healing. Only a small trace of the terrible affliction remained until the arrival of the disciple

promised by the Lord. He was St Thaddeus, Apostle of the Seventy (August 21), who preached the Gospel and baptized Abgar and

all the people of Edessa. Abgar put the Holy Napkin in a gold frame adorned with pearls, and placed it in a niche over the city gates.

On the gateway above the icon he inscribed the words, "O Christ God, let no one who hopes on Thee be put to shame."

For many years the inhabitants kept a pious custom to bow down before the Icon Not-Made-by-Hands, when they went forth from

the gates. But one of the great-grandsons of Abgar, who later ruled Edessa, fell into idolatry. He decided to take down the icon from

the city wall. In a vision the Lord ordered the Bishop of Edessa to hide His icon. The bishop, coming by night with his clergy, lit a

lampada before it and walled it up with a board and with bricks.

Many years passed, and the people forgot about it. But in the year 545, when the Persian emperor Chozroes I besieged Edessa

and the position of the city seemed hopeless, the Most Holy Theotokos appeared to Bishop Eulabius and ordered him to remove

the icon from the sealed niche, and it would save the city from the enemy. Having opened the niche, the bishop found the Icon Not-

Made-by-Hands: in front of it was burning the lampada, and upon the board closing in the niche, a copy of the icon was repro-

duced. After a church procession with the Icon Not-Made-by-Hands had made the circuit of the city walls, the Persian army with-

drew.

In the year 630 Arabs seized Edessa, but they did not hinder the veneration of the Holy Napkin, the fame of which had spread

throughout all the East. In the year 944, the emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitos (912-959) wanted to transfer the icon to the

Constantinople, and he paid a ransom for it to the emir of the city. With great reverence the Icon of the Savior Not-Made-by-Hands

and the letter which He had written to Abgar, were brought to Constantinople by clergy.

On August 16, the icon of the Savior was placed in the Tharossa church of the Most Holy Theotokos. There are several traditions

concerning what happened later to the Icon Not-Made-by-Hands. According to one, crusaders ran off with it duringtheir rule at

Constantinople (1204-1261), but the ship on which the sacred object was taken, perished in the waters of the Sea of Marmora.

According to another tradition, the Icon Not-Made-by-Hands was transported around 1362 to Genoa, where it is preserved in a

monastery in honor of the Apostle Bartholomew. It is known that the Icon Not-Made-by-Hands repeatedly gave from itself exact

imprints. One of these, named "On Ceramic," was imprinted when Ananias hid the icon in a wall on his way to Edessa; another, im-

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printed on a cloak, wound up in Georgia. Possibly, the variance of traditions about the original Icon Not-Made-by-Hands derives

from the existence of several exact imprints.

During the time of the Iconoclast heresy, those who defended the veneration of icons, having their blood spilt for holy icons, sang

the Troparion to the Icon Not-Made-by-Hands. In proof of the validity of Icon-Veneration, Pope Gregory II (715-731) sent a letter to

the Byzantine emperor, in which he pointed out the healing of King Abgar and the sojourn of the Icon Not-Made-by-Hands at

Edessa as a commonly known fact. The Icon Not-Made-by-Hands was put on the standards of the Russian army, defending them

from the enemy. In the Russian Orthodox Church it is a pious custom for a believer, before entering the temple, to read the

Troparion of the Not-Made-by-Hand icon of the Savior, together with other prayers.

According to the Prologue, there are four known Icons of the Savior Not-Made-by-Hands:

at Edessa, of King Abgar (August 16)

the Kamulian, -- St Gregory of Nyssa (January 10) wrote of its discovery, while according to St Nicodemus of the Holy

Mountain (July 14), the Kamulian icon appeared in the year 392, but it had in appearance an icon of the Mother of God (August 9)

in the time of Emperor Tiberius (578-582), St Mary Syncletike (August 11) received healing from this on ceramic tiles (16

August)

The Feast of the Transfer of the Icon Not-Made-by-Hands, made together with the Afterfeast of the Dormition,

they call the third-above Savior Icon, the "Savior on Linen Cloth." The particular reverence of this Feast in the

Russian Orthodox Church is also expressed in iconography, and the Icon Not-Made-by-Hands was one of the

most widely distributed

BIBLE READINGS FOR THE WEEK OF August 16

August 16 1 Cor. 4:9-16 Matt: 17:14-23

August 17 2 Cor. 2:4-15 Matt. 23:13-22

August 18 2 Cor. 2:14-3:3 Matt. 23:23-28

August 19 2 Cor. 3:4-11 Matt. 23:29-39

August 20 2 Cor. 4:1-6 Matt. 13:-28

August 21 2 Cor. 4:13-18 Matt. 24:27-33, Matt 24:42-51 August 22 1 Cor. 1:3-9 Matt. 19:3-12

Dome Lighters Donations to offset the cost of lighting the domes can be made for the health of

or in memory of your loved ones. Contact the Parish Office if you are interested.

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PRAYER REQUESTS

DEPARTED:Roberta Gracenin + 7/05/09Army Sergeant First ClassJason Fabrizi + 7/13/09

(Nephew of Albert Jacob Casey) Jean Twitchell + 7/15/09

Ill Afflicted & Special IntentionsFr. Michael ConradFr. Anthony DimitriFr. Stephen JulaHelen AntonikDan ArangelovichJerry ArangelovichAlice ArtinoHelen BaldnerJohn BaranichCarol BohurjakJohn ConradElena Dascalescu (Lavinia’s mother)

Eugene ErhardtTony EschukAnthony & Nikol GammaloLarry GindlespergerJulia GrabowskiMaria HanzelDonna Jacak

Paul Kappanadze (son of Fr. JasonKappanadze)

Sarah KerseyDorothy LaskovichPaul LaskovichShane, Sierra and Taylor McNeillyBrian Nemec (Frank Tkacz’s Godson)Walter & Grace Parhamovich(Karen Felon’s parents)David Roman (Nephew of Margaret Rusynyk)Mary Ann SilberhornElsie SudnickDamian TylerDonald Tipka

Hannah Ward (God Child of Fr. Andrew Stevens)Harrison Ward (God Child of Fr. Andrew Stevens)Deborah WojniczWayne YurikHelen Zawisza (Joseph Rusynyk’s sister)Julia ZimmermanDenise Zweifel(Sister of Marshall Prock)

Erik & Gwen Hasselquist & Unborn Child

CONGRATULATIONS TO:Russell Carleton & Tanya Klimova& Newborn Natalia Born on June 11, 2009

CATECHUMENS: Erik & Gwen Hasselquist

TODAY!! 1:00 PM ~ 7:00 PM

PARISH PICNIC FOCA will provide games for kids.

Please bring a covered potluck dish to share. We will provide burgers, hot dogs, buns and some beverages.

We look forward to seeing you!

MERRICK HOUSE THANK YOU to everyone who contributed to

the school supply drive for Merrick House! May God bless each of you. Dan Morris, Charities Committee

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Welcome VisitorsOur parish welcomes you and thanks you for joining us at today’s Divine Liturgy. While only Orthodox Christians may approach the chalice for Holy Communion,

everyone is welcome to partake of the Holy Bread after Liturgy. You are also invited to join us for fellowship in the Parish Hall following Liturgy.

For your convenience, we will have HOMEMADE

APRICOT, NUT and POPPYSEED ROLLS for sale at every

Sunday’s Coffee Hour.

The price is $8.00. Homemade rolls are also

available at the Ridge Manor Party Center. Please call

Sharon Glagola at: 216-749-5509.

GOD’S GIFTS TO US - OUR GIFTS TO GOD

Weekly expenses: $ 6,538.00 Last week’s collection $ 4,021.00 Over/Under < $ 2,517.00 >

AttendanceMembers 92 Visitors 10

Total 102

COFEE HOUR & GREETERS SCHEDULES Coffee Hour Hosts: Greeters: 08/16/09 Donna Jacak Linda Smotzer, Sonia Vorell

08/23/09 Mat. Jeanne Homik, Mat. Cindy Zdinak Debby Pinta/Paul Pangrace

Mat. Jennifer Boerio

08/30/09 Joyce Tabeling Phyllis Gindlesperger/Virginia Medvec

09/06/09 Nick & Kate Zoikoff Debby Pinta/Maria Broslawik

09/13/09 Alex & Deborah Wojnicz Eileen Bondor

Parish Council News

Parish Council Meeting Tuesday, August 18 at 6:00 PM

@ Ridge Manor

FOCASt. Vladimir Camp & Retreat Center Fundraiser

Are you looking for spring bulbs to plant this fall? The Ohio District FOCA has an assortment of twelve different types of bulbs to plant - available $10.00 per set. It is a 50/50 split for the camp.

Fundraiser Deadline is August 23. See Darrell L. Felon to place your order.

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FOCA ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP PICNIC

MEETING/DRIVEThursday, August 27, 6:00 PM MEMPHIS METRO PARK PAVILION

(Memphis & Tiedeman Roads) Present and new members - ALL ARE WELCOME -

Contact Darrell Felon at 440-238-3837. FOCA provides burgers and hot dogs. Please bring a covered dish.

We look forward to seeing you!

IOCC BASEBALL NIGHT Progressive Field

Friday, September 4, 4:05 PMCleveland Indians vs. Minnesota Twins

Mezzanine Seats$22.00

Great FIREWORKS after the game......see Frank Tkacz in the Bookstore

or call 216-351-1011

DONATIONS ACCEPTED IF UNABLE TO ATTEND.

ANNOUNCEMENT

FAITH ENRICHMENT CLASSES BEGIN

ThursdaySeptember 10

11:00 AM

Contact Paul Pangrace or

Subdeacon Darrell Felon

for additional information.

END - OF - SUMMER BOYS’ NIGHT OUT

SUNDAY, AUGUST 30 5:00 PM

FATHEADS BREWERY & SALOON24581 Lorain Avenue

North Olmsted(formerly Danny Boy’s Market)

See Dan Morris to sign up!

Finance Committee Meeting

Wednesday, August 26 4:30 PM

@Ridge Manor

STEWARDSHIP - ENVELOPES Please use your assigned church envelopes to ensure that each parishioner receives their proper credit for all donations. If you do not have an assigned envelope number, please see the Treasurer, Mary Lee Erhardt. Thank You.

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Weekly ScheduleSPECIAL AUGUST

COLLECTIONST. JOHN

MONASTERY

St. Theodosius Orthodox Cathedral733 Starkweather Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44113

Thursday, August 20Prophet SamuelHieromartyr PhilipBishop Of Heraclius

Friday, August 21Apostle Of The 70ThaddeusVen. Avramil Of SmolenskySt. Mary Romanian Festival

Saturday, August 22Martyr AgathonicusAnd His Companions6:00 PM Great VespersSt. Mary Romanian Festival

Sunday, August 23Leavetaking DormitionMartyr LupusHieromartyr IrenaeusBishop Of Lyons9:00 AM Divine LiturgySt Vladimir Camp & Retreat CenterFundraiser Deadline today.St. Mary Romanian Festival

Sunday, August 16IMAGE OF CHRIST“NOT MADE BY HANDS”9:00 AM Divine Liturgy1:00 PM St. TheodosiusParish Picnic

Monday, August 17Martyr MyronBL. TheodoretusEnlightener Of Lapps

Tuesday, August 18Martyrs Florusand LaurusVen. John Of Rila6:00 PM Parish Council Meeting@Ridge Manor

Wednesday, August 19Martyr AndrewStratelatesAnd His Companions