Holy Virgin Mary

Russian Orthodox Cathedral

650 Micheltorena Street Los Angeles, CA 90026

Tel. (323) 666-4977 Website: hvmla.org

October 2016 №656

PARISH LIFE:

Important dates:

October 1st – PROTECTION OF THE THEOTOKOS

October 11-13th - Diocesan Assembly

October 12th - Reception of a wonderworking copy of the

icon of the Mother of God “Abbess of Mount Athos”

October 16th – Concert dedicated to Mary, the Mother of God

October 23rd

- Farewell to the icon of the Mother of God

“Abbess of Mount Athos”

November 11th – Concert of John Sokoloff and his band

November 13th – Annual L.O.V.E.S. Thanksgiving Dinner

November 21st – ENTRY OF THE HOLY VIRGIN MARY

INTO THE TEMPLE

From the Desk of Fr. Nazari. Dear brothers and sisters!

Once again I’m taking an opportunity of speaking with you

through our Parish bulletin.

First and foremost I want to greet you with the Feast of

Nativity of All Holy Theotokos and Universal Exaltation of

Holy and Life-Creating cross that we celebrated in Septem-

ber, and the upcoming Feast of Protection of the All Holy

Theotokos that we will celebrate in October.

As I mentioned in the last Parish bulletin that with the

blessing of the Most Reverend Benjamin, Archbishop of San

Francisco and the West, our Parish will be hosting the gen-

eral Diocesan Assembly on October 11th-13

th. At the same

time we will be blessed with the visit of the wonderworking

copy of the icon of the Mother of God “Abbess of the Mount

Athos” from October 12th till 24

th (please see the attached an-

nouncement).This is a unique opportunity for all Christians in

the city of Los Angeles and its area to pray before wonder-

working icon and ask for intercession of our All Holy Virgin.

Please bring your family and friends as the opportunity for

such a blessing does not present itself often.

As most of you know that on September 11th, 2016 we had

our semi-annual Parish meeting dedicated to the issue of fi-

nancial stability and further development of our parish. I

thank you for your attendance and interest in the life of our

community and for those who could not attend, we have at-

tached graphical charts showing our current financial situa-

tion.

As I mentioned during my opening remarks through recent

months - glory be to God - we are experiencing increase of

parishioners’ participation in Divine services. Our member-

ship is slowly growing. We are introducing new programs,

activities, events and of course liturgical services which are

the oxygen for any parish community.

After reporting on this good news, we showed you, our

parishioners, that we are growing in quantity and quality and

we want to be here for the future generations. And all of this

is in our hands. The Apostle St. Peter said to the Lord “Lord,

we left everything and we followed you”.

Dear brothers and sisters, our parish is in real need of your

help. Let us all also follow the Lord and offer our hearts to

Him. If each of us is able to financially contribute on the

regular basis to the point that we can have a balanced budget

our historical cathedral will continue to share the gospel of

our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for generations to come.

Dear parishioners! I want to finish this message on a very

light note and share a joke with you: “A Pastor found himself

in a similar situation to mine: church was in a deficit, lots of

things fell into disrepair, so general parish meeting was as-

sembled. The Pastor came before the people and said: “ Dear

brothers and sisters, we all know that a large sum of money is

needed to put our Parish back in a shape and in regards to

that situation I have 2 items of news for you: One is good

news and the other is bad news”. The congregation said:

“Start with the good news.” The priest looked at them and

said: “The good news is that we have all that money.” The

congregation started applauding and cheering him. Finally

someone asked: “What is the bad news?” Father looked at

congregation and said: “ The bad news is that all that money

is still in your pockets !”

Dear parishioners, as I said before many good things are

happening. In one short year we have launched a new parish

website with the same domain: www.hvmla.org. Also we are

getting new and fixing our old liturgical hardware and fur-

nishing, we are introducing youth programs and activities, we

organize spiritual and cultural events, so please open your

hearts and help OUR PARISH to live and work for years to

come. I thank you from the bottom of my heart and I ask you

to include the lists of your family members both living and

deceased with your contributions so we continue to pray for

our parishioners and keep alive memory of those who built,

decorated and supported this parish for almost 100 years.

May God Bless you!

Archpriest Nazari Polataiko.

From the Treasurer (August 2016):

Total Income: $14,757.08

Total Loss: $27,365.23

Net income / loss: $ 12,608.15

Sisterhood News.

We want to thank and let people know how much we appre-

ciate everyone who is supporting the Sisterhood luncheons.

They are the way we augment our treasury.

At the last meeting, the Sisterhood voted to increase our

donation to the Cathedral to $700.00 a month.

We are in the process of having a cabinet built in the rear

part of the kitchen for storage and to house a new refrigerator

and freezer which will be purchased soon. A section of the

terrazzo floor in the kitchen was repaired. Also some white

vestments we sent out to the cleaners.

At the present time we are planning and preparing to help

the Church host the Diocesan Assembly in October. If you

can volunteer a few hours to help during the Assembly, please

let me know so we can schedule your time to work. We value

all of you who help the Sisterhood.

Irene Gregory

Fundraising committee

September 25th, 2016 Family fun day! Slavic Festival!

Soon to come...Micheltorena Concerts Series...November

11, 2016 at 8p.m. John Sokoloff and his band. Limited seat-

ing, for reservation please call Church Office. We accept all

major credit cards.

Kiosk-Bookstore

The Kiosk is having a CLEARANCE SALE, and I see that

several of you have already availed yourselves of the marked

down prices. Books on the interior life never go "out of

style". We simply have books containing much spiritual

nourishment that have not sold in a while, and we need to

move them out so we can refresh our stock. The reality is

that some book publishers are selling down their stock with

60-70% markdowns. We cannot compete with Amazon and

other large volume distributors. However, we are still one of

the largest all-Orthodox stores on the West Coast, and blessed

to have it here on our church property. Please do come and

support us in this endeavor. We are able to take all major

credit cards, as well as old fashioned cash and checks!

Sister Elizabeth and our ever-faithful volunteer crew.

Dear Father Nazari and Parishioners,

Thank you everyone for the lovely surprise of prayers, good

wishes and remembrances for my birthday. It was all so un-

expected, and you really caught me off guard! May God re-

ward you all for your many kindness to me as only He can.

My love and prayers to all.

Sister Elizabeth

Saturday school

Russian Saturday School team greets all students and par-

ents with the beginning of the new 2016-2017 school year!

We wish you all health and good spirits! You are welcome to

provide us with your suggestions and ideas that will help

make our students’ activities more interesting and productive

on Saturdays! We are looking forward to your participation in

our newly organized Parents' Committee, and we invite eve-

ryone to become parishioners of our church.

For information on schedules, teachers, extra-curricular ac-

tivities and events organized by Saturday School, please call:

323-413-7877. Our Saturday School page on Facebook is:

Russian Saturday School at Holy Virgin Mary Cathedral and

website: www.larussianschool.org (com).

Head of Studies, Irina Usova

Sunday School.

This year we are delighted to welcome three new members

to our Sunday School teaching staff. Mr. Dmitry Khodyakov

will join Mr. Cristian Dascalu in teaching the 1st - 3rd grade

class. Reader Peter Winsky will be the teacher of children in

grades 4 - 6. Miss Zoe Turton will be joining us to teach mu-

sic to the children. Mrs. Marie McEntire and Reader George

Abuelkhair will continue to teach the pre-K/Kindergarten

class.

Classes will meet in October on 10/2, 10/9, and 10/30.

Classes will meet in November on 11/13 and 11/20. Sunday

School starts about a half hour after the end of Divine Litur-

gy, so that both children and teachers can get a bite to eat be-

fore class. Classes are generally an hour in length, and stu-

dents may enroll at any time during the school year.

Thank you to Fr. Nazari for his indispensable help, and to

all parishioners for their support and prayers.

Marie McEntire, Coordinator

L.O.V.E.S.

Thank you to all for a successful raffle. Many of our pa-

rishioners were winners. They include: Maria Cox, the Greg-

orys, Liza Stasevitch, Sasha, and the Dascalus. Your support

is greatly appreciated.

Also, save the date of NOVEMBER 13TH for our annual

Thanksgiving dinner which will be after liturgy. A traditional

dinner will be served.

Marina Burgmeier, President

BAPTISMS: Alexander Calin ......................................................................................................... September 11

Many years!

MATRIMONIES: Peter Winsky and Katja Nelson ............................................................................. August 28

FUNERALS: Theodor Solomin ............................................................................................................ August 26

Memory eternal

The Parish Council Would Like to Thank the Following Persons for their BUILDING Fund Contributions

Anonymous ............................................................................................................................................................ 250

Eleonore Schonhofer for good healthe of Elena, Constantine, Ludmilla and Peter .............................................. 100

Maria Kaljakin for the health of Kaljakin and Rizzo family ................................................................................. 100

Vera Pashky in memory of Boris Shalygin .............................................................................................................. 50

Radmila Dimitrov in memory of her parents ........................................................................................................... 50

Norberto and Vera Pautassi in memory of Waselina Donhauser Jovanovic, Jurij Donhauser and

Slavko Jovanovic .......................... 20

Zohre Aghassipour in memory of Maria ................................................................................................................. 20

Prayer Request list: Tatiana Simakova

(in need of a donor kidney)

Marina Dobis

(in need of a donor kidney)

Christopher Apostal,

Mary Kokayko,

Alexander

Maria,

Elena,

Theodore,

Ann Brown

OCTOBER 2016 1 Sat 10:00 am

5:00 pm

Liturgy

Vigil

PROTECTION OF THE THEOTOKOS

St. Roman the Sweet-Singer

2 Sun 10:00 am Liturgy and general Panikhida

St. Andrew, Fool-for-Christ

4 Tue 7:00 pm

8:00 pm

Akathist to Theotokos

Meeting of FORUM; movie night “TSAR”

6 Thu 10:00 am

7:00 pm

Liturgy

Moleben to Theotokos followed by discus-

sion

Holy Apostle Thomas;

St. Innocent of Alaska

8 Sat 5.00 pm Vigil

9 Sun 10.00 am

Liturgy St. Tikhon, Patr Moscow;

Holy Apostle James Alphaeus

Diocesan Assembly: October 11-13

11 Tue 5:00 pm Vigil

12 Wed 10:00 am

7:00 pm

Liturgy

Reception of a wonderworking copy of

the icon of the Mother of God “Abbess of

Mount Athos” and Holy relics.

Martyrs Probus, Tarachus and Andronicus

13 Thu 9:00am-

6:00 pm

Cathedral is open for the veneration of the icon of the Mother of God “Abbess of Mount

Athos” and Holy relics.

Moleben and Akathist will be served every 2 hours.

15 Sat 4:00 pm

5:00 pm

Moleben before the wonderworking icon of the Mother of God “Abbess of Mount Athos”

Vigil

16 Sun 10:00 am

2:00 pm

10:00am

- 9:00pm

Liturgy

Concert dedicated to Mary, the Mother of

God

Cathedral is open for the veneration of

the icon of the Mother of God “Abbess of

Mount Athos”

Moleben and Akathist will be served

every 2 hours.

Martyr Longinus the Centurion

18 Tue 10:00 am

7:00 pm

8:00 pm

Liturgy

Akathist to Theotokos

Meeting of FORUM; Reader George

Abuelkhair «Bible study» Lecture 1.

Holy Apostle Luke

22 Sat 10:00 am

5:00 pm Liturgy

Vigil

Demetrius Soul Saturday;

Kazan Icon of Theotokos

23 Sun 10:00 am

10:00am-

6:00pm

6:00 pm

Liturgy

Cathedral is open for the veneration of

the icon of the Mother of God “Abbess of

Mount Athos”

Farewell moleben before the icon of the

Mother of God “Abbess of Mount Athos”

Holy Apostle James, Brother of Lord

25 Tue 7:00 pm

8:00 pm

Akathist to Theotokos

Meeting of FORUM; Iconography presentation by Fr. Nazari

26 Wed 10:00 am

7:00 pm

Liturgy

Vigil Great Martyr Demetrius

27 Thu 10:00 am

7:00 pm

Liturgy

Moleben to St. Nicholas followed by dis-

cussion

Martyr Nazarius (old calendar)

29 Sat 5:00 pm Vigil

30 Sun 10:00 am Liturgy Hieromartyr Zenobius

and his sister Zenobia

NOVEMBER 2016 1 Tue 7:00 pm

8:00 pm

Akathist to Theotokos

Meeting of FORUM; movie night

3 Thu 7:00 pm Moleben to Theotokos followed by discussion

5 Sat 5:00 pm Vigil

6 Sun 10:00 am Liturgy and general Panikhida 20TH

WEEK AFTER PENTECOST

“Joy of All Sorrow” icon (old calendar)

8 Tue 10:00 am

7:00 pm

8:00 pm

Liturgy

Akathist to Theotokos

Meeting of FORUM; Reader George

Abuelkhair “Bible study” Lecture 2.

Synaxis Archangels Michael and All Heavenly

Hosts (new calendar)

12 Sat 5:00 pm Vigil

13 Sun 10:00 am

Liturgy

L.O.V.E.S. Annual Thanksgiving

dinner

21ST

WEEK AFTER PENTECOST

14 Mon 10:00 am Liturgy Cosmas and Damian (old calendar)

November 15th – Beginning of the Nativity Fast (new calendar)

15 Tue 7:00 pm

8:00 pm

Akathist to Theotokos

Meeting of FORUM; presentation by Father Calinic Berger

17 Thu 7:00 pm Moleben to St. Nicholas followed by discussion

19 Sat 5:00 pm Vigil

20 Sun 10:00 am

5:00 pm

Liturgy

Vigil

22ND

WEEK AFTER PENTECOST

21 Mon 10:00 am Liturgy ENTRY OF THE HOLY VIRGIN MARY INTO

THE TEMPLE

(NEW CALENDAR)

Synaxis Archangels Michael and All Heavenly

Hosts (old calendar)

22 Tue 10:00 am

7:00 pm

Liturgy

Thanksgiving moleben followed by

Thanksgiving dinner organized by

FORUM meeting

“She Who is Quick to Hear” icon (old calendar)

24 Thu 10:00 am

Thanksgiving moleben Great Martyr Mennas (old calendar)

American Thanksgiving Day

26 Sat 10:00 am

5:00 pm

Liturgy

Vigil

St. John Chrysostom (old calendar)

27 Sun 10:00 am

Liturgy and general Moleben 23RD

WEEK AFTER PENTECOST

November 28th – Beginning of the Nativity Fast (old calendar)

29 Tue 10:00 am

7:00 pm

8:00 pm

Liturgy

Akathist to Theotokos

Meeting of FORUM; iconography

presentation by Fr. Nazari

Evangelist Matthew (old calendar)