TWIN CITIES MARATHON is scheduled for Sunday, October 1. The marathon route may affect your ordinary route to Church that morning. A map showing the marathon route has been posted on the bulletin board downstairs so you may determine if you need to plan to come to Divine Liturgy that morning by way of a different route.

SUPPORT OUR SEMINARIANS is an annual appeal from our Diocesan in the month of September. Donations to this fund go toward supporting seminary students from the Diocese of the Midwest. Please be sure to signify your donation as appropriate.

CATECHISM CLASSES at St Herman’s are open to everyone; and they have begun. Our next class is this Friday, Sept 22. We begin with Vespers at 7 pm, then go downstairs for the class, which begins around 745 pm and concludes around 9 pm. Catechumens are also strongly encouraged to participate in the Sunday morning Adult Ed & Bible Study at 9 am. There is a special email list for the catechism classes. If you’d like to be included on that list, to receive zoom invitations and documents and texts related to the class, let Fr Paul know and he’ll add you to the email list.

ST HERMAN’S ANNUAL MIDDLE EUROPEAN Dinner is on Saturday, Nov 4. Mark your calendars! That’s the evening we set our clocks back and have an extra hour.

THE ANNUAL DIOCESAN ASSEMBLY is Mon – Wed, Oct 2-4, in Burr Ridge, IL, Oct 2-4.

ST HERMAN’S BOOK CLUB meets next Saturday, Sept 23.

PARISH COUNCIL NEXT MEETING is Tuesday, Sept 26, at 7 pm.

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN for the Connect Orthodox Young Adult Conference, taking place in Minneapolis, MN September29 – October 1, 2023. This is a Pan-Orthodox conference bringing together young adults ages 21-39 from across the country. Speakers will be Father Joshua Makoul, Father Seraphim Majmudar, Mother Macrina, and Dan Christopulos. The conference theme is ‘Refuge’ (Matthew 11:28). In addition to speaker presentations, we will have a service event, worship services, and social events. Go to connectorthodox.org to register. Register between now and Sept

13th and the cost is $280. Questions? Email info@connectorthodox.org.

REGISTRATION FOR FAMILY CAMP Oct 6-8, is now open. See Flyer on Bulletin Board downstairs for details.

THANK YOU to all those who contributed to ST HERMAN’S meal for FOCUS last Sunday, those who prepared the food and those who went to FOCUS to serve it to our guests.

FR PAUL & MOTHER NANCY will be driving to Minot, ND, to participate in the Synaxis of the Clergy Collegium of the Dakotas Missions District, tomorrow through Thurs, Sept 18 -21, in Minot, ND. The Dakotas Missions District (DMD) was established by Abp Daniel last February. It is a region in which the Diocese is beginning a focused evangelical initiative. Donations to the Missions Fund of the DMD are welcome. Please talk to Fr Paul about details.

Faith has its own thought-forms, having as it does its own way of life. A Christian not only lives by faith (2 Cor 5.7) but also thinks by faith. Faith presents a new way of thinking, through which is effected all the work of knowing in the believing man. this new way of thinking is humility. Within the infinite reality of faith, the intellect abases itself before the ineffable mysteries of new life in the Holy Spirit. The pride of the intellect gives way to humility and modesty replaces presumption. The ascetic of faith protects all his thoughts through humility, and thereby also ensures for himself the knowledge of eternal truth.

St Justin Popovich, On Orthodox Faith and Life in Christ, p. 130-131.