Church Services
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This Week’s
Schedule of Services:
SUNDAY, December 8th, 2019 – Tenth
Sunday of Luke
SUNDAY, December 8th, 2019 –Fourteenth Sunday of Luke
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9:00 am
-Matins/Orthros
Click
this link to Orthros/Matins Gospel Reading
10:00 am - Divine Liturgy.
Click
this link to Epistle Reading
Click this link to Holy Gospel Reading
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All kids 6 to 18 yrs. of age are invited to attend Sunday
School right after the Holy Communion. The location is at the back of the
property in the last modular buildings.
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The first year of Memorial Service will be offered for the soul
of the departed Servant of God, Katerina Eliopoulos. Eternal be her
memory.
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Voting for Parish
Council members will be held today in the church Hall after Coffee Hour.
Attending and voting in a General Assembly requires that you be a member
in good standing and/or have paid your due up to date.
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12:30 pm Paraklesis to Saint Nectarios
WEDNESDAY, December 11th, 2019
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7:00 pm -Paraklesis Service to Saint Nectarios.
FRIDAY, December 13th, 2019 – Nicholas the
Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra
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5:30 PM—Greek School Elementary
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6:30 PM—Greek School Intermediate
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Resurrectional Apolytikion.
Mode Pl. 4
You descended from on
high, O
compassionate One, and
condescended to
be buried for three
days, so that from the
passions You might set
us free. Our life and
resurrection, O Lord, glory be to You.
Ἀπολυτίκιον
Ἀναστάσιµον.
Ἦχος πλ.
δʹ.
Ἐξ ὕψους κατῆλθες ὁ εὔσπλαγχνος,
ταφὴν κατεδέξω
τριήμερον,
ἵνα ἡμᾶς
ἐλευθερώσῃς τῶν παθῶν. Ἡ ζωὴ
καὶ ἡ
Ἀνάστασις
ἡμῶν, Κύριε
δόξα σοι.
Resurrectional Kontakion.
When You had risen
from the grave,
You also raised those
who had died and
resurrected Adam; and
now Eve is celebrating
in Your Resurrection,
and the ends of the
world keep festival,
for Your rising from the
dead, O Most-Merciful.
Κοντάκιον Ἀναστάσιµον.
Ἐξαναστὰς
τοῦ μνήματος,
τοὺς
τεθνεῶτας ἥγειρας,
καὶ τὸν Ἀδὰμ
ἀνέστησας, καὶ ἡ Εὔα
χορεύει ἐν τῇ
σῇ Ἀναστάσει,
καὶ κόσμου
τὰ πέρατα
πανηγυρίζουσι,
τῇ ἐκ
νεκρῶν Ἐγέρσει σου
Πολυέλεε.
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December 9th – The Conception by St. Ana
of the Most Holy Theotokos
According to the ancient
tradition of the Church, since Saint Anna, the Ancestor of God, was
barren, she and her husband Joachim remained without children until old
age. Therefore, sorrowing over their childlessness, they besought God
with a promise that, if He were to grant them the fruit of the womb, they
would offer their offspring to Him as a gift. And God, hearkening to
their supplication, informed them through an Angel concerning the birth
of the Virgin. And thus, through God's promise, Anna conceived according
to the laws of nature, and was deemed worthy to become the mother of the
Mother of our Lord
Apolytikion of Conception of
the Theotokos
Fourth Tone
Against all hope, the bonds of barrenness are loosed today. For, God
has hearkened unto Joachim and Anna clearly promising that they would
bear a godly maiden. He who commanded the angel to cry out to her,
"Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you," will be born of
her, the infinite One Himself, becoming man.
Kontakion of Conception of
the Theotokos
Fourth Tone
Today the world rejoices in the conception of Anna, wrought by God.
For she bore the One who beyond comprehension conceived the Logos.
December 12th – Spyridon
the Wonderworker of Trymithous
Spyridon, the God-bearing Father of the Church, the great
defender of Corfu and the boast of all the Orthodox, had Cyprus as his
homeland. He was simple in manner and humble of heart, and was a shepherd
of sheep. When he was joined to a wife, he begat of her a daughter whom
they named Irene. After his wife's departure from this life, he was
appointed Bishop of Trimythous, and thus he
became also a shepherd of rational sheep. When the First Ecumenical
Council was assembled in Nicaea, he also was present, and by means of his
most simple words stopped the mouths of the Arians who were wise in their
own conceit. By the divine grace which dwelt in him, he wrought such
great wonders that he received the surname 'Wonderworker." So it is
that, having tended his flock piously and in a manner pleasing to God, he
reposed in the Lord about the year 350, leaving to his country his sacred
relics as a consolation and source of healing for the faithful.
About the middle of the seventh century, because of the
incursions made by the barbarians at that time, his sacred relics were
taken to Constantinople, where they remained, being honoured
by the emperors themselves. But before the fall of Constantinople, which
took place on May 29, 1453, a certain priest named George Kalokhairetes, the parish priest of the church where
the Saint's sacred relics, as well as those of Saint Theodora the
Empress, were kept, took them away on account of the impending peril.
Travelling by way of Serbia, he came as far as Arta in Epirus, a region
in Western Greece opposite to the isle of Corfu. From there, while the
misfortunes of the Christian people were increasing with every day, he
passed over to Corfu about the year 1460. The relics of Saint Theodora
were given to the people of Corfu; but those of Saint Spyridon remain to
this day, according to the rights of inheritance, the most precious
treasure of the priest's own descendants, and they continue to be a staff
for the faithful in Orthodoxy, and a supernatural wonder for those that
behold him; for even after the passage of 1,500 years, they have remained
incorrupt, and even the flexibility of his flesh has been preserved.
Truly wondrous is God in His Saints! (Ps. 67:3 5)
Apolytikion of Spyridon The Wonderworker
First Tone
O Father, God-bearer, Spyridon, you were proven a champion and
Wonder Worker of the First Ecumenical Council. You spoke to the girl in
the grave and turned the serpent to gold. And, when chanting your
prayers, most sacred One, angels ministered with you. Glory to Him who
glorified you; glory to Him who crowned you; glory to Him who, through
you, works healing for all.
Kontakion of Spyridon The
Wonderworker
Second Tone
Wounded by your love for Christ, O holy One, your mind given wings
by the radiance of the Spirit, you put the practice of theory into deeds,
becoming a sacred altar, O Chosen by God, and praying for the divine
illumination of all
Special Announcement:
· If someone
wants to sponsor the coffee hour, there is a sign-up sheet in the Hall. Please
write legibly your name next to the date you want to sponsor.
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We need oil (Extra Virgin Olive Oil) for the
Church, please donate.
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Please notify us if someone in the member of
the family or yourself is sick, so that we may offer healing prayer.
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For new projects of the St. Nectarios
Philoptochos society, please click this link
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