November 15
Holy Trinity Church
Publish Date: 2026-11-15
Bulletin Contents
Worship
Parish Life
Bulletin Inserts
Our Calendar
Hymns of the Day
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Saints and Feasts
Wisdom of the Fathers
Diakonia Newsletter
Holy Trinity Church
General Information
- Phone:
- (724) 266-5336
- Fax:
- (724) 266-2220
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Web:
- http://www.htgoc.org
- Street Address:
- 2930 Beaver Road
- Ambridge, PA 15003
Contact Information
Services Schedule
Sundays: 8:30am Orthros, 9:30 am Divine Liturgy
Weekdays: 9am Orthros & Liturgy
Past Bulletins
- Publish Date:
- 2026-11-08
- Publish Date:
- 2026-11-01
- Publish Date:
- 2026-10-25
- Publish Date:
- 2026-10-18
- Publish Date:
- 2026-10-11
- Publish Date:
- 2026-10-04
Worship
About our Worship & Liturgical Life:
Each Sunday is the Lord's Day, the first day of the week, in which Jesus rose from the
dead.We commemorate Christ's Resurrection specifically once each year on Pascha (aka
Easter). Each Sunday we gather in worship in celebration of His Resurrection, having a
mini-Pascha each week.
The Orthodox Church celebrates Twelve Great Feasts throughout the year, in
addition to Pascha, the Feast of Feasts. These 12 feasts commemorate the most import-
ant events in the life of our Lord Jesus Christ and His Mother the Theotokos, as well as
the finding of Christ's Cross. These days are especially important opportunities to set
aside our ordinary routines, keep the day holy, and participate in the
worship of the Church.
Whenever possible, we encourage everyone to make an extra effort to attend the
services of these Great Feasts and to celebrate them as a community of faith.
The Church also honors saints and other feasts throughout the year that go beyond
thetwelve great feasts.Please consider joining us in prayer as a community as we
worship our Lord, Who is wondrous in His saints, throughout the year.
Sundays:
8:30 AM Orthros
9:30 AM Divine Liturgy
Upcoming Services & Feastdays:
Sat, Nov 21- Great Feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple*
9:00 AM Orthros followed by Liturgy
Wed, Nov 25 - St. Catherine the Great*
9:00 AM Orthros followed by Liturgy
Fri, Dec 4 - St. Barbara * & St. John of Damscus*
9:00 AM Orthros followed by Liturgy
*denotes a saint shown in our iconography
Upcoming Memorials:
- Nov 22:
- 10yr - Estelle (Antinopoulos) Kemerer
Parish Life
Phone Issues
We are again experiencing intermittent issues with our phone service. Fr. Anastasios & Parish Council are working diligently to find a long-term solution as Verizon will also be sunsetting our antiquated lines in the immediate future. Please bear with us as we navigate this issue, and consider emailing the office at [email protected]. Please see the flap on your wall calendar for Fr. Anastasios cell phone.
This Sunday - November 15
Nativity Fast Begins
YAL 3rd Sunday @ Ellwood City Monastery
8:30am Sunday Orthros
9:30am Sunday Liturgy
Coffee Hour: Hellenic Dancers
Philoptochos Meeting
11:40am Dance Practice: Little Angels Only
This Week
Tue, November 16:
5:30pm Greek School
Fri, November 20:
GOMoP GOYA Fall Retreat at Camp Nazareth
Sat, November 21: Great Feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos to the Temple
9am Orthros & Liturgy
Followed by Thanksgiving Basket Packing & Delivery
& Philopotchos Nut Roll Prep
Sun, Nov 15 - Nativity Fast Begins:
YAL 3rd Sunday @ Ellwood City Monastery
8:30am Sunday Orthros
9:30am Sunday Liturgy
Coffee Hour: Hellenic Dancers
Philoptochos Meeting
11:40am Dance Practice: Little Angels Only
Support our Ministries
Nov 21 - Thanksgiving Baskets Fundraising Complete - THANK YOU as this year we have already exceeded the $4000 goal as a parish to put food on 50 tables of our neigbhbors for Thanksgiving. If you would still like to donate, whatever is remaining will be applied it to next year's efforts. Click to Donate
Nov 22 - Philoptochos Nut Roll Pickup
Coming Up
Nov 21 - Thanksgiving Basket Packing & Delivery: The great feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple coincides with our annual Thanksgiving Basket day. We invite everyone to come for services 8am Orthros, ~9am Liturgy, followed by our work to pack up the baskets and get them to the houses.
Nov 21 - Philoptochos Nut Roll Prep: The great feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple coincides with our annual Nut Roll prep day. We invite everyone to come for services 8am Orthros, ~9am Liturgy, followed by our work to roll the dough, fill, and bake.
Nov 22 - 2027 Stewardship Program Begins: Our 2027 Program will begin on November 22nd, and we are asking that all pledges be returned 2 weeks alter on December 6th, on the St. Nicholas Feast Day, a day known for gift giving!
Dec 6 - Dance Practice: 11:40am Little Angels | 12pm Middle & Older
Ongoing
YAL - Meets 1st Thursdays & 3rd Sundays
Join us monthly for
1st Thursdays at 6:30pm Fellowship/Social Gathering
3rd Sundays: Following Divine Liturgy with rotating themes of
Worship/Fellowship/Witness/Service
Back to the Faith Family Nights
1st Tuesday of the Month starting in December
We are traveling back to the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s to inform us how to live today
Benevolence Opportunities
Please speak with Fr. Anastasios if you are able to help people in need financially. Any
amount would be helpful.
Parish Pledge to the New Metropolis Center
We have committed $20,000 as a parish. If you would like to add your own personal
donation or pledge to the completion of the New Metropolis Center, please go to
pittsburgh.goarch.org/pledge .
Youth Safety Worker Registration
Please register at https://ncsrisk.org/goarch/. This includes all individuals who
volunteer with our Youth (teachers, advisors, coaches, drivers, etc) and for Parish
Council background checks.
Prayer Chain
Dedicated members of Holy Trinity that are praying for your prayer requests. Please
contact Joanie Ondrako or Fr. Anastasios to make a prayer request or to join the group.
Online Giving & Stewardship
Online giving can be found by clicking here! Please consider your continued support of
our church through becoming one of our online giving families. You can make general
contributions and stewardship contributions.
Bulletin Inserts
Nut Roll Order Form
Support our Philoptochos and enjoy their delicious Nut Rolls. Each roll is $14, and orders are due by November 15th and will be available for pickup on November 22nd.
Nomination Application for Parish Council
This application is to be considered as a candidate to serve on the Parish Council for the 2027-2028 term. Please read the entire form and begin the process of your background check ASAP. Applications are due by November 29th. Election on December 13th.
Back to the Faith - Family Nights
This year, our Family Nights will take families on a journey through decades of the modern world, meeting Orthodox saints whose lives unfolded in the midst of the same kinds of challenges, changes, hopes, and struggles that we experience today, keeping faithful to Christ and His Church. Each month we will jump into the decade—its culture, its music, its food—and have fun while we learn about modern saints to help us live our modern life in the real world. We will meet saints who were mothers and fathers, doctors and teachers, bishops and monks, immigrants and missionaries, young and old, ordinary and distinct, who found the Way, the Truth, and the Life in the person of Jesus Christ . Our hope is that we learn that holiness isn’t something that belongs only to the past, but that Holiness is possible in every generation, in every vocation, and in every circumstance. Join us on October 20th and then the 1st Tuesday of each month starting in December. October 20th: 50s, December 1st: 60s, January 5th:Today, February 2nd: 70s, March 2nd: 80s, and April 6th:90s FOR MORE FUN: DRESS IN THE DECADE!
2026 Stewardship Card
Please prayerfully read and consider what an appropriate financial commitment is for the 2026 year. A Pledge Card must be on file to be considered for membership in Good Standing.
2026 Christmas Card - Due Dec 6th
Add your names to our Annual Christmas Card to send warm greetings and the good news of Christ's birth to our community. $10 each.
2026 Christmas Eve Luminaries
Christmas Luminaries to honor or in memory of your loved ones are being sold to benefit the Georgia Antinopoulos Scholarship Fund. Please complete the form and give it to Jackie Bennis on or before Sunday, December 20, 2026. Donation of $5.00 per bag with a maximum of (2) two names per bag. Name to appear on each bag need not be only Orthodox Christians.
Our Calendar
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Holy Trinity Ambridge
November 15 to November 29, 2026
Sunday, November 15Nativity Fast Begins
Philoptochos Meeting
YAL 3rd Sundays
Coffee Hour: Hellenic Dancers
8:30AM Orthros
9:30AM Liturgy
11:40AM Dance Practice: Little Angels
Tuesday, November 175:30PM Greek School
Friday, November 20GOMoP GOYA Fall Retreat at Camp Nazareth
Voice Deadline
Saturday, November 21Thanksgiving Baskets Preparation (Following Liturgy)
Great Feast #3: Entrance of the Theotokos
Philoptochos: Nut Roll Prep (Following Liturgy)
9:00AM Orthros & Liturgy - Great Feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos
Sunday, November 222027 Stewardship Program Begins
10yr Memorial - Estelle (Antinopoulos) Kemerer
Coffee Hour: YAL
8:30AM Orthros
9:30AM Liturgy
Wednesday, November 259:00AM Orthros & Liturgy - St. Catherine
Sunday, November 29Coffee Hour: GOYA
8:30AM Orthros
9:30AM Liturgy
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Regional Orthodox Events
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Hymns of the Day
Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Grave Mode
You destroyed death by Your Cross, You opened Paradise to the Robber. You turned the Myrrh-bearing Women’s lament into joy, and You commanded Your Apostles to preach that You rose, O Christ God, granting the world the great mercy.
Κατέλυσας τῷ Σταυρῷ σου τὸν θάνατον, ἠνέῳξας τῷ Λῃστῇ τὸν Παράδεισον, τῶν Μυροφόρων τὸν θρῆνον μετέβαλες, καὶ τοῖς σοῖς Ἀποστόλοις κηρύττειν ἐπέταξας, ὅτι ἀνέστης Χριστὲ ὁ Θεός, παρέχων τῷ κόσμῳ τὸ μέγα ἔλεος.
Apolytikion for Martyrs Gouria, Shamuna, and Habib in the Plagal 1st Mode
You have given us the miracles of Your holy Martyrs as an impregnable fortress, O Christ our God. At their entreaties, frustrate the plots of foreign enemies, and strengthen our nation, for You alone are good and benevolent.
Τά θαύματα τών Αγίων σου Mαρτύρων, τείχος ακαταμάχητον ημίν δωρησάμενος, Χριστέ ό Θεός, ταίς αυτών ικεσίαις, βουλάς εθνών διασκέδασον, τής βασιλείας τά σκήπτρα κραταίωσον, ως μόνος αγαθός καί φιλάνθρωπος.
Apolytikion for the Church in the Plagal 4th Mode
O Blessed are You, O Christ our God; Who has shone forth the fishermen to be most wise, by sending down upon them the Holy Spirit, and through them, You drew the world into Your net, O Lover of Mankind, glory to You.
Εύλογητός εἶ Χριστὲ ὁ Θεος ἡμῶν ὁ πανσόφους τοὺς ἁλιεῖς ἁναδείξας καταπέμψας αὐτοῖς τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον καὶ δι᾽ αὐτῶν τῆν οἰκουμένην σαγηνεύσας φιλάνθρωπε δόξα Σοι.
Seasonal Kontakion in the 4th Mode
The Savior’s most pure and immaculate temple, the very precious bridal chamber and Virgin, who is the sacred treasure of the glory of God, on this day is introduced into the House of the Lord, and with herself she brings the grace in the divine Spirit. She is extolled by the Angels of God. A heavenly tabernacle is she.
Ο καθαρώτατος ναός τού Σωτήρος, η πολυτίμητος παστάς καί Παρθένος, τό Ιερόν θησαύρισμα τής δόξης τού Θεού, σήμερον εισάγεται, εν τώ οίκω Κυρίου, τήν χάριν συνεισάγουσα, τήν εν Πνευματι θείω, ήν ανυμνούσιν Άγγελοι Θεού, Αύτη υπάρχει σκηνή επουράνιος.
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Epistle Reading
Prokeimenon. Grave Mode. Psalm 28.11,1.
The Lord will give strength to his people.
Verse: Bring to the Lord, O sons of God, bring to the Lord honor and glory.
The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Ephesians 2:14-22.
Brethren, Christ is our peace, who has made us both one, and has broken down the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in his flesh the law of commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby bringing the hostility to an end. And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near; for through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are built into it for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
Προκείμενον. Grave Mode. ΨΑΛΜΟΙ 28.11,1.
Κύριος ἰσχὺν τῷ λαῷ αὐτοῦ δώσει.
Στίχ. Ἐνέγκατε τῷ Κυρίῳ υἱοὶ Θεοῦ, ἐνέγκατε τῷ Κυρίῳ δόξαν καὶ τιμήν.
τὸ Ἀνάγνωσμα Πρὸς Ἐφεσίους 2:14-22.
Ἀδελφοί, Χριστός ἐστιν ἡ εἰρήνη ἡμῶν, ὁ ποιήσας τὰ ἀμφότερα ἕν, καὶ τὸ μεσότοιχον τοῦ φραγμοῦ λύσας, τήν ἔχθραν ἐν τῇ σαρκί αὐτοῦ, τὸν νόμον τῶν ἐντολῶν ἐν δόγμασιν, καταργήσας· ἵνα τοὺς δύο κτίσῃ ἐν ἑαὐτῷ εἰς ἕνα καινὸν ἄνθρωπον, ποιῶν εἰρήνην, καὶ ἀποκαταλλάξῃ τοὺς ἀμφοτέρους ἐν ἑνὶ σώματι τῷ θεῷ διὰ τοῦ σταυροῦ, ἀποκτείνας τὴν ἔχθραν ἐν αὐτῷ· καὶ ἐλθὼν εὐηγγελίσατο εἰρήνην ὑμῖν τοῖς μακρὰν καὶ τοῖς ἐγγύς· ὅτι διʼ αὐτοῦ ἔχομεν τὴν προσαγωγὴν οἱ ἀμφότεροι ἐν ἑνὶ πνεύματι πρὸς τὸν πατέρα. Ἄρα οὖν οὐκέτι ἐστὲ ξένοι καὶ πάροικοι, ἀλλὰ συμπολῖται τῶν ἁγίων καὶ οἰκεῖοι τοῦ θεοῦ, ἐποικοδομηθέντες ἐπὶ τῷ θεμελίῳ τῶν ἀποστόλων καὶ προφητῶν, ὄντος ἀκρογωνιαίου αὐτοῦ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἐν ᾧ πᾶσα οἰκοδομὴ συναρμολογουμένη αὔξει εἰς ναὸν ἅγιον ἐν κυρίῳ, ἐν ᾧ καὶ ὑμεῖς συνοικοδομεῖσθε εἰς κατοικητήριον τοῦ θεοῦ ἐν πνεύματι.
Gospel Reading
8th Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 10:25-37
At that time, a lawyer stood up to put Jesus to the test, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" He said to him, "What is written in the law? How do you read?" And he answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself." And he said to him, "You have answered right; do this, and you will live."
But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?" Jesus replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was; and when he saw him, he had compassion, and went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine; then he set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. And the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, 'Take care of him; and whatever more you spend, I will repay you when I come back.' Which of these three, do you think, proved neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?" He said, "The one who showed mercy on him." And Jesus said to him, "Go and do likewise."
8th Sunday of Luke
Κατὰ Λουκᾶν 10:25-37
Τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ, νομικός τις ἀνέστη ἐκπειράζων αὐτὸν καὶ λέγων· διδάσκαλε, τί ποιήσας ζωὴν αἰώνιον κληρονομήσω; ὁ δὲ εἶπε πρὸς αὐτόν· ἐν τῷ νόμῳ τί γέγραπται; πῶς ἀναγινώσκεις; ὁ δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς εἶπεν· ἀγαπήσεις Κύριον τὸν Θεόν σου ἐξ ὅλης τῆς καρδίας σου καὶ ἐξ ὅλης τῆς ψυχῆς σου καὶ ἐξ ὅλης τῆς ἰσχύος σου καὶ ἐξ ὅλης τῆς διανοίας σου, καὶ τὸν πλησίον σου ὡς σεαυτόν· εἶπε δὲ αὐτῷ· ὀρθῶς ἀπεκρίθης· τοῦτο ποίει καὶ ζήσῃ. ὁ δὲ θέλων δικαιοῦν ἑαυτὸν εἶπε πρὸς τὸν ᾿Ιησοῦν· καὶ τίς ἐστί μου πλησίον; ὑπολαβὼν δὲ ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς εἶπεν· ἄνθρωπός τις κατέβαινεν ἀπὸ ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ εἰς ῾Ιεριχώ, καὶ λῃσταῖς περιέπεσεν· οἳ καὶ ἐκδύσαντες αὐτὸν καὶ πληγὰς ἐπιθέντες ἀπῆλθον ἀφέντες ἡμιθανῆ τυγχάνοντα. κατὰ συγκυρίαν δὲ ἱερεύς τις κατέβαινεν ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ ἐκείνῃ, καὶ ἰδὼν αὐτὸν ἀντιπαρῆλθεν. ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ Λευΐτης γενόμενος κατὰ τὸν τόπον, ἐλθὼν καὶ ἰδὼν ἀντιπαρῆλθε. Σαμαρείτης δέ τις ὁδεύων ἦλθε κατ᾿ αὐτόν, καὶ ἰδὼν αὐτὸν ἐσπλαγχνίσθη, καὶ προσελθὼν κατέδησε τὰ τραύματα αὐτοῦ ἐπιχέων ἔλαιον καὶ οἶνον, ἐπιβιβάσας δὲ αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὸ ἴδιον κτῆνος ἤγαγεν αὐτὸν εἰς πανδοχεῖον καὶ ἐπεμελήθη αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν αὔριον ἐξελθών, ἐκβαλὼν δύο δηνάρια ἔδωκε τῷ πανδοχεῖ καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ· ἐπιμελήθητι αὐτοῦ, καὶ ὅ τι ἂν προσδαπανήσῃς, ἐγὼ ἐν τῷ ἐπανέρχεσθαί με ἀποδώσω σοι. τίς οὖν τούτων τῶν τριῶν πλησίον δοκεῖ σοι γεγονέναι τοῦ ἐμπεσόντος εἰς τοὺς λῃστάς; ὁ δὲ εἶπεν· ὁ ποιήσας τὸ ἔλεος μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ. εἶπεν οὖν αὐτῷ ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς· πορεύου καὶ σὺ ποίει ὁμοίως.
Saints and Feasts
November 15
Nativity Fast Begins
The Nativity Fast is one of four main fast periods throughout the ecclesiastical year. Beginning on November 15 and concluding on December 24, the Nativity Fast gives individuals the opportunity to prepare for the Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord and Savior in the Flesh on December 25. By abstaining from certain food and drink, particularly from meat, fish, dairy products, olive oil, and wine, as well as focusing more deeply on prayer and almsgiving, we can find that the primary aim of fasting is to make us conscious of our dependence upon God.
November 15
Gurias, Samonas, and Avivos, Martyrs and Confessors of Edessa
Of these most illustrious Martyrs of the city of Edessa in Syria, Guria and Shamuna contested during the reign of Diocletian, in 288; after many tortures, they were cast into prison, then beheaded. Saint Habib, a deacon, contested in the days of Licinius, in the year 316, and was burned alive; he was buried with Saints Guria and Shamuna. The three have one common feast, and it is always together that they are portrayed in icons and invoked by the faithful. On account of a renowned miracle they worked, they are invoked for help in marital difficulties. A certain Goth had come with the Roman army to Edessa and was quartered in the house of a pious widow named Sophia. The Goth asked Sophia for the hand of her daughter, Euphemia; after resisting for a long time, Sophia at last agreed. When it was time for the army to return home, Sophia made the Goth vow by the power in the holy Martyrs Shamuna, Guria, and Habib, to keep Euphemia as the apple of his eye. As he was nearing his home, however, the treacherous man revealed to Euphemia that he already had a wife. Euphemia was compelled to serve the Goths wife, who dealt with her mercilessly. After extreme sufferings, which included being sealed alive in a tomb and left there to die, Euphemia was miraculously conveyed to Edessa, to the very shrine of the holy Martyrs whose surety they had taken, and was reunited with her mother through their holy prayers.
Wisdom of the Fathers
When a man reveres God with all his heart and with faith, he receives through God's providence the power to control anger and desire; for it is desire and anger which are the cause of all evils.
On the Character of Men no. 12, Philokalia Vol. 1 edited by Palmer, Sherrard and Ware; Faber and Faber pg. 331, 4th century
'The Lord your God is one Lord' (cf. Deut. 6:4), revealed in the Father, Son and Holy Spirit: in the unbegotten Father; in the Son, who is begotten eternally, timelessly and impassibly as the Logos, and who through Himself anointed that which He assumed from us and so is called Christ; and in the Holy Spirit, who also comes forth from the Father, not begotten, but proceeding. This alone is God and alone is true God, the one Lord in a Trinity of Hypostases, undivided in nature, will, glory, power, energy, and all the characteristics of divinity. Him alone shall you love and Him alone shall you worship with all your mind and with all your heart and with all your strength.
A New Testament Decalogue no. 1, Philokalia Vol. 4 edited by Palmer, Sherrard and Ware; Faber and Faber pg. 323, 14th century
Gentleness, then, is to be mingled with severity; a sort of compound is to be made of both; so that subjects be neither exulcerated by too much asperity, nor relaxed by too greatkindness.
On the Life of the Pastor. Chapter 6, 6th century
Godly love cannot be perfect unless a man love his neighbor also. Under which name must be included not only those who are connected with us by friendship or neighborhood, but absolutely all men, with whom we have a common nature, whether they be foes or allies, slaves or free.
Sermon 12, On the Fast, 6th century
But you cannot be a neighbour unless you have compassion on him; for no one can be called a neighbour unless he have healed, not killed, another. But if you wish to be called a neighbour, Christ says to you: "Go and do likewise."
Two Books of St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Concerning Repentance, Chapter 11
Godly love cannot be perfect unless a man love his neighbor also. Under which name must be included not only those who are connected with us by friendship or neighborhood, but absolutely all men, with whom we have a common nature, whether they be foes or allies, slaves or free.
Sermon 12, On the Fast, 6th century
For the One Maker fashioned us, the One Creator breathed life into us; we all enjoy the same sky and air, the same days and nights, and, though some be good, others bad, some righteous, others unrighteous, yet GOD is bountiful to all, kind to all.
Sermon 12, On the Fast, 6th century
The sign that thou lovest God, is this, that thou lovest thy fellow; and if thou hatest thy fellow, thy hatred is towards God. For it is blasphemy if thou prayest before God while thou art wroth. For thy heart also convicts thee, that in vain thou multipliest words: thy conscience rightly judges that in thy prayers thou profitest nought.
ON ADMONITION AND REPENTANCE.
The example of the good Samaritan shows that we must not abandon those in whom even the faintest amount of faith is still alive.
Two Books of St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Concerning Repentance, Chapter 11
For whosoever superintends the healing of wounds must needs administer in wine the smart of pan, and in oil the softness of loving-kindness, to the end that through wine what is festering may be purged, and through oil what is curable may be soothed.
On the Life of the Pastor. Chapter 6, 6th century
Diakonia Newsletter
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November 15, 2026