St. George Church
Publish Date: 2025-08-03
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St. George Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (734) 283-8820
  • Fax:
  • (734) 283-8866
  • Street Address:

  • 16300 Dix Toledo Highway

  • Southgate, MI 48195
  • Mailing Address:

  • 16300 Dix Toledo Highway

  • Southgate, MI 48195


Contact Information



Services Schedule

Sundays:

9 am - Orthros

10:15 am - Divine Liturgy

 

Weekday Services:

Please check the Services schedule in the bulletin or call the Church office.


Past Bulletins


Parish Calendar

  • Church Calendar

    August 3 to August 10, 2025

    Sunday, August 3

    8:50AM Orthros

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy

    12:00PM GOYA Coffee Hour & Meeting

    12:00PM Junior Greek Dance Practice

    Monday, August 4

    6:00PM Greek Festival Meeting

    Wednesday, August 6

    9:00AM Orthros & Divine Liturgy for Transfiguration of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

    6:00PM Paraklesis

    Thursday, August 7

    5:30PM Philoptochos Board

    Friday, August 8

    6:00PM Paraklesis

    7:30PM YAL Game Night & Lenten Meal

    Sunday, August 10

    8:50AM Orthros

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy

    12:00PM Lenten Luncheon and Presentation by Fr. Constantinos Njuguna of the St. Irene Orthodox Mission Center & Orphanage - Kenya, Africa

    12:00PM Junior Greek Dance Practice

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Church Announcements

Upcoming Dormition & August Services

  • Orthros and Divine Liturgy for the Transfiguration of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ - Wednesday, August 6 @ 9 AM/10 AM
  • Paraklesis - Wednesday, August 6 @ 6 PM
  • Paraklesis - Friday, August 8 @ 6 PM
  • Paraklesis - Wednesday, August 13 @ 6 PM
  • Dormition Vespers at Assumption in St. Clair Shores - Thursday, August 14 @ 7 PM
  • Orthros and Divine Liturgy for Holy Dormition - Friday, August 15 @ 9 AM/10 AM
  • Orthros and Divine Liturgy for the Beheading of the Forerunner and Baptist John - Friday, August 29 @ 9 AM/10 AM

During each of the Paraklesis services, it is the custom to pray for all living Orthodox Christians. Names can be submitted at the candle counter (please print clearly). All names submitted will be commemorated during all the Paraklesis services.


Memorial Service

Joanne Cranford - 40 days

May the Lord our God grant rest to her soul where the righteous repose, in a place where there is no pain, no sorrow, and no suffering, but rather everlasting life. May her memory be eternal. The coffee is offered by the Ladies of Philoptochos.


Visit by Fr. Constantinos Njuguna of the St. Irene Orthodox Mission Center & Orphanage - Kenya, Africa

We are pleased to announce that Fr. Constantinos Njuguna of the St. Irene Orthodox Mission Center & Orphanage in Kenya, Africa, will be visiting our parish. Fr. Constantinos will join us for Divine Liturgy on Holy Transfiguration, Wednesday, August 6, and for the Paraklesis service that evening, as well as for Paraklesis on Friday, August 8. 

On Sunday, August 10, a Lenten luncheon will be offered in the Parthenon Hall after Divine Liturgy, in which Fr. Constantinos will give a presentation on the progress that has been made since his last visit back in 2022.  


Greek Fest Meeting

Please join us for our next in-person/Zoom Greek Festival meeting this Monday, August 4 @ 6 pm.

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84647264447?pwd=xi3V0jvP8whtDHAGboIOJQ0QaYa7xY.1


Ecclesiastical Calendars 2026 - Sponsor Needed

If you would like to sponsor the 2026 Ecclesiastical Calendar, please contact the church office. Sponsorship donation: $700.


Greek School

We are exploring the possibility of bringing back the Greek School program in the fall of this year. If you are interested in attending the program or teaching, please contact Fr. John.   


75th Anniversary of Saint George Greek Orthodox Church

The Anniversary Committee is planning for the 75th anniversary of our parish to be held on October 10 & 11, 2026. If you would like to be part of the planning for the committee, please contact Fr. John. 


Greek Fest Help Needed

To help make our 2025 Greek Fest on Sunday, September 21, a success, we need YOU! Please fill out the help needed form outside the church office and let us know where you can volunteer. You can also call the office and let us know 734.283.8820 or fill out the form HERE.


Festival Volunteer T-Shirt Sponsorship

If you are interested in sponsoring t-shirts for our Greek Festival volunteers, please contact Fr. John or the church office.


Greek Fest Sponsorship

We will provide a Festival program booklet for our guests which will provide information on our parish, our ministries, dance times, menu, and sponsors to name but a few. To submit a sponsorship/business logo, please contact the church office. The deadline to submit a sponsorship/artwork is Monday, September 1.

For the Sponsorship Form and additional infomation - click here.


Greek Fest Lamb Donations

We need individuals or families to donate $100 toward the purchase of a lamb for our Greek Fest on Sept. 21. If you would like to donate, please mail or drop off your donation to the church office between 9-3 pm, M-F or online here.

Thank you to those who have already donated!

Donald & Marianne Coates (in memory of John & Catherine Danias)
John & Kathy Despotis
Ted & Asimina Dudek
Sam & Donna Galanis
Steve & Valerie Geftos
Lazaros & Paula Kircos (in memory of Alex Kircos)
Carl & Helen Peters
Lewis & Rena Rowe 
Fr. John & Pres. Pavlina Sakellariou


Memorial Area Pavers - Order Forms

Updated (12/17/24) Memorial Paver Order Forms are available to you on a table in the school hallway along with a granite sample and symbols, and attached to the online bulletin. Any original granite memorial Pavers (made in 2003) will be re-engraved to match the current granite. If you had an original granite Memorial Paver made, please contact Fr. John or the church office.

Please note the turnout around time with the cemetery for the engraving of pavers takes about 1-2 months.  All engraved pavers will be installed in the memorial area at the beginning of October. 


Family Assistance Fund (FAF)

The church has a separate fund to help those in our community and surrounding areas who are in need of financial help with rent and utilities. You can help donate to this fund on the home page of our website under "support our ministries" or by clicking here.


Metropolis of Detroit Friends Program

Please consider being a part of the Friends Program supporting our Metropolis. Please pick up a flyer in the pamphlet rack in the school hallway or attached to this bulletin and consider supporting. 


Prayer / Candle Requests

If you would like for us to light a candle in the Church in prayer for you and your family, please use the Prayer/Candle Request form found here or on the home page of the church website. You can pay by credit card or send a check in the mail to the Church.


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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Grave Mode

By means of Your Cross, O Lord, You abolished death. * To the robber You opened Paradise. * The lamentation of the myrrhbearing women You transformed, * and You gave Your Apostles the order to proclaim to all * that You had risen, O Christ our God, * and granted the world Your great mercy.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Grave Mode

You were transfigured upon the mount, O Christ our God, and Your disciples, in so far as they could bear, beheld Your glory. Thus, when they see You crucified, they may understand Your voluntary passion, and proclaim to the world that You are truly the effulgence of the Father.
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Saints and Feasts

August 03

Isaacius, Dalmatus, & Faustus, Ascetics of the Dalmation Monastery

Of these, Saint Isaacius is celebrated also on May 30. He became a monk at an early age and was a worker of every virtue; a zealot for the Orthodox Faith, he was also deemed worthy of the gift of prophecy. The Saint dwelt in a small hut near Constantinople. When Valens the Arian marched against the Goths, who were at the Danube River, this righteous one went out himself to meet the Emperor and, taking in hand the reins of the Emperor's horse, said to him with boldness that God had incited the barbarians to come against him, since he himself had incited many to speak against God in blasphemy, and had driven God's true worshippers out of the divine houses of prayer. Furthermore, he told him, if he ceased fighting against God by means of heresy and returned the good shepherds (that is, the Orthodox bishops) to the flock of Christ, he would easily gain the victory over his enemies. However, if he did not desist from these things, nor have God as his ally, at the very outset of the battle both he and his army would certainly be destroyed. "Learn from experience," he said, "that it is hard to kick against the pricks. Thou shalt not return, and this expedition will be destroyed." But the Emperor became angry and had the righteous one locked in prison that he might punish him and put him to death on his return after he conquered the barbarians. But he was utterly defeated and was burned alive in a certain village in the year 378 (Theodoret of Cyrrhus, Eccl. Hist., ch. 4: 31-32). When his surviving soldiers returned from the war, wishing to tempt the Saint, they came to him and said, "Prepare to make thy defense before the Emperor, who is coming to fulfil what he spoke against thee." But the Saint answered, "It has already been seven days that I smelled the stink of his bones, which were burned in the fire." Thus the righteous one was released from prison. All marveled because of his prophecy, and he became even more wondrous by means of the zeal he displayed in behalf of Orthodoxy in 381, when the Second Ecumenical Council was convoked. After this, a monastery was built in Constantinople for him, and he piously shepherded those struggling with him in asceticism. Having served as an example of the monastic life for them, he reposed in peace about the end of the fourth century, leaving Dalmatus as his successor.

As for Saint Dalmatus, he was at first a soldier in the second division of the soldiers known as the Scholarii. Later, however, he forsook all things and taking his son Faustus, went to the above-mentioned monastery of Saint Isaacius, where he donned the monastic habit. Through his virtue he became venerable in the sight of all. He was present at the Third Ecumenical Council that was convoked in Ephesus in 431, and there displayed his zeal for Orthodoxy against Nestorius. The Council elected him Archimandrite of the monasteries in Constantinopie. Having lived for more than eighty years, he reposed in the Lord.


August 04

Seven Holy Youths of Ephesus

The Seven Youths hid themselves in a certain cave near Ephesus in the year 250, to escape the persecution of Decius. By divine grace, a sleep came upon them and they slept for 184 years, until the reign of Saint Theodosius the Younger, when the doctrine of the resurrection was being assailed by heretics. They then awoke, that is, were resurrected, confirming in the sight of all the bodily resurrection; and again after a short time, by divine command, they reposed in the Lord in the year 434.


August 05

Eusygnius the Martyr of Antioch

This Martyr was from Antioch, and had been a soldier from the time of the reign of Constantius Chlorus (the father of Saint Constantine the Great) to that of Julian the Apostate. He censured Julian's ungodliness and reminded him that he was the nephew of Saint Constantine the Great, the first Christian Emperor. He reminded him further, that from his tender youth he had been nourished on the milk of piety and instructed in the Faith of Christ, had been a fellow student of Basil the Great and Gregory the Theologian, had been a reader of the Church of Nicomedia, and that he had set all these things at nought and become a transgressor of the promises made in his divine Baptism, and had offered to the idols the adoration that is due to God alone. Reminding the Apostate of all these things and reproving him, he was beheaded in the year 361, having lived altogether 110 years, and been a soldier for more than sixty.


August 06

Transfiguration of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

Our Lord had spoken to His disciples many times not only concerning His Passion, Cross, and Death, but also concerning the coming persecutions and afflictions that they themselves would endure. Since all these evils were near at hand, but the enjoyment of good things which they hoped to receive in their stead was yet to come, our Savior desired to give them full assurance, evidently and openly, concerning that glory which is prepared for those who endure to the end. Therefore, fulfilling that which He had promised shortly before, that "there be some standing here which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in His Kingdom" (Matt. 16:28), He took His three foremost disciples and ascended Mount Tabor, where He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became white as the light. Suddenly, together with this dread and marvelous effulgence of light, there appeared those pinnacles of the Prophets, Moses and Elias, who spoke with the Lord Jesus concerning His saving Passion which was about to take place. Standing before Him as reverent servants, they showed that He is the Lord of both the living and the dead, for Moses came forth from Hades, having died many centuries before, and Elias, as it were from heaven, whither he had been taken up while yet alive. After a little while a radiant cloud overshadowed them and out of the cloud they heard that same voice which had been heard at the Jordan at the Baptism of Christ, testifying to the Divinity of Jesus and saying: "This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well-pleased; hear ye Him" (Matt. 17: 5).

Such are the marvels, truly worthy of God, celebrated in this present feast, which is an image and prefiguring of the future state of the righteous, whose splendor the Lord spoke of, saying: "Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun" (Matt. 13:43). It is because of this that the Kontakion of this Feast is said daily (when there is not a great feast) in the Service of the Typica in perpetual commemoration of the glory that will be the lot of the Saints. According to tradition, the Lord's Transfiguration came to pass forty days before His Crucifixion; this is why the Transfiguration is celebrated forty days before the Exaltation of the Cross.


August 07

Dometios the Martyr of Persia & 2 Disciples

This Martyr, who lived during the reign of Saint Constantine the Great, was a Persian by race and an idolater by religion. He was catechized by a certain Christian named Abarus. He went to Nisibis, a city of Mesopotamia, where he was baptized and donned the monastic habit in a certain monastery. He afterwards ascended a mountain and there endured in extreme ascetical struggles, working miracles for those that came to him, and converting many unbelievers. Julian the Apostate learned of these things as he was marching against the Persians in 363, and at his command the Saint and his two disciples were stoned to death, as they were chanting the Sixth Hour.


August 08

Emilian the Confessor & Bishop of Cyzikos

This Saint was one of the illustrious Orthodox Bishops called to Constantinople by the holy Patriarch Nicephorus to defend the veneration of the holy icons against Leo the Armenian (see Mar. 8). Saint Emilian was sent into exile by Leo about the year 815, and gave up his soul to the Lord amidst many afflictions and sufferings for the sake of his confession.


August 09

Matthias, Apostle of the 70

After Judas by transgression fell from his apostleship (Acts 1: 25), and hanging himself out of despair ended his life with a wretched and shameful death (Matt. 27: 5), then, that the number of the Twelve not be lacking, all the disciples gathered in one place after the Ascension of the Savior (the number of men and women being 120), and they chose two men from among them, Joseph, called Barsabas, who was also surnamed Justus, and Matthias, and they set them in the midst. Then they prayed to God and cast lots, "and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven Apostles" (Acts 1: 15-26). And thus, having taken the place of Judas, Matthias fulfilled the work of apostleship and the prophecy concerning Judas, which the Holy Spirit foretold by the mouth of David: "And his bishopric let another take" (Ps. 108(109):8). After this, it is said, Matthias preached the Gospel in Ethiopia, and completed his life there in martyrdom.


August 10

Chitus of Athens, Bishop of Rome

This Sixtus is known as "Sixtus II" (pope from 257 to 258) and was martyred prior to St. Laurence, who is commemorated on August 10, during the persecution of Christians by the Emperor Valerian.


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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

Eighth Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from John 20:11-18

At that time, Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb, and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus has lain, one at the head and one at the feet. They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him." Saying this, she turned round and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom do you seek?" Supposing Him to be the gardener, she said to Him, "Sir, if you have carried Him away, tell me where you have laid Him, and I will take Him away." Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned and said to Him in Hebrew, "Rabboni," which means Teacher. Jesus said to her, "Do not touch Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God." Mary Magdalene went and said to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord," and she told them that He had said these things to her.


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 First Letter to the Corinthians 1:10-17.

Brethren, I appeal to you by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree and that there be no dissensions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment. For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brethren. What I mean is that each one of you says, "I belong to Paul," or "I belong to Apollos," or "I belong to Cephas," or "I belong to Christ." Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispos and Gaius; lest any one should say that you were baptized in my name. (I did baptize also the household of Stephanas. Beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized any one else.) For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.


Gospel Reading

8th Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 14:14-22

At that time, Jesus saw a great throng; and he had compassion on them, and healed their sick. When it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, "This is a lonely place, and the day is now over; send the crowds away to go into the villages and buy food for themselves." Jesus said, "They need not go away; you give them something to eat." They said to him, "We have only five loaves here and two fish." And he said, "Bring them here to me." Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass; and taking the five loaves and the two fish he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and broke and gave the loaves to the crowds. And they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up twelve baskets full of the broken pieces left over. And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children. Then he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds.


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Wisdom of the Fathers

And another thing too we learn, the self-restraint of the disciples which they practised in necessary things, and how little they accounted of food.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 49 on Matthew 14, 4th Century

For being twelve, they had five loaves only and two fishes; so secondary to them were the things of the body: so did they cling to the things spiritual only. And not even that little did they hold fast, but gave up even it when asked.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 49 on Matthew 14, 4th Century

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Prayer List

 

Please remember in your prayers the following:

Elizabeth Mitropoulos, Stelios Stylianou, Yolanda, Shyanne & family,  Liana Golematis, Sarah Nitz, Fanis Nikitaras, Nikos Papadakis, Aristea Stamoyloy, Eftihia Kapetanaki

Please contact the church office to add your name to the Prayer List. Thank you.

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Upcoming Memorials

AUGUST

3rd: Joanne Cranford - 40 days
10th: Stavros Karagiaouris - 1 year
17th: Marian Pappas - 40 days
24th - Zaharias Sakellariou - 20 years

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Flyers of Interest

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