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Holy Cross Church
Publish Date: 2019-03-17
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Gospel and Epistle Readings
Holy Cross 50th Anniversary News
Saints and Feasts
Holy Cross Notices
Ladies Philoptochos News
Altar Boy List
Events, Announcements and Flyers
Memorial Donations to Holy Cross
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Holy Cross Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (248) 477-1677
  • Fax:
  • (248) 477-0231
  • Street Address:

  • 25225 Middlebelt Rd.

  • Farmington Hills, MI 48336

Services Schedule

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DIVINE LITURGY SUNDAYS 10 A.M.

OFFICE HOURS 10 A.M.- 3 P.M.  MONDAY-WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY  (CLOSED THURSDAY)

BONNIE SITARAS: OFFICE COORDINATOR

 

Past Bulletins


Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

Ninth Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from John 20:19-31

On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them: "Peace be with you." When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you." And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them: "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained."

Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him: "We have seen the Lord." But he said to them: "Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and place my finger in the mark of the nails, and place my hand in his side, I will not believe."

Eight days later, his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. The doors were shut, but Jesus came and stood among them, and said: "Peace be with you." Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side; do not be faithless, but believing." Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!" Jesus said to him, "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe."

Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Fourth Mode. Daniel 3.26,27.
Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of our fathers.
Verse: For you are just in all you have done.

The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 11:24-26, 32-40.

Brethren, by faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.

And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets -- who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, received promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, won strength out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign enemies to flight. Women received their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, that they might rise again to a better life. Others suffered mocking and scourging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, ill-treated -- of whom the world was not worthy -- wandering over deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

And all these, though well attested by their faith, did not receive what was promised, since God had foreseen something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

Gospel Reading

Sunday of Orthodoxy
The Reading is from John 1:43-51

At that time, Jesus decided to go to Galilee. And he found Philip and said to him, "Follow me." Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael, and he said to him, "We have found him of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see." Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said of him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!" Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you." Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!" Jesus answered him, "Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You shall see greater things than these." And he said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man."

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Holy Cross 50th Anniversary News

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CAN USE SOME HELP ON THIS...PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT

This section of the Holy Cross eBulletin is dedicated to the events and announcements leading up to the Holy Cross 50th Anniversary Celebration.

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(the date) SEPTEMBER  15, 2019 AT THE DETROIT YACHT CLUB

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ANNIVERSARY ALBUM MEMORIALS/ADS

See attached below in Events, Announcements and Flyers Section listed as:

Commemorative Directory Advertising Information

Go down in history and be a part of the Holy Cross 50th Anniversary Album by submitting your family memorial page or a business advertisment. We look forward to working with you! 
Notice:  deadline for final ad submission is March 15 !

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 ALSO SPECIAL REQUEST FOR COLLAGE PICTURES

The 50th Commemorative Directory Committee is asking for pictures to put in the 50th yearbook as part of a collage. Were you... 

  • Married at Holy Cross?
  • Baptized?
  • Chrismated?
  • An altar boy?
  • In the choir?
  • Youth of the year?
  • A Psalti?
  • In Sunday School?
  • A Teacher of Sunday School?
  • Holy Week Readers?

....and have a photo that was taken inside the church that features the altar or choir loft? 

Please share with the yearbook committee! 
Call or email Mary Lucas for correct directions on how to submit your photos
Tel: 248-496-9172 | Email:  melon1022@aol.com

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also  LOST & FOUND

The 50th Anniversary Committee needs: 
- addresses of former parishioners & friends of the parish

- addresses of adult children that have moved out of town

 
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Saints and Feasts

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March 17

Sunday of Orthodoxy

For more than one hundred years the Church of Christ was troubled by the persecution of the Iconoclasts of evil belief, beginning in the reign of Leo the Isaurian (717-741) and ending in the reign of Theophilus (829-842). After Theophilus's death, his widow the Empress Theodora (celebrated Feb. 11), together with the Patriarch Methodius (June 14), established Orthodoxy anew. This ever-memorable Queen venerated the icon of the Mother of God in the presence of the Patriarch Methodius and the other confessors and righteous men, and openly cried out these holy words: "If anyone does not offer relative worship to the holy icons, not adoring them as though they were gods, but venerating them out of love as images of the archetype, let him be anathema." Then with common prayer and fasting during the whole first week of the Forty-day Fast, she asked God's forgiveness for her husband. After this, on the first Sunday of the Fast, she and her son, Michael the Emperor, made a procession with all the clergy and people and restored the holy icons, and again adorned the Church of Christ with them. This is the holy deed that all we the Orthodox commemorate today, and we call this radiant and venerable day the Sunday of Orthodoxy, that is, the triumph of true doctrine over heresy.

Allsaint
March 17

Patrick the Enlightener of Ireland

Saint Patrick, the Apostle of the Irish, was seized from his native Britain by Irish marauders when he was sixteen years old. Though the son of a deacon and a grandson of a priest, it was not until his captivity that he sought out the Lord with his whole heart. In his Confession, the testament he wrote towards the end of his life, he says, "After I came to Ireland - every day I had to tend sheep, and many times a day I prayed - the love of God and His fear came to me more and more, and my faith was strengthened. And my spirit was so moved that in a single day I would say as many as a hundred prayers, and almost as many at night, and this even when I was staying in the woods and on the mountain; and I would rise for prayer before daylight, through snow, through frost, through rain, and I felt no harm." After six years of slavery in Ireland, he was guided by God to make his escape, and afterwards struggled in the monastic life at Auxerre in Gaul, under the guidance of the holy Bishop Germanus. Many years later he was ordained bishop and sent to Ireland once again, about the year 432, to convert the Irish to Christ. His arduous labours bore so much fruit that within seven years, three bishops were sent from Gaul to help him shepherd his flock, "my brethren and sons whom I have baptized in the Lord - so many thousands of people," he says in his Confession. His apostolic work was not accomplished without much "weariness and painfulness," long journeys through difficult country, and many perils; he says his very life was in danger twelve times. When he came to Ireland as its enlightener, it was a pagan country; when he ended his earthly life some thirty years later, about 461, the Faith of Christ was established in every corner.

Allsaint
March 18

Edward the Martyr, King of England

Allsaint
March 20

Photini the Samaritan Woman

Saint Photini lived in 1st century Palestine and was the woman that Christ met at the well in Samaria as recorded in the Gospel according to John (4:4-26). After her encounter with Christ, she and her whole family were baptized by the Apostles and became evangelists of the early Church. Photini and her children eventually were summoned before the emperor Nero and instructed to renounce their faith in Christ. They reused to do so, accepting rather to suffer various tortures. After many efforts to force her to surrender to idolatry, the emperor ordered that she be thrown down a well. Photini gave up her life in the year 66.

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Holy Cross Notices

 
MEDICAL LEAVE:
Fr. Dean is going  on Medical Leave begining March 7
+  There will be no weekday Lenten Services
+ There will be no Saturday of Souls
+There will be fill in Priests for all Sundays
Emergencies contact the office or Metropolis
(please keep him in your prayers)
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METRO GOYA RETREAT
AT HOLY TRINITY CATHEDRAL TOLEDO
MARCH 23
INFO HAS BEEN SENT OUT TO GOYA & PARENTS
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Holy Cross sympathies to the Heller Family on the
falling asleep in the Lord of Eleni Varveris mother of Maria.
Funeral will be in Columbus , OH.
May her Memory be eternal
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APRIL 21: PALM SUNDAY LUNCHEON
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Links to eBulletin, Facebook, Metropolis
Facebook: HolyCrossGreekOrthodoxChurch
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 SHOP AT ACE HARDWARE?
5% minus tax = (!)
Holy Cross has been entered into our system for business rewards and discounts.  When you or any of your church members visit any our stores right around the corner or any 47 stores (list attached), simply let the cashier know your Church is in the system under Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church or #214538.  This will give you a 5% line discount off everyday pricing in the store + earn you 2% Ace Rewards as well as 6% Tax Exempt will come off automatically. 
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SHOP AT KROGER?
Register your card in a few steps. Each May the registration needs to be renewed,
so if you were part of the program last year and haven't renewed, please do so. Go to:
http://www.krogercommunityrewards.com
Holy Cross' ID # 83567
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Ladies Philoptochos News

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MARCH 16: LENTEN RETREAT
The OCW of Michigan presents "Bringing Post-Moderns in to the Church"
Holy Transfiguration Orthodox Church 
36075 W Seven Mile Rd | Livonia, MI 48152
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APRIL 7: NEXT PHILOPTOCHOS MEETING
Following the Divine Liturgy
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APRIL 21: PALM SUNDAY LUNCHEON
Mark your calendars to join us after the Divine Liturgy
Details to follow
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MAY 11: ANNUAL SALAD LUNCHEON AND FASHION SHOW
Save the date and invite friends
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MARCH COFFEE HOUR HOSTS
17: Memorials
24: Memorial (Jeff Anagnostou hosted by the Garber Family)
31: Thanos Family

COFFEE HOUR SIGN UPS
Call Bonnie Sitaras or Debbie George
Thank you to all who sign up in offering hospitality/filoxenia
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Altar Boy List

HOLY CROSS ALTAR BOYS 2018-2019             

Captains: Matthew Fekaris, Sam Zervos, Chris Zervos, Alex Matthews

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TEAM 1              TEAM 2

Nicholas Barnaby        Yianni Giannakis

Benjamin Barnaby      Dimitri Sitaras

Mateo Pesaros            Pano Stilianos

Stavros Fekaris           Dino Thanos             

                                 Niko Thanos                  

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Team 1                          Team 2

March 10,24                    March 3, 17, 31

April 7, Palm Sunday 21   April 14-Holy Pascha 28

May 5,19                         May 12,26

June 2,16,30                   June 9, 23

July- open   come any Sunday!      July- open

August- open come any Sunday!      August-open

September 1,15,29  (registration again)      September 8,22

On holy days, if you come on Time you can serve :

for robes on holy days it’s first come-first serve.

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PLEASE NOTE ALTAR BOYS & PARENTS-

This is a great commitment to the Lord and it is an important RESPONSIBILTY to be on Time for the Divine Liturgy!

Liturgy begins at 10 a.m. SO please be on time !

DO NOT come into the Holy Altar  after 10:05 a.m.

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Events, Announcements and Flyers

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Memorial Donations to Holy Cross

OUR THANKS

To those who in lieu of flowers gave monetary

contributions to the Church in memory of :

 

ELENI VARVERIS

Mr.& Mrs. Steve Fekaris

Mr. & Mrs. John George

Mr. & Mrs. Jim Sitaras

 

FINN F. ROED

Mr. & Mrs. Steve Fekaris

 

PEGGY TSOUCARIS BUTLER

Mr. & Mrs. Steve Fekaris

 

JEFF ANAGNOSTOU

Mr. & Mrs. Steve Fekaris

Mr. & Mrs. Evans Lucas

Dr. & Mrs. James Stewart

Mr. & Mrs. Jim Sitaras

Mr. & Mrs. Edward Power

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Bittinger

Mr. & Mrs. Peter Angelas

Mr. & Mrs. Doug Garber

Mr. & Mrs. George Katsias

Dr. & Mrs. Marcus Zervos

 

MILTON ALEXANDER

Patricia Christie

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Blough

 

TOM SPANOS

Pat & Sophia Quinn

 

RICHARD WAMBAUGH

Mr. & Mrs. James Heller

 

JAMES R. MCMILLEN

Mr. & Mrs. James Heller

 

MARYANN CHAPMAN

Mr. & Mrs. James Heller

 

MICHAEL E. ZERVOS

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Blough

Mr. & Mrs. Tony Zakaria

 

MAY THEIR MEMORY BE ETERNAL

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