Spring General Assembly
The Spring General Assembly will take place after Liturgy on Sunday, Apri 21. All Stewards of the Parish are invited to participate.
Fellowship Hour
Today's Fellowship Hour is offered by James Papas in memory of his father John.
If you are planning to host a Fellowship Hour after a Memorial Service, Please make sure to sign up on the Felllowship Hour sheet on the bulletin board well in advance. Otherwise the Fellowship Hour Team will plan the Fellowship Hour for that day.
On most regular Sundays, there will be a basket out to receive your generous offering for the substantial Fellowship offerings you partake of. This money will be used to pay for the ingredients needed to make our monthly sandwiches for the guests at the McKenna House. Please remember to be as generous as possible!
If you would like to put on a coffee hour (for example, for a memorial) but you are unable to do so, please talk to Presbytera, and we will help you put together a simple Coffee Hour. There are many empty spots till the end of the year. Please check out the schedule and sign up for a Fellowship Hour.
Get Your Tsourekia Here
The Philoptochos is providing 30 tsourekia for sale; each tsoureki is $20. You must sign up in the Church Hall. Please see Katerina Tsihlis or Margaret Gegas if you have any questions. Don't delay! Sign up now!
Fresh Prosphora
There are lots of empty spaces on the Prosphoro sign up list! I have heard from a number of people (both men and women) who are interested in making prosphoro. Now is the time to sign up and try! Don't worry if you haven't made prosphoro before! Just sign up and take the dive! Just two or three loaves. There is a "prosphoro kit" with a seal, as well as an icon, prayer, and bread bags.
Holy Week Needs
If you would like to donate one or more of the following items, please see Father.
Flowers for 2 Bridegroom Icons, Last Supper Icon, Resurrection Icon…….. $45 for each
Flowers for the Crown…………………………………………………………….$70
Flowers for the Garland at the Base of the Cross……………………………..$35
Flowers for the Children’s Kouvouklion………………………………………... $45
Flowers for the Lavaron…………………………………………………………..$50
Bay Leaves…………………………………………………………………………$60
1 white flat twin sheet (not fitted!)………………………………………………..$10
Nama Communion Wine................................................................................$30
12 candles for the Kouvouklion…………………………………………………..$5 each
Two 7 Day Candle Stands ………………………………………………………..$439.95 each
(To replace our rickety and somewhat dangerous ones!)
Palm Sunday Dinner
We will have our annual tradition of a Palm Sunday Fish Dinner on Sunday, April 28, after Liturgy. Please get your tickets NOW! so we know how much food to prepare! Tickets are available from Parish Council Members: Adults $25; Pizza will be availabe for $5. Many thanks to Genie Dakopoulos for once again generously sponsoring this meal in memory of her beloved parents. May their memory be eternal!
Calling All the Young Ladies of the Parish
Would you like to be one of the Myrrh-bearing Women during Holy Week? We are looking for young ladies between age 5 and High School to participate in this special ministry. We need you for the 12 Gospels (May 2 at 6:30 pm) to hold candles for the Gospel and accompany our Lord on the way to the Cross. Also for the Vespers of Holy Friday (May 3 at 3:00 pm) to help wrap the Body of Jesus taken down from the Cross and to help carry the Body of Jesus to the tomb. We also need you for the Lamentations Service (May 3 at 6:30 pm) to throw rose petals on the tomb and to help carry the children’s Kouvouklion in the procession. If you want to participate in this, please see Father. We have some white dresses if you need one.
April Greek Meal to Go
Today is pick up day for the April Greek Meal to Go. If you forgot to order, there may be some extras. Talk to a Council Member.
Great Vespers for Sunday
Orthodoxy is not a "Sunday morning only" way of life. An important part of our liturgical celebration of our Lord's resurrection every Sunday is the celebration of Great Vespers the evening before. In order to get us back into this practice, we are celebrating Great Vespers on 2 Saturdays each month. Yesterday evening was our first. Our next Great Vespers will be next Saturday, April 20, at 5:00 pm. This is a beautiful and not very long service. We hope to see you there on April 20!
Holy Friday Retreat
All our children from 3 years old to High School are invited to participate in our annual Holy Friday Retreat, Friday, May 3 from 10:15 to 2:30. There will be lots of fun activities for all ages, as well as the special joy of decorating the Children’s Kouvouklion. A light Lenten lunch will also be served. After the retreat the children will prepare for the afternoon service. Please let Father or Presbytera know if your children will be attending. You can find an excuse note from school that day elsewhere in the bulletin. You may copy this note for multiple children. Please remember—your children may learn some things for the benefit of their earthly life, but by spending the day with the crucified Christ, they will learn things which will bring them to eternal life. Which one do you think is more important?
Can You Help Feed the Hungry?
Lent is the perfect time to step up our efforts to help the less fortunate.
Once a month the Philoptochos has been sponsoring a beautiful sandwich ministry which serves McKenna house. Your generous offerings for partaking in a usually sumptuous coffee hour helps to fund this ministry (just consider how much you would be spending at a restaurant for everything you eat at coffee hour and contribute something similar!)
We are also now providing sandwiches and other treats for the Coalition against Homelessness at least twice a month. We will hand out bags with a sandwich, a (hopefully) homemade cookie or other treat, a fruit and whatever else we decide. We need to make 30 bags. One round should cost around $50. Many thanks to everyone who has already generously funded a round of sandwiches or who have baked some great treats for the bags! If you want to help by baking a treat at home, come and assemble the bags, or sponsor a round (whole or in part), please talk to Presbytera. Next assembly Wednesday April 17, 9:30 am. Thank you for your generosity towards those who have nothing!
Mother's Day Raffle
Get your tickets for a great Mother's Day Raffle sponsored by the Outreach Ministries! The prize is a beautiful handmade queen size afghan from the estate of Theopoula Tsaros together with a Pampering Basket of body lotions, soap, wine and chocolate, among other things. Tickets are 1 for $1 or 6 for $5, and can be purchased beginning today April 14. Thank you for your generous help!
Silent Auction moving to October
The Outreach Ministries is hosting a Silent Auction in October. The items will be open for bidding for on Sunday, October 6 and end on Sunday, October 27 during Fellowship Hour. In order to have an exciting Silent Auction, we need a number of items for bidding. We are hoping our Parish Family will help out by asking for gift certificates from your favorite businesses or by offering your own gift certificates for some item or service you can offer (like a gift certificate for 2 hours of lawn work or for some homemade jewelry or for a tray of your Greek cookie specialty or of spanakopita, etc.). If you can help out in this, please see Elena Newman.
Men Can Cook Too: Holy Trinity Concord Cookbook, dedicated to the men of the Community.
We would like this to be not only a great cookbook, but also a way to remember members of our Parish.
Gentlemen, we are looking for your recipes! Of course women can and should also send in recipes. Recipes should be dedicated to men (e.g. something your husband, dad, etc. likes or liked to cook or eat). Ideally the recipe should be accompanied by a few words and/or photo (e.g. this is my husband‘s favorite Lenten dish. Every birthday my dad wanted to eat this cake. My papou always had these koulourakia for breakfast, etc.). Recipes should reflect the diversity of our community. We are not looking exclusively for Greek recipes. If you are interested in being part of the Cookbook Committee to work on some aspect of it, please see Presbytera.
Please send any type of recipe ( and as many as you want ) to Jill Argyrople at jillargyrople@gmail.com.
An Appeal from the Outreach Ministries
The Outreach Ministries are continuing to collect warm blankets, dark warm socks, and a new item--hand warmers. Extra winter coats are also always welcome. The food collection as well is always going on. Thank you from the least of your brothers and sisters for your generosity!
We are also in need for more items for the Blessing Bags: shampoo, body wash or soap, granola bars, and dark warm socks. Do you have a Blessing Bag in your car? If not, make sure to pick one (or more!) up on your way out of the Church Hall.
Any thing you can bring that will help the needy, and especially the homeless. The shelters are closing at the end of March, so people without any place to live will have to find some place to live outside somewhere. Blankets, tarps, warm dark-colored socks, as well as items for the Blessing Bags to give out are all important. Remember the words of St. George of Drama: If you pray without giving alms, your prayer is dead. Your hand should always be open. Alms and prayer go together...Our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary doesn’t want candles; she wants alms to be given to the poor.
One very important way you can help the homeless is to donate emergency sleeping bags to keep them warm and dry. You can find them on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BDHBBXWW/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
