General Assembly
There will be a Parish General Assembly following Divine Liturgy on July 18.
Holy Trinity Church
Publish Date: 2021-07-11
Bulletin Contents
Holy Trinity Church
General Information
- Phone:
- (740) 282-9835
- Fax:
- (740) 282-2091
- Email:
- office@holytrinitystb.org
- Street Address:
- 300 South Fourth Street
- Steubenville, OH 43952
- Mailing Address:
- P.O. Box 788
- Steubenville, OH 43952
Contact Information
Services Schedule
Sunday Worship
Matins - 9am
Divine Liturgy - 10am
Wednesday Nights
Confession - 5pm
Salutaions to the Theotokos (Virgin Mary) - 6pm
Past Bulletins
- Publish Date:
- 2021-07-18
- Publish Date:
- 2021-07-04
- Publish Date:
- 2021-06-27
- Publish Date:
- 2021-06-20
- Publish Date:
- 2021-05-23
- Publish Date:
- 2021-05-16
Hymns of the Day
Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Second Mode
When You descended unto death, O Lord
who yourself are immortal Life, then did You
mortify Hades by the lightning flash of Your
Divinity. Also when You raised the dead from the
netherworld, all the Powers of the heavens were
crying out: O Giver of life, Christ our God, glory
to You.
Apolytikion for Great Martyr Euphemia in the Third Mode
To the Orthodox you brought elation, to the
heretics, humiliation, lovely virgin of Christ, St.
Euphemia. For you confirmed what the Fathers
decreed as true during the Fourth holy Council
in Chalcedon. We entreat you now, O glorious
Martyr, pray for us to Christ our God to grant us
the great mercy.
Seasonal Kontakion in the Second Mode
O Protection of Christians that never falls,
intercession with the Creator that never fails,
we sinners beg you, do not ignore the voices
of our prayers. O good Lady, we implore you,
quickly come unto our aid, when we cry out to
you with faith. Hurry to intercession, and hasten
to supplication, O Theotokos who protect now and
ever those who honor you.
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Epistle Reading
Prokeimenon. Fourth Mode. Psalm 67.35,26.
God is wonderful among his saints.
Verse: Bless God in the congregations.
The reading is from St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 6:1-10.
Brethren, working together with him, we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain. For he says, "At the acceptable time I have listened to you, and helped you on the day of salvation." Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. We put no obstacle in any one's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, tumults, labors, watching, hunger; by purity, knowledge, forbearance, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love, truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as punished, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
Gospel Reading
3rd Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 6:22-33
The Lord said, "The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light; but if your eye is not sound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O men of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear? For the Gentiles seek all these things; and your heavenly Father knows you need them all. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well."
Wisdom of the Fathers
There is an old saying: 'Excesses meet.' Too much fasting and too much eating come to the same end. Keeping too long a vigil brings the same disastrous cost as ... sluggishness... Too much self-denial brings weakness and induces the same condition as carelessness. Often I have seen men who would not be snared by gluttony fall, nevertheless, through immoderate fasting and tumble in weakness into the very urge which they had overcome. Unmeasured vigils and foolish denial of rest overcame those whom sleep could not overcome. Therefore, 'fortified to right and to left in the armor of justice,' as the apostle says (2 Cor. 6:7), life must be lived with due measure and, with discernment for a guide, the road must be traveled between the two kinds of excess so that in the end we may not allow ourselves to be diverted from the pathway of restraint which has been laid down for us nor fall through dangerous carelessness into the urgings of gluttony and self-indulgence.
Conferences, Conference Two: On Discernment no. 16; Paulist Press pg. 76, 5th century
For God, He said, gave us understanding, that we might chase away all ignorance, and have the right judgment of things, and that using this as a kind of weapon and light against all that is grievous or hurtful, we might remain in safety. But we betray the gift for the sake of things superfluous and useless.
Homily 20 and 21 on Matthew 6, 4th Century