General Information
- Phone:
- (540) 362-3601
- Fax:
- (540) 362-3638
- Street Address:
- 30 Huntington Blvd. N.E.
- Roanoke, VA 24012
Contact Information
Services Schedule
Sunday Services: Orthros 9:00am / Divine Liturgy 10:00am
Past Bulletins
- Publish Date:
- 2018-10-28
- Publish Date:
- 2018-10-14
- Publish Date:
- 2018-10-07
- Publish Date:
- 2018-09-30
- Publish Date:
- 2018-09-23
- Publish Date:
- 2018-09-16
News & Information
Friday - October 26 - 9:00am
Divine Liturgy for St. Demetrios
(Orthros 8am)
Philoptochos
October 21: tables for Operation Christmas Child will be set up in the hall to accept donations. A donation of $25.00 covers items in the shoe box; $9.00 covers shipping. Empty shoe boxes will be available for anyone to take and fill (the box will have a rubber band (to hold box together), list of appropriate gifts, & donation envelope). Boxes will need to be returned by October 28th.
Grecian Luncheon & Bake Sale: Sunday, November 11. It's time for our Luncheon and Bake Sale. Please make copies and distribute into your communities and please place your own orders!
Here are full details.
Opportunity to Help: there will be two baskets in the Fellowship Hall: one for Ronald McDonald House and one for our church pantry. If every family brings one non-perishable item of food for each basket, once a week or every other week, we can be of great assistance within our communities. The Ronald McDonald House accepts non-perishable food items for cooking or ready to eat and dish soap and laundry soaps/supplies. The other basket, which is for our Church Pantry, calls for the same type of items, except no soaps or laundry supplies, to help people of our communities (within our church and people that come in to ask for help). Let's work together for those in need and bring glory to our God.
Kroger Plus Card: For all those in the community that carry a Kroger Plus card, please affiliate your Kroger Plus card with the Roanoke Philoptochos, which is posted at www.kroger.com as Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church Philoptochos. That doesn't affect your rewards but benefits our organization because Philoptochos can receive monetary contributions from Kroger. To register your Kroger Plus account to Philoptochos, please follow the below steps:
1) Go to www.kroger.com
2) Click on Sign in/ Register ( if you do not have an account please create one)
3) Click on Community and then on Kroger Community Rewards
4) Select the option: I'm a Customer and then select HOLY TRINITY GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH PHILOPTOCHOS with the Organization Number HL950 and click on confirm.
If you need any assistance Georgia Liagki will be happy to help you. See her at church Sunday. Or, you can meet her at the church this Sunday 10/7/18 after Divine Liturgy, contact via the church email htrinityroa@verizon.netor call (540)-362-3601.
October 28
Fr. Nick will dedicate the new Saint Demetrios Library and Conference room with a Hagiasmos (blessing service) following Divine Liturgy. Later, during Fellowship, there will be an Oxi Day celebration.
This Sunday
Parish General Assembly after Divine Liturgy.
Hellenic Club
The Hellenic Club will be participating in the Walk to End Alzheimer’s on Saturday, October 27, 2018 at Elmwood Park Amphitheater. The ceremony begins at 9 a.m. and the walk at 9:30 a.m. We will meet near the stage area at 8:45 a.m. In order to sign up for the walk, please go to www.alz.org and find the Roanoke walk. From there, search the team “Holy Trinity” to join or donate. After the walk, we will have brunch at 202 Social House, 202 Market Street at 11:00 a.m. Everyone is invited to join us for brunch even if you do not participate in the walk. Please RSVP that you will be joining us for brunch by October 19th (today) either by email at ptsims@ntelos.net or 434.851.6830.
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Welcome to All Visitors!
Please join us for fellowship in the Church Hall immediately following the Divine Liturgy. For those visiting an Orthodox Church for the first time, please be aware that Holy Communion is a sign of unity of faith, which is only offered to Baptized and Chrismated Orthodox Christians. All present are welcomed to come forward and receive the antidoron (or blessed bread) which is distributed at the end of the service. For those interested in learning more about the Orthodox Christian faith, please feel free to speak with Fr. Nick after the service.
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Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 10:00am- 12:00pm; Wednesday & Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm; Saturdays and other times, including Confession, by appointment. Because unexpected things sometimes come up on short notice, please call [1-518-947-1724] before coming.
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Gospel and Epistle Readings
Epistle Reading
Prokeimenon. Fourth Mode. Psalm 103.24,1.
O Lord, how manifold are your works. You have made all things in wisdom.
Verse: Bless the Lord, O my soul.
The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Galatians 2:16-20.
Brethren, knowing that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law, because by works of the law shall no one be justified. But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we ourselves were found to be sinners, is Christ then an agent of sin? Certainly not! But if I build up again those things which I tore down, then I prove myself a transgressor. For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Gospel Reading
6th Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 8:26-39
At that time, as Jesus arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, there met him a man from the city who had demons; for a long time he had worn no clothes and he lived not in a house but among the tombs. When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before him, and said with a loud voice, "What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beseech you, do not torment me." For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. (For many a time it had seized him; he was kept under guard, and bound with chains and fetters, but he broke the bonds and was driven by the demon into the desert.) Jesus then asked him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Legion"; for many demons had entered him. And they begged him not to command them to depart into the abyss. Now a large herd of swine was feeding there on the hillside; and they begged him to let them enter these. So he gave them leave. Then the demons came out of the man and entered the swine, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and were drowned. When the herdsmen saw what happened, they fled, and told it in the city and in the country. Then people went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had gone, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid. And those who had seen it told them how he who had been possessed with demons was healed. Then all the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them; for they were seized with great fear; so he got into the boat and returned. The man from whom the demons had gone begged that he might be with him; but he sent him away, saying, "Return to your home, and declare how much God has done for you." And he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole city how much Jesus had done for him.