Sunday Services: Orthros 9:00am / Divine Liturgy 10:00am
Monday - December 24
~ 8:00am ~
Orthros, Great Hours, Great Vespers,
Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great
~ 6:00pm ~
Orthros & Divine Liturgy for the Nativity
(No services on December 25)
Fast Free Period December 25 – January 4
Tuesday – January 1 – 9:00am
Divine Liturgy for St. Basil
(Orthros 8am)
Philoptochos
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. You can meet her at the church, contact via the church email htrinityroa@verizon.net or call (540)-362-3601.
Christmas Poinsettias
Philoptochos still accepts donations for poinsettias through this Sunday, December 16th. Here are the latest details and form for participating in this year’s poinsettias to decorate the church.
Pack-a-Snack
For all who have signed up for specific items, bring them THIS Sunday. If you still want to donate contact Maria Apostolou to find out what is needed.
Nativity Celebration This Sunday
Please bring a holiday food item for the Fellowship Hour and if you have a tradition that you would like to share with everyone: it could be music, something to read, or just tell us about something that you or your family do to celebrate the Nativity. Please let Wendy Larson-Harris know if you will bring food or want to share something in the program. 540-981-1877 or larson@roanoke.edu
No Sunday School Classes December 23 and 30th.
Focus on Nativity from the fast until Theophany
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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.
Prayer Card
Click this link to download the Prayer Card PDF in PDF format, or Prayer Card DOC in Word format. The PDF file may be printed and filled in by hand or the Word file may be edited and kept up-to-date. Use this when offering prosphora, for memorial services, or for prayer requests in general.
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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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 Colossians 3:4-11.
Brethren, when Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience. In these you once walked, when you lived in them. But now put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and foul talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old nature with its practices and have put on the new nature, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free man, but Christ is all, and in all.
11th Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 14:16-24
The Lord said this parable: "A man once gave a great banquet, and invited many; and at the time of the banquet he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, 'Come; for all is now ready.' But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, 'I have bought a field, and I go out and see it; I pray you, have me excused.' And another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go to examine them; I pray you, have me excused.' And another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.' So the servant came and reported this to his master. Then the householder in anger said to his servant, 'Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and maimed and blind and lame.' And the servant said, 'Sir, what you commanded has been done, and there is still room.' And the master said to the servant, 'Go out to the highways and hedges, and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled. For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste my banquet. For many are called, but few are chosen.'"