Sunday Services: Orthros 9:00am / Divine Liturgy 10:00am
Saturday – October 26 - 9:00AM
Divine Liturgy for St. Demetrios
(Orthros at 8am)
Philoptochos
Shoe Box Collections: Della Ann Bryant will be collecting donations for pre-filled shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child on October 27th and November 3rd. Boxes will be available for anyone who would like to fill their own.
Luncheon/Bake Sale: our Luncheon/Bake Sale will be Sunday, November 10, 2019 following Divine Liturgy. Details to follow. Please be prepared to support your church fundraiser by purchasing tickets and goods, donating baked goods for sale or helping out in kitchen, serving or clean up. Coffee will not be served following Divine Liturgy that day, as we will be prepared for luncheon/bake sale.
Walk to End Alzheimers: Saturday, October 26
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.
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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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Prokeimenon. First Mode. Psalm 32.22,1.
Let your mercy, O Lord, be upon us.
Verse: Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous.
The reading is from St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 9:6-11.
Brethren, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must do as he has made up his mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that you may always have enough of everything and may provide in abundance for every good work. As it is written, "He scatters abroad, he gives to the poor; his righteousness endures for ever." He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your resources and increase the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way for great generosity, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God.
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.