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Friday - July 17 - 9:00am
Divine Liturgy for St Marina
(Orthros 8am)

Monday - July 20 - 9:00am
Divine Liturgy for St Elias
(Orthros 8am)

Wednesday - July 22 - 9:00am
Divine Liturgy for St Mary Magdalene
(Orthros 8am)

Monday - July 27 - 9:00am
Divine Liturgy for St Panteleimon
(Orthros 8am)

Bracelet
A parishioner of the Holy Trinity Church has lost a thick gold bracelet that has a large Greek gold coin dangling from it of great sentimental value. If you have found it please contact the office with your details and details about the item. Your cooperation is greatly appreciated. A significant reward is being offered for its return.

Memory Eternal
To the family of the Holy Trinity Church parishioners,
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved mother, grandmother and great grandmother and the oldest parishioner of the Holy Trinity, Marie Pappas. She peacefully left late night on July 9th, 2020 at her home, creating a great void in our lives. We are currently making funeral arrangements and became aware of the complications due to the Covid-19 pandemic, forcing us to alter some of the prevailing practices. Thus despite our wish to see all of the Holy Trinity members participating in her funeral, we have decided to limit attendance of the funeral services to immediate family. We need to emphasize that we reached this difficult decision because of prevailing circumstances.

We still wish for you all to pray for her soul and to remember her for the good person she was and we hope to be able to offer the traditional meal in her memory in conjunction with a memorial service once the restrictions for gatherings are lifted.
May the Lord have mercy on her soul,
The bereaved Pappas family

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To the family of the Holy Trinity Church parishioners,

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved mother, grandmother and great grandmother and the oldest parishioner of the Holy Trinity, Marie Pappas. She peacefully left late night on July 9^th, 2020 at her home, creating a great void in our lives. We are currently making funeral arrangements and became aware of the complications due to the Covid-19 pandemic, forcing us to alter some of the prevailing practices. Thus despite our wish to see all of the Holy Trinity members participating in her funeral, we have decided to limit attendance of the funeral services to immediate family. We need to emphasize that we reached this difficult decision because of prevailing circumstances. We still wish for you all to pray for her soul and to remember her for the good person she was and we hope to be able to offer the traditional meal in her memory in conjunction with a memorial service once the restrictions for gatherings are lifted.

May the Lord have mercy on her soul

The bereaved Pappas family

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 Romans 10:1-10.

Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but it is not enlightened. For, being ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. For Christ is the end of the law, that every one who has faith may be justified. Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on the law shall live by it. But the righteousness based on faith says, Do not say in your heart, "Who will ascend into heaven?" (that is, to bring Christ down) or "Who will descend into the abyss?" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). But what does it say? The word is near you, on your lips and in your heart (that is, the word of faith which we preach); because, if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For man believes with his heart and so is justified, and he confesses with his lips and so is saved.

Gospel Reading

5th Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 8:28-34; 9:1

At that time, when Jesus came to the country of the Gergesenes, two demoniacs met him, coming out of the tombs, so fierce that no one would pass that way. And behold, they cried out, "What have you to do with us, O Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?" Now a herd of many swine was feeding at some distance from them. And the demons begged him, "If you cast us out, send us away into the herd of swine." And he said to them, "Go." So they came out and went into the swine; and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and perished in the waters. The herdsmen fled, and going into the city they told everything, and what had happened to the demoniacs. And behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus; and when they saw him, they begged him to leave their neighborhood. And getting into a boat he crossed over and came to his own city.

Wisdom of the Fathers

"And going about," he says, "to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. And these things he says to show, that it was from a petulancy and love of power that they erred, rather than from ignorance, and that not even this righteousness from the deeds of the Law did they establish. (Matt. xxi. 38; John. xii. 19, 42.) For saying "going about to establish" is what one would do to show this. And in plain words indeed he has not stated this (for he has not said, that they fell short of both righteousnesses), but he has given a hint of it in a very judicious manner...For if Christ be "the end of the Law," he that hath not Christ, even if he seem to have that righteousness, hath it not. But he that hath Christ, even though he have not fulfilled the Law aright, hath received the whole. For the end of the physician's art is health. As then he that can make whole, even though he hath not the physician's art, hath everything; but he that knows not how to heal, though he seem to be a follower of the art, comes short of everything: so is it in the case of the Law and of faith...For what was the object of the Law? To make man righteous. But it had not the power, for no one fulfilled it. This then was the end of the Law and to this it looked throughout, and for this all its parts were made, its feasts, and commandments, and sacrifices, and all besides, that man might be justified. But this end Christ gave a fuller accomplishment of through faith.(*) Be not then afraid, he says, as if transgressing the Law in having come over to the faith. For then dost thou transgress it, when for it thou dost not believe Christ.

St. John Chrysostom

Homily 17 on Romans 10, 4th Century

Now, should any one say, "And wherefore did Christ fulfill the devils' request, suffering them to depart into the herd of swine?" this would be our reply, that He did so, not as yielding to them, but as providing for many objects thereby.

St. John Chrysostom

Homily 28 on Matthew 8, 4th Century

Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Fourth Mode

Having learned the joyful proclamation of the Resurrection from the Angel, and having cast off the ancestral condemnation, the women disciples of the Lord spake to the Apostles exultantly: Death is despoiled and Christ God is risen, granting great mercy to the world.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Second Mode

O Protection of Christians that cannot be put to shame, mediation unto the creator most constant: O despise not the voices of those who have sinned; but be quick, O good one, to come unto our aid, who in faith cry unto thee: Hasten to intercession and speed thou to make supplication, O thou who dost ever protect, O Theotokos, them that honor thee.

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