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
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- 2020-10-04
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- 2020-09-27
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- 2020-09-20
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- 2020-09-13
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- 2020-09-06
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- 2020-08-30
News & Information
Upcoming Special Services
Divine Liturgy for St. Demetrios
(Orthros 8am)
Registration
Remember that you just register to attend Sunday and special services. If you do not have the email form from the listserv there is a link (enter name, number attending and dates) on the homepage.
Special Prayer
Fr Nick will offer a prayer for the beginning of both catechetical and the Greek schools at the conclusion of Divine Liturgy this Sunday.
Christian Education
Class exercises for children and youth are now online with a link from the homepage.
From Philoptochos
Operation Christmas Child News
With a donation of $25.00 or more a needy child,in one of 32 countries, will receive a Shoe Box filled with personal and educational items, as well as toys! When a child is given a Shoe Box they also are offered the opportunity to learn about God and His love for them, through a class called the "Greatest Journey". Checks should be made out to Samaritan's Purse and be sent to the church "Attention Philoptochos". We will be taking donations up to Oct 25th.
Also, please read the letter below from our Metropolis president. And email or send any photos with a few words to me at tinapoulos99@cox.net.
My Dear Sisters in Christ,
God willing, the Metropolis of Detroit will be hosting the next Children’s Medical Fund Luncheon. Their Philoptochos Board continues with plans for the 2021 CMFL. As the theme of the Luncheon is -
Gratitude, honoring our First Responders, a "Heroes Video" will be a presentation at the Luncheon.
Our Philoptochos Chapters and Church Communities throughout the country have worked with fervor and continue to help those affected by Covid- 19. We would like to feature first responders from each Metropolis. The committee for the video is requesting 3 or 4 pictures of those who helped provide food for those who were unable to shop, caring for the ill, providing diapers and the list goes on.....
I ask that you send to me some pictures of how your chapter contributed to honoring and sustaining first responders. As the deadline is October 18, I ask that you act quickly so that our Metropolis will be featured in this video. I thank you and I am looking forward to hearing from you and sharing our photos with the Metropolis of Detroit. God bless you and keep you and your families well and safe.
Eleni Constantinides, President
Metropolis of New Jersey Philoptochos
Metropolitan Evangelos has been transferred to the Metropolis of Sardes!
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Welcome to All Visitors!
Please join us for fellowship [when COVID-19 restrictions are removed] 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.
Prayers and Offerings
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Gospel and Epistle Readings
Epistle Reading
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 Titus 3:8-15.
Titus, my son, the saying is sure. I desire you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to apply themselves to good deeds; these are excellent and profitable to men. But avoid stupid controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels over the law, for they are unprofitable and futile. As for a man who is factious, after admonishing him once or twice, have nothing more to do with him, knowing that such a person is perverted and sinful; he is self-condemned.
When I send Artemas or Tychicos to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there. Do your best to speed Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way; see that they lack nothing. And let our people learn to apply themselves to good deeds, so as to help cases of urgent need, and not to be unfruitful.
All who are with me send greeting to you. Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.
Gospel Reading
Sunday of the 7th Ecumenical Council
The Reading is from Luke 8:5-15
The Lord said this parable: "A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell along the path, and was trodden under foot, and the birds of the air devoured it. And some fell on the rock; and as it grew up, it withered away, because it had no moisture. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns grew with it and choked it. And some fell into good soil and grew, and yielded a hundredfold." And when his disciples asked him what this parable meant, he said, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God; but for others they are in parables, so that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand. Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. The ones along the path are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, that they may not believe and be saved. And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy; but these have no root, they believe for a while and in time of temptation fall away. And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature. And as for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bring forth fruit with patience." As he said these things, he cried out "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
Wisdom of the Fathers
Hymns of the Day
Resurrectional Apolytikion in the First Mode
Apolytikion for Sun. of the 7th Ecumenical Council in the Plagal Fourth Mode
Apolytikion of the Holy Trinity in the Plagal Fourth Mode
Εὐλογητὸς εἶ, Χριστὲ ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, ὁ πανσόφους τοὺς ἁλιεῖς ἀναδείξας, καταπέμψας αὐτοῖς τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον, καὶ δι' αὐτῶν τὴν οἰκουμένην σαγηνεύσας, φιλάνθρωπε, δόξα σοι.
Blessed are You, O Christ our God who, by sending down the Holy Spirit upon them, made the fishermen wise and through them, illumined the world, and to You the universe is ever drawn. O Loving God, Glory to You.