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Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2022-03-20
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Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (540) 362-3601
  • Fax:
  • (540) 362-3638
  • Street Address:

  • 30 Huntington Blvd. N.E.

  • Roanoke, VA 24012


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Services Schedule

Sunday Services: Orthros 9:00am / Divine Liturgy 10:00am


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Upcoming Special Services

Friday - March 25 - 9:00am
Divine Liturgy for the Annunciation
(Vesper 6pm on Thursday ~ Orthros at 8:00am)

Weekday Worship Schedule for Lent 2022
Mondays - 6:00pm Great Compline
Wednesdays – 6:00pm Pre-Sanctified Liturgy
Fridays - 7:00pm Salutations to the Theotokos
 

Philoptochos
~ Please join us for our annual Spaghetti Luncheon to be held on March 27 following Divine Liturgy. We appreciate your donations toward Holy Cross. We will sign you up in the Fellowship Hall through this Sunday March 20. Take out or dine in will be available. And to our College/University students, it's on us. See you all for fellowship.
 
~ Philoptochos will be passing a tray for the Metropolis Emergency Social Services Fund this Sunday, March 20th 2022. There will also be a tray out on table as you enter fellowship hall for those who would like to contribute and donate to our Ukrainian Relief Fund.
 
~ Please continue to pray for Ukraine.
 
Community News
2022 Service Flower Sponsorship

Masks:  masks are now optional for all services and events.
 
Greek Festival:  the festival has been cancelled for 2022.  Every household should have received a letter from the Festival Committee...please take time to complete the short survey and suggestion area and return in the enclosed envelope.  If there will be a festival in the future we need your input and a realistic picture of what amount of time you will be able to give in food preparation and on the weekend of the festival.  Thanks for your help.
 
Vespers:  there will be a Vespers service following Divine Liturgy on Sundays through April 10 at 12:15pm.
 
Clothes Drive: The parish of the Holy Trinity is asking for your support in collecting clothes and personal articles (toys, mitts, items of hygiene etc.) for the displaced Ukrainian children. Special emphasis should be given to coats and jackets, which are currently in serious demand among refugees. Please bring out used items from the closets of your children or grandchildren and donate them. Alternatively, you may donate funds that will be used to purchase such items. Further questions can be addressed to Fr. Nick or to Mrs. Della Ann Bryant who will oversee the entire drive.
Thank you for your support and may the Lord extend His blessings upon you.
 
Paschal Meals:  there will be no meals this year on Pascha and the Easter Egg Hunt will also not be held. 

Memorial:  This Sunday we will have the 40 day Memorial Service for Soula Gianopoulos.
 
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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.


Prayers and Offerings
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.   If you wish to contribute online please use this link


Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 10:00am- 12:00pm;  Wednesday & Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm;  Saturdays and other times  by appointment;  Confession is Saturday at 6pm or other times 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. Plagal Second Mode. Psalm 27.9,1.
O Lord, save your people and bless your inheritance.
Verse: To you, O Lord, I have cried, O my God.

The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 1:10-14; 2:1-3.

"IN THE BEGINNING, Thou, Lord, didst found the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of thy hands; they will perish, but thou remainest; they will all grow old like a garment, like a mantle thou wilt roll them up, and they will be changed. But thou art the same, and thy years will never end." But to what angel has he ever said, "Sit at my right hand, till I make thy enemies a stool for thy feet?" Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to serve, for the sake of those who are to obtain salvation?

Therefore we must pay closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. For if the message declared by angels was valid and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution, how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard him.


Gospel Reading

Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas
The Reading is from Mark 2:1-12

At that time, Jesus entered Capernaum and it was reported that he was at home. And many were gathered together, so that there was no longer room for them, not even about the door; and he was preaching the word to them. And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him; and when they had made an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic lay. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "My son, your sins are forgiven." Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts, "Why does this man speak thus? It is a blasphemy! Who can forgive sins but God alone?" And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you question thus in your hearts? Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise, take up your pallet and walk? But that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins"-he said to the paralytic-"I say to you, rise, take up your pallet and go home." And he rose, and immediately took up the pallet and went out before them all; so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!"


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Wisdom of the Fathers

Now Matthew indeed saith, that "they brought him," but the others, that they also broke up the roof, and let him down. And they put the sick man before Christ, saying nothing, but committing the whole to Him.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 29 on Matthew 9, 1. B#54, pp. 195, 196, 4th Century

For though in the beginning He Himself went about, and did not require so much faith of them that came unto Him; yet in this case they both approached Him, and had faith required on their part. For, "Seeing," it is said, "their faith;" that is, the faith of them that had let the man down.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 29 on Matthew 9, 1. B#54, pp. 195, 196, 4th Century

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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Plagal Second Mode

Angelic powers were above Thy tomb, and they that guarded Thee became as dead. And Mary stood by the grave seeking Thine immaculate Body. Thou hast despoiled Hades and wast not tried thereby. Thou didst meet the Virgin and didst grant us life. O Thou Who didst arise from the dead, Lord, glory be to Thee.

Apolytikion for Sun. of St. Gregory Palamas in the Plagal Fourth Mode

Light of Orthdoxy, pillar and teacher of the Church, adornment of monastics, invincible champion of theologians, O Gregory thou wonderworker, boast of Thessalonica, herald of grace: ever pray that our souls be saved.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Plagal Fourth Mode

To you, Theotokos, invincible Defender, having been delivered from peril, I, your city, dedicate the victory festival as a thank offering. In your irresistible might, keep me safe from all trials, that I may call out to you: "Hail, unwedded bride!"
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