SUNDAY MATINS/DIVINE LITURGY, 8:15 am
Fr. Panteleimon would like to inform the parish at-large that there will be a mandatory meeting for all coaches of teams who will be playing in the 2020 Metropolis of Chicago Western Regional Family Basketball Tournament.
Please note that teams whose coaches do not attend one of the two available meetings will not be allowed to participate in the tournament.
The meetings will be on the following dates:
Please contact Fr. Panteleimon directly with any question - father.pgd@gmail.com or 630.452.2317
Please note that during late winter Fr. Panteleimon receives many requests (often as many as 30 or 40) for letters of recommendation. Father asks that you give him at least one week (7 days) to process these requests. Please also note that, when letters are completed, we ask you to pick them up in the office yourselves as we don't want to be the cause of applications not being complete, and/or parts of applications not being with the rest of the application. Thank you for your help with this.
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During the weekend, if you are not able to find parking space in our lot, you may use the parking lots of either
just a block away.
Additonally, if you are able, please consider our elders, or single parents coming to church with their children and leave empty spots in our parking lot for them.
Respect our neighbors and our own safety!
EPISTLE: Ephesians 4:7-13 (pgs. 127-128)
HOLY GOSPEL: Matthew 4:12-17 (pg. 128)
READER: Philip Losey
ALTAR BOYS: Team A: Andre Acra, Theodore G. Anagnostopoulos, Evan Anagnostopoulos, Nikita Athens, Angelo Gorgolis, Christos Konstantakis, Peter Konstantakis, George Kostopoulos, Spiros Limberatos, Makis Limberatos, Sam Patterson, Louis Tsagalis, John Tsagalis, Peter Tsagalis, Aristotelis & Dimitri Ziogas
USHERS: Kristin Anagnostopoulos, Alex Marlis, Peter Latsoudis, Tony Panagopoulos, George Papageorge
PROSPHORON: Dina Liapis
HOSPITALITY: Sunday School
BOOKSTORE: Janet Christopulos
EPISTLE: Colossians 3:4-11 (pg.112)
HOLY GOSPEL: Luke 17:12-19 (pgs.112-113)
READER: George Anagnostopoulos
ALTAR BOYS: Team B: Teddy C. Anagnostopoulos, Angelo Cicatello, Dimitris Dahl, Elias Dalianis, Blaise Dalianis, George L. Liapis, George P. Liapis, Markos Mamalakis, Dimitri Maniotis, Leonidas Melissourgos, Foti Papageorge, Andrew Roche, Vasili Tsiampas, Joseph VanCleve
USHERS: Stelios Georgakas, Helene Mannino, Louie Liapis, Tony Nestoras, Kiki Skoufis
PROSPHORON: Renee Acra
HOSPITALITY: Philoptochos’ Vasilopita Sale
BOOKSTORE: Please call the office to volunteer
+Memorial: 1-Year James Agnos
+Memorial: 7-Years Rose (Triantafilia) Dalianis
7:30AM Prosforon: Dina Liapis
8:15AM Matins
9:15AM Divine Liturgy
11:00AM Sunday School
11:15AM Hospitality: Sunday School
12:30PM Mandatory Coach Meeting for Western Regional Family B-Ball Tournament
3:00PM BBALL: YAL Ladies
6:00PM Metropolis Vasilopita
7:30PM BBALL: YAL2 Team
5:30PM Greek Dance Kids
6:30PM JOY BBALL practice
7:00PM Adult Ed Class: Unpacking the Feast Days of the Orthodox Church
5:00PM BBALL: YAL Ladies
7:30PM BBALL: YAL 2 Team
6:00PM Adult Greek Classes
6:30PM Parish Council Meeting
7:29AM Prosforon: Voula Katravas
8:00AM Divine Liturgy St. Anthony the Great
10:30AM Bible Study (Eng)
4:00PM Fish Fry
5:00PM CANCELLED - JOY @ Helium Trampoline Park
7:29AM Prosforon: Hara Kinis
8:00AM +Matins & Divine Liturgy - St. Athanasios
9:30AM Greek School Classes
Nick Kasemeotes Speaking end of Liturgy on IOCC
7:30AM Prosforon: Renee Acra
8:15AM Matins
9:15AM Divine Liturgy
11:00AM Sunday School
11:15AM Hospitality: Philoptochos Vasilopita Celebration
11:30AM Sts. Constantine & Helen Parish Vasilopita
7:30PM BBALL: YAL2 Team
5:30PM Greek Dance Kids
6:30PM JOY BBALL practice
7:00PM Adult Ed Class: Unpacking the Feast Days of the Orthodox Church
7:00PM Oratorical Festival Meeting at Church
5:00PM BBALL: YAL Ladies
7:30PM BBALL: YAL 2 Team
6:00PM Adult Greek Classes
7:29AM Prosforon: Hara Kinis
8:00AM Orthros and Liturgy for St. Xenia
10:30AM Bible Study (Eng)
4:00PM Fish Fry
7:29AM Prosforon: Hara Kinis
8:00AM Divine Liturgy St. Gregory the Theologian
9:30AM Greek School Classes
7:30AM Prosforon: Voula Katravas
8:15AM Matins
9:15AM Divine Liturgy
11:00AM Sunday School
11:00AM Nick Kasemeotes speaking on IOCC at church today
11:15AM Hospitality: JOY
1:00PM GOYA Bowling Outing with Annuncation GOYA
7:30PM BBALL: YAL2 Team
JOY will be hosting a Basketball Fundraiser on Sunday, January 26th after Liturgy in our church hall.
Free will offering luncheon!
Please join us and support our JOY Basketball team!
You won’t want to miss hearing His Eminence, Metropolitan THEODOSIUS of Kananga, coming from the Democratic Republic of Congo to share his firsthand account of the growth of the Orthodox Faith in Equatorial Africa at Mission Team Chicago’s 24th annual benefit dinner! After 20 years serving as a parish priest in Patras, Greece, His Eminence has spent the last four years in the Democratic Republic of Congo, among his flock, who he describes as “My diamonds…the faithful who shine with faith and holiness.” He was enthroned as Metropolitan in the Archdiocese of Kananga and Equatorial Africa in February of last year.
This gathering is coming up soon! Gather a group and make your reservations on the first Thursday of the Triodion, February 13, 2020, at St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church in Des Plaines, IL. Doors open at 6:30 pm. All proceeds will support missions in the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as the work of the Orthodox Christian Mission Center around the world.
Suggested cost of admission is $35 per person. For reservations or to make a donation, please go to www.MissionTeamChicago.org, call (317) 709-0168, or e-mail MTCBenefit@yahoo.com before February 6.
Checks should be made out to OrthodoxChristianMissionCenter, with “MTC Banquet” in the memo section and mailed to:
Mission Team Chicago
388 Adams Avenue
Glencoe, IL 60022
Who will you nominate? Nomination form is attached!
Deadline is January 31, 2020
Deadline for the Scholarship Application is January 30th, 2020 RSVP deadline for the scholarship dinner is February 14th
Deadline to apply is February 1st, 2020
In order to support the needs of our changing workforce in 2020, AHEPA Milwaukee Chapter #43 is introducing it's FIRST Apprenticeship Award. This new program will focus on the growing demand in skilled trades and technical fields, supporting our young Hellenic adults targeting an Associates Degree, apprenticeship or a trade via a technical college or certified program. DEADLINE to Apply: March 2nd, 2020 The program will also work to connect local business with young adults. They are asking business owners and executives in the Hellenic community to connect with AHEPA to discuss their needs and join them in developing this program. If you are a business owner or executive searching for talented young workers, please contact trades@ahepa43.org Since this program is solely supported by community based funding, please consider donating. F MORE INFO: https://www.ahepa43.org/trades/
Application Deadline: Monday, March 2nd, 2020 Details: https://www.ahepa43.org/scholarship/
Deadline to apply is March 4th, 2020
Saint Tatiana was the daughter of a most distinguished consul of Rome. She became a deaconess of the Church, and for her confession of the Faith of Christ, she endured many torments. As she was suffering, angels punished her tormentors with the same torments they inflicted on her, until they cried out that they could no longer endure the scourges invisibly brought upon them. She was beheaded during the reign of Alexander Severus (111-135).
Eighth Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from John 20:11-18
At that time, Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb; and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet. They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him." Saying this, she turned round and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom do you seek?" Supposing Him to be the gardener, she said to Him, "Sir, if you have carried Him away, tell me where you have laid Him, and I will take Him away." Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned and said to him in Hebrew, "Rabboni!" (which means Teacher). Jesus said to her, "Do not hold me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God." Mary Magdalene went and said to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord"; and she told them that He had said these things to her.
Eighth Orthros Gospel
Κατὰ Ἰωάννην 20:11-18
Τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ, Μαρία δὲ εἱστήκει πρὸς τῷ μνημείῳ κλαίουσα ἔξω. ὡς οὖν ἔκλαιε, παρέκυψεν εἰς τὸ μνημεῖον καὶ θεωρεῖ δύο ἀγγέλους ἐν λευκοῖς καθεζομένους, ἕνα πρὸς τῇ κεφαλῇ καὶ ἕνα πρὸς τοῖς ποσίν, ὅπου ἔκειτο τὸ σῶμα τοῦ ᾿Ιησοῦ. καὶ λέγουσιν αὐτῇ ἐκεῖνοι· γύναι, τί κλαίεις; λέγει αὐτοῖς· ὅτι ἦραν τὸν Κύριόν μου, καὶ οὐκ οἶδα ποῦ ἔθηκαν αὐτόν. καὶ ταῦτα εἰποῦσα ἐστράφη εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω, καὶ θεωρεῖ τὸν ᾿Ιησοῦν ἑστῶτα, καὶ οὐκ ᾔδει ὅτι ᾿Ιησοῦς ἐστι. λέγει αὐτῇ ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς· γύναι, τί κλαίεις; τίνα ζητεῖς; ἐκείνη δοκοῦσα ὅτι ὁ κηπουρός ἐστι, λέγει αὐτῷ· κύριε, εἰ σὺ ἐβάστασας αὐτόν, εἰπέ μοι ποῦ ἔθηκας αὐτόν, κἀγὼ αὐτὸν ἀρῶ. λέγει αὐτῇ ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς· Μαρία. στραφεῖσα ἐκείνη λέγει αὐτῷ· ῥαββουνί, ὃ λέγεται, διδάσκαλε. λέγει αὐτῇ ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς· μή μου ἅπτου· οὔπω γὰρ ἀναβέβηκα πρὸς τὸν πατέρα μου· πορεύου δὲ πρὸς τοὺς ἀδελφούς μου καὶ εἰπὲ αὐτοῖς· ἀναβαίνω πρὸς τὸν πατέρα μου καὶ πατέρα ὑμῶν, καὶ Θεόν μου καὶ Θεὸν ὑμῶν. ἔρχεται Μαρία ἡ Μαγδαληνὴ ἀπαγγέλλουσα τοῖς μαθηταῖς ὅτι ἑώρακε τὸν Κύριον, καὶ ταῦτα εἶπεν αὐτῇ.
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 Letter to the Ephesians 4:7-13.
BRETHREN, grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ's gift. Therefore it is said, "When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men." (in saying, "He ascended," what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is he who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) And his gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
Προκείμενον. First Mode. ΨΑΛΜΟΙ 32.22,1.
Γένοιτο, Κύριε, τὸ ἔλεός σου ἐφ' ἡμᾶς.
Στίχ. Ἀγαλλιᾶσθε δίκαιοι ἐν Κυρίῳ
τὸ Ἀνάγνωσμα Πρὸς Ἐφεσίους 4:7-13.
Ἀδελφοί, ἑνὶ ἑκάστῳ ἡμῶν ἐδόθη ἡ χάρις κατὰ τὸ μέτρον τῆς δωρεᾶς τοῦ Χριστοῦ. Διὸ λέγει, Ἀναβὰς εἰς ὕψος ᾐχμαλώτευσεν αἰχμαλωσίαν, καὶ ἔδωκεν δόματα τοῖς ἀνθρώποις. Τὸ δέ, Ἀνέβη, τί ἐστιν εἰ μὴ ὅτι καὶ κατέβη πρῶτον εἰς τὰ κατώτερα μέρη τῆς γῆς; Ὁ καταβάς, αὐτός ἐστιν καὶ ὁ ἀναβὰς ὑπεράνω πάντων τῶν οὐρανῶν, ἵνα πληρώσῃ τὰ πάντα. Καὶ αὐτὸς ἔδωκεν τοὺς μὲν ἀποστόλους, τοὺς δὲ προφήτας, τοὺς δὲ εὐαγγελιστάς, τοὺς δὲ ποιμένας καὶ διδασκάλους, πρὸς τὸν καταρτισμὸν τῶν ἁγίων, εἰς ἔργον διακονίας, εἰς οἰκοδομὴν τοῦ σώματος τοῦ Χριστοῦ· μέχρι καταντήσωμεν οἱ πάντες εἰς τὴν ἑνότητα τῆς πίστεως καὶ τῆς ἐπιγνώσεως τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ, εἰς ἄνδρα τέλειον, εἰς μέτρον ἡλικίας τοῦ πληρώματος τοῦ Χριστοῦ.
Sunday after Epiphany
The Reading is from Matthew 4:12-17
At that time, when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee; and leaving Nazareth he went and dwelt in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali, that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: "The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, toward the sea, across the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death light has dawned." From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."
Sunday after Epiphany
Κατὰ Ματθαῖον 4:12-17
Τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ, ἀκούσας δὲ ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς ὅτι ᾿Ιωάννης παρεδόθη, ἀνεχώρησεν εἰς τὴν Γαλιλαίαν, καὶ καταλιπὼν τὴν Ναζαρὲτ ἐλθὼν κατῴκησεν εἰς Καπερναοὺμ τὴν παραθαλασσίαν ἐν ὁρίοις Ζαβουλὼν καὶ Νεφθαλείμ, ἵνα πληρωθῇ τὸ ῥηθὲν διὰ ῾Ησαΐου τοῦ προφήτου λέγοντος· γῆ Ζαβουλὼν καὶ γῆ Νεφθαλείμ, ὁδὸν θαλάσσης, πέραν τοῦ ᾿Ιορδάνου, Γαλιλαία τῶν ἐθνῶν, ὁ λαὸς ὁ καθήμενος ἐν σκότειεἶδε φῶς μέγα, καὶ τοῖς καθημένοις ἐν χώρᾳ καὶ σκιᾷ θανάτουφῶς ἀνέτειλεν αὐτοῖς. ᾿Απὸ τότε ἤρξατο ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς κηρύσσειν καὶ λέγειν· μετανοεῖτε· ἤγγικε γὰρ ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν.
Having seen the image of Thy Cross in Heaven, and like Paul, having received the call not from men, Your apostle among kings entrusted the commonwealth to Thy hand, O Lord. Keep us always in peace, by the intercessions of the Theotokos, O only Friend of man.
Τοῦ Σταυροῦ σου τὸν τύπον ἐν οὐρανῷ θεασάμενος, καὶ ὡς ὁ Παῦλος τὴν κλῆσιν οὐκ ἐξ ἀνθρώπων δεξάμενος, ὁ ἐν βασιλεῦσιν, Ἀπόστολός σου Κύριε, Βασιλεύουσαν πόλιν τῇ χειρὶ σου παρέθετο· ἣν περίσωζε διὰ παντὸς ἐν εἰρήνη, πρεσβείαις τῆς Θεοτόκου, μόνε Φιλάνθρωπε.
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