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Dormition Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2018-09-16
Bulletin Contents
This Week
Hymns of the Day
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Announcements & Future Events
In the Life of the Church
Saints and Feasts
Wisdom of the Fathers
Event Insert
Euthemia
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Dormition Greek Orthodox Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • 802.862.2155
  • Street Address:

  • 600 South Willard Street

  • Burlington, VT 05401

Contact Information

Rev. Father Andreas M. Papayiannis, BA, MDiv
Proistamenos - Presiding Priest


Past Bulletins


This Week

Sunday after the Holy Cross, September 16
9:00 AM - Orthros, Divine Liturgy & Agiasmos; 11:30 AM - Volunteer Appreciation & Back-to-School Luncheon

Monday, September 17
7:00 PM - Intro to Orthodoxy (session 1)

Thursday, September 20
7:00 PM - OCF at Norwich University Chapel

Saturday, September 22
3:00 PM - Holy Matrimony

1st Sunday of Luke, September 23
9:00 AM - Orthros, Divine Liturgy & Memorial Service; Sunday School

Fasting This Week
Wednesday, Friday: Strict Fast; All Other Days: No Fasting

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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Grave Mode

By Your Cross, O Lord, You shattered death; to the thief You opened Paradise. You transformed the Myrrh-bearers' lamentation, and commanded Your Apostles to proclaim that You arose, Christ our God, granting to the world Your great mercy.

Apolytikion for Afterfeast of the Holy Cross in the 1st Mode

Save, O Lord, Your people and bless Your inheritance, granting victory to the faithful over the enemy, and by Your Cross protecting Your commonwealth.

Apolytikion for Great Martyr Euphemia in the 3rd Mode

To the Orthodox you brought elation, the unorthodox, humiliation, O Euphemia, the beautiful virgin of Christ. For what the Fathers of the Fourth Ecumenical Synod decreed well as dogma you ratified. Pray to Christ our God, O glorious Martyr, fervently, entreating Him to grant us His great mercy.

Seasonal Kontakion in the 4th Mode

You who were lifted on the cross voluntarily, O Christ our God, bestow Your tender compassions upon Your new community to which You gave Your name. Cause our faithful emperors to be glad in Your power, granting them the victories against their adversaries. And for an ally, Lord, may they have You, peace as their armor, the trophy invincible.
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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Epistle Reading

Sunday after Holy Cross
The Reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Galatians 2:16-20

Brethren, knowing that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law, because by works of the law shall no one be justified. But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we ourselves were found to be sinners, is Christ then an agent of sin? Certainly not! But if I build up again those things which I tore down, then I prove myself a transgressor. For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Gospel Reading

Sunday after Holy Cross
The Reading is from Mark 8:34-38; 9:1

The Lord said: "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it. For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? For what can a man give in return for his life? For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of man also be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels." And he said to them, "Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God come with power."

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Announcements & Future Events

WELCOME VISITORS — WE ARE PLEASED THAT YOU HAVE JOINED US TODAY! The Orthodox Church teaches that Holy Communion is a sign of unity. In order to receive Holy Communion in the Greek Orthodox Church, you must have been baptized or chrismated in the Christian Orthodox Faith. If you are interested in learning more about Christian Orthodoxy, please contact our Parish Priest, Father Andreas. Communicants should prepare themselves through fasting, prayer and confession. All Christians are invited to come forward at the end of Divine Liturgy to receive the Antidoron, holy bread, which is offered to all as a blessing.

There will be a brief Agiasmos (Sanctification of Holy Water) Service at the end of this morning's Divine Liturgy to bless the educational programs of the new Ecclesiastical year.

Starting on Monday night (7:00-8:00 PM) is a six session Introduction to Orthodoxy seminar. This seminar is open to all, but is especially appropriate for those considering conversion to the Orthodox Faith and those seeking a better understanding of this Pearl of Great Price.

Please join us for our annual Back-to-School BBQ and Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon immediately following this mornings Divine Services. There is no charge, but as always donations are welcome to help defray costs.

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Saints and Feasts

Euthemia
September 16

Euphemia the Great Martyr

Saint Euphemia was from Chalcedon and lived in virginity. According to some, she suffered martyrdom during the reign of Diocletian, in 303; according to others, in 307. Her sacred relics are preserved in the Patriarchate in Constantinople.

Exaltation
September 16

Sunday after Holy Cross

Allsaint
September 16

Ninian the Enlightener of Scotland

Saint Ninian was born in Cumberland in Britain around the year 360, about a half century after the Emperor Constantius Chlorus died in the British city of York, and his son Constantine, who was with him when he died, was proclaimed Emperor. Ninian was born of Christian parents of noble lineage, at a time when paganism was still strong in his native land. As a young man he went to Rome, where he spent many years in study and ascetical struggles. At Rome, Saint Ninian was consecrated some time after the death of Pope Damasus in 384, and was sent back to his native island about the end of the fourth century. On his return journey, it is likely that he passed through Tours and met Saint Martin; what is certain is that many churches and cells associated with Saint Ninian, including his own cathedral in Whithorn, were named in honour of Saint Martin. When Saint Ninian returned to Cumberland, he established monasteries that fostered both the life of prayer and missionary labours. By his preaching, his godly life, and his miracles, he ministered to his own countrymen, the Britons, and also converted many of the pagan Picts, who inhabited the northern regions (in today's Scotland). He reposed in peace at his see of Whithorn in Galloway in 432.
Sophia
September 17

Sophia & her three daughters: Faith, Hope, and Love

These Saints were from Italy and contested for the Faith about the year 126, during the reign of the Emperor Hadrian. Faith was twelve years old, Hope, ten, and Love, nine; each was tormented and then beheaded, from the eldest to the youngest. Their mother Sophia mourned at their grave for three days, where she also fell asleep in peace; because of her courageous endurance in the face of her daughters' sufferings, she is also counted a martyr. The name Sophia means "wisdom" in Greek; as for her daughters' names, Faith, Hope, and Love (Charity), they are Pistis, Elpis, and Agape in Greek, and Vera, Nadezhda, and Lyubov in Russian.

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Wisdom of the Fathers

"I force not, I compel not, but each one I make lord of his own choice; wherefore also I say, 'If any man will.' For to good things do I call you, not to things evil, or burdensome; not to punishment and vengeance, that I should have to compel.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 55 on Matthew 16, 1. B#54, p.339., 4th Century

The key to knowledge is the humility of Christ. The door of the Kingdom of Heaven is open, not to those who only know in their learned minds the mysteries of faith and the commandments of their Creator, but to those who have progressed far enough to live by them.
St. Bede the Venerable
Unknown, 8th century

A Christian's . . . duty is to "take up his cross." The word cross means sufferings, sorrows and adversities. To take up one's cross means to bear without grumblings everything unpleasant, painful, sad, difficult and oppressive that ay happen to us in life. . .without expecting any earthly reward in return, but bear it all with love, with joy and with courageous strength.
St. Innocent of Alaska
The Lenten Spring, SVS Press, p. 147, 19th Century

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Event Insert

    Holy Cross

    Holy Cross

    Encyclical for Feast of the Holy Cross

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