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Dormition Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2019-03-10
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
Eden
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Dormition Greek Orthodox Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • 802.862.2155
  • Fax:
  • 802.881.0717
  • 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

Cheesefare Sunday (of Forgiveness), March 10
9:00 AM: Orthros; 10:00 AM: Divine Liturgy & Memorial Service, Sunday School; 12:30 PM: Philoptochos; 5:00 PM: Forgiveness Vespers

Clean Monday - Καθαρά Δευτέρα, START OF GREAT LENT, March 11
9:00 AM: Lenten Orthros; 6:30 PM: Great Compline

Tuesday, March 12, and Thursday, March 14
6:30 PM: Great Compline

Wednesday, March 13
5:30 PM: Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts; 6:45 PM: Lenten Potluck Dinner and Program

Friday, March 15
6:30 PM: Service of Salutations to the Holy Theotokos

Saturday of Souls, March 16
9:00 AM: Divine Liturgy & Memorial Service; 10:30 AM: Health Coaching Seminar; 4:00 PM: Bible Study; 5:00 PM: Great Vespers

Sunday of Orthodoxy, March 17
9:00 AM: Orthros; 10:00 AM: Divine Liturgy & Procession of Icons, Sunday School

Fasting this Week
Sun: Fish & Dairy Allowed; Mon-Fri: Strict Fast; Sat: Wine & Oil Allowed

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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Plagal 4th Mode

From on high You descended, Most Merciful; for us You condescended to a three-day burial to set us free from the passions. O Lord, our Resurrection and our life, glory to You!

Apolytikion of Church of the Dormition in the 1st Mode

In giving birth you did retain your virginity. In your repose, you did not forsake the world, O Theotokos. You have passed into life, you that are the Mother of Life. And by your intercessions, you redeem our souls from death.

Ἐν τῇ Γεννήσει τὴν παρθενίαν ἐφύλαξας, ἐν τῇ Κοιμήσει τὸν κόσμον οὐ κατέλιπες Θεοτόκε. Μετέστης πρὸς τὴν ζωήν, μήτηρ ὑπάρχουσα τῆς ζωῆς, καὶ ταῖς πρεσβείαις ταῖς σαῖς λυτρουμένη, ἐκ θανάτου τὰς ψυχὰς ἡμῶν.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Plagal 2nd Mode

O guide to wisdom, provider of prudence, disciplinarian of fools, and defender of the poor, fortify and discipline my heart, O Master; You, give me a word, O Word of the Father. For behold, I will not hinder my lips from crying to You: O merciful Lord, have mercy on me who have fallen.
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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Epistle Reading

Forgiveness Sunday
The Reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 13:11-14; 14:1-4

Brethren, salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed; the night is far gone, the day is at hand. Let us then cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light; let us conduct ourselves becomingly as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

As for the man who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not for disputes over opinions. One believes he may eat anything, while the weak man eats only vegetables. Let not him who eats despise him who abstains, and let not him who abstains pass judgment on him who eats; for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for God is able to make him stand.

Gospel Reading

Forgiveness Sunday
The Reading is from Matthew 6:14-21

The Lord said, "If you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father also will forgive you; but if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

"And when you fast, do not look dismal, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that your fasting may not be seen by men but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."

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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.

This morning's Memorial Service is offered for Leonidas Ioannou, one year. The family will provide refreshment following Divine Services. Eternal memory!

This Sunday isQuestions & Answers with Father at the end of Divine Liturgy.

Clean Week: starting with tonight's Forgiveness Vespers, we enter the six week period of Holy & Great Lent, with the first week being called Clean Week. During this time, we Orthodox Christians increase our ascetic practices: not only do we fast from certain foods, we also deepen and enrich our lives through worship and prayer. Every day of Clean Week, there are public services in our church; Holy Communion will be offered every week of Lent on Wednesday evenings at the Presanctified Liturgies.

Lenten Wednesdays: following the 5:30 pm Presanctified Liturgy each week of Lent, we invite everyone to join us for a "potluck" dinner and short Lenten program.

Sunday of Orthodoxy: In one week (March 17), on the first Sunday of Lent, we celebrate the Restoration of the Holy Icons. As is traditional, we will have all of the children, and any others who desire, join us as we process around the church with icons at the end of the Divine Liturgy. Please be sure to bring your favorite icons fot he procession.

Hierarchical Visit: His Eminence Metropolitan METHODIOS of Boston has informed us that he will visit our parish on the Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt, April 14, to celebrate the Divine Liturgy. What a blessing to see our Arch-Pastor after three years, and to have his wisdom and counsel to complete Lent and Holy Week! Please plan now on attending this blessed event in our spiritual journey as Dormition Church.

OCF Monastery Trip: On Saturday, March 30, our Northern Vermont Chapter of Orthodox Christian Fellowship (OCF) will be making a pilgrimage to Panagia the Comforter Greek Orthodox Monastery for a Lenten Retreat. This beautiful women's monastery is located just outside of Montreal. The students would love to have parishioners join them for the retreat - if interested, please talk to Fr. Andreas. Even if you cannot attend that day, you can still participate by offering to help offset the travel costs and/or assisting with donations to the monastery.

FINANCIAL SNAPSHOT:
2019 Budget Stewardship = $90,000, we still need $28,575 to meet our goal
Total Stewards (as of 2/17) = 44; Average Pledge = $1,369
Feb-19 Revenue = $7,018
Feb-19 Expense = $10,239

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Saints and Feasts

Eden
March 10

Forgiveness Sunday

The Holy Fathers have appointed the commemoration of Adam's exile from the Paradise of delight here, on the eve of the holy Forty-day Fast, demonstrating to us not by simple words, but by actual deeds, how beneficial fasting is for man, and how harmful and destructive are insatiety and the transgressing of the divine commandments. For the first commandment that God gave to man was that of fasting, which the first-fashioned received but did not keep; and not only did they not become gods, as they had imagined, but they lost even that blessed life which they had, and they fell into corruption and death, and transmitted these and innumerable other evils to all of mankind. The God-bearing Fathers set these things before us today, that by bringing to mind what we have fallen from, and what we have suffered because of the insatiety and disobedience of the first-fashioned, we might be diligent to return again to that ancient bliss and glory by means of fasting and obedience to all the divine commands. Taking occasion from today's Gospel (Matt. 6:14-21) to begin the Fast unencumbered by enmity, we also ask forgiveness this day, first from God, then from one another and all creation.

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Wisdom of the Fathers

. . .humble men like this are not men who have been converted, who have repented. They are men who are being converted, who are repenting. The Lord's call to repentance does not mean that we are to be converted once only, nor that we should repent from time to time (though one ought to begin with that). It means that our whole life should be a conversion, a constant repentance.
Archimandrite Vasileios
Hymn of Entry, 20th Century

Whoever limits the fast to the deprivation of food, he is the one who, in reality, abhors and ridicules the fast. Are you fasting? Show me your fast with your works. Which works? If you see someone who is poor, show him mercy. If you see an enemy, reconcile with him. If you see a friend who is becoming successful, do not be jealous of him! If you see a beautiful woman on the street, pass her by.
St John Chrysostom
On Fasting, 4th century

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Event Insert

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