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Holy Cross Church
Publish Date: 2020-11-29
Bulletin Contents
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Wisdom of the Fathers
Hymns of the Day
Saints and Feasts
Announcements
Prayer Requests
Ladies Philoptochos News
Altar Boy List
Memorial Donations to Holy Cross
Events, Announcements and Flyers
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Holy Cross Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (248) 477-1677
  • Fax:
  • (248) 477-0231
  • Street Address:

  • 25225 Middlebelt Rd.

  • Farmington Hills, MI 48336

Contact Information

Fr. Alex Radulescu
Parish Priest

fralex@holycrossgo.org | (248) 306-9162

Bonnie Sitaras
​Office Administrator

bonnie@holycrossgo.org

Services Schedule

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DIVINE LITURGY SUNDAYS 10 A.M.

OFFICE HOURS 10 A.M.- 3 P.M.  MONDAY-TUESDAY & THURSDAY - FRIDAY  (CLOSED WEDNESDAY)

BONNIE SITARAS: OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR

 

Past Bulletins


Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

Third Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from Mark 16:9-20

When Jesus rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast seven demons. She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept. But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it.

After this he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country. And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them.

Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they sat at table; and he upbraided them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen. And he said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover."

So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God. And they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it. Amen.

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Plagal Fourth Mode. Psalm 75.11,1.
Make your vows to the Lord our God and perform them.
Verse: God is known in Judah; his name is great in Israel.

The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Ephesians 4:1-7.

Brethren, I, a prisoner for the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all lowliness and meekness, with patience, forbearing one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of us all, who is above all and through all and in all. But grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ's gift.

Gospel Reading

13th Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 18:18-27

At that time, a ruler came to Jesus and asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother.' " And he said, "All these I have observed from my youth." And when Jesus heard it, he said to him, "One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me." But when he heard this he became sad, for he was very rich. Jesus looking at him said, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God! For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." Those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?" But he said, "What is impossible with men is possible with God."

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Wisdom of the Fathers

Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when ye assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
St. Ignatius of Antioch
Epistle to the Ephesians Ch. 13, 2nd century

It is only when in the darkness of this world we discern that Christ has already "filled all things with Himself" that these things, whatever they may be, are revealed and given to us full of meaning and beauty. A Christian is one who, wherever he looks, finds Christ and rejoices in Him.
Fr. Alexander Schmemann
For the Life of the World, p. 113, 20th century

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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Plagal Fourth Mode

From on high didst Thou descend, O Compassionate One; to burial of three days hast Thou submitted that Thou mightest free us from our passions. O our Life and Resurrection, Lord, glory be to Thee.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Third Mode

On this day the Virgin cometh to the cave to give birth to * God the Word ineffably, * Who was before all the ages. * Dance for joy, O earth, on hearing * the gladsome tidings; * with the Angels and the shepherds now glorify Him * Who is willing to be gazed on * as a young Child Who * before the ages is God.
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Saints and Feasts

Allsaint
November 29

Paramonus, Philumenus, and their 370 Companion Martyrs in Bithynia

Saint Paramonus contested for piety's sake during the reign of Decius, in the year 250. A ruler named Aquilinus, seeking relief from a bodily malady, visited a certain therapeutic hot spring. He brought with him captive Christians from Nicomedia, and commanded them to offer sacrifice in the temple of Isis. When they refused, he had them all slaughtered, to the number of 370. Saint Paramonus, beholding their murder, boldly cried out against such an act of ungodliness. When Aquilinus heard this, he sent men to take the Saint. Some smote him with spears, others pierced his tongue and body with sharp reeds, until he died.

Saint Philumenus' contest in martyrdom took place during the reign of Aurelian, in the year 270. Coming from Lycaonia, he was conveying a load of wheat into Galatia when he was denounced as a Christian to Felix, Governor of Ancyra. Nails were driven into his hands, feet, and head, and he was commanded to run. While running in the road, he fell and gave up his holy soul into the hands of God.

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November 30

Andrew the First- Called Apostle

This Saint was from Bethsaida of Galilee; he was the son of Jonas and the brother of Peter, the chief of the Apostles. He had first been a disciple of John the Baptist; afterwards, on hearing the Baptist's witness concerning Jesus, when he pointed Him out with his finger and said, "Behold the Lamb of God, Which taketh away the sin of the world" (John 1.29,36), he straightway followed Christ, and became His first disciple; wherefore he is called the First-called of the Apostles. After the Ascension of the Saviour, he preached in various lands; and having suffered many things for His Name's sake, he died in Patras of Achaia, where he was crucified on a cross in the shape of an "X," the first letter of "Christ" in Greek; this cross is also the symbol of Saint Andrew.

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December 04

Barbara the Great Martyr

Saint Barbara was from Heliopolis of Phoenicia and lived during the reign of Maximian.

She was the daughter of a certain idolater named Dioscorus. When Barbara came of age, she was enlightened in her pure heart and secretly believed in the Holy Trinity. About this time Dioscorus began building a bath-house; before it was finished he was required to go away to attend to certain matters, and in his absence Barbara directed the workmen to build a third window in addition to the two her Father had commanded. She also inscribed the sign of the Cross with her finger upon the marble of the bath-house, leaving the saving sign cut as deeply into the marble as if it had been done with an iron tool. (When the Synaxarion of Saint Barbara was written, the marble of the bath-house and the cross inscribed by Saint Barbara were still preserved, and many healings were worked there.) When Dioscorus returned, he asked why the third window had been added; Barbara began to declare to him the mystery of the Trinity. Because she refused to renounce her faith, Dioscorus tortured Barbara inhumanely, and after subjecting her to many sufferings he beheaded her with his own hands, in the year 290.

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Announcements

 
TODAY

• Sunday, November 29 

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UPCOMING

• Sunday, December 6 - Memorials (40 day) Tula Kronas and Thomas Theodorou

• Saturday, December 12 - Dvinine Liturgy for the Feast Day of St. Spiridon @10:00 am

• Sunday, December 13 - General Assembly and Parish Council Elections

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CHURCH IS OPEN! PLEASE JOIN US IN WORSHIP!

https://www.holycrossgo.org/covid-19.html

*LITURGY BOOKS HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM THE PEWS. PLEASE USE THIS LINK TO VIEW THE DIVINE LITURGY BOOK 

  https://www.goarch.org/-/the-divine-liturgy-of-saint-john-chrysostom

 *PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE DAILY READING LITE  AP (free download) FOR THE GOSPEL & EPISTLE 

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 PLEASE CLICK ON THIS LINK TO LIVESTREAM SERVICES:

www.holycrossgo.org/webcam 

  You can also click on the link below to be redirected to the Archdiocese site listing all live internet broadcasts of church services, including our sister churches in the Metropolis of Detroit. 

 https://www.goarch.org/live-broadcast  

 

STEWARDSHIP PLEDGE: Please continue to support our Chuch during this difficult time via your Stewardship pledge and donations. Please mail your checks directly to the church or donate online by clicking on the "GIVE" button on our  website. 

 VIGIL CANDLES: If you would like us to light a vigil candle for you, please call the Church Office or  email office@holycrossgo.org with your name(s) and Fr. Alex will light a vigil candle for you and say a prayer. You can send in your donation by mail (please write vigil candle in the memo line) or donate online by clicking on the "GIVE" button or our website.

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Links to online giving, e-Bulletin, Facebook, Metropolis
Facebook: HolyCrossGreekOrthodoxChurch
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SHOP AT KROGER?
Register your card in a few steps. Each May the registration needs to be renewed,
so if you were part of the program last year and haven't renewed, please do so. Go to:
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Prayer Requests

Please continue to pray for the health and healing of the following friends:

Eugene Glenn Stackhouse

Dr. Pan Pesaros

Faye Prekeges

Fr. George Livanos

Christina Burke

Presv. Silvana & baby Casiana

Dr. Maureen Kelly

George Stefanakis

Dr. Rick Wilsom

Dina Rand

 

If you would like to add your name or a loved one's name to the prayer list, please email the office. Thank you! 

office@holycrossgo.org

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Ladies Philoptochos News

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NEXT PHILOPTOCHOS MEETING: 
TBD
 
 
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• READY TO BAKE FILLOSWIRLZ SALE - See flyer attached
 
• THIRTY-ONE FUNDRAISER - See flyer attached
 
• OUTREACH PROJECT WITH THE PARK WEST FOUNDATION
   - See flyer attached
 
FLOWERS: 
 
If you are interested in donating flowers to decorate the icons for a Paraklesis Service, a Feast Day, or Christmas, please contact Debbie George or the Church Office. 
 
COFFEE HOUR:
 
Due to COVID-19 restrictions and the colder weather approaching, we are discontinuing coffee hour until the spring, or until such time that the State and/or Metropolis restrictions are loosened.  
 
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Altar Boy List

HOLY CROSS ALTAR BOYS 2020-2021    

Captains:                     

Ioannis Yiannakis            Dimitri Sitaras

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TEAM A                          TEAM B

Ioannis Yiannakis           Dimitri Sitaras

Stavros Fekaris              Alex Matthews

Mateo Pesaros               Dino Thanos

Panos Stilianos              Niko Thanos 

Christos Stilianos           Benjamin Barnaby   

                                   Nicholas Barnaby                    

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TEAM A                          TEAM B

OCT. 18                          OCT. 25

NOV. 1, 15, 29                NOV. 8, 22

DEC. 13, 27                    DEC. 6, 20

JAN. 10, 24                     JAN. 3, 17, 31

FEB. 7, 21                      FEB. 14, 28

MAR. 7, 21                     MAR. 14, 28

APR. 4, 18,                    APR. 11, 25

MAY 2, 16, 30                 MAY 9, 23

JUNE 13, 27                   JUNE 6, 20

 

On Holy Days, if you come on Time you can serve, robes will be first-come, first-served.

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PLEASE NOTE ALTAR BOYS & PARENTS-

This is a great commitment to the Lord and it is an important RESPONSIBILTY to be on Time for the Divine Liturgy!

Liturgy begins at 10 a.m. SO please arrive 10 minutes early!

DO NOT come into the Holy Altar late!

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Memorial Donations to Holy Cross

OUR THANKS

To those who in lieu of flowers gave monetary

contributions to the Church in memory of :

KATHERINE LAGOS

M/M George Katsias

THOMAS THEODOROU

M/M Lanny Nuechterlein

M/M Edward Power

M/M Larry List

 David & Mary Swetich

Peggy Theodore

M/M Jerry Franchina

Nancy Phelps

Dr. Athena Demetriou

MARIA PONIROS

Mrs. Elaine Ioanou

M/M George Fekaris

M/M Edward Power

M/M Peter Zervos

Mrs. Margarita Shukla

Peggy Theodore

M/M Steve Fekaris

Susan Armstrong

Maritsa Loizos

TULA KRONAS

Mrs. Elaine Ioanou

M/M George Katsias

PHILIP ARMSTRONG

M/M Peter Zervos

M/M Ed Power

Susan Armstrong

M/M Marty Gehan

KASIANI GIKAS

Elaine Ioanou

M/M Peter Morris

M/M George Katsias

VIOLA SAINATO

M/M James Heller

MANUEL CORTESSIS

M/M Steve Fekaris

THOMAS AND NINA ECONOMY

M/M Stephen Economy

JOHN AND IRENE KARAPHILLIS

M/M Stephen Economy

FR. JOHN MOUTAFIS

M/M Tim Keros

GEORGE CULLEY

M/M Doug Garber

M/M Steve Fekaris

M/M Evans Lucas

M/M George Katsias

M/M Scott Linzell

M/M Bill Williams

M/M Tom Casoglos

Mrs. Patty Spanos

Mrs. Elaine Ioanou

Kathleen A. Bauer

M/M John Zannis

Mr. Mike Kaczmarek

M/M Brian Robinson

M/M George Fekaris

M/M Jim Heller & Family 

M/M George Vlahakis

Ms. Susan Armstrong

M/M Peter Zervos

M/M Edward Power

M/M George Stefanakis

M/M Marty Gehan

M/M Anthony Barr

Drs. Pamela Georgeson & Mark Decco

Mrs. Tula Georgeson

M/M Andrew Bittinger

M/M Tim Keros

Mrs. Elaine Ioanou

M/M Neeraj Shah

MIKE RAMBUS

M/M Peter Morris

STRATIS MADIAS

M/M Edward Power

M/M Peter Zervos

M/M Steve Fekaris

M/M George Liadis

 Nicholas Liadis

Emilie Liadis

Mrs. Patty Spanos

M/M Adam Angelas

Madias Brothers, Inc

Maria Madias & Thomas Barkulis

M/M Nick Madias

JIM AND MARY C. MADIAS

M/M George Liadis

Nicholas Liadis

Emilie Liadis

Maria Madias & Thomas Barkulis

M/M Nick Madias

GEORGE BETSAKIS

M/M Evans Lucas

M/M Stephen Economy

M/M Albert Scaglione

JAMES BITTINGER SR.

M/M Edward Power

M/M James Heller

Drs. Pamela Georgeson & Mark Decco

Mrs. Tula Georgeson

M/M George Katsias

Dr./M James Stewart

M/M Anthony Barr

Mrs. Patty Spanos

M/M Andrew Bittinger

PRESVYTERA NIKIE ARTEMAS

 M/M Albert Scaglione

M/M Tim Keros

Harry & Maria Kokkinakis

GUS SPANOS 

M/M David Gordon

M/M Peter Morris

 

MAY THEIR MEMORY BE ETERNAL

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