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Holy Trinity Church
Publish Date: 2018-12-09
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Holy Trinity Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (724) 266-5336
  • Fax:
  • (724) 266-0703
  • Street Address:

  • 2930 Beaver Road

  • Ambridge, PA 15003
  • Mailing Address:

  • 2930 Beaver Road

  • Ambridge, PA 15003


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Services Schedule

Sunday Summer Hours - from first Sunday after Memorial Day

Orthros 8:30 am

Divine L:iturgy 9:30 am

Sunday Winter Hours - from first Sunday after Labor Day

Orthros 9:00 am

Divine Liturgy 10:00 am

Saturday Vespers 6:00 pm

Week Day Divine Liturgy 9:00 am


Past Bulletins


Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Third Tone

Let all things above in heav'n rejoice, and let all things below on earth be glad. With all the might and strength of His arm an eternal deed the Lord did perform. Beneath His feet He has trampled down death by death, and first born of the dead has He become. From the womb of Hades has He delivered us, and to all the world has granted His great redeeming mercy.

Apolytikion for Conception of the Theotokos in the Fourth Tone

Today the bonds of childlessness are loosed; for God hearkened to Joachim and Anna. And though it was beyond hope, He clearly promised them that they should bear a divine child, from whom was born the Uncircumscribable One Himself Who became a mortal, and through an Angel commanded them to cry unto her: Rejoice, thou who art full of grace; the Lord is with thee.

Apolytikion for the Church in the Plagal Fourth Tone

Blessed are You, O Christ our God; Who has shone forth the fishermen to be all wise, by sending upon them the Holy Spirit and through them, You gathered the whole world in Your net, O lover of Mankind, glory to You.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Fourth Tone

Today the world rejoices in the conception of Anna, wrought by God. For she bore the One who beyond comprehension conceived the Logos.
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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Grave Tone. Psalm 63.11,1.
The righteous shall rejoice in the Lord.
Verse: Oh God, hear my cry.

The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Galatians 4:22-27.

Brethren, Abraham had two sons, one by a slave and one by a free woman. But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, the son of the free woman through promise. Now this is an allegory: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar. Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother. For it is written, "Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and shout, you who are not in travail; for the children of the desolate one are many more than the children of her that is married."


Gospel Reading

10th Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 13:10-17

At that time, Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years; she was bent over and could not fully straighten herself. And when Jesus saw her, he called her and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your infirmity." And he laid his hands upon her, and immediately she was made straight, and she praised God. But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the sabbath, said to the people, "There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be healed, and not on the sabbath day." Then the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger, and lead it away to water it? And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?" As he said this, all his adversaries were put to shame; and all the people rejoiced at all the glorious things that were done by him.


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Worship Services this Week

NO ADDITIONAL WORSHIP SERVICES THIS WEEK

 

CHRISTMAS SERVICE SCHEDULE

Monday, December 24, Christmas Eve:   Great Hours at 9:00am

           Vesperal Divine Liturgy of St. Basil at 6:00pm

Tuesday, December 25, Nativity of Our Lord:   Orthros at 9:00am, Divine Liturgy at 10:00am with His Eminence, Metropolitan  Savas

Tuesday, January 1, 2019:   Orthros 9am, Divine Liturgy of St. Basil at 10am

 

 

 


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Parish News and Events

MEMORIALS NEXT SUNDAY

Next Sunday we will celebrate Memorials for Boris Anson (10 years) and James Bolimos (16 years).


TODAY IS STEWARDSHIP SUNDAY

Today is Stewardship Sunday here at Holy Trinity. Please put your completed card in the collection basket at the end of the Divine Liturgy for the Special Blessing Service to be offered. All things emanate from God - our lives, our health, our worldly possessions - and in return, we offer our time, our talents and our treasure to the building up of His church. God bless you.


ST. NICHOLAS STOCKINGS

The Sunday School children have received their St. Nicholas Stockings to collect funds for FOCUS West Central PA. They traditionally receive these stockings before the Feast of St. Nicholas and return them full of coins and cash in January! Please show the children your joy of giving during this holy season!


PHILOPTOCHOS BAKING AND MOVIE TODAY

Everyone is invited to roll UP their sleeves and roll OUT some dough for the Philoptochos nutroll baking session following today's Coffee Hour!! Bring your rolling pins! And while we are rolling, for the kids we will be showing a movie ON THE BIG SCREEN!! It will be either the new Paddington 2 OR the new Mary Poppins... complete with popcorn!! Wow!!

Also next Sunday, December 9, orders are DUE! for Anderson's Christmas Candy and the Philoptochos nutrolls! Mary Menis will take your orders for delivery on Sunday, December 16, the day of the Sunday School Christmas Program and Breakfast!

Members of Philoptochos are very welcome to pay their 2019 Stewardship of $25 now. See Faith Dickinson.


CHRISTMAS FAST CONTINUES

The Christmas Fast continues with the lighter fast allowing fish, wine and oil. On December 13, the stricter fast begins without fish. 


PARISH COUNCIL MEETING

The 2018 Parish Council and the new members of the 2019 Parish Council will meet on Tuesday evening at 7pm.


CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS FOR THE CHURCH

If you would like to help with decorating the interior of the Church on Friday, December 14, for Christmas, please tell Presbytera Anna. Thank you!


SUNDAY SCHOOL CHRISTMAS PROGRAM

Next Sunday, our children in the Sunday School will present a Christmas Program in anticipation of the Nativity of Our Lord. We ask parents to practice the Christmas songs with their children at home. We always look forward to this Annual Event.


HOLY SAINTS HOSTING BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

Our Goya is co-sponsoring the Basketball Tournament in Steubenville the first weekend in February and we are looking for parishioners to run the Concession Stand. We will need people to volunteer for shifts on February 2, 2019, from 9-11, 11-1, and 1-3. The slot from 3-5 has been taken by the Sickles. Email asbovalino@gmail.com if interested. They are also asking for dessert donations for the dance on Saturday evening. Mr. & Mrs. Sickles will take donations down on Saturday. Stay tuned for The dessert drop-off time. 

PRE-1951 CHURCH RECORDS

The Church Record Books of Baptisms, Weddings, and Deaths before 1951 have been missing since the move from the old church to our present location. In an effort to restore this valuable information, we ask if you have any certificates from this time period, that you bring them in to be copied, or mail in a copy. Thank you!!


PARISH COUNCIL RESQUESTS:

1)  A human resources committee is being established in our parish anyone interested or needing more information may contact alex.franzees@gmail.com, holytrinityamb@mail.goarch.org or call 724-266-5336 or 724-544-7820.

2)  A membership committee befitting our parish is also being established, anyone interested or needing more information may contact alex.franzees@gmail.com, holytrinityamb@mail.goarch.org or call 724-266-5336 or 724-544-7820.  
 
3) There has been discussion about starting a Greek school program.  Our first concern is if there is any desire from our parishoners to participate. If you may be interested either adult or student please inform us so that we may be able to put a program into effect.
 

DATES TO REMEMBER:

ONGOING:  Sunday School St. Nicholas Stockings

 

     Altar Boy Robe Senior Project

     Food Items for Center for Hope Pantry and FOCUS West Central

     Collecting Aluminum Cans for FOCUS West Central

Tuesday, December 11 - Parish Council meeting at 7pm

Friday, December 14 - Decoration of Church for the Nativity at 10am

Sunday, December 16 - Christmas Program and Breakfast

     Anderson Candy and Nutroll and Vasilopita Pick-up

Monday, December 24 - Christmas Eve Great Hours at 9:00am

     Vesperal Divine Liturgy of St. Basil 6:00pm

Tuesday, December 25 - Nativity of Our Lord: Orthros at 9am, Divine Liturgy at 10am with His Eminence Metropolitan Savas

Tuesday, January 1 - St. Basil: Orthros at 9am, Divine Liturgy of St. Basil 10am

 


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Wisdom of the Fathers

So great an evil is envy. For not against strangers only, but even against our own, is it ever warring.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 40 on Matthew 12, 4th Century

And yet here He speaks only; whereas elsewhere in many cases He heals by laying on of hands also. But nevertheless none of these things made them meek; rather, while the man was healed, they by his health became worse. For His desire indeed was to cure them before him, and He tried innumerable ways of healing, both by what He did in their presence, and by what He said: but since their malady after all was incurable, He proceeded to the work.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 40 on Matthew 12, 4th Century

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Saints and Feasts

Bowedwoman
December 09

10th Sunday of Luke


Anna
December 09

The Conception by St. Anna of the Most Holy Theotokos

According to the ancient tradition of the Church, since Saint Anna, the Ancestor of God, was barren, she and her husband Joachim remained without children until old age. Therefore, sorrowing over their childlessness, they besought God with a promise that, if He were to grant them the fruit of the womb, they would offer their offspring to Him as a gift. And God, hearkening to their supplication, informed them through an Angel concerning the birth of the Virgin. And thus, through God's promise, Anna conceived according to the laws of nature, and was deemed worthy to become the mother of the Mother of our Lord (see also Sept. 8).


Allsaint
December 09

The Consecration of the Church of the Resurrection (Holy Sepulchre) in the Holy City of Jerusalem

The majestic Church of the Resurrection, built by Saint Constantine the Great and his mother Helen, was consecrated in the year 336. In the year 614, this edifice was destroyed by the Persians, who set fire to it. Modestus, the Abbot of the Monastery of Saint Theodosius, and later Patriarch of Jerusalem, rebuilt the church in 626 and had it reconsecrated. In 637, Jerusalem fell to the Moslems; however, the holy shrines were left intact. But in 934, on the Sunday of Pascha, the Saracens set fire to part of this church. Again in 969, the Moslems set fire to the dome of the church, plundered all the sacred objects that were found therein, and surrendered John IV, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, to the flames. In 1010, the Moslems, under Hakim the Mad, Caliph of Egypt, destroyed the church to its foundations, but in 1028, by the mediation of Emperor Romanus III Argyrus of Constantinople, the church began to be rebuilt on a more modest scale. This third edifice was completed and reconsecrated in 1048. In 1099, the crusaders took Jerusalem and ruled there for eighty-eight years, and during this time they made certain changes in the structure, which, for the most part, has remained unaltered ever since (See also Sept. 13).

Allsaint
December 09

Hannah the Righteous, mother of Samuel the Prophet


Allsaint
December 09

Narses the Martyr of Persia


Allsaint
December 10

Thomas the Righteous of Bithynia


Allsaint
December 10

The Holy Martyrs Menas, Hermogenes, and Eugraphus

Saint Menas, according to the Synaxaristes, had Athens as his homeland. He was a military officer, an educated man and skilled in speech, wherefore he was surnamed Kallikelados ("most eloquent"); Eugraphus was his scribe. Both had Christian parents. The Emperor Maximinus (he was the successor of Alexander Severus, and reigned from 235 to 238) sent Saint Menas to Alexandria to employ his eloquence to end a certain strife among the citizens. Saint Menas, having accomplished this, also employed his eloquence to strengthen the Christians in their faith, which when Maximinus heard, he sent Hermogenes, who was an eparch born to unbelievers to turn Menas away from Christ. But Hermogenes rather came to the Faith of Christ because of the miracles wrought by Saint Menas. Saints Menas, Eugraphus, and Hermogenes received the crown of martyrdom in the year 235.


Allsaint
December 10

Monday of the 13th Week


Allsaint
December 11

Daniel the Stylite of Constantinople

This Saint was from the village of Marutha in the region of Samosata in Mesopotamia. He became a monk at the age of twelve. After visiting Saint Symeon the Stylite (see Sept. 1) and receiving his blessing, he was moved with zeal to follow his marvellous way of life. At the age of forty-two, guided by providence, he came to Anaplus in the environs of Constantinople, in the days of the holy Patriarch Anatolius (see July 3), who was also healed by Saint Daniel of very grave malady and sought to have him live near him. Upon coming to Anaplus, Saint Daniel first lived in the church of the Archangel Michael, but after some nine years, Saint Symeon the Stylite appeared to him in a vision, commanding him to imitate his own ascetical struggle upon a pillar. The remaining thirty-three years of his life he stood for varying periods on three pillars, one after another. He stood immovable in all weather, and once his disciples found him covered with ice after a winter storm. He was a counsellor of emperors; the pious emperor Leo the Great fervently loved him and brought his royal guests to meet him. It was at Saint Daniel's word that the holy relics of Saint Symeon the Stylite were brought to Constantinople from Antioch, and it was in his days that the Emperor Leo had the relics of the Three Holy Children brought from Babylon. Saint Daniel also defended the Church against the error of the Eutychians. Having lived through the reigns of the Emperors Leo, Zeno, and Basiliscus, he reposed in 490, at the age of eighty-four.


Allsaint
December 11

Tuesday of the 13th Week


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