Sunday Summer Hours - from first Sunday after Memorial Day
Orthros 8:30 am
Divine Liturgy 9:30 am
Sunday Winter Hours - from first Sunday after Labor Day
Orthros 9:00 am
Divine Liturgy 10:00 am
MEMORIALS SUNDAY: 20 years Helen Abraham & Trisagion – 4 years Gus Skeriotis
OUR PARISH WANTS YOU: We need dedicated members in good standing (stewardship & sacramental) who would like to offer their time and talents to the Parish Council should fill out a nomination application, which can be found in the Narthex or Click here for the nomination form. The form must be signed and sealed in an envelope in the office SUNDAY by 1pm. The mandatory seminar will be held Monday, November 25th at 7pm (please talk to Fr. Anastasios if you cannot attend). Our Election for the 7 parish council members will take place on December 8th following the Divine Liturgy.
GOYA POINSETTIA SALE – Support our GOYA and GOYAns by buying beautiful poinsettia for $10. Sales due 12/1, pick up 12/8. Forms are in the Nartex.
PHILOPTOCHOS CHRISTMAS CANDY: Place your Anderson Candy Order with Mary Menis.
ANNUAL CHRISTMAS CARD: Please contact the Church office to be included in the Annual Christmas card for a donation of $10.
BYZANTINE MUSICAL ORATORIO-CELEBRATION – Dec 1 @ 6pm: “Come, gather to see a Newborn Babe, the God before time”-A Byzantine Musical Oratorio at the Frick Fine arts Auditorium-Celebration of the Complete Kontakion of the Nativity by Romanos the Melodist. Program by the Byzantine Choir of the Metropolis & Musical Guests
NEW YEAR FAMILY GLENDI - Dec 31: 8pm-1am, Dinner, Dancing, Balloon Drop, Cash Bar, & Sweet Treats. Music by the Filarakia. Tickets from $10-$40. Call the Church.
SAVE THE DATE!!! Greek American Progressive Association (G.A.P.A.) is excited to announce our First Annual Designer Purse Bash on January 26, 2020 at Alexander’s Restaurant. All proceeds will benefit the youth programming at our church. Please contact Angel Barlamas (alexandangel@yahoo.com) or Alexa Bovalino (Asbovalino@gmail.com) with questions.
JOY/HOPE TOY DRIVE CONTINUES – The annual toy drive to benefit the Women’s Shelter in Beaver is ongoing until Dec 8th. The shelter provides assistance with Christmas gifts to over 100 families each year, in addition to their counseling and other services. Gift cards are welcome also, especially for teenagers. You can talk to Nicoletta Elolo or Sara Portoulas, or you can contact Nicoletta at 724-417-5054 or email nicoletta.elolo@gmail.com with any questions, donations towards this cause. Thank you all for your past and present support of this ministry! The toy drive will continue until Dec. 8th.
YOUTH SAFETY WORKERS: Thank you to all who have signed up to be parish Youth Safety workers. This is a three step process. You initially signed up and submitted copies of your Act 33 and Act 34 clearances and a signed affidavit in lieu of fingerprints. This was the first step and was required by the Metropolis of Pittsburgh. The second and third steps are required by the Archdiocese. By now you have received an email requesting a Background Check from Praesidium as well the email: Welcome to Armatus Learn to Protect for the two courses required by the Archdiocese. Please complete the request for the background check and begin taking the courses. Please print out the worksheets prior to beginning the courses as this will help you take notes for the tests. Our goal is to have our parish compliant by the end of 2019. If you have any questions, please contact Jackie Bennis.
HELLENIC DANCERS: Dance practice - 12/4 & 12/16, Little Angels - 6:15 to 6:45. Juniors - 6:45 - 7:30. Seniors - 7:30 to 8:30.
Prokeimenon. Plagal 2nd Mode. Psalm 27.9,1.
O Lord, save your people and bless your inheritance.
Verse: To you, O Lord, I have cried, O my God.
The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Ephesians 2:4-10.
Brethren, God who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with him, and made us sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God: not because of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Προκείμενον. Plagal 2nd Mode. ΨΑΛΜΟΙ 27.9,1.
Σῶσον, Κύριε τὸν λαὸν σου καὶ εὐλόγησον τὴν κληρονομίαν σου.
Στίχ. Πρὸς σἐ, Κύριε, κεκράξομαι ὁ Θεός μου.
τὸ Ἀνάγνωσμα Πρὸς Ἐφεσίους 2:4-10.
Ἀδελφοί, ὁ θεός, πλούσιος ὢν ἐν ἐλέει, διὰ τὴν πολλὴν ἀγάπην αὐτοῦ ἣν ἠγάπησεν ἡμᾶς, καὶ ὄντας ἡμᾶς νεκροὺς τοῖς παραπτώμασιν συνεζωοποίησεν τῷ Χριστῷ - χάριτί ἐστε σεσωσμένοι - καὶ συνήγειρεν, καὶ συνεκάθισεν ἐν τοῖς ἐπουρανίοις ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ· ἵνα ἐνδείξηται ἐν τοῖς αἰῶσιν τοῖς ἐπερχομένοις τὸν ὑπερβάλλοντα πλοῦτον τῆς χάριτος αὐτοῦ ἐν χρηστότητι ἐφʼ ἡμᾶς ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ· τῇ γὰρ χάριτί ἐστε σεσῳσμένοι διὰ τῆς πίστεως, καὶ τοῦτο οὐκ ἐξ ὑμῶν· θεοῦ τὸ δῶρον· οὐκ ἐξ ἔργων, ἵνα μή τις καυχήσηται. Αὐτοῦ γάρ ἐσμεν ποίημα, κτισθέντες ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ ἐπὶ ἔργοις ἀγαθοῖς, οἷς προητοίμασεν ὁ θεός, ἵνα ἐν αὐτοῖς περιπατήσωμεν.
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."
13th Sunday of Luke
Κατὰ Λουκᾶν 18:18-27
Τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ, ἄρχων λέγων· διδάσκαλε ἀγαθέ, τί ποιήσας ζωὴν αἰώνιον κληρονομήσω; εἶπε δὲ αὐτῷ ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς· τί με λέγεις ἀγαθόν; οὐδεὶς ἀγαθὸς εἰ μὴ εἷς ὁ Θεός. τὰς ἐντολὰς οἶδας· μὴ μοιχεύσῃς, μὴ φονεύσῃς, μὴ κλέψῃς, μὴ ψευδομαρτυρήσῃς, τίμα τὸν πατέρα σου καὶ τὴν μητέρα σου. ὁ δὲ εἶπε· ταῦτα πάντα ἐφυλαξάμην ἐκ νεότητός μου. ἀκούσας δὲ ταῦτα ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς εἶπεν αὐτῷ· ἔτι ἕν σοι λείπει· πάντα ὅσα ἔχεις πώλησον καὶ διάδος πτωχοῖς, καὶ ἕξεις θησαυρὸν ἐν οὐρανῷ, καὶ δεῦρο ἀκολούθει μοι. ὁ δὲ ἀκούσας ταῦτα περίλυπος ἐγένετο· ἦν γὰρ πλούσιος σφόδρα. ἰδὼν δὲ αὐτὸν ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς περίλυπον γενόμενον εἶπε· πῶς δυσκόλως οἱ τὰ χρήματα ἔχοντες εἰσελεύσονται εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ Θεοῦ! εὐκοπώτερον γάρ ἐστι κάμηλον διὰ τρυμαλιᾶς ῥαφίδος εἰσελθεῖν ἢ πλούσιον εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ Θεοῦ εἰσελθεῖν. εἶπον δὲ οἱ ἀκούσαντες· καὶ τίς δύναται σωθῆναι; ὁ δὲ εἶπε· τὰ ἀδύνατα παρὰ ἀνθρώποις δυνατὰ παρὰ τῷ Θεῷ ἐστιν.
Saint Clement was instructed in the Faith of Christ by the Apostle Peter. He became Bishop of Rome in the year 91, the third after the death of the Apostles. He died as a martyr about the year 100 during the reign of Trajan.
Saint Peter illustriously occupied the throne of Alexandria for twelve years, and, as Eusebius says, "was a divine example of a bishop on account of the excellence of his life and his study of the sacred Scriptures" (see Eusebius, Eccl. Hist., Book VII, 3 2; Book VIII 11, 13; and Book IX, 6). He excommunicated Arius for his sympathy with the Meletian schism. When Arius learned that Saint Peter had been imprisoned, he sent many priests and deacons to him, asking that he receive him back into the communion of the Church before his martyrdom. When the ambassadors of Arius, who had not, like Saint Peter, perceived the ruin he would engender, were astonished at the vehemence with which Saint Peter refused to receive Arius again, he revealed to them a dread vision he had seen, in which the Master Christ had appeared to him as a child wearing a garment torn from head to foot. When Saint Peter asked the Lord who rent His garment, the Lord answered that it was Arius, and that he must not be received back into communion. The holy hieromartyr Peter was beheaded during the reign of Maximinus in the year 312; he is called the "Seal of the Martyrs," because he was the last Bishop of Alexandria to suffer martyrdom under the pagan Emperors. His successors to the throne of Alexandria, Saints Alexander and Athanasius the Great, brought to final victory the battle against Arius' heresy which Saint Peter had begun.
CHICAGO – During the Seventeenth National Philoptochos Children’s Medical Fund Luncheon held Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, designated the Sunday of the Good Samaritan each year (which is the 8th Sunday of Luke according to the Kanonion) as National Philoptochos Society Sunday.