January 09
St. Andrew Church
Publish Date: 2022-01-09
Bulletin Contents
Services at St. Andrew
Announcements
Fr. John's Message
Daily Calendar
News - Flyers - Registrations - Other
Prayer List
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Saints and Feasts
Hymns of the Day
Wisdom of the Fathers
St. Andrew Church
General Information
- Phone:
- (973) 584-0388
- Fax:
- (973) 584-3573
- Email:
- info@standrewgonj.org
- Street Address:
- 1447 Sussex Turnpike
- Randolph, NJ 07869-1830
- Mailing Address:
- 1447 Sussex Turnpike
- Randolph, NJ 07869-1830
Contact Information
Services Schedule
On Sunday we celebrate
Orthros at 8:15 am & Divine Liturgy at 9:30am
Weekday Orthros and Liturgies begin at 8am
Past Bulletins
- Publish Date:
- 2022-01-16
- Publish Date:
- 2022-01-02
- Publish Date:
- 2021-12-26
- Publish Date:
- 2021-12-19
- Publish Date:
- 2021-12-12
- Publish Date:
- 2021-12-05
Services at St. Andrew
Sunday 1/16
12th Sunday of Luke + Orthros @8:15am & Divine Liturgy SJC @9:30am
A one year memorial service will be held for the repose of the soul of – +VASILIOS Βασιλείου and +JOSEPHINE Ιωσηφίνας SIMOUDIS,beloved parents of John Simoudis.
An Annual Memorials Service will be held for the repose of the souls of +Aliki Αλίκης and +Speros Σπυρίδωνα, Zezas, and +Ioanna Ιωάννας and +MargaritaΜαργαρίτας Sklavenitis, belovedfamily of Andrew Zezas
Monday1/17
+Saint Anthony the great +Orthros @8:00 am & Divine Liturgy SJC @9:00 am
Tuesday 1/18
+ Saint Athanasios the Great +Orthros @8:00 am & Divine Liturgy SJC @9:00 am
Sunday 1/23
14th Sunday of Luke + Orthros @8:15amgy SJC @9:30am
ATTENDING SERVICES AT SAINT ANDREW
No reservations are required to attend church services
NO Masks required for people to attend services (you may wear a mask if you choose to)
A section in the church with Social distance seating is available for people who choose this for themselves or their family.
Participation in services is also available via livestream - go to: Home | St. Andrew Greek Orthodox Church (orthodoxws.com) and choose LIVESTREAM on the Menu bar
Prayers/Liturgy can always be found at: https://www.agesinitiatives.com/dcs/public/dcs/dcs.html
Online Giving System: Website: https://www.standrewgonj.org/ and choose PayPal / online WeShare
Announcements
Sunday services New start time is +8:15am Orthros & 9:30am Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom
Cutting of Community’s Vasilopita - POSTPONED DATE TBA Our yearly tradition has it, to cut our Community’s Vasilopita. Fr. John will bless the Vasilopita with the cutting knife crosswise in the “Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” He will then distribute it to a representative of each one of our ministries. Please join us in wishing all a Blessed and fruitful New Year.
Stewardship 2022 Update 1-4-22:
We would like to thank everyone who brought in and or mailed their 2022 Christian Stewardship Commitment Card. We have received 79 totaling a commitment of $95,368 for the coming year. If you were not able to bring your card to church, we ask that you prayerfully reflect on your commitment to our Saint Andrew Church. Thank you again for your support to Saint Andrew and to its ministries.
New Ecclesiastical Calendar : The 2022 Ecclesiastical Calendars along with the pocket calendars and Daily Bible Reading Guide “Amnos” have been mailed to our parishioners' homes. This calendar is published by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese and sponsored by the Tuttle Funeral Home.
Mardi Gras Celebration - 2022 - ΑποκριάτικοΓλέντι: Sunday, February 20th at 5pm. Join us to celebrate and enjoy an evening of entertainment, food, dancing, tricky tray & prizes! The Meadowood on Route 10 Randolph. Tickets must be purchased in advance no later than January 27th MORE INFO. CONTACT: MARIA PALLIS- petroum79@yahoo.com / Ask us about reserving your tricky tray raffle tickets for big savings!
Join us for Little Angels Playgroup (LAP)!: Calling all Little Angels ages 0-4! For basic introduction to Greek nursery rhymes and religion. Feel free to bring toys, snacks. A caretaker must be present. Drop in any time between 9:30-11:30am 1st and 3rd Friday 2st If you have questions or plan on attending, please contact Athina Vella at amv1823@gmail.com or call/text 973-879-7095.
HOPE- JOY Room 102 & 103 Please join us on after Sunday school fun activities | HOPE Hellenic Orthodox Primary Education - Grades K through 2 |JOY Junior Orthodox Youth - Grades 3 through 6 |For more information or upcoming events/activities, please contact HOPE & JOY: hopejoystandrews@gmail.com
Hellenic Afternoon School
Mondays at 4:30pm for Jr.PK, PK, K, Levels 1 & 2.
Thursdays at 4:30pm for Levels 3,4,5 and 6
Greek Dance Class
Thursdays for Group 1 at 5:45pm & for Group 2 and 6:30pm
GOYA GREEK DANCE
Thursdays at 7:30pm
Fr. John's Message
THE EVANGELIZATION OF THE NATIONS
Sunday after the feast of holy Theophany today. Of a feast whose grace is, we would say, both spiritual, like the love of God for sinful man, as well as practical, like the flow over river in a downhill valley. The river Jordan, furthermore, protagonises in various ways and didactically in the matter, the theology and the iconography of this specific feast and period.
Spiritual light
So, we heard during today’s post feast Sunday, the gospel passage, which with wisdom has been selected, and we were informed by the divinely inspired pen of the Evangelist Matthew, the fulfillment of the prophecies, and furthermore, of those of the great Prophet Isaiah, the loudest of the Prophets, of the fifth of the sacred Evangelists, as the holy fathers characterize him. We heard that in the land of the tribe of Zebulun, and in the land of the tribe of Naphthali, which extends near the sea and beyond the Jordan, to the eastern parts of it, to Galilee where many gentiles dwelt, this people who were sitting, bound and immovable in the darkness of the idol worshipping delusion and impiety, saw a great spiritual light. For the people who were dwelling in that land, which was previously shadowed by the thick darkness of sin and of death, a heavenly light shone.
The opening of the paternal embrace
Christ’s preaching was worldwide, above tribal, national linguistic or other distinctions which people pose and posed to strengthen their egotism, will and passions, persistently rejecting to meet, to forgive each other, to love each other, to reconcile. The disposition however, of the loving caring father and generous house master of the kingdom does not know exceptions, but his good paternal heart “wants all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth».
A few days ago, “the coeternal Word by the Father and Spirit” received a beginning and “for us men and our salvation of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary: became man. The sinless one received baptism. The Master and King of creation bowed his neck to his creature, in order to open the road of cleansing, of sanctification, of theosis by grace, of deliverance from the bonds of Hades, of victory against death, which brought “the great wound” to man.
The divine calling
Christ, after the amazing events of his Theophany in the Jordan, passes to His just about three year public activity, preaching, miracle-working, censuring sin, interpreting the Scriptures, which will peak, with His Transfiguration on Tabor, the handing down of the dreadful mysteries in the upper room on Holy Thursday, the Cross, the Burial, the Resurrection and his Ascension, and furthermore with the breath of the Holy Spirit during Pentecost, which from then on “comprises the entire institution of the Church”, pouring out the streams of salvation to the entire world.
The Church is the holy body of Christ extended to the ages, whose body all we people, without exception, are freely able to become “members in part”, when believing and being baptized, we enter into it, longing for salvation. In the holy cup of the New Testament, the body and blood of Christ fit, the most holy Theotokos, the ranks of the angels and of the saints of the Old and the New Testament, the souls of the dead from the ages, and of all the living, rich and poor, uneducated and unlettered ones, Jews and Greeks, sinners changed through repentance. We’re all invited to the great supper of the kingdom, all destined to taste of this world, the inexhaustible wealth of the goodness of the Lord.
So let us realize, brethren, the responsibility of the great gift and the spiritual value of the kingdom that the Church opens up before us, longing for her beauties and adornments, being peaceful “in love” with our brethren, partaking in the sacred mysteries, studying and, much more so, implementing the holy will of our good God, which is, already from the present life, the foretaste of Paradise.
Archim. A. A.
Lord’s Voice 1-9-22 FONI KYRIOU
Daily Calendar
Coffee Hour
will be held in the Social Hall and hosted by DOP
Bagels are donated by Jimmy Psaras of ALFA BAGELS on Route 10 in Randolph, NJ
Coffee is donated by Aristotle Leontopoulos of Coffee Associates in Edgewater, NJ
HOSTING ON: 1/16 DOP, 1/23 GOYA, 1/30 BAKALIKO, 2/6 Philoptochos, 2/13 PTA, 2/20 DOP, 2/27 GOYA, 3/6 Philoptochos, 3/13* PTA, 3/20* DOP, 3/27* GOYA, ... *Great Lent
Church Schedule 2022 Happy New Year!
Monday1/17
+Saint Anthony the great +Orthros @8:00 am & Divine Liturgy SJC @9:00 am
@4:30 HAS LEVELS: JPK, PK, K, L1, L2
Tuesday 1/18
+ Saint Athanasios the Great +Orthros @8:00 am & Divine Liturgy SJC @9:00 am
Wednesday 1/19
@11am Knitting and Pillow Ministry
Thursday 1/20
@4:30 HAS LEVELS: L3, L4, L5, L6
@5:45 Greek Dance Class Group 1 | @6:30pm Greek Dance Class Group 2
@ 7:30pm GOYA GREEK Dance Practice
@ 7:30pm GOYA GREEK Dance Practice
Friday 1/21
@9:30am LAP Little Angels Playgroup
Saturday 1/22
Faith Kitchen / Parish Council Chairing
Sunday 1/23
14th Sunday of Luke + Orthros @8:15amgy SJC @9:30am
Memorial Service: +Athanasios Siamas, +Peter Tsakiris, Stavroula Tsemberlis and Evangelia Papastavrou,
12-3pm Morris County Department of Human Service and Family Promise of Morris County On Site benefits eligibility screening and application assistance ..”Van For Hope”
Monday1/24
@4:30 HAS LEVELS: JPK, PK, K, L1, L2
Tuesday 1/25
Wednesday 1/26
Thursday 1/27
@4:30 HAS LEVELS: L3, L4, L5, L6
@5:45 Greek Dance Class Group 1
@6:30pm Greek Dance Class Group 2
@ 7:30pm GOYA GREEK Dance Practice
@ 7:30pm GOYA GREEK Dance Practice
News - Flyers - Registrations - Other
STEWARDSHIP PLEDGE
Prayerfully consider your blessings as you make your 2021 Donation to Saint Andrew and submit your 2022 Stewardship Commitment on Sunday, November 28th
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MARDI GRAS
APOKRIATIKO YLENTI! Feb 20, 2022 /Reservation Form
Metropolis of New Jersey
Northern New Jersey Region Greek Letters Celebration which will be taking place on Saturday, January 29,2022 at 6:00pm at the St. John the Theologian Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Tenafly, New Jersey.
Atlantic Health System
Community Health Events <communityhealth@atlantichealth.org>
NAVIGATING HOPE
on-site benefits eligibility screenings and application assistance: Saint Andrew Church Parking lot on: January 23rd Sunday 12-3pm & February 22nd Tuesday 10am -2pm
Prayer List
Prayer for a Sick Person:
Heavenly Father, physician of our souls and bodies, who have sent Your only-begotten Son and our Lord Jesus Christ to heal every sickness and infirmity, visit and heal (me) Your servant from all physical and spiritual ailments through the grace of Your Christ. Grant (me) patience in this sickness, strength of body and spirit, and recovery of health. Lord, You have taught us through Your word to pray for each other that we may be healed. I pray that You heal (me) as Your servant and grant (me) the gift of complete health. For You are the source of healing and to You I give glory, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen
Please keep these names in your prayers
Nikitas, Nikoletta, Theodore, Eleni, Athena, Katerina, Sophia, Eleni, Corinne, Maria, Ioannis, Michael, Eleana, Demetra, Kenneth, Eleni, Anastasios, Phillip, Gregory, John, Marny, Chari, Nikolaos, Janet, Melissa, Marty, Andreas, Fotini, Georgia, Pamela, Haralambos, Photeine, Christina, Michael, Adrianne, George, Anastasia, Nicholas, Michael, Alexandra, Sofia, Joseph, Vasilios, Robert, Chrisopigi, Guadalupe, Barbara, Ioannis, Nicholas, Margaret, Ava, Venessa, Chris, Dominic, Ralph, Ralph L, Elenitsa, Sophia, Doreen, Lori, Robert, Constantine, Panagiota, Michael Scott, Christine, Millie, Joe, Anastasios, Herb, Sangita, Elizabeth, Mary, Niki, Pagona, Eleftheria, Argiroula, Angeliki, John, Helen,
If you would like us to remember you or your loved one in our prayers, please contact the office. 973-584-0388 or send us an email to info@standrewgonj.org
Names will be kept on this list for approximately 3 months. Please resubmit Names if needed. Fr. John will pray for the Names above during the Proskomide “Offering of gifts” during the first part of the Divine Liturgy when our priest prepares the mystical gifts of bread and wine. Please keep these names in your prayers as well.
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Matins Gospel Reading
Seventh Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from John 20:1-10
On the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. So she ran, and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him." Peter then came out with the other disciple, and they went toward the tomb. They both ran, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first; and stooping to look in, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb; he saw the linen cloths lying, and the napkin, which had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; for as yet they did not know the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. Then the disciples went back to their homes.
Seventh Orthros Gospel
Κατὰ Ἰωάννην 20:1-10
Τῇ δὲ μιᾷ τῶν σαββάτων Μαρία ἡ Μαγδαληνὴ ἔρχεται πρωῒ σκοτίας ἔτι οὔσης εἰς τὸ μνημεῖον, καὶ βλέπει τὸν λίθον ἠρμένον ἐκ τοῦ μνημείου. τρέχει οὖν καὶ ἔρχεται πρὸς Σίμωνα Πέτρον καὶ πρὸς τὸν ἄλλον μαθητὴν ὃν ἐφίλει ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς, καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς· ἦραν τὸν Κύριον ἐκ τοῦ μνημείου, καὶ οὐκ οἴδαμεν ποῦ ἔθηκαν αὐτόν. ἐξῆλθεν οὖν ὁ Πέτρος καὶ ὁ ἄλλος μαθητὴς καὶ ἤρχοντο εἰς τὸ μνημεῖον. ἔτρεχον δὲ οἱ δύο ὁμοῦ· καὶ ὁ ἄλλος μαθητὴς προέδραμε τάχιον τοῦ Πέτρου καὶ ἦλθε πρῶτος εἰς τὸ μνημεῖον, καὶ παρακύψας βλέπει κείμενα τὰ ὀθόνια, οὐ μέντοι εἰσῆλθεν. ἔρχεται οὖν Σίμων Πέτρος ἀκολουθῶν αὐτῷ, καὶ εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὸ μνημεῖον καὶ θεωρεῖ τὰ ὀθόνια κείμενα, καὶ τὸ σουδάριον, ὃ ἦν ἐπὶ τῆς κεφαλῆς αὐτοῦ, οὐ μετὰ τῶν ὀθονίων κείμενον, ἀλλὰ χωρὶς ἐντετυλιγμένον εἰς ἕνα τόπον. τότε οὖν εἰσῆλθε καὶ ὁ ἄλλος μαθητὴς ὁ ἐλθὼν πρῶτος εἰς τὸ μνημεῖον, καὶ εἶδε καὶ ἐπίστευσεν· οὐδέπω γὰρ ᾔδεισαν τὴν γραφὴν ὅτι δεῖ αὐτὸν ἐκ νεκρῶν ἀναστῆναι. ἀπῆλθον οὖν πάλιν πρὸς ἑαυτοὺς οἱ μαθηταί.
Epistle Reading
Prokeimenon. First Mode. Psalm 32.22,1.
Let your mercy, O Lord, be upon us.
Verse: Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous.
The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Ephesians 4:7-13.
BRETHREN, grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ's gift. Therefore it is said, "When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men." (in saying, "He ascended," what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is he who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) And his gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
Προκείμενον. First Mode. ΨΑΛΜΟΙ 32.22,1.
Γένοιτο, Κύριε, τὸ ἔλεός σου ἐφ' ἡμᾶς.
Στίχ. Ἀγαλλιᾶσθε δίκαιοι ἐν Κυρίῳ
τὸ Ἀνάγνωσμα Πρὸς Ἐφεσίους 4:7-13.
Ἀδελφοί, ἑνὶ ἑκάστῳ ἡμῶν ἐδόθη ἡ χάρις κατὰ τὸ μέτρον τῆς δωρεᾶς τοῦ Χριστοῦ. Διὸ λέγει, Ἀναβὰς εἰς ὕψος ᾐχμαλώτευσεν αἰχμαλωσίαν, καὶ ἔδωκεν δόματα τοῖς ἀνθρώποις. Τὸ δέ, Ἀνέβη, τί ἐστιν εἰ μὴ ὅτι καὶ κατέβη πρῶτον εἰς τὰ κατώτερα μέρη τῆς γῆς; Ὁ καταβάς, αὐτός ἐστιν καὶ ὁ ἀναβὰς ὑπεράνω πάντων τῶν οὐρανῶν, ἵνα πληρώσῃ τὰ πάντα. Καὶ αὐτὸς ἔδωκεν τοὺς μὲν ἀποστόλους, τοὺς δὲ προφήτας, τοὺς δὲ εὐαγγελιστάς, τοὺς δὲ ποιμένας καὶ διδασκάλους, πρὸς τὸν καταρτισμὸν τῶν ἁγίων, εἰς ἔργον διακονίας, εἰς οἰκοδομὴν τοῦ σώματος τοῦ Χριστοῦ· μέχρι καταντήσωμεν οἱ πάντες εἰς τὴν ἑνότητα τῆς πίστεως καὶ τῆς ἐπιγνώσεως τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ, εἰς ἄνδρα τέλειον, εἰς μέτρον ἡλικίας τοῦ πληρώματος τοῦ Χριστοῦ.
Gospel Reading
Sunday after Epiphany
The Reading is from Matthew 4:12-17
At that time, when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee; and leaving Nazareth he went and dwelt in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali, that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: "The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, toward the sea, across the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death light has dawned." From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."
Sunday after Epiphany
Κατὰ Ματθαῖον 4:12-17
Τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ, ἀκούσας δὲ ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς ὅτι ᾿Ιωάννης παρεδόθη, ἀνεχώρησεν εἰς τὴν Γαλιλαίαν, καὶ καταλιπὼν τὴν Ναζαρὲτ ἐλθὼν κατῴκησεν εἰς Καπερναοὺμ τὴν παραθαλασσίαν ἐν ὁρίοις Ζαβουλὼν καὶ Νεφθαλείμ, ἵνα πληρωθῇ τὸ ῥηθὲν διὰ ῾Ησαΐου τοῦ προφήτου λέγοντος· γῆ Ζαβουλὼν καὶ γῆ Νεφθαλείμ, ὁδὸν θαλάσσης, πέραν τοῦ ᾿Ιορδάνου, Γαλιλαία τῶν ἐθνῶν, ὁ λαὸς ὁ καθήμενος ἐν σκότειεἶδε φῶς μέγα, καὶ τοῖς καθημένοις ἐν χώρᾳ καὶ σκιᾷ θανάτουφῶς ἀνέτειλεν αὐτοῖς. ᾿Απὸ τότε ἤρξατο ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς κηρύσσειν καὶ λέγειν· μετανοεῖτε· ἤγγικε γὰρ ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν.
Saints and Feasts
January 09
Sunday after Epiphany
January 09
Polyeuctus the Martyr of Melitene in Armenia
Saint Polyeuctus, a soldier in rank, contested during the reign of Valerian, in the year 255. He was from Melitene, a city in Armenia.
January 10
Gregory of Nyssa
Saint Gregory, the younger brother of Basil the Great, illustrious in speech and a zealot for the Orthodox Faith, was born in 331. His brother Basil was encouraged by their elder sister Macrina to prefer the service of God to a secular career (see July 19); Saint Gregory was moved in a similar way by his godly mother Emily, who, when Gregory was still a young man, implored him to attend a service in honor of the holy Forty Martyrs at her retreat at Annesi on the River Iris. Saint Gregory came at his mother's bidding, but being wearied with the journey, and feeling little zeal, he fell asleep during the service. The Forty Martyrs then appeared to him in a dream, threatening him and reproaching him for his slothfulness. After this he repented and became very diligent in the service of God.
Gregory became bishop in 372, and because of his Orthodoxy he was exiled in 374 by Valens, who was of one mind with the Arians. After the death of Valens in 378, Gregory was recalled to his throne by the Emperor Gratian. He attended the Local Council of Antioch, which sent him to visit the churches of Arabia and Palestine, which had been defiled and ravaged by Arianism. He attended the Second Ecumenical Council, which was assembled in Constantinople in 381. Having lived some sixty years and left behind many remarkable writings, he reposed about the year 395. The acts of the Seventh Ecumenical Council call him 'Father of Fathers."
January 16
12th Sunday of Luke
Hymns of the Day
Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Fourth Mode
Having learned the joyful proclamation of the Resurrection from the Angel, and having cast off the ancestral condemnation, the women disciples of the Lord spake to the Apostles exultantly: Death is despoiled and Christ God is risen, granting great mercy to the world.
Reading is under copyright and is used with permission, all rights reserved by: Holy Transfiguration Monastery
Τὸ φαιδρὸν τῆς Ἀναστάσεως κήρυγμα, ἐκ τοῦ Ἀγγέλου μαθοῦσαι αἱ τοῦ Κυρίου Μαθήτριαι, καὶ τὴν προγονικὴν ἀπόφασιν ἀπορρίψασαι, τοῖς Ἀποστόλοις καυχώμεναι ἔλεγον· Ἐσκύλευται ὁ θάνατος, ἠγέρθη Χριστὸς ὁ Θεός, δωρούμενος τῷ κόσμῳ τὸ μέγα ἔλεος.
Reading is under copyright and is used with permission, all rights reserved by: Greek Standard Text
Apolytikion for Theophany Afterfeast in the First Mode
When Thou wast baptized in the Jordan, O Lord, the worship of the Trinity was made manifest; for the voice of the Father bare witness to Thee, calling Thee His beloved Son. And the Spirit in the form of a dove confirmed the certainty of the word. O Christ our God, Who hast appeared and hast enlightened the world, glory be to Thee.
Reading is under copyright and is used with permission, all rights reserved by: Holy Transfiguration Monastery
Ἐν Ἰορδάνῃ βαπτιζομένου σου Κύριε, ἡ τῆς Τριάδος ἐφανερώθη προσκύνησις, τοῦ γὰρ Γεννήτορος ἡ φωνὴ προσεμαρτύρει σοί, ἀγαπητὸν σὲ Υἱὸν ὀνομάζουσα, καὶ τὸ Πνεῦμα ἐν εἴδει περιστεράς, ἐβεβαίου τοῦ λόγου τὸ ἀσφαλές. Ὁ ἐπιφανεῖς Χριστὲ ὁ Θεός, καὶ τὸν κόσμον φωτίσας δόξα σοί.
Reading is under copyright and is used with permission, all rights reserved by: Greek Standard Text
Seasonal Kontakion in the Fourth Mode
You appeared to the world today, and Your light, O Lord, has left its mark upon us. With fuller understanding we sing to You: "You came, You were made manifest, the unapproachable light."
Reading is under copyright and is used with permission, all rights reserved by: Narthex Press
Ἐπεφάνης σήμερον τὴ οἰκουμένη, καὶ τὸ φῶς σου Κύριε, ἐσημειώθη ἐφ' ἡμᾶς, ἓν ἐπιγνώσει ὑμνούντάς σε. Ἦλθες ἐφάνης τὸ Φῶς τὸ ἀπρόσιτον.
Reading is under copyright and is used with permission, all rights reserved by: Greek Standard Text
Wisdom of the Fathers
For as persons not even knowing where to put a step forward, so they sat, overtaken by the darkness.
Homily 14 on Matthew 4, 4th Century
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.
Epistle to the Ephesians Ch. 13, 2nd century