St. Demetrios Calendar

1ST SUNDAY OF LUKE, September 22
- Orthros & Divine Liturgy, 8:30 am
- Church School
- Welcome Back BBQ
- GOYA Car Wash
- Ministry Fair

TUESDAY, September 24
- Greek School, 4 pm
- Orthodox Life, 7 pm

FRIDAY, September 27
- Inner-City Outreach

SATURDAY, September 28
- Protopsalti Concert, 8 pm

2nd SUNDAY OF LUKE, September 29
- Orthros & Divine Liturgy, 8:30 am
- Church School
- Greek Dancing, 12 pm
- Jr. GOYA Apple Picking, 2 pm

Readings and Information

Today’s Epistle Reading (II Corinthians 1:21-24; 2:1-4) is found on page 86 in your new Gospel and Epistle Book.

Today’s Gospel Reading (Luke 5:1-11) is found on page 94 in your new Gospel and Epistle Book.

Resurrectional Apolytikion, “Let us the faithful” is found on page 105 in your Blue Liturgy Book.

Thanksgiving prayers, for after Communion, are found on page 91 in your Blue Liturgy Book.

TODAY’S USHERS: Chris Pashos, Captain; George Gatzunis; Steve Sotir; Dean Coclin; Linda Theoharis; Gina Pagonis; Tom Gatzunis; Laz Vekiarides; Nick Mitrokostas.

TODAY’S MEMORIAL: there is no memorial today.

TODAY’S FELLOWSHIP HOUR: there is no fellowship hour today. Instead, join us for the Welcome Back BBQ!

TODAY’S GREETERS: Cindi Dabrowski.

Parish News and Events

NEW PARISH DIRECTORY

The new anniversary edition of the membership directory has arrived. You may pick up your complimentary family copy during the coffee hour on September 8th, 15th, and 22nd. Additional copies may be purchased for $20. For any further questions or pick up arrangements please call Georgia Gefteas at 781-431-7479

60th Anniversary Gala Dinner-Dance

In celebration of the 60th Anniversary of St. Demetrios, join us for the Gala Dinner Dance on Saturday, November 2nd at the Westin Waltham-Boston Hotel. Reception 6 pm, dinner 7 pm. Enjoy the music of Enosis. Wonderful Silent Auction Items! Tickets: $175/person. After October 6th, $190/person. Young Adults 30 years or under: $150/person. To purchase tickets online visit: http://bit.ly/stdemetrios60th Complimentary parking and hotel rooms are available at a special group rate.
For further information, please contact Eleni Condakes at (781) 235-8429 or Philippa Condakes at (781) 235-0759.

METROPOLIS OF BOSTON GOLF TOURNAMENT IN SUPPORT OF THE METROPOLIS CAMP AND RETREAT CENTER

All are invited to play in the nineteenth annual MBC and Retreat Center Golf Tournament on Tuesday, September 24th at the Indian Ridge Country Club in Andover, MA. Each summer, roughly one third of the MBC campers received financial aid thanks to this fundraiser. The hope is to be able to support an equal number of children in the future. For more information or to register contact Eleni Kalioras at ekalioras@boston.goarch.org or 617-277-4742.

WELCOME BACK BBQ & GOYA CAR WASH

Join us today after Liturgy for the annual Welcome Back BBQ hosted by the Parish Council. All are invited to kick off the new year together with delicious food and great fellowship. Make sure to also have your car washed by our GOYA!

MINISTRY FAIR TODAY

This year’s fair represents a wonderful opportunity to connect– or reconnect– with your ministries and programs of our parish. Please make sure to visit the fair. Flyers, fall/winter schedules, and ministry representatives will be present.

SPECIAL VISIT FROM HIS EMINENCE ARCHBISHOP ELPIDOPHOROS OF AMERICA

His Eminence Metroopolitan Methodios has informed us that Archbishop Elpidophoros, our new Archbishop of America, will be visiting St. Demetrios on Sunday, October 6th. His Eminence will celebrate the Divine Liturgy and we will have the opportunity to welcome and greet him as he begins his Archpastoral ministry here in America. Please place Sunday, October 6th on your calendar and be sure to be present on that special day. Thank you.

FR. MANIKAS LIBRARY

Check out the magazine "Cyprus Today" which is available for circulation. If interested, you are welcomed to
borrow. So we can keep track of the interest of these magazines, please fill in your last name and the dates (month and year) on the label on the back cover. Allowed check out period is one month.

PHILOPTOCHOS CATERING

Philoptochos is delighted to offer their St. Christine's Catering Program. Visit the church website under the Philoptochos page to view the ordering menu. Thanks for using the Philoptochos Catering !

ALKISTIS PROTOPSALTIS CONCERT

As part of the 60th Anniversary we are please to announce that we have begun selling tickets the upcoming Alkistis Protopsalti concert on September 28th. This event will be held at Sanders Theater at Harvard University. Tickets are selling fast! Prices are $55, $75, or $95. You can call Sanders Theater Box Office at 617-496-2222 or visit https://www.boxoffice.harvard.edu for ticket sales. For more information there will be a table at coffee hour or you can contact concertevent@stdemetriosweston.org

SAVE THESE DATES

Sunday, September 22 - Welcome Back BBQ

Saturday, September 28 - Alkistis Protopsaltis Concert, Sanders Theatre, Cambridge

Friday, October, 25 - Vespers for St. Demetrios

Saturday, October 26 - St. Demetrios Feast Day Liturgy

Saturday, November 2 - St. Demetrios Gala Dinner Dance, Westin Hotel in Waltham

SPONSORING FLOWERS

If you would like to sponsor altar flowers in memory of loved ones or in honor of a special occasion please contact the church office for more details on available dates.

SPONSORING FELLOWSHIP HOUR
The calendar is open for any one wishing to sponsor coffee hour this coming year. If you are interested please contact Pam Brody at 781-864-6427.

USHERING GUIDELINES
As the Church School year comes to a start, we ask that everyone assist us by waiting patiently in your seats for the children to receive Holy Communion first so that they may get to their classes.

In order to facilitate this process as efficiently as possible, we ask that Church School Teachers, Children and their parents be dismissed first for communion. All other parishioners are asked to stay in their seats and wait for the ushers to dismiss their row. We appreciate your patience and your support!

ST. DEMETRIOS ORTHO-TAXI SERVICE
We miss you when you are not with us! If you need a ride to and from church consider taking the St. Demetrios Ortho-Taxi service. If you are interested call the church office (781-237-5561) by Friday at noon for Sunday Liturgy, or two days in advance for other services or events. You will receive a call from your driver to arrange pick-up times. The roundtrip fare is $5 to be donated to the Senior Guild.

SUNDAY GREETERS
We are looking for additional people to help greet/welcome our parishioners to church on Sunday mornings. All those who are interested in being a part of this wonderful program please contact Angel Hatgelakas through Marianne at the church office. Tel: 781-237-5561 or email: office@stdemetriosweston.org. Thank you.

USHERING
If you are interested in joining the Usher Team please contact Georgia Gefteas at gaghome1@gmail.com or 978-973-7476.

WWW.GOARCH.ORG
The webpage of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America has a great amount of resources for anyone looking to learn more about the faith. You can find the daily readings of the church, information about saints, what we believe, and prayers for any occasion. Additionally, you can stay up to date with news that affects us as Christians. Be sure to check www.goarch.org regularly!

PHILOXENIA HOUSE
Located near HCHC in Brookline, the Philoxenia House offers a home and hospitality to patients and those who accompany them while they are undergoing treatment in the Boston area. For several years a few of us visit the home twice a year to try to brighten their lives by planting flowers. This is a joy for us. For more information regarding this ministry please contact Betty Titus, 781.237.4748, or Eleanor Spiliakos, 978.443.3746.

WHAT IS THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
Being asked this during our festival a number of times — we as Orthodox Christians ought to respond:

“The Orthodox Christian Church is a worldwide body of believers who confess and worship Jesus Christ as the Son of God, as Lord and Messiah. This body has a tangible and continuous history of Christian faith and practice from the time of Christ’s Apostles. The use of the adjective ‘orthodox’ to describe the Church dates back to the earliest centuries and was applied to those Christians who maintained the tradition transmitted by Christ’s Apostles (1 Thess 2:15)”

FR. MANIKAS LIBRARY
Come and visit the Fr. Manikas Library and check out one of our many books on a variety of different topics. After Divine Liturgy, please stop by the library and see what we have to offer. See Cindi Dabrowski in the library for assistance on picking out a selection to take home and further your knowledge of our faith.

DAILY READINGS APP
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America has developed and released a Daily Readings App for iOS and Android. It offers the daily Epistle and Gospel readings of the day as well as the saints that are commemorated on that day. Furthermore, it offers prayers, dates of future Feast Days and fasting guidelines.

It’s a great resource that is offered by our Archdiocese. Sign into your app store and download it today!

BE THE BEE WEBSERIES
The National Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministries offers a weekly web video series on YouTube called “Be the Bee” each week a question or theme about our faith is answered in just 5 minutes! Check out this new and interesting approach to learning about our faith! Go to: www.youtube.com/user/y2am to see the entire series!

Gospel and Epistle Readings

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Plagal First Tone. Psalm 11.7,1.
You, O Lord, shall keep us and preserve us.
Verse: Save me, O Lord, for the godly man has failed.

The reading is from St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 1:21-24; 2:1-4.

Brethren, it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has commissioned us; he has put his seal upon us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.

But I call God to witness against me - it was to spare you that I refrained from coming to Corinth. Not that we lord it over your faith; we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith. For I made up my mind not to make you another painful visit. For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained? And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all. For I wrote you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.

Gospel Reading

1st Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 5:1-11

At that time, as Jesus was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, he saw two boats by the lake; but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon's, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat. And when he had ceased speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch." And Simon answered, "Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets." And when they had done this, they enclosed a great shoal of fish; and as their nets were breaking, they beckoned to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord." For he was astonished, and all who were with him, at the catch of fish which they had taken; and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, "Do not be afraid; henceforth you will be catching men." And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed him.

Saints and Feasts

September 22

1st Sunday of Luke

September 22

Phocas the Cyprian

September 22

Phocas the Martyr, Bishop of Sinope

This saint was known for the many miracles he worked and for his apostolic zeal in shepherding the flock of Sinope. He contested for the Faith during the reign of the Emperor Trajan, in the year 102, when he was burned to death in a bath-house. A homily in his honour was composed by Saint John Chrysostom. The translation of his holy relics is celebrated on July 23.

September 22

Isaac & Martinos the Martyrs 26 Monk-martyrs of Zographou Monastery martyred by the Latins

September 23

The Conception of St. John the Baptist

This came to pass fifteen months before the birth of Christ, after the vision of the Angel that Zacharias, the father of the Forerunner, saw in the Temple while he executed the priest's office in the order of his course during the feast of the Tabernacles, as tradition bears witness. In this vision, the Archangel Gabriel appeared to Zacharias and said to him, "Thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John" (Luke 1:13). Knowing that Elizabeth was barren, and that both he and she were elderly, Zacharias did not believe what the Angel told him, although he had before him the example of Abraham and Sarah, of Hannah, mother of the Prophet Samuel, and of other barren women in Israel who gave birth by the power of God. Hence, he was condemned by the Archangel to remain speechless until the fulfilment of these words in their season, which also came to pass (Luke 1:7-24).

September 23

The Conception of St. John the Baptist

September 23

John the New Martyr of Epiros

September 23

Nicholas the New Martyr

September 23

Xanthippe & Polyxene the Righteous

September 24

Thecla the Protomartyr & Equal to the Apostles

This saint was from the city of Iconium. When she was eighteen years of age, she was instructed in the Faith of Christ and the hope of the resurrection by the Apostle Paul, whom also she followed, forsaking her betrothed and espousing a life of virginity for the sake of the Heavenly Bridegroom. Having preached Christ in various cities and suffered many things, she reposed in Seleucia of Cilicia at the age of 90.

September 24

The Commemoration of the Miracle of the Theotokos Myrtidiotissis in Kythyra

September 24

Silouan of Athos

September 24

Stephen the Martyr

September 24

The Most Holy Theotokos of Palianis

September 24

Coprios the Righteous

September 24

Juvenaly & Peter the Aleut, New Martyrs of Alaska

September 25

Wednesday of the 2nd Week

September 25

Euphrosyne of Alexandria

Our righteous Mother Euphrosyne, who lived during the reign of Saint Theodosius the Younger (408-450), was the daughter of Paphnutius of Egypt. Forsaking her father and his wealth, she renamed herself Smaragdus, and pretending to be a eunuch of the imperial palace, she dressed herself as a man and entered a monastery of men where her identity remained unknown until her repose thirty-eight years later.

September 25

Paphnoutios the Martyr & his 546 Companions in Egypt

September 25

Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos of Evangelistria, Mochos

September 25

Our Righteous Father Sergius of Radonezh

Our righteous Father Sergius was born in Rostov, north of Moscow, about the year 1314. Named Bartholomew in Baptism, he was brought up in Radonezh, and at the death of his parents he withdrew to the wilderness to become a monk. It is notable that without having been trained in a monastery, he was of such a spiritual stature as to be able to take up the perilous eremitical life from the beginning, without falling into delusion or despondency. When he had endured with courage the deprivations of the solitary life, other monks began to come to him, for whom he was made abbot against his will. On the counsel of Philotheus, Patriarch of Constantinople, he organized his monks according to the cenobitic life, appointing duties to each. While Anthony and Theodosius of Kiev, and the other righteous Fathers before Sergius, had established their monasteries near to cities, Sergius was the leader and light of those who went far into the wilderness, and after his example the untrodden forests of northern Russia were settled with monks. When Grand Duke Demetrius Donskoy was about to go to battle against the invading Tartars, he first sought the blessing of Saint Sergius, through whose prayers he was triumphant. Saint Sergius was adorned with the highest virtues of Christ-like humility and burning love for God and neighbour, and received the gift of working wonders, of casting out demons, and of discretion for leading souls to salvation. When he served the Divine Liturgy, an Angel served with him visibly; he was also vouchsafed the visitation of the most holy Theotokos with the Apostles Peter and John. He was gathered to his Fathers on September 25, 1392. At the recovery of his holy relics on July 5, 1422, his body and garments were found fragrant and incorrupt. His life was written by the monks of Epiphanius, who knew him.

September 25

Finbar the Confessor, First Bishop of Cork

September 26

The Falling Asleep of St. John the Evangelist and Theologian

This Apostle was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and was the son of Zebedee and Salome, and the brother of James the elder. First a fisherman by trade, he became an Apostle and the beloved Disciple of Christ. Only he of all the Disciples followed Him even to the Cross, and was entrusted with the care of our Saviour's Mother, as it were another son to her, and a brother of Christ the Teacher. After this, he preached throughout Asia Minor, especially in Ephesus. When the second persecution against the Christians began in the year 96 during the reign of Domitian, he was taken in bonds to Rome, and there was cast into a vat filled to the brim with boiling oil. Coming forth therefrom unharmed, he was exiled to the island of Patmos, where he wrote the Book of Revelation. Returning again to Ephesus after the death of the tyrant, he wrote his Gospel (after the other Evangelists had already written theirs) and his three Catholic Epistles. In all, he lived ninety-five years and fell asleep in the Lord during the reign of Trajan in the year 100. He was called Theologian because he loftily expounded in his Gospel the theology of the inexpressible and eternal birth of the Son and Word of God the Father. It is for this cause that an eagle-a symbol of the Holy Spirit, as Saint Irenaeus says-is depicted in his icon, for this was one of the four symbolic living creatures that the Prophet Ezekiel saw (Ezek. 1:10).

September 26

Removal of the Honorable Head of Apostle Andrew the First-Called

September 27

Friday of the 2nd Week

September 27

Callistratus the Martyr & his 49 Companions

These Martyrs contested for the Faith during the reign of Diocletian, in the year 288. Saint Callistratus was arrested as a Christian, and after being tormented, was enclosed in a sack and cast into the sea. The sack burst, and the Saint came to dry land safe and sound. Forty-nine soldiers, seeing this, also confessed Christ, and with him were cast into prison, then beheaded.

September 27

Mark, Aristarchos, and Zenon, Apostles of the 70

September 27

Akylina the New Martyr of Thessaloniki

September 27

Gideon the Righteous

September 28

Chariton the Confessor

Saint Chariton was born in the city of Iconium during the reign of Aurelian, about the year 274. He was arrested, tortured, and condemned to death because of his Christian Faith, but finally set free by imperial edict. He came to Palestine, where he took up the ascetic life. He also brought many Jews and pagans to the Faith. Having dwelt in the desert of Judea for many years, and established several monasteries throughout the region, he reposed in peace.

September 28

Our Righteous Father Alkeisonus, Metropolitan of Nicopolis; Old Epirus

September 28

Baruch the Prophet

The Prophet Baruch was the son of Nerias, and the disciple of the Prophet Jeremias ( Jer. 39:12; 43:4 LXX). The extant prophetical book that he wrote is divided into five chapters; it was composed in the fifth year of the Babylonian Captivity of the Jews during the years of Sedekias, 583 B.C. The prophetic lection that is read on the eve of the Feast of Christ's Nativity, which bears Jeremias' name, is taken from the prophecy of Baruch (Bar. 3:35-4:4). His name means "blessed."

September 28

Neophytos & Auxentios the Martyrs of Cyprus

September 28

Wenceslaus the Martyr, Prince of the Czechs

September 29

2nd Sunday of Luke

September 29

Cyriacus the Hermit of Palestine

This Saint was born in Corinth in 448. He went to Palestine to the Lavra of Euthymius the Great, but because of his youth was sent by Saint Euthymius to Saint Gerasimus; after the death of Saint Gerasimus he returned to the Lavra of Saint Euthymius. Later he took on a more rigorous life of asceticism in the wilderness of Natoufa, where there was nothing to eat except the exceedingly bitter wild herb called squills, which, however, through his prayers, God made sweet for him and his disciple. He lived 107 years and reposed in the year 555.

September 29

Martyr Petronius

September 29

Theophanes the Merciful of Gaza

September 29

Dionysios I, Patriarch of Constantinople

September 29

Malachi the New Righteous Martyr of Lindos

Wisdom of the Fathers

For now they were well instructed beforehand...But mark both their faith and their obedience. For though they were in the midst of their work when they heard His command, they delayed not, they procrastinated not, they said not, "let us return home, and converse with our kinsfolk," but "they forsook all and followed."

St. John Chrysostom

Homily 14 on Matthew 4, 4th Century

Because such is the obedience which Christ seeks of us, as that we delay not even a moment of time, though something absolutely most needful should vehemently press on us.

St. John Chrysostom

Homily 14 on Matthew 4, 4th Century

Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Plagal First Tone

Let us worship the Word, O ye faithful, praising Him that with the Father and the Spirit is co-beginningless God, Who was born of a pure Virgin that we all be saved; for He was pleased to mount the Cross in the flesh that He assumed, accepting thus to endure death. And by His glorious rising, He also willed to resurrect the dead.

Apolytikion for Hieromartyr Phocas in the Fourth Tone

As a sharer of the ways and a successor to the throne of the Apostles, O inspired of God, thou foundest discipline to be a means of ascent to divine vision. Wherefore, having rightly divided the word of truth, thou didst also contest for the Faith even unto blood, O Hieromartyr Phocas. Intercede with Christ our God that our souls be saved.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Second Tone

O Protection of Christians that cannot be put to shame, mediation unto the creator most constant: O despise not the voices of those who have sinned; but be quick, O good one, to come unto our aid, who in faith cry unto thee: Hasten to intercession and speed thou to make supplication, O thou who dost ever protect, O Theotokos, them that honor thee.

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Saints and Feasts

1st Sunday of Luke

Phocas the Cyprian

Phocas the Martyr, Bishop of Sinope

Isaac & Martinos the Martyrs 26 Monk-martyrs of Zographou Monastery martyred by the Latins

The Conception of St. John the Baptist

The Conception of St. John the Baptist

John the New Martyr of Epiros

Nicholas the New Martyr

Xanthippe & Polyxene the Righteous

Thecla the Protomartyr & Equal to the Apostles

The Commemoration of the Miracle of the Theotokos Myrtidiotissis in Kythyra

Silouan of Athos

Stephen the Martyr

The Most Holy Theotokos of Palianis

Coprios the Righteous

Juvenaly & Peter the Aleut, New Martyrs of Alaska

Wednesday of the 2nd Week

Euphrosyne of Alexandria

Paphnoutios the Martyr & his 546 Companions in Egypt

Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos of Evangelistria, Mochos

Our Righteous Father Sergius of Radonezh

Finbar the Confessor, First Bishop of Cork

The Falling Asleep of St. John the Evangelist and Theologian

Removal of the Honorable Head of Apostle Andrew the First-Called

Friday of the 2nd Week

Callistratus the Martyr & his 49 Companions

Mark, Aristarchos, and Zenon, Apostles of the 70

Akylina the New Martyr of Thessaloniki

Gideon the Righteous

Chariton the Confessor

Our Righteous Father Alkeisonus, Metropolitan of Nicopolis; Old Epirus

Baruch the Prophet

Neophytos & Auxentios the Martyrs of Cyprus

Wenceslaus the Martyr, Prince of the Czechs

2nd Sunday of Luke

Cyriacus the Hermit of Palestine

Martyr Petronius

Theophanes the Merciful of Gaza

Dionysios I, Patriarch of Constantinople

Malachi the New Righteous Martyr of Lindos

Wisdom of the Fathers

Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Plagal First Tone

Apolytikion for Hieromartyr Phocas in the Fourth Tone

Seasonal Kontakion in the Second Tone