October 06
St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2019-10-06
Bulletin Contents
St. Demetrios Calendar
Readings and Information
Parish News and Events
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Saints and Feasts
Wisdom of the Fathers
Hymns of the Day
Message from His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios
St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church
General Information
- Phone:
- (781) 237-5561
- Fax:
- (781) 237-8612
- Email:
- office@stdemetriosweston.org
- Street Address:
- 57 Brown Street
- Weston, MA 02493
Contact Information
Services Schedule
Matins Sunday - 8:30 a.m. Weekdays - 9:00 a.m.
Liturgy Sunday - 9:30 a.m. Weekdays - 9:30 a.m.
Past Bulletins
- Publish Date:
- 2019-09-22
- Publish Date:
- 2019-09-15
- Publish Date:
- 2019-09-08
- Publish Date:
- 2019-09-01
- Publish Date:
- 2019-08-25
- Publish Date:
- 2019-08-04
St. Demetrios Calendar
3rd SUNDAY OF LUKE, October 6
Welcome Your Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros!
- Orthros & Divine Liturgy, 8:30 am
- Church School
- Young Adult Apple Picking Event, 1 pm
TUESDAY, October 8
- Greek School, 4 pm
- Orthodox Life, 7 pm
WEDNESDAY, October 9
- Prayer Shawl Ministry, 1 pm
- Parish Council Meeting, 7 pm
- Philoptochos Board Meeting, 7 pm
FRIDAY, October 11
- GOYA MBC Fall Camp through Monday 10/14
SUNDAY OF THE 7TH ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, October 13
- Orthros & Divine Liturgy, 8:30 am
Readings and Information
Today’s Epistle Reading (II Corinthians 6:1-10) is found on page 90 in your new Gospel and Epistle Book.
Today’s Gospel Reading (Luke 7:11-16) is found on page 97 in your new Gospel and Epistle Book.
Resurrectional Apolytikion, “By Your Cross” 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: Arthur Loridas, Captain; Stavroula Margaritis; Andrew Mavrikos; Jim Mavrikos; Greg Vasil; Elaine Ward; Tom Camp; Amalie George; Manny Makkas.
TODAY’S MEMORIAL: there is no memorial today.
TODAY’S FELLOWSHIP HOUR: is graciously hosted by Mary & Nick Philopoulos.
TODAY’S GREETERS: Vaios Papadimitriou.
Parish News and Events
ST. DEMETRIOS FEASTDAY CELEBRATIONSOCTOBER 25TH, 26TH, & 27TH
Friday, Oct. 25th
Great Vespers, 6 pm. Clergy and faithful of the area have been invited to join us. A reception hosted by Philoptochos will follow and bakers are needed to make Greek pastries and other baked goods. If you have any questions find Presbytera Elaine during coffee hour.
Saturday, Oct. 26th
Orthros & Divine Liturgy, 8:30 am for St. Demetrios with a light reception after.
Sunday, Oct. 27th
Orthros & Divine Liturgy 8:30 am with Metropolitan Methodios presiding.
ORTHODOX LIFE
Join us on October 1, 8 and 15 at 7 pm for an exciting look at what iconography is, why it is important to our faith and how it can be applied to our community.
As we prepare to embark on this phase in the life of our church, come and learn more about its importance in our day to day life.
SILENT AUCTION UPDATE
The Silent Auction Committee of the 60th Anniversary Gala would like to thanka ll donors who have contributed to our auction. Thank you so much, we appreciate all that you have done. Stay tuned for more information to come about our fabulous items, available for bidding on the evening of November 2nd.
-Kathy Hamilton, Suzanne Polymeros, Bobi Koukounaris, and Carolyn DelGizzi
YOUTH BASKETBALL
We look forward to the 2019-20 Metropolis Basketball season. This program is a great opportunity for kids ages 8 to 18 to enjoy competition and fellowship with other Orthodox youth from throughout the Boston area.Teams will be finalized in early October and games will begin before Thanksgiving. For more information or to Register your son(s) and/or daughter(s), please contact the Church Office or email Emanuel “Jack” Markis at EJMarkis@Markislaw.com
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.
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.
SAVE THESE DATES
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. Grave Tone. Psalm 28.11,1.
The Lord will give strength to his people.
Verse: Bring to the Lord, O sons of God, bring to the Lord honor and glory.
The reading is from St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 6:1-10.
Brethren, working together with him, we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain. For he says, "At the acceptable time I have listened to you, and helped you on the day of salvation." Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. We put no obstacle in any one's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, tumults, labors, watching, hunger; by purity, knowledge, forbearance, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love, truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as punished, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
Gospel Reading
3rd Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 7:11-16
At that time, Jesus went to a city called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. As he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and a large crowd from the city was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, "Do not weep." And he came and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And he said, "Young man, I say to you, arise." And the dead man sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his mother. Fear seized them all; and they glorified God, saying, "A great prophet has arisen among us!" and "God has visited his people!"
Saints and Feasts
October 06
3rd Sunday of Luke
October 06
Makarios the Righteous of Chios
October 06
The Holy and Glorious Apostle Thomas
The name Thomas means, "twin." He was one of the Twelve, a Galilean by birth. Sophroneus (not the famous Patriarch of Jerusalem [7th Century, celebrated March 11], but a friend of Jerome's), quoted also by Jerome, says that Saint Thomas preached to the Parthians, Pesians, Medes, Hyrcanians, Bactrians, and neighbouring nations. According to Heracleon, the Apostle died a natural death; according to other accounts, he was martyred at Meliapur His tomb was known by Saint John Chrysostom to be at Edessa in Syria, to which city his holy relics may have been translated from India in the fourth century.
October 07
Polychronios the Martyr
October 07
Sergius & Bacchus the Great Martyrs of Syria
These holy Martyrs were Romans of high rank in the service of the Emperor Maximian, to whom it was reported that they did not take part in the festivals of the idols. When he called them into his presence, they confessed their Faith in the one God. He had them arrayed in women's clothes and paraded through the streets in mockery. They were afterwards scourged, from which Saint Bacchus died. This was about the year 296. Saint Sergius was then taken to Resapha in Syria, where he was tortured and beheaded. His tomb in Resapha became a very famous shrine, to which pilgrims came from as far away as Western Europe; Resapha was later renamed Sergiopolis in his honour.
October 07
Julian the Presbyter & Caesarius the Deacon
October 07
John the Hermit of Crete
October 07
Jonah of Manchuria
October 07
Monday of the 4th Week
October 08
Tuesday of the 4th Week
October 08
Pelagia the Righteous
This Saint was a prominent actress of the city of Antioch, and a pagan, who lived a life of unrestrained prodigality and led many to perdition. Instructed and baptized by a certain bishop named Nonnus (Saint Nonnus is commemorated Nov. 10), she departed for the Mount of Olives near Jerusalem, where she lived as a recluse, feigning to be a eunuch called Pelagia. She lived in such holiness and repentance that within three or four years she was deemed worthy to repose in an odour of sanctity, in the middle of the fifth century. Her tomb on the Mount of Olives has been a place of pilgrimage ever since.
October 08
Pelagia the Virgin-martyr of Antioch
October 08
Taisia the Harlot of Egypt
October 08
Phillip, Bishop of Gortyna
October 09
James the Apostle, son of Alphaeus
The holy Apostle James was one of the Twelve, and preached Christ to many nations, and finally suffered death by crucifixion.
October 09
Andronicus & his wife Athanasia of Egypt
Saints Andronicus and Athanasia were from Antioch, and finished their lives in asceticism about the year 500.
October 09
Poplia the Confessor of Antioch
October 09
The Righteous Patriarch Abraham and his nephew Lot
The holy Patriarch Abraham, born a pagan, ten generations after Noah, when the knowledge of God had perished from among men, became the beginning of God's dispensation for the universal renewal and salvation of man. He was called out of his country--the land of the Chaldees, that is, Mesopotamia--to the land of Canaan, and received the promise that through his seed all the nations of the earth should be blessed; through his singular faith in the promises of God, he was justified before the giving of the Law and the coming of Grace; through his willingness to sacrifice Isaac, he portrayed the love wherewith God loved the world in sacrificing His only-begotten Son. The greatness of Abraham, and the trials that he and his righteous nephew Lot underwent, are set forth in the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament, chapters twelve through twenty-five. See also the Sunday of the Holy Forefathers, December 11-17.
October 10
Thursday of the 4th Week
October 10
Eulampius & Eulampia the Martyrs
The Martyrs Eulampius and Eulampia were from Nicomedia, and contested for Christ during the reign of Maximian, in the year 296.
October 10
Our Righteous Father Theophilus the Confessor
October 10
The 200 Monk-martyrs of Nicomedia
October 10
Vassianos the Righteous of Constantinople
October 10
The 14 Holy Elders of Optina Monastery
On this day we also celebrate the Synaxis of the Righteous Fathers of Optina Hermitage in Russia, who struggled valiantly in the monastic life in prayer, humility, obedience, and love, and whom God deemed worthy of the lofty gifts of discernment, prophecy, clairvoyance, and eldership, that is, the grace to guide souls on the unerring path of salvation. They are Leo (who reposed in 1841), Macarius (1860), Moses (1862), Anthony (1865), Hilarion (1873), Ambrose (1891), Anatolius (1894), Isaacius (1894), Joseph (1911), Barsanuphius (1913), Anatolius (1922), Nectarius (1928), Nicon (1931), and Isaacius (1936).
October 10
Pinytos, Bishop of Knossos
October 10
Paulinus, Archbishop of York
October 11
Friday of the 4th Week
October 11
Philip the Apostle of the 70, one of the 7 Deacons
Saint Philip, who had four daughters that prophesied, was from Caesarea of Palestine. He preached throughout Samaria; it was he also who met the eunuch of Candace, the Queen of the Ethiopians, as the eunuch was reading the Prophet Esaias, and he instructed and baptized him (Acts 8:26-39). He reposed in Tralles of Asia Minor while preaching the Gospel.
October 11
Theophanes the Confessor, Bishop of Nicaea
Saint Theophanes, the brother of Saint Theodore the Branded, was a Palestinian by race. Both were monks at the Monastery of Saint Sabbas. They were called "the Branded" because Theophilus, the last of the Iconoclast emperors, had twelve iambic verses branded by hot irons on their foreheads and then sent them into exile, where Theodore died in the year 838. After the death of Theophilus in 842, Theophanes was elected Bishop of Nicaea. Both brothers composed many canons and hymns, thereby adorning the services of the Church.
October 11
Holy Martyrs Zenais and Philonilla
October 11
Nectarios, Arsakios, Sisinios and Philotheos Kokkinos, Patriarchs of Constantinople
October 11
Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking
October 11
Kenneth
October 12
Saturday of the 4th Week
October 12
Probus, Andronicus, & Tarachus, Martyrs of Tarsus
The holy Martyrs contested for Christ during the reign of Diocletian, in the year 296 or 304. Tarachus was advanced in years, of Roman birth, and had been a soldier; Probus was from Side in Pamphylia, and Andronicus from Ephesus. They were taken together in Cilicia and subjected to manifold exceedingly cruel tenures. Tarachus was beaten on his cheeks and neck with stones, his hands were burned, he was hanged on a post and smoke was put underneath him to choke him; vinegar was forced down his nostrils; after enduring further tortures, he was carved to pieces. Probus was thrashed with whips, his feet were burned with red hot irons, his back and sides were pierced with heated spits; finally he also was cut up with knives, and received the crown of martyrdom. Andronicus suffered similar tortures, and also finished his course being cut to pieces, commending his soul into the hands of God.
October 12
Symeon the New Theologian
Saint Symeon became a monk of the Studite Monastery as a young man, under the guidance of the elder Symeon the Pious. Afterwards he struggled at the Monastery of Saint Mamas in Constantinople, of which he became abbot. After enduring many trials and afflictions in his life of piety, he reposed in 1022. Marvelling at the heights of prayer and holiness to which he attained, and the loftiness of the teachings of his life and writings, the church calls him "the New Theologian." Only to two others, John the Evangelist and Gregory, Patriarch of Constantinople, has the church given the name "Theologian." Saint Symeon reposed on March 12, but since this always falls in the Great Fast, his feast is kept today.
October 12
Martin the Merciful, Bishop of Tours
October 12
Cosmas the Hymnographer, Bishop of Maiuma
October 12
Domnina the Martyr
October 12
Wilfrid of York
October 13
Sunday of the 7th Ecumenical Council
On the Sunday that falls on or immediately after the eleventh of this month, we chant the Service to the 350 holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council, which gathered in Nicaea in 787 under the holy Patriarch Tarasius and during the reign of the Empress Irene and her son, Constantine Porphyrogenitus, to refute the Iconoclast heresy, which had received imperial support beginning with the Edict issued in 726 by Emperor Leo the Isaurian. Many of the holy Fathers who condemned Iconoclasm at this holy Council later died as Confessors and Martyrs for the holy Icons during the second assult of Iconoclasm in the ninth century, especially during the reigns of Leo the Armenian and Theophilus.
October 13
Carpus, Papylus, Agathodorus, & Agathonica, the Martyrs of Pergamus
Saint Carpus was Bishop of the Church of Thyatira in Asia Minor and Papylus was his deacon, whom he had ordained. Seized as Christians and tormented in Thyatira, they were taken to Sardis, whither Agathodorus, their servant, followed them, and also confessed Christ, and was tormented with them. Together with Agathonica, the sister of Saint Papylus. they were all beheaded during the reign of Decius, in the year 250.
October 13
Benjamin the Deacon
October 13
Chryssi the New Martyr of Greece
October 13
Florentios the Martyr of Thessaloniki
October 13
Meletios of Pegas, Patriarch of Alexandria
Wisdom of the Fathers
That dead man was being buried, and many friends were conducting him to his tomb. But there meets him Christ, the Life and Resurrection, for He is the destroyer of death and of corruption; He it is "in Whom we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:28); He it is Who has restored the nature of man to that which it originally was; and has set free our death-fraught flesh from the bonds of death.
Commentary on the Gospel of St. Luke, Homily 36.42, p. 153., 5th Century
The virgin's son met the widow's son. He became like a sponge for her tears and as life for the death of her son. Death turned about in its den and turned its back on the victorious one.
Commentary on Tatian's Diatessaron, 6.23. (Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture. vol. 3: Luke, Intervarsity Press)
Hymns of the Day
Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Grave Tone
Thou didst abolish death by Thy Cross; Thou didst open Paradise to the thief; Thou didst transform the myrrh-bearers' lamentation, and didst bid Thine Apostles to preach that Thou art risen, O Christ God, granting great mercy to the world.
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Apolytikion for Apostle Thomas in the Third Tone
O Holy Apostle Thomas, intercede with the merciful God that He grant unto our souls forgiveness of offences.
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Apolytikion for St. Demetrios in the Third Tone
The world has found in you a great champion in time of peril, as you emerged the victor in routing the barbarians. For as you brought to naught the boasts of Lyaios, imparting courage to Nestor in the stadium, in like manner, holy one, great Martyr Demetrios, invoke Christ God for us, that He may grant us His great mercy.
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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