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St. George Church
Publish Date: 2023-09-03
Bulletin Contents
Church Calendar
Church Announcements
Hymns of the Day
Saints and Feasts
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Wisdom of the Fathers
Prayer List
Flyers of Interest
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St. George Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (734) 283-8820
  • Fax:
  • (734) 283-8866
  • Street Address:

  • 16300 Dix Toledo Highway

  • Southgate, MI 48195
  • Mailing Address:

  • 16300 Dix Toledo Highway

  • Southgate, MI 48195

Contact Information

Priest Fr. John Sakellariou


frjohn@stgeorgesouthgate.org | 734-283-8820

Services Schedule

Sundays:

9 am - Orthros

10:15 am - Divine Liturgy

 

Weekday Services:

Please check the Services schedule in the bulletin or call the Church office.

Past Bulletins


Church Calendar

  • Church Calendar

    September 3 to September 10, 2023

    Sunday, September 3

    8:50AM Orthros

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy

    Wednesday, September 6

    5:00PM Funeral Home visitation for Konstantinos “Gus” Grias

    6:00PM Senior and YAL Greek Dance Practice

    Thursday, September 7

    9:30AM Instate - Konstantinos Grias

    10:00AM Funeral - Konstantinos Grias

    7:00PM Choir Practice

    7:00PM Vespers AT NATIVITY IN PLYMOUTH

    Friday, September 8

    9:00AM Orthros

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy: The Nativity of Our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary

    Sunday, September 10

    Greek Dance Loukamades and Frappé Coffee Fundraiser

    GOYA Meeting during Coffee Hour

    Choir's First Sunday

    8:50AM Orthros

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy

    12:15PM Jrs. Greek Dance

    12:15PM Senior Greek Dance Group Practice

    1:15PM YAL Greek Dance Groups

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Church Announcements

Upcoming Weekday Services

  • Great Vespers for the Nativity of the Theotokos at Nativity in Plymouth: Thursday, September 7 @ 7 PM
  • Divine Liturgy for the Nativity of the Theotokos: Friday, September 8 @  9 AM Orthros / 10 AM Divine Liturgy
  • Great Vespers for the Exaltation of the Holy Cross at Holy Cross in Farmington Hills:  Wednesday, September 13 @ 7 PM
  • Orthros and Divine Liturgy for the Exaltation of the Holy Cross - Thursday, September  14 @  9 AM Orthros / 10 AM Divine Liturgy

Please note that all Great Vespers will take place at the celebrating parish with a reception to follow. If you would like to attend a Great Vespers but need a ride, please contact  Fr. John for arrangements. All Orthros and Divine Liturgies will take place in our home parish.


Sunday School

Sunday school classes will begin on September 24. Please register your children online on our website under Ministries/Sunday School or by clicking here.


Loukoumades & Frappé Fundraiser

The Greek Dance participants will be selling Loukoumades & Frappés next Sunday, September 10, to raise additional funds toward their dance costumes. 


Greek Fest Update

Our Greek Fest will be held on Sunday, September 17, and we NEED your help to make it a success!  We are in need of volunteers to help out in various areas on the day of the festival. 

If you are interested in volunteering on the day of the Fest, please see Nick Minton, Sam Kiousis, or Fr. John.

Volunteer Dates:

  • Festival setup in the park on Saturday, September 16 @ 7 PM

Lamb Donations for Greek Fest

We need individuals or families to donate $100 toward the purchase of a lamb for our Greek Fest on Sept. 17. If you would like to donate, please mail or drop off your donation to the church office between 9-4 pm, M-F (due to summer vacations, please call first before stopping in) or online here. Thank you!


Help Us Advertise!

Yard signs for the upcoming Greek Fest are now available for pickup in the church hallway. In addition, please like and share our Facebook advertisement. 


Philoptochos Tray

The Philoptochos will pass a tray on Sunday, September 24, for the Salvation Army.


Philoptochos Baking Request

If anyone from the parish would like to help bake treats for the Greek Fest Philoptochos Market Place boxes, we would be most appreciative. The desserts can be dropped off to the church library on Wednesday, the 13th or Friday, the 15th, 9-3 pm. Please sign-up if you are able to help using the following link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B48AAAE2AA2F58-2023 or let any Philoptochos member know. Thank you!


Seniors Luncheon

The 55 & Over Club will meet on Thursday, September 21, at noon, in the Apollo Hall. Lunch is $9. If you plan to attend, you must call Mary Frosinos @ 313.581.7969 to make a reservation (please leave her a voice mail) or the Church office.


Upcoming HOPE & JOY Events

  • Sunday, October 8 - Ice Cream Social
  • Saturday, October 28 @ 2 pm - Outing to Apple Charlies South Huron Orchards - 38035 S Huron Rd, New Boston, MI, United States, Michigan
  • Sunday, November 5 - Bake Sale 

Choir Updates

We are pleased to announce that the Choir's first Sunday back will be September 10. If you are interested in joining the Choir, please don't hesitate to reach out to Barbara Minton. Our Choir Spaghetti luncheon will take place on Sunday, October 1.

Choir rehearsal dates:

  • Thursday, September 7 rehearsal at 7 PM
  • Beginning September 24 rehearsals will be after church on Sundays

Choir Spaghetti Fundraiser Luncheon

Our Choir will hold its annual Speghetti Fundraiser Luncheon on Sunday, October 1, immediately following the Divine Liturgy. Please reserve and pay online HERE or call the church office to reserve. No assigned seating. Cost: $12/pp; children 11 & under free


Youth Music Program

We are considering beginning a Youth Music Program here at St. George. If you think your child(ren), may be interested in being a part of it, please fill out the attached form.


Coffee Hour Donations

All donations offered for this Sunday's coffee hour will go toward the purchase of Greek dance costumes. 


Prayer / Candle Requests

If you would like for us to light a candle in the Church in prayer for you and your family, please use the Prayer/Candle Request form found here or on the home page of the church website. You can pay by credit card or send a check in the mail to the Church.


Our Students' Feast Days

We wish our students celebrating their Feast Days this month 'Chronia Polla'. May God grant them many years. See their names on the display board in the school hallway. 


Online Giving

We highly encourage you to use our online giving program which is safe and easy to use as the cost of offering boxes is becoming more expensive each year. Your donations online (as well as those given in envelopes), all go towards your yearly stewardship unless you say otherwise. You can make online donations to the church here or on the home page of the church's website. Visit the following link to setup online giving  https://giving.parishsoft.com/app/giving/st1630219


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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Fourth Mode

When the women Disciples of the Lord had learned from the Angel the joyful message of the Resurrection and had rejected the ancestral decision, they cried aloud to the Apostles triumphantly: Death has been despoiled, Christ God has risen, granting His great mercy to the world.

Apolytikion for Hieromartyr Anthimus in the Fourth Mode

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 Anthimus. Intercede with Christ our God that our souls be saved.

Apolytikion for Righteous Theoctistus and Euthymius in the Plagal Fourth Mode

With the streams of thy tears, thou didst cultivate the barrenness of the desert; and by thy sighings from the depths,thou didst bear fruit a hundredfold in labours; and thou becamest a luminary, shining with miracles upon the world, O Theoktistos our righteous Father. Intercede with Christ God that our souls be saved.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Fourth Mode

In your holy birth, Immaculate One, Joachim and Anna were rid of the shame of childlessness; Adam and Eve of the corruption of death. And so your people, free of the guilt of their sins, celebrate crying: "The barren one gives birth to the Theotokos, who nourishes our life."
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Saints and Feasts

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September 03

Anthimus, Bishop of Nicomedea

After the death of the 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia, their Bishop Anthimus fled to a certain village to care for his remaining flock. The Emperor Maximian sent men in search of him. When they found him, he promised to show Anthimus to them, but first took them in as guests, fed them, and only then made himself known to them. Amazed at his kindness, the soldiers promised him to tell Maximian that they had not found him. But Anthimus went willingly with them, and converting them by his admonitions, baptized them on the way. He boldly confessed his Faith before Maximian, and after frightful tortures was beheaded in the year 303 or 304.

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September 04

Babylas the Holy Martyr

Saint Babylas was the twelfth Bishop of Antioch, being the successor of Zebinus (or Zebinas); he was beheaded during the reign of Decius, in the year 250, and at his own request was buried in the chains with which he was bound. The Emperor Gallus (reigned 351-354) built a church in his honour at Daphne, a suburb of Antioch, to put an end to the demonic oracles at the nearby temple of Apollo. When Julian the Apostate came in 362 to consult the oracle about his campaign against the Persians, the oracle (that is, the demon within it) remained dumb until at last, answering Julian's many sacrifices and supplications, it told him, "The dead prevent me from speaking." It told Julian to dig up the bones and move them. Julian, then, in the words of Saint John Chrysostom, "leaving all the other dead, moved only that Martyr." He commanded the Christians to take away Saint Babylas' bones, which they did with great solemnity and triumph. When this had been done, a thunderbolt fell from heaven destroying with fire the shrine of Apollo, which Julian did not dare rebuild. Saint John Chrysostom preached a sermon on this within a generation after.

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September 05

Zacharias the Prophet & Righteous Elizabeth, parents of St. John the Baptist

According to the opinion of many Fathers of the Church, based on an ancient tradition, this is the Zacharias whom, as our Lord said, the Jews slew between the temple and the altar (Matt. 23:35), first, because even after the Virgin Mary gave birth, he continued to refer to her as virgin and number her among the virgins; second, because Zacharias' son John was not found during the slaughter of the Innocents, since the elderly Elizabeth had taken him and carefully hid him while he was yet an infant, in an unnamed place somewhere in the desert, where, according to the Evangelist, "the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his showing unto Israel" (Luke 1:80). When the child was not found, his father was slain by Herod's command.

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September 06

The Miracle at Colassai of Archangel Michael

The feast today in honour of the Archangel Michael commemorates the great miracle he wrought when he delivered from destruction a church and holy spring named for him. The pagans, moved by malice, sought to destroy the aforesaid church and holy spring by turning the course of two rivers against them. But the Archangel appeared and, by means of the Cross and a great earthquake that shook the entire area, diverted the waters into an underground course. Henceforth, the name of that place changed from Colossae to Chonae, which means "funnels" in Greek.

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September 07

Sozon the Martyr

This holy Martyr was a shepherd in Lycaonia. Born a pagan, named Tarasius, he received holy Baptism and was renamed Sozon. Filled with zeal for the truth, he taught his countrymen to desist from the worship of idols. Once he entered the temple of Artemis in Pompeiopolis of Cilicia, cut off the golden hand of the idol, and breaking it in pieces, distributed it among the poor. When he saw that many were being unjustly punished for the theft, of his own accord he gave himself up to Maximian the Governor. He was beaten with rods until his bones were broken. According to some, he suffered martyrdom in 288; according to others, in 304.

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September 08

The Nativity of Our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary

According to the ancient tradition of the Church, the Theotokos was born of barren and aged parents, Joachim and Anna, about the year 16 or 17 before the birth of Christ. Joachim was descended from the royal line of David, of the tribe of Judah. Anna was of the priestly tribe of Levi, a daughter of the priest Matthan and Mary, his wife.

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September 09

The Holy & Righteous Ancestors of God, Joachim and Anna

Today, the day following the Nativity of the most holy Theotokos, we celebrate the synaxis of Saints Joachim and Anna, honouring them as her parents.

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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

Second Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from Mark 16:1-8

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Salome, bought spices, so that they might go and anoint Jesus. And very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb when the sun had risen. And they were saying to one another, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the door of the tomb?" And looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back - it was very large. And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe; and they were amazed. And he said to them, "Do not be amazed; you seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen, He is not here; see the place where they laid Him. But go, tell His disciples and Peter that He is going before you to Galilee; there you will see Him, as He told you." And they went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come upon them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Fourth Mode. Psalm 103.24,1.
O Lord, how manifold are your works. You have made all things in wisdom.
Verse: Bless the Lord, O my soul.

The reading is from St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 16:13-24.

Brethren, be watchful, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love. Now, brethren, you know that the household of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints; I urge you to be subject to such men and to every fellow worker and laborer. I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicos, because they have made up for your absence; for they refreshed my spirit as well as yours. Give recognition to such men. The churches of Asia send greetings. Aquila and Prisca, together with the church in their house, send you hearty greetings in the Lord. All the brethren send greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss. I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. If any one has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord, come! The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you. My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

Gospel Reading

13th Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 21:33-42

The Lord said this parable, "There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into another country. When the season of fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants, to get his fruit; and the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. Again he sent other servants, more than the first; and they did the same to them. Afterward he sent his son to them, saying 'They will respect my son.' But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, 'This is the heir; come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.' And they took him and cast him out of the vineyard and killed him. When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?" They said to him, "He will put those wretches to a miserable death, and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons." Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures: 'The very stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner; this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes?'"

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Wisdom of the Fathers

Many things does He intimate by this parable, God's providence, which had been exercised towards them from the first; their murderous disposition from the beginning; that nothing had been omitted of whatever pertained to a heedful care of them;...
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 68 on Matthew 21, 4th Century

And observe also both His great care, and the excessive idleness of these men for what pertained to the husbandmen, He Himself did ... and He left little for them to do; to take care of what was there, and to preserve what was given to them.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 68 on Matthew 21, 4th Century

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Prayer List

Please remember in your prayers the following:

Kathy (Danias) Ambler, Ruth Manolis, Sophia Kircos, Dawn Corrin, Konstantinos & family, Lucas & family, George & family, Daniel & family, Matthew, Pelagia, Madison, Evan & Emmanuel, Sophia, Anastasios, Angela Matt, Fotini Kollias, Gus & Maria Grias, Marianthi Pappas, Nick & Bobbie Tsahtsiris, Foula Kotsou

Please contact the Church office to add your names to the Prayer List. Thank you.

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Flyers of Interest

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