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Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2019-10-27
Bulletin Contents
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese News
Parish News & Events
Hymns of the Day
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Wisdom of the Fathers
Saints and Feasts
Allsaint
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Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (201) 652-4774 for emergencies: 201 870 2676
  • Fax:
  • (201) 652-0789
  • Street Address:

  • 467 Grandview Avenue

  • Wyckoff, NJ 07481

Contact Information

Reverend Basil C. Gikas
Pastor

frbill@stnicholasnj.org | 201 652 4774 ext. 12

Ms. Rula Thasites
Administrator

office@stnicholasnj.org | 201 652 4774 ext. 10

Services Schedule

 

Sundays in the fall, winter & spring:

Matins: 9 a.m. &  Divine Liturgy 10a.m. except during the summer

 

Summer hours for Sundays in July and August:

Matins: 8:30a.m.  & Divine Liturgy 9:30a.m.

Past Bulletins


Greek Orthodox Archdiocese News

Archiepiscopal Encyclical for the Commemoration of OXI Day

10/25/2019

Beloved brothers and sisters in Christ, On this day as we celebrate the valiant stand against the Axis forces who demanded the surrender of Greece, we sing a beautiful hymn to the Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary affirming the holy protection she offers to the people of God.
https://www.goarch.org/-/archiepiscopal-encyclical-for-the-commemoration-of-oxi-day

The New York Board of Rabbis Honors Archbishop Elpidophoros at Their Post-Sukkah in the Sky Reception

10/25/2019

NEW YORK – The New York Board of Rabbis (NYBR) welcomed Archbishop Elpidophoros and honored him at their post-sukkah reception, on October 23, 2019. The sukkot – a week-long festival that takes place five days after Yom Kippur – celebrates God’s protection of the Israelites as they fled bondage in Egypt.
https://www.goarch.org/-/the-new-york-board-of-rabbis-honors-archbishop-elpidophoros-at-their-post-sukkah-in-the-sky-reception

The Feast of St. Elpidophoros, Nov. 2, Nameday of the Archbishop

10/24/2019

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese will celebrate the Feast Day of Saint Elpidophoros, patron saint of Archbishop Elpidophoros, on this, his first year as Archbishop of America.
https://www.goarch.org/-/2019-11-02-feast-day-elpidophoros

Dr Anastasios Koularmanis Appointed Director of Greek Education

10/23/2019

NEW YORK – The Chancellor of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, Rev. Protopresbyter Andreas Vithoulkas announces that His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros has appointed Dr. Anastasios Koularmanis, currently the Superintendent of Saint Demetrios Greek American School in Astoria, NY, as the new Director of Greek Education.
https://www.goarch.org/-/dr-anastasios-koularmanis-appointed-director-of-greek-education

The National Council of Churches’ annual Christian Unity Gathering and Fall Board Meeting Concludes

10/21/2019

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – The National Council of Churches annual Christian Unity Gathering (CUG) and fall governing board meeting met in Newport News, Virginia from October 13-16, 2019. This year’s CUG remembered and lamented the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first people from Africa, who were immediately enslaved, with a ceremony at Point Comfort, the place of arrival. The Very Reverend Constantine Morales attended the ceremony as the representative of Archbishop Elpidophoros.
https://www.goarch.org/-/ncc-christian-unity-gathering-2019

Joseph the Hesychast, America’s new Saint

10/21/2019

NEW YORK – The faithful of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America glorify God as they receive with great joy the news from Mount Athos and our spiritual father, His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who announced the forthcoming canonization of four Athonite fathers: Elders Ieronymos of Simonopetra, Daniel Katounakiotis, Joseph the Hesychast and Ephraim Katounakiotis.
https://www.goarch.org/-/joseph-the-hesychast-americas-new-saint
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Parish News & Events

WEEKLY BULLETIN

10/27/2019

  

 

Orthros: 9:00A.M.

Epistle: II Corinthians: 11:31-33; 12:1-9  (pg.1327)

Divine Liturgy: 10:00A.M.

Gospel: Luke 8:41-56 (pg.1213)

 

Acolytes: Paul Nonas, Andrew Skoufis, Kirk Simeonidis, Vassili Salvemini, Luke Gnospelius, Christos Schmarge

 

Ushers: Ann Barlas, Ted Vittas

 

Reader & Greeter: GOYA


  Fellowship Hour: Goya (Parents)

Narthex: John Tsadilas, Dean Mellas,
Kathy Van Dine
     

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 “My Grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness”

                                                                          Saint Nestor of Thessalonika
The holy, glorious and right-victorious Martyr Nestor of Thessalonika was a companion of Saint Demetrius the Myrrh-streamer and Wonderworker (October 26). Saint Nestor’s feast day is celebrated on October 27. Having been moved to act against the mighty Lyeios (or Lyaeus), a most feared gladiator who mocked and tormented the Christians in the arena, Nestor went to see the imprisoned Saint Demetrius and asked for his blessing to fight and defeat Lyeios. With the blessing of the saint and faith in God, he entered the arena and mortally struck Lyeios.  Maximian, the emperor, was angered by this and ordered that Nestor be slain with his own sword. The year of his death is reported variously as 290, 296, or 306.

 

Memorials:  A40 day memorial for Dionysios Giannakaros, beloved spouse of Dorothy, father to Georgia and Dr. James Giannakaros.

A 30 year memorial for Paul Nonas, beloved husband of Helen father of James and his wife Brigid, Christopher and his wife Geraldine, Alexandra and her husband Joseph, Michael and Anastasia. Beloved grandfather, brother and uncle to many dear family members. 

May their memory be eternal.

 

Church Service: Saints Cosmas and Damianos:Friday, November 1st. Orthros will begin at 9:00am and Divine Liturgy at 10:00am.   These saints are the patron saints of our beloved Ladies Philoptochos!

 

SHUT INS need christ too! : If you are aware of people who cannot come to church for worship or the sacraments and just need a visit from  Fr. Bill or our ladies Philoptochos

(or both), please do not wait; contact fr. bill asap at  frbill@stnicholasnj.org or contact any ladies Philoptochos member. many THANKS! the holy day season is coming up.

 Parish 50th Anniversary Celebration: Sunday November 3, 2019, see you HERE AT 10AM!

 The Orthodox Christian Network: For inspiration on the internet, start your day at MYOCN.NET

 

GOYA Youth Sunday: Today is Youth Sunday and our GOYAns will be participating as ushers, greeters, reading the Epistle, singing in the choir and then serving up a delicious and hearty Fellowship Hour for all to enjoy.  In addition, our new GOYA Board will take the Oath of Office.  Congratulations to our GOYA President: Nicoletta Manoussakis; Vice President: Cassandra Meyer; Treasurer: Joseph Dante Maurice; Recording Secretary: Vasiliki Bachardy; Corresponding Secretaries: Cassandra Carmichael and Alexandra Gougousis; Media Liaisons: Sophia Katsouris and Michaela Tsapatsaris; Sports Liaison: Melina Tsapatsaris.  Please come and support our amazing youth and their ministries. 

 

OXI Day: May we all stand up for truth, honor, freedom, human rights and dignity as well as all Christian ideals that are remembered in this celebration. (See Encyclical(s) for additional information)

 

 

Philoptochos Coat Drive: The Philoptochos Society wants to thank the Saint Nicholas Family for their very generous donations of coats for our drive. We know that we are helping many people be safe and Warm this winter. Now that we Cloth the poor and needy we have to Feed the Hungry. Thanksgiving and Christmas are coming soon and our shelters and shelves are bare. Help once again.

 

Kali Parea: Please join Kali Parea at our next luncheon/meeting Tuesday, November 5th, 2019

12 Noon in the Fellowship Hall. We will be serving lunch, dessert and coffee. Our special guest will be Ms. Shey from Hackensack Meridian Health who will speak to us about "stress". We know you will be interested to hear her lecture. Look forward to seeing many of you.

 

2020 Stewardship Campaign: Our annual stewardship campaign is now underway, with Stewardship Sunday planned for November 17th.  As Orthodox Christians, we affirm that every aspect of our lives comes as a gift from God. Stewardship calls on us, the faithful, to cheerfully offer back to Him a portion of the gifts with which we have been blessed.  Our annual pledge is the single largest source of funding for Saint Nicholas, enabling our church to carry out Her mission to bring Christ and Orthodoxy into the lives and hearts of all we serve.  Please consider the limitless generosity of our Lord as you make your 2020 pledge. Remember… God loves a cheerful giver (2nd letter to the Corinthians 9:7)!

 

Saint Nicholas is on Social Media! Like us on Facebook @stnicholasnj and follow us on Instagram @stnicholasgoc. To share your ministry’s events and activities email.

 

Daughters of Penelope: The DOP is selling fresh balsam fir Christmas Wreaths until Thursday, October 31. These low-priced wreaths make great gifts, can be shipped anywhere in the 48 contiguous states and will be delivered in time to decorate your home for the Christmas holiday. Please visit our table after Liturgy in the Fellowship Hall to see a sample wreath and place your order.

 

Greek Language Classes for Adults: The AHEPA Modern Greek Language Program for Adults began its Fall Semester classes last Friday. For registration information and class schedules, please contact Niko Spiridakis at NikoSpiridakis@gmail.com

 

Mark Your Calendar for These Important Upcoming Dates

 

Sunday, November 17th   Stewardship Sunday & Parish General Assembly

Sunday, December 8th      General Elections

 

Giving Tree/Mortgage Burning Campaign: byGod’s Graceour parish plans to be mortgage free by 2020- you can help to make it happen! Various giving levels are available: you can leaf your donation, or show your love - donate a dove… be the first on your block to donate a rock…be a hunk and give a tree trunk!   You can memorialize your loved one by donating to the Giving Tree and including a scriptural message. Contact Fr. Bill at 201 652 4774 ext. 12 or frbill@stnicholasnj.org

 


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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Second Mode

When Thou didst descend unto death, O Life Immortal, then didst Thou slay Hades with the lightning of Thy Divinity. And when Thou didst also raise the dead out of the nethermost depths, all the powers in the Heavens cried out: O Life-giver, Christ our God, glory be to Thee.

SAINT NICHOLAS ARCHBISHOP OF MYRA IN LYCIA in the First Mode

 

The truth of things has revealed you to your flock as a rule of faith, an icon of meekness, and a teacher of temperance; for this cause, you have achieved the heights by humility, riches by poverty.  O Father and Hierarch Nicholas, intercede with Christ our God that our souls be saved.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Second Mode

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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    Gospel and Epistle Readings

    Matins Gospel Reading

    Eighth Orthros Gospel
    The Reading is from John 20:11-18

    At that time, Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb; and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet. They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him." Saying this, she turned round and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom do you seek?" Supposing Him to be the gardener, she said to Him, "Sir, if you have carried Him away, tell me where you have laid Him, and I will take Him away." Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned and said to him in Hebrew, "Rabboni!" (which means Teacher). Jesus said to her, "Do not hold me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God." Mary Magdalene went and said to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord"; and she told them that He had said these things to her.

    Epistle Reading

    Prokeimenon. Second Mode. Psalm 117.14,18.
    The Lord is my strength and my song.
    Verse: The Lord has chastened me sorely.

    The reading is from St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 11:31-33; 12:1-9.

    Brethren, the God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed for ever, knows that I do not lie. At Damascus, the governor under King Aretas guarded the city of Damascus in order to seize me, but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and escaped his hands.

    I must boast; there is nothing to be gained by it, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven -- whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows. And I know that this man was caught up into Paradise --whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows -- and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter. On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses. Though if I wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for I shall be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me. And to keep me from being too elated by the abundance of revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to harass me, to keep me from being too elated. Three times I besought the Lord about this, that it should leave me; but he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

    Gospel Reading

    7th Sunday of Luke
    The Reading is from Luke 8:41-56

    At that time, there came to Jesus a man named Jairus, who was a ruler of the synagogue; and falling at Jesus' feet he besought him to come to his house, for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. As he went, the people pressed round him. And a woman who had had a flow of blood for twelve years and had spent all her living upon physicians and could not be healed by anyone, came up behind him, and touched the fringe of his garment; and immediately her flow of blood ceased. And Jesus said, "Who was it that touched me?" When all denied it, Peter and those who were with him said, "Master, the multitudes surround you and press upon you!" But Jesus said, "Some one touched me; for I perceive that power has gone forth from me." And when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared in the presence of all the people why she had touched him, and how she had been immediately healed. And he said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace." While he was still speaking, a man from the ruler's house came and said, "Your daughter is dead; do not trouble the Teacher any more." But Jesus on hearing this answered him, "Do not fear; only believe, and she shall be well." And when he came to the house, he permitted no one to enter with him, except Peter and John and James, and the father and mother of the child. And all were weeping and bewailing her; but he said, "Do not weep; for she is not dead but sleeping." And they laughed at him, knowing that she was dead. But taking her by the hand he called, saying, "Child, arise." And her spirit returned, and she got up at once; and he directed that something should be given her to eat. And her parents were amazed; but he charged them to tell no one what had happened.

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    Wisdom of the Fathers

    He puts an end to the woman's fear ... He sets her right, in respect of her thinking to be hid ... He exhibits her faith to all, so as to provoke the rest also to emulation ...
    St. John Chrysostom
    Homily 31 on Matthew 9, 4th Century

    At the same time both signifying that it is easy for Him to raise the dead ... and also teaching us not to fear death; for that it is not death, but is henceforth become a sleep.
    St. John Chrysostom
    Homily 31 on Matthew 9, 4th Century

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    Saints and Feasts

    Allsaint
    October 27

    Procla, wife of Pontius Pilate

    Jairus
    October 27

    7th Sunday of Luke

    Nestor
    October 27

    Nestor the Martyr of Thessaloniki

    As mentioned in the account concerning Saint Demetrius (October 26), this Saint contested during the reign of Maximian, in the year 290.

    Allsaint
    October 27

    Kyriakos, Patriarch of Constantinople

    Eunice
    October 28

    Holy Martyrs Terrence and Eunice

    Both the country and the time of the martyrdom of these holy Martyrs are unknown. All were beheaded, after having endured many bitter torments.

    Allsaint
    October 28

    Angelis, Manuel, George, & Nicholas, New Martyrs of Crete

    Allsaint
    October 28

    Our Righteous Father Steven the Sabbaite

    Saint Steven passed his life in ascetical discipline in the Monastery of Saint Sabbas, from whence also he received the name Sabbaite. He was consecrated bishop and reposed about the year 790, bequeathing to the Church a number of melismatic troparia.

    Allsaint
    October 28

    Arsenios and Athanasios of Androusa in Messenia, Patriarchs of Constantinople

    Agiaskepi
    October 28

    The Holy Protection of the Theotokos

    The Feast of the Protection commemorates the appearance of the most holy Theotokos in the Church of Blachernae in Constantinople in the tenth century, as recorded in the life of Saint Andrew the Fool for Christ's sake. While the multitudes of the faithful were gathered in church, Epiphanius, the friend of Saint Andrew, through the Saint's prayers, beheld the Virgin Mary above the faithful and spreading out her veil over them, signifying her unceasing protection of all Christians. Because of this we keep a yearly feast of gratitude, imploring our Lady never to cease sheltering us in her mighty prayers.

    In the Greek tradition, this feast is celebrated on October 28, while in the Slavic tradition, this feast is celebrated on October 1.

    Agiaskepi
    October 28

    The Holy Protection of the Theotokos

    The Feast of the Protection commemorates the appearance of the most holy Theotokos in the Church of Blachernae in Constantinople in the tenth century, as recorded in the life of Saint Andrew the Fool for Christ's sake. While the multitudes of the faithful were gathered in church, Epiphanius, the friend of Saint Andrew, through the Saint's prayers, beheld the Virgin Mary above the faithful and spreading out her veil over them, signifying her unceasing protection of all Christians. Because of this we keep a yearly feast of gratitude, imploring our Lady never to cease sheltering us in her mighty prayers.

    In the Greek tradition, this feast is celebrated on October 28, while in the Slavic tradition, this feast is celebrated on October 1.

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