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St. Paul Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2018-12-16
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St. Paul Greek Orthodox Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (440) 237-8998
  • Fax:
  • (440) 237-4386
  • Street Address:

  • 4548 Wallings Road

  • North Royalton, OH 44133-3121


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Services Schedule

WEEKDAY SERVICES

   8:30 AM   Orthros
   9:30 AM   Liturgy

 

SUNDAY SERVICES

   8:15 AM   Orthros
   9:30 AM   Liturgy

Sunday School begins immediately following Holy Communion September through May


Past Bulletins


Gospel and Epistle Readings

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Fourth Mode. Daniel 3.26,27.
Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of our fathers.
Verse: For you are just in all you have done.

The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Colossians 3:4-11.

Brethren, when Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience. In these you once walked, when you lived in them. But now put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and foul talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old nature with its practices and have put on the new nature, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free man, but Christ is all, and in all.


Gospel Reading

11th Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 14:16-24

The Lord said this parable: "A man once gave a great banquet, and invited many; and at the time of the banquet he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, 'Come; for all is now ready.' But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, 'I have bought a field, and I go out and see it; I pray you, have me excused.' And another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go to examine them; I pray you, have me excused.' And another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.' So the servant came and reported this to his master. Then the householder in anger said to his servant, 'Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and maimed and blind and lame.' And the servant said, 'Sir, what you commanded has been done, and there is still room.' And the master said to the servant, 'Go out to the highways and hedges, and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled. For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste my banquet. For many are called, but few are chosen.'"


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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Fourth Mode

Τό φαιδρόν τής Αναστάσεως κήρυγμα, εκ τού Αγγέλου μαθούσαι αι τού Κυρίου Μαθήτριαι, καί τήν προγονικήν απόφασιν απορρίψασαι, τοίς Αποστόλοις καυχώμεναι έλεγον· Εσκύλευται ο θάνατος, ηγέρθη Χριστός ο Θεός, δωρούμενος τώ κόσμω τό μέγα έλεος.
Το fethron tis Anastaseos kirigma, ek tou Agelou mathouse e tou Kyriou Mathitrie, ke tin progonikin apofasin aporipsase, tis Apostolis kafhomene elegon. Eskilefte o thanatos, igerthi Christos o Theos, doroumenos to kosmo to mega eleos.
When the tidings of the resurrection from the glorious angel was proclaimed unto the women disciples and our ancestral sentence also had been abolished to the Apostles with boasting did they proclaim that death is vanquished evermore and Christ our God has risen from the dead and granted to the world His great mercy.

Apolytikion for 11th Sun. of Luke in the Second Mode

By faith You justified the Forefathers, having through them betrothed to yourself the Church that came out of the nations. The saints are boasting in glory; for the glorious fruit, the Virgin who without seed gave birth to You, is from their progeny. At their entreaties, O Christ our God, save our souls.

Hymn of Church in the First Mode

Ethnon se kirika ke fostira trismegiston, / Athineon didaskalon ekoumenis aglaisma, / efrosinos gereromen / tous agonas timomen ke tas vasanous thia Christon, / to septon sou martirion, / Agie Pavle Apostole, / presveve Christo to Theo, / sothine tas psichas imon.
O preacher to the gentiles and thrice grandest shining star, / the Athenians’ teacher and the universe’s ornament, / we joyously honor you. / We pay homage to the struggles that you had/for the sake of Christ, / and your dignified martyrdom, / Holy and glorious Apostle Paul, / intercede with Christ our God, / entreating Him to save our souls.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Third Mode

On this day the Virgin cometh to the cave to give birth to / God the Word ineffably, / Who was before all the ages. / Dance for joy, / O earth, on hearing / the gladsome tidings; / with the angels and the shepherds now glorify Him / Who is willing to be gazed on / as a young Child Who / before the ages is God.
H Parthenos symeron,/ ton proeonion Logon,/ en spileo erhete,/ apotekin aporitos./ Horeve/ i ikoumeni/ akoutisthisa/ doxason/ meta Agelon ke ton Pimenon/ voulithenta apofthine/ Pedion neon/ o pro eonon Theon.
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Saints and Feasts

Forefathers
December 16

11th Sunday of Luke

On the Sunday that occurs on or immediately after the eleventh of this month, we commemorate Christ's forefathers according to the flesh, both those that came before the Law, and those that lived after the giving of the Law.

Special commemoration is made of the Patriarch Abraham, to whom the promise was first given, when God said to him, "In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed" (Gen. 22:18). This promise was given some two thousand years before Christ, when Abraham was seventy-five years of age. God called him and commanded him to forsake his country, parents, and kinsmen, and to depart to the land of the Canaanites. When he arrived there, God told him, "I will give this land to thy seed" (Gen. 12:7); for this cause, that land was called the "Promised Land," which later became the country of the Hebrew people, and which is also called Palestine by the historians. There, after the passage of twenty-four years, Abraham received God's law concerning circumcision. In the one hundredth year of his life, when Sarah was in her ninetieth year, they became the parents of Isaac. Having lived 175 years altogether, he reposed in peace, a venerable elder full of days.


Allsaint
December 16

The Holy Prophet Aggaeus (Haggai)

The Prophet Aggaeus, whose name means "festive," was born in Babylon at the time of the captivity Of the Jews. He began to prophesy in Jerusalem after their return thereto, and to admonish the people to rebuild the Temple, in the days of Zorobabel, the second year of the reign of Darius Hystaspes, King of Persia, about the year 520 before Christ. His prophecy, divided into two chapters, is ranked tenth among the minor Prophets.


Allsaint
December 16

Our Righeous Mother Blessed Empress Theophania

Saint Theophania, who was born in Constantinople, was of royal lineage. Instructed in letters, and adorned with many virtues, she was united in marriage to Emperor Leo the Wise (reigned 886-912). But counting the glory of the earthly kingdom as nought, she spent her nights and days in serving God with psalms and hymns and prayers, working various good deeds until she surrendered her spirit to God in peace, while still in her youth, being, according to some, about twenty years of age, according to others, twenty-seven. Her holy relics are still preserved in the patriarchal church in Constantinople as a source of healing for those that draw nigh with faith and longing. She was also the builder of the Holy Patriarchal and Stavropigeal Monastery of St. Anastasia the Protector from Potions in Chalke (883).


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Welcome

This Weeks Announcements

  • We extend greetings and a warm welcome to all visitors worshipping with us today. Please fill out a“visitor information card” located in the narthex and hand to one of the greeters. Following the Liturgy, please join us in our social hall for the coffee social.

  • Holy Communion in our Church is offered only to Orthodox Christians who have prepared themselves through the disciplines of our faith. Speak to Fr. Costas for further details.

We kindly ask everyone to Please silence cell phones and pagers while in Church

  1. Today ~ TRISAGIA: 28 years for Jack Collaros; 10 years for Maria Papaionnides; 31 years for Ioannis Papaionnides; 41 years for Paraskevi Kokkopakis; 19 years for Georgia Katsavrias; 31 years for Vasilios Katsavrias; for Domnitsa & George Cappas; for Maria, Dimosthenis & Prokopis Papaprokopis; for Eleni Hatzikalimnios; for Becky Pedrick; for Ruth & Paul Winslow; 1 year for Nick Mackay; for Lillian Sekas.
  2. Today ~ Christmas programs offered by Sunday School and Greek School following Liturgy.
  3. Today ~ Coffee & Conversation and Adult Catechism will resume in January.
  4. Today ~ Philopotochos Bake sale.
  5. Monday ~ 5:30 p.m. Greek School.
  6. Tuesday ~ 6:30 p.m. GOYA basketball practice at St. Michael’s on Mill Road.
  7. Thursday ~ 7:00 p.m. Bible Study with Frank Chirakos. Everyone welcome!
  8. Thank you to all who completed and returned their 2019 Stewardship commitment card thus far. If you have not done so yet, please complete and return it to the church office at your earliest convenience. With much gratitude, the Stewardship Committee.
  9. You have all received in the mail the package of information for the Final Phase, of the PAVE THE WAY. Please review and respond generously to this project. We thank you for your generosity!

Upcoming Events in Our Parish – Respond Early

  1. Next Sunday ~ Epistle Reading, Colossians 3:4-11; Gospel, Luke 14:16-24.
  2. Next Sunday ~ TRISAGIA: 5 years for Mary Zanoudakis; for Evangelia Zanoudakis; for Aristi Kalucis; 17 years for Sylvia Paul; for Charles and Clara Paul; for Anna and John Kapantas; for John and Maria Vasilakis; for George Vasilakis.
  3. December 24 ~ Christmas Eve; 10:00 a.m. Royal Hours of Christmas; 5:00 p.m. Vesperal Liturgy; Office closed.
  4. December 25 ~ Holy Nativity; 8:15 a.m. Orthros; 9:30 a.m. Liturgy; Office closed.
  5. January 1 ~ St. Basil; 8:30 a.m. Orthros; 9:30 a.m. Liturgy; Office closed.
  6. January 4 ~ 10:00 a.m. Royal Hours of Epiphany.
  7. January 5 ~ Eve of Theophany; 8:15 a.m. Orthros; 9:30 a.m. Vesperal Liturgy with blessing of water; 6:30 p.m. Great Vespers.
  8. January 6 ~ Theophany; Vasilopita Sunday; Swearing in of Parish Council members followed by election of officers; GOYA meeting; Dance practice for Beginner and Junior dancers; Greek Corner meets at noon.
  9. January 7 ~ John the Glorious Prophet, Baptist & Forerunner; 8:30 a.m. Orthros; 9:30 a.m. Liturgy.
  10. January 8 ~ House blessings begin. Use the form in The Messenger, our website, or call the church office to add your name to the list.  Father Costas will call to confirm appointment time.
  11. May 4 – 15, 2019 ~ Father Costas leads Pilgrimage to Italy. Contact him for more information. Final deadline to sign up has been extended to the end of January.

Events in the Greater Cleveland Area and Beyond…

  1. December 29 ~ 7:00 p.m. HPS Ball at Lago, East Bank on W10th St in Cleveland. Contact Linda Glynias at 216.469.2663 for more information and tickets.
  2. December 31 ~ 8:30 p.m. Laugh in 2019 with Basile! New Year’s Eve Show at St. Nicholas in Lorain. For reservations or additional information, email hilariousgreek@gmail.com.
  3. January 5 ~ 7:00 p.m. PYA Cretan Dinner/Dance at St. Demetrios Rocky River. Dinner by reservation ONLY $50 / Dance ONLY at the door $25. Contact Michael Zanoudakis 440.785.6198.
  4. January 3 – 6 ~ Pancretan Youth Conference hosted by the Cretan youth of Akron and Cleveland. Contact Michael Zanoudakis for more information at 440.785.6198.
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    2019 Stewardship Card

    2019 Stewardship Card

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    Today

    Today

    Philoptochos Christmas Bake Sale


    2019 GOYA Tournament Help Needed

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    Sign up to assist in one of the many areas of the GOYA tournament as welcome the many GOYAns, chaperones, and coaches from within our Metropolis.


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