October 13
Transfiguration of Our Saviour Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2019-10-13
Bulletin Contents
Announcements
Weekly Calendar
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Hymns of the Day
Wisdom of the Fathers
Saints and Feasts
Transfiguration of Our Saviour Greek Orthodox Church
General Information
- Phone:
- (978) 458-4321
- Fax:
- (978) 458-8726
- Email:
- info@transchurch.org
- Street Address:
- 25 Fr. John Sarantos Way
- Lowell, MA 01854
- Mailing Address:
- 25 Fr. John Sarantos Way
- Lowell, MA 01854
Contact Information
Services Schedule
Sunday Schedule:
Orthros: 8:30 a.m.
Divine Liturgy: 9:30 a.m.
Bible Study:
Wednesdays, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Past Bulletins
- Publish Date:
- 2019-10-20
- Publish Date:
- 2019-09-22
- Publish Date:
- 2019-09-15
- Publish Date:
- 2019-09-08
- Publish Date:
- 2019-08-25
- Publish Date:
- 2019-08-11
Announcements
FELLOWSHIP HOUR
Today’s Fellowship is offered in memory of Timothy Koufogazos by his family and in honor of Dyanne Mitropoulis by her family. May their memories be eternal! Everyone is welcome to join us for fellowship following services.
PARISH COUNCIL NOMINATIONS
Nominations for the 2020-2021 term of the Parish Council are welcome. Any parishioner in good standing interested in being nominated must contact the parish office to request an official nomination form and return the completed form to the office by 1:00pm on Friday, November 1, 2019. Elections will be held on December 8, 2019.
NEW VIGIL CANDLE PROCEDURE
In order to allow parishioners a more personal and prayerful experience lighting a vigil candle, the Parish Council has established a new procedure. Upon paying for your vigil candle, you will be given the candle insert. Please carry the candle to the front and place it in one of the red glass holders. Offer your prayer and light the candle. Simple and easy!
DEBIT AND CREDIT CARDS NOW ACCEPTED
The trend of using debit or credit cards to pay for just about everything continues to grow. People are carrying less and less cash with them. You are welcome to make your donations using your debit or credit card for candles ($5 minimum), stewardship, special feast day donations, and general donations in the Narthex. Please see one of the on ushers on duty for assistance. Don’t worry, we still welcome cash and check donations!
PHILOPTOCHOS " CASH FOR CLOTHES" FALL FUNDRAISER
Fundraiser date Sept. 22- Oct 13th, 2019. Tomorrow is the last day to bring items. Acceptable items include: clothing, curtains, blankets, towels, belts, pocketbooks and shoes/boots. For more information or to schedule a pick up, contact Sandra Gulezian at 978-808-9687 or gulezians@gmail.com.
DISASTER HURRICANE RELIEF
During the next couple of weeks, we will be collecting funds to benefit the recent hurricane disaster relief efforts of the Archdiocese. These efforts will be handled through the IOCC, an organization well known to the parish. Please be generous in your dontations. If you wish to pay by check, please make the check out to Transfiguration Church and put IOCC in the memo section.
Weekly Calendar
Sunday, October 13 SUNDAY OF THE 7TH ECUMENCIAL COUNCIL
†Orthros, 8:30am
†Liturgy, 9:30am
1-Year Memorial for Timothy Koufogazos
Monday, October 14
Holiday – Columbus Day (Office Closed)
Wednesday, October 16
Kafenion, 10:00am
Bible Study, 10:00am
Council of Churches Meeting, 6:30pm
Saturday, October 19
Pre-Marriage Seminar, 9:00am-2:00pm
Sunday, October 20 SIXTH SUNDAY OF LUKE
†Orthros, 8:30am
†Liturgy, 9:30am
Sunday School Teachers Meeting
TODAY’S PARISH COUNCIL: Redvers Curry, Costas Tsioulis & Olivia Sintros
TODAY’S GREETER: Mia Vaporis
UPCOMING EVENTS
October 22
Community Kitchen, 11:30am-12:30pm
October 23
Bible Study, 10:00am
Kafenion, 10:00am
October 24
House of Hope
October 25
Vespers at Weston, 7:00pm
October 26
St. Demetrios – Liturgy (Chapel), 9:30am
October 27
SEVENTH SUNDAY OF LUKE
†Orthros 8:30am, †Liturgy 9:30am
Sunday School Super Duper Coffee Hour
October 30
Kafenion, 10:00am
November 2
Advent Camp, 9:30am-2:00pm
November 3
FIFTH SUNDAY OF LUKE
†Orthros 8:30am, †Liturgy 9:30am
November 3
Monthly Trisagion
Parish Assembly following Liturgy
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 Titus 3:8-15.
Titus, my son, the saying is sure. I desire you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to apply themselves to good deeds; these are excellent and profitable to men. But avoid stupid controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels over the law, for they are unprofitable and futile. As for a man who is factious, after admonishing him once or twice, have nothing more to do with him, knowing that such a person is perverted and sinful; he is self-condemned.
When I send Artemas or Tychicos to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there. Do your best to speed Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way; see that they lack nothing. And let our people learn to apply themselves to good deeds, so as to help cases of urgent need, and not to be unfruitful.
All who are with me send greeting to you. Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.
Gospel Reading
Sunday of the 7th Ecumenical Council
The Reading is from Luke 8:5-15
The Lord said this parable: "A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell along the path, and was trodden under foot, and the birds of the air devoured it. And some fell on the rock; and as it grew up, it withered away, because it had no moisture. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns grew with it and choked it. And some fell into good soil and grew, and yielded a hundredfold." And when his disciples asked him what this parable meant, he said, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God; but for others they are in parables, so that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand. Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. The ones along the path are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, that they may not believe and be saved. And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy; but these have no root, they believe for a while and in time of temptation fall away. And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature. And as for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bring forth fruit with patience." As he said these things, he cried out "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
Hymns of the Day
Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Plagal Fourth Mode
You descended from on high, O merciful Lord, and accepted the three-day burial in order to free us from our passions. Glory to you, O Lord, our life and our resurrection.
Apolytikion for Sun. of the 7th Ecumenical Council in the Plagal Fourth Mode
You are greatly glorified, O Christ our God, who established our Fathers as luminaries upon the earth, and through them led us all to the true Faith. O Most compassionate, glory to You.
Seasonal Kontakion in the Second Mode
A protection of Christians unshamable, intercessor to our Holy Maker, unwavering, please reject not the prayerful cries of those who are in sin. Instead, come to us, for you are good; your loving help bring unto us, who are crying in faith to you: hasten to intercede and speed now to supplicate, as a protection for all time, Theotokos, for those who honor you.
Wisdom of the Fathers
For by seed here He means His doctrine, and by land, the souls of men, and by the sower, Himself .... For as the sower makes no distinction in the land submitted to him, but simply and indifferently casts his seed; so He Himself too makes no distinction of rich and poor, of wise and unwise, of slothful or diligent, of brave or cowardly; but He discourses unto all, fulfilling His part, although foreknowing the results.
Homily 44 on Matthew 12, 4th Century
When you see life's pleasures, beware that they might not distract you, for they conceal death's snares. Likewise a fisherman casts not his hook to no purpose. As bait for his hook, the enemy uses the delusion of sensuality to arouse desire, that he might thereby catch men's souls and subject them to himself. A soul which has been caught to serve the enemy's will then serves as a snare for other souls, for it conceals the grief of sin with its apparent delight.
A Spiritual Psalter no 43, pg. 74, 4th century
Saints and Feasts
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
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