November 24
Transfiguration of Our Saviour Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2019-11-24
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:
- 2019-11-17
- Publish Date:
- 2019-11-10
- Publish Date:
- 2019-11-03
- Publish Date:
- 2019-10-27
- Publish Date:
- 2019-10-20
- Publish Date:
- 2019-10-13
Announcements
FELLOWSHIP HOUR
Everyone is welcome to join us for fellowship following services.
PARISH COUNCIL
Parish Council elections will be held on December 8, 2019.
GOYA APPLE PIE PICKUP
For those of you that ordered apple pies you can pick them up downstairs after Liturgy. There are also a few extras for those who would still like to purchase one.
PHILOPTOCHOS
A reminder for those that have taken names for the Philoptochos Christmas Adopt A Family Program please return all gifts by December 15th.
PHILOPTOCHOS ANNUAL CHRISTMAS TEA
Tickets for our 66th Annual Benefit "A Downton Tea" are now on sale. This is our biggest fundraiser and we hope for everyone's support and attendance. Please bring your family and friends for a lovely and festive afternoon as we celebrate the start of the Christmas season together.
THE 66TH BENEFIT TEA RAFFLE IS LOOKING FOR PATRONS
Our Tea Raffle Table would love to see more Parishioners help our biggest Philoptochos Fundraiser of the Year. If you have any of the following, we would love you to gift it as Raffle Prize and give you the credit in our Program. Can you make a donation of Sports Tickets to a Bruins or Celtics Game; Theater Tickets; A restaurant gift certificate; A professional service that you could provide as a raffle gift; Any gift cards or even a cash donation to help us purchase other raffle gifts for the table? Any of these would be so appreciated to help us make a successful 66th Benefit Tea. Text us please if you are willing to contribute – Ann 978-375-9460 Soula 978-551-0169. Thank you!
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
♥ Consider donating $10.00 Market Basket cards. There is always a need for people who are food insecure. We also welcome food donations. Please put your donations in the green container in the lobby.
♥ Please remember to keep the books coming for the 2019-2020 school year!
Weekly Calendar
Sunday, November 24 THIRTEENTH SUNDAY OF LUKE
†Orthros, 8:30am
†Liturgy, 9:30am
5 Year Memorial for Evangelia Piazas
Goya Pie Pickup
Monday, November 25
St Catherine – Liturgy, 9:30am
Tuesday, November 26
Community Kitchen, 11:30am-12:30pm
Wednesday, November 27
Kafenion, 10:00am
Thursday, November 28
Thanksgiving – office closed
Friday, November 29
Vespers – St Andrew – at Metropolis, 7:00pm
Office closed
Saturday, November 30
Liturgy – St Andrew – at Metropolis, 9:30am
Sunday, December 1 FOURTEENTH SUNDAY OF LUKE
†Orthros, 8:30am
†Liturgy, 9:30am
Monthly Trisagion
TODAY’S PARISH COUNCIL: Amanda Apostolou, Pat Mahoney & Bill Arvanites
TODAY’S GREETER: Georgia Genna
UPCOMING EVENTS
December 3
Parish Council Meeting, 6:30pm
December 4
Kafenion, 10:00am
Bible Study, 10:00am
December 5
Kitchen Meeting, 6:30pm
December 6
St Nicholas – Liturgy, 9:30am
December 8
Elections, 11:30am
Philoptochos “A Downton Tea”, 2:00pm
December 11
Kafenion, 10:00am
Bible Study, 10:00am
December 12
St Spyridon – Liturgy, 9:30am
Kitchen Meeting, 6:30pm
December 13
Family Fun Night, 6:00pm
December 14
LTLC Meal, 5:00pm
December 17
Community Kitchen, 11:30am-12:30pm
December 18
Kafenion, 10:00am
Bible Study, 10:00am
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Epistle Reading
Prokeimenon. Plagal Second Mode. Psalm 27.9,1.
O Lord, save your people and bless your inheritance.
Verse: To you, O Lord, I have cried, O my God.
The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Ephesians 2:4-10.
Brethren, God who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with him, and made us sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God: not because of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Gospel Reading
13th Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 18:18-27
At that time, a ruler came to Jesus and asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother.' " And he said, "All these I have observed from my youth." And when Jesus heard it, he said to him, "One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me." But when he heard this he became sad, for he was very rich. Jesus looking at him said, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God! For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." Those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?" But he said, "What is impossible with men is possible with God."
Hymns of the Day
Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Plagal Second Mode
Angelic powers appeared at Your tomb, and those guarding it became like dead, and at Your grave Mary was standing, seeking Your most pure body. You plundered Hades, not being tempted by it; You encountered the virgin, granting life. O Lord, who rose from the dead, glory to You!
Apolytikion for Afterfeast of the Entry of the Theotokos in the Fourth Mode
Today is the prelude of God's pleasure and the proclamation of man's salvation. The Virgin is clearly made manifest in the temple of God and foretells Christ to all. Let us also cry out to her with mighty voice, "Hail, fulfillment of the Creator's dispensation."
Seasonal Kontakion in the Fourth Mode
Today, the most pure temple of the Savior, the precious bridal chamber and Virgin, the sacred treasure of God, enters the house of the Lord, bringing the grace of the Divine Spirit. The Angels of God praise her. She is the heavenly tabernacle.
Wisdom of the Fathers
Love of money is the worship of idols, a daughter of unbelief, an excuse for infirmities, a foreboder of old age, a harbinger of drought, a herald of hunger.
The Ladder of Divine Ascent, Step 16:2,7 and Step 17:1, 6th Century
He who has conquered this passion has cut out care; but he who is bound by it never attains to pure prayer.
The Ladder of Divine Ascent, Step 16:2,7 and Step 17:1, 6th Century
Saints and Feasts
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Our Holy Father Clement, Pope of Rome
Saint Clement was instructed in the Faith of Christ by the Apostle Peter. He became Bishop of Rome in the year 91, the third after the death of the Apostles. He died as a martyr about the year 100 during the reign of Trajan.
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Philoumenos and Christopher the Martyrs
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Peter, Archbishop of Alexandria
Saint Peter illustriously occupied the throne of Alexandria for twelve years, and, as Eusebius says, "was a divine example of a bishop on account of the excellence of his life and his study of the sacred Scriptures" (see Eusebius, Eccl. Hist., Book VII, 3 2; Book VIII 11, 13; and Book IX, 6). He excommunicated Arius for his sympathy with the Meletian schism. When Arius learned that Saint Peter had been imprisoned, he sent many priests and deacons to him, asking that he receive him back into the communion of the Church before his martyrdom. When the ambassadors of Arius, who had not, like Saint Peter, perceived the ruin he would engender, were astonished at the vehemence with which Saint Peter refused to receive Arius again, he revealed to them a dread vision he had seen, in which the Master Christ had appeared to him as a child wearing a garment torn from head to foot. When Saint Peter asked the Lord who rent His garment, the Lord answered that it was Arius, and that he must not be received back into communion. The holy hieromartyr Peter was beheaded during the reign of Maximinus in the year 312; he is called the "Seal of the Martyrs," because he was the last Bishop of Alexandria to suffer martyrdom under the pagan Emperors. His successors to the throne of Alexandria, Saints Alexander and Athanasius the Great, brought to final victory the battle against Arius' heresy which Saint Peter had begun.
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