Announcements

Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen!

SUNDAY SCHOOL TODAY, MAY 23

Children in Group C will attend class after communion.

SUNDAY SCHOOL

Today is the last day of Sunday school. After a short summer break we will resume Sunday School classes in September. Though we don’t know the exact format, we will be working diligently during the summer months to create a program that will be enriching for the children of our parish. We thank our Sunday school staff for their dedication and for providing a unique classroom experience for our children during this strange academic year. Thanks to Corrine and Stephanie Dubay, Georgia Genna, Mary and Derek Piper, Olivia and Spike Sintros and Thea and Theona Tully. Thank you to parents who brought their children to us for lessons about our faith. Have a safe and happy summer.

OUR DEEPEST THANKS

We extend to the many faithful and friends of the parish who have made special donations during Great Lent, Holy Week and Pascha. Your generosity is greatly appreciated and your support for the many ministries of our parish gives glory to our Lord. Please see our Inserts and Flyers section for a more detailed listing.

METROPOLIS AWARD RECIPIENTS SELECTED

We extend our congratulations to Spike and Olivia Sintros, this year’s designees of our parish. The Parish Council unanimously selected them honoring their dedication and love for our parish and their tireless participation and leadership in many of the ministries of our community.

This year the Award Dinner will take place on Sunday, June 13, at Lombardo’s in a hybrid manner. Each parish is allowed their recipient and one guest. The presentation of the awards will start at 6 pm and everyone can watch the live streaming of the event. Additionally, the recipients of the 2020 Metropolis Awards will receive their award the same evening.

Like last year, we are encouraged to honor our parish recipients by purchasing a ticket. Each ticket purchased will provide 7 meals to help feed those who are food insecure in New England as well as healthcare workers. The meals are being provided through Lombardo’s and donations will be made by the Metropolis to other parts New England. Please go to www.boston.goarch.org to purchase your ticket(s) today.

CHECK OUT OUR INSERTS AND FLYERS

Weekly, in the section following the announcements you will find inserts and flyers about special events and ministries. Please make sure to check out this section.

GRECIAN FOOD FEST DRIVE-THRU JUNE 5th

THIS IS THE LAST WEEKEND TO PLACE YOUR GRECIAN FOOD FEST ORDERS! Deadline for ordering is May 22 for pick up on Saturday, June 5. You can go online to www.transchurch.org/festival and click on the link that will take you to the order form or you can fill out an order form in the Narthex. Use your phone or iPad in the Narthex to place your orders! Please select your pickup time on June 5 when you order. We appreciate your support and help in spreading the word to your family and friends.

If you are interested in helping prepare for this event or help on Saturday, June 5, please contact the parish office or speak with Olivia Sintros or Costas Tsioulis.

GRECIAN FOOD FEST RAFFLE TICKETS

If you received raffle tickets in the mail, please return your purchased ticket stubs by June 5^th. If you wish to sell or purchase additional raffle tickets for the $1,000 CASH PRIZE you can contact the office.

WATCH SERVICES ONLINE

Worship services continue to be live streamed through YouTube at www.youtube.com/transgoc. A weekly listing of services can be found on our website www.transchurch.org and listed on the calendar found in this bulletin.

MEMORIAL DAY GRAVESIDE SERVICES

Graveside Trisagia (Memorial) services will be offered at Westlawn Cemetery on Monday, May 31, starting at 9am. If you wish Fr. Tom to visit another cemetery, please contact him to set an appointment.

HELP ONLINE

Many still do not feel comfortable physically attending services, but would still like to light a candle or support the parish. Your continued generosity is greatly appreciated. We encourage your continued use of our secure online giving platform for single or repeating donations, https://transchurch.churchgiving.com. Of course, you are still welcome to mail in a check to make your donation.

1) To light a vigil candle, please contact Pat Mahoney (pmahoney7@comcast.net or 978-436-0998) or the church office (info@transchurch.org or 978-458-4321). Pat will make sure that your vigil candle is lit for you. Donation: $10. As with all donations, you can mail in a check or you can make a donation online.

2) You are able to make your stewardship, weekly basket offering, candle, memorial, special event, or general donations by using our secure website. Your donations help support the ministries of the parish. Although you may not be in the church building, essential ministries of the parish continue.

Trinity votive candles (To Sponsor a Candle please call the Church Office.)

†Vigil Light at the Side Altar (Icon of the Theotokos): In Memory of those who have died during the pandemic and for the health of those recovering. - Chuck and Amelia Karayianis

†Vigil Light at the Side Altar 2nd (Icon of the Theotokos): Blessed is your womb for the wonderful blessings †Irene and Demetrios Manelas

†Vigil Light at the Icon of Christ: In Loving Memory of Deborah Victoria Skrekas and George Skrekas

†Vigil Light at the Theotokos: In Loving Memory of Ioannis "John" Zaralidis from his family

†Vigil Light at the Icon of the Forerunner: Available

†Vigil Light at the Foot of the Holy Cross: Available

Weekly Inserts

Grecian Food Fest - Drive Thru

Grecian Food Fest Drive Thru

Grecian Food Fest Drive Thru Flyer and Menu

2021 Encyclical for AHEPA Sunday

Weekly Calendar

We will be live streaming services through our YouTube channel whenever possible - www.youtube.com/TransGOC Please see the online calendar for the full schedule.

Sunday, May 23 SUNDAY OF THE PARALYTIC
†Orthros 8:30 am
†Liturgy 9:30 am
1 Year Memorial for Mel Yankopoulos
Sunday School Group C

Sunday, May 30 SUNDAY OF THE SAMARITAN WOMEN
†Orthros 8:30 am
†Liturgy 9:30 am
40 Day Memorial for Vasiliki Nicolakakis

Monday, May 31
Memorial Day (office Closed)
Trisagia at Westlawn Cemetery 9:00 am – 1 pm

Wednesday, June 2
Bible Study (online) 10:00 am

Saturday, June 5
Grecian Food Fest Drive Thru 11 am – 7 pm

TODAY’S PARISH COUNCIL: Nick Kouloungis, Carl Maib & Marc Gulezian

UPCOMING EVENTS

June 6
Monthly Trisagion

June 9
Bible Study (online), 10:00 am
Parish Council Meeting, 6:30 pm

June 12
LTLC Meal, 5:00 pm

June 13
Graduate Sunday
1 Year Memorial for Amalea (Emily) Karayianis

June 16
Bible Study (online), 10:00 am

June 23
Father’s Day

June 23
Pentecost

Gospel and Epistle Readings

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Third Mode. Psalm 46.6,1.
Sing praises to our God, sing praises.
Verse: Clap your hands, all you nations.

The reading is from Acts of the Apostles 9:32-42.

In those days, as Peter went here and there among them all, he came down also to the saints that lived at Lydda. There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years and was paralyzed. And Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; rise and make your bed." And immediately he rose. And all the residents of Lydda and Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord. Now there was at Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity. In those days she fell sick and died; and when they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room. Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him entreating him, "Please come to us without delay." So Peter rose and went with them. And when he had come, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him weeping, and showing tunics and other garments which Dorcas made while she was with them. But Peter put them all outside and knelt down and prayed; then turning to the body he said, "Tabitha, rise." And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter she sat up. And he gave her his hand and lifted her up. Then calling the saints and widows he presented her alive. And it became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.

Gospel Reading

Sunday of the Paralytic
The Reading is from John 5:1-15

At that time, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Hebrew called Bethesda which has five porticoes. In these lay a multitude of invalids, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water; for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool, and troubled the water; whoever stepped in first after the troubling of the water was healed of whatever disease he had. One man was there, who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him and knew that he had been lying there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be healed?" The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is troubled, and while I am going another steps down before me." Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your pallet, and walk." And at once the man was healed, and he took up his pallet and walked.

Now that day was the sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who was cured, "It is the sabbath, it is not lawful for you to carry your pallet." But he answered them, "The man who healed me said to me, 'Take up your pallet, and walk.' "They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your pallet, and walk'?" Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place. Afterward, Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse befall you." The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.

Hymns of the Day

Apolytikion of Great and Holy Pascha in the Plagal First Mode

Christ is risen from the dead, by death, trampling down upon death, and to those in the tombs He has granted life.

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Third Mode

Let the heavens rejoice and the earth be glad, for the Lord has shown the mighty power of his arm. He has trampled down death by death, becoming the first born of the dead. He has delivered us from the depths of hell and has granted to all the world his great mercy.

Apolytikion of the Church

When You were transfigured on the mountain, O Christ our God, You showed Your disciples Your glory as far as they could bear. So now, for us sinners also, let this same eternal light shine forth through the prayers of the Theotokos. O Giver of Light, glory to You.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Plagal Fourth Mode

Into the grave you descended, Immortal One, yet you destroyed the power of Hades, and as victor you arose, O Christ our God; you proclaimed to the myrrhbearing women a greeting of joy, you brought peace to your holy apostles, and to the fallen you granted resurrection.

Wisdom of the Fathers

In that case [Matt 9:2] there was remission of sins, (for He said, "Thy sins be forgiven thee,") but in this, warning and threats to strengthen the man for the future; "Sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto you."

St. John Chrysostom

Homily 37 on John 1, 4th Century

Great is the profit of the divine Scriptures, and all-sufficient is the aid which comes from them ... For the divine oracles are a treasury of all manner of medicines, so that whether it be needful to quench pride, to lull desire to sleep, to tread under foot the love of money, ... from them one may find abundant resource.

St. John Chrysostom

Homily 37 on John 5, 4th Century

Saints and Feasts

May 23

Michael the Confessor, Bishop of Synnada

This Saint was from Synnada in Phrygia of Asia Minor. In Constantinople he met Saint Theophylact (see Mar. 8); the holy Patriarch Tarasius, learning that Michael and Theophylact desired to become monks, sent them to a monastery on the Black Sea. Because of their great virtue, Saint Tarasius afterwards compelled them to accept consecration, Theophylact as Bishop of Nicomedia, and Michael as Bishop of his native Synnada. Because Saint Michael fearlessly confessed the veneration of the holy icons, he was banished by the Iconoclast Emperor Leo V the Armenian, who reigned from 813 to 820. After being driven from one place to another, in many hardships and bitter pains, Saint Michael died in exile.

May 23

Sunday of the Paralytic

Close to the Sheep's Gate in Jerusalem, there was a pool, which was called the Sheep's Pool. It had round about it five porches, that is, five sets of pillars supporting a domed roof. Under this roof there lay very many sick people with various maladies, awaiting the moving of the water. The first to step in after the troubling of the water was healed immediately of whatever malady he had.

It was there that the paralytic of today's Gospel way lying, tormented by his infirmity of thirty-eight years. When Christ beheld him, He asked him, "Wilt thou be made whole?" And he answered with a quiet and meek voice, "Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool." The Lord said unto him, "Rise, take up thy bed, and walk." And straightaway the man was made whole and took up his bed. Walking in the presence of all, he departed rejoicing to his own house. According to the expounders of the Gospels, the Lord Jesus healed this paralytic during the days of the Passover, when He had gone to Jerusalem for the Feast, and dwelt there teaching and working miracles. According to Saint John the Evangelist, this miracle took place on the Sabbath.

May 24

Symeon the Stylite of the Mountain

Saint Symeon, the "New Stylite," was born in Antioch; John his father was from Edessa, and Martha his mother was from Antioch. From his childhood he was under the special guidance of Saint John the Baptist and adopted an extremely ascetical way of life. He became a monk as a young man, and after living in the monastery for a while he ascended upon a pillar, and abode upon it for eighteen years. Then he came to Wondrous Mountain, and lived in a dry and rocky place, where after ten years he mounted another pillar, upon which he lived in great hardship for forty-five years, working many miracles and being counted worthy of divine revelations. He reposed in 595, at the age of eighty-five years, seventy-nine of which he had passed in asceticism.

May 25

Third Finding of the Precious Head of St. John the Baptist

Because of the vicissitudes of time, the venerable head of the holy Forerunner was lost for a third time and rediscovered in Comana of Cappadocia through a revelation to 'a certain priest, but it was found not, as before, in a clay jar, but in a silver vessel, and "in a sacred place." It was taken from Comana to Constantinople and was met with great solemnity by the Emperor, the Patriarch, and the clergy and people. See also February 24.

May 26

Carpos and Alphaeus, Apostles of the 70

This holy Apostle was numbered with the Seventy, and ministered unto the holy Apostle Paul, journeying with him and conveying his epistles unto those to whom they were written. He became Bishop of Beroea in Thrace, where he endured great tribulations while bringing many of the heathen to holy Baptism, and also suffered martyrdom there. Saint Paul mentions him in II Timothy 4:13.

May 27

The Holy Hieromartyr Helladius

Concerning Saint Helladius, little is known except that he was a bishop who refused to sacrifice to idols, and that during his martyrdom our Lord Jesus Christ appeared to him and healed him of his wounds, after which he was cast into fire and was preserved unharmed, suffered further torments, and finally was beaten to death with the blows of fists.

May 28

The Holy Hieromartyr Eutychius, Bishop of Melitene

All information concerning this Martyr has been lost, except that he presented himself before the tyrants, mocked the idols, suffered many unspeakable torments, and was finally drowned in the sea.

May 29

Theodosia the Virgin-Martyr of Tyre

The holy Virgin Martyr Theodosia was born in Tyre of Phoenicia. At the age of eighteen she was seized in Caesarea of Palestine during a persecution and was brought before Urban the ruler. Because she refused to offer sacrifice to the idols, her sides and breasts were mercilessly scraped even to the inward parts and bones. She endured this in silence with astonishing courage. When Urban again asked her to sacrifice, she mocked him, and after being tormented even more horribly than before, she was cast into the sea in the year 308.

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