November 20
Transfiguration of Our Saviour Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2022-11-20
Bulletin Contents
Announcements
Weekly Inserts
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
- 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:
- 2022-11-27
- Publish Date:
- 2022-11-13
- Publish Date:
- 2022-11-06
- Publish Date:
- 2022-10-30
- Publish Date:
- 2022-10-23
- Publish Date:
- 2022-10-16
Announcements
FELLOWSHIP HOUR
We welcome everyone to Coffee Fellowship following services.
GOYA
Apple pie orders can be picked up today after services.
THANKSGIVING ON THE COMMON
Today we are fortunate to be able to distribute 70 turkeys to our neighbors. Anyone interested in helping is welcome. Please wear warm clothes.
CHRISTMAS TOY AND GIFT CARD DRIVE
This year, we are partnering with The Lowell Wish Project to help those in need, with the aim of helping 75 children. Please bring in any of the following on/before Sunday, December 10th:
1) A new toy or game (suggested value total $25)
2) A $25 Amazon Gift Card (in high demand)
Toys/Games do not have to be wrapped or bagged, but all donations should be placed in drop-off locations in the church. Contact Sandra Gulezian (978) 808-9687 or Deb Sevigny (603) 860-0743 with any questions! Thank you!!
ADVENT CAMP
Advent camp Saturday, December 3rd 9:30 am – 2:00 pm. All children grade Pre-K -8 are welcome. Snacks and lunch will be served. Registration form will be coming soon.
PHILOPTOCHOS 69TH ANNUAL CHRISTMAS TEA FUNDRAISER
Everyone is cordially invited to participate in this year’s Philoptochos 69th Virtual Christmas Tea
Fundraise. All proceeds will benefit our chapter ministries. With many thanks to the generosity of our loyal Raffle patrons, three cash gift cards in the amount of $250, and $300, and a grand prize of $500 will be awarded as part of this year’s Fundraiser. One complimentary raffle ticket is included for each $50 donation. The raffle will be drawn after church at noon on Sunday, December 4, 2022. We invite you to tune in to our YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/TransGOC to watch the drawing in real-time! Please contact Ellen Dobi at ekdobi@verizon.net for the form, or give online at philoptochos-tea-2022.eventbrite.com.
BIBLE STUDY
Bible Study has resumed. Do you have an interest in learning more about your Orthodox Faith? Join the group that meets online at 10:00 am on Wednesdays or the new Tuesday night group that meets at 7:00 PM.
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
♥ Consider donating $10.00 Market Basket cards. There is always a need for people less fortunate than ourselves. Please place any food donations in the green container in the lobby.
Trinity votive candles (To Sponsor a Candle please call the Church Office.)
†Vigil Light at the Side Altar (Icon of the Theotokos): Kasandra Alexia Rios for Health, Safety, Strength and Resilience.
†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: In Loving Memory of John, Irene & Mark Gkolias
Weekly Inserts
Christmas Toy and Gift Card Drive
Christmas Toy and Gift Card Drive 2022
Weekly Calendar
Sunday,November 20 NINTH SUNDAY OF LUKE
†Orthros, 8:30 am
† Divine Liturgy, 9:30 am
GOYA Apple Pie Pickup
Thanksgiving on the Common
Monnday, Novmeber 21
Entrance of the Theotokos
†Orthros, 8:30 am
† Divine Liturgy, 9:30 am
Tuesday, November 22
Bible Study (online), 7:00 pm
Wednesday, November 23
Bible Study (online), 10:00 am
Thursday, November 24
Thanksgiving – Office Closed
Friday, November 25
Office Closed
Sunday,November 27 THIRTEENTH SUNDAY OF LUKE
†Orthros, 8:30 am
† Divine Liturgy, 9:30 am
3 Year Memorial for Maria Lagoudakis
No Sunday School
Wednesday, November 30
Bible Study (online), 10:00 am
Saturday, December 3
Advent Camp, 9:30 am - 2:00 pm
TODAY’S PARISH COUNCIL: Matthew Apostolou, John Dristilaris & Patricia Mahoney
UPCOMING EVENTS
December 4
Tenth Sunday of Luke
1 Year Memorial for George Kalabokis
Monthly Trisagion
Philoptochos Virtual Tea
December 6
St. Nicholas - LIturgy, 9:30 am
Bible Study (online), 7:00 pm
December 7
Bible Study (online), 10:00 am
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
9th Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 12:16-21
The Lord said this parable: "The land of a rich man brought forth plentifully; and he thought to himself, 'What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?' And he said, 'I will do this: I will pull down my barns, and build larger ones; and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, 'Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.' But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul is required of you; and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?' So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God." 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 Second Mode
The angelic powers appeared at your tomb, the soldiers guarding it became as dead men, and Mary stood at your grave seeking, seeking your most pure body. But you made hell a captive; you were untouched by its might. You came to the virgin and granted life. O Lord, who rose from the dead, glory to you.
Apolytikion for Forefeast of the Entry of the Theotokos in the Fourth Mode
By blossoming forth the only Ever-virgin as fruit, today holy Anna doth betroth us all unto joy, instead of our former grief; on this day she doth fulfil her vows to the Most High, leading her with joy into the Lord's holy temple, who truly is the temple and pure Mother of God the Word.
Seasonal Kontakion in the Fourth Mode
Today the whole world is filled with gladness on the brilliant Feast of the Theotokos, raising its voice and saying, This is she who is the heavenly tabernacle.
Wisdom of the Fathers
I cannot be silent about the story of Hesychius the Horebite. He passed his life in complete negligence, without paying the least attention to his soul. Then he became extremely ill, and for an hour he left his body.
Ladder of Divine Ascent. Step 6: On Remembrance of Death, 6th Century
And when he came to himself, he begged us all to leave him immediately. And he built up the door of his cell, and he stayed in it for twelve years without ever uttering a word to anyone, and without eating anything but bread and water.
Ladder of Divine Ascent. Step 6: On Remembrance of Death, 6th Century
Saints and Feasts
November 20
The Forefeast of the Presentation of the Theotokos into the Temple
November 20
Proclus, Archbishop of Constantinople
Saint Proclus lived during the reign of Saint Theodosius the Younger. A disciple and scribe of Saint John Chrysostom, he was ordained Bishop of Cyzicus about the year 426, but because the people there unlawfully elected another bishop before his arrival, he remained in Constantinople. In 429, Nestorius, who had been Archbishop of Constantinople for about a year, and had already begun his blasphemous teaching that it is wrong to call the holy Virgin "Theotokos," invited Bishop Proclus to give a sermon on one of the feasts of our Lady, which he did, openly defending in Nestorius' presence the name "Theotokos," that is, "Mother of God." Saint Proclus was elevated to the throne of Archbishop of Constantinople in 434. It was he who persuaded Emperor Theodosius the Younger and his holy sister Pulcheria to have the most sacred relics of his godly teacher Saint John Chrysostom brought back from Comana, and triumphantly received them upon their return to the imperial city (see Jan. 27 and Nov. 13). He reposed in peace in 447.
November 20
Gregory the Righteous of Decapolis
Saint Gregory who was from Irenopolis of the Decapolis of Asia Minor, was the son of Sergius and Mary. He became a monk as a young man, and after struggling for many years in virtue and prayer under obedience to a wise spiritual father, he was informed by revelation that it was the will of God for him to live, like the Patriarch Abraham, with no certain dwelling, moving from place to place. His journeyings took him to Ephesus, Constantinople, Corinth, Rome, Sicily, Thessalonica, and again to Constantinople, where, after many labours in defence of Orthodoxy against Iconoclasm, he reposed in peace in the first half of the ninth century. He had two disciples, one of whom was Saint Joseph the Hymnographer (see Apr. 3), who wrote the Menaion service for Saint Gregory, his father in Christ.
November 21
The Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple
According to the tradition of the Church, the Theotokos was brought to the Temple at three years of age, where she was consecrated to God and spent her days until she was fourteen or fifteen years old; and then, as a mature maiden, by the common counsel of the priests (since her parents had reposed some three years before), she was betrothed to Joseph.