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Orthros at Chapel of Panagia Prousiotissa - Elatos
Orthros at Chapel of Panagia Prousiotissa - Elatos
February 1, 2025 9:00 am - 10:00 am
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Divine Liturgy at Chapel of Panagia Prousiotissa - Elatos
Divine Liturgy at Chapel of Panagia Prousiotissa - Elatos
February 1, 2025 10:00 am - 11:00 am
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GOYA Night
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Great Vespers for the Feast of the Presentation of our Lord
Great Vespers for the Feast of the Presentation of our Lord
February 1, 2025 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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Presentation of Our Lord into the Temple
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Orthros
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Divine Liturgy (English)
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Divine Liturgy (Bilingual)
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Announcements
Announcements
February 2, 2025 11:00 am - 11:30 am
- Godparent Sunday
- 25 Year Memorial for Moussa Shahoud
- HDF Recognition
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Visitation for Bett Kofinas
Visitation for Bett Kofinas
February 3, 2025 9:00 am - 10:00 am
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Funeral for Bett Kofinas
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Philoptochos Making Koulourakia
Philoptochos Making Koulourakia
February 4, 2025 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
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Greek School Classes
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Level II Adult Greek School
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Greek School Classes
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Orthodox Catechism 101
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Level I Adult Greek School
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Visitation for Evangelia Kroustalis
Visitation for Evangelia Kroustalis
February 7, 2025 9:30 am - 10:30 am
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Funeral for for Evangelia Kroustalis
Funeral for for Evangelia Kroustalis
February 7, 2025 10:30 am - 11:30 am
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Theodore the Commander & Great Martyr
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Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee
Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee
February 9, 2025
The Pharisees were an ancient and outstanding sect among the Jews known for their diligent observance of the outward matters of the Law. Although, according to the word of our Lord, they "did all their works to be seen of men" (Matt. 23:5), and were hypocrites (ibid. 23: 13, 14, 15, etc.), because of the apparent holiness of their lives they were thought by all to be righteous, and separate from others, which is what the name Pharisee means. On the other hand, Publicans, collectors of the royal taxes, committed many injustices and extortions for filthy lucre's sake, and all held them to be sinners and unjust. It was therefore according to common opinion that the Lord Jesus in His parable signified a virtuous person by a Pharisee, and a sinner by a Publican, to teach His disciples the harm of pride and the profit of humble-mindedness.
Since the chief weapon for virtue is humility, and the greatest hindrance to it is pride, the divine Fathers have set these three weeks before the Forty-day Fast as a preparation for the spiritual struggles of virtue. This present week they have called Harbinger, since it declares that the Fast is approaching; and they set humility as the foundation for all our spiritual labors by appointing that the parable of the Publican and the Pharisee be read today, even before the Fast begins, to teach, through the vaunting of the Pharisee, that the foul smoke of self-esteem and the stench of boasting drives away the grace of the Spirit, strips man of all his virtue, and casts him into the pits of Hades; and, through the repentance and contrite prayer of the Publican, that humility confers upon the sinner forgiveness of all his wicked deeds and raises him up to the greatest heights.
All foods are allowed the week that follows this Sunday.
Kontakion of Sun. of the Publican and Pharisee
Fourth Tone
Let us flee from the boasting of the Pharisee and learn through our own sighs of sorrow the humility of the Publican. Let us cry out to the Savior, "Have mercy on us, for through You alone are we reconciled."
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The Triodion Period Begins
The Triodion Period Begins
February 9, 2025
Triodion: It is a Greek word meaning three odes, that is, three stanzas. The word “ωδή” refers to stanzas of praise or hymns, from the verb of αείδώ “to sing”. This period has been called "Triodion" because the Canons (hymns) of 9 odes (stanzas) are replaced with the liturgical book with Canons of 3 odes called “The Triodion”. (See below explanation of words: Canons - Odes).
The Triodion period takes its name from the book that we use in this ecclesiastical time.
The Triodion begins with Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee and lasts until Holy Saturday.
It is a time of special compunction, a return to oneself and to God, in order to rise with Christ as a new creation in sincere repentance.
It is a time of self-purification when we cry: "O God have mercy on me, a sinner."
This is what we read in the Synaxarion of the beginning of the Triodion: “O Creator of all above and below, as Thou receivest the thrice-holy hymn from the angels, so also from mankind receive the Triodion”.
Heaven and Earth join to form a single choir. Angels and humans come together to praise the "Creator of all", angels sing lauds to the Holy Trinity (Trisagion- the Thrice Holy Hymn) and human beings respond with honorable odes of the Triodion, filled with compunction.
The author of the Triodion, Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos, says that the three odes were first composed by Cosmas of the Hymnographer, Bishop of Maiuma who arranged them after the model of the life-giving Holy Trinity to be chanted on Holy Week. Then several authors including Theodore and Joseph of the Studite Monastery in Constantinople followed him; they wrote Canons for each week of Great Lent.
The Triodion is characterized by three hymns that are chanted at Matins after the Gospel and Psalm 50, from the Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee to the Sunday of Saint Mary of Egypt.
These hymns form a liturgical unit inspired by Psalm 50; they begin thus:
- “Glory…The gates of repentance, do Thou open unto me…”
- “Both now…Guide me on the paths of salvation, O Theotokos…”
- “Have mercy…As I the wretched one ponder the multitude of evil deeds I have done…”
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Orthros
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Divine Liturgy (English)
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Divine Liturgy (Bilingual)
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Announcements
Announcements
February 9, 2025 11:00 am - 11:30 am
- One Year Memorial for Zoe Andrews
- Two Year Memorial for Athena Balosos
- Three Year Memorial for Irene Evangelatos
- Sixteen Year Memorial for Evangelos Evangelatos
- Twenty-Nine Year Memorial for Andrew Andrews
- Philopochos Membership Drive - will be sponsoring Coffee Fellowship
- Philoptochos Clergy Education Fund Tray (Metropolis)
- Flowers in the Cathedral are donated in Loving Memory of Zoe & Andrew Andrews and Irene & Evangelos Evangelatos by their families
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Hieromartyr Haralambos
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Orthros
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Divine Liturgy
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Greek School Classes
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Philoptochos General Meeting/Membership
Philoptochos General Meeting/Membership
February 11, 2025 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Level II Adult Greek School
Level II Adult Greek School
February 11, 2025 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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Greek School Classes
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Orthodox Catechism 101
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Byzantine Chant Class
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Level I Adult Greek School
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QCC Weekend
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Sunday of the Prodigal Son
Sunday of the Prodigal Son
February 16, 2025
Through the parable of today's Gospel, our Saviour has set forth three things for us: the condition of the sinner, the rule of repentance, and the greatness of God's compassion. The divine Fathers have put this reading the week after the parable of the Publican and Pharisee so that, seeing in the person of the Prodigal Son our own wretched condition -- inasmuch as we are sunken in sin, far from God and His Mysteries -- we might at last come to our senses and make haste to return to Him by repentance during these holy days of the Fast.
Furthermore, those who have wrought many great iniquities, and have persisted in them for a long time, oftentimes fall into despair, thinking that there can no longer be any forgiveness for them; and so being without hope, they fall every day into the same and even worse iniquities. Therefore, the divine Fathers, that they might root out the passion of despair from the hearts of such people, and rouse them to the deeds of virtue, have set the present parable at the forecourts of the Fast, to show them the surpassing goodness of God's compassion, and to teach them that there is no sin -- no matter how great it may be -- that can overcome at any time His love for man.
Kontakion of Sun. of Prodigal Son
Third Tone
O Father, foolishly I ran away from Your glory, and in sin, squandered the riches You gave me. Wherefore, I cry out to You with the voice of the Prodigal, "I have sinned before You Compassionate Father. Receive me in repentance and take me as one of Your hired servants."
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Orthros
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Divine Liturgy (English)
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Divine Liturgy (Bilingual)
Divine Liturgy (Bilingual)
February 16, 2025 9:30 am - 11:00 am
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Announcements
Announcements
February 16, 2025 11:00 am - 11:30 am
- 40 Day Memorial for Bill Katopodis
- 40 Day Memorial for Margaret Nixon
- 40 Day Memorial for Anthoula Tatsis
- 40 Day Memorial for Ted Theodore
- Sunday School not in Session
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Greek School Classes
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Level II Adult Greek School
Level II Adult Greek School
February 18, 2025 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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Greek School Classes
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Orthodox Catechism 101
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Level I Adult Greek School
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End-of-Season Basketball Event
End-of-Season Basketball Event
February 21, 2025 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Saturday of Souls
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Orthros
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Divine Liturgy
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Memorial Service for the Souls of the Departed
Memorial Service for the Souls of the Departed
February 22, 2025 10:30 am - 11:30 am
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Judgement Sunday
Judgement Sunday
February 23, 2025
The foregoing two parables -- especially that of the Prodigal Son -- have presented to us God's extreme goodness and love for man. But lest certain persons, putting their confidence in this alone, live carelessly, squandering upon sin the time given them to work out their salvation, and death suddenly snatch them away, the most divine Fathers have appointed this day's feast commemorating Christ's impartial Second Coming, through which we bring to mind that God is not only the Friend of man, but also the most righteous Judge, Who recompenses to each according to his deeds.
It is the aim of the holy Fathers, through bringing to mind that fearful day, to rouse us from the slumber of carelessness unto the work of virtue, and to move us to love and compassion for our brethren. Besides this, even as on the coming Sunday of Cheese-fare we commemorate Adam's exile from the Paradise of delight -- which exile is the beginning of life as we know it now -- it is clear that today's is reckoned the last of all feasts, because on the last day of judgment, truly, everything of this world will come to an end.
All foods, except meat and meat products, are allowed during the week that follows this Sunday.
Kontakion of Judgment (Meatfare) Sun.
First Tone
O God, when You come upon the earth in glory, the whole world will tremble. A river of fire will bring all before Your Judgment Seat and the books will be opened, and everything in secret will become public. At that time, deliver me from the fire which never dies, and enable me to stand by Your right hand, O Judge most just.
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Orthros
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Divine Liturgy
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Divine Liturgy (Bilingual)
Divine Liturgy (Bilingual)
February 23, 2025 9:30 am - 11:00 am
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Annoucements
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Stewardship Committee Meeting
Stewardship Committee Meeting
February 24, 2025 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Greek School Classes
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Level II Adult Greek School
Level II Adult Greek School
February 25, 2025 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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Greek School Classes
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Orthodox Catechism 101
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Level I Adult Greek School
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Philoptochos will be making bread
Philoptochos will be making bread
February 28, 2025 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
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