Χρόνια Πολλά! - Holy Pentecost. May 27, Holy Pentecost

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1 May 27, Holy Pentecost Holy Hieromartyr Helladius, John the Russian of Evia Theodora the Virgin-martyr & Didymos the Martyr Venerable Bede Epistle: Acts 2:1-11 Gospel: John 7:37-52, 8:12 Holy Pentecost Χρόνια Πολλά! Chase Parkway Waterbury, CT Phone: (203) Fax: (203) Fr. Perikles Cell: (203) office@holytrinitywaterbury.org MONDAY MAY 28 MEMORIAL DAY - OFFICE CLOSED; MONDAY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT - DOXOLOGY & DIVINE LITURGY 9:00AM; PRAYERS AT NEW PINE GROVE - 10:30AM; PRAYERS AT MT. OLIVET IN WATERTOWN - 12:00PM TUESDAY MAY 29 GREEK SCHOOL - 5:00PM YOUTH, 6:30PM ADULTS SUNDAY JUNE 3 ALL SAINTS DAY; ORTHROS 8:30AM, DIVINE LITURGY 9:45AM; GREEK SCHOOL GRADUATION; AHEPA/DOP SCHOLARSHIP LUNCHEON MONDAY JUNE 4 GREEK FEST WRAP-UP MEETING - 7:00PM TUESDAY JUNE 5 GREEK SCHOOL PICNIC - 5:00PM SUNDAY JUNE 10 ORTHROS 8:30AM, DIVINE LITURGY 9:45AM; SUNDAY SCHOOL; 100TH ANNIVERSARY TRIP TO HOLY LAND

2 ΙΕΡΟΣ ΝΑΟΣ ΑΓΙΑΣ ΤΡΙΑΔΟΣ Sundays: Orthros 8:30am, Divine Liturgy 9:45am Office hours: 9:00am 1:00pm Rev. Perikles Kallis, Pastor Rev. Demetri Belsito, Ph.D., Deacon We warmly welcome you to our Holy Trinity Parish! We hope that you will make this your spiritual home. We have ministries and organizations for all ages and walks of life. Connect with us on Facebook and our list to stay up to date on upcoming events. APOLYTIKION OF THE FEAST Apolytikion Blessed are You, O Christ our God. You made the fishermen all-wise, by sending down upon them the Holy Spirit, and through them You drew the world into Your net. O Lover of mankind, glory to You. Kontakion When the Most High God came down and confused the tongues, He divided the nations. When He distributed the tongues of fire, He called all to unity. And with one voice we glorify the all-holy Spirit. ἈΠΟΛΥΤΊΚΙΟΝ ΤῆΣ ἙΟΡΤῆΣ Ἀπολυτίκιον Εὐλογητὸς εἶ, Χριστὲ ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, ὁ πανσόφους τοὺς ἁλιεῖς ἀναδείξας, καταπέμψας αὐτοῖς τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον, καὶ δι' αὐτῶν τὴν οἰκουμένην σαγηνεύσας, φιλάνθρωπε, δόξα σοι. Κοντάκιον Ὅτε καταβὰς τὰς γλώσσας συνέχεε, διεμέριζεν ἔθνη ὁ Ὕψιστος ὅτε τοῦ πυρὸς τὰς γλώσσας διένειμεν, εἰς ἑνότητα πάντας ἐκάλεσε, καὶ συμφώνως δοξάζομεν τὸ πανάγιον Πνεῦμα. EPISTLE - ACTS 2:1-11 ΠΡΑΞΕΙΣ ἈΠΟΣΤΟΛΩΝ 2:1-11 Reader- Their voice has gone out int o a l l t h e e a r t h. Verse: The heavens declare the glory of God. The reading is from Acts of the Apostles. WHEN THE DAY of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one Όταν έφτασε η ημέρα της Πεντηκοστής, ήταν όλοι μαζί συγκεντρωμένοι με ομοψυχία στο ίδιο μέρος. Ξαφνικά ήρθε από τον ουρανό μια βουή σαν να φυσούσε δυνατός άνεμος, και γέμισε όλο το σπίτι όπου έμεναν. Επίσης τους 2

3 place. And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in his own language. And they were amazed and wondered, saying, "Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language? Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontos and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians, we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God." παρουσιάστηκαν γλώσσες σαν φλόγες φωτιάς, που μοιράστηκαν και κάθισαν από μία στον καθένα απ αυτούς. Όλοι τότε πλημμύρισαν από Πνεύμα Άγιο και άρχισαν να μιλούν σε άλλες γλώσσες, ανάλογα με την ικανότητα που τους έδινε το Π ν ε ύ μ α. Σ τ η ν Ι ε ρ ο υ σ α λ ή μ βρίσκονταν τότε ευσεβείς Ιουδαίοι από όλα τα μέρη του κόσμου. Όταν α κ ο ύ σ τ η κ ε α υ τ ή η β ο υ ή, συγκεντρώθηκε πλήθος απ αυτούς και ήταν κατάπληκτοι, γιατί ο καθένας τους άκουγε τους αποστόλους να μιλάνε στη δική του γλώσσα. Είχαν μείνει όλοι εκστατικοί και με απορία έλεγαν μεταξύ τους: «Μα αυτοί όλοι που μιλάνε δεν είναι Γαλιλαίοι; Πώς, λοιπόν, εμείς τους ακούμε να μιλάνε στη δική μας μητρική γλώσσα; Πάρθοι, Μήδοι και Ε λ α μ ί τ ε ς, κ ά τ ο ι κ ο ι τ η ς Μεσοποταμίας, της Ιουδαίας και της Καππαδοκίας, του Πόντου και της Ασίας, της Φρυγίας και της Παμφυλίας, της Αιγύπτου, και από τα μέρη της λιβυκής Κυρήνης, Ρωμαίοι που είναι εγκατεστημένοι εδώ, Κρητικοί και Άραβες, όλοι εμείς, είτε ιουδαϊκής καταγωγής είτε προσήλυτοι, τους ακούμε να μιλούν στις γλώσσες μας για τα θαυμαστά έργα του Θεού» Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world; he who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." 3

4 GOSPEL - JOHN 7:37-52, 8:12 ΚΑΤᾺ ἸΩΑΝΝΗΝ 7:37-52, 8:12 On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and proclaimed, "If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink. He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, 'Out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water.'" Now this he said about the Spirit, which those who believed in him were to receive; for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. When they heard these words, some of the people said, "This is really the prophet." Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "Is the Christ to come from Galilee? Has not the scripture said that the Christ is descended from David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?" So there was a division among the people over him. Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him. The officers then went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, "Why did you not bring him?" The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!" The Pharisees answered them, "Are you led astray, you also? Have any of the authorities or of the Pharisees believed in him? But this crowd, who do not know the law, are accursed." Nikodemos, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them, "Does Την τελευταία μέρα της γιορτής, την πιο λαμπρή, στάθηκε ο Ιησούς μπροστά στο πλήθος και φώναξε: «Όποιος διψάει, να ρθεί σ εμένα και να πιει. Μέσα από κείνον που πιστεύει σ εμένα, καθώς λέει η Γραφή, ποτάμια ζωντανό νερό θα τρέξουν». Αυτό το είπε ο Ιησούς εννοώντας το Πνεύμα που θα έπαιρναν όσοι πίστευαν σ αυτόν. Γιατί, τότε ακόμα δεν είχαν το Άγιο Πνεύμα, αφού ο Ιησούς δεν είχε δοξαστεί με την ανάσταση. Πολλοί άνθρωποι από το πλήθος, που άκουσαν αυτά τα λόγια, έλεγαν: «Αυτός είναι πραγματικά ο προφήτης που περιμένουμε». Άλλοι έλεγαν: «Αυτός είναι ο Μεσσίας». Ενώ άλλοι έλεγαν: «Ο Μεσσίας θα ρθεί από τη Γαλιλαία; Η Γραφή δεν είπε πως ο Μεσσίας θα προέρχεται από τους απογόνους του Δαβίδ και θα γεννηθεί στη Βηθλεέμ, το χωριό καταγωγής του Δαβίδ;» Διχάστηκε, λοιπόν, το πλήθος εξαιτίας του. Μερικοί απ αυτούς ήθελαν να τον πιάσουν, κανείς όμως δεν άπλωνε χέρι πάνω του. Γύρισαν, λοιπόν, πίσω οι φρουροί στους αρχιερείς και στους Φαρισαίους, κι αυτοί τους ρώτησαν: «Γιατί δεν τον φέρατε;» Οι φρουροί απάντησαν: «Ποτέ άνθρωπος δε μίλησε όπως αυτός». Τους ξαναρώτησαν τότε οι Φαρισαίοι: «Μήπως παρασυρθήκατε κι εσείς; Πίστεψε σ αυτόν κανένα μέλος του συνεδρίου ή κανείς από τους Φαρισαίους; Μόνον αυτός ο όχλος πιστεύει, που δεν ξέρουν το νόμο του Μωυσή και γι αυτό είναι καταραμένοι». Τους ρώτησε τότε ο Νικόδημος, που ήταν ένας απ αυτούς, εκείνος που είχε 4

5 our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?" They replied, "Are you from Galilee too? Search and you will see that no prophet is to rise from Galilee." Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world; he who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." πάει στον Ιησού νύχτα λίγον καιρό πριν: «Μήπως μπορούμε σύμφωνα με το νόμο μας να καταδικάσουμε έναν άνθρωπο, αν πρώτα δεν τον ακούσουμε και δε μάθουμε τι έκανε;» Αυτοί του είπαν: «Μήπως κατάγεσαι κι εσύ από τη Γαλιλαία; Μελέτησε τις Γραφές και θα δεις πως κανένας προφήτης δεν πρόκειται να έρθει από τη Γαλιλαία». Τότε ο Ιησούς τους μίλησε πάλι και τους είπε: «Εγώ είμαι το φως του κόσμου όποιος με ακολουθεί δεν θα πλανιέται στο σκοτάδι, αλλά θα έχει το φως που οδηγεί στη ζωή». GOSPEL - GJONI 7:37-52, 8:12 Ditën e fundit dhe më të madhen e festës Jezui u ngrit në këmbë dhe thirri: «Nëse dikush ka etje, le të vijë tek unë dhe të pijë! Kush beson në mua, lumenj uji të gjallë do të rrjedhin nga brenda tij. Kështu thotë Shkrimi i shenjtë». Këtë e tha për Shpirtin e Shenjtë që do të merrnin ata që do të besonin në të. Shpirti i Shenjtë nuk ishte dhënë ende, sepse Jezui ende nuk ishte ngritur në lavdi. Kur dëgjuan këto fjalë, disa njerëz nga turma thanë: «Ky është me të vërtetë profeti», të tjerë thoshin: «Ky është Krishti», ndërsa të tjerë: «Vallë nga Galileja vjen Krishti? A nuk thotë Shkrimi i shenjtë: Krishti vjen nga fara e Davidit dhe nga Betlehemi, fshati nga ishte Davidi?» Kështu pati përçarje në turmë për shkak të Jezuit. Disa prej tyre donin ta kapnin, por askush nuk vuri dorë mbi të. Rojat u kthyen te kryepriftërinjtë e farisenjtë, që i pyetën: «Përse nuk e sollët?». Ata iu përgjigjën farisenjve: «Kështu si ai nuk ka folur asnjëherë ndonjë njeri». Farisenjtë u thanë: «Mos u mashtruat edhe ju? A ka besuar në të ndonjë prej krerëve apo prej farisenjve? Por kjo turmë që nuk e njeh ligjin e Moisiut është e mallkuar». Nikodemi, njëri prej farisenjve që kishte shkuar më parë te Jezui, tha: «A e gjykon ligji ynë ndonjë njeri pa e dëgjuar më parë dhe pa marrë vesh se çfarë ka bërë?». Ata iu përgjigjën: «Mos je edhe ti nga Galileja? Kërko dhe shiko se asnjë profet nuk vjen nga Galileja. Atëherë Jezui foli përsëri me ta dhe u tha: «Unë jam drita e botës. Kush vjen pas meje nuk do të ecë kurrë në errësirë, por do të ketë dritën e jetës». 5

6 COFFEE HOUR today will be downstairs in the Banquet Hall along with Sunday School Jeopardy. MEMORIAL DAY PRAYERS AT NEW PINE GROVE AND MT. OLIVET will take place tomorrow May 28 following Divine Liturgy. Prayers at New Pine Grove will begin at approximately 10:30am. Prayers at Mt. Olivet will begin approx. 12pm. PAN GREGORIAN OF CT SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS are now available in the office. For high school seniors, the deadline is May 31, OUR BOOKSTORE IS OPEN DURING COFFEE HOUR! ARCHDIOCESAN CLERGY LAITY Please contact Fr. Perikles if you are interested in attending our Archdiocesan Clergy Laity July 2-5, 2018 in Boston, MA. We are allowed to have three voting representatives in addition to our priest. Representatives must be stewards of our parish. CHURCH CALENDAR For the most up-to-date church calendar, please visit: or check out our bulletin board by the office. HAVE A FRIEND OR FAMILY MEMBER STRUGGLING WITH ADDICTION? Our church family cares and is here to help. A good first step is to visit Please contact Fr. Perry anytime if you need help finding resources or simply for someone to talk to. You are not alone in this. May God grant us strength! 6 CHECK OUT THE PODCAST "LIVE THE WORD ON ANCIENT FAITH RADIO. Finding the Word of God in the Word of God. The team that brought you Be the Bee is back with a new weekly series that will explore the weekly Epistle and Gospel readings. Each episode ends with three questions to help you discover what God has for you in your life. Visit: podcasts/livetheword or search Live the Word in the podcast app. CAMP SAINT PAUL 2018 SUMMER CAMP DATES: June 25th - July 29th. There is

7 limited space available in weeks 4 and 5. If you have any questions or need any assistance in registering, please campstpaul@goarch.org. The AHEPA & DOP SCHOLARSHIP LUNCHEON is set for Sunday, June 3rd following Divine Liturgy. Please make reservations with Carrie in the office. $15 for adults, $7 for children. Recipients should plan to attend with their families. GREEK SCHOOL GRADUATION is set for Sunday, June 3rd followingliturgy. SUNDAY SCHOOL PROMOTION is on Sunday, June 17th. The AHEPA & DOP DISTRICT 7 SCHOLARSHIP DINNER will take place on Sunday, June 24th at 5:00pm here at Holy Trinity. Please make reservations with Marianne Boutsioulis at or boutsie5@cox.net $30 per person prepaid, $35 at the door. SUMMER BOOK CLUB Join us on Wednesday, July 11 at 6:30pm & Wednesday, August 8 at 7:00pm (following Paraklesis service) for our Summer Book Club. This year we will be reading Beginning to Pray. Contact the church office to reserve a copy of the book. This book has established itself as a modern spiritual classic. It is written by an Orthodox Archbishop for people who have never prayed before and has been read and loved by persons at all levels of spiritual development. Anthony Bloom, the son of a Russian diplomat, became a physician, monk and archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Church in Great Britain earning the respect and affection of countless people worldwide because of his deep humanity and tireless witness to the Gospel. 7

8 OLD TESTAMENT EXODUS 24:1-11 And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off. And Moses alone shall come near the Lord: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him. And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the Lord hath said will we do. And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the Lord. And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient. And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words. Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness. And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink. After the Savior's Ascension into the Heavens, the eleven Apostles and the rest of His disciples, the God -loving women who followed after Him from the beginning, His Mother, the most holy Virgin Mary, and His brethren-all together about 120 souls returned from the Mount of Olives to Jerusalem. Entering into the house where they gathered, they went into the upper room, and there they persevered in prayer and supplication, awaiting the coming of the Holy Spirit, as their Divine Teacher had promised them. In the meanwhile, they chose Matthias, who was elected to take the place of Judas among the Apostles. Thus, on this day, the seventh Sunday of Pascha, the tenth day after the Ascension and the fiftieth day after Pascha, at the third hour of the day from the rising of the sun, there suddenly came a sound from Heaven, as when a mighty wind blows, and it filled the whole house where the Apostles and the rest with them were gathered. Immediately after the sound, there appeared tongues of fire that divided and rested upon the head of each one. Filled with the Spirit, all those present began speaking not in their native tongue, but in other tongues and dialects, as the Holy Spirit instructed them. The multitudes that had come together from various places for the feast, most of whom were Jews by race and religion, were called Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and so forth, according to the places where they dwelt. Though they spoke many different tongues, they were present in Jerusalem by divine dispensation. When they heard that sound that came down from Heaven to the place where the disciples of Christ 8

9 were gathered, all ran together to learn what had taken place. But they were confounded when they came and heard the Apostles speaking in their own tongues. Marveling at this, they said one to another, "Behold, are not all these which speak Galileans? And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?" But others, because of their foolishness and excess of evil, mocked the wonder and said that the Apostles were drunken. Then Peter stood up with the eleven, and raising his voice, spoke to all the people, proving that that which had taken place was not drunkenness, but the fulfilment of God's promise that had been spoken by the Prophet Joel: "And it shall come to pass in the last days, that I shall pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and daughters shall prophesy" (Joel 2:28), and he preached Jesus of Nazareth unto them, proving in many ways that He is Christ the Lord, Whom the Jews crucified but God raised from the dead. On hearing Peter's teaching, many were smitten with compunction and received the word. Thus, they were baptized, and on that day about three thousand souls were added to the Faith of Christ. Such, therefore, are the reasons for today's feast: the coming of the All-holy Spirit into the world, the completion of the Lord Jesus Christ's promise, and the fulfilment of the hope of the sacred disciples, which we celebrate today. This is the final feast of the great mystery and dispensation of God's incarnation. On this last, and great, and saving day of Pentecost, the Apostles of the Savior, who were unlearned fishermen, made wise now of a sudden by the Holy Spirit, clearly and with divine authority spoke the heavenly doctrines. They became heralds of the truth and teachers of the whole world. On this day they were ordained and began their apostleship, of which the salvation of those three thousand souls in one day was the comely and marvelous first fruit. Some erroneously hold that Pentecost is the "birthday of the Church." But this is not true, for the teaching of the holy Fathers is that the Church existed before all other things. In the second vision of The Shepherd of Hermas we read: "Now brethren, a revelation was made unto me in my sleep by a youth of exceeding fair form, who said to me, 'Whom thinkest thou the aged woman, from whom thou receivedst the book, to be?' I say, 'The Sibyl.' 'Thou art wrong,' saith he, 'she is not.' 'Who then is she?' I say. 'The Church,' saith he. I said unto him, 'Wherefore then is she aged?' 'Because,' saith he, 'she was created before all things; therefore is she aged, and for her sake the world was framed."' Saint Gregory the Theologian also speaks of "the Church of Christ... both before Christ and after Christ" (PG 35:1108-9). Saint Epiphanius of Cyprus writes, "The Catholic Church, which exists from the ages, is revealed most clearly in the incarnate advent of Christ" (PG 42:640). Saint John Damascene observes, "The Holy Catholic Church of God, therefore, is the assembly of the holy Fathers, Patriarchs, Prophets, Apostles, Evangelists, and Martyrs who have been from the very beginning, to whom were added all the nations who believed with one accord" (PG 96, 1357c). According to Saint 9

10 Gregory the Theologian, "The Prophets established the Church, the Apostles conjoined it, and the Evangelists set it in order" (PG 35, 589 A). The Church existed from the creation of the Angels, for the Angels came into existence before the creation of the world, and they have always been members of the Church. Saint Clement, Bishop of Rome, says in his second epistle to the Corinthians, the Church "was created before the sun and moon"; and a little further on, "The Church existeth not now for the first time, but hath been from the beginning" (II Cor. 14). That which came to pass at Pentecost, then, was the ordination of the Apostles, the commencement of the apostolic preaching to the nations, and the inauguration of the priesthood of the new Israel. Saint Cyril of Alexandria says that "Our Lord Jesus Christ herein ordained the instructors and teachers of the world and the stewards of His divine Mysteries... showing together with the dignity of Apostleship, the incomparable glory of the authority given them... Revealing them to be splendid with the great dignity of the Apostleship and showing them forth as both stewards and priests of the divine altars... they became fit to initiate others through the enlightening guidance of the Holy Spirit" (PG 74, ). Saint Gregory Palamas says, "Now, therefore... the Holy Spirit descended... showing the Disciples to be supernal luminaries... and the distributed grace of the Divine Spirit came through the ordination of the Apostles upon their successors" (Homily 24, 10). And Saint Sophronius, Bishop of Jerusalem, writes, "After the visitation of the Comforter, the Apostles became high priests" (PG 87, 3981B). Therefore, together with the baptism of the Holy Spirit which came upon them who were present in the upper chamber, which the Lord had foretold as recorded in the Acts, "ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days hence" (Acts 1:5), the Apostles were also appointed and raised to the high priestly rank, according to Saint John Chrysostom (PG 60, 21). On this day commenced the celebration of the Holy Eucharist by which we become "partakers of the Divine Nature" (II Peter 1:4). For before Pentecost, it is said of the Apostles and disciples only that they abode in "prayer and supplication" (Acts 1:14); it is only after the coming of the Holy Spirit that they persevered in the "breaking of bread,"that is, the communion of the Holy Mysteries-"and in prayer" (Acts 2:42). The feast of holy Pentecost, therefore, determined the beginning of the priesthood of grace, not the beginning of the Church. Henceforth, the Apostles proclaimed the good tidings "in country and town," preaching and baptizing and appointing shepherds, imparting the priesthood to them whom they judged were worthy to minister, as Saint Clement writes in his first Epistle to the Corinthians (I Cor. 42). 10

11 ATTENTION! Volunteers needed to help plan the Grand Banquet for the 100th Anniversary (Sunday, November 18, 2018). Anyone interested in helping, please see Margo Ricciardi. Next meeting date TBA. COMMEMORATIVE ALBUM ADS are now due. Forms are available in the church office. Please see Penny Pecka with any questions you may have regarding Ads. COMMEMORATIVE 100TH ANNIVERSARY BRICK FORMS are due by June 15th. Special pricing for the 100th anniversary. Forms are available in the office. ARTIFACTS We are looking for old artifacts to display at the Mattatuck Museum during our 100th Anniversary weekend. We are looking for things like old icons, Hellenic artifacts brought over from Greece, etc. We are especially looking for artifacts with a Waterbury connection. Do you have a historical photo from a restaurant downtown? How about an old menu from your family s restaurant? We are looking for keepsake type items that connect to either our faith or heritage and have a Waterbury connection. If you have a potential item, please contact Penny Albini or the church office. CALLING PAST ALTAR BOYS FROM MAPLE STREET At our Great Vespers on Saturday November 16, we are asking our past altar boys, specifically those who served in the altar at our Maple Street Church, to serve in the Altar for Great Vespers. Please plan to join us that evening to serve in the holy altar and to assist Fr. Perikles with the service. More details coming soon. BURN THE MORTGAGE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN The time is now! We need your help to burn our remaining expansion project mortgage by Sunday November 18th at our Grand Banquet. The pledge form is available in the church office. Contact John Gagas (chair), a member of the committee or Fr. Perikles for more info. 11

12 OUR 2018 STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM IS NOW UNDERWAY! Pledge forms are available in the church office or on our website at: Stewardship is a free-will offering of our time, talent and treasure to our church. Participating in our Stewardship Program is how individuals/families become active stewards of our church. We thank God for every good gift that comes from above and we thank you for your support of our beloved Holy Trinity! If you are interested in volunteering your time or talents, please see Fr. Perikles or a Parish Council Member to find out how you can make a difference in the various ministries & organizations of our community. WELCOME TO ALL VISITORS! For those visiting an Orthodox Church for the first time, please be aware that Holy Communion is a sign of unity of Faith which is offered to Baptized and/or Chrismated Orthodox Christians. All present are welcome, however, to partake of the Antidoro (blessed bread) which is distributed at the end of the service. All people are welcome to join the Orthodox Church. Those interested in learning more about the Orthodox Christian Faith or becoming a member, please see Fr. Perry after services. 12