Rev. Fr. Athanasios Nenes, Parish Priest

ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΗ ΚΟΙΝΟΤΗΤΑ ΤΩΝ ΤΑΞΙΑΡΧΩΝ TAXIARCHAE/ARCHANGELS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH 25 Bigelow Avenue, Watertown, MA 02472 Phone: 617.924.8182 Phone Website: www.goarchangels.com Office: Office@goarchangels.com Rev. Fr. Athanasios Nenes, Parish Priest Cell Phone: 914.479.8096 Email: anenes@goarchangels.com Rev. Fr. Nicholas Mueller, Parish Ministries Assistant Cell Phone: 916.517.2298 Email: nmueller@goarchangels.com The Sunday Weekly Bulletin is posted on our website at www.goarchangels.com Holy Pentecost May 27, 2018 ORTHROS 8:30AM - DIVINE LITURGY 9:30AM Paraklesis - Thursday to the Panagia Gorgoipikoos 6PM

HYMNS OF THE DAY Apolytikion for Pentecost in the Plagal Fourth Mode: Blessed are You, O Christ our God, who made fishermen all-wise, sending upon them the Holy Spirit and, through them, netting the world. O Loving One, glory to You. Εύλογητός εἶ Χριστὲ ὁ Θεος ἡμῶν ὁ πανσόφους τοὺς ἁλιεῖς ἁναδείξας καταπέμψας αὐτοῖς τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον καὶ δι αὐτῶν τῆν οἰκουμένην σαγηνεύσας φιλάνθρωπε δόξα Σοι. Seasonal Kontakion in the Plagal Fourth Mode: When the Most High came down and confounded tongues of men (Babel), He divided the Nations. When He dispensed the Tongues of Fire, He called all to unity, and with one voice we glorify the Most Holy Spirit. 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. Receiving Holy Communion - We welcome to this celebration of the Divine Liturgy those Christians who are from other Christian Denominations and who are not fully united with us. Sadly, it is a consequence of the divisions in Christianity that we cannot extend to you an invitation to receive Holy Communion. Orthodox Christians believe that the Eucharist is the work or action of the celebrating community signifying a oneness of faith, life, and worship of the believing community. Reception of Holy Communion by Christians not fully united with us would imply a oneness which does not yet exist, and for which we must pray. However, all present are welcome to partake of the Antidoro (blessed bread) which is distributed at the end of the Liturgy Service.

Epistle Reading Prokeimenon. Plagal Fourth Mode. Psalm 18.4,1. Their voice has gone out into all the earth. Verse: The heavens declare the glory of God. The reading is from Acts of the Apostles 2:1-11. WHEN THE DAY of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one 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." τὸ Ἀνάγνωσμα Πράξεις Ἀποστόλων 2:1 11. Epistle Reading Προκείμενον. Plagal Fourth Mode. ΨΑΛΜΟΙ 18.4,1. Εἰς πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν ἐξῆλθεν ὁ φθόγγος αὐτῶν. Στίχ. Οἱ οὐρανοὶ διηγοῦνται δόξαν Θεοῦ. Ἐν τῷ συμπληροῦσθαι τὴν ἡμέραν τῆς Πεντηκοστῆς, ἦσαν ἅπαντεςn ὁμοθυμαδὸν ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτό. Καὶ ἐγένετο ἄφνω ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἦχος ὥσπερ φερομένης πνοῆς βιαίας, καὶ ἐπλήρωσεν ὅλον τὸν οἶκον οὗ ἦσαν καθήμενοι. Καὶ ὤφθησαν αὐτοῖς διαμεριζόμεναι γλῶσσαι ὡσεὶ πυρός, ἐκάθισέν τε ἐφʼ ἕνα ἕκαστον αὐτῶν. Καὶ ἐπλήσθησαν ἅπαντες πνεύματος ἁγίου, καὶ ἤρξαντο λαλεῖν ἑτέραις γλώσσαις, καθὼς τὸ πνεῦμα ἐδίδου αὐτοῖς ἀποφθέγγεσθαι. Ἦσαν δὲ ἐν Ἱερουσαλὴμ κατοικοῦντες Ἰουδαῖοι, ἄνδρες εὐλαβεῖς, ἀπὸ παντὸς ἔθνους τῶν ὑπὸ τὸν οὐρανόν. Γενομένης δὲ τῆς φωνῆς ταύτης, συνῆλθεν τὸ πλῆθος καὶ συνεχύθη, ὅτι ἤκουον εἷς ἕκαστος τῇ ἰδίᾳ διαλέκτῳ λαλούντων αὐτῶν. Ἐξίσταντο δὲ πάντες καὶ ἐθαύμαζον, λέγοντες πρὸς ἀλλήλους, Οὐκ ἰδοὺ πάντες οὗτοί εἰσιν οἱ λαλοῦντες Γαλιλαῖοι; Καὶ πῶς ἡμεῖς ἀκούομεν ἕκαστος τῇ ἰδίᾳ διαλέκτῳ ἡμῶν ἐν ᾗ ἐγεννήθημεν; Πάρθοι καὶ Μῆδοι καὶ Ἐλαμῖται, καὶ οἱ κατοικοῦντες τὴν Μεσοποταμίαν, Ἰουδαίαν τε καὶ Καππαδοκίαν, Πόντον καὶ τὴν Ἀσίαν, Φρυγίαν τε καὶ Παμφυλίαν, Αἴγυπτον καὶ τὰ μέρη τῆς Λιβύης τῆς κατὰ Κυρήνην, καὶ οἱ ἐπιδημοῦντες Ῥωμαῖοι, Ἰουδαῖοί τε καὶ προσήλυτοι, Κρῆτες καὶ Ἄραβες, ἀκούομεν λαλούντων αὐτῶν ταῖς ἡμετέραις γλώσσαις τὰ μεγαλεῖα τοῦ θεοῦ.

GOSPEL The Reading is from John 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 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." Κατὰ Ἰωάννην 7:37 52, 8:12 Εν δὲ τῇ ἐσχάτῃ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ μεγάλῃ τῆς ἑορτῆς εἱστήκει ὁ Ιησοῦς καὶ ἔκραξε λέγων ἐάν τις διψᾷ, ἐρχέσθω πρός με καὶ πινέτω. ὁ πιστεύων εἰς ἐμέ, καθὼς εἶπεν ἡ γραφή, ποταμοὶ ἐκ τῆς κοιλίας αὐτοῦ ῥεύσουσιν ὕδατος ζῶντος. τοῦτο δὲ εἶπε περὶ τοῦ Πνεύματος οὗ ἔμελλον λαμβάνειν οἱ πιστεύοντες εἰς αὐτόν οὔπω γὰρ ἦν Πνεῦμα Αγιον, ὅτι Ιησοῦς οὐδέπω ἐδοξάσθη. Πολλοὶ οὖν ἐκ τοῦ ὄχλου ἀκούσαντες τὸν λόγον ἔλεγον οὗτός ἐστιν ἀληθῶς ὁ προφήτης ἄλλοι ἔλεγον οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ Χριστός ἄλλοι ἔλεγον μὴ γὰρ ἐκ τῆς Γαλιλαίας ὁ Χριστὸς ἔρχεται; οὐχὶ ἡ γραφὴ εἶπεν ὅτι ἐκ τοῦ σπέρματος Δαυῒδ καὶ ἀπὸ Βηθλεὲμ τῆς κώμης, ὅπου ἦν Δαυΐδ, ὁ Χριστὸς ἔρχεται; σχίσμα οὖν ἐν τῷ ὄχλῳ ἐγένετο δι αὐτόν. τινὲς δὲ ἤθελον ἐξ αὐτῶν πιάσαι αὐτόν, ἀλλ οὐδεὶς ἐπέβαλεν ἐπ αὐτὸν τὰς χεῖρας. Ηλθον οὖν οἱ ὑπηρέται πρὸς τοὺς ἀρχιερεῖς καὶ Φαρισαίους, καὶ εἶπον αὐτοῖς ἐκεῖνοι διατί οὐκ ἠγάγετε αὐτόν; ἀπεκρίθησαν οἱ ὑπηρέται οὐδέποτε οὕτως ἐλάλησεν ἄνθρωπος, ὡς οὗτος ὁ ἄνθρωπος. ἀπεκρίθησαν οὖν αὐτοῖς οἱ Φαρισαῖοι μὴ καὶ ὑμεῖς πεπλάνησθε; μή τις ἐκ τῶν ἀρχόντων ἐπίστευσεν εἰς αὐτὸν ἢ ἐκ τῶν Φαρισαίων; ἀλλ ὁ ὄχλος οὗτος ὁ μὴ γινώσκων τὸν νόμον ἐπικατάρατοί εἰσι! λέγει Νικόδημος πρὸς αὐτούς, ὁ ἐλθὼν νυκτὸς πρὸς αὐτόν, εἷς ὢν ἐξ αὐτῶν μὴ ὁ νόμος ἡμῶν κρίνει τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ἐὰν μὴ ἀκούσῃ παρ αὐτοῦ πρότερον καὶ

γνῷ τί ποιεῖ; ἀπεκρίθησαν καὶ εἶπον αὐτῷ μὴ καὶ σὺ ἐκ τῆς Γαλιλαίας εἶ; ἐρεύνησον καὶ ἴδε ὅτι προφήτης ἐκ τῆς Γαλιλαίας οὐκ ἐγήγερται. Πάλιν οὖν αὐτοῖς ὁ Ιησοῦς ἐλάλησε λέγων ἐγώ εἰμι τὸ φῶς τοῦ κόσμου ὁ ἀκολουθῶν ἐμοὶ οὐ μὴ περιπατήσῃ ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ, ἀλλ ἕξει τὸ φῶς τῆς ζωῆς. Welcome, please join us in the Community Center for Coffee Fellowship immediately following the Divine Liturgy. Memorials: 6 month - Fotoula Sarris 1 year - Antonia Sarris Pappas 2 year - Nicholas Kyriakos May their memory be eternal. Αιωνία η Mνήμη! Coffee Fellowship is sponsored by the Sarris, Pappas, and Kyriakos families. ANNOUNCEMENTS Youth Bible Study - Every Monday 6-7PM. Greek School - Tues. 5/29, Thurs. 5/31, Sat. 6/1 Adult Bible Study - Every Thursday 7-8PM. JOY - Every Friday 6-7PM. GOYA - Every Friday 6:30-8PM. New Ministry: The Social Service Ministry - Costa Magimbi will help guide parishioners who are having problems with the Massachusetts Social Services system. Special General Assembly Update: We are happy to report that we had a quorum for the special meeting held on Monday, May 21, 2018. We would like to thank everyone who came and participated. A vote was passed for the official launch of the Capital Campaign to address the much needed repairs to our Taxiarchae church.

For Reservations & Payment Information Contact the Taxiarchae Office at 617-924-8182. Deadline for Reservations: Thursday, May Congratulations to JAMES & ANGELICA KONTOS Taxiarchae/ Archangels 2018 Laity Award Recipients Please join us at the 32 A M B M A B Sunday, June 10, 2018 Reception: 5:30 pm Dinner: 6:30 pm Donation: $75/Person LOMBARDO S 6 Billings Street, Randolph, MA

2018 GREEK FESTIVAL DONATION FORM The annual Taxiarchae Festival will be held on Friday, June 22. Sat., June 23, Sun., June 24. We need the entire Community to help make this year's festival a huge success Please consider making a donation from the wish list below: Foods Beverages Miscellaneous 100 lbs Chicken Tenders (20@ $180) o Coffee (2 cases@ $120 ea) o Tents, Tables,& Chairs $7,500 350 lbs Steak Tips ( 20 @ o Milk (35 gallons @ $8 ea) o Banners $375 $235) Legs of Lamb(120 @ $30 ea) o Beer (75 cases @ $30 ea) o Propane Tanks $270 Spinach (10 cases @$30 ea) o Wine (55 cases @ $30 ea) Paper Goods Eggplant (25 cases@ $28 ea) o Soda (100 cases @ $8 ea) o Foam Bowls ($30/case) Lettuce (25 cases @ $25 ea ) o Water (120 cases @ $8 ea) o Plates ($42/case) Cucumbers (10 cases@$30 ea) Pastry o Foil ($33/roll) Peppers (10 cases@ $25 ea ) o Flour (75 5-lb bags @ $10 ea) o Foil Sheets ($35/case) Tomatoes (15 cases@ $30 ea ) o Sugar (6 25-lb bags @$32 ea ) o Wax paper sheets ($25/ case) Red Cabbage (3 cases @$30 ea o Filo (8 cases @$60 ea ) o Napkins ($40/case) Red Onions (Four-50 lb bags@ o Eggs (7 cases @$62 ea ) o Tumblers ($40/case) $30 ea) White Onions (Ten 50 lb bags @$30 ea) o Walnuts (3 cases @$180 ea ) o Plastic Knives ($35/ case) Feta Cheese (4 buckets @$60 ea) o Butter (4 cases @ $90 ea ) o Plastic Forks ($35/case) Rice (5 cases@$30 ea) o Confectioners Sugar (1 case @$60) o Plastic Spoons ($35/ case) o Corn Oil (10 5gallon jugs @ $60ea ) o Hot Cups ($45/case) Please call the church office at 617.924.8182. Tell us what you would like to donate to our Festival! Thank you for your support! I/We would like to donate: Name: Address: Phone: Email: Enclosed is a donation of $ towards the items checked above. Thank you.

Time for the Annual Grecian Food Fes val: June 22, 23, 24 The Festival is the greatest fundraiser of the year for our beloved Taxiarchae Church. This event helps support the church. Before the actual event, there is much work to be done. WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!! The Taxiarchae needs you! The women of Philoptochos work tirelessly to offer the best pastry table among all of the churches in the area. But, in order to make this years pastry table a successful one, WE NEED YOUR HELP. I cannot emphasize enough the importance of volunteering. Please make every effort to bake large quantities of your best dessert to sell at the Pastry Table during the Festival. Any Greek dessert is most welcomed, especially Kourambiethes, Karithopeta, Melomakarona, Kataifi, Galaktobouriko, Koulourakia and of course the number one choice, Baklava. Get together with your moms, aunts, cousins and bake up a storm for a great cause. If you are not a baker then please consider volunteering your time by helping at the Festival. We are looking for volunteers for group baking and working at the Festival. Remember, many hands make for less work. Volunteering is a multigenerational opportunity. Please call, or e-mail when you are available to volunteer. If you are baking, please let me know what you re making that we do not have too many duplications. Lalvanos@comcast.net or 508-308-9439. Thank you, Leah Alvanos and the Board of Philoptochos

FESTIVAL COOKING SCHEDULE Monday, June 11th (9AM): Dolmathes filling Tuesday, June 12th (9AM): Dolmathes assembly Week of June 18th: Diples/Galaktoboureko Please plan to come and help. Thank you. CALLING ALL PARISHIONERS - WE NEED VOLUNTEERS!!! Name: Telephone: Email: Kitchen Food Line (servers) Candy Store Loukoumathes INSIDE/OUTSIDE Bar Raffle Kafenio GYRO Tray pick-up Pastry Sales Cashier Attic Treasures I can help with set up, skewering meat, salad prep. and whatever else is needed on Thursday, June 21. (All day prep). I can help clean up after the festival on Sunday, June 24. I am willing to work anywhere assigned. Day(s) I can work: Friday, June 22 Saturday, June 23 Morning/Afternoon/Evening (please specify) Morning/Afternoon/Evening (please specify) Sunday, June 24 Morning/Afternoon/Evening (please specify) SIGN UP ONLINE @ WWW.GOARCHANGELS.COM or contact Vicky Karalis at 617.932.1297

MY LIFE, AS AN OLD PHOTOGRAPH By Vasilios K. Patsiokostas A P B In his autobiography, Vasilios Patsiokostas (Patsios) recounts his life experiences of survival during World War II and the Greek Civil War; his success as an immigrant in America; and his support and joy in a close-knit Greek family. His story is fascinating and inspirational. Free-will donation. Proceeds from the book sales will support the Taxiarchae Church youth ministries. Thank you. PHILOTIMO CHAT GROUP Linger Over Coffee & Make Connections THIRD THURSDAY of EVERY MONTH 10AM 12 MEN and WOMEN ARE WELCOME to Noon PARKING: PLEASE, help us be considerate neighbors. When parking at the Watertown Savings Bank, the ATM needs to be accessible even on Sundays! Thank you.