Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral New Orleans, Louisiana SEPTEMBER 2, 2018 FOURTEENTH SUNDAY OF MATTHEW Sunday, September 2 ~ 8:45 am ~ Orthros, 10:00 am ~ Divine Liturgy 11:20 am ~ Sunday Church School after Holy Communion 11:30 am ~ PETE HIRRAS 40-DAY MEMORIAL 12:00 pm ~ Cathedral Montessori Brick Campaign in Coffee Room 3:00 pm ~ GOYA Pool Party OFF-SITE Monday, September 3 ~ Cathedral Office Closed LABOR DAY Tuesday, September 4 ~ 10:00 am Philoptochos Garage Sale Set Up 7:15 pm ~ Cathedral Montessori School Board Meeting Wednesday, September 5 ~ 10:00 am Philoptochos Garage Sale Set Up 6:00 pm ~ Adult Greek School Meeting in Boardroom Discuss Syllabus and Schedule Thursday, September 6 ~ 10:00 am Philoptochos Garage Sale Set Up Friday, September 7 ~ 9:45 am Cathedral Montessori School Chapel in Cathedral 10:00 am ~ Philoptochos Garage Sale Set Up 5:00 pm ~ Youth Greek School in Room 210 6:00 pm ~ HTC Youth Soccer Practice and Dinner FIRST FALL SESSION Saturday, September 8 ~ 8:00 am Philoptochos Garage Sale in Gymnasium 9:00 am ~ Divine Liturgy NATIVITY OF THE THEOTOKOS 12:00 pm ~ Youth Greek School in Room 210 4:00 pm ~ Holy Trinity PTA "Back to School Bash" on Cathedral Grounds Sunday, September 9 ~ 8:45 am ~ Orthros 10:00 am ~ Divine Liturgy SUNDAY BEFORE THE HOLY CROSS 11:20 am ~ Sunday Church School after Holy Communion 12:00 pm ~ Cathedral Montessori Brick Campaign in Coffee Room 12:00 pm ~ Greek School Sponsored "Ellinopoula.com" Presentation by Anna Sakkas 12:00 pm ~ Philoptochos Garage Sale in Gymnasium 12:30 pm ~ Holy Trinity GOYA Meeting in Boardroom GREEK SCHOOL Adult students will meet with Fay Kalergi on September 5 at 7:00 pm in the boardroom to discuss class schedules and placement levels. Lessons will begin the following week. HOLY TRINTY YOUTH SOCCER The HTC Youth Soccer fall semester will begin Friday, September 7, at 6:00 pm. All children ages 4 and up are welcome to participate. If you have questions about the program, please contact Angela Fyssas-Lear at fyssas@gmail.com. GOYA Bring your swimsuit and your towel for some fun in the sun. Sunday, September 2 3 pm to 6 pm 7030 Milne Boulevard - New Orleans BLESSING AND RIBBON CUTTING of Cathedral Montessori School's RENOVATION AND ADDITION His Eminence Metropolitan Alexios of Atlanta will bless the school. September 10, 2018-9 am - Come see the school. Refreshments will be served. SAVE THE DATE - FALL FAMILY RETREAT The annual Fall Family Retreat is scheduled for Saturday, September 22, 2018, with guest speaker Reverend Father Anton Vrame, PhD. Father Tony is the director of the Archdiocese Department of Religious Education and has a lifetime of teaching experience. He has been a school teacher, author, and university professor and has led the department for eleven years. Plan to attend this year s Fall Family Retreat. Details on Father Tony s topic are available in the September issue of The Flame. SPECIAL PRESENTATION - CHILDREN'S ONLINE GREEK LESSONS A special presentation on "Ellinopoula.com," a new and exciting online Greek program for students ages 3 to 11, will be offered by Anna Sakkas next Sunday, September 9. SUNDAY CHURCH SCHOOL RESERVED PEWS Parents, six (6) of the left front pews will be reserved each Sunday for Sunday Church School families to help expedite receiving Holy Communion before class. The Parish Council asks that you take advantage of this accommodation.
[ Jazz & Bouzouki! A Musical Event Celebrating New Orleans Tricentennial, the Birth of New Orleans Jazz, and the Contributions of Greek Immigrants Presented by the New Orleans Jazz Museum and Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral Archives Committee New Orleans Jazz Museum - 400 Esplanade Avenue - New Orleans September 29, 2018-6:00 pm to 9:00 pm $25 per Person - Limited Seating! Purchase now - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jazz-bouzouki-tickets-49183244408 New Orleans Jazz will converge with Greek folk music. Celebrated New Orleans musicians will perform the music of 1920s New Orleans jazzman, Ellis Stratakos, son of a Greek immigrant. They will contribute their New Orleans vibe and beat to the music of the early Greek immigrants. Ticket includes: Presentation on the early Greek settlement in New Orleans Greek Mezedakia (hors d oeuvres) and cash bar Silent auction to support Philoptochos Exhibition of Holy Trinity artifacts with museum open for viewing The following accomplished New Orleans musicians will present this unique concert: John Trigas, Greek musician specializing in the clarinet and bouzouki, curated the musical selections and will direct the concert. Piano: Tom Worrell Trombone: Delfeayo Marsalis Drums: Doug Garrison Bass: Holy Trinity s own Paul Macres Patrons are encouraged to purchase tickets through Eventbrite. If you do not have web access, tickets will be sold on Sundays after church services and through the Cathedral office. Call Maggie Maag for more information: 504-780-9165. Note: There is no museum parking. Please use street parking or one of the three parking garages located on Decatur, Frenchman, and at the French Market near the museum. The Metropolis of Atlanta will experience a unique and blessed event on September 29, 2018, when the miraculous Panagia Vimatarissa icon from the Monastery of Vatopaidi on Mount Athos will arrive at the Diakonia Retreat Center in South Carolina. This rare and joyous occasion will begin at 11:00 am with a procession of the Theotokos icon into the new Panagia Chapel led by His Eminence Metropolitan Alexios of Atlanta, along with the Monks of Vatopaidi, the clergy of the Metropolis of Atlanta, and a parade group created especially for the event! Together, everyone will have the opportunity to venerate the miraculous icon of our Lady, offer glory to our God and Creator, thank those who made this day possible, and enjoy the fellowship of the Metropolis of Atlanta family. His Eminence hopes to see there as many parishioners as possible, and to that end asks that you please RSVP with a link provided on the Metropolis of Atlanta website. You will not want to miss what surely will be a momentous and spiritually joyous event! For questions and additional information, please call Ethel Gjerde at 404-634-9345.
HOLY TRINITY PTA "BACK TO SCHOOL BASH" Holy Trinity PTA will host on the Cathedral grounds a "Back to School Bash" with pizza and a water slide, weather permitting, next Saturday, September 8, from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm. PHILOPTOCHOS GARAGE SALE The Philoptochos Garage Sale will be held Saturday, September 8, from 8:00 am - 4:00 pm and Sunday, September 9, from 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm. Much help is needed the entire week for setting up this fundraiser. Members are asked to volunteer whatever time they have available to help price and organize the sale. Also, much help is needed on the actual sale days. To volunteer your assistance before and/or during the Garage Sale, contact Chairperson Elaine Nugent at 504-888-5619 or 504-909-3543. SAINT PHANOURIOS CELEBRATION Many thanks are extended to all, who participated in the Saint Phanourios Celebration including the individuals that made Phanouropites and the congregants that donated to this fundraiser. Collections totaling $275 will be sent to the Metropolis of Atlanta to benefit its youth programs. The Philoptochos Chairpersons for this endeavor, Presvytera Harriet Wilson and Barbara Wolf, are also extended a sincere thank you for their efforts. SCHOOL SUPPLY DRIVE Philoptochos is continuing the School Supply Drive for students at Lafayette Academy. Notebooks, pencils, construction paper, crayons, and other supplies are needed. Many thanks for all of the donations that were made. Chairperson Cornelia Koniditsiotis will distribute the school supplies next week. The ECYM Committee is sponsoring two (2) scholarships, $500 for one junior and $500 for one senior. These scholarships are to encourage attendance in Sunday Church School and provide some funds that should be useful in their college endeavors. The criteria will be based on a point system, and the selection will be made by teachers Gregg Hubley, Viki Moustoukas, and Carol Venturatos. The one junior and one senior with the highest points will be awarded scholarships. One point will be awarded for each of the following: Each SCS class attended, starting August 19, 2018 A short essay at the end of the year describing his/her thoughts on "Living an Orthodox Life" Participating in the St. John Chrysostom Oratorical Festival Message from Father George Beginning of the Ecclesiastical New Year - Day for the Protection of our Natural Environment On this Feast of the Indiction at the beginning of the ecclesiastical new year, we are led by His All- Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to observe the Day for the Protection of our Natural Environment. The relationship of this observance and our commemoration of the Feast was established in 1989 in an encyclical of Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios I, in which he urged all faithful in the world to admonish themselves and their children to respect and protect the natural environment, and all those who are entrusted with the responsibility of governing nations to act without delay in taking all necessary measures for the protection and preservation of natural creation (Protocol No. 629). Since then the Day for the Protection of our Natural Environment has been adopted by all Orthodox Churches, while many other Christian churches have also followed the lead of the Orthodox Church by adopting September 1 as the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. This proclamation and exhortation by Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios, and the many years of global leadership and pastoral ministry of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in relation to care for our natural environment, affirm the priority of this observance as we enter the new cycle of feasts and commemorations. Today, in our hymns we sing, O eternal Word and Son of God You are the Author, the Creator of the visible and invisible world. Bless the crown of the year! We proclaim, O Word of God, who exists before all time, You have created all things in wisdom, and by Your all-powerful word, You organized the whole cosmos. Thus, we encourage every parish and individual to heed this message by developing programs to assist our communities in becoming better stewards of creation. As a practical way to help in this journey, a special toolkit has been compiled, a toolkit that can be found at ecumenical.goarch.org. This Feast and those that will follow in the months to come are a witness of our relationship with the created order through our relationship with Christ. We acknowledge before all of the world that our Lord created all things by bringing them into being out of nothing. We proclaim that He is our Creator, expressing our petitions and hope for peace and protection, for renewal and salvation. In our respect for all that He has made, in seeing the created order as the work of God and not merely natural resources, in affirming that each and every person bears His image and likeness, we are called to be wise and faithful stewards. Every time we gather in worship and for the Divine Liturgy we affirm this calling in the offering of the Holy Eucharist through the created elements of bread and wine. In his inaugural encyclical for this observance, Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios stated, In this way the Church continuously declares that man is destined not to exercise power over creation as if he were the owner of it, but to act as its steward, cultivating it in love and referring it in thankfulness with respect and reverence to its Creator. The celebration of the Holy Eucharist embodies our witness of caring for our natural environment. We care for the created order in reverence and love, cultivating it for our physical needs and for those of others; and we offer the elements as gifts to God in thankfulness so that He may consecrate them as a means of His grace. As we enter upon a new season, a time of beginnings as the land is cultivated and our children and youth return to school, a time of renewal as we seek to strengthen our faith and follow the ways of the Lord, may we also strengthen our relationship with the created order. May we reconnect with the beauty, diversity, sustenance, and life that comes from the world that God has made. May we affirm our divine calling to protect our natural environment as His creation, and as Orthodox Christians offer our support for the leadership and ministry of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and our beloved Ecumenical Patriarchate. May this ecclesiastical year be filled with the peace, blessings, and protection of Christ, our Creator and Redeemer. With paternal love in Him, +DEMETRIOS, Archbishop of America
SUNDAY, AUGUST 26 ATTENDANCE 135 ~ CANDLE AND TRAY COLLECTIONS $706 Holy Trinity Cathedral Greek Orthodox Community of New Orleans 1200 ROBERT E. LEE BOULEVARD NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70122 Very Reverend Father George Wilson, Dean priest@holytrinitycathedral.org PHONE: (504) 282-0259 FAX: (504) 283-5586
2α ΣΕΠΤΕΜΒPIΟΥ 2018 ΚΥΡΙΑΚΗ ΙΔ ΜΑΤΘΑΙΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΑΓΙΟΥ ΜΑΡΤΥΡΟΣ ΜΑΜΑΝΤΟΣ Ἑωθινόν Γ 2 ND SEPTEMBER 2018 14 TH SUNDAY OF MATTHEW HOLY MARTYR MAMMAS Eothion 3 Ἀπολυτίκιον τῆς Ἀνάστασης Ἦχος πλ α Τὸν συνάναρχον Λόγον Πατρὶ καὶ Πνεύματι, τὸν ἐκ Παρθένου τεχθέντα εἰς σωτηρίαν ἡμῶν, ἀνυμνήσωμεν πιστοὶ καὶ προσκυνήσωμεν ὅτι ηὐδόκησε σαρκί, ἀνελθεῖν ἐν τῷ Σταυρῷ, καὶ θάνατον ὑπομεῖναι καὶ ἐγεῖραι τοὺς τεθνεώτας, ἐν τῇ ἐνδόξῳ Ἀναστάσει αὐτοῦ. Ἀπολυτίκιον τοῦ Ἁγίου Ἦχος δ Ὁ Μάρτυς σου Κύριε, ἐν τῇ ἀθλήσει αὐτοῦ, τὸ στέφος ἐκοµίσατο τῆς ἀφθαρσίας, ἐκ σοῦ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἡµῶν ἔχων γὰρ τὴν ἰσχύν σου, τοὺς τυράννους καθεῖλεν ἔθραυσε καὶ δαιµόνων, τὰ ἀνίσχυρα θράση, αὐτοῦ ταῖς ἱκεσίαις Χριστέ, σῶσον τὰς ψυχὰς ἡµῶν. Ἀπολυτίκιον τῆς Ἁγίας Τριάδας Ἦχος πλ δ 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 σοί. Κοντάκιον Ἦχος δ Ιωακείμ καί Άννα όνειδισμού ατεκνίας, καί Αδάμ καί Εύα, εκ τής φθοράς τού θανάτου, ηλευθερώθησαν, Άχραντε, εν τή αγία γεννήσει σου, αυτήν εορτάζει καί ο λαός σου, ενοχής τών πταισμάτων, λυτρωθείς εν τώ κράζειν σοι, Η στείρα τίκτει τήν Θεοτόκον, καί τροφόν τής ζωής ημών. Resurrection Apolytikion Plagal Tone 1 Let us worship the Word who is unoriginate with the Father and the Spirit, and from a Virgin was born for our salvation, O believers, and let us sing His praise. For in His goodness He was pleased to ascend the Cross in the flesh, and to undergo death, and to raise up those who had died, by His glorious Resurrection. Apolytikion for the Saint Tone 4 Your Martyr, O Lord, was worthily awarded by You the crown of incorruption, in that he contested for You our immortal God. Since he possessed Your power, he defeated the tyrants, dashing the demons' powerless displays of defiance. O Christ God, at his fervent entreaties, save our souls. Apolytikion of the Holy Trinity Plagal Tone 4 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. Kontakion Tone 4 Both Joachim and Anna from their sterility's stigma, and Adam and Eve from their mortality's ruin have been set free, O immaculate Maid, by your holy nativity. For this do your people hold celebration, redeemed from the guilt of transgression as they cry to you, "The barren one bears the Theotokos, the nourisher of our Life."
ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΟΣ Β' Κορινθίους α 21-24; β 1-4 Ἀδελφοί, ὁ βεβαιῶν ἡμᾶς σὺν ὑμῖν εἰς Χριστόν, καὶ χρίσας ἡμᾶς, θεός, ὁ καὶ σφραγισάμενος ἡμᾶς, καὶ δοὺς τὸν ἀρραβῶνα τοῦ πνεύματος ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ἡμῶν. Ἐγὼ δὲ μάρτυρα τὸν θεὸν ἐπικαλοῦμαι ἐπὶ τὴν ἐμὴν ψυχήν, ὅτι φειδόμενος ὑμῶν οὐκέτι ἦλθον εἰς Κόρινθον. Οὐχ ὅτι κυριεύομεν ὑμῶν τῆς πίστεως, ἀλλὰ συνεργοί ἐσμεν τῆς χαρᾶς ὑμῶν τῇ γὰρ πίστει ἑστήκατε. Ἔκρινα δὲ ἐμαυτῷ τοῦτο, τὸ μὴ πάλιν ἐν λύπῃ πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἐλθεῖν. Εἰ γὰρ ἐγὼ λυπῶ ὑμᾶς, καὶ τίς ἐστιν ὁ εὐφραίνων με, εἰ μὴ ὁ λυπούμενος ἐξ ἐμοῦ; Καὶ ἔγραψα ὑμῖν τοῦτο αὐτό, ἵνα μὴ ἐλθὼν λύπην ἔχω ἀφʼ ὧν ἔδει με χαίρειν, πεποιθὼς ἐπὶ πάντας ὑμᾶς, ὅτι ἡ ἐμὴ χαρὰ πάντων ὑμῶν ἐστίν. Ἐκ γὰρ πολλῆς θλίψεως καὶ συνοχῆς καρδίας ἔγραψα ὑμῖν διὰ πολλῶν δακρύων, οὐχ ἵνα λυπηθῆτε, ἀλλὰ τὴν ἀγάπην ἵνα γνῶτε ἣν ἔχω περισσοτέρως εἰς ὑμᾶς. ΤΟ ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΟΝ Ματθαῖου κβ 2-14 Εἶπεν ὁ Κύριος τὴν παραβολὴν ταύτην Ὡμοιώθη ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν ἀνθρώπῳ βασιλεῖ, ὅστις ἐποίησε γάμους τῷ υἱῷ αὐτοῦ. Καὶ ἀπέστειλε τοὺς δούλους αὐτοῦ καλέσαι τοὺς κεκλημένους εἰς τοὺς γάμους, καὶ οὐκ ἤθελον ἐλθεῖν. Πάλιν ἀπέστειλεν ἄλλους δούλους λέγων Εἴπατε τοῖς κεκλημένοις ἰδοὺ τὸ ἄριστόν μου ἡτοίμασα, οἱ ταῦροί μου καὶ τὰ σιτιστὰ τεθυμένα, καὶ πάντα ἕτοιμα δεῦτε εἰς τοὺς γάμους. οἱ δὲ ἀμελήσαντες ἀπῆλθον, ὃς μὲν εἰς τὸν ἴδιον ἀγρόν, ὃς δὲ εἰς τὴν ἐμπορίαν αὐτοῦ οἱ δὲ λοιποὶ κρατήσαντες τοὺς δούλους αὐτοῦ ὕβρισαν καὶ ἀπέκτειναν. Ἀκούσας δὲ ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐκεῖνος ὠργίσθη, καὶ πέμψας τὰ στρατεύματα αὐτοῦ ἀπώλεσε τοὺς φονεῖς ἐκείνους καὶ τὴν πόλιν αὐτῶν ἐνέπρησε. Τότε λέγει τοῖς δούλοις αὐτοῦ Ο μὲν γάμος ἕτοιμός ἐστιν, οἱ δὲ κεκλημένοι οὐκ ἦσαν ἄξιοι πορεύεσθε οὖν ἐπὶ τὰς διεξόδους τῶν ὁδῶν, καὶ ὅσους ἐὰν εὕρητε καλέσατε εἰς τοὺς γάμους. Καὶ ἐξελθόντες οἱ δοῦλοι ἐκεῖνοι εἰς τὰς ὁδοὺς συνήγαγον πάντας ὅσους εὗρον, πονηρούς τε καὶ ἀγαθούς καὶ ἐπλήσθη ὁ γάμος ἀνακειμένων. Εἰσελθὼν δὲ ὁ βασιλεὺς θεάσασθαι τοὺς ἀνακειμένους εἶδεν ἐκεῖ ἄνθρωπον οὐκ ἐνδεδυμένον ἔνδυμα γάμου, καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ Ἐταῖρε, πῶς εἰσῆλθες ὧδε μὴ ἔχων ἔνδυμα γάμου; Ο δὲ ἐφιμώθη. Τότε εἶπεν ὁ βασιλεὺς τοῖς διακόνοις Δήσαντες αὐτοῦ πόδας καὶ χεῖρας ἄρατε αὐτὸν καὶ ἐκβάλετε εἰς τὸ σκότος τὸ ἐξώτερον ἐκεῖ ἔσται ὁ κλαυθμὸς καὶ ὁ βρυγμὸς τῶν ὀδόντων. Πολλοὶ γάρ εἰσι κλητοὶ, ὀλίγοι δὲ ἐκλεκτοί. THE EPISTLE II Corinthians 1:21-24; 2:1-4 BRETHREN, it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has commissioned us; he has put his seal upon us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee. But I call God to witness against me - it was to spare you that I refrained from coming to Corinth. Not that we lord it over your faith; we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith. For I made up my mind not to make you another painful visit. For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained? And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all. For I wrote you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you. THE GOSPEL Matthew 22:2-14 The Lord said this parable, "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a marriage feast for his son, and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast; but they would not come. Again he sent other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited, Behold, I have made ready my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves are killed, and everything is ready; come to the marriage feast.' But they made light of it and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them. The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy. Go therefore to the thoroughfares, and invite to the marriage feast as many as you find.' And those servants went out into the streets and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good; so the wedding hall was filled with guests. But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment; and he said to him, 'Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?' And he was speechless. Then the king said to the attendants, 'Bind him hand and foot, and cast him into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.' For many are called, but few are chosen."