Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral New Orleans, Louisiana

Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral New Orleans, Louisiana DECEMBER 1, 2013 Nahum the Prophet Sunday, December 1 ~ 8:45 am Orthros, 10:00 am Divine Liturgy NO Sunday School and NO Hymnology Today NO Christmas Pageant Song Practice 12:00 pm ~ GOYA Annual Community Christmas Card Sign Up in Coffee Room 12:00 pm ~ Philoptochos Angel Tree Project Pick Up Ornaments in Coffee Room NO Youth Greek School Monday, December 2 ~ 9:30 am to 2:30 pm Daughters Pastry Workshop 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm ~ Adult Intermediate Greek Class in Room 210 Tuesday, December 3 ~ 9:30 am to 2:30 pm Daughters Pastry Workshop 10:30 am ~ Archives Committee Meeting in Icon Room 6:00 pm ~ GOYA Basketball Practice in Gymnasium 7:00 pm ~ Education, Cultural, and Youth Ministries Meeting in Boardroom Wednesday, December 4 ~ 9:30 am to 2:30 pm Daughters Pastry Workshop 2:30 pm ~ SoccerTots in Gymnasium 5:30 pm ~ Vesperal Liturgy St. Barbara the Great Martyr 7:00 pm ~ Adult Beginning Greek Class Thursday, December 5 ~ 9:30 am to 2:30 pm Daughters Pastry Workshop 6:00 pm ~ GOYA Basketball Practice in Gymnasium Friday, December 6 ~ 9:00 am Divine Liturgy St. Nicholas the Wonderworker Daughters Pastry Workshop after Divine Liturgy, if necessary 12:00 pm ~ Cathedral Office CLOSED for the afternoon Saturday, December 7 ~ 10:00 am to 12:00 pm Youth Greek School 6:00 pm ~ Vespers Sunday, December 8 ~ 8:45 am Orthros, 10:00 am Divine Liturgy Sunday School following Holy Communion Hymnology in Gymnasium First Christmas Pageant Song Practice immediately following Hymnology 12:00 pm ~ Daughters Bake Sale Pick Up Orders in Gymnasium 12:00 pm ~ GOYA Annual Community Christmas Card Sign Up in Coffee Room 12:00 pm ~ GOYA Meeting in Upstairs Common Area 12:00 pm ~ Kids Café in Foyer 12:00 pm ~ Philoptochos Angel Tree Project Pick Up Ornaments in Coffee Room 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm ~ Youth Greek School in Room 210 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm ~ Board of Trustees Elections in Boardroom SUNDAY YOUTH CLASSES Please note there is NO Sunday School, Hymnology, Christmas Pageant Song Practice, or Greek School today. Regular programs will resume next Sunday, December 8, 2013. YOUTH HYMNOLOGY PROGRAM During December Sunday School students will learn the Communion Hymn "Ainete ton Kyrion Praise the Lord." This is chanted while the priest says inaudible prayers and prepares the Holy Communion. Immediately after Communion all students will proceed to the gymnasium for this instruction and then go to their classrooms. Director Viki Moustoukas and the Sunday School staff are very happy that many parents and grandparents also attend this brief class. They wish to thank them for their support, sitting with the children and helping the young choir members follow along. Please contact Viki Moustoukas (vmoustouka@aol.com) with any questions about this program. 2013 SUNDAY S C H O O L C H R I S T M A S P A G E A N T S UNDAY, DECEMBER 22 Dear Parents and Teachers, It is time again for the Annual Sunday School Christmas Pageant! Song practices will immediately follow the Youth Hymnology session each Sunday from now through Sunday, December 15, except today December 1. After the pageant practice the Sunday School students will proceed upstairs to their classrooms. Please make sure that your child(ren) attends at least three (3) Sunday School classes between now and December 15 in order to participate in this year s pageant. Selections for reading and main play parts will be made next Sunday, December 8. A full rehearsal and costume distribution will immediately follow the PTA sponsored Communion Breakfast on Saturday, December 21. As director of the pageant, I look forward to having everyone together for another beautiful Sunday School Christmas Pageant and encourage all of the Holy Trinity Cathedral children to participate. If you have any questions, please contact me at 504.390.1768 or via email at cmkogos2@aol.com. Warm Regards, Christina Kogos

ARCHIVES Archives members will meet on Tuesday, December 3, at 10:30 am in the Icon Room. ANGEL TREE Once again, the Philoptochos Society is accepting donations for the Angel Tree, a most popular project that benefits several special families within our Cathedral Community. Holy Trinity PTA, HOPE & JOY, and GOYA also participate by decorating the tree and making the ornaments. Please stop by, select an ornament, and fill a parishioner's Christmas wish. Ornaments may be picked up on Sundays, December 1 and 8. All gifts are due back on December 15. Diana Moustoukas Peterson and Viki Moustoukas will be available in the Coffee Room after services on the above dates to answer any questions. EDUCATION, CULTURAL, AND YOUTH MINISTRIES MEETING The monthly Education, Cultural, and Youth Ministries Committee meeting will be this Tuesday, December 3, 2013, at 7:00 pm in the Boardroom. All members are asked to attend. If you have questions, please contact Committee Chairperson Steve Psarellis. GREEK PASTRY SALE Response for the Daughters of Penelope Greek Pastry Sale has been extremely good. To complete the orders, all available Daughters are asked to attend the workshops this week Monday, December 2 through Thursday, December 5. If necessary, a workshop will begin after Divine Liturgy on Friday, December 6. All orders must be picked up next Sunday, December 8, in the gymnasium. Many thanks to those, who purchased pastries. PHILOPTOCHOS SENIOR CITIZENS LUNCHEON Senior Citizens are invited to our upcoming luncheon on Tuesday, December 10, 2013, at 11:30 am at Austin s Restaurant in Metairie. Our appreciation is extended to Anthoula and Paris Malachias for sponsoring the Christmas luncheon in memory of Anthoula s brother, George Perdikidis. We also thank Irene Papazis for sponsoring the luncheon in memory of her husband George Papazis. If you have not already made your reservation, please contact Connie Tiliakos (504-885-0206) or call Vickie Catsulis at the Cathedral office (504-282-0259) by Wednesday, December 4, 2013. Mark your calendar and make plans to attend. PHILIPPINES DISASTER Typhoon Haiyan has ravaged vast swaths in the major city of Tacloban in the Philippines leaving people displaced, homeless, without food and clean water, struggling to survive. Through your support of our chapter s fundraising activities, our Ladies Philoptochos Society is financially able to immediately respond with aid in the amount of $500 to the catastrophe in the Philippines. These funds, serving as an urgent first response, will be transmitted to the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Hong Kong, which will oversee the distribution to the needy in the Philippines. ANNUAL COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS CARD The Holy Trinity Cathedral GOYANS are asking you to support their Annual Community Christmas Card. Submit your completed sheet with payment to the Cathedral office no later than Sunday, December 8, 2013, or simply drop both off at the GOYA table located in the Coffee Room. Please make checks payable to HOLY TRINITY CATHEDRAL GOYA. PARISH CHRISTMAS CAROLING Holy Trinity Cathedral PTA has scheduled the annual Community Christmas Caroling venture for Friday, December 20, 2013. HOPE & JOY and GOYA members will share their youthful goodwill and cheer among the households they visit. The evening festivities will begin at 4:30 pm with a fasting pot luck dinner in the Hellenic Cultural Center, followed by the slated visitations to various community families, particularly shut-ins. If you wish to be included among the list of families, please contact the Cathedral office at 504-282-0259. PTA TURKEY RAFFLE WINNER Congratulations to Socrates Toras, this year's winner of the Holy Trinity PTA Turkey Raffle. On behalf of the organization, fundraising chairperson Angeliki Frezoulis thanks all parishioners, who supported this project. PTA VASILOPITA FUNDRAISER Under the supervision of Evangelia Bilalis, Holy Trinity Cathedral PTA volunteers baked loaves of the traditional St. Basil's sweet bread, which are on sale each Sunday in the Coffee Room until all are sold. Purchase your New Year's bread today. ELEGIBILITY TO VOTE IN UPCOMING ELECTIONS Parishioners, who wish to vote in the upcoming Board of Trustees elections yet are not current in their pledges, must complete their 2013 Stewardship obligations by NOON this Friday, December 7, 2013. The Cathedral office will be closed that afternoon until Monday morning; no one will be available to receive stewardship payments during the weekend. ABSENTEE VOTING DEADLINE EXTENDED The original November 30, 2013, deadline for the Cathedral office to receive absentee ballots for the Board of Trustees elections has been extended to December 4, 2013. The three days extension compensates for the office being closed from November 28 through November 30 due to the Thanksgiving holidays and the weekend. Members in Good Standing can vote absentee during the regular Cathedral office business hours Monday, December 2 through Wednesday, December 4 from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.

CATHEDRAL MONTESSORI SCHOOL FUNDRAISER Enclosed please find a flyer for the annual Cathedral Montessori School fundraiser slated Saturday, December 7, 2013, at 3 Audubon Place in New Orleans. Tickets for the 2013 Monte Soiree are $50 per person. Holy Trinity Cathedral Greek Orthodox Community of New Orlean s 1200 ROBERT E. LEE BOULEVARD NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70122 PHONE: (504) 282-0259 FAX: (504) 283-5586 Very Reverend Father Maximos Pafilis FrMaximos@holytrinitycathedral.org 504-609-1499

1η ΔΕΚΕΜΒΡΙΟΥ 2013 ΚΥΡΙΑΚΗ ΙΔ ΛΟΥΚΑ Τοῦ Ἁγίου Προφήτου Ναούμ Ἑωθινόν A 1 st DECEMBER 2013 14 TH SUNDAY OF LUKE Nahum the Prophet Eothion 1 Ἀπολυτίκιον τῆς Ἀνάστασης Ἦχος πλ β Ἀγγελικαὶ δυνάμεις ἐπὶ τὸ μνῆμά σου, καὶ οἱ φυλάσσοντες, ἀπενεκρώθησαν καὶ ἵστατο Μαρία ἐν τῷ τάφῳ, ζητοῦσα τὸ ἄχραντόν σου σῶμα. Ἐσκύλευσας τὸν ᾍδην, μὴ πειρασθεὶς ὑπ' αὐτοῦ ὑπήντησας τῇ Παρθένῳ, δωρούμενος τὴν ζωήν. Ὁ ἀναστὰς ἐκ τῶν νεκρῶν, Κύριε δόξα σοι. 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 γ Ἡ Παρθένος σήμερον, τὸν Προαιώνιον Λόγον, ἐν Σπηλαίῳ ἔρχεται, ἀποτεκεῖν ἀπορρήτως. Χόρευε ἡ οἰκουμένη ἀκουτισθεῖσα, δόξασον μετὰ Ἀγγέλων καὶ τῶν Ποιμένων, βουληθέντα ἐποφθῆναι, παιδίον νέον, τὸν πρὸ αἰώνων Θεόν. Resurrection Apolytikion Plagal Tone 2 Angelic powers attended at Your grave, and those who were on guard became as dead. And Mary stood in the tomb, seeking Your pure body. You have despoiled Death and not been touched by him; you met the Virgin and gave us life. Lord who rose from the dead, glory to you. 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 3 On this day the Virgin cometh to the cave to give birth to God the Word ineffably, Who was before all the ages. Dance for joy, O earth, on hearing the gladsome tidings; with the Angels and the shepherds now glorify Him Who is willing to be gazed on as a young Child Who before the ages is God. The Prophet Nahum, whose name means comforter, came from Elkesaeus (Elkosh) and was from the tribe of Symeon. He is seventh in order among the twelve Minor Prophets. He prophesied during the time of Hezekias after the destruction of Samaria, which was 721 years before Christ, but before the ten tribes were taken into captivity. He prophesied against Nineveh, the capital of Assyria. His book of prophecy is divided into three chapters.

ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΟΣ Ἐφεσίους β 4-10 Σῶσον, Κύριε τὸν λαὸν σου καὶ εὐλόγησον τὴν κληρονομίαν σου. Στίχ. Πρὸς σἐ, Κύριε, κεκράξομαι ὁ Θεός μου. Ἀδελφοί, ὁ Θεός, πλούσιος ὢν ἐν ἐλέει, διὰ τὴν πολλὴν ἀγάπην αὐτοῦ ἣν ἠγάπησεν ἡμᾶς, καὶ ὄντας ἡμᾶς νεκροὺς τοῖς παραπτώμασιν συνεζωοποίησεν τῷ Χριστῷ - χάριτί ἐστε σεσωσμένοι - καὶ συνήγειρεν, καὶ συνεκάθισεν ἐν τοῖς ἐπουρανίοις ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ ἵνα ἐνδείξηται ἐν τοῖς αἰῶσιν τοῖς ἐπερχομένοις τὸν ὑπερβάλλοντα πλοῦτον τῆς χάριτος αὐτοῦ ἐν χρηστότητι ἐφʼ ἡμᾶς ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ τῇ γὰρ χάριτί ἐστε σεσῳσμένοι διὰ τῆς πίστεως, καὶ τοῦτο οὐκ ἐξ ὑμῶν θεοῦ τὸ δῶρον οὐκ ἐξ ἔργων, ἵνα μή τις καυχήσηται. Αὐτοῦ γάρ ἐσμεν ποίημα, κτισθέντες ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ ἐπὶ ἔργοις ἀγαθοῖς, οἷς προητοίμασεν ὁ θεός, ἵνα ἐν αὐτοῖς περιπατήσωμεν. ΤΟ ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΟΝ Λουκάν ιη 35-43 Τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ, Ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ ἐγγίζειν τὸν Ἰησοῦν εἰς Ἱεριχώ τυφλός τις ἐκάθητο παρὰ τὴν ὁδὸν προσαιτῶν ἀκούσας δὲ ὄχλου διαπορευομένου ἐπυν-θάνετο τί εἴη ταῦτα ἀπήγγειλαν δὲ αὐτῷ ὅτι Ιησοῦς ὁ Ναζωραῖος παρέρχεται. καὶ ἐβόησε λέγων Ιησοῦ υἱὲ Δαυΐδ, ἐλέησόν με καὶ οἱ προάγοντες ἐπετίμων αὐτῷ ἵνα σιωπήσῃ αὐτὸς δὲ πολλῷ μᾶλλον ἔκραζεν υἱὲ Δαυΐδ, ἐλέησόν με σταθεὶς δὲ ὁ Ιησοῦς ἐκέλευσεν αὐτὸν ἀχθῆναι πρὸς αὐτόν. ἐγγίσαντος δὲ αὐτοῦ ἐπηρώτησεν αὐτὸν λέγων τί σοι θέλεις ποιήσω; ὁ δὲ εἶπε Κύριε, ἵνα ἀναβλέψω καὶ ὁ Ιησοῦς εἶπεν αὐτῷ ἀνάβλεψον ἡ πίστις σου σέσωκέ σε καὶ παραχρῆμα ἀνέβλεψε, καὶ ἠκολούθει αὐτῷ δοξάζων τὸν Θεόν καὶ πᾶς ὁ λαὸς ἰδὼν ἔδωκεν αἶνον τῷ Θεῷ. EPISTLE Ephesians 2:4-10 O Lord, save your people and bless your inheritance. Verse: To you, O Lord, I have cried, O my God. 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. THE GOSPEL Luke 18:35-43 At that time, as Jesus drew near to Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging; and hearing a multitude going by, he inquired what this meant. They told him, "Jesus of Nazareth is passing by." And he cried, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!" And those who were in front rebuked him, telling him to be silent; but he cried out all the more, "Son of David, have mercy on me!" And Jesus stopped, and commanded him to be brought to him; and when he came near, he asked him, "What do you want me to do for you?" He said, "Lord, let me receive my sight." And Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight; your faith has made you well." And immediately he received his sight and followed him, glorifying God; and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise to God.