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Assumption Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2017-08-13
Bulletin Contents
Saints and Feasts
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Hymns of the Day
Wisdom of the Fathers
Message from Fr. Jon
Message from the Parish Council
Upcoming Events
Assumption Parish Calendar
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Assumption Greek Orthodox Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (502)425-7775
  • Street Address:

  • 930 Ormsby Lane

  • Louisville, KY 40242

Contact Information

Presiding Priest Rev. Fr. Jon S. Boukis

priest@assumption.ky.goarch.org | (502) 425-7775

Services Schedule

Great Vespers - Saturday 5:00pm

Orthros - Sunday 9:00am

Divine Liturgy- Sunday 10:00am

Past Bulletins


Saints and Feasts

Healdemonicboy
August 13

10th Sunday of Matthew

Transfiguration
August 13

Apodosis of the Transfiguration

Maximosconfes
August 13

Maximus the Confessor

The divine Maximus, who was from Constantinople, sprang from an illustrious family. He was a lover of wisdom and an eminent theologian. At first, he was the chief private secretary of the Emperor Heraclius and his grandson Constans. But when the Monothelite heresy became predominant in the royal court, out of hatred for this error the Saint departed for the Monastery at Chrysopolis (Scutari), of which he later became the abbot. When Constans tried to constrain him either to accept the Monothelite teaching, or to stop speaking and writing against it - neither of which the Saint accepted to do - his tongue was uprooted and his right hand was cut off, and he was sent into exile, where he reposed in 662. At the time only he and his few disciples were Orthodox in the East. See also January 21.

Allsaint
August 13

Our Righteous Fathers Sergius, Stephanus, Castor and Palamonus

Allsaint
August 13

Dorotheus, Abba of Gaza

Saint Dorotheos was born in Antioch, Syria, in the year 506 or 508 A.D. He began his education very early in life and profited from the social statusof his parents. He received a classical education in the Greco-Roman world, which included medical studies, thus allowing him to work as a physician. Despite his great mind, Dorotheos yearned for a life of seclusion in the monastery. He inquired through letters with the holy men Barsanuphius and John (see February 6th) as how to begin the process towards monasticism. Many of these letters exist to this day and provide insight to the life of Dorotheos and his relationship with his mentors.

Dorotheos entered the monastery of Thawatha where Barsanuphius and John lived. His quick mind and advanced education made life in the monastery difficult as he struggled with social encounters and even challenged his abbot when he knew of better ways to run the monastery. This struggle against pride lasted a great while and served as an ongoing lesson for Dorotheos. He worked as assistant to the holy father John and enjoyed this position of communication between John and the rest of the community.

As he progressed in the spiritual life, Dorotheos was given spiritual charge over younger monks to which he was hesitant to accept as he struggled with interactions with others. Despite his reservations, Dorotheos took charge over a young man named Dositheos and taught him the monastic life, a relationship which proved to be difficult but beneficial for both. When John died, Dorotheos left the monastery of Thawatha and founded his own monastery where he took charge of many young monks, training them in the spiritual art.

Allsaint
August 13

Tikhon of Zadonsk

Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk was born in 1724 into a very poor family of the Novgorod province, and was named Timothy in holy Baptism. In his youth he was sent to seminary in Novgorod where he received a good education and later taught Greek and other subjects. Having received the monastic tonsure with the name Tikhon, in the same year he was ordained deacon and priest, and appointed two years later as rector of the Seminary in Tver. In 1761 he was consecrated Bishop of Kexholm and Ladoga, and in 1763 nominated Bishop of Voronezh, a difficult diocese to administer because of its large size and transient population, which included many schismatics. Feeling the burden of the episcopacy to be beyond his strength, the Saint resigned in 1767, retiring first to the Monastery of Tolshevo, and later to the monastery at Zadonsk, where he remained until his blessed repose. In retirement, he devoted all his time to fervent prayer and the writing of books. His treasury of books earned him the title of "the Russian Chrysostom", whose writings he employed extensively; simple in style, replete with quotes from the Holy Scriptures, they treat mostly of the duties of Christians, with many parables taken from daily life. In them the Christian is taught how to oppose the passions and cultivate the virtues. A large collection of the Saint's letters are included in his works, and these give a wealth of spiritual guidance directed both to the laity and monastics. Saint Tikhon reposed in peace in 1783, at the age of fifty-nine. Over sixty years later, in 1845, when a new church was built in Zadonsk in place of the church where he was buried, it was necessary to remove his body. Although interred in a damp place, his relics were found to be whole and incorrupt; even his vestments were untouched by decay. Many miracles were worked by Saint Tikhon after his death, and some three hundred thousand pilgrims attended his glorification on August 13, 1863. He is one of the most beloved Russian Saints, and is invoked particularly for the protection and upbringing of children.

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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

Tenth Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from John 21:1-14

At that time, being raised from the dead, Jesus revealed himself to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias; and he revealed himself in this way. Simon Peter, Thomas called the Twin, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together. Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing." They said to him, "We will go with you." They went out and got into the boat; but that night they caught nothing. Just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the beach; but the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to them, "Children, have you any fish?" They answered him, "No." He said to them, "Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some." So they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in, for the quantity of fish. The disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his clothes, for he was stripped for work, and sprang into the sea. But the other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish, for they were not far from the land, but about a hundred yards off.

When they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fire there, with fish lying on it, and bread. Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish that you have just caught." So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, a hundred and fifty-three of them; and although there were so many, the net was not torn. Jesus said to them, "Come and have breakfast." Now none of the disciples dared ask him, "Who are you?" They knew it was the Lord. Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and so with the fish. This was now the third time that Jesus was revealed to the disciples after he was raised from the dead.

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. 1st Tone. Psalm 32.22,1.
Let your mercy, O Lord, be upon us.
Verse: Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous.

The reading is from St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 4:9-16.

Brethren, God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men. We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and buffeted and homeless, and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become, and are now, as the refuse of the world, the off-scouring of all things. I do not write this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. I urge you, then, be imitators of me.

Gospel Reading

10th Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 17:14-23

At that time, a man came up to Jesus and kneeling before him said, "Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and he suffers terribly; for often he falls into the fire, and often into the water. And I brought him to your disciples, and they could not heal him." And Jesus answered, "O faithless and perverse generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me." And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon came out of him, and the boy was cured instantly. Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, "Why could we not cast it out?" He said to them, "Because of your little faith. For truly I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move hence to yonder place,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you. But this kind never comes out except by prayer and fasting." As they were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of man is to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him, and he will be raised on the third day."

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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the 1st Tone

When the stone had been sealed by the Jews and the soldiers were guarding Thine immaculate Body, Thou didst arise on the third day, O Saviour, granting life unto the world. Wherefore, the powers of the Heavens cried out to Thee, O Lifegiver: Glory to Thy Resurrection, O Christ. Glory to Thy Kingdom. Glory to Thy dispensation, O only Friend of man.

Apolytikion for Apodosis of Transfiguration in the Grave Tone

Thou wast transfigured on the mountain, O Christ our God, showing to Thy disciples Thy glory as each one could endure. Shine forth Thou on us, who are sinners all, Thy light ever-unending, through the prayers of the Theotokos. Light-bestower, glory be to Thee.

Apolytikion of Dormition in the 1st Tone

In giving birth, you remained a virgin, and in your dormition, you did not forsake this world, O Theotokos. For as the Mother of Life, you have yourself passed into life. And by your prayers deliver our souls from death.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Grave Tone

You were transfigured upon the mount, O Christ our God, and Your disciples, in so far as they could bear, beheld Your glory. Thus, when they see You crucified, they may understand Your voluntary passion, and proclaim to the world that You are truly the effulgence of the Father.
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Wisdom of the Fathers

Yet if his unbelief was the cause ... why does He blame the disciples? Signifying, that even without persons to bring the sick in faith, they might in many instances work a cure.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 57 on Matthew 17, 4th Century

For as the faith of the person presenting oftentimes availed for receiving the cure, even from inferior ministers; so the power of the doers oftentimes sufficed, even without belief in those who came to work the miracle.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 57 on Matthew 17, 4th Century

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Message from Fr. Jon

Fr._jon

Pastoral Message from the August Beacon

08/01/2017

Dear Parishioners of our Beloved Assumption,

Each Summer, our parish “travels” from festival to Festival!

The small “f” festival is one of our primary fundraisers of the year.  It is an event that we so eagerly anticipate with excitement, yet also dread due to the amount of work it requires.  We as creatures of the uncreated Lord extend our “Grecian” hospitality to all who present themselves.  As the spiritual father representing His Eminence Metropolitan Nicholas at your parish, I was proud to see how well our parishioners worked together to accomplish this massive undertaking—especially our chairpersons who put in many tireless hours in preparation.  I was also excited to not only see your stewardship of time and talent, but also that even fellowship and happiness was present during those long hot days. It is through our love for one another and through our hospitality that we are recognized  as Christian and witness to all His existence within each of us.

The capital “F” Festival is the Church Nameday Festival, the Great Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos on August 15th.  This Festival is not built around our love being extended, but His love being extended to us.  It is our receiving of His love that empowers us to love others—maybe even those we don’t necessarily like.  It is through our worship,  thanksgiving and love of our whole being towards God that we reveal ourselves not only as Christian, but as Orthodox.

My call to each of you is that we travel together.  Let us make this journey of love to our Parish’s feast that we may worship Him while honoring her (the Theotokos).  Let this Parish feast be a true celebration of worship and community.  We have celebrated our love of our fellow man, let us now celebrate our love for Him as we receive His love for us!

I remain,

In His Service,

Rev. Father Jon Boukis

Proistamenos

“Attract, Serve, Illuminate”


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Message from the Parish Council

Church

Parish Council Message from the August Beacon

08/01/2017

Dear Parishioners,

Thinking about our church as our family, can sometimes be hard to comprehend.

Then, something occurs to remind us of that meaning, like Maria and Jim Athanasiou’s visit to the church a couple of weeks ago to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary and to share their celebration with the rest of the family.

As you all know, being part of a family is a “two-way street.” Our Church is no different - our church fulfills our spiritual needs and faith; and, we are obliged to keep the lights on, and to make sure the church is sustainable.

Our goal is to able to run the church on stewardship pledges only, so that any fundraising can be used to promote our mission and ministries.

Unfortunately, we are not there yet. We still need fundraising events to finance some of the operation.

Two of our annual historically successful events, WorldFest and the Glendi, at this time no one has volunteered to take the lead as chairpersons.

Everyone has something to give—talent, treasure or sweat.

Please give as much as you can afford from your talent, treasure or sweat.

Please help the family.

In Christ,

Ramsey

“Attract, Serve, Illuminate”


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Upcoming Events

Assumption Community Picnic and Comedy Night

08/19/2017

Come and Enjoy an evening of Great Food, fun and Fellowship.  Food and Drink Provided!!!  Family Friendly comedy show!!!

Saturday,  August 19th

5pm-Fellowship/Food     7pm-Show

$10 Adults     18 and Under Free

 RSVP to office@assumption.ky.goarch.org so that we may prepare accordingly


Be the Bee "BeeTreat"

08/26/2017

Be the Bee – August 26 at St. Michael Orthodox Church

Sunday School Teachers, Youth Workers, Youth and Parents!!!

This is a great opportunity for our youth to come not only grow in the faith, but also have a great time.  It will be invaluable for our parents and youth team to grow in our ministries for our most valuable asset – our children! Steve Christophorou and his team will offer an incredible “BeeTreat” for all of us.  Online registration available soon.

Inspired by the popular video series “Be the Bee,” this retreat is a chance for people to come together in the name of Christ to pray, learn, grow, and have fun. After Matins in the morning, youth and adults will break up into two tracks for sessions and workshops, with a break for lunch. The BeeTreat will conclude with Vespers. We will also have a Young Adult Coffeehouse Saturday evening at 7pm.

Youth Track (6th—12th Grade)

  • 9:30am-10:15am Matins in St George Chapel
  • 10:20am-10:50am Icebreaker
  • 10:55am-11:55pm Prayer Workshop: Silence
  • 12:00pm-1:00pm Session I: Finding Union with God
  • 1:00-2:00pm Lunch
  • 2:00pm-3:00pm Session II: Finding Union Within Ourselves
  • 3:05pm-4:05pm Session III: Finding Union With Our Neighbors
  • 4:10pm-5:00pm Vespers & Wrap-Up

 Adult Track

  • 9:45am-10:15am Matins in St George Chapel
  • 10:20am-10:50am Icebreaker
  • 10:55am-11:55pm Ministry 101: Why We Do What We Do
  • 12:00pm-1:00pm Ministry 102: Reflecting the Image of Christ
  • 1:00-2:00pm Lunch
  • 2:00pm-3:00pm Ministry 103: Being the Church at Home
  • 3:05pm-4:05pm Ministry 104: Practicing What We Do
  • 4:10pm-5:00pm Vespers & Wrap-Up

Blessing of the Backpacks

09/10/2017

On September 10th, we will hold a special Agiasmos Service (Blessing of the Water) for the Blessing of the classrooms and the school year. The children are invited to come up on the solea with their “backpacks,” school books or just themselves to be blessed for a healthy and prosperous year of education. Don’t miss it!!!


Men's Club Lamb Roast

09/21/2017

Men's Club Lamb Roast and Planning Meeting

On Thursday, September 21st, at 6pm, the Men's Club will gather for a lamb dinner and have its first meeting to plan the events of the 2017/2018 year.  Your surveys were most helpful in know what our men would like!  Come and enjoy great food and Christian fellowship and service! More details to come!


2nd Annual "GOGO"

10/07/2017

The 2nd Annual "GOGO" (Greek Orthodox Golf Olympics) will take place at Fuzzy Zoeller's Covered Bridge Golf Club in Sellersburg, Indiana, on Saturday, October 7, 2017.

The format will be a 4 Man Scramble with a Shotgun Start at 9:00am.  Details are available in the Monthly Beacon at www.assumption.ky.goarch.org.


Kroger Community Rewards®

Are you already Kroger shopper?
Your current shopping could be benefitting the Assumption!

Kroger Community Rewards® makes fund-raising easy...all you have to do is shop at Kroger and swipe your Plus Card!

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TO USE THE KROGER COMMUNITY REWARDS PROGRAM:

· Go to www.krogercommunityrewards.com and register your Kroger Plus Card (if you are already registered, click “Sign In” instead of “Create an Account.”)

· Sign up for a Kroger Rewards Account by entering zip code, clicking on favorite store, entering your email address and creating a password, agreeing to the terms and conditions

· You will then get a message to check your email inbox and click on the link within the body of the email.

· Click on My Account and use your email address and password to proceed to the next step.

· Click on Edit Kroger Community Rewards information and input your Kroger Plus card number. If you use your phone number at the register instead of a card, call 800-576-4377, select option 4 to get your Kroger Plus card number.

· Update or confirm your information.

· Enter “Assumption” or our NPO number of 10779 and select us from the list and click on confirm.

· If enrollment is complete, you will see Assumption’s name on the right side of your information page.

· That’s it!!! Use your registered Kroger Plus card or phone number at the register and our parish benefits!!!

By registering online, coupons can be electronically attached to your Plus Card. Not only do you help the Church, but you save money. Talk to everyone you know about registering to benefit our parish!!!


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Assumption Parish Calendar

  • Assumption Calendar

    August 13 to August 27, 2017

    Sunday, August 13

    Philoptochos Meeting

    8:45AM Orthros

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy

    Monday, August 14

    6:00PM Great Vespers for the Great Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos

    Tuesday, August 15

    9:00AM Orthros for the Great Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy for the Great Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos

    Wednesday, August 16

    6:00PM Capital Campaign Committee

    Saturday, August 19

    5:00PM Assumption Picnic and Comedy Night

    5:00PM No Great Vespers

    Sunday, August 20

    8:45AM Orthros

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy

    Monday, August 21

    6:30PM AHEPA Meeting

    Saturday, August 26

    9:30AM BeeTreat

    5:00PM No Great Vespers

    Sunday, August 27

    8:45AM Orthros

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy

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