Holy Trinity Church
Publish Date: 2025-06-22
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Holy Trinity Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (978) 458-8092
  • Fax:
  • (978) 970-0935
  • Street Address:

  • 62 Lewis Street

  • Lowell, MA 01854


Contact Information






Services Schedule

Orthros: 9:00am 
Divine Liturgy: 10:00am
Sunday Fellowship: following Divine Liturgy


Past Bulletins


Today's Calendar

Memorials:  40 days for Olga Laganas.  May her memory be eternal.

Fellowship Coffee Hour hosted by Philoptochos

Parish Council Members on Duty:  George Kontos, Gregory Curtis, Daniel Routsis and George Tgibides.

Holy Trinity Greek Festival 2025

   Another successful Holy Trinity event!

 Sincere thanks & appreciation to...

  • our donors & sponsors whose generosity underwrote a major portion of the event’s expenses! 
  • to all who came down and supported our parish during the festival!
  • our parishioners & friends who tirelessly volunteered from set-up to clean-up! 
  • our amazing Philoptochos women.  Our excellent Greek cuisine is the star of the festival, and no one does it better than our talented Philoptochos cooks and bakers!
  • our Festival Co-Chairs Gregory Curtis and Joan Metropolis!
  • our festival DJs Nick Diamond & Panagiotis Meltsakos and guest musician Elias Panagopoulos!
  • dance groups: HAA Alumni dancers, Metropolis of Boston Dance group and the Pontiakia Estia of Boston Dance group!

see you next year…

Greek Festival 2026

June 12-13-14

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Weekly Calendar

This week:   

SUMMER HOURS:

June 29—July 20:  Orthros 9:30am and Divine Liturgy 10am.

June 15—September 14:  Orthros 8am and Divine Liturgy 9am, unless  noted otherwise.

JUNE 22 - JULY 21:  Fr. Nick will be away during this time.  For hospital emergencies, please call Fr. Gregory Floor at (801) 455-7155.  For any other calls, contact the Church Office at (978) 458-8092 or [email protected].

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Announcements

 Holy Trinity News
CHURCH SERVICES-SUMMER HOURS:
  • June 29—July 20:  Orthros 9:30am and Divine Liturgy 10am.
  • June 15—September 14:  Orthros 8am and Divine Liturgy 9am, unless noted otherwise.
CHURCH OFFICE Hours:  Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday 10am-2pm. If you need to come into the office at a different date/time, please call during office hours to schedule an appointment.  Kindly use the Lewis St. side entrance and ring the doorbell or, call the office to enter through the elevator entrance.
Upcoming Church Services
  • August 01, Friday, 6:00pm: Paraklesis to the Theotokos - Παρακλησις προς την Υπεραγια Θεοτοκο
  • August 05, Tuesday, (time to be announced): Vesper Service for the Holy Transfiguration of our Lord, at the Transfiguration Church. Ή Μεταμορφωσις του Σωτήρος.
  • August 06, Wednesday, (time to be announced): Divine Liturgy for the Holy Transfiguration of our Lord, at the Transfiguration Church. Ή Μεταμορφωσις του Σωτήρος.
  • August 08, Friday, 6:00pm: Paraklesis to the Theotokos - Παρακλησις προς την Υπεραγια Θεοτοκο
  • August 11, Monday 6:00pm: Paraklesis to the Theotokos - Παρακλησις προς την Υπεραγια Θεοτοκο
  • August 14, Thursday, (time to be announced): Vespers and Epitaphios Service, for the Dormition of the Holy Theotokos. Assumption Church of Dracut. Εσπερινός και Επιταφειος Θρήνος για την Υπεραγια Θεοτόκο. Εκκλησία της Μετάστασης της Θεοτόκου(Παναγιτσα).
  • August 15, Friday (time to be announced): Divine Liturgy of the Dormition of the Theotokos, at the Assumption Church of Dracut.   Θεία Λειτουργία για την Κοίμηση της Υπεραγιας Θεοτόκου. 
  • August 29, Friday: Divine Liturgy, Beheading of Saint John the Baptist. Θεία Λειτουργία, Αποκεφαλισις

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Fellowship Coffee Hours during the Summer:  Philoptochos will resume hosting fellowship coffee hours on September 8th.   Please consider hosting a Fellowship Coffee Hour during the summer months.  It’s simple:  Philoptochos will provide the coffee and paper goods and you provide the donuts or other pastry.  To sign up for a Sunday in July or August, please call the church office, or send an email to [email protected], 

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Church Office Hours:   Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 10:00am - 2:00pm .  If you need to visit the office at a different date or time, please call during office hours or send an email to [email protected], to schedule an appointment. Kindly use the Lewis Street side entrance and ring the bell or, call the office to enter through the elevator entrance.

 Pastoral Visits
Please call the Church Office at 978 458-8092 to arrange a hospital, nursing home or shut-in visit by Fr. Nick.  Health care facilities are unable to contact us because of HIPAA regulations.
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Family Care:  https://www.goarch.org/departments/family
New Charter for the Second Centennial: https://charter.goarch.org/ 
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (GOA) announces the launch of a dedicated website (charter.goarch.org) aimed at providing comprehensive, up-to-date, and accurate information concerning the proposed revision of the Archdiocese’s Charter.
 
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Upcoming Events - Save the Date

 
7-11pm includes Appetizers.  Cash Bar
  • This is an adult and RSVP only event, no tickets will be sold at the door.  
  • Advance Tickets: $85 per person
  • Tables of 8:  Save $30 by purchasing a reserved table of 8 and ensure premium seating. ($650) 
  • Note: Seats will be reserved/assigned only those who purchase a table of 8.  
Click here to purchase tickets
 
 
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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Epistle Reading

2nd Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 2:10-16

Brethren, glory and honor and peace for every one who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. For God shows no partiality. All who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. When Gentiles who have not the law do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or perhaps excuse them on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.

2nd Sunday of Matthew
Πρὸς ῾Ρωμαίους 2:10-16

Ἀδελφοί, δόξα δὲ καὶ τιμὴ καὶ εἰρήνη παντὶ τῷ ἐργαζομένῳ τὸ ἀγαθόν, Ἰουδαίῳ τε πρῶτον καὶ Ἕλληνι· οὐ γάρ ἐστιν προσωποληψία παρὰ τῷ θεῷ. Ὅσοι γὰρ ἀνόμως ἥμαρτον, ἀνόμως καὶ ἀπολοῦνται· καὶ ὅσοι ἐν νόμῳ ἥμαρτον, διὰ νόμου κριθήσονται· οὐ γὰρ οἱ ἀκροαταὶ τοῦ νόμου δίκαιοι παρὰ τῷ θεῷ, ἀλλʼ οἱ ποιηταὶ τοῦ νόμου δικαιωθήσονται. Ὅταν γὰρ ἔθνη τὰ μὴ νόμον ἔχοντα φύσει τὰ τοῦ νόμου ποιῇ, οὗτοι, νόμον μὴ ἔχοντες, ἑαυτοῖς εἰσιν νόμος· οἵτινες ἐνδείκνυνται τὸ ἔργον τοῦ νόμου γραπτὸν ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις αὐτῶν, συμμαρτυρούσης αὐτῶν τῆς συνειδήσεως, καὶ μεταξὺ ἀλλήλων τῶν λογισμῶν κατηγορούντων ἢ καὶ ἀπολογουμένων, ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ὅτε κρινεῖ ὁ θεὸς τὰ κρυπτὰ τῶν ἀνθρώπων, κατὰ τὸ εὐαγγέλιόν μου, διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ.


Gospel Reading

2nd Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 4:18-23

At that time, as Jesus walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. And he said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." Immediately they left their nets and followed him. And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them. Immediately they left their boat and their father, and followed him. And he went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every infirmity among the people.

2nd Sunday of Matthew
Κατὰ Ματθαῖον 4:18-23

Τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ, περιπατῶν δὲ παρὰ τὴν θάλασσαν τῆς Γαλιλαίας εἶδε δύο ἀδελφούς, Σίμωνα τὸν λεγόμενον Πέτρον καὶ ᾿Ανδρέαν τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ, βάλλοντας ἀμφίβληστρον εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν· ἦσαν γὰρ ἁλιεῖς· καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς· δεῦτε ὀπίσω μου καὶ ποιήσω ὑμᾶς ἁλιεῖς ἀνθρώπων. οἱ δὲ εὐθέως ἀφέντες τὰ δίκτυα ἠκολούθησαν αὐτῷ. Καὶ προβὰς ἐκεῖθεν εἶδεν ἄλλους δύο ἀδελφούς, ᾿Ιάκωβον τὸν τοῦ Ζεβεδαίου καὶ ᾿Ιωάννην τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ, ἐν τῷ πλοίῳ μετὰ Ζεβεδαίου τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτῶν καταρτίζοντας τὰ δίκτυα αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐκάλεσεν αὐτούς. οἱ δὲ εὐθέως ἀφέντες τὸ πλοῖον καὶ τὸν πατέρα αὐτῶν ἠκολούθησαν αὐτῷ. Καὶ περιῆγεν ὅλην τὴν Γαλιλαίαν ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς διδάσκων ἐν ταῖς συναγωγαῖς αὐτῶν καὶ κηρύσσων τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τῆς βασιλείας καὶ θεραπεύων πᾶσαν νόσον καὶ πᾶσαν μαλακίαν ἐν τῷ λαῷ.


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Saints and Feasts

June 24

Nativity of the Forerunner John the Baptist

He that was greater than all who are born of women, the Prophet who received God's testimony that he surpassed all the Prophets, was born of the aged and barren Elizabeth (Luke 1: 7) and filled all his kinsmen, and those that lived round about, with gladness and wonder. But even more wondrous was that which followed on the eighth day when he was circumcised, that is, the day on which a male child receives his name. Those present called him Zacharias, the name of his father. But the mother said, "Not so, but he shall be called John." Since the child's father was unable to speak, he was asked, by means of a sign, to indicate the child's name. He then asked for a tablet and wrote, "His name is John." And immediately Zacharias' mouth was opened, his tongue was loosed from its silence of nine months, and filled with the Holy Spirit, he blessed the God of Israel, Who had fulfilled the promises made to their fathers, and had visited them that were sitting in darkness and the shadow of death, and had sent to them the light of salvation. Zacharias prophesied concerning the child also, saying that he would be a Prophet of the Most High and Forerunner of Jesus Christ. And the child John, who was filled with grace, grew and waxed strong in the Spirit; and he was in the wilderness until the day of his showing to Israel (Luke 1:57-80). His name is a variation of the Hebrew "Johanan," which means "Yah is gracious."


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Wisdom of the Fathers

Prayer, fasting, vigil and all other Christian practices, however good they may be in themselves, do not constitute the aim of our Christian life, although they serve as the indispensable means of reaching this end. The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God.
St. Seraphim of Sarov
The Acquisition of the Holy Spirit: Chapter 3, The Little Russian Philokalia Vol. 1; Saint Herman of Alaska Brotherhood pg. 79, 19th century

Within the visible world, man is as it were a second world; and the same is true of thought within the intelligible world. For man is the herald of heaven and earth, and of all that is in them; while thought interprets the intellect and sense perception, and all that pertains to them. Without man and thought both the sensible and the intelligible worlds would be inarticulate.
Ilias the Presbyter
Gnomic Anthology IV no. 112, Philokalia Vol. 3 edited by Palmer, Sherrard and Ware; Faber and Faber pg. 61

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