Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2025-01-26
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Parish News
Hymns of the Day
Saints and Feasts
Gospel and Epistle Readings

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Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (904)-829-0504
  • Fax:
  • (904)829-0504
  • Street Address:

  • 2940 CR-214

  • St. Augustine, FL 32084-2718

Contact Information

Thomas Lekas


[email protected] | 678-993-3629

Services Schedule

Sunday  Divine Liturgy 10:00am    V. Rev. Father Maximos Politis, Priest

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PRAYER REQUEST:

"I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people….  This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.” (1 Timothy 2:1-4)

We pray for mercy, life, peace, and healing of all parishioners.

Prayers for the family and friends of: Dr. George Antonatos, Ellen Sarris Allen, Maryann Bolt, Leonardos Daniels, Athena Duddy, Mikae Gaetanos, Susana G. Kugeares, Kostas Lantzounis, Chresanthe Lemieux, George Lemieux, Jr., James Mahourtis, Mary Mastoridis, Nicolaos Pramagioulis, Tommy Stewart and Trey Wilkinson.

May their memory be eternal!

Prayers for Taki Andriotis, Angelique Dalarides Kelley, Michael Colburn, Chris Bersu, Michael and Ingrid Fotianos, Ruza Basimamovic, Zoe Kauttu (daughter of Melissa Sarris Kauttu), James Day, James, Kyriake, Alex Aclim, Jane Anderson, Gwen H, Lewis Hayberg and Jayden Billeter .

A WORD FROM:

V. Rev Fr. Maximos Politis, HTGOC Parish Priest

(347) 500-8176 [email protected]

 

 

Υπακοή και Αγιότητα 

 

Η Εκκλησία στις 21 Ιανουαρίου γιορτάζει την μνήμη του Αγ. Μαξίμου του ομολογητού. Ο Άγιος δεν ήταν ένας τυχαίος άνθρωπος. Ήταν ένα λαμπρό μυαλό με ιδιαίτερες επιδόσεις στην Θεολογία και την φιλοσοφία. Τα χαρίσματα αυτά τον έκαναν να καταλάβει θέση συμβούλου στους βασιλείς κατά την περίοδο των Βυζαντινών αυτοκρατόρ αγιότητα του βίου ήταν αυτή που τον τοποθέτησε στο εορτόλογιο της Εκκλησίας. Ακων. Η Εκκλησία όμως δεν τον τίμησε για αυτά τα καθαρά ανθρώπινα χαρίσματα. Ηριβώς αυτή η αγιότητα ήταν που τον ώθησε όταν τα πράγματα έδειξαν ότι έτσι έπρεπε να γίνει, να εγκαταλείψει τις υψηλές θέσεις, τα αξιώματα και το λαμπρό περιβάλλον στο οποίο μέχρι εκείνη τη στιγμή ζούσε. 

Ο άγιος είναι έτοιμος να αρνηθεί τη θέση του, τα χαρίσματα που τον αναδεικνύουν, την σωματική του ασφάλεια και ακεραιότητα, την ίδια του την ζωή. Είναι αρκετό για αυτόν να πιστεύει και να πράττει κατά την πίστη και διδασκαλία της Εκκλησίας. 

Στην εποχή μας είναι αρκετοί που θέλουν να αισθάνονται στρατιώτες, αγωνιστές, ομολογητές αλλά με έναν ιδιαίτερο τρόπο και αποκομμένοι από την τάξη και διδασκαλία της Εκκλησίας. Αυτή όμως η επιλογή δημιουργεί διαιρέσεις και αποπροσανατολίζει τους πιστούς από τον δρόμο προς την σωτηρία. Η Εκκλησία, όπως ακούμε κατά τη διάρκεια της Θείας Λειτουργίας, είναι μια ενότητα πίστης, πράξης και υπακοής. Η Εκκλησία είναι “μία, αγία, Καθολική και Αποστολική”. Όπου διασαλεύεται κάποιο από αυτά τα χαρακτηριστικά, εκεί καταργείται η έννοια της Εκκλησίας.

 Όσο και αν κάποιος νομίζει ότι σκέφτεται σοφά, χαρισματικά ή με Θεία έμπνευση, εάν δεν βρίσκεται μέσα στην υπακοή της Εκκλησίας πλανάται. Ο Χριστός διδάσκει ότι δεν ήρθε να κάνει το δικό Του αναμάρτητο, πανάγιο θέλημα αλλά το θέλημα αυτού που τον απέστειλε.

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ObedienceandHoliness

 

The Church on January 21 celebrates the memory of St. Maximos the confessor. The Saint was not a common man. He was a brilliant mind with outstanding performances in Theology and Philosophy. These gifts made him a consultant to the kings during the period of the Byzantine emperors. But the Church did not honor him for these pure human gifts. The sanctity of life was what placed him in the celebration book of the Church. It was this holiness that pushed him when things showed that this was how it should be done, to leave the high offices, the palaces and the glorious environment in which he lived until then. 

The saint is ready to deny his position, the gifts that make him stand out, his physical security and safety, his own life. It is enough for him to believe and act according to the faith and teaching of the Church. In our day there are many who want to feel like soldiers, fighters, confessors, but in a special way and separated from the order and teaching of the Church. But this choice creates divisions and disorients faithful from the path to salvation. The Church, as we hear during the Divine Liturgy, is a unity of faith, action and obedience. The Church is "one, holy, Catholic and Apostolic". Where any of these characteristics are distorted, the concept of the Church is abolished. No matter how much one believes that he thinks wisely, charismatically or with Divine inspiration, if he is not in the obedience of the Church he is deceived. Christ teaches that He did not come to do His own sinless, holy will but the will of the one who sent him.

 

 

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  • Enthronement of Metropolitan Sevastianos of Atlanta Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation, Atlanta GA

 

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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Plagal 2nd Tone

When the angelic powers appeared at Your tomb, the soldiers guarding it feared and became as dead. And standing by the sepulcher was Mary, who was seeking Your immaculate body. Unassailed by Hades, You divested it of spoils. Then You met the Virgin. You granted life. O Lord, risen from the dead, glory to You! Ἀγγελικαὶ δυνάμεις ἐπὶ τὸ μνῆμα σου, καὶ οἱ φυλάσσοντες ἀπενεκρώθησαν· καὶ ἵστατο Μαρία ἐν τῷ τάφῳ, ζητοῦσα τὸ ἄχραντόν σου σῶμα. Ἐσκύλευσας τὸν ᾅδην, μὴ πειρασθεὶς ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ· ὑπήντησας τῇ Παρθένῳ, δωρούμενος τὴν ζωήν. Ὁ ἀναστὰς ἐκ τῶν νεκρῶν, Κύριε δόξα σοι.

Apolytikion for the Church in the 4th Tone

Blessed are You, O Christ our God; You made wise men of poor fishermen by sending down upon them Your Holy Spirit, and through them You caught the whole world, O Lover of mankind, 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 1st Tone

You sanctified the womb of the Virgin by Your birth, and by Your presentation You blessed the hands of Symeon, when You came, and You saved us, O Christ our God. Now we pray You give peace to Your world at war, and let love for Your people prevail in all, O only benevolent Lord. Ὁ μήτραν παρθενικὴν ἁγιάσας τῷ τόκῳ σου, καὶ χεῖρας τοῦ Συμεὼν εὐλογήσας ὡς ἔπρεπε, προφθάσας καὶ νῦν ἔσωσας ἡμᾶς Χριστὲ ὁ Θεός. Ἀλλʼ εἰρήνευσον ἐν πολέμοις τὸ πολίτευμα, καὶ κραταίωσον Βασιλεῖς οὓς ἠγάπησας, ὁ μόνος φιλάνθρωπος.
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Saints and Feasts

January 26

15th Sunday of Luke

January 26

Xenophon & his Companions

This Saint, a wealthy nobleman of Constantinople, was filled with piety toward God. He had two sons, Arcadius and John, whom he sent to Beirut to study law. But they were shipwrecked during their voyage; barely saved, they forsook all things and departed for Palestine. Saint Xenophon and his wife Mary, ignorant of what had happened, went in search of their sons. On finding them in Jerusalem, dressed in the habit of monks, they also took up the monastic life. And thus, having completed their lives in holiness, they departed for the Lord about the beginning of the sixth century. Saint Xenophon and his sons reposed at Saint Sabbas Monastery, and Mary at the Monastery of Saint Theodosius.

January 26

Symeon the Elder of Mount Sinai

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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Plagal 2nd Tone. Psalm 27.9,1.
O Lord, save your people and bless your inheritance.
Verse: To you, O Lord, I have cried, O my God.

The reading is from St. Paul's First Letter to Timothy 4:9-15.

Timothy, my son, the saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance. For to this end we toil and suffer reproach, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe. Command and teach these things. Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example in speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. Till I come, attend to the public reading of scripture, to preaching, to teaching. Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophetic utterance when the council of elders laid their hands upon you. Practice these duties, devote yourself to them, so that all may see your progress.

Gospel Reading

15th Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 19:1-10

At that time, Jesus was passing through Jericho. And there was a man named Zacchaios; he was a chief collector, and rich. And he sought to see who Jesus was, but could not, on account of the crowd, because he was small of stature. So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was to pass that way. And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaios, make haste and come down; for I must stay at your house today." So he made haste and came down, and received him joyfully. And when they saw it they all murmured, "He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner." And Zacchaios stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have defrauded any one of anything, I restore it fourfold." And Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, since he also is a son of Abraham. For the Son of man came to seek and to save the lost."

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