Dormition of The Virgin Mary
Publish Date: 2025-07-06
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Dormition of The Virgin Mary

General Information

  • Phone:
  • 15406671416
  • Fax:
  • Dormition of The Virgin Mary
  • Street Address:

  • 1700 Amherst St

  • Winchester, VA 22601


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Services Schedule

Sunday Services

Orthros -              9:00 am 

Divine Liturgy -    10:00 am

 


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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Third Tone

Let the Heavens rejoice; let earthly things be glad; for the Lord hath wrought might with His arm, He hath trampled upon death by death. The first-born of the dead hath He become. From the belly of Hades hath He delivered us, and hath granted great mercy to the world.
Εὐφραινέσθω τὰ οὐράνια, ἀγαλλιάσθω τὰ ἐπίγεια, ὅτι ἐποίησε κράτος, ἐν βραχίονι αὐτοῦ, ὁ Κύριος, ἐπάτησε τῷ θανάτῳ τὸν θάνατον, πρωτότοκος τῶν νεκρῶν ἐγένετο, ἐκ κοιλίας ᾅδου ἐρρύσατο ἡμᾶς, καὶ παρέσχε τῷ κόσμῳ τὸ μέγα ἔλεος.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Second Tone

O Protection of Christians that cannot be put to shame, mediation unto the creator most constant: O despise not the voices of those who have sinned; but be quick, O good one, to come unto our aid, who in faith cry unto thee: Hasten to intercession and speed thou to make supplication, O thou who dost ever protect, O Theotokos, them that honor thee.
Προστασία τῶν Χριστιανῶν ἀκαταίσχυντε, μεσιτεία πρὸς τὸν Ποιητὴν ἀμετάθετε. Μὴ παρίδῃς ἁμαρτωλῶν δεήσεων φωνάς, ἀλλὰ πρόφθασον, ὡς ἀγαθή, εἰς τὴν βοήθειαν ἡμῶν, τῶν πιστῶς κραυγαζόντων σοι· Τάχυνον εἰς πρεσβείαν, καὶ σπεῦσον εἰς ἱκεσίαν, ἡ προστατεύουσα ἀεί, Θεοτόκε, τῶν τιμώντων σε.
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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Epistle Reading

4th Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 6:18-23

Brethren, having been set free from sin, you have become slaves of righteousness. I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once yielded your members to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now yield your members to righteousness for sanctification.

When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. But then what return did you get from the things of which you are now ashamed? The end of those things is death. But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the return you get is sanctification and its end, eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

4th Sunday of Matthew
Πρὸς ῾Ρωμαίους 6:18-23

Ἀδελφοί, ἐλευθερωθέντες δὲ ἀπὸ τῆς ἁμαρτίας, ἐδουλώθητε τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ. Ἀνθρώπινον λέγω διὰ τὴν ἀσθένειαν τῆς σαρκὸς ὑμῶν· ὥσπερ γὰρ παρεστήσατε τὰ μέλη ὑμῶν δοῦλα τῇ ἀκαθαρσίᾳ καὶ τῇ ἀνομίᾳ εἰς τὴν ἀνομίαν, οὕτως νῦν παραστήσατε τὰ μέλη ὑμῶν δοῦλα τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ εἰς ἁγιασμόν. Ὅτε γὰρ δοῦλοι ἦτε τῆς ἁμαρτίας, ἐλεύθεροι ἦτε τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ. Τίνα οὖν καρπὸν εἴχετε τότε ἐφʼ οἷς νῦν ἐπαισχύνεσθε; Τὸ γὰρ τέλος ἐκείνων θάνατος. Νυνὶ δὲ ἐλευθερωθέντες ἀπὸ τῆς ἁμαρτίας, δουλωθέντες δὲ τῷ θεῷ, ἔχετε τὸν καρπὸν ὑμῶν εἰς ἁγιασμόν, τὸ δὲ τέλος ζωὴν αἰώνιον. Τὰ γὰρ ὀψώνια τῆς ἁμαρτίας θάνατος, τὸ δὲ χάρισμα τοῦ θεοῦ ζωὴ αἰώνιος ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ τῷ κυρίῳ ἡμῶν.


Gospel Reading

4th Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 8:5-13

At that time, as Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, beseeching him and saying, "Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, in terrible distress." And he said to him, "I will come and heal him." But the centurion answered him, "Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I am a man under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to one, 'Go,' and he goes, and to another, 'Come,' and he comes, and to my slave, 'Do this,' and he does it." When Jesus heard him, he marveled, and said to those who followed him, "Truly, I say to you, not even in Israel have I found such faith. I tell you, many will come from east and west and sit at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth." And to the centurion Jesus said, "Go; be it done for you as you have believed." And the servant was healed at that very moment.

4th Sunday of Matthew
Κατὰ Ματθαῖον 8:5-13

Τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ, εἰσελθόντι δὲ αὐτῷ εἰς Καπερναοὺμ προσῆλθεν αὐτῷ ἑκατόνταρχος παρακαλῶν αὐτὸν καὶ λέγων· Κύριε, ὁ παῖς μου βέβληται ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ παραλυτικός, δεινῶς βασανιζόμενος. καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς· ἐγὼ ἐλθὼν θεραπεύσω αὐτόν. καὶ ἀποκριθεὶς ὁ ἑκατόνταρχος ἔφη· Κύριε, οὐκ εἰμὶ ἱκανὸς ἵνα μου ὑπὸ τὴν στέγην εἰσέλθῃς· ἀλλὰ μόνον εἰπὲ λόγῳ, καὶ ἰαθήσεται ὁ παῖς μου. καὶ γὰρ ἐγὼ ἄνθρωπός εἰμι ὑπὸ ἐξουσίαν, ἔχων ὑπ᾿ ἐμαυτὸν στρατιώτας, καὶ λέγω τούτῳ, πορεύθητι, καὶ πορεύεται, καὶ ἄλλῳ, ἔρχου, καὶ ἔρχεται, καὶ τῷ δούλῳ μου, ποίησον τοῦτο, καὶ ποιεῖ. ἀκούσας δὲ ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς ἐθαύμασε καὶ εἶπε τοῖς ἀκολουθοῦσιν· ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, οὐδὲ ἐν τῷ ᾿Ισραὴλ τοσαύτην πίστιν εὗρον. λέγω δὲ ὑμῖν ὅτι πολλοὶ ἀπὸ ἀνατολῶν καὶ δυσμῶν ἥξουσι καὶ ἀνακλιθήσονται μετὰ ᾿Αβραὰμ καὶ ᾿Ισαὰκ καὶ ᾿Ιακὼβ ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ τῶν οὐρανῶν, οἱ δὲ υἱοὶ τῆς βασιλείας ἐκβληθήσονται εἰς τὸ σκότος τὸ ἐξώτερον· ἐκεῖ ἔσται ὁ κλαυθμὸς καὶ ὁ βρυγμὸς τῶν ὀδόντων. καὶ εἶπεν ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς τῷ ἑκατοντάρχῳ· ὕπαγε, καὶ ὡς ἐπίστευσας γενηθήτω σοι. καὶ ἰάθη ὁ παῖς αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ ὥρᾳ ἐκείνῃ.


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Saints and Feasts

July 06

4th Sunday of Matthew


July 06

Sisoes the Great

This Saint, great and renowned among the ascetics of Egypt, lived in the fourth century in Scete of Nitria. After the death of Saint Anthony the Great, he left Scete to live in Saint Anthony's cave; he said of this, "Thus in the cave of a lion, a fox makes his dwelling." When Sisoës was at the end of his long life of labours, as the Fathers were gathered about him, his face began to shine, and he said, "Behold, Abba Anthony is come"; then, "Behold, the choir of the Prophets is come"; his face shone yet more bright, and he said, "Behold, the choir of the Apostles is come." The light of his countenance increased, and he seemed to be talking with someone. The Fathers asked him of this; in his humility, he said he was asking the Angels for time to repent. Finally his face became as bright as the sun, so that the Fathers were filled with fear. He said, "Behold, the Lord is come, and He says, 'Bring Me the vessel of the desert,'" and as he gave up his soul into the hands of God, there was as it were a flash of lightning, and the whole dwelling was filled with a sweet fragrance.


July 06

Holy Apostles Archippus, Philemon and Onesimus


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SUNDAY OF THE HOLY FATHERS OF THE 4TH ECUMENICAL COUNCIL

God is light, and in Him there is no darkness. The Light of God that permeates our 
minds, bodies, and souls are God’s divine, uncreated energies that work in and through 
us. Because of this, Christ emphasizes the theme of light. While the Lord Jesus is teaching 
at the Temple in Jerusalem, He says, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall 
not walk in darkness but have the light of life” (John 8:12). At the beginning of the work 
of creation, God said, “Let there be light” (Genesis 1:3), as He gave a visible expression 
of His nature to all creation, for “God is light and in Him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5). 
The Lord told us that He is the light of the world. Now, He tells us, “You are the light of 
the world.”
By the power of the Holy Spirit working through us, we are the light of the world. 
When we open ourselves to the work of the Holy Spirit, we fulfill the whole of the Law 
and the Prophets because we become channels of Christ’s truth, love, and salvation to 
the world. He is the true light, and we — like a bright full moon reflecting the light of the 
sun — bring this light of Christ to the world. We become like prisms that receive the light 
of Christ and diffuse it into the whole of creation through acts of love, compassion, and 
mercy.
The Lord says that whatever we need others to do for us, we need to be willing to 
do it for them. He teaches us to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, and mind 
(Matthew 22:37). This is the first and great commandment. And the second is also about 
love: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Mark 12:31). All the commandments of 
God are fulfilled in these two commandments — love of God and love of others. This is 
easy to understand in practical terms. When we love God, we commit our lives to Him. 
In imitation of God, we love others with the love we have received from Him. When we 
love our neighbors, we naturally want to do good for them and follow the Law of Moses, 
which includes the Ten Commandments. Because why would we want to hurt the people 
we love intentionally? Therefore, the law of love fulfills all commandments because God 
is love, and He is the source of love.
Our Lord did not come to abolish the Law and the Prophets but to fulfill them. He 
refers to the commandments of loving the Lord our God with all our mind, heart, and soul 
and loving our neighbor as ourselves. Saint Maximus the Confessor says, “The one who 
loves God cannot but love everyone as themselves.” Through Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit 
has been given to us, and the Spirit is the One who renews our hearts and enables us to 
love. In the same way, we cannot truly love God if we do not love our neighbor. If we do 
not love someone whom we have seen, how can we love God whom we have not seen? 
Also, our love for our neighbor overflows as love for all of creation. Since creation belongs 
to God, it is His gift to us. The best way we can receive this gift is to be good stewards of 
creation and to use it in service to humankind for the glory of God.
 Our neighbor is everyone the Lord presents to us. Whoever we encounter is our 
neighbor, for that person is made in the image and likeness of God. Our neighbor is our 
relative, friend, teacher, and even a stranger. If we abide in our Lord Jesus Christ, who 
loves us and gives us the Holy Spirit, we become the light of the world just as He is the 
true Light. As He illumines every person and the entire cosmos, we also participate in this 
grace of illumining others. We become channels of His light through prayer and concrete 
actions of love towards our neighbor.
The love of God and the love of neighbor is our calling as Christians. These two 
inseparable aspects of love are the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets. While telling 
the story of creation and the Prophets, the Old Testament is ultimately about Jesus Christ. 
Likewise, the Law points to Him and is fulfilled by the Law of Love. The love of God and 
neighbor overflows to the love of all creation manifested in concrete acts of love, service, 
and mercy. The light of God illumines the body, mind, and soul and enables the hands to 
serve.
With the light of Christ as the source of our lives, we become light when our life is 
filled with love, compassion, and grace. Let us continually join ourselves to Christ in love, 
prayer, the Eucharistic life, and service to one another and all the world. The whole of the 
Divine Law is fulfilled by love towards God and love towards neighbor. We become the 
light of the world, for we reflect the light of His love to each other. To serve one another 
is to love God, and to love God is to shine the light of His love and grace on the world

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Church Services

Upcoming Services

 

July Services
07/12/25 Orthros/Divine Liturgy   9:00am - 11:30am
07/13/25 Orthros/Divine Liturgy   9:00am - 11:30am
07/20/25 Orthros/Divine Liturgy   9:00am - 11:30am
07/22/25 Orthros/Divine Liturgy   9:00am - 11:30am St. Mary Magelden
07/27/25 Orthros/Divine Liturgy   9:00am - 11:30am

Please check the parish Calendar for additional services as well as any updates.

Parish Calendar | Dormition of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Church (goarch.org)

 

 

 


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Parish News

Parish News

Announcements 

Coffee Hour

We want to thank members of Philoptochos for hosting this week's coffee hour in honor of Tori Tarrant. If you would like to host a coffee hour, please sign up on the signup sheet in the hall. For questions, please see Juliette Michael or Marie Hughes.

Church Hall Cleaning

Please help us keep our church hall cleanby cleaning up your eating area following coffee hour. We appericate your assitance in keeping our hall neat. 

2025 Winchester Greek Festival

We are excited to announce that our Greek Festival will take place on August 16th and 17th. Please mark your calendars! This is our parish's largest fundraiser and it cannot happen without everyone's help. Please sign-up to volunteer online or on the sign-up sheets in the hall. We need help all week.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C44AEA928A0FCC16-55639891-2025#/

Festival Baking

We will be baking Koularika on July 12th and Kourambides on August 2nd at 9 am. Please see Athena or Juliette Michael for questions. 

Sunday School Area

In preparation for the festival, the Sunday School has been blocked off until after the festival. Coloring sheets and crayons will be available for children in the main hall. We appreciate your help in keeping this area clear.

Parish Council

There will be a Parish Council meeting on Sunday, July 13th. 

 


Ladies Philoptochos News

Scholarship

Congratulations to Tori Tarrant for having been awarded the Philoptochos Scholarship for 2025! Tori is an exceptional student and person! She has the amazing G.P.A. of 4.18 and has been involved in multiple community activities, received multiple awards as well as being a vital member of Philoptochos! We are so happy to give this scholarship to such a deserving student and person! 

The award will be given on Sunday, July 13th after Divine Liturgy followed by a reception during coffee hour.  Please sign up for the coffee hour reception on Sunday, July 13th. Please right click on the link and then open in new tab to sign up.

ETC Consignment Fundraiser 
It's time to donate your unwanted clothing and shoes for men, women, and children to ETC Consignments on behalf of Philoptochos, account #200. They are currently accepting Summer clothing - Sleeveless, Shorts & Sandals / Flip Flops and summer decor. Jeans and sweatshirts accepted year-round. All clothing/shoes must be in good condition- no holes or stains, missing buttons, excessive wear, etc.  You can call to schedule an appt. at the shop. See ETC’s website for further details relating to donations or see Kathy Lutz.

Koliva

Philoptochos can prepare koliva for memorials. A donation of $75 is appreciated, but it is a free service to anyone upon request.  Please contact Chris Georgarakis ([email protected]; (540)664-8466) to schedule.

Join Philoptochos 

Help Philoptochos serve our community through agape, philanthropy, and fellowship. We invite all parishioners to join our chapter and make a difference. Copies are available in the church hall and at http://dormition.va.goarch.org/ministries/philoptochos. Please see membership chairperson, Christina Vazquez (703)728-2657) or email at [email protected] for more information.

Contact Us 

For more information, please contact us through email at [email protected] or speak with a Philoptochos board member. Contact information provided on the bulletin board in the hall.

 

 

 


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Directions to the Dormition of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Church

We welcome you to worship with us on Sunday and whenever the Divine Liturgy is celebrated. Matins begins at 9:00 am and the Divine Liturgy at 10:00 am.

Click here for Google Map & Specific Driving Directions »

DIRECTIONS TO THE DORMITION CHURCH FROM THE NORTH:

1. Proceed south on Interstate 81 South heading toward Winchester
2. Take exit 317 for VA-37/ US-11 toward US-522 N/ US-50 W/ Winchester/ Stephenson (0.3 mi)
3. Turn right at US-11 S/ VA-37 S/ Martinsburg Pike, Continue to follow VA-37 S (3.8 mi)
4. Take the ramp to US-50 E/ Northwestern Pike (0.2 mi)
5. Turn left at US-50 E/ Northwestern Pike, Continue to follow US-50 E (0.6 mi )
6. Turn left at Omps Dr, Continue to entrance of the Church`s parking lot (100 ft)
7. Turn left into the Church`s parking lot.

DIRECTIONS TO THE DORMITION CHURCH FROM THE SOUTH:

1. Proceed north on Interstate 81North heading toward Winchester
2. Take exit 310 for VA-37 toward US-11/VA-642/ Winchester/ Kernstown/ US-50/ US-522/ Berkely Spgs/ Romney (0.2 mi)
3. Turn left at VA-37 N (5.2 mi)
4. Take the US-50 ramp to Winchester/ Romney (0.3 mi)
5. Turn right at US-50 E/ Amherst St (0.5 mi)
6. Turn left at Omps Dr, Continue to entrance of the Church`s parking lot (100 ft)
7. Turn left into the Church`s parking lot.

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