Holy Trinity Church
Publish Date: 2024-12-01
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Holy Trinity Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (724) 266-5336
  • Fax:
  • (724) 266-2220
  • Street Address:

  • 2930 Beaver Road

  • Ambridge, PA 15003


Contact Information




Services Schedule

Sundays: 8:30am Orthros, 9:30 am Divine Liturgy

Weekdays: 9am Orthros & Liturgy


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Worship

Services:

Sundays

8:30am Orthros, 9:30am Divine Liturgy

 

Upcoming Services:

  • Monday, December 2nd - 6pm Pan-Orthodox Sacrament of Holy Unction at St. Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox Church
  • Thursday, December 5th - 9am Metropolis Celebration of St. Savas the Sanctified - 9am Orthros & Divine Liturgy at the Metropolis of Pittsburgh followed by a reception to 2pm.  Refreshments served. RSVP by Decmeber 1st to [email protected] or 412-621-5529
  • Pilgrimage to celebrate St. Nicholas at St. Nicholas Cathedral in Oakland
    • Thursday, December 5th - 6:30pm: Great Vespers
    • Friday, Decmeber 6th - 9am Orthros, 10am Divine Liturgy

 

Upcoming Memorials:

  • December 1st
    • 1yr Memorial - Mary Menis
    • 6mo Trisagion - Theodore Skeriotis
    • 9yr Trisagion - Gus Skeriotis
    • 24yr Trisagion - Isabel Pappas
    • 40yr Trisagion - Adrianna Vagias
  • December 15th
    • 6mo Memorial - Fr. Emmanuel Lillios
    • 1yr Memorial - Dr. Constantine Galitsis
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Church News

PHILOPTOCHOS MEETING TODAY

 

FOCUS MEAL AMBRIDGE TOWERS - December 1st:  This Pan-Orthodox effort serving the residents of Ambridge Towers on December 1st will need volunteers from our parish to help make it possible.  2pm preparation for a 5pm meal at St. John the Baptism Parish Center.  Email [email protected] for more info. 

 

THANKSGIVING BASKETS THANK YOUThank you to Sophia Chickos and Harriet Sickles for leading us and all of our parishioners and friends who participated through donations, purchasing, packing, and delivering these Thanksgiving Baskets.  Donations are still welcome.

 

BACKPACK ASSISTANCE: Due to the safety change at the Ambridge Area School District, all students are now required to use a clear backpack, leaving many families now trying to acquire these backpacks and having an additional expense for their children's schooling that they were not intending. The elementary students have a delayed start to this change and our Philoptochos is taking a collection to help provide backpacks to help some of the student-families in need. If you would like to contribute to help our neighbors, please donate to Philoptochos notifying its purpose. Checks can be made out to "Ladies Philoptochos."

 

PARISH COUNCIL ELECTIONS - Nominations have closed.  We have 8 Nominees for 8 open seats.  The uncontested election will take place on December 8th.  


VASILOPITA FROM HOLY PROTECTION MONASTERY: Philoptochos will once again be selling Vasilopita from Holy Protection Monastery in White Haven, PA. This will be a PRE-SALE only, with no extras available for sale. All orders are due on December 8th for pick-up on December 22. Forms can be found in the online bulletin and on the Pangari.

 

PARISH FAMILY NIGHT - December 11th, 6pm: We invite all LOVE+HOPE+JOY students, GOYAns, and their parents for Parish Family Night. Dinner will be provided.  This evening is designed to have family bonding time as well as age-based lessons on the same topic so that the whole family can be fed spiritually as one and as individuals.

 

YOUNG ADULT CHRISTMAS NIGHT - December 19th at 7pm: Calling all of our Young Adults to gather for an evening event for some faith, fun, and fellowship.  Please let Kristen, Alex, or Fr. Anastasios know if you are planning on attending.

 

2025 STEWARDSHIP CAMPAIGN: Your Own from Your Own...See Our Church as it Could Be

We invite every parishioner to get involved in the 2025 campaign.  2025 Pledge Cards are available in your pew, on the pangari, by clicking this link, in the bulletin insert section, and online at htgoc.org/give.  Please pray about what stewardship gift you can make to the Church.  2025 Pledge cards were due by Stewardship Sunday on November 10th, but we will continue collecting.  Note: A 2025 pledge card does not make you a member for 2024 elections or parish assembly, the link for the 2024 pledge card is lower in this email.

2025: 68 Families Pledged so far! Thank You!

 

CHRISTMAS EVE LUMINARIES: Christmas Luminaries to honor or in memory of your loved ones are being sold to benefit the Georgia Antinopoulos Scholarship Fund. Please complete the form and give it to Jackie Bennis on or before Sunday, December 22, 2024.

 

NEW YEARS EVE DANCE - Make your reservation today by calling the office 724-266-5336! Dress to impress, Food included, Cash Bar, and music by Alpha Omega with Georgio from the Grecian Keys.

18 & Over—$50
10-17—$25
5-9—$15
Under 5—Free

Contact Jimmy Gregorakis to get involved.

 

PARISH PLEDGES $20,000 FOR THE NEW METROPOLIS CENTER at last week's Parish Assembly.  If you would like to add your own personal donation or pledge to the completion of the New Metropolis Center, please go to pittsburgh.goarch.org/pledge .

 

 

 

SUNDAY SCHOOL: The spiritual and religious education for our children is not only the 20-minute class following holy communion, it is attending each and every Sunday, hearing the hymns of the day, the readings for the day, Fr. Anastasios' kids' sermon, and worshipping alongside their family and community.  Their formation also takes place in the home and in the example led by their parents, fortify yourself for the journey by coming to church too.

 

2024 STEWARDSHIP CARDS

Thank you to our 147 families that have turned in their pledge cards totaling $222,090 pledged! 

That puts us at 67.3% toward our pledge goal of $330,000 for 2024.

If you haven’t submitted your 2024 pledge card, grab one today at the pangari.  We need a current pledge card on file for eligibility to vote in upcoming assemblies and election. 

 

YOUTH SAFETY - Please register at https://ncsrisk.org/goarch/.  This includes all Youth Safety Workers as well as Parish Council 

 

PRAYER CHAIN - Members of Holy Trinity are being brought together in efforts to pray for those in need of prayers.  Please contact Joanie Ondrako at 724-601-6298, Fr. Anastasios, or the Office to join the prayer team, a group of people who will pray for the names given each day.

Prayer requests can be submitted anonymously and will be on the prayer list as long as your request is wanted, even up to a year.

 

ONLINE GIVING & STEWARDSHIPIs OPEN! Online giving can be found by clicking here!  Please consider your continued support of our church through becoming one of our online giving families.  You can make general contributions and stewardship contributions.

 

REGULAR GIVING: The church is still accepting donations in normal ways through the mail and drop-off.  Thank you to all of those who have continued to contribute in these challenging times.

 

YOU CAN NOW DONATE SECURITIES TO THE CHURCH  

In response to inquiries regarding the donation of securities to Holy Trinity, a new brokerage account has been established with PNC Investments to receive stocks, bonds, and mutual funds.  Donating appreciated securities is often preferable to donating cash as the donor may benefit from the current tax code, creating the opportunity for donors to consider even larger gifts.  Currently, this account can receive securities in lieu of cash for the fulfillment of stewardship pledges as well as directed gifts for special projects.  If after consulting with your financial advisor, you are interested in this form of giving, please contact any parish council member or the office for more information.

 

LIVE-STREAM: If you don't have a Facebook account, don't worry: it does not force you to log in.

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Bulletin Inserts

    2025 Stewardship Pledge

    2025 Stewardship Pledge

    The 2025 Pledge drive is until Stewardship Sunday on November 10, 2024. Please get your pledge card in today!


    Philoptochos Vasilopita Sale

    Philoptochos Vasilopita Sale

    Philoptochos is selling Vasilopita Breads from Holy Protection Monastery. Orders are due December 8th, pick up on December 22nd. Pre-Order Only - $17. Checks to be made out to "Ladies Philoptochos"


    2024 Christmas Luminaries

    2024 Christmas Luminaries

    Help us beautifully illuminate our church for Christmas Eve while honoring and remembering those who we love. All donations are to support the Georgia Antinopoulos Scholarship Fund.


    2024 Stewardship Pledge

    2024 Stewardship Pledge

    Please make sure your 2024 Stewardship Card is in for the Parish Assembly and Elections.


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Our Calendar

  • Holy Trinity Ambridge

    December 1 to December 15, 2024

    Sunday, December 1

    Coffee Hour: Young Adults

    Sunday School

    Philoptochos Meeting

    9yr Trisagion - Gus Skeriotis

    1yr Memorial - Mary Menis

    Trisagion - Isabel Pappas (24yrs) & Adrianna Vagias (40yrs)

    6mo Trisagion - Theodore Skeriotis

    Parish Council Absentee Ballots Available

    8:30AM Orthros

    9:30AM Liturgy

    2:00PM FOCUS dinner prep

    5:00PM FOCUS Ambridge Dinner

    Monday, December 2

    6:00PM Pan-Orthodox Unction Service

    Sunday, December 8

    Sunday School

    Coffee Hour: Choir

    Parish Council Elections

    8:30AM Orthros

    9:30AM Liturgy

    Tuesday, December 10

    7:00PM Parish Council

    Wednesday, December 11

    6:00PM Parish Family Night

    Thursday, December 12

    9:00AM Orthros & Liturgy - St. Spyridon

    Friday, December 13

    Nativity Fast Intensifies

    Saturday, December 14

    Baptism

    10:00AM Baptism

    Sunday, December 15

    Sunday School

    Christmas Pageant

    Lenten Coffee Hour: Philoptochos

    6mo Memorial - Fr Emmanuel Lillios

    1yr Memorial - Dr. Constantine Galitsis

    8:30AM Orthros

    9:30AM Liturgy

  • Regional Orthodox Events

    December 5 to December 5, 2024

    Thursday, December 5

    9:00AM GOMoP Celebration of St. Savas the Sanctified - Orthros & Liturgy

    11:30AM GOMoP Open House

    6:30PM Pilgrimage to St. Nicholas Cathedral, Oakland: Great Vespers of St Nicholas

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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Plagal 2nd Mode

When the angelic powers appeared at Your grave, the soldiers guarding it feared and became as dead. And standing by the sepulcher was Mary who was seeking Your immaculate body. You devastated Hades, not afflicted by it. You went to meet the virgin, and granted eternal life. You resurrected from the dead. O Lord, glory to You.
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 των νεκρῶν, Κύριε δόξα σοι.

Apolytikion for the Church in the Plagal 4th Mode

Blessed are You, O Christ our God; Who has shone forth the fishermen to be most wise, by sending down upon them the Holy Spirit, and through them, You drew the world into Your net, 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 3rd Mode

On this day the Virgin Maid * goes to the grotto to give birth * to the pre-eternal Word * in an ineffable manner. * Dance for joy, all the inhabited earth, on hearing. * Glorify along with Angels and with the shepherds * Him who willed that He appear as * a newborn Child, * the preeternal God.
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.
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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Plagal 2nd Mode. 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 Letter to the Ephesians 2:4-10.

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.

Προκείμενον. Plagal 2nd Mode. ΨΑΛΜΟΙ 27.9,1.
Σῶσον, Κύριε τὸν λαὸν σου καὶ εὐλόγησον τὴν κληρονομίαν σου.
Στίχ. Πρὸς σἐ, Κύριε, κεκράξομαι ὁ Θεός μου.

τὸ Ἀνάγνωσμα Πρὸς Ἐφεσίους 2:4-10.

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.


Gospel Reading

14th Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from 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.

14th Sunday of Luke
Κατὰ Λουκᾶν 18:35-43

Τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ, ᾿Εγένετο δὲ ἐν τῷ ἐγγίζειν αὐτὸν εἰς ῾Ιεριχὼ τυφλός τις ἐκάθητο παρὰ τὴν ὁδὸν προσαιτῶν· ἀκούσας δὲ ὄχλου διαπορευομένου ἐπυνθάνετο 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.


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Saints and Feasts

December 01

14th Sunday of Luke


December 01

Nahum the Prophet

The Prophet Nahum had Elkesaeus (Elkosh) as his homeland, 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 (721 years before Christ), but before the ten tribes were taken into captivity; he prophesied against Nineveh, the capital of Assyria. His name means "comforter." His book of prophecy is divided into three chapters.


December 01

Philaret the Merciful of Amnia

Saint Philaret a native of Paphlagonia in Asia Minor, was a virtuous Christian layman who lived in lawful wedlock and raised a family. He was most renowned for his generosity to all in need. With the permission of God, in a short space of time he lost the greater part of his possessions to theft and other misfortunes and was left with nothing but his family, his home, and a little livestock. Yet he continued to give generously to the poor despite the faint-heartedness of his family, who reproached him for giving alms when they were in need themselves; and God, seeing his faith, restored his prosperity to him many times over. He foresaw the day of his death, and reposed in an odour of sanctity in Constantinople in 789.


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