Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2025-07-27
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Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (228) 388-6138
  • Street Address:

  • 255 Beauvoir Rd.

  • Biloxi, MS 39531


Contact Information




Services Schedule

Service schedule varies.  The current schedule can be found in the bulletin or parish website.

 


Past Bulletins


Father Paisius McGrath, Presbyter

Glory to Jesus Christ! Greetings to the faithful members and families of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church. May our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ continue to bless and guide us now and always!

Today we are presented again with the important connection between faith and healing. In today's Gospel Reading from Saint Matthew 9:27-35 we hear the the miraculous healing of two blind men, they come in faith to be healed and upon confession of their faith are granted healing of their blindness. We also find the connection between sincere and abiding faith today as we commemorate Saint Panteleimon whose relics are in our altar. Saint Panteleimon is one of the Unmercenary Healers and Physicians and he also is one of the Great Martyrs in the Orthodox Church. Although a very young man when his strong faith led to his martyrdom, it was his great faith that led to God granting to him the power of physical healing both during his lifetime and also since his martyrdom through his intercessions for those sick and suffering in both physical and spiritual ways. Let us experience spiritual and physical healings through developing this same deep, abiding, and true faith in our own lives!
 
 
       Your Pastor,
 
       Father Paisius R. McGrath

 

 

  

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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Grave Tone. Psalm 63.11,1.
The righteous shall rejoice in the Lord.
Verse: Oh God, hear my cry.

The reading is from St. Paul's Second Letter to Timothy 2:1-10.

Timothy, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me before many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier on service gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to satisfy the one who enlisted him. An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. It is the hardworking farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops. Think over what I say, for the Lord will grant you understanding in everything.

Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, descended from David, as preached in my gospel, the gospel for which I am suffering and wearing fetters like a criminal. But the word of God is not fettered. Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain salvation in Christ Jesus with its eternal glory.


Gospel Reading

7th Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 9:27-35

At that time, as Jesus passed by, two blind men followed him, crying aloud, "Have mercy on us, Son of David." When he entered the house, the blind men came to him; and Jesus said to them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this?" They said to him, "Yes, Lord." Then he touched their eyes, saying, "According to your faith be it done to you." And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly charged them, "See that no one knows it." But they went away and spread his fame through all that district.

As they were going away, behold, a dumb demoniac was brought to him. And when the demon had been cast out, the dumb man spoke; and the crowds marveled, saying, "Never was anything like this seen in Israel." But the Pharisees said, "He casts out demons by the prince of demons."

And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every infirmity among the people.


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Saints and Feasts

July 27

7th Sunday of Matthew


July 27

Panteleimon the Great Martyr & Healer

This Saint, who had Nicomedia as his homeland, was the son of Eustorgius and Eubula. His father was an idolater, but his mother was a Christian from her ancestors. It was through her that he was instructed in piety, and still later, he was catechized in the Faith of Christ by Saint Hermolaus (see July 26) and baptized by him. Being proficient in the physician's vocation, he practiced it in a philanthropic manner, healing every illness more by the grace of Christ than by medicines. Thus, although his parents had named him Pantoleon ("in all things a lion"), because of the compassion he showed for the souls and bodies of all, he was worthily renamed Panteleimon, meaning "all-merciful." On one occasion, when he restored the sight of a certain blind man by calling on the Divine Name, he enlightened also the eyes of this man's soul to the knowledge of the truth. This also became the cause for the martyrdom of him who had been blind, since when he was asked by whom and in what manner his eyes had been opened, in imitation of that blind man of the Gospel he confessed with boldness both who the physician was and the manner of his healing. For this he was put to death immediately. Panteleimon was arrested also, and having endured many wounds, he was finally beheaded in the year 305, during the reign of Maximian. Saint Panteleimon is one of the Holy Unmercenaries, and is held in special honor among them, even as Saint George is among the Martyrs.


August 01

The Holy Seven Maccabees, Eleazar the Martyr

The names of the Holy Maccabees are Abim, Anthony, Guria, Eleazar, Eusebona, Achim, and Marcellus. They were Jews by race and exact keepers of the Laws of the Fathers. They lived during the reign of Antiochus, who was surnamed Epiphanes ("Illustrious"), the King of Syria and an implacable enemy of the Jews. Having subjugated their whole nation and done many evil things to them, not sparing to assail the most sacred matters of their Faith, he constrained them, among other things, to partake of swine's flesh, which was forbidden by the Law. Then these pious youths, on being apprehended together with their mother and their teacher, were constrained to set at nought the Law, and were subjected to unspeakable tortures: wrackings, the breaking of their bones, the flaying of their flesh, fire, dismemberment, and such things as only a tyrant's mind and a bestial soul is able to contrive. But when they had endured all things courageously and showed in deed that the mind is sovereign over the passions and is able to conquer them if it so desires, they gloriously ended their lives in torments, surrendering their life for the sake of the observance of the divine Law. The first to die was their teacher Eleazar, then all the brethren in the order of their age. As for their wondrous mother Solomone, "filled with a courageous spirit, and stirring up her womanish thoughts with a manly wrath" (II Macc. 7:21), she was present at her children's triumph over the tyrant, strengthening them in their struggle for the sake of their Faith, and enduring stout-heartedly their sufferings for the sake of their hope in the Lord. After her last and youngest son had been perfected in martyrdom, when she was about to be seized to be put to death, she cast herself into the fire that they might not touch her, and was thus deemed worthy of a blessed end together with her sons, in the year 168 before Christ.


August 01

Procession of the Precious Cross

Because of the many diseases that occur in the month of August, the custom prevailed of old in Constantinople to carry the precious Wood of the Cross in procession throughout the city for its sanctification and its deliverance from illnesses. It was brought forth from the imperial treasury on the last day of July and placed upon the Holy Table of the Great Church of the Holy Wisdom; and beginning today, until the Dormition of the Theotokos, it was carried in procession throughout the city and was set forth for veneration before the people.


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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Plagal 2nd Tone

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.

Apolytikion for Great Martyr Panteleimon in the 3rd Tone

O holy prizewinner and healer Panteleimon, intercede with the merciful God that He grant unto our souls forgiveness of offences.

Apolytikion for the Church in the 1st Tone

Blessed are You, O Christ our God, who made fishermen all-wise, sending upon them the Holy Spirit and, through them, netting the world. O Loving One, glory to You.

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

He puts an end to the woman's fear ... He sets her right, in respect of her thinking to be hid ... He exhibits her faith to all, so as to provoke the rest also to emulation ...
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 31 on Matthew 9, 4th Century

And then at last He for His part lays His hand upon them, saying, "According to your faith be it unto you." And this He does to confirm their faith, and to show that they are participators in the good work ...
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 32 on Matthew 9, 4th Century

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Upcoming Services and Events

  • Upcoming Services and Events

    July 27 to July 31, 2025

    Sunday, July 27

    Saint Panteleimon the Great Martyr and Unmercenary Healer

    9:30AM Orthros

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy

    12:30PM Parish Religious Education and Parents Meeting for Sunday School

    Monday, July 28

    5:30PM Practical Orthodoxy Group Meeting (Location TBA)

    Wednesday, July 30

    6:00PM Daily Vespers and Talk with Potluck Meal

    Thursday, July 31

    5:00PM Daily Vespers

    6:00PM Parish Bible Study

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Announcements

 

ANNIVERSARIES

Today we extend our best wishes and congratulations to Chad and Leah Sommers as they celebrate their Wedding Anniversary this week on August 1.  May the Lord our God bless His servants, Chad and Leah, and may He grant to them many more blessed and happy years!
 

HOLY BAPTISM

Today we extend our best wishes and congratulations to the New Illumined servant of God, Mary Kmetz, who was received into the Orthodox Church yesterday through Holy Baptism. Her patron saint is Saint Mary Magdalene, and her sponsor is Meri Ionescu. May the Lord our God bless His servant, Mary, and may He grant to her many more blessed and happy years!

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Today we commemorate the Feast of Saint Panteleimon the Great Martyr and Unmercenary Healer and Physician whose relics are in our Holy Altar.  Saint Panteleimon, intercede for us!
 
This morning we offer our best wishes and congratulations to Eustasios (Samuel) Maung as he begins to serve as Altar Server in our Parish.  May the Lord our God bless His servant, Eustasios, and grant to him many more blessed and happy years!
 
Today we offer a reminder that following Divine Liturgy and some coffee, our Parish Religious Education, Stewardship, and Outreach Committees will have their first meetings. We also ask our parents to please meet with our Religious Education Committee to plan for the upcoming start of Sunday School.
 
We offer a reminder that we are asking for donations for our Parish copies of the GOA 2026 Calendars. Please talk with Cassidy Anderson or one of our Council members about this and the deadline will be next Sunday, August 3.
 
Next Sunday, August 3, we will welcome Father John Parker and Father James Bozeman from the Orthodox Church of America (OCA) as they worship with us while visiting our area. Father John is the Dean of Saint Tikhon's Orthodox Seminary in South Canaan, PA and Father James is the pastor at Saint James Orthodox Church in Beaufort, SC.
 
This morning we are pleased to announce that the printed copies of our Parish August 2025 Schedule are now availible in the narthex and side entrance. Please pick up your copy and join us as we worship together in August!
 

HOLY TRINITY SCHEDULE THIS WEEK

Monday, July 28, Practical Orthodoxy Group 5:30 p.m. (TBA)
 
Wednesday, July 30, Daily Vespers and Talk 6:00 p.m.
Potluck Meal
 
Thursday, July 31, Daily Vespers 5:00 p.m.
Parish Bible Study 6:00 p.m.
 
Friday,  August 1, Procession of Holy Cross/ Seven Maccabean Martyrs/ Holy Baptism of Rus/ Beginning of Dormition Fast, Orthros 9:30 a.m. Divine Liturgy 10:00 a.m.  Lesser Blessing of Water  Small Supplicatory Canon to Holy Theotokos 6:00 p.m.
 
Saturday, August 2, Great Vespers 5:00 p.m. Byzantine Chant Class
 
Sunday, August 3, 8th Sunday of Saint Matthew, Orthros 9:30 a.m. Divine Liturgy 10:00 a.m. Catechumen Class 12:30 p.m.
 

The Ministry of Holy Trinity is enabled, thanks be to God, by the faithful support of the following stewards of our Parish:

Abrahem Samander
Adam & Shauna Angel
Akaterina Vamvakas
Alijah King
Angele Lorio
Angelos and Elizabeth Vamvakas
Brad & Mandy Sartor
Carl & Nancy Malek
Chris Mavromihalis
Chrissanthi Beach
Colleen Collins
Crystal & Cassidy Anderson
Del & Jill Wilber
Edward S. Maikranz
Eleni Vganges
George & Janie Mavromihalis
George & Sheila Yurchak
George J. Vaporis
George L. Contas
Gus Ravenous
Guy Bowering
Jeff & Christie Maung
Irene Adeline
Irene Koskan
Jaime Ross
John & Donna Collins
Katie Monroe
Louis and Linda Peters
Malama Thrasivoulou
Mousa Maloof
Mihnea C. & Viorica M Ionescu
Nada D. Harris
Nataliya Petrovska Kirkby
Nicoletta Conner
Panagiotis "Peter" & Maria Loukatos
Rodney and Karen Bridges
Seth Willison
Spiro Vganges
Tim Gilmore
Trent & Rachel Milan
William Patrick Weaver
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