St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral
Publish Date: 2024-05-12
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St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (860) 956-7586
  • Street Address:

  • 433 Fairfield Avenue

  • Hartford, CT 06114


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Services Schedule

Sundays: Orthros (Matins): 8:30 AM | Divine Liturgy: 9:30 AM

 

 


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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Fourth Mode. Psalm 146.5;134.3.
Great is our Lord, and great is his power.
Verse: Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good.

The reading is from Acts of the Apostles 5:12-20.

In those days, many signs and wonders were done among the people by the hands of the apostles. And they were all together in Solomon's Portico. None of the rest dared join them, but the people held them in high honor. And more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women, so that they even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and pallets, that as Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on some of them. The people also gathered from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those afflicted with unclean spirits, and they were all healed. But the high priest rose up and all who were with him, that is, the party of the Sadducees, and filled with jealousy they arrested the apostles and put them in the common prison. But at night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out and said, "Go and stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this Life."

Προκείμενον. Fourth Mode. ΨΑΛΜΟΙ 146.5;134.3.
Μέγας ὁ Κύριος ἡμῶν, καὶ μεγάλη ἡ ἰσχὺς ἀὐτοῦ.
Στίχ. Αἰνεῖτε τὸν Κύριον, ὅτι ἀγαθός.

τὸ Ἀνάγνωσμα Πράξεις Ἀποστόλων 5:12-20.

Ἐν ταῖς ἡμεραῖς ἐκείναις, διὰ δὲ τῶν χειρῶν τῶν ἀποστόλων ἐγίνετο σημεῖα καὶ τέρατα ἐν τῷ λαῷ πολλά· καὶ ἦσαν ὁμοθυμαδὸν ἅπαντες ἐν τῇ στοᾷ Σολομῶντος. Τῶν δὲ λοιπῶν οὐδεὶς ἐτόλμα κολλᾶσθαι αὐτοῖς, ἀλλʼ ἐμεγάλυνεν αὐτοὺς ὁ λαός· μᾶλλον δὲ προσετίθεντο πιστεύοντες τῷ κυρίῳ, πλήθη ἀνδρῶν τε καὶ γυναικῶν· ὥστε κατὰ τὰς πλατείας ἐκφέρειν τοὺς ἀσθενεῖς, καὶ τιθέναι ἐπὶ κλινῶν καὶ κραββάτων, ἵνα ἐρχομένου Πέτρου κἂν ἡ σκιὰ ἐπισκιάσῃ τινὶ αὐτῶν. Συνήρχετο δὲ καὶ τὸ πλῆθος τῶν πέριξ πόλεων εἰς Ἱερουσαλήμ, φέροντες ἀσθενεῖς καὶ ὀχλουμένους ὑπὸ πνευμάτων ἀκαθάρτων, οἵτινες ἐθεραπεύοντο ἅπαντες. Ἀναστὰς δὲ ὁ ἀρχιερεὺς καὶ πάντες οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ - ἡ οὖσα αἵρεσις τῶν Σαδδουκαίων - ἐπλήσθησαν ζήλου, καὶ ἐπέβαλον τὰς χεῖρας αὐτῶν ἐπὶ τοὺς ἀποστόλους, καὶ ἔθεντο αὐτοὺς ἐν τηρήσει δημοσίᾳ. Ἄγγελος δὲ κυρίου διὰ τῆς νυκτὸς ἤνοιξεν τὰς θύρας τῆς φυλακῆς, ἐξαγαγών τε αὐτοὺς εἶπεν, Πορεύεσθε, καὶ σταθέντες λαλεῖτε ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ τῷ λαῷ πάντα τὰ ῥήματα τῆς ζωῆς ταύτης.


Gospel Reading

Thomas Sunday
The Reading is from John 20:19-31

On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you." When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent Me, even so I send you." And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained." Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord." But he said to them, "Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and place my finger in the mark of the nails, and place my hand in His side, I will not believe." Eight days later, His disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. The doors were shut, but Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you." Then He said to Thomas, "Put your finger here, and see My hands; and put out your hand, and place it in My side; do not be faithless, but believing." Thomas answered Him, "My Lord and My God!" Jesus said to him, "Have you believed because you have seen Me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe." Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing, you may have life in His name.

Thomas Sunday
Κατὰ Ἰωάννην 20:19-31

Οὔσης ὀψίας τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ τῇ μιᾷ τῶν σαββάτων, καὶ τῶν θυρῶν κεκλεισμένων ὅπου ἦσαν οἱ μαθηταὶ συνηγμένοι διὰ τὸν φόβον τῶν Ἰουδαίων, ἦλθεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς καὶ ἔστη εἰς τὸ μέσον, καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς· Εἰρήνη ὑμῖν. Καὶ τοῦτο εἰπὼν ἔδειξεν αὐτοῖς τὰς χεῖρας καὶ τὴν πλευρὰν αὐτοῦ· ἐχάρησαν οὖν οἱ μαθηταὶ ἰδόντες τὸν Κύριον. Εἶπεν οὖν αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς πάλιν· Εἰρήνη ὑμῖν, καθὼς ἀπέσταλκέ με ὁ πατήρ, κᾀγὼ πέμπω ὑμᾶς. Καὶ τοῦτο εἰπὼν ἐνεφύσησε καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς· Λάβετε Πνεῦμα Ἅγιον. Ἄν τινων ἀφῆτε τὰς ἁμαρτίας, ἀφιένται αὐτοῖς, ἄν τινων κρατῆτε, κεκράτηνται. Θωμᾶς δέ, εἷς ἐκ τῶν δώδεκα, ὁ λεγόμενος Δίδυμος, οὐκ ἦν μετʼ αὐτῶν ὅτε ἦλθεν Ἰησοῦς· ἔλεγον οὖν αὐτῷ οἱ ἄλλοι μαθηταί· Ἑωράκαμεν τὸν Κύριον. Ὁ δὲ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· Ἐὰν μὴ ἴδω ἐν ταῖς χερσὶν αὐτοῦ τὸν τύπον τῶν ἥλων, καὶ βάλω τὸν δάκτυλόν μου εἰς τὸν τύπον τῶν ἥλων, καὶ βάλω τὴν χεῖρά μου εἰς τὴν πλευρὰν αὐτοῦ, οὐ μὴ πιστεύσω. Καὶ μεθʼ ἡμέρας ὀκτὼ πάλιν ἦσαν ἔσω οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ, καὶ Θωμᾶς μετʼ αὐτῶν. Ἔρχεται ὁ Ἰησοῦς τῶν θυρῶν κεκλεισμένων, καὶ ἔστη εἰς τὸ μέσον καὶ εἶπεν· Εἰρήνη ὑμῖν. Εἶτα λέγει τῷ Θωμᾶ· φέρε τὸν δάκτυλόν σου ᾧδε, καὶ ἴδε τὰς χεῖράς μου. καὶ φέρε τὴν χεῖρά σου καὶ βάλε εἰς τὴν πλευράν μου, καὶ μὴ γίνου ἄπιστος ἀλλὰ πιστός. Καὶ ἀπεκρίθη ὁ Θωμᾶς, καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ· Ὁ Κύριός μου καὶ ὁ Θεός μου. Λέγει αὐτῷ ὁ Ἰησοῦς· Ὅτι ἑώρακάς με πεπίστευκας, μακάριοι οἱ μὴ ἰδόντες, καὶ πιστεύσαντες. Πολλὰ μὲν οὖν καὶ ἄλλα σημεῖα ἐποίησεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἐνώπιον τῶν μαθητῶν αὐτοῦ, ἃ οὐκ ἔστιν γεγραμμένα ἐν τῷ βιβλίῳ τούτῳ· ταῦτα δὲ γέγραπται ἵνα πιστεύσητε ὅτι ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἐστιν ὁ Χριστὸς ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ ἵνα πιστεύοντες, ζωὴν ἔχητε ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ.


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Hymns of the Day

Apolytikion of Great and Holy Pascha in the Plagal First Mode

Christ is risen from the dead, by death, trampling down upon death, and to those in the tombs He has granted life.
Χριστός ἀνέστη ἐκ νεκρῶν, θανάτῳ θάνατον πατήσας, καί τοῖς ἐν τοῖς μνήμασι ζωήν χαρισάμενος.

Apolytikion for Thomas Sun. in the Grave Mode

Whilst the tomb was sealed, Thou, O Life, didst shine forth from the grave, O Christ God; and whilst the doors were shut, Thou didst come unto Thy disciples, O Resurrection of all, renewing through them an upright Spirit in us according to Thy great mercy.
Ἐσφραγισμένου τοῦ μνήματος ἡ ζωὴ ἐκ τάφου ἀνέτειλας Χριστὲ ὁ Θεός, καὶ τῶν θυρῶν κεκλεισμένων, τοῖς Μαθηταῖς ἐπέστης ἡ πάντων ἀνάστασις, πνεῦμα εὐθὲς δι' αὐτῶν ἐγκαινίζων ἡμῖν, κατὰ τὸ μέγα σου ἔλεος.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Plagal Fourth Mode

Though You went down into the tomb, You destroyed Hades' power, and You rose the victor, Christ God, saying to the myrrh-bearing women, "Hail!" and granting peace to Your disciples, You who raise up the fallen.
Εἰ καὶ ἐν τάφῳ κατῆλθες ἀθάνατε, ἀλλὰ τοῦ ᾍδου καθεῖλες τὴν δύναμιν, καὶ ἀνέστης ὡς νικητής, Χριστὲ ὁ Θεός, γυναιξὶ Μυροφόροις φθεγξάμενος. Χαίρετε, καὶ τοῖς σοῖς Ἀποστόλοις εἰρήνην δωρούμενος ὁ τοῖς πεσοῦσι παρέχων ἀνάστασιν.
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Wisdom of the Fathers

The Lord stoops to the level even of our feeble understanding. He works a miracle of His invisible power in order to satisfy the doubts of unbelieving minds.
St. Hilary of Poitiers
On the Trinity, 1.20. Taken from: Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture. Vol: John. Intervarsity Press, 2007, p. 369.

For great is the dignity of the priests. ... And hold them very exceedingly in honor; for you indeed care about your own affairs, and if you order them well, you give no account for others; ...
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 86, 4th Century

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This Week at the Cathedral

Today at the Cathedral:

CHRISTOS ANESTI! 

We welcome His Grace Bishop Andonios who is celebrating the Divie Liturgy with us today. 

ARTOKLASIA
The Elliot Giese family for Thomas 

PRESENTATION - Mother Of The Year 2024
The Ladies of Philoptochos will announce and we will all honor a special mother today.
The flowers we hand out to our cathedral mothers are gifted by Peter Samiotis in memory of his beloved wife, Joyce (Zoe) Samiotis.

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers of our cathedral.

Announcements:   

Stewardship Update

Thank you St. George parishioners for your generous 2024 Stewardship contributions of $105,365 as of 4/25/24. We are on our way to meeting our goal of $292,000!  We have been listing all Stewards who have made their 2024 contribution (partial or total) and we will update the listing each week in the bulletin. Please note that stewardship contributions will need to be submitted by April 30h in order to be acknowledged in that week’s bulletin. If you have any questions, contact Sooty Montanari at 860-402-5467 (text or call) or [email protected].

Our festival baking continues!
Kourambiedes on Monday, May 13th and Tuesday, May 14th. WE NEED THE HELP OF EVERYONE – PLEASE CONSIDER SIGNING UP TO HELP BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER THE FESTIVAL – LET’S ALL WORK TOGETHER FOR OUR CATHEDRAL. - see schedule on attached flyer.

Help Us Fight George’s Cancer Together
As many of you know, George Zugravu, Fr. George’s son, is battling cancer. Thankfully this cancer is treatable and he is getting the best care at Memorial Sloan Kettering, however, it will require several months of chemotherapy, radiation, and other treatments.
Many community members have reached out to us asking how to help as we are facing this difficult journey ahead. We are thankful for all your prayers and kind thoughts. Any financial support would be greatly appreciated to help cover the medical expenses. https://gofund.me/c8d14f47

Upcoming Services and Events:  

HELP IS URGENTLY NEEDED FOR THE KOURAMBIDES WORKSHOPS, MON. AND TUES:
Monday,  May 13th
9:30 am – Baking for the Festival – Kourambiedes – all helpers welcome

Tuesday,  May 14th
9:30 am – Baking for the Festival – Kourambiedes – all helpers welcome

Wednesday,  May 15th
6 pm – Paraklesis
7 pm – Bible Study

Saturday,  May 18th
9 am – Greek School - Last day.
12:30 pm - Greek Dance practice, Juniors and new dancers - lower hall
1:00 pm - Seniors and experienced dancers - lower hall

SUNDAY, June 9th
Mark your calendars, GENERAL ASSEMBLY of our Cathedral following Divine Liturgy.

 

2024 Stewardship Contributors   

Loula Adamidis

Michelle Adamidis

Irene Alexis

Nick Anagnostopoulos

Andrew Andrews

Sylvia Andrews

John Angelakapoulis

Louis Antonio

Persephone Antonio

Sophia Antonio  

Maria Antonopoulos

Nicholaos Antonopoulos

Paraskeve Apostolidis

Tsampika Apostolidis

William Apostolidis

Virginia Argiros

Dorothy Barry

Hope Battistine

Anila Bellovada

George Bikakis

John Bikakis

Stella Bikakis 

Matina Bolger

Steven Bolger

Craig Bond

Cynthia Bond

Despina Botham

Charles Caratasios

Hariclea Caratasios

Patricia Caratasios

Leonidas Charalambides

Katherine Colgan

Catherine Contos

Nicholas Contos

Anna Dallas

Chris Dallas

Nicholas Demetriadis

Despina Demos

Theodoros Demos

Catherine Deros

Jennifer Deros

Paula DeTuccio

Emmanuel Diacosavvas

Socrates Diacosavvas

Christos Dimitrakopoulos

Poly Dimitrakopoulos

Bess Economos

George Michael Economos

Maria E Economos

Panagitois Emmanouilidis

George J Emmanuel

Mica Ensign

Constantina Fas

Constantinos Fas

Emmanuel Fas

Joseph Fazzino

Georgia Feigel

Maria Filindarakis

Eleni Filintarakis

Mary Filintarakis

Alexa Fleury -Melonopoulos

Patricia Fluet  

Scott Fluet  

Cornelia Georgantas

Margaret Giannakopoulos

Demetrios Giannaros

Elizabeth Giannaros

Elliot Giese

Alganesh Hadis

Ogde Hadis

Maria Haldezos

Panagiotis Haldezos

Peter Hantzos

Savvas Hatzisavvas  

Urania Hatzisavvas  

Sean Howard

Anna Illescas

George Johns

Pamela Johnson

Christina Kaliff

Andreas Kapetanopoulos

Georgia Kapetanopoulos

Sophie Kapetanopoulos

Helen Karabetsos

Joanne Karabetsos

John Karabetsos

Kostas Karabetsos

William Karabetsos

Dennis Karageanis 

George Karageorge

Maria Karagiannis

Mercourios Karagiannis

Arthur Karahalios

Georgea Karahalios

Konstantina Karahalios

Anastasia Karayanis

Phyllis Karayanis

Stacy Kardos

Evangelos Karelas

Kondilo Karelas

Konstantinos Kasolis

Persefone Kasolis

Eleni Kavros

Anastasia Kavroudakis

Anthony Kazakos

Lucia Kazakos

Waseem Khoury

Lora Klementon

Marie Klementon  

Peter Klementon

John Kokinis

Peter Kokinis

Priscilla Kokinis

Priscilla Kokinis

Helena Kono

Esmeralda Kore  

Mimoza Kore  

Dimitra Kostopoulos

Alexander Koutmos

Ourania Koutsoukos

Alexia Krionidou- Wing

Debra Kurker

Richard Kurker

Panagiota Kyparidis

Andrew Kyriacou

Apostol Laske

Annemarie Leaska

Dimitrios Lergos

John Lergos

Manolis Lergos 

Stergos Lergos

Triantafylla Lergos

Marcia Letourneau

Helen Limnios

Alexander Logarides  

Athena Loukellis  

Costas Loukellis  

Doinita Lungu

George Lykotrafitis

Staci Lynch (Antonio)

Marie Machado

Chris Mantziaris

Marilyn Mantziaris

Peter Marangoudakis

Seta Marangoudakis

Maria Matarangas

Andri Matheou

Ariana McClean

Mary Meggie

Sofia Melabianakis

Helen Melonopoulos

James Mermegas

Argereos Mermegas Jr

Maria Mintatos

Fred Montanari

Sotoria Montanari

Peter Moutafis

Olga Nako

Vera Nako

Constantina Nisyrios-Colt

Anesti Nova

Julia Tsaoussis Odell

Antonios Orsaris

Katholiki Orsaris

Nicholas Paindiris

Dorothy Paleologos

Ernest Pandolfi  

Jerry Pangakis  

Martha Pangakis  

Denise Panos

Paul Panos

Fotis Papadimitrakopoulos

Clarence Papanic

Niko Papathanasiou

Katherine Papathanasis

Michael Pappas

Dimitrios Patetsos

Katie Patterson

Russell Patterson

David Paul

Hrisanthi Paul

Irene Pia

Francesca Poulos

Athena Psaras

James Psaras

Anna Rafti

Ektor Rafti

Dr. James Rouman

Melinda Roussopoulos  

Marie Rozanitis

Elena Russo

Jack Russo

Panagiotis Samiotis



Maria Scanlon

Gabriela Schumacher

John Sembrakis

Alexander Serbegis

Cynthia Lou Serbegis

Peter Serbegis

Tolis Serbegis

Chrissa Skeadas

John Skeadas

Eleni Skouloudis

Christina Skouloudis-Marques

Christina Smith

Sara Smith 

Despina Spyros  

George Spyros  

Tsambika Stamos

Marianthi Statoulas

Nektaria Statoulas

Nicholas Statoulas

Panagiotis Stefanatos

Emmanuil Stergakis

Edana Sullivan

Maria Synodi

Maria (Kottas) Tackett

Andrew Tatakis

Maria K. Tougas

Eugenie Trefz

Demetrios Triantafylidis

James Triarhos

George Troullas

Maria Troullas

John Tyropolis

Sideroula Tyropolis

Stephanie Uccello

Angie Varlas

Elaina Varunes

Evangelos Vasiliadis

Kitsa Vasiliadis

Kaliopi Venoutsos

George Vlahopoulos

Joanna Vlahopoulos

Michael Vulgaris  

Ethel Vounatso-Nowacki  

Andrew Walsh

Catherine Walsh

Kevin Ward

Christine White

Pandora Wohler

Paige Wolfe

Stephen Wolfe

Parthena Yaakob

Gregory Yatrousis

Lazaros Yiannos

Georgia Zafiris

Jim Zafiris

Theodora Zafiris

Damien Zaharis

Stephanie Zaharis

Vasilios Zaharis

Stephanie Zapatka

Emmanuel Zervos

Kathryn Zervos

Eugenia Zessos

Mary Zocco

Michael Zocco

Yasmi Zup

 

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Saints and Feasts

May 12

Thomas Sunday

Though the doors were shut at the dwelling where the disciples were gathered for fear of the Jews on the evening of the Sunday after the Passover, our Saviour wondrously entered and stood in their midst, and greeted them with His customary words, "Peace be unto you." Then He showed unto them His hands and feet and side; furthermore, in their presence, He took some fish and a honeycomb and ate before them, and thus assured them of His bodily Resurrection. But Thomas, who was not then present with the others, did not believe their testimony concerning Christ's Resurrection, but said in a decisive manner, "Except I shall see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into His side, I will not believe." Wherefore after eight days, that is, on this day, when the disciples were again gathered together and Thomas was with them, the Lord Jesus came while the doors were shut, as He did formerly. Standing in their midst, He said, "Peace be unto you"; then He said to Thomas, "Bring hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and bring hither thy hand, and thrust it into My side: and be not unbelieving, but believing."

And Thomas, beholding and examining carefully the hands and side of the Master, cried out with faith, "My Lord and my God." Thus he clearly proclaimed the two natures - human and divine - of the God-man (Luke 24:36-49; John 20:19-29).

This day is called Antipascha (meaning "in the stead of Pascha," not "in opposition to Pascha") because with this day, the first Sunday after Pascha, the Church consecrates every Sunday of the year to the commemoration of Pascha, that is, the Resurrection.


May 12

Martyrs Emmanuel, Theodore, George, Michael and the other George of Samothrace


May 12

Epiphanius, Bishop of Cyprus

Saint Epiphanius was born about 310 in Besanduc, a village of Palestine, of Jewish parents who were poor and tillers of the soil. In his youth he came to faith in Christ and was baptized with his sister, after which he distributed all he had to the poor and became a monk, being a younger contemporary of Saint Hilarion the Great (see Oct. 21), whom he knew. He also visited the renowned monks of Egypt to learn their ways. Because the fame of his virtue had spread, many in Egypt desired to make him a bishop; when he learned of this, he fled, returning to Palestine. But after a time he learned that the bishops there also intended to consecrate him to a widowed bishopric, and he fled to Cyprus. In Paphos he met Saint Hilarion, who told him to go to Constantia, a city of Cyprus also called Salamis. Epiphanius answered that he preferred to take ship for Gaza, which, despite Saint Hilarion's admonitions, he did. But a contrary wind brought the ship to Constantia where, by the providence of God, Epiphanius fell into the hands of bishops who had come together to elect a successor to the newly-departed Bishop of Constantia, and the venerable Epiphanius was at last constrained to be consecrated, about the year 367. He was fluent in Hebrew, Egyptian, Syriac, Greek, and Latin, and because of this he was called "Five-tongued." He had the gift of working miracles, and was held in such reverence by all, that although he was a known enemy of heresy, he was well nigh the only eminent bishop that the Arians did not dare to drive into exile when the Emperor Valens persecuted the Orthodox about the year 371. Having tended his flock in a manner pleasing to God, and guarded it undefiled from every heresy, he reposed about the year 403, having lived for ninety-three years. Among his sacred writings, the one that is held in special esteem is the Panarion (from the Latin Panarium, that is, "Bread-box,") containing the proofs of the truth of the Faith, and an examination of eighty heresies.


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