Sundays:
9 am - Orthros
10:15 am - Divine Liturgy
Weekday Services:
Please check the Services schedule in the bulletin or call the Church office.
GOYA Meeting
Sunday School Starts
8:50AM Orthros
10:00AM Divine Liturgy
12:00PM Greek Dance Practice
3:00PM Visitation for Stephen Colovos with Trisagion @ 7 pm
11:00AM Visitation for Stephen Colovos
12:00PM Funeral for Stephen Colovos
7:00PM Parish Council meeting
GOYA Meeting
8:50AM Orthros
10:00AM Divine Liturgy
12:00PM Philoptochos Meeting
The Greek Festival Committee would like to thank all our volunteers who so tirelessly worked to make this event a success. We heard many compliments on the food, our beautiful grounds, and our Greek culture. From the money that was brought in, it appears that this festival is a record-breaker at around $23,500 This amount may be subject to change as the final numbers are being worked on in addition to calculating expenses. As for the food, we sold out of many of our dinner items even after we had increased most of the number of meals that would be offered for the large crowds that attended. In the near future we will provide a final report of this year's festival and we plan to have a final festival meeting on Monday, October 7 @ 6pm.
All Festival yard signs can be returned in the hallway of the Church office. Thank you to all the parishioners who helped promote our Greek Festival!
Stavros Karagiaouris - 40 days
May the Lord our God grant rest to his soul where the righteous repose, in a place where there is no pain, no sorrow, and no suffering, but rather everlasting life. May his memory be eternal. The coffee is offered by the family.
The Ladies of Philoptochos will pass a tray today for the Downriver Veterans Group.
We are very excited for a new Sunday school year! Sunday School will take place following Holy Communion and we encourage all students and their families to sit in the diagonal pews located on the left side facing the altar. All children who are in Preschool through third grade will wait for their teachers near the cry room in the church and from there go to their classrooms (this will be done every Sunday for the younger children). All other students and teachers will go directory to their classrooms.
2024-2025 School Year Teachers & Classes
Sunday school begins today! If you haven't already registered your child(ren), please do so ASAP by
clicking HERE.
Please join us in supporting our Choir by attending its annual Choir Spaghetti Fundraiser Luncheon on Sunday, October 6, immediately following the Divine Liturgy in the Apollo Hall. Open seating. Adults 12 & up: $12; children ages 11 and under: free. Please click the link below to make a reservation.
SPAGHETTI LUNCHEON RESERVATION
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23. PLEASE CALL THE CHURCH OFFICE @ 734.283.8820 BY TOMORROW FOR RESERVATIONS.
Please see the attached flyer regarding the celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Enthronement of His Eminence, Metropolitan Nicholas of Detroit.
We are pleased to announce our 2024-2025 GOYA officers:
Our next meeting will be this Sunday, September 22 after Divine Liturgy. The main purpose of this meeting will be to draft an event calendar for GOYA which will include outings, fundraisers, and volunteer outreach to the needy.
JOY/HOPE will hold a meeting on Sunday, October 13 during coffee hour. All parents are invited to the meeting to talk about the JOY/HOPE calendar.
We would like to thank our sponsors for their support of our 2024 Greek Fest
Gold Sponsors
Bittner Appraisal Group
Concepts in Travel
Thank you to all the parishioners who donated towards the festival!
Charles & Georgia Stahl (in memory of Bill & Dina Papanos) 1
Carl Peters 1
Lou & Paula Kircos (in memory of Alex Kircos) 1.5
Barbara Pappas 1
Nick Minton 1
Sam & Donna Galanis 2
Donald & Marianne Coates (in memory John & Catherine Danias) 1
Nick & Jo Ann Karaboyas 1
Ted & Mina Dudek 1
John & Marika Kontos 2
Kara Kontos 1
Jenniffer Steen 1
Anonymous 2
Maria Grias 2
Lakis & Fotini Filyo 1
Fr. John & Presvytera Pavlina 1
Antigoni Kotsogiannis & Maria Snell 1
Barb Minton 1
On October 4 & 5, the Metropolis of Detroit and Metropolis of Detroit Ladies Philoptochos will sponsor, A Weekend with the Louhs, at St. Nicholas, Troy. Please see the attached flyer if interested in attending this event. Registration deadline: Sept. 27.
St. Nicholas, Troy, is hosting a 2-film event at E-magine Theater in Rochester Hills, on Thursday, October 3, at 7 pm sharp! See the attached flyer for more details.
Ticket Deadline Monday, September 23. No Tickets At The Door.
If you would like for us to light a candle in the Church in prayer for you and your family, please use the Prayer/Candle Request form found here or on the home page of the church website. You can pay by credit card or send a check in the mail to the Church.
If you would like Fr John to visit and spend time with a loved one who's a shut-in, please don't hesitate to contact the church office or to reach out to Fr. John directly to arrange a time.
This saint was known for the many miracles he worked and for his apostolic zeal in shepherding the flock of Sinope. He contested for the Faith during the reign of the Emperor Trajan, in the year 102, when he was burned to death in a bath-house. A homily in his honour was composed by Saint John Chrysostom. The translation of his holy relics is celebrated on July 23.
This came to pass fifteen months before the birth of Christ, after the vision of the Angel that Zacharias, the father of the Forerunner, saw in the Temple while he executed the priest's office in the order of his course during the feast of the Tabernacles, as tradition bears witness. In this vision, the Archangel Gabriel appeared to Zacharias and said to him, "Thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John" (Luke 1:13). Knowing that Elizabeth was barren, and that both he and she were elderly, Zacharias did not believe what the Angel told him, although he had before him the example of Abraham and Sarah, of Hannah, mother of the Prophet Samuel, and of other barren women in Israel who gave birth by the power of God. Hence, he was condemned by the Archangel to remain speechless until the fulfilment of these words in their season, which also came to pass (Luke 1:7-24).
This saint was from the city of Iconium. When she was eighteen years of age, she was instructed in the Faith of Christ and the hope of the resurrection by the Apostle Paul, whom also she followed, forsaking her betrothed and espousing a life of virginity for the sake of the Heavenly Bridegroom. Having preached Christ in various cities and suffered many things, she reposed in Seleucia of Cilicia at the age of 90.
Our righteous Mother Euphrosyne, who lived during the reign of Saint Theodosius the Younger (408-450), was the daughter of Paphnutius of Egypt. Forsaking her father and his wealth, she renamed herself Smaragdus, and pretending to be a eunuch of the imperial palace, she dressed herself as a man and entered a monastery of men where her identity remained unknown until her repose thirty-eight years later.
This Apostle was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and was the son of Zebedee and Salome, and the brother of James the elder. First a fisherman by trade, he became an Apostle and the beloved Disciple of Christ. Only he of all the Disciples followed Him even to the Cross, and was entrusted with the care of our Saviour's Mother, as it were another son to her, and a brother of Christ the Teacher. After this, he preached throughout Asia Minor, especially in Ephesus. When the second persecution against the Christians began in the year 96 during the reign of Domitian, he was taken in bonds to Rome, and there was cast into a vat filled to the brim with boiling oil. Coming forth therefrom unharmed, he was exiled to the island of Patmos, where he wrote the Book of Revelation. Returning again to Ephesus after the death of the tyrant, he wrote his Gospel (after the other Evangelists had already written theirs) and his three Catholic Epistles. In all, he lived ninety-five years and fell asleep in the Lord during the reign of Trajan in the year 100. He was called Theologian because he loftily expounded in his Gospel the theology of the inexpressible and eternal birth of the Son and Word of God the Father. It is for this cause that an eagle-a symbol of the Holy Spirit, as Saint Irenaeus says-is depicted in his icon, for this was one of the four symbolic living creatures that the Prophet Ezekiel saw (Ezek. 1:10).
These Martyrs contested for the Faith during the reign of Diocletian, in the year 288. Saint Callistratus was arrested as a Christian, and after being tormented, was enclosed in a sack and cast into the sea. The sack burst, and the Saint came to dry land safe and sound. Forty-nine soldiers, seeing this, also confessed Christ, and with him were cast into prison, then beheaded.
Saint Chariton was born in the city of Iconium during the reign of Aurelian, about the year 274. He was arrested, tortured, and condemned to death because of his Christian Faith, but finally set free by imperial edict. He came to Palestine, where he took up the ascetic life. He also brought many Jews and pagans to the Faith. Having dwelt in the desert of Judea for many years, and established several monasteries throughout the region, he reposed in peace.
This Saint was born in Corinth in 448. He went to Palestine to the Lavra of Euthymius the Great, but because of his youth was sent by Saint Euthymius to Saint Gerasimus; after the death of Saint Gerasimus he returned to the Lavra of Saint Euthymius. Later he took on a more rigorous life of asceticism in the wilderness of Natoufa, where there was nothing to eat except the exceedingly bitter wild herb called squills, which, however, through his prayers, God made sweet for him and his disciple. He lived 107 years and reposed in the year 555.
Second Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from Mark 16:1-8
When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Salome, bought spices, so that they might go and anoint Jesus. And very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb when the sun had risen. And they were saying to one another, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the door of the tomb?" And looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back - it was very large. And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe; and they were amazed. And he said to them, "Do not be amazed; you seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen, He is not here; see the place where they laid Him. But go, tell His disciples and Peter that He is going before you to Galilee; there you will see Him, as He told you." And they went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come upon them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.
Prokeimenon. Fourth Mode. Psalm 103.24,1.
O Lord, how manifold are your works. You have made all things in wisdom.
Verse: Bless the Lord, O my soul.
The reading is from St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 16:13-24.
Brethren, be watchful, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love. Now, brethren, you know that the household of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints; I urge you to be subject to such men and to every fellow worker and laborer. I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicos, because they have made up for your absence; for they refreshed my spirit as well as yours. Give recognition to such men. The churches of Asia send greetings. Aquila and Prisca, together with the church in their house, send you hearty greetings in the Lord. All the brethren send greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss. I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. If any one has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord, come! The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you. My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.
1st Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 5:1-11
At that time, as Jesus was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, he saw two boats by the lake; but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon's, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat. And when he had ceased speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch." And Simon answered, "Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets." And when they had done this, they enclosed a great shoal of fish; and as their nets were breaking, they beckoned to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord." For he was astonished, and all who were with him, at the catch of fish which they had taken; and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, "Do not be afraid; henceforth you will be catching men." And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed him.
Please remember in your prayers the following: Nick Gerazounis
Please contact the church office to add your name to the Prayer List. Thank you.
for Sunday, September 22, 2024
for Sunday, September 22, 2024
Honoring His Eminence Metropolitan Nicholas of Detroit on his 25th Anniversary Enthronement - EXTENDED DEADLINE TO MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23. Call the Church office for reservations.
for Sunday, October 6, 2024 - Apollo Hall
for Saturday, September 28, 2024
Deadline for Purchasing Tickets: Monday, September 23 (no tickets at the door)
Registration Deadline: September 27
Thank You to all our 2024 Greek Festival Sponsors!