Announcements

FELLOWSHIP

We welcome everyone to join us for Coffee Fellowship following Liturgy.

TOWERS UPDATE

Pinnacle Construction continues to make progress on the towers project and will work through October to ensure the structural integrity of our building. We are currently awaiting domes and crosses to complete tower component. God bless our Transfiguration family, as we move forward to ensure our parish is standing strong for the next 100 years.

MONTHLY PARAKLESIS

We will be offering a monthly Paraklesis to the Theotokos on the 4th Friday of every month starting Friday, October 25th at 6:30 PM, wherein we will beseech the Theotokos to intercede for all of our living loved ones who are suffering in any way. Therefore, I would ask that you bring names of your loved ones to the service or email them to Fr. Gregory in advance of the 4th Friday of the month.

GOLF TOURNAMENT

Our 14th Annual Golf Tournament is on October 28, 2024, at the Indian Ridge Country Club in Andover. Please support our Golf Tournament by putting together a foursome or by becoming a golf sponsor. Unable to join us for golf? You are welcome to join us for dinner. The cost for dinner is $50 per person with appetizers beginning at 4:30 pm followed by dinner at 5:00 pm.

100^th ANNIVERSARY EVENTS

SAVE THE DATE - Our “O Come All Ye Faithful” Christmas Concert featuring talented, professional musicians will be held on December 8th.

PARISH COUNCIL NOMINATIONS WELCOME

Nominations for the 2025-2026 term of the Parish Council are welcome. Any parishioner in good standing interested in being nominated must contact the Parish office to request an official nomination form to complete and return to the office by 1:00 pm Friday, November 1, 2024. Elections will be held on December 8, 2024.

PLEASE NOTE NEW EMAIL ADDRESSES!!

New email addresses for church contacts. See the reverse side of the bulletin for an updated listing of email addresses with the domain @transfigurationlowell.org.

Trinity votive candles (To Sponsor a Candle please call the Church Office.)

†Vigil Light at the Side Altar (Icon of the Theotokos): Available
†Vigil Light at the Icon of Christ: In Loving Memory of Deborah Victoria Skrekas and George Skrekas
†Vigil Light at the Theotokos: In Loving Memory of Ioannis "John" Zaralidis - from his family
†Vigil Light at the Icon of the Forerunner: Available
†Vigil Light at the Foot of the Holy Cross: In Loving Memory of George Tsoukalas - from his family

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Weekly Calendar

Sunday, October 6 THIRD SUNDAY OF LUKE
†Orthros 8:30 am
†Liturgy 9:30 am
Monthly Trisagion
Memorial for Family members of Fr. Gregory Floor

Tuesday, October 8
Parish Council Meeting, 6:30 pm

Wednesday, October 9
Bible Study (online), 10:00 am/7:00 pm

Saturday, October 12
100^th Anniversary Gala Dinner Dance

Sunday, October 13 SUNDAY OF THE 7^TH ECUMENICAL COUNCIL
†Orthros 8:30 am
†Liturgy 9:30 am

TODAY’S PARISH COUNCIL: Olivia Sintros, Philip Eliopoulos & Ann Marie Stelman

UPCOMING EVENTS

October 14
Columbus Day (Office Closed)

October 16
Bible Study (online), 10:00 am/7:00 pm

October 18
St. Luke the Evangelist – Liturgy, 9:30 am

October 20
Sixth Sunday of Luke
40 Day Memorial for Angie Rigs
5 Year Memorial for Virginia Kimball

October 25
Paraklesis, 6:30 pm

October 26
St. Demetrios - Liturgy, 9:30 am

October 27
Seventh Sunday of Luke

October 28
Transfiguration Golf Tournament

October 30
Bible Study (online), 10:00 am/7:00 pm

November 3
Fifth Sunday of Luke
Monthly Trisagion
Parish Assembly

November 9
St. Nektarios - Liturgy, 9:30 am

November 10
Eighth Sunday of Luke
40 Day Memorial for Peter Cakounes

Gospel and Epistle Readings

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Plagal Second 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 Second Letter to the Corinthians 4:6-15.

Brethren, it is the God who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the transcendent power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For while we live we are always being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So death is at work in us, but life in you.

Since we have the same spirit of faith as he had who wrote, "I believed, and so I spoke," we too believe, and so we speak, knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.

Gospel Reading

3rd Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 7:11-16

At that time, Jesus went to a city called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. As he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and a large crowd from the city was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, "Do not weep." And he came and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And he said, "Young man, I say to you, arise." And the dead man sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his mother. Fear seized them all; and they glorified God, saying, "A great prophet has arisen among us!" and "God has visited his people!"

Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Plagal Second Mode

The angelic powers appeared at your tomb, and those guarding it became as dead. Mary stood at your grave seeking your pure body. But you stripped the power of Hades, yet were not touched by corruption. You met the virgin and granted her life. O Lord, who rose from the dead, glory to you.

Apolytikion for Apostle Thomas in the Third Mode

O Holy Apostle Thomas, intercede to our merciful God, that He may grant our souls forgiveness of sins.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Second Mode

The protection of Christians unshameable, intercessor to our Holy Maker, unwavering, do not turn from the prayerful cries of those who are in sin; instead, come to us, for you are good; your loving help bring unto us, who are crying in faith to you: Hasten to intercession and speed now to supplication as a protection for all time, Theotokos, for those who honor you.

Wisdom of the Fathers

He who truly wishes to believe in God must be lifted above himself, his mind, and even the whole world. For this reason, the value of faith is considered higher than the value of man. It is even higher than the value of the whole world. Therefore, the reward of faith should be higher than all of man's possessions along with the glories of this world. The reward of faith is God.

Fr. Matthew the Poor

Orthodox Prayer Life: The Interior Way, p. 74, 20th century

That dead man was being buried, and many friends were conducting him to his tomb. But there meets him Christ, the Life and Resurrection, for He is the destroyer of death and of corruption; He it is "in Whom we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:28); He it is Who has restored the nature of man to that which it originally was; and has set free our death-fraught flesh from the bonds of death.

St. Cyril of Alexandria

Commentary on the Gospel of St. Luke, Homily 36.42, p. 153., 5th Century

Saints and Feasts

October 06

The Holy and Glorious Apostle Thomas

The name Thomas means, "twin." He was one of the Twelve, a Galilean by birth. Sophroneus (not the famous Patriarch of Jerusalem [7th Century, celebrated March 11], but a friend of Jerome's), quoted also by Jerome, says that Saint Thomas preached to the Parthians, Pesians, Medes, Hyrcanians, Bactrians, and neighbouring nations. According to Heracleon, the Apostle died a natural death; according to other accounts, he was martyred at Meliapur His tomb was known by Saint John Chrysostom to be at Edessa in Syria, to which city his holy relics may have been translated from India in the fourth century.

October 07

Sergius & Bacchus the Great Martyrs of Syria

These holy Martyrs were Romans of high rank in the service of the Emperor Maximian, to whom it was reported that they did not take part in the festivals of the idols. When he called them into his presence, they confessed their Faith in the one God. He had them arrayed in women's clothes and paraded through the streets in mockery. They were afterwards scourged, from which Saint Bacchus died. This was about the year 296. Saint Sergius was then taken to Resapha in Syria, where he was tortured and beheaded. His tomb in Resapha became a very famous shrine, to which pilgrims came from as far away as Western Europe; Resapha was later renamed Sergiopolis in his honour.

October 08

Pelagia the Righteous

This Saint was a prominent actress of the city of Antioch, and a pagan, who lived a life of unrestrained prodigality and led many to perdition. Instructed and baptized by a certain bishop named Nonnus (Saint Nonnus is commemorated Nov. 10), she departed for the Mount of Olives near Jerusalem, where she lived as a recluse, feigning to be a eunuch called Pelagia. She lived in such holiness and repentance that within three or four years she was deemed worthy to repose in an odour of sanctity, in the middle of the fifth century. Her tomb on the Mount of Olives has been a place of pilgrimage ever since.

October 09

James the Apostle, son of Alphaeus

The holy Apostle James was one of the Twelve, and preached Christ to many nations, and finally suffered death by crucifixion.

October 10

Eulampios & Eulampia the Martyrs

The Martyrs Eulampius and Eulampia were from Nicomedia, and contested for Christ during the reign of Maximian, in the year 296.

October 11

Philip the Apostle of the 70, one of the 7 Deacons

Saint Philip, who had four daughters that prophesied, was from Caesarea of Palestine. He preached throughout Samaria; it was he also who met the eunuch of Candace, the Queen of the Ethiopians, as the eunuch was reading the Prophet Esaias, and he instructed and baptized him (Acts 8:26-39). He reposed in Tralles of Asia Minor while preaching the Gospel.

October 12

Provos, Andronicus, & Tarachos, Martyrs of Tarsus

The holy Martyrs contested for Christ during the reign of Diocletian, in the year 296 or 304. Tarachus was advanced in years, of Roman birth, and had been a soldier; Probus was from Side in Pamphylia, and Andronicus from Ephesus. They were taken together in Cilicia and subjected to manifold exceedingly cruel tenures. Tarachus was beaten on his cheeks and neck with stones, his hands were burned, he was hanged on a post and smoke was put underneath him to choke him; vinegar was forced down his nostrils; after enduring further tortures, he was carved to pieces. Probus was thrashed with whips, his feet were burned with red hot irons, his back and sides were pierced with heated spits; finally he also was cut up with knives, and received the crown of martyrdom. Andronicus suffered similar tortures, and also finished his course being cut to pieces, commending his soul into the hands of God.

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