Transfiguration of Our Saviour Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2025-07-06
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Transfiguration of Our Saviour Greek Orthodox Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (978) 458-4321
  • Street Address:

  • 25 Fr. John Sarantos Way

  • Lowell, MA 01854
  • Mailing Address:

  • 25 Fr. John Sarantos Way

  • Lowell, MA 01854


Contact Information






Services Schedule

Sunday Schedule:

Orthros: 8:30 a.m.
Divine Liturgy: 9:30 a.m.

Bible Study:

Wednesdays, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m - 8:00 p.m.


Past Bulletins


Announcements

FELLOWSHIP

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

 

VCC JULY 28TH

Due to scheduling & staffing difficulties, Vacation Church Camp 2025 (VCC ages K-8) will be One Day Only this year at the Metropolis of Boston Camp in Contoocook, NH via bus departing Monday, July 28, 9:30AM from the Transfiguration and returning at 4:30PM. Please register by using this link -  Transfiguration Summer VCC 2025

 

Save the Date - Next year we will return to the 5 days format as we have already received commitments from a group of dedicated parents to help. Tentative dates for next year are July 27-31, 2026. Please make every effort to have your child/ren participate so they can not only grow in their Orthodox Faith, but also see our beautiful camp and meet other Orthodox kids their age.

STEWARDSHIP UPDATE THROUGH MAY 31ST
Thanks to your generous "Stewardship Treasure" donations we have covered 51% of our operating expenses. We are so grateful for every contribution.  Our goal is to cover 100% of our expenses with Stewardship Treasure thus allowing special event fundraising for our ministries.

                                                                                               

SUMMER OFFICE HOURS

Please note that summer office hours for July and August are Tuesday through Friday, 9 am to 1 pm. 

 

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

♥ Thank you to those who have continued to donate Market Basket gift cards for those in need. These donations are greatly appreciated! We have received several cards without amounts written on them. Please note the amount of the gift card on the cards donated. 

 

  

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 and Avra Skrekas
†Vigil Light at the Theotokos: In Loving Memory of Ioannis "John" Zaralidis - from his family
†Vigil Light at the Icon of the Forerunner: In Loving Memory of Scott John Laganas – from George, Jill and Shyanne|
†Vigil Light at the Foot of the Holy Cross: In Loving Memory of George Tsoukalas - from his family
 

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Weekly Inserts

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Weekly Calendar

Sunday, July 6  FOURTH SUNDAY OF MATTHEW
†Orthros, 8:30 am
†Liturgy, 9:30 am
Monthly Trisagion

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

Friday, July 11
Sts. Euphemia & Olga - Liturgy, 9:30 am

Saturday, July 12
LTLC Mead

Sunday, July 6  FATHERS OF THE 4TH ECUMENICAL COUNCIL
†Orthros, 8:30 am
†Liturgy, 9:30 am


 

TODAY’S PARISH COUNCIL:  Ellen Dobi, Carl Maib & Stephanie Gulezian



UPCOMING EVENTS


July 20
Sixth Sunday of Matthew

July 27
Seventh Sunday of Matthew


July 28
VCC at MBC


August 1
Paraklesis, 6:30 pm


August 3
Eighth Sunday of Matthew
Monthly Trisagion
40 Day Memorial for Scott Laganas


August 4
Paraklesis, 6:30 pm


August 5
Vespers of the Transfiguration, 6:30 pm
Reception to follow


August 6
Holy Transfiguration
†Orthros, 8:30 am
†Liturgy, 9:30 am
Light Brunch to follow Liturgy


August 9
LTLC Meal


August 10
Ninth Sunday of Matthew

 

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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Third Mode. Psalm 46.6,1.
Sing praises to our God, sing praises.
Verse: Clap your hands, all you nations.

The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 6:18-23.

Brethren, having been set free from sin, you have become slaves of righteousness. I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once yielded your members to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now yield your members to righteousness for sanctification.

When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. But then what return did you get from the things of which you are now ashamed? The end of those things is death. But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the return you get is sanctification and its end, eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.


Gospel Reading

4th Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 8:5-13

At that time, as Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, beseeching him and saying, "Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, in terrible distress." And he said to him, "I will come and heal him." But the centurion answered him, "Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I am a man under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to one, 'Go,' and he goes, and to another, 'Come,' and he comes, and to my slave, 'Do this,' and he does it." When Jesus heard him, he marveled, and said to those who followed him, "Truly, I say to you, not even in Israel have I found such faith. I tell you, many will come from east and west and sit at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth." And to the centurion Jesus said, "Go; be it done for you as you have believed." And the servant was healed at that very moment.


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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Third Mode

Let the heavens rejoice and the earth be glad, for the Lord has shown the mighty power of his arm. He has trampled down death by death, becoming the first born of the dead. He has delivered us from the depths of hell and has granted to all the world his great mercy.

Apolytikion of the Church

When You were transfigured on the mountain, O Christ our God, You showed Your disciples Your glory as far as they could bear.  So now, for us sinners also, let this same eternal light shine forth through the prayers of the Theotokos.  O Giver of Light, glory to You.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Second Mode

O unfailing protection of Christians, and our faithful advocate before the Creator: though we are sinners, do not ignore our entreaty; but in your goodness, grant your timely help to us who appeal to you in faith. Quickly make intercession; on our behalf make speedy supplication, O Theotokos, for you always protect those who honor you.
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Saints and Feasts

July 06

Sisoes the Great

This Saint, great and renowned among the ascetics of Egypt, lived in the fourth century in Scete of Nitria. After the death of Saint Anthony the Great, he left Scete to live in Saint Anthony's cave; he said of this, "Thus in the cave of a lion, a fox makes his dwelling." When Sisoës was at the end of his long life of labours, as the Fathers were gathered about him, his face began to shine, and he said, "Behold, Abba Anthony is come"; then, "Behold, the choir of the Prophets is come"; his face shone yet more bright, and he said, "Behold, the choir of the Apostles is come." The light of his countenance increased, and he seemed to be talking with someone. The Fathers asked him of this; in his humility, he said he was asking the Angels for time to repent. Finally his face became as bright as the sun, so that the Fathers were filled with fear. He said, "Behold, the Lord is come, and He says, 'Bring Me the vessel of the desert,'" and as he gave up his soul into the hands of God, there was as it were a flash of lightning, and the whole dwelling was filled with a sweet fragrance.


July 07

Kyriaki the Great Martyr

Saint Kyriake was the daughter of Christian parents, Dorotheus and Eusebia. She was given her name because she was born on Sunday, the day of the Lord (in Greek, Kyriake). She contested in Nicomedia during the reign of Diocletian, in the year 300. After many bitter torments she was condemned to suffer beheading, but being granted time to pray first, she made her prayer and gave up her holy soul in peace.


July 08

Prokopios the Great Martyr & his mother Theodosia the Martyr

The holy Martyr Procopius was born of a pious father named Christopher, but his mother Theodosia was an idolater. After Christopher's death, she presented Neanias - for this was the Saint's name before - to Diocletian, who was at Antioch in Syria. Diocletian made him Duke of Alexandria, and sent him there to punish the Christians. On the way to Alexandria, our Lord spoke to Neanias as once He had to Saul, and turned this new persecutor to faith in Him. Neanias turned back to Scythopolis, and preached Christ. He was betrayed by his own mother, and was arrested and tormented in Caesarea of Palestine. While he was in prison, the Lord appeared to him again and gave him the new name of Procopius (which is derived from the Greek word meaning "progress, advancement"). He was brought out of prison and taken to worship the idols, but at his prayer, the idols fell; many then believed in Christ and suffered martyrdom, among them certain soldiers, twelve women of senatorial rank, and the Saint's own mother, Theodosia. Saint Procopius, after further torments and imprisonment, was beheaded about the year 290.


July 09

Pancratios, Bishop of Sicily

This Saint, who was a contemporary of the Apostles, had Antioch as his homeland, where he was guided to the Faith of Christ by Peter, the Chief of the Apostles. Later, he came to Sicily, where he brought many to the Faith, and was finally put to death by the pagans.


July 10

45 Holy Martyrs of Nikopolis, Armenia

The Forty-five Martyrs of Nikopolis contested during the reign of Licinius, in the year 315. After many torments, they were burnt alive.


July 11

Euphemia the Great Martyr

In 451, during the reign of the Sovereigns Marcian and Pulcheria, the Fourth Ecumenical Council was convoked in Chalcedon against Eutyches and those of like mind with him. After much debate, the Fathers who were the defenders of Orthodoxy, being 630 in number, agreed among themselves and with those who were of contrary mind, to write their respective definitions of faith in separate books, and to ask God to confirm the truth in this matter. When they had prepared these texts, they placed the two tomes in the case that held Saint Euphemia's relics, sealed it, and departed. After three days of night-long supplications, they opened the reliquary in the presence of the Emperor, and found the tome of the heretics under the feet of the Martyr, and that of the Orthodox in her right hand. (For her life, see Sept. 16.)


July 12

Proklos & Hilarios the Martyrs of Ancyra

These Martyrs contested in Ancyra in 106, during the reign of the Emperor Trajan. Saint Proclus was seized as a Christian and, confessing his faith, was burned on his sides and belly, was hung upon a beam with heavy stones tied to his feet, and finally was taken away to be shot with arrows. As he was being led forth, his nephew Hilary encountered him and greeted him, and was himself seized. After his uncle had been slain with arrows, Hilary, because he would not deny Christ, was tormented, then beheaded.


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