Transfiguration of Our Saviour Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2026-09-06
Bulletin Contents
Announcements
Weekly Inserts
Weekly Calendar
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Hymns of the Day
Wisdom of the Fathers
Saints and Feasts
Diakonia Newsletter

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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

Proistamenos Fr. Gregory Floor


[email protected] | 978-458-4321

Fr. John Vaporis


[email protected]

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

Today’s fellowship is being sponsored in loving memory of Sophia Quinn and Jack Mahoney by the Mahoney, Merrill, Quinn and Sevigny families. May their memory be eternal!

Everyone is welcome to join us for Fellowship Coffee Hour following Liturgy in the Philoptochos room. 

FELLOWSHIP MINISTRY

Please support our Sunday morning Fellowship with a free-will offering to the Coffee Fellowship Fund.  We are thankful for your free-will offerings!

KITCHEN RENOVATION PROJECT UPDATE

We are happy to report that the kitchen renovation project is going well and as planned. The demolition is now complete. Rough steel framework is up, doorway(s) and viewing window(s) have been framed and concrete filling has been completed in areas where needed. 

In the next couple of weeks, rough electrical and plumbing will begin, as well as work on the new hood exhaust. In parallel with this project, Pinnacle is also working on the old office which will become the new Children's Playroom. This part of the project is only possible as a result of the Capital Campaign.  Glory to God!  It's finally happening!

 

SAVE THE DATE- GOLF TOURNAMENT

Our 16th Annual Golf Tournament is on October 26, 2026, 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.

 

SAVE THE DATES *

Sep 5 - Young Adult Outreach event @ Dwelling House of Hope
Sep 11 – VCC/Family Fun Night – Pizza & Movie
Sep 18-20 – Transfiguration Family Retreat at the St. Methodios Faith & Heritage Center
Oct 3 - Young Adult Outreach event @ Dwelling House of Hope
Oct 14 - Young Adult Bible Study Intro Session
Oct 16 - Family Fun Night
Oct 26 - Transfiguration Golf Tournamnet
Nov 1 – Parish Assembly
Nov 22 – Neighborhood Turkey distribution
Dec 6 – Philoptochos Tea
Dec 13 – Christmas Concert
Jun 4-5-6 – Grecian Festival 2027

*Dates are subject to change.  Additional information will be provided as it becomes available.  


PHILOPTOCHOS NEWS

Please see insert

  

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

†Vigil Light at the Side Altar (Icon of the Theotokos):  In Loving Memory of William J. Tanguay – from his wife Mary and daughters Christina and Jennifer
†Vigil Light at the Icon of Christ: In Loving Memory of Deborah Victoria Skrekas, 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: Available
†Vigil Light at the Foot of the Holy Cross: In Loving Memory of George Tsoukalas - from his family

 



Weekly Inserts



Weekly Calendar

Sunday, September 6  FOURTEENTH SUNDAY OF MATTHEW 
†Orthros, 8:30 am
†Liturgy, 9:30 am
40 Day Churching for Stephanie and baby Sofia
Monthly Trisagion
10 Year Memorial for Jack Mahoney
10 Year Memorial for Sophia Quinn

 

Monday, September 7   
Ecclesiastical New Year
Office Closed

Tuesday, September 8   
Nativity of the Theotokos                                      
†Orthros, 8:30 am                                      
†Divine Liturgy, 9:30 am                                      
Parish Council Meeting, 6:30 pm

 

Friday, September 11
VCC Family Movie Night, 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm


Sunday, September 13  SUNDAY BEFORE HOLY CROSS
†Orthros, 8:30 am
†Liturgy, 9:30 am

 

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

UPCOMING EVENTS            

 

September 14
The Elevation of the Holy Cross
†Orthros, 8:30 am
†Divine Liturgy, 9:30 am


September 15
Philoptochos General Meeting, 6:30 pm


September 17
St. Sophia and her daughters – Liturgy, 9:30 am


September 18 - 20
Transfiguration Family Retreat


September 20
Sunday After Holy Cross


September 22
Philoptochos Tea Meeting, 6:30 pm


September 23
Bible Study (online), 10:00 am/7:00 pm


September 27
First Sunday of Luke
40 Day Memorial for Christopher Sintros


Please Note: We are still in summer office hours Tuesday through Friday 9 am to 1 pm.



Gospel and Epistle Readings

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Plagal First Mode. Psalm 11.7,1.
You, O Lord, shall keep us and preserve us.
Verse: Save me, O Lord, for the godly man has failed.

The reading is from St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 1:21-24; 2:1-4.

Brethren, it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has commissioned us; he has put his seal upon us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.

But I call God to witness against me - it was to spare you that I refrained from coming to Corinth. Not that we lord it over your faith; we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith. For I made up my mind not to make you another painful visit. For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained? And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all. For I wrote you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.

Gospel Reading

14th Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 22:2-14

The Lord said this parable, "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a marriage feast for his son, and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast; but they would not come. Again he sent other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited, Behold, I have made ready my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves are killed, and everything is ready; come to the marriage feast.' But they made light of it and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them. The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy. Go therefore to the thoroughfares, and invite to the marriage feast as many as you find.' And those servants went out into the streets and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good; so the wedding hall was filled with guests.

But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment; and he said to him, 'Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?' And he was speechless. Then the king said to the attendants, 'Bind him hand and foot, and cast him into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.' For many are called, but few are chosen."



Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Plagal First Mode

To the Word, coeternal with the Father and the Spirit, born of the Virgin for our salvation, let us, the faithful, give praise and worship. For he willed to be lifted up on the cross in the flesh, to endure death and raise the dead by his glorious resurrection.

Reading is under copyright and is used with permission, all rights reserved by: Kevin Lawrence


Apolytikion for Miracle of Michael in Colossae in the Fourth Mode

O Commanders of the Heavenly Host, we the unworthy beseech you, that through your entreaties you will fortify us, guarding us in the shelter of the wings of your ethereal glory, even as we fervently bow before you crying: "Deliver us from all danger, as Commanders of the Powers on high! "

Reading is under copyright and is used with permission, all rights reserved by: Narthex Press


Seasonal Kontakion in the Fourth Mode

Your holy birth delivered Joachim and Anna from the reproach of childlessness, and liberated Adam and Eve from death's corruption, O Pure One. Thus freed from the stain of sin, we your people honor your birth, crying out to you: A woman thought barren brings forth the Theotokos who nourishes Christ our Life.

Reading is under copyright and is used with permission, all rights reserved by: Kevin Lawrence






Saints and Feasts

September 06

The Miracle at Colassai of Archangel Michael

The feast today in honour of the Archangel Michael commemorates the great miracle he wrought when he delivered from destruction a church and holy spring named for him. The pagans, moved by malice, sought to destroy the aforesaid church and holy spring by turning the course of two rivers against them. But the Archangel appeared and, by means of the Cross and a great earthquake that shook the entire area, diverted the waters into an underground course. Henceforth, the name of that place changed from Colossae to Chonae, which means "funnels" in Greek.

September 07

Sozon the Martyr

This holy Martyr was a shepherd in Lycaonia. Born a pagan, named Tarasius, he received holy Baptism and was renamed Sozon. Filled with zeal for the truth, he taught his countrymen to desist from the worship of idols. Once he entered the temple of Artemis in Pompeiopolis of Cilicia, cut off the golden hand of the idol, and breaking it in pieces, distributed it among the poor. When he saw that many were being unjustly punished for the theft, of his own accord he gave himself up to Maximian the Governor. He was beaten with rods until his bones were broken. According to some, he suffered martyrdom in 288; according to others, in 304.

September 08

The Nativity of Our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary

According to the ancient tradition of the Church, the Theotokos was born of barren and aged parents, Joachim and Anna, about the year 16 or 17 before the birth of Christ. Joachim was descended from the royal line of David, of the tribe of Judah. Anna was of the priestly tribe of Levi, a daughter of the priest Matthan and Mary, his wife.

September 09

The Holy & Righteous Ancestors of God, Joachim and Anna

Today, the day following the Nativity of the most holy Theotokos, we celebrate the synaxis of Saints Joachim and Anna, honouring them as her parents.

September 10

Menodora, Metrodora, & Nymphodora the Martyrs

These Martyrs, sisters according to the flesh, were from Bithynia. They lived in virginity on a mountain near the Pythian hot springs of Bithynia, devoting themselves to asceticism and prayer. Betrayed to the local governor, Fronto, they were subjected to frightful tortures, and so gave up their holy souls into the hands of God. They contested for the Faith during the reign of Maximian, in the year 304.

September 11

Theodora the Martyr of Alexandria

This saint lived in the fifth century. Out of remorse for the adultery that she committed with another man, she fled from her husband's house, renamed herself Theodore, clothed herself as a man, and pretending to be a eunuch, entered a monastery of men. Her identity as a woman was discovered only after her death.

September 12

Autonomos the Martyr

This saint was a bishop in Italy. Fleeing from the persecution of Diocletian in 298, he came to Bithynia, where he went from place to place converting many from the idols to the true God. Because of this, one day as he was celebrating the Divine Liturgy in the Church of the Archangels, they who worshipped wood and stones fell upon him and beat him to death with staves and stones.



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