Fr. John C. Katsoulis - Presiding Priest
Office Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, & Friday 9:00 – 3:00
Cell Phone: (540)-645-1427 House: (540)-786-8833
E-mail: nativityofthetheotokos@verizon.net
Kuriakh&- IZT &Louka - Telwnou kai Farisaiou - Tou~Agiou Megalomarturoj
Qeodwrou tou~Strathlatou kai&tou~ Agiou Profhtou Zaxariou.
The Sixteenth Sunday of Luke – Of the Publican and the Pharisee – The Holy Great Martyr Theodore the Commander and Zacharias the Prophet.
APOSTOLOS - B &Tim. g )10-15 EPISTLE – II Tim. 3:10-15
EUAGGELION - Louk. ih &10-14 GOSPEL – Luke 18:10-14
APOLUTIKION THS QEOTOKOU
H gennhsij sou Qeotoke, xaran emhnuse pash|th oikoumenh ek sou gar aneteilen o(hlioj thj dikaiosunhj, Xristoj o(Qeoj hmwn: kai_lusaj thn kataran, edwke thn eulogian: kai_ katarghsaj ton qanaton, edwrhsato hmin zwhn thn aiwnion.
APOLYTIKION OF THE THEOTOKOS
Your birth, O Theotokos, brought joy to the whole world, for from you dawned the sun of righteousness, Christ our God. Freeing us from the curse, He gave us His blessings. Abolishing death, He granted us eternal life.
APOLUTIKION ANASTASIMON
Tou~liqou sfragisqentoj upo_twn Ioudaiwn kai_stratiwtwn fulassontwn to_axranton sou swma, anesthj trihmeroj, Swthr, dwroumenoj tw kosmw thn zwhn. Dia_touto ai dunameij twn ouranwn ebown soi, Zwodota: Doca th anastasei sou Xriste: doca th basileia|sou: doca th~ oikonomia|sou, mone filanqrwpe.
RESURRECTIONAL APOLYTIKION
Savior, Your tomb was sealed by the Jews with a stone. Soldiers kept watch over Your sacred body. Yet, You rose on the third day, giving life to the world. Wherefore the powers of heaven cried out to You, O Giver of Life, “Glory to Your Resurrection, O Christ; glory to Your Kingdom, glory to Your dispensation who alone are the Loving One.”
The Memorial Service today is in honor of Constantine Stephanides and Maria Palagrouto beloved uncle and aunt of Steve and Jim Giannopoulos. May their memories be eternal!
ATTENTION! Our community has two different parishioners who are in need of drivers to help solve their transportation problems. One needs a driver three times a week to get to their medical treatments. The other needs a ride to and from the Divine Liturgy on Sundays. Please see Fr. John for further information.
The G.O.Y.A. Lasagna Luncheon is February 15th! Please plan to attend! The G.O.Y.A. will be cooking in the kitchen on the 14th! There will be a G.O.Y.A. meeting today after the Divine Liturgy.
The Ladies Philoptochos Pastichio Luncheon today has been donated in honor of Harry Yiasemides’ upcoming Nameday. The Ladies Philoptochos will be holding a Social Luncheon on Sunday February 22nd, after the Divine Liturgy, spouses and Ladies interested in joining the Philoptochos are encouraged to attend.
Attention graduating high school seniors!
Student scholarship applications are now available for the Washington Metropolitan Area 40th Annual AHEPA Awards. Students should be affiliated with either the AHEPA family or with a Greek Orthodox Church within the jurisdiction of the Greater Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area. Applications and guidelines are available from either: Mr. Wayne Skinner, President, AHEPA Chapter #290 (540)-898-3260 or Jane Kalomatis Moore, Secretary, 40th Annual AHEPA Awards Committee (540)-371-8108. The deadline to submit your student application is April 3, 2009.
Let us not forget our people in the nursing homes, hospitals or separated from our community. If you know of anyone in this situation please contact Fr. John. Thank You.
An account has been established to support our permanent priest. To help build this account and our community, please see Sandy or Bill Winkler with your donations to this fund.
What is the Triodion?
What do we find, then, in this book of preparation that we term the Lenten Triodion? It can most briefly be described as the book of the fast. Just as the children of Israel ate the 'bread of affliction' (Deut. 16: 3) in preparation for the Passover, so Christians prepare themselves for the celebration of the New Passover by observing a fast. But what is meant by this word 'fast' (nisteia)? Here the utmost care is needed, so as to preserve a proper balance between the outward and the inward. On the outward level fasting involves physical abstinence from food and drink, and without such exterior abstinence a full and true fast cannot be kept; yet the rules about eating and drinking must never be treated as an end in themselves, for ascetic fasting has always an inward and unseen purpose. Man is a unity of body and soul, a living creature fashioned from natures visible and invisible', in the words of the Triodion; and our ascetic fasting should therefore involve both these natures at once. The tendency to over-emphasize external rules about food in a legalistic way and the opposite tendency to scorn these rules as outdated and unnecessary, are both alike to be deplored as a betrayal of true Orthodoxy. In both cases the proper balance between the outward and the inward has been impaired. By Bishop Kallistos Ware and Mother Mary.
Parish Council Members
Steve Giannopoulos, President (540)-659-0095
John Manolis, Vice-president (540)-373-0808
Sandy Winkler, Treasurer (540)-786-0236
Christine Fulmore, Secretary (540)-479-6590
Maxine N. Calamos (540)-373-7904 Michael Euripides (540)-372-3966
Pauline Gorton (540)-371-3967 George Kartoudi (540)-895-5444
Daniela Langa (540)-372-4413 Robert Morrison (540)-854-8794
Nicholas Pappas (540)-809-3085
