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Sunday Bulletin
July 9, 2017
Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church
13555 Hillcrest Road, Dallas, Texas 75240 Office 972-991-1166 Fax 972-661-1717
www.holytrinitydallas.org
Reverend Father Christopher Constantinides Reverend Father Peter Kostakis
Reverend Father John Essa Reverend Deacon Mark Pakes
Reverend Deacon Athanasios “Clint” Sharpley Reverend Deacon Christopher Stern
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Sunday, July ,, 017 Hymns at the Small Entrance
RESURRECTIONAL HYMN, 4TH TONE
GREEN BOOK PAGE 84 – THE TIDINGS
PRIEST ENTRANCE HYMN, 2ND TONE
Come, let us worship and bow down before Christ. Save us O
Son of God, who did arise from the dead. We sing to You,
alleluia!
RESURRECTIONAL HYMN, 4TH TONE
GREEN BOOK PAGE 84 – THE TIDINGS
HYMN OF THE CHURCH, PLAGAL 4TH TONE
GREEN BOOK PAGE 115 – O BLESSED ARE YOU
KONTAKION, 2ND TONE
A protection of Christians unshamable, intercessor to our
holy maker unwavering. Please reject not 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 intercede and speed now to
supplicate, as a protection for all time, Theotokos for those
who honor you.
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Epistle Reading
St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 10:1-10.
BRETHREN, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is
that they may be saved. I bear them witness that they have a
zeal for God, but it is not enlightened. For, being ignorant of
the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking to
establish their own, they did not submit to God's
righteousness. For Christ is the end of the law, that every one
who has faith may be justified. Moses writes that the man who
practices the righteousness which is based on the law shall live
by it. But the righteousness based on faith says, Do not say in
your heart, "Who will ascend into heaven?" (that is, to bring
Christ down) or "Who will descend into the abyss?" (that is, to
bring Christ up from the dead). But what does it say? The
word is near you, on your lips and in your heart (that is, the
word of faith which we preach); because, if you confess with
your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God
raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For man believes
with his heart and so is justified, and he confesses with his lips
and so is saved.
Gospel Reading
Matthew 8:28-34; 9:1
At that time, when Jesus came to the country of the Gergesenes,
two demoniacs met him, coming out of the tombs, so fierce that no
one would pass that way. And behold, they cried out, "What have
you to do with us, O Son of God? Have you come here to torment
us before the time?" Now a herd of many swine was feeding at
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some distance from them. And the demons begged him, "If you
cast us out, send us away into the herd of swine." And he said to
them, "Go." So they came out and went into the swine; and
behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea,
and perished in the waters. The herdsmen fled, and going into the
city they told everything, and what had happened to the
demoniacs. And behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus; and
when they saw him, they begged him to leave their neighborhood.
And getting into a boat he crossed over and came to his own city.
July 9 The Holy Hieromartyr Pancratius, Bishop of
Tauromenium in Sicily; Dionysios the Orator;
Metrophanes of Mount Athos; Patermuthius the Monk;
Michael Paknanas the Gardener; Methodios the
Hieromartyr, Bishop of Lampis; Euthymios of Karelia
July 10 45 Holy Martyrs of Nikopolis, Armenia; Our Holy Father
Gregory, Bishop of Assa; 10,000 Fathers martyred in
Egypt; Apollonios the Martyr; Deposition of the Precious
Robe of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Moscow; Righteous
Father Anthony of the Kiev Caves; Parthenios and
Eumenios of Koudoumas
Daily Commemoration of Saints
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July 11 Andrew of Crete Author of the Great Canon; Martha,
mother of St. Symeon Stylites the Younger; Asclepias
the Wonderworker; Holy Royal Martyrs of Russia;
Michael Choniates, Metropolitan of Athens
July 12 Proclus & Hilary the Martyrs of Ancyra; Our Holy Father
Michael of Maleinus; Veronica, the woman with the issue
of blood who was healed by Jesus; Andre the
Commander & his Companion Martyrs; Gerasimos of
Byzantium and Akakios the young ascetic; Paisios the
Athonite
July 13 Synaxis of Archangel Gabriel; Stephen of Mar Sabbas
Monastery; Holy Martyr Golinduc; Marcian the Martyr
of Iconium; Serapion the Martyr
July 14 Aquila the Apostle among the 70; Our Holy Father
Joseph the Confessor, Archbishop of Thessalonica;
Nicodemus the Righteous of Mount Athos; Justus the
Martyr; Peter the New Hieromartyr and the four New
Martyrs of Melissourgeio Kissamos
July 15 The Holy Martyrs Cyricus and His Mother Julitta;
Vladimir, Equal-to-the-Apostles of Kiev; The Finding of
the Head of St. Matrona of Chios; Donald and his Nine
Daughters; Swithun, Bishop of Winchester
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Sunday, July 9
8:15 a.m. Orthros
9:30 a.m. Divine Liturgy (S)
Coffee in the Community Center following Divine Liturgy.
Monday, July 10
10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Yarn Guild (BR)
Tuesday, July 11
1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Pickleball (Gym)
Wed., July 12
12:30 - 5:00 p.m. Holy Trinity Bookstore OPEN
7 - 9 p.m. GOYA B’ball Sr Boys (Gym)
Thursday, July 13
1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Pickleball (Gym)
7 - 9 p.m. Men’s Basketball (Gym)
Friday, July 14
No Activities
Saturday, July 15
5 p.m. Great Vespers (C)
Sunday, July 16
8:15 a.m. Orthros
9:30 a.m. Divine Liturgy (S)
Coffee hosted by AHEPA in the Community Center following Divine Liturgy.
Calendar of Events
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Parish Council Schedule July 9
Amelia Fritz, Stamati Arakas,
John Nickolas, Bill Zaemes, Peter Hronas
July 16
Hellen Smith, Wade Stephens, Alin Voicu,
Mary Ann Trapalis, Fotis Papanicolaou, Mary LeBrecht
PRAYERS FOR OUR SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN
Brandon Bell, USAF
Michael Bocan-Collins, PO1, US Navy
Thomas C. Bouras, 1st Lt., US Army
Jorge Brignoni, Lt., US Navy
Nicholas Patitsas, 1st Lt., US Marine Corps
Haylie Marie Pike, US Navy
Stephen Serniak, Major, USAF Space Command
Karl Schlotthauer, US Army
Wanted:
Coffee Hour Sponsors
HT needs YOU . . . to volunteer your organization/family!
Please contact
Amelia Fritz at
See the available dates below:
July 30, August 6, September 3, October 22,
November 26, December 24 and December 31
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An Evening with Tony Orlando*
Saturday – July 29, 2017 at 6 p.m. The Westin Dallas Park Central Hotel
*Tony is bringing his Las Vegas Show to Dallas!
Concert & Dinner to benefit SNOWBALL EXPRESS
SNOWBALL EXPRESS provides hope and memories to the children
of fallen military heroes who have died on active duty since 9/11.
Tony is donating his performance to benefit Snowball Express.
He is a strong supporter of the U.S. military and their families
and an extraordinary entertainer.
For reservations and information contact:
*Grand Prize Raffle Ticket includes:
Round Trip American Airline tickets to Las Vegas for Two (2), plus
weekend hotel accommodations and VIP Tony Orlando Concert.
Red $10,000 Table for 8 plus 10 raffle tickets* Meet, greet, and photo with Tony Orlando
White $5,000 Table for 8 plus 5 raffle tickets*
Blue $2,500 Table for 8 plus 2 raffle tickets*
Patron $195 Concert & Dinner for one
Tudie & Lenny Athens [email protected]
214-293-8829
Pam & Jimmy Christon [email protected]
214-363-6321
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Greek Food Festival 2017
61 years of family, food, music, fun and YOU!!!
Join us September 22, 23, 24,
as we celebrate the
61st Annual Dallas Greek Food Festival!!!
Check out our website for details: www.GreekFestivalofDallas.com https://www.facebook.com/GreekFoodFestivalDallas/
It’s time for our community to get together for food, fun
and fellowship! Cooking and baking dates have been set
for our 61st Annual Greek Food Festival!
We will start at 9 a.m. on all dates except Sunday, Sept 17th. This is a
great way to volunteer your time and talents! Light lunch and
refreshments will be served.
Join us!
Questions? Email [email protected]
Saturday August 12th Dolmathes
Saturday August 26th Koulouria
Saturday September 2nd Kourambiades
Monday September 4th Paximadia
(Labor Day) Sesame Cookies
Saturday September 9th Fenekia
Saturday September 16th Baklava
Sunday September 17th Package After Church
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Our 2017 Stewardship goal, to support the ministries and activities of
Holy Trinity, is just under $1.1 million.
The 2017 Stewardship Team
Harry Yianitsas, Louis Antos, Nick Cimino, Jim Dolmas, Ellena Fox, John
Nickolas, Alin Voicu
Weekly Bulletin Stewardship Update as of 7/5/17
Pledges and Contributions received to date
$ Pledged to 2017
Stewardship
% of 2017 Goal Pledged
$ Contributed to 2017
Stewardship
% of 2017 Goal Contributed
$579,014.00 53.87% $492,841.75 45.85%
The Holy Trinity Bookstore will be open this summer on
Wednesdays and will be opening earlier! Our summer hours
will be 12:30-5 p.m.
And as always we are open on Sunday after the
Divine Liturgy until 12 p.m.
We hope to see you then!
You can reach us at
Now enrolling for
the 2017-2018
school year!
Accepting children
2 years old thru
Kindergarten.
SACS Accredited
For more information please call (972) 490-7060
Many years ago, in fact 52 years ago,
when I first started selling cookware as a 16
yr. old sophomore in High School, I
learned a most valuable lesson.
My father, who was my sales manager
at the time, continued to encourage us to
be “Go Givers” rather than “Go Getters.”
Talk about being confused. Most every self
-help type of publication or lecture that I
read or heard were always talking about
“Go Getters” being the successful people in
life and up until that point I believed it. But
soon I learned that it was NOT TRUE!
Just analyzing the words is important,
“to get” is to acquire, take or receive and
“to give” is to give away, share or gift
someone.
What did this have to do with selling I
questioned, and then a Bible saying: “It is
better to give than receive” came to mind.
Could it possibly be true that the key to
success or life is to be generous?
To give things away? In the case of
selling, we always (from that point on),
had small gifts that we would give to our
sales prospects for them allowing us to
take their valuable time and listen to our
sales presentation.
Amazing isn’t it? Giving to get. What a
novel concept? Not at all, as scriptures
teach us that when we give (in the proper
manner) God always rewards us ten-fold.
Tithing (10%), as the Bible teaches us, is
our obligation to God. This is not any type
of gift, but it is our duty, and that is what
God expects of us. Any amounts in excess
of tithing (10%) are gifts, which is real
giving.
Some may question this and ask or
state, “there’s no way I could afford to give
my church (or total charities) 10% of my
income!”
And to that I answer, “YOU CAN’T
AFFORD NOT TO!”
I firmly believe that God watches what
we do with what he gives us (and
everything IS a gift from God) and, if what
we do glorifies His name, then He gives us
even more. On the other hand if He doesn’t
like what we do with our gifts, He stops
giving them to us.
When is the “right” time to give? When
we can least afford to.
Just as a pump has to be primed
(pouring water down the pump) so that it
gives us all the water we want from the
well, the same is true with our lives on this
earth.
As farmers, in most cases, borrow
thousands of dollars each year for seed,
fertilizer and labor well before he ever sees
any harvest. He must cultivate, plant and
nurture his crops in order for them to
produce. He can’t tell the crops to grow
and then I’ll take care of you after you take
care of me. Why would we think that our
lives as Orthodox Christians should be any
different? Our liberal Stewardship
program allows us to give as we feel that
we have received. My life totally changed
financially once I learned this and yours
would too!
Many wise, wealthy, people have
offered the following advice over the
centuries: Contribute at least 10% of your
income to charity and then save 10% to pay
yourself and wealth and material goods
will be yours.
Let’s all start being true “GO GIVERS”
to our church and charities and watch how
God will bless us and our families. It is our
community, and all of us should do our
fair share as the Bible teaches us. Fulfill,
increase and start tithing toward your
stewardship and watch your lives change.
You’ll be glad you did!
Humbly, your fellow parishioner,
Arthur Nahatis
Proud Member of H T & Guest “Author”
ARE WE GO GETTERS OR GO GIVERS?