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Volume 20 Issue 7 July-August 2020 Proistamenos: Fr. Jon Emanuelson

Church News ............................... 1

Priest Message .............................. 3

St. Panteleimon ............................. 6

Transfiguration of Our Lord .......... 8

Stewardship ............................. 11

Memorials ................................ 12

Calendars ................................. 14

State of the Church ................... 16

Church News

he summer of 2020 is definitely unique. We

have survived the drought of June and now we are in the heat of summer and thun-derstorms. There is a group of parishioner who pushing forward to have a festival at our usual dates. We think people of the L/A community will be itching to do some-thing. We will have a limited menu, limited seating and we will not have all booths we have normally. After the meeting on the 5th the group should have some details to share with the community.

We have been having church each Sunday, practic-ing social distancing, masks and the other protocol. We look forward to the day we can start coffee hour again so we can back to being the vibrant loving community we are.

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coffee hour a year ago

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Committees

Building & Addition: John Stass, Mike PelletierCemetery: Michael PelletierFestival: Finance & Endowment: Dorothy Moskovis, Mike Pelletier. Hellenic Heritage: Georgia ChomasInterior: Stella Gammaitoni, John RozosMaintenance: Jim Simones, Harry Simones, Stella GammaitoniParish Historical Society: John KesarisSpiritual Enrichment: Ann RobinsonStewardship: Librarian: Tom GoodwinLadies Society: Christine Sirois Choir Directors: John Rozos, Chris GianopoulosSunday School Director: Presbyteria EmanuelsonReaders: George Simones, David LeGloahec, John Rozos, Jaye Goulet, Peter VayanosAcolyte Guide: Roger ParkBook Store Manger: Desrée TanquayVisitation Committee: Margery Mars (933-4949) & Christine Sirois

(784-7107) Other Members: Ann Pelletier, Dotty Moskovis, George Simones, Rosemary Goranites, Deserée Tanquay, and John Rozos.

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Priest’s MessageCelebrating American

Independence & Our Panagia

pray everyone celebrates American Independence

in good health! Our country is founded on freedom. Free-dom of religion is at the heart of our country. Therefore, on the Sunday nearest to the 4th of July we have a beautiful doxology at the end of Litur-gy. This year, Sunday, July 5, 2020 is our church commemo-ration of our American Inde-pendence. Let’s us all come together and pray an end to the pandemic and for the well-being of our United States of America this coming Sunday!

Let us remember that free-dom should not be taken for granted. With freedom of re-ligion comes responsibility to uphold our Orthodox Chris-tian Faith. Please support our Holy Trinity in body and spirit and truth this summer.

Let’s attend Liturgy, in a timely manner, every Sunday we can! Let us keep donating our time and resources to our churches continued efforts to uphold the gospel. May the spirit of speaking the truth in

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Church News

You should be receiving several emails that will have reports that you can read and send your questions in to email address that will be part of the email. These ques-tions will be presented in the State of the Church Zoom Meeting on July 12 at 6:00PM.

We have missed our gathering of the Family of Holy Trinity. Your home is here for you to worship the Eternal God. For those who don’t feel comfortable to attend on Sun-days, there are the weekly services where there are very few people and you can be 6-12 or even 24 feet from another person.

It is difficult to navigate through the cer-tainty of God who never changes in His love for his creation and those of His creation who tasked to care for us; are giving mes-sages of masks are not necessary and the same individuals next month say masks are necessary and conflicting science of the ef-fectiveness of social distancing and herd im-munity. Let us hope and pray we are granted wisdom to the truth on how to live our lives as Christians in a fallen world with individu-als with their individual agendas. Your home of Holy Trinity is here. Those of you, who have sent checks in by mail or used Anedot, Thank you for your support of your home.

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Priest’s Message continuied from pg. 3

love about our love for Christ and each other be in our hearts and on our lips to all we encounter.

This July there are many saints days re-membered: St. Kyriaki (July 7), Sts. Kyrikos & Julitta (July 15), St. Marina (July 17), St. Makrina (July 19), Prophet Elias (July 20), St. Mary Magdalene (July 22), St. Anna (July 25), St. Christina (July 24), St. Para-skevi (July 26), St. Panteleimon (July 27), St. Irene Chrysovalantou (July 28), just to men-tion a few! Happy name to those who cele-brate. For the ones in bold, we will have an Orthros/Liturgy. Please join us on these days. Special Outdoor Liturgy

– July 26 (weather permitting)!

There have been several requests for an outdoor Liturgy. This makes it easy to social distance while wearing a mask. God willing the weather will be pleasant. We will set up at the back of the parking lot behind church facing east. This requires a great deal of help setting up and returning many items to church after the service. Please let me know if you are able to lend a hand. The services will start at the normal times and we can visit afterwards!Our Panagia

During the 15 days at the beginning of August, we have a fast in honor of our Pan-agia, the Theotokos and ever-Virgin Mary. Each night we have a beautiful Paraklesis dedicated to the Theotokos. This year we will alternate between the Small and Great Para-klesis. The dormition of the Theotokos com-

pletes the fast on August 14/15. Please join us as often as possible. In addition to this feast day, August 5/6, we celebrate the Transfigu-ration of our Lord. There is also the blessing of the grapes. The great Vespers of both feast days will be celebrated with an Artoklasia!

Our Panagia is the most fervent intercessor to our Lord and her Son, Jesus Christ. Join us each evening during the first 14 days to commemo-rate the life of the Virgin Mary and the wondrous blessings and miracles from her intercessions. Let us join in chanting “Most holy Theotokos save us!” Let us sing the Kontakion together:

A fervent prayer and a wall unshakeable,

Intercessor to our holy Maker unwavering,

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.

Love always,

Fr. Jon


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aint Panteleimon was born about 284 AD in the city of Nicodemia. His father, Evstorgios, was an idolater while

his mother, Evoulis, was a devout Christian. She raised her son, whose real name was Pantoleonta, in the Christian way of life. She passed away while her son was still young.

Initially Pantoleonta was educated in his native tongue and then in Greek. His father sent him to study under the famous physician, Evfrosinos. Quickly he surpassed the other students. He was handsome, soft-spoken, humble and all who spoke with him felt true happiness and peace. Because of these virtues, he became well known in Nicodemia. One day he went with Evfrosinos to the palace and it was here that the ruler, Maximian, first saw him. He instructed Evfrosinos to educate Pantoleonta to the utmost so that he could be appointed royal physician.

At that time, Saint Ermolaos, the head of the Church in Nicodemia, lived in a house with other Christians. He watched Pantoleonta every day as he went to his studies and finally asked him about his religion. Pantoleonta told him that while his mother was alive he had been a Christian, but now his father had made him follow the pagans. Ermolaos told him that if he believed with all his heart in the true God he would be able to cure anyone with His help. Pantoleonta acknowledged everything he was told and from that time on, he went to Ermolaos for counsel and began to accept Christ with all his heart.

Time passed, and one day, with the grace of God, Pantoleonta saved a child from certain

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death after being bitten by a viper. He needed no further proof that Christ was the true God. Ermolaos baptized Pantoleonta, gave him Holy Communion, and instructed him in the Sacraments of the Holy Church. He remained for seven days with this holy man, and during this time he became completely acquainted with the teachings and practices of the Church.

Soon, Pantoleonta was working towards his father’s conversion to Christianity. This was finally achieved when he saw his son cure a man of his blindness. By the grace of God, the man regained his sight, not only physically, but also spiritually, for before this time he was an idolater. Pantoleonta took the man and his father to Saint Ermolaos who baptized them.

Pantoleonta distributed his wealth among

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came to him. The only payment the Saint would ask was that the healed person believes that Jesus Christ was their true healer. The other physicians became very envious and wanting to betray the Saint to the Emperor, a group of them went to Maximian and told him that the doctor that he himself had educated was healing Christians and that the idolaters were converting to Christianity. As proof, the blind man who was cured was brought before the Emperor, who tried to convince him that the gods had cured him and not Christ. But it was futile. Maximian realized that everything the doctors had told him was true. He ordered that the man be beheaded. The Saint secretly took the man’s body and buried it in a Christian place.

Pantoleonta was ordered to appear before the Emperor, who described the charges that were brought before him and ordered Pantoleonta to sacrifice to the gods. The Saint refused. The false-priests and doctors begged the Emperor to execute him so that Christianity would not gain in popularity among the people. Unable to change his beliefs, Maximian ordered that the Saint be tortured. First they tied him to a board and tore his skin with iron claws. Then, the soldiers burned him with their torches. The Saint prayed to God to give him strength to withstand the torture. Next the Saint was taken and placed in a kettle but the tar remained cool around him. The Emperor considered the miracles to be magic tricks performed by Pantoleonta. Continuing with his efforts he had a boulder tied to the Saint and thrown into the sea. The boulder became light and the Saint floated on the water. Maximian still refused to recognize the power of the true God. Next the Saint was placed in the stadium but the wild beasts peacefully

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walked towards him and licked his feet. The crowd cheered and together praised God and Pantoleonta. Maximian was enraged and had all the animals butchered. The miracle served to honour the Saint and to show others the way of righteousness.

The Saint was submitted to even more tortures. He was tied to a wheel and then rolled down a hill. The purpose was to tear the Saint’s Body to pieces. Instead, it rolled over several idolaters and killed them. The Saint again suffered no harm.

Pantoleonta decided to bring Saint Ermolaos to the people, since his words could convert even more pagans to Christianity. Ermolaos and two other men, Ermocratis and Ermippon, were brought before the Emperor who tried to convince them that they believed in a false God. Unable to make them renounce their faith they were tortured and finally beheaded. The bodies were secretly taken by some Christians and buried with honour.

The defeated Emperor passed final sentence on the Saint. He was to he beheaded and his body was to he cremated. The Saint was taken and tied to an olive tree. As the soldier raised his sword to behead the Saint, the sword melted as if it were made of wax. The soldiers fell to their knees and admitted their beliefs in Christ. The Saint prayed for them and forgave them for their sins. A voice came from heaven, saying to Pantoleonta that all he had asked for had been granted and that from this time on he would he


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rom the 6th to the 15th of August, for eight consecutive days, the Church celebrates the Transfiguration of our Lord Jesus Christ.

A little while before His voluntary Im-maculate Passion and His death on the

Cross, Christ isolated Himself for prayer on top of a hill (a mountain, as it is given geo-graphically in Palestine), which is known by the name Tabor. With Him were present His three exceptionally loved and trustwor-thy Disciples, namely Peter, James and John.

If we are to accept the opinion of Eusebi-ous of Caesaria, which Saint Nikodemus the Hagiorites also agrees with, as well as other Holy Fathers of the Church, this event must have taken place forty days before His Pas-sion. However, the exact number of days, for us, is not of great significance. What is important is the reality of the event itself.

“And while He was praying, the appearance of His countenance was altered” writes the Evan-gelist Luke “and His raiment became dazzling white”(Luke 9:29). According to Matthew and stated more explicitly: “And He was transfigured before them and His face shone like the sun, and His garments became white as light” (Matthew 17:2). Like-wise appeared, in front of the eyes of the Dis-ciples, Moses and Elijah, who were conversing with Jesus, they were overshadowed by a bright mist, a luminous cloud. And from this mist, a voice was heard, which said: “This is my beloved Son, with Whom I am well pleased! Listen to Him!”

This event constitutes a triple divine rev-elation, when the identity of Jesus is revealed to the Apostles. That is not only the strange change in His appearance and the inundation

TheTransfiguration of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

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of light which emanated from His face, but the witnessing of the voice of the Father and the presence of the two most holy people from the “other side”, that is, Moses and Elijah are con-firming without a margin of doubt that Jesus is not just a simple person, or a wise teacher, a virtuous reformer of some new-wave of life-style, a charismatic miracle-worker, or even, a Prophet or a Saint, but He is the Son and the Word of the Living God! True God from True God! Light from light! The true and eternal light, which illuminates and sanctifies “every person who comes into the world”. It is revealed in a triumphant way that He who lived with them for a whole three years and asked: “who the people say that I am?” (Matthew 16:13); the One Who treated them as friends and brothers, Who in a short while will be driven to the awe-some Golgotha, the (place of a skull), where He will be crucified and die; and the One Who

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known not as Pantoleonta, but as Panteleimon (All-merciful). He forced the soldiers to behead him so that he could receive the crown of martyrdom. After kissing the Saint, the soldiers beheaded him. St Panteleimon gave his life for Christ on 27 July 304 AD. It is said that the olive tree to which he was tied, immediately bloomed and brought forth fruit. Hearing of this, the Emperor ordered that the tree be cut down and that the body be burned. The soldiers, however, did not return to the palace. They and other Christians took the holy body and buried it. The body was anointed with myrrh and buried outside of the city in the Place of the Scholar Adamantinos.

Saint John of Damascus informs us that the remains were transported to Constantinople; however, in the 12th century the Crusaders removed them. Saint Panteleimon is often asked by faithful Christians to aid them in times of sickness. He is believed to take special interest in those who are crippled. He is considered equal to the Benevolent Saints Cosmas and Damianos.

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was buried in a stranger’s tomb, like a common mortal, a for-eigner, rejected by the people, even as one of the departed! He who will appear insignificant and weak, without “stately or comeliness”. He is the One True God, the only worthy of worship, Adonijah, the Lord, Elohim, Jehovah - as some may prefer! Thus, when they will see Him on the Cross, suffering and dying, according to His second nature, the human one, this should not cause them to be scandalized and loose their faith, but to comprehend that His Passion and His death were voluntary, a further emptying of Himself, an overflow of His love for Man and his salvation. Furthermore, to preach to the entire world that He, truly He, the One Crucified, Buried and Resurrected, Jesus Whom they saw and acquainted them-selves with, in His company, heard and felt with their hands, is the reflection of the glory of the Father which so beauti-fully the Kontakion (hymn) of the celebrated day underlines:

“You were transfigured on the mount, and Your Disciples, so far as they were able, beheld Your glory, O Christ our God; so that, when they should see You crucified, they should remember that Your suffering was voluntary, and could declare to all the world that You are truly the effulgent Splendour of the Father”!

Hence, the Transfiguration of Christ is a revelation of His divine identity and certainly within the limits which the Apostles could uphold “so far as they were able”. It is im-possible for someone to see God in all His glory and gran-deur, and to survive! The dazzle, the surprise, the awe and the excessive joy - if one is purified, like Peter, James or John and all the Saints throughout the ages - or the sadness, if he is unclean and unrepented - like the majority of us, will destroy him. It will yield to him apoplexy! This is why the All-Merciful God suitably organizes the things and reveals only a portion of His light, of His magnificence and of His glory, as much as His Disciples can endure! Then again, as He reinforces them spiritually, in an exceptional manner, transforming their inner-self and not allowing them to re-main in their usual state, that of a weak everyday human!

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Furthermore, the Transfiguration of our Sav-iour is a revelation of the Mystery of the Holy Trinity; The Son and Word of the Father is present bodily on Tabor, as the God-Man Jesus Christ. The Father is heard to be saying: “This is my beloved Son, with Whom I am we// pleased”. The Holy Spirit appears in a paradoxical form of a bright mist. A bright cloud is an oxymoron! However, the Comforter makes His presence perceivable in a “holy-paradoxical” and most “God-properly” manner, above and beyond every “logical” or “normally occurring” event!

This truth is expressed marvelously in the most theological “Exaposteilarion” hymn of the Matins of the celebrated day: “O You Word, untransformable Light, the Light the unborn Father, by Your light which has shown today on Tabor, we have seen the Father’s light and the Spirit’s light, lighting the whole creation”.

In the Byzantine iconography, I mean the Orthodox iconography; the icon of the Trans-figuration of Christ clearly expresses this reve-lation of the Mystery of the Holy Trinity. Christ appears on Tabor in two successive bright fig-ures, “glories” - as they are called. An oval or circle, which symbolizes the bright mist, and another shape in a form of a rhombus or some-thing like an isosceles triangle with rays ema-nating from its base, is depicting symbolically the voice of the Father. Therefore, the holy icon of the Transfiguration is for us, the Orthodox, si-multaneously an icon of the Most-Holy Trinity!

The Transfiguration of our Saviour reveals something more! It reveals what is to become of us, the faithful, provided of course we love Him sincerely and keep all His commandments

and proceed in accordance with His divine wishes, and labour with honour His orders of deliverance, enforcing His Bible unadulterat-ed, and living the life of the Church in purity, and correct worship in communion with all the Saints, equally with those of the “Trium-phant”, and those in the “Militant” Church, who constitute the non-deceived teach-ers and leaders of those wishing salvation.

The divine alteration that occurred to the three Disciples on Tabor during the time of the Transfiguration of the lord will happen to us too and we will be worthy to become “God-view-ers”, like them and all the Saints of the ages. The light which they received from the strange and the not-created light of His Godliness not only to their human eyes but throughout their whole body and soul, as far as the depths of their existence, which made them lighted and “God-similars”, we will also receive!

That unspeakable joy which was fore-tasted, and made the always enthusiastic Pe-ter to say: “Lord, it is good for us to be here; if You wish, we will make three booths here, one for You and one for Moses and one for Elijah.” (Matthew 17:4). Let us stay here, he wanted to say, forever on Tabor, never to de-scend to the daily routine of contemporary reality and the earthly afflictions! This God-given joy, the only true and inalienable joy, will also come to us... The eternal beatitude which Moses and Elijah enjoyed and erected to the right and left of the God-Man, will be granted to us too...We will become “commu-nicants of the Divine Nature” (2 Peter 1:4) and partakers of the eternal life... Saints from the sole Saint! Righteous from the only Righteous

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One and lights from the only true Light! Small gods, by the Grace of God, and not because of our worthiness! Gods with a lowercase initial ‘g’, from the Only God, the Great, the only One worthy to be writ-ten with a capital initial ‘G’! The beginningless Father, the equally beginningless Son and the co-eternal All-Holy Spirit!

The certification and cred-ibility of that field are our Saints, the ones to whom this already have occurred. They have already achieved Theosis (Deification) and shine as lu-minaries into the spiritual fir-mament of the Church, radiat-ing the light of the knowledge of God and the true Theology. Our Saints with the miracles they perform are partakers of the Divine Grace and commu-nicants of God, and through their holy relics, which are full of the Divine Grace and allow us to keep them as a priceless

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S. & A Bournakel ......... 12/2020Goranites ..................PerpetualHildreth ....................PerpetualJames ........................PerpetualGiannopolis ............... 12/2020Karagiannes ..............Perpetual

MemorialsIf you wish to have a memorial in the bulletin, please see D. LeGloahec

or eMail to:[email protected]. Listed below is the name and the last bulletin.

Karvelas .................. 12/2020Kesaris ...................PerpetualKleros.....................PerpetualMargarones ............PerpetualMerkouis ................PerpetualNicols ..................... 12/2020

Pelletier .............. PerpetualSamson .............. PerpetualTaxiarchis ........... PerpetualVlacheas (2) .........12/2020

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M E M O R I A L S

In Memory ofErvin & Virginia

Pelletier

May their memories be eternal

In Memory ofAntheJames

May her memory be eternal

In Memory ofGeorgia

Taxiarchis


In Memory ofJames & Mary

Goranites


In Memory ofJohn

Margarones

May his memory be eternal

In Memory ofNicholas

& EvridiceMerkouris


In Memory ofMary

Samson


In Memory ofTheodore &

Elizabeth Kleros


In Memory ofLewis Kesaris


In Memory ofSteve & Loretta

KarvelasMay their memories

be eternal

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In Memory ofSpiro & Antigone

Bournakel


M E M O R I A L SIn Memory of

Mary Vlacheas


In Memory ofSpero & Jennie

Vlacheas


In Memory ofMichel Prouchinsky


In Memory ofChris & Aliki Karagiannes


In Memory ofJohn & Viola Margarones


In Memory ofChirstopher & Ethel Markos


In Memory ofGeorge NicholsMay his memory be eternal

In Memory ofBessie

Hildreth


In Memory ofJohn and Denise

Gianopoulos

May Their memoriy be eternal


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treasure and venerate them feeling their inexpressible fra-grance which they give forth! We see how these holy relics cure the ill and cast away the unclean spirits which are vis-ible samples of unification with God, thus giving a truth-ful witnesses that “those who have excelled and peaked

in virtues - like themselves - will obviously be wor-thy of the Godly glory”...!

Flowers tended by Herman & DesréeTransfiguration from pg. 11

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Memorials

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If you need Koliva (wheat) for a memorial, please contact the Ladies Society who will prepare it. There is no cost.


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State of the Church Zoom MEETINGJuly 12, 2020 @ 6:00 PM

Reports will be sent by email to all parishonerQuestions will be sent in to an email given in the email announcement President’s Report ...........................................................................Dr. J. CarsonTreasurer’s Report ...........................................................................Stella Gammatoni Priest’s Report ..................................................................................Fr. EmanuelsonLadies Society Report .....................................................................Christine Sirois Stewardship Committee Report ....................................................Ann Robinson

Festival MEETINGJuly 5, 2020 right after church

A group of parishoner have been working in setting up a safe time for the L/A community can come enjoy some the foods and culture of our Greek Heritage. Details forthcoming.

Documents

Hol yTr inityGr eekOr t hodo xChur c hholytrinity.me.goarch.org/assets/files/Newsletters/julaug-20.pdf · Acolyte Guide: Roger Park Book Store Manger: Desrée Tanquay Visitation Committee: