Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral New Orleans, Louisiana MARCH 17, 2019 SUNDAY OF ORTHODOXY

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1 Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral New Orleans, Louisiana MARCH 17, 2019 SUNDAY OF ORTHODOXY Sunday, March 17 ~ 8:45 am Orthros, 10:00 am ~ Divine Liturgy DEMETRA BOULAHANIS, 29-YEAR MEMORIAL GEORGE BOULAHANIS, 40-YEAR MEMORIAL TOM BOULAHANIS, 50-YEAR MEMORIAL DIMITRI SPETSIOTIS, 6-YEAR MEMORIAL KYRIAKI (KOULA) SPETSIOTIS, 1-YEAR MEMORIAL PAGONA SPETSIOTIS, 10-YEAR MEMORIAL Sunday Church School after Holy Communion/Procession of Icons 12:00 pm ~ ÓRAMA Facility Task Force Meeting in Boardroom Monday, March 18 ~ 10:00 am Book Club Meeting in Coffee Room 6:00 pm ~ Great Compline Tuesday, March 19 ~ 9:30 am Greek Festival Pastry Workshop 6:00 pm ~ Adult Beginner Greek School in Room 210 7:00 pm ~ Adult Advanced Greek School in Room 210 7:00 pm ~ AHEPA and Daughters of Penelope Joint Dinner Meeting in Coffee Room 7:00 pm ~ Parish Council Meeting in Boardroom Wednesday, March 20 ~ 9:30 am Greek Festival Pastry Workshop 6:00 pm ~ Adult Elementary Greek School in Room 210 6:00 pm ~ Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts 7:30 pm ~ Lenten Potluck and Video in Coffee Room Thursday, March 21 ~ 11:30 am Philoptochos Senior Citizens Luncheon in Coffee Room Friday, March 22 ~ 9:45 am Cathedral Montessori School Chapel in Cathedral 5:00 pm ~ Youth Level A1 Greek School in Room 210 6:00 pm ~ HTC Youth Soccer Practice and Dinner 6:00 pm ~ Youth Advanced Greek School in Room 210 7:00 pm ~ Second Salutations to the Theotokos Saturday, March 23 ~ 12:00 pm Youth Level Junior A Greek School in Room 210 2:00 pm ~ Philoptochos Ozanam Inn Sunday, March 24 ~ 8:45 am Orthros 10:00 am ~ Divine Liturgy SUNDAY OF SAINT GREGORY PALAMAS Sunday Church School Group Lesson after Holy Communion 11:30 am ~ Doxology for Greek Independence 12:00 pm ~ Greek School March 25th Program 12:30 pm ~ Holy Trinity PTA Greek Independence Day Luncheon 2019 STEWARDSHIP CAMPAIGN The 2019 Stewardship Campaign is off to a good start. Over 130 pledges have been received in the first two months of the campaign. As you prepare to enter Great Lent, now would be an excellent time to make your pledge, if you have not already done so. When you make your pledge, think of everything our Lord has done for you and please be generous. Καλή Σαρακοστή. AHEPA CRAWFISH BOIL AHEPA will host its annual Crawfish Boil on Sunday, March 31, at 4:00 pm on the Cathedral grounds overlooking Bayou St. John. All members, those interested in joining the organization and young men over 14 years of age interested in joining a reactivated Sons of Pericles chapter, are invited to attend. ICON RAFFLE AHEPA will sell raffle tickets for a beautiful icon of Jesus' Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem. It is encased in a wood and silver frame and was created by the Kellion of St. John the Baptist on Mount Athos. Tickets are $5 apiece and $20 for five. The drawing will be at the AHEPA Palm Sunday Luncheon on April 21. All proceeds will go toward charitable and philanthropic endeavors. In the past two years, funds supported Greek Wildfire Relief, Hurricane Harvey Relief, St. Basil Academy, AHEPA Scholarship Fund, as well as the local Philoptochos Thanksgiving and Christmas projects and the Cathedral Montessori School buy-a-brick project. GULF COAST BANK COMMUNITY REWARDS PROGRAM Help the Archives Committee receive a grant from the Gulf Coast Bank Community Rewards Program. It is easy! Vote for Holy Trinity Cathedral Archives Fund EVERY DAY from March 6 through March 29 at the following website: LENTEN FLOWERS SPONSORS The floral decorations that adorned the Panagia icon during the first Salutations to the Theotokos on Friday, March 15, were generously donated by Eleni and George Kampitsis. If you would like to donate flowers for one of the remaining Salutations services, contact the Cathedral office and specify which Friday you would like to select. PHILOPTOCHOS MARCH SENIOR CITIZENS LUNCHEON Philoptochos will host a Senior Citizens Luncheon on Thursday, March 21, Billie Andersson, Christine Pappas, Gail Psilos, and Carol Venturatos are graciously hosting the event. All seniors are invited to the Hellenic Cultural Center at 11:30 am to visit with friends, enjoy a special Lenten lunch, and try their luck with multiple games of bingo. Please submit all information for the April issue of The Flame by Friday, March 22.

2 2019 VACATION CHURCH SCHOOL MAKING THINGS RIGHT As you prepare to set dates for your children's summer camps and programs, please mark your calendars and set aside the week of July 26 August 2 for the 2019 Vacation Church School. All children preschool through 5 th grade are encouraged to participate. LOCAL ORATORICAL FESTIVAL Everyone is invited to attend the local Saint John Chrysostom Oratorical Festival. This year s Festival will take place on Saturday, March 30, at 10:00 am in the Cathedral. Following the orations light refreshments will be served in the Coffee Room, where announcements of finalists will be made. PASTRY WORKSHOPS - GREAT FUN! GOOD FRIENDS! GOOD FOOD! Join the Pastry Committee for weekly workshops every Tuesday and Wednesday, except HOLY WEEK. Tuesday evening workshops will be scheduled soon. SUNDAY CHURCH SCHOOL Sunday Church School attendance has been excellent this year, and students who have missed only four classes or less will be given special recognition. If you would like your child to make up a few Sundays, extra credit will be given for any service attended during Lent and/or Holy Week (other than Sunday Liturgy). Please inform the teachers of the services your child attends. Dates to Remember: March 17 Sunday of Orthodoxy Icon Procession April 21 LAST CLASS DAY May 5 SUNDAY CHURCH SCHOOL GRADUATION HYMNOLOGY By the end of this year, students in PK-6 will have learned the following hymns in Greek and English, including when these hymns are chanted in the Liturgy and their meaning. Tes Presvies - Through the Prayers Eis Agios - One is Holy Enite Ton Kyrion - Praise the Lord Se Imnoumen - We Praise you Evlogimenos o Erhomenos - Blessed is He Who Comes Christos Anesti - Christ is Risen The young voices are so angelic! Parents, please encourage them to sing during church, showing them the words in the white books in the pews. On Holy Saturday morning, they will once again chant the Hymn of the Three Youths. The Sunday Church School staff thanks you for bringing your children every Sunday! Message from Father George SAINT ALEXIOS, MAN OF GOD - FEAST DAY: MARCH 17 Name Day of our beloved Metropolitan ALEXIOS of Atlanta May God grant him many years! The rare title Man of God was bestowed on Saint Alexios for the manner in which he gave himself over to Jesus Christ, forsaking a bride even at the altar in order to fulfill to the letter the admonition read to him while he was contemplating enlistment in the service of the Lord. Born in 380 AD in Rome, he was raised by non-christian parents, who discerned a fondness for the Church in their son, a religious fervor they could not share. They arranged for his marriage, so he reluctantly suppressed the call he felt to the Lord s service and agreed to the marriage though he had a vision one day of Saint Paul, who said he should answer the call to God at all costs, reading to him the passage in Matthew which says: He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. Alexios was torn between his sense of duty to his parents and that urging to serve the Lord. He swayed between both but decided to go through with what he had promised his family. The feeling that he should go the other way gnawed at him even as he stood at the altar. When the ceremony was completed, he looked upon the Cross of Jesus and without a word walked away from bride, family, and friends to do what he had to do. He stepped into the anonymity of a Syrian monastery, where for the next eighteen years he assumed another identity. Having made a choice his parents had opposed, he suspected they disinherited him and that his bride had the marriage annulled. But, this was not the case. As a matter of fact, the bride went to live with his parents in hopes that Alexios would someday return. And, the parents spared no expense in trying to locate their son but presumed he was dead after eighteen years with no word from him. At the monastery Alexios was transformed into a respected holy man, whose solemn dedication to Jesus was the subject of many discussions among not only the monks but the community which he served. Unlike other monks, he was a man of few words and left the preaching and sermonizing to other brother monks while he concentrated on writing on many issues concerning the faith. The vision of Saint Paul that Alexios had many years before still haunted him, and he had a burning desire to go to Tarsus, Paul s birthplace. He boarded a boat bound for the short trip up the coast, but while at sea a violent storm arose and blew the vessel miles off course, stranding it. Picked up by a ship bound for Rome, Alexios found himself back in the city of his birth. Nostalgia seized him, and he went to the family estate, primarily to get a glimpse of his folks. But, when they failed to recognize him, he felt compelled to remain and was given the task of spiritual counselor. The abandoned bride was still living with the parents, and she also failed to recognize him for which he was grateful since he found contentment in being able to serve the Lord while not revealing his true identity, which he considered would be a disservice to the Savior after all the years of anonymity. When he felt death drawing near, Alexios wrote a letter to his family in which he expressed his love for them, which he could not do in life. The letter was read posthumously not only by his family but by the bishop of Rome, who had him interred in the chapel of Saint Peter s. He died for Christ on 17 March 440AD, after thirty-four years of celibacy and anonymity. Edited from Orthodox Saints, vol. 2 by Father George Poulos, Holy Cross Orthodox Press

3 SUNDAY, MARCH 10 ATTENDANCE 137 ~ CANDLE AND TRAY COLLECTIONS $561 Holy Trinity Cathedral Greek Orthodox Community of New Orleans 1200 ROBERT E. LEE BOULEVARD NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA Very Reverend Father George Wilson, Dean priest@holytrinitycathedral.org PHONE: (504) FAX: (504)

4 17η ΜΑΡΤΙΟ Υ 2019 ΚΥΡΙΑΚΗ ΤΗΣ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΙΑΣ ΤΟΥ ΟΣΙΟΥ ΠΑΤΡΟΣ ΗΜΩΝ ΑΛΕΞΙΟΥ, ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΘΕΟΥ Α ΚΥΡΙΑΚΗ ΤΩΝ ΝΗΣΤΕΙΩΝ Ἑωθινόν Θ Ἀπουτίκιον τῆς Ἀνάστασης Ἦχος α Τοῦ λίθου σφραγισθέντος ὑπὸ τῶν Ἰουδαίων, καὶ στρατιωτῶν φυλασσόντων τὸ ἄχραντόν σου Σῶµα, ἀνέστης τριήµερος Σωτήρ, δωρούµενος τῷ κόσµῳ τὴν ζωήν διὰ τοῦτο αἱ Δυνάµεις τῶν οὐρανῶν ἐβόων σοι ζωοδότα. Δόξα τῇ Ἀναστάσει σου Χριστέ, δόξα τῇ βασιλείᾳ σου, δόξα τῇ οἰκονοµίᾳ σου, µόνε φιλάνθρωπε. Ἀπολυτίκιον τῆς Ἐορτής Ἦχος β Τὴν ἄχραντον Εἰκόνα σου προσκυνοῦμεν Ἀγαθέ, αἰτούμενοι συγχώρησιν τῶν πταισμάτων ἡμῶν, Χριστὲ ὁ Θεός, βουλήσει γὰρ ηὐδόκησας σαρκὶ ἀνελθεῖν ἐν τῷ Σταυρῶ, ἵνα ῥύσῃ οὓς ἔπλασας ἐκ τῆς δουλείας τοῦ ἐχθροῦ, ὅθεν εὐχαρίστως βοώμέν σοί, Χαρὰς ἐπλήρωσας τὰ πάντα, ὁ Σωτὴρ ἡμῶν, παραγενόμενος εἰς τὸ σῶσαι τὸν Κόσμον. Ἀπολυτίκιον τῆς Ἁγίας Τριάδας Ἦχος πλ δ Εὐλογητὸς εἶ, Χριστὲ ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, ὁ πανσόφους τοὺς ἁλιεῖς ἀναδείξας, καταπέμψας αὐτοῖς τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον, καὶ δι' αὐτῶν τὴν οἰκουμένην σαγηνεύσας, φιλάνθρωπε, δόξα σοί. Κοντάκιον Ἦχος πλ δ Τὴ ὑπερμάχω στρατηγῶ τὰ νικητήρια, ὡς λυτρωθεῖσα τῶν δεινῶν, εὐχαριστήρια, ἀναγράφω σοὶ ἡ Πόλις σου, Θεοτόκε, ἀλλ' ὦς ἔχουσα τὸ κράτος ἀπροσμάχητον, ἐκ παντοίων μὲ κινδύνων ἐλευθέρωσον ἵνα κράζω σοί, Χαῖρε, Νύμφη ἀνύμφευτε. 17 TH MARCH 2019 SUNDAY OF ORTHODOXY HOLY FATHER ALEXIOS, MAN OF GOD FIRST SUNDAY OF THE FAST Eothion 9 Resurrection Apolytikion Tone 1 The stone had been secured with a seal by the Judeans, and a guard of soldiers was watching Your immaculate body. You rose on the third day, O Lord and Savior, granting life unto the world. For this reason were the powers of heaven crying out to You, O Life-giver: Glory to Your resurrection, O Christ; glory to Your kingdom; glory to Your dispensation, only One who loves mankind. Apolytikion of the Feast Tone 2 We venerate Your immaculate icon, O good Lord, and entreat You to forgive our offences, O Christ our God. By Your own choice you were pleased to ascend the Cross in the flesh, to deliver us, whom You created, from our slavery to the foe. Therefore we cry to You with gratitude: You have filled all things with joy, O our Savior, by coming to save the world. Apolytikion of the Holy Trinity Plagal Tone 4 Blessed are You, O Christ our God, who made fishermen all-wise, sending upon them the Holy Spirit and, through them, netting the world. O Loving One, glory to You. Kontakion Plagal Tone 4 O Champion General, I your City now inscribe to you Triumphant anthems as the tokens of my gratitude, Being rescued from the terrors, O Theotokos. Inasmuch as you have power unassailable, From all kinds of perils free me, so that unto you I may cry aloud: Rejoice, O unwedded Bride.

5 ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΟΣ Ἑβραίους ια 24-26, Ἀδελφοί, πίστει Μωϋσῆς μέγας γενόμενος ἠρνήσατο λέγεσθαι υἱὸς θυγατρὸς Φαραώ, μᾶλλον ἑλόμενος συγκακουχεῖσθαι τῷ λαῷ τοῦ θεοῦ ἢ πρόσκαιρον ἔχειν ἁμαρτίας ἀπόλαυσιν μείζονα πλοῦτον ἡγησάμενος τῶν Αἰγύπτου θησαυρῶν τὸν ὀνειδισμὸν τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἀπέβλεπεν γὰρ εἰς τὴν μισθαποδοσίαν. Καὶ τί ἔτι λέγω; Ἐπιλείψει γὰρ με διηγούμενον ὁ χρόνος περὶ Γεδεών, Βαράκ τε καὶ Σαμψών καὶ Ἰεφθάε, Δαυίδ τε καὶ Σαμουὴλ καὶ τῶν προφητῶν οἳ διὰ πίστεως κατηγωνίσαντο βασιλείας, εἰργάσαντο δικαιοσύνην, ἐπέτυχον ἐπαγγελιῶν, ἔφραξαν στόματα λεόντων, ἔσβεσαν δύναμιν πυρός, ἔφυγον στόματα μαχαίρας, ἐνεδυναμώθησαν ἀπὸ ἀσθενείας, ἐγενήθησαν ἰσχυροὶ ἐν πολέμῳ, παρεμβολὰς ἔκλιναν ἀλλοτρίων. Ἔλαβον γυναῖκες ἐξ ἀναστάσεως τοὺς νεκροὺς αὐτῶν ἄλλοι δὲ ἐτυμπανίσθησαν, οὐ προσδεξάμενοι τὴν ἀπολύτρωσιν, ἵνα κρείττονος ἀναστάσεως τύχωσιν ἕτεροι δὲ ἐμπαιγμῶν καὶ μαστίγων πεῖραν ἔλαβον, ἔτι δὲ δεσμῶν καὶ φυλακῆς ἐλιθάσθησαν, ἐπρίσθησαν, ἐπειράσθησαν, ἐν φόνῳ μαχαίρας ἀπέθανον περιῆλθον ἐν μηλωταῖς, ἐν αἰγείοις δέρμασιν, ὑστερούμενοι, θλιβόμενοι, κακουχούμενοι, ὧν οὐκ ἦν ἄξιος ὁ κόσμος, ἐν ἐρημίαις πλανώμενοι καὶ ὄρεσιν καὶ σπηλαίοις καὶ ταῖς ὀπαῖς τῆς γῆς. Καὶ οὗτοι πάντες, μαρτυρηθέντες διὰ τῆς πίστεως, οὐκ ἐκομίσαντο τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν, τοῦ θεοῦ περὶ ἡμῶν κρεῖττόν τι προβλεψαμένου, ἵνα μὴ χωρὶς ἡμῶν τελειωθῶσιν. THE EPISTLE Hebrews 11:24-26, Brethren, by faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets -- who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, received promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, won strength out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign enemies to flight. Women received their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release that they might rise again to a better life. Others suffered mocking and scourging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, illtreated -- of whom the world was not worthy -- wandering over deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. And all these, though well attested by their faith, did not receive what was promised, since God had foreseen something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect. ΤΟ ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΟΝ Ἰωάννην α Τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ, ἠθέλησεν ὁ Ιησοῦς ἐξελθεῖν εἰς τὴν Γαλιλαίαν καὶ εὑρίσκει Φίλιππον καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ ἀκολούθει μοι ἦν δὲ ὁ Φίλιππος ἀπὸ Βηθσαϊδά, ἐκ τῆς πόλεως Ανδρέου καὶ Πέτρου.εὑρίσκει Φίλιππος τὸν Ναθαναὴλ καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ ὃν ἔγραψε Μωϋσῆς ἐν τῷ νόμῳ καὶ οἱ προφῆται, εὑρήκαμεν, Ιησοῦν τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ Ιωσὴφ τὸν ἀπὸ Ναζαρέτ καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ Ναθαναήλ ἐκ Ναζαρὲτ δύναταί τι ἀγαθὸν εἶναι; λέγει αὐτῷ Φίλιππος ἔρχου καὶ ἴδε εἶδεν ὁ Ιησοῦς τὸν Ναθαναὴλ ἐρχόμενον πρὸς αὐτὸν καὶ λέγει περὶ αὐτοῦ ἴδε ἀληθῶς Ισραηλίτης, ἐν ᾧ δόλος οὐκ ἔστι. λέγει αὐτῷ Ναθαναήλ πόθεν με γινώσκεις; ἀπεκρίθη Ιησοῦς καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ πρὸ τοῦ σε Φίλιππον φωνῆσαι, ὄντα ὑπὸ τὴν συκῆν εἶδόν σε ἀπεκρίθη Ναθαναὴλ καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ ῥαββί, σὺ εἶ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ, σὺ εἶ ὁ βασιλεὺς τοῦ Ισραήλ ἀπεκρίθη Ιησοῦς καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ ὅτι εἶπόν σοι, εἶδόν σε ὑποκάτω τῆς συκῆς, πιστεύεις; μείζω τούτων ὄψει καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ ἀμὴν ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, ἀπ ἄρτι ὄψεσθε τὸν οὐρανὸν ἀνεῳγότα, καὶ τοὺς ἀγγέλους τοῦ Θεοῦ ἀναβαίνοντας καὶ καταβαίνοντας ἐπὶ τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου. THE GOSPEL John 1:43-51 At that time, Jesus decided to go to Galilee. And he found Philip and said to him, "Follow me." Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael, and he said to him, "We have found him of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see." Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said of him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!" Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you." Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the son of God! You are the King of Israel!" Jesus answered him, "Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You shall see greater things than these." And he said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man."