Saints Peter & Paul Greek Orthodox Church February 2018 Sunday of Orthodoxy
Saints Peter Paul Greek Orthodox Church 1401 Wagner Road Glenview, Il 60025 Phone: (847) 729-2235 Fax: (847) 729-6562 office@ssppglenview.org www.ssppglenview.org Rev. Father Panagiotis Boznos, Proistamenos (frp@ssppglenview.org) Rev. Father Kosmas Kallis, Youth Director/Associate Pastor (frk@ssppglenview.org) Dn. Ted Saclarides Sunday &Weekly Services Matins 8:15 am Divine Liturgy 9:30 am Church Office Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 8:30am-4:30pm Fri. 8:30am - 3:00pm Office Manager: Jeannine McIntyre Bookkeeper: Diane Bravos 2018 PARISH COUNCIL Rev. Father Panagiotis Boznos, Proistamenos President: Keith Anderson Vice President: Louis Pappamichiel Treasurer: Voula Colburn Assistant Treasurer: John Tranas Recording Secretary: George Logothetis Corresponding Secretary: Christy Gouletas Mary Alukos Frank Andreou Chris Atsaves George Burbules Steve Callas Michael Carrozza George Kirie Steve Koulogeorge George Nassos Jimmy Samartzis Jim Santos Therese Speropoulos Agape Preschool: Renee Tzakis (Agape60025@gmail.com) Altar Boys: Deacon Ted Saclarides, Elias Papadakis (SSPP.ALTARBOYS@gmail.com) Athletics: Chris Atsaves (SSPP.ATHLETICS1@gmail.com) Book & Icon Store: Pat Nassos (SSPP.BOOKICONSTORE@gmail.com) Choir Director: Therese Speropoulos (SPP.CHURCH.CHOIR@gmail.com) Church School Director: Anna Kallis (churchschool@ssppglenview.org) Coffee Connection (SSPP.COFFEE.CONNECTION@gmail.com) Dr. Helen Theodoropoulos Randa Anderson Doreen DeSent John Colis Coffee Fellowship: Lucy Economos (847) 827-5593 (SSPP.COFFEEFELLOWSHIP1@gmail.com) Divorce Rebuilders: Maria Boyle (SSPP.DIVORCEREBUILDERS@gmail.com) Dynamis Group: Gail Kachoyeanos (SSPP.DYNAMIS@gmail.com) Environmental Ministry: Daphne Mazarakis (sspp.environmentalministry@gmail.com) PARISH MINISTRIES Garden Club: Susanne Chakos (SSPP.Garden.Ministry@gmail.com) Georgia Photopulos Cancer Support Group: (SSPP.Cancer.Ministry@gmail.com) Bud Photopulos and Phyllis Perivolidis GOYAlumni: Mary Batrich, Tatiana Lehocky (sspp.goyalumni@gmail.com) Greek School: Stella Theoharopoulos (SSPP.GREEKSCHOOL@gmail.com) Habitat for Humanity: Brad DeSent (SSPP.HABITAT@gmail.com) Ministry Council: (SSPP.MINISTRYCOUNCIL@gmail.com) Morning Bible Study: Dr. Helen Theodoropoulos (SSPP.BIBLESTUDY@gmail.com) OCC: Elizabeth Samartzis (SSPP.OCC@gmail.com) Organist: Helen Mariano Outreach: Christy Gouletas (SSPP.OUTREACH@gmail.com) Philoptochos President: Georgia Ryerson (SSPP.LADIES.PHILOPTOCHOS@gmail.com) PROSPHORA: Eleni Soukoulis (SSPP.PROSPHORA@gmail.com) Stewardship: Frank Andreou (SSPP.STEWARDSHIP@gmail.com) Ushering: Bo LaMotte and George Kirie (SSPP.USHERING@gmail.com) Young Adult League (YAL): John Buscemi, Dean Economos, Alyssa Machinis, Chelsea Paspalas (sspp.yal@gmail.com) Youth Ministries: Rev. Fr. Kosmas Kallis (frk@ssppglenview.org) Please telephone the Church office (847) 729-2235 during daytime hours for all spiritual emergencies. For evening emergencies contact Fr. Panagiotis at (630) 664-2173. God bless you always!
PASTORAL MESSAGE Let us set out with joy upon the season of the Fast, and prepare ourselves for spiritual combat. Let us purify our souls and cleanse our flesh; and as we fast from food, let us abstain also from every passion. Rejoicing in the virtues of the Spirit may we persevere with love, and so be counted worthy to see the solemn Passion of Christ our God, and with great spiritual gladness to behold His holy Pascha. (Hymn of Forgiveness Vespers) It was striking to read the words of the above hymn, which are sung on the very first evening of Lent. Never before had I thought of Lent as a joyous time. Lent is supposed to be difficult right? A time of decreased entertainment, blander foods, and more long Church services. At least that s how we popularly think about Lent. Well those things are true, but, at least as the Church is trying to tell us through the above hymn, those things are to be done with joy in our hearts. How, and maybe more importantly, why? The last line of the hymn gives us all the reason in the world to remain joyous in the midst of our Lenten observance, to be counted worthy to see the solemn Passion of Christ our God, and with great spiritual gladness to behold His holy Pascha. Those things that we do during Lent are by all means difficult, but their purpose is to prepare us to behold Christ s resurrection. Does that mean that we will not be hungry during Lent? Does it mean that we will not be bored during Lent? Does it mean that we will not grow tired? No. It simply means that you are suffering these things for a greater purpose. We endure small hardships willingly during Lent because Christ endured the greatest hardship of crucifixion willingly for our salvation. We remove certain foods from our diet during Lent to remind us that Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God (Matthew 4:4). We repent and go to confession during Lent because God does not desire the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn back and live (Ezekiel 33:11). Seen in this context, we rejoice not in the different ways that we observe Lent, but rather in their greater purpose. It is a joy to remember that in addition to food, it is God who sustains our lives. It is a joy to remember that God is calling me to seek forgiveness, which He grants. We must remember that joy and discomfort are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Just ask any athlete, purposeful discomfort is how they grow and develop their skills and abilities. In the same way a Christian is an athlete for Christ (1 Corinthians 9:24-27). Instead of sprints and lifting weights, we fast and pray. In both situations the tasks might be difficult. Yet, no successful athlete ever complained that they trained to much, likewise no Christian who is counted worthy to behold the holy resurrection of Christ will look upon the ascetic practices of Lent as burdens. I pray that God strengthen all of us as we begin the difficult and joyous task of preparing for His holy Pascha. + Fr. Panagiotis
Q&A with Fr. Panagiotis My children asked me what Meatfare and Cheesefare mean. I have been Orthodox all my life but I didn t know how to answer them. What is Meatfare and Cheesefare? (This question was submitted during Lent of 2017 but is being included here since Meatfare and Cheesefare are both this month) It is just great how our children s questions can stump us and force us to learn more about our own faith. These two terms are related to the pre-lenten period of the Church. While Lent is about preparing ourselves spiritually and physically for the celebration of Christ s resurrection, there is also a pre-lenten period that is to help us prepare for the period of preparation. It seems redundant, but the idea is that you are entering into the full Lenten observance in a gradual progression. That way, when Lent arrives in its full form you are ready to jump right in. The pre-lenten preparations just put our toe in the waters of fasting. The pre-lenten period introduces us to the fast. In 2018 it will look something like this: Sunday January 28 th Saturday February 3 rd Fast Free Week Sunday February 4 th Saturday February 10 th Regular Fasting Week Sunday February 11 th Meatfare Monday February 12 th Begin Meat Fast through the end of Lent Sunday February 18 th Cheesefare Monday February 19 th Clean Monday (Lent Begins, Begin Dairy Fast through the end of Lent) So if we look at the schedule above, we see that Meatfare Sunday is the last day when it is permissible to eat meat until Pascha, and Cheesefare Sunday is the last day when it is permissible to eat dairy until Pascha. Typically people would take whatever meat, or whatever dairy they had in their house and make sure to eat it all on those particular days so that there was none in the house during the Lenten period. If you have ever eaten a Hot Cross Bun that comes from the same tradition of trying to use all the dairy and eggs before Lent stated. I think we see the Church s pastoral wisdom in the way that the pre-lenten period is structured. It is hard to just jump right in to such an extremely new way of eating. Instead the Church allows us a week to eat whatever we want before reintroducing the normal, routine fast for a week. Then she asks us to remove one food group, meat, for a week. She lets us settle into that adjustment and then asks us to remove dairy, thus starting the full Lenten observance. Please email any question you have for inclusion in an upcoming Q&A to Fr. Panagiotis at frp@ssppglenview.org
SACRAMENTS +Baptisms Edward Evangelos Kelly, son of Terence and Anastasia Kelly Sponsor: Constantine Theodoropoulos GOD S BLESSINGS AND LOVE +Funerals Our Condolences to the families of Barbara Nikolas, Bill Liaros and Jean Kouracos. MAY THEIR MEMORIES BE ETERNAL! +Wedding Sacrament Kevin Pollack and Katherine Damisch Sponsor: Alexandra Damisch GOD S LOVE AND JOY! PARISH NEWS
SS. Peter and Paul Blood Drive On Thursday December 14th Saints Peter and Paul once again sponsored a very successful blood drive. Thank you to the following donors: Jim Limperis Erika Sullivan-Jana's friend Jana Tranas LaRue Highsmith Carl Mitsokopoulos Fr. Panagiotis Pres. Nichole Boznos Fr. Kosmas Gia Xenakis John Makris Jamie Crosby Fr. Michalopoulos Nick Vranas Harriet Pontikes and her friend from work Frances Slisz Mike O'Neil Mae Panoplos Tiana Cocallas Elias Matsakis Christy Gouletas Keith Anderson Hugh Colburn Angie Katismakis
OUTREACH COMMITTEE March will be a very busy month for the Outreach committee. We have a soup kitchen on March 4th from 1-4pm, a soup kitchen on the 24th from 11-1pm and a sack lunch on the 30th from 10-1pm. If you are interested in giving of your time, talent, and/or treasure to help with these endeavors, please email Christy Gouletas at sspp.outreach@gmail.com.
Philoptochos News We ended 2017 with a lovely Christmas Party at the Mission Hills Club in Northbrook. Once again, our chairperson, Patty Damisch, organized a beautiful evening with great food, music and friends! Thank you to everyone who donated gifts to students at a local Wheeling school - PHILOPTOCHOS SOCIETY UPCOMING EVENTS organized by Christy Add a caption for your photo here. Gouletas! FEED THE HUNGRY Please donate the following articles of clothing from now until Feb.13 th. Drop box in the Fellowship Hall (The extreme cold is This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY NC SA placing many people in extreme need): Mens- Slightly used overcoats, pants, shirts, sweaters and gloves and hats. Brand new- socks and underwear. ----Tuesday, February 13 th Our volunteers will be leaving SS. Peter and Paul at 8:30am to go to Annunciation Cathedral serve meals and drop off all clothing donations. Saturday, March 3, 2018-Quilt-a-Thon/Blankets for Babies- Please consider volunteering or donating to this worthwhile event. We are looking for pre-sewers to put together some simple squares prior to the event. Also, we have many no sew/tie blankets for anyone who would like to get a head start--please call 773-744- 7986/Tru email:pbazianos@yahoo.com
February 2018 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 6:30am Men s Bible Study 1:00pm Dynamis Meeting 4:30pm Greek School 2 Fast Free 8:30am Matins 9:30am Divine Liturgy ~ Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple 3 9:30am Greek School 4 Church School Food Pantry Bag Collection 8:15am Matins 9:30am Divine Liturgy Church School Food Pantry Bag Collection 11:15am Parent s Book Club 5:00pm Parish Family Super Bowl Party 5 9:30am HOPE Group 4:30pm Greek School 6 12:00pm Paraklesis 6:30pm Philoptocohos Board Meeting 7 Fast Day 10:30am Adult Bible Study 7:00pm Choir Rehearsal 8 6:30am Men s Bible Study 4:30pm Greek School 7:00pm Parish Council Executive Committee 9 Fast Day 7:00pm Great Vespers @ St Haralambos in Niles 10 8:30am Matins 9:30am Divine Liturgy ~ Saturday of the Souls/Feast of St Haralambos 9:30am Greek School 11 8:15am Matins 9:00am Junior & Senior GOYA Liturgy @ St. Sava Monastery 9:30am Divine Liturgy Coffee Connection 6:00pm SS. Peter and Paul Glendi 12 Meat Fast 9:00am Prep Day for Feed the Hungry 9:30am HOPE Group 4:30pm Greek School 13 9:30am Feed the Hungry at Annunciation 12:00pm Paraklesis 6:30pm Oratorical Workshop 7:00pm Cancer Support Meeting 14 10:30am Adult Bible Study 7:00pm Choir Rehearsal 15 6:30am Men s Bible Study 4:30pm Greek School 16 17 8:30am Matins 9:30am Divine Liturgy ~ Holy Ascetics 9:30am Greek School 6:00pm Sr. GOYA Coffee Talk 18 8:15am Matins 9:30am Divine Liturgy 11:30am St. Iakovos Retreat Center Presentation 12:00pm GOYA Lunch and Whirlyball 4:30pm YAL Discussion and Forgiveness Vespers 6:00pm Forgiveness Vespers 9:00pm NUOCF Meeting 19 Lenten Fast Office Closed 9:30am HOPE Group 4:30pm Greek School 6:00pm Great Compline 20 Lenten Fast 6:00pm Outreach Meeting 21 Lenten Fast 10:30am Adult Bible Study 5:30pm 9th Hour & Presanctified Liturgy 22 Lenten Fast 6:30am Men s Bible Study 4:30pm Greek School 6:00pm Agape Daddy & Me Night 7:00pm Parish Council Meeting 23 Lenten Fast 6:30pm Jr. GOYA Funday 6:30pm Faith, Love & Joy 7:00pm Salutations 24 Lenten Fast 8:30am Matins 9:30am Divine Liturgy ~ St Theodore and the Miracale of the Kolyva 9:30am Greek School 25 Lenten Fast Church School Sunday of Orthodoxy Procession 8:15am Matins 9:30am Divine Liturgy 12:00pm GOYA Cookie Making and Visit to the Greek American Nursing Home 26 Lenten Fast 9:30am HOPE Group 4:30pm Greek School 6:00pm Great Compline 27 Lenten Fast 6:30pm Oratorical Workshop 28 Lenten Fast 10:30am Adult Bible Study 5:30pm 9th Hour and Presanctified Liturgy 7:30pm Oratorical Festival
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