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Volume 20 Issue 3 March 2020 Proistamenos: Fr. Jon Emanuelson

Church News hanks to this being Leap Year, Spring will come early. Did any- one tell Mother Nature? We begin our journey into Great Lent. Pleas read Fr. Jon’s great message about Lent. The Church Family sends it heart-felt sympathies to the Kesaris family due the loss or Rose. Let her memory be eternal. Please take the oppor- tunites to be blessed by the weekly services that occurs three times a week. You can see a full schedule in the calendar in the back of this issue. Check your email to when the next GOYA meeting and the next Festival Meeting is scheduled. Please contact Doreen Cote for any Table of Contents further update, since she is Church News...... 1 The Annunciation...... 13 Priest Message...... 3 Stewardship ...... 15 the new chairwoman for the Fasting...... 4 Memorials...... 16 2020 Festival. Also the next Sundays of Great Lent...... 8 Calendar...... 19 St. Patrick...... 11 General Assembly will be Remember you can see Bulletin on line at holytrinity.me.goarch.org scheduled for next month. under “Resources”, then Current Newletter Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church

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2 March 2020 Priest’s Message So What is so Great about Great Lent?

lad you asked dear lover of God, glad you asked! Why someone just asked me the other day about our Ortho- dox Christian Great Lent. So many thoughts ran through my head I had to write some of them down. So here are some thoughts: Blessing of the Waters Preparing for the Feast of feasts

We begin our Great Lenten journey prepar-

Visit from Paidea of Maine ing ourselves for the Feast of feasts – PAS- CHA, our Christian Passover from death to life in Christ! The road we travel for the journey can be a truly blessed one! Clean Monday

This is our starting point! 40 days before the Saturday of Lazarus we begin our Lenten journey. The great fast literally starts at sun- down on Sunday night with the beautiful Forgiveness Sunday Vespers. At Holy Trinity we will begin vespers at 6 PM. The service ends with everyone asking forgiveness from each other! This is a truly blessed way to start. Giving up vs. Gaining

In the west we often hear about people “giving up” something for great lent. However, as Orthodox Christians, our Lenten journey is not about giving something up, but rather gaining a closer and more beautiful relation- Got Church News? ship with Jesus Christ. So what are the spiritual disciplines we exercise to grow closer? Send your text, your pictures, 1. Fasting. This involves both body and soul! We your inspirations, whatever it is, certainly try to fast from the heavier foods – meat, send it to: eggs, cheese, fish, dairy products. Believe it or not, this is the easy part! In addition to fasting from the 3 [email protected] continued on pg. 5 Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church FASTING

Christ fasted and in the process He taught us, His people, to fast as well. In the Sermon on the Mount He said: And when you fast, do not look dismal, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that your fasting may not be seen by men but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. —Matthew 6:16-18

WHEN YOU FAST

Christ did not say “if you fast” but rather, “when you fast.” He presupposed that we understand fasting as a necessary part of our spiritual lives. Christ Himself fasted. We know, for example, that He fasted for forty days after His baptism, thereby preparing Himself before making His appearance to the people and beginning His public ministry. We know also how, when His disciples could not heal a suffering child, Christ upbraided them with the words: “But this kind (of demon) never comes out except by prayer and fasting” (Matthew 17:21). The people of the Old Testa- ment fasted as well. Centuries before the coming of Christ, the prophet Isaiah wrote the following: Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh? Then shall your light break forth like the dawn… —Isaiah 58:6-8 The apostles also fasted. They connected their fasting with prayer as Christ taught. They did not sepa- rate their fasting from faith and good works rendered in obedience to God’s commandments of mercy and love. As the apostles continued in prayer and fasting, they likewise commanded us to do so as well.

A NECESSARY ELEMENT Fasting, then, is an essential element of the spiritual life which: • frees us from passion; • enables us to gain dominion over our lives; and • enables the Spirit of God to dwell within us and make us instruments of His will. Fasting is not at all an act of mortification for mortification’s sake. It is not a “little suffering” which is somehow pleasing to God. It is not a ‘punishment” which is to be sorrowfully endured in payment for sins. It is not given to us in the context of”laws” which, if endured, gain us favor in the sight of God while, if ignored, render us sinful and guilty. The sin of not fasting is found in our failure to employ a practice which is absolutely necessary in our struggle to overcome sin and to enter into communion with God.

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4 March 2020 Priest’s Message continued from pg.3 certain foods as we are able, we also fast from sin. Yes, you heard me correctly. Let us strive to fast from judging others, foul language, forbidden spectacles, the passions, etc. Try it, you’ll like it! 2. Giving Alms. Let us strive to help those in need. Let us give to local and other charities as we are able. Giving from the heart brings the grace and joy of God. 3. Repentance and Confession. How many years has it been? I am so thankful for every soul who seeks God’s forgiveness. It takes courage and strength to repent and confess. And what grace and peace of soul it brings to us! Please take the time to come and confess Visit from Paidea of Maine before Christ. Repentance brings the greatest victory to us and the greatest defeat to the evil one. You will be truly blessed and uplifted! 4. Additional Prayers. I call prayer the great intangible gift. You cannot see it and cannot Bring it on touch it. Yet, prayer can move mountains! Keep vigil and focus by adding a few more souls to pray for in your daily prayers. And if Spring! we need to start a good prayer routine, Great Lent is the best time to do it! 5. Evening Services. Please join us for the beautiful Lenten services offered each Mon- day, Wednesday and Friday. Great Compline starts our week on Monday. The Pre-Sanc- tified Liturgy nourishes and strengthens us on Wednesday when we receive Holy Com- munion. The Salutations to the Theotokos on Friday lifts up our prayers to the Panagia each week. Let us make time to be in church! 6. Reading. This often gets overlooked, but is a great help to us in our Lenten journey. Read a good Orthodox spiritual text. If you need suggestions, I can help. Read the daily Bible readings. Read, instead of watching TV! The word of God will touch your heart in ways you cannot imagine. continued on pg. 7

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6 March 2020 Priest’s Message continued from pg.5

Saturday of Lazarus and the Entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday)

After a forty day Great Lenten journey, we relax the fast slightly on Saturday and Sunday. These days commemorate the raising of Laza- rus from the dead and the joyful entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem. This sets the stage for the Great and Holy Week.

Swearing in 2020 Council Holy Week

The last six days of our journey is so powerful. Let us walk in the steps of Jesus as He completes the ministry of the Father. Let’s keep vigil at the foot of the Cross. Let us come to the empty tomb with the myrrhbear- ing women and discover the Holy Resurrection of Christ. Pascha, the Lord’s Pascha! So what is so Great about Great Lent? Our Great Lenten journey leads us right into the arms of Christ Jesus who loves us! Love always, Fr. Jon

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Saint Gregory clearly teaches that Sundays of Great Lent by cooperating with the God who ach of the Sundays of Great the year makes all things possible, we can Lent possesses special 843 A.D. attain eternal life. Thus, our lenten meaning for us as we journey The major efforts are confirmed, our resolve through the lenten season to Pas- emphasis is strengthened, our frustrations cha, the resurrection of Our Lord of this feast at the end of the second week are Jesus Christ. Through our aware- is the vic- overcome, and we are filled once ness of these days and our partici- tory of the more with the light of hope. pation in the liturgical services of true faith, the season, we are instructed and the victory THE SUNDAY OF THE CROSS inspired to continue our journey that always with Christ to the cross and, ul- ultimately triumphs. Having com- On the third timately, to victory over sin and pleted the first week of our Lent- Sunday of Great death. en efforts, we are reminded that Lent, we ven- Christ, the perfect image of God erate the life- FORGIVENESS SUNDAY the Father, calls us to personal creating cross victory by restoring within our- of Our Lord. Great Lent begins on a Mon- selves “the image and likeness of The Kingdom day; the eve of this day is known God” in which we were first cre- of God comes as Forgiveness Sunday. The way ated (Genesis 1:26). only through to resurrection and life, the path The icons of Our Lord, the the cross and through suffering. to Christ’s eternal victory over Theotokos, and all the saints are Life follows death; resurrection death, begins with forgiveness. images of true humanity, signs of follows Golgotha. God will not forgive us our sins what our eternal calling and voca- Saint Paul mentions that, in the and raise us from the dead unless tion really are. They tell us that worldly sense, the cross is a sign we forgive the sins of others and we are all called to be living icons of foolishness, signifying death work for their salvation as well as and imitators of Christ, bearing and sorrow. The faithful, how- for our own. In the Sermon on the the likeness of God as gracious ever, look in faith and hope be- Mount, Christ clearly teaches us vessels of the Holy Spirit. yond the suffering brought about the importance of forgiveness: If by the cross, discerning the loving you forgive men their trespasses, THE SUNDAY OF SAINT victory which it, truly proclaims. your heavenly Father also will GREGORY PALAMAS At Sunday matins we sing, I “Be- forgive you; but if you do not for- hold! Through the cross joy has give men their trespasses, neither The second come into all the world.” The will your Father forgive your tres- Sunday of cross is a sign of victory and the passes. —Matthew 6:14-15 Great Lent is landmark of paradise. It is insepa- dedicated to rable from the resurrection. For THE SUNDAY OF ORTHODOXY Saint Gregory this reason we sing on this Sun- Palamas. Once day: “Before Thy cross we bow On the first Sunday of Great again we are down and worship, O Master, and Lent, we celebrate the feast of the reassured, as we contemplate this Thy holy resurrection we glorify.” Triumph of Orthodoxy. This is an man and reflect on his teachings, historical feast commemorating that we can indeed attain salva- Not only is the cross a victory the restoration of icons, which had tion and behold the “Light of Wis- for Christ, “the captain of salva- been banned for several decades, dom” by becoming “partakers of tion made perfect through suffer- 8 to their rightful liturgical use in the divine nature” (2 Peter 1:4). continued on pg. 9 March 2020 ing” (Hebrews 2:10), but for us as essential change days of the festal interlude. On well. As we approach Pascha, it in her life. She Palm Sunday we hold branches in stands as a reminder to us to take ran from her our hands as we sing, Hosanna! up our crosses and worthily fol- sinfulness and Blessed is He who comes in the low Christ in His suffering and, devoted the name of the Lord!” At the same ultimately, in His eternal victory remainder of time we look ahead to the road (Matthew 10:38). her life to plac- to Golgotha upon which Christ ing God’s will invites us to join Him. While we THE SUNDAY OF SAINT JOHN above her own. In her person we sing praises with our lips, our CLIMACUS recall Christ’s words: “Truly, I lives must not cry out with the an- On the fourth say to you, the tax collectors and gry mob: “Crucify Him! Crucify Sunday of Great the harlots go into the Kingdom Him!” Lent, we com- of God before you” (Matthew memorate Saint 21:31). The end is drawing near, John Climacus, yet repentance is still possible, author of The even for the greatest of sinners. Ladder of Di- We see how the harlot repents vine Ascent. In and is forgiven. There is no sin so this work Saint John outlines the great that God will not forgive it; steps essential for attaining com- there is no amount of sinfulness, munion with God—steps which which can condemn you if you remind us that the way to the are willing to repent and to merge Kingdom constantly challenges your vision with that of Our Lord. us to engage in spiritual warfare. Be strong in the Lord and in the The Lord is merciful and gra- strength of His might. Put on the cious, slow to anger and abound- whole armor of God, that you may ing in steadfast love.... be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we are not con- For as the heavens are high above With this in our minds and in our tending against flesh and blood, the earth, so great is His steadfast hearts, we enter the days of the but against the principalities, love toward those who fear Him; Passover of the Cross—the great against the powers, against the and holy Pascha of the Lord—the world rulers of this present dark- As far as the east is from the west, resurrection! ness ... the hosts of wickedness so far does He remove our trans- in the heavenly places. Therefore gressions from us! 1988 Orthodox Christian take the whole armor of God that Publications Center you may be able to withstand in As a father pities his children, the evil day, and having done all, so the Lord pities those who fear to stand. —Ephesians 6:10-13 Him. —Psalm 103:8,11-13

SUNDAY OF SAINT MARY PALM SUNDAY OF EGYPT Great Lent ends on the Friday fol- The fifth Sunday of Great Lent lowing the Sunday of Saint Mary is dedicated to Saint Mary of of Egypt. The next day is Laza- Egypt Saint Mary was a harlot rus Saturday, which is followed who, having recognized her sin- by Palm Sunday—these are the fulness, sought to bring about an 9 Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church

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t. Pádraig (Patrick), one of the earli- St. Patrick est Orthodox missionary saints, was Apostle and Enlightener of Ireland March 17 born into a noble Roman family from Gaul (France) or Britain in 387 AD. When Pá- draig was 16, he was carried off by Irish ma- rauders and sold into slavery. He was made a shepherd, and toiled for six years for an Irish chieftain. Prompted by an angel, Pádraig fled to Gaul and put himself under the- spiri tual direction of St. Germanus of Auxerre. He prayed and studied and struggled, and after almost 20 years was given a vision of Irish children calling to him: “O holy youth, come back to Erin, and walk once more among us.” The Bishop of Rome, Celestine I, directed St. Pádraig to teach the people of Ireland the way of Christ and bring them into the Church. St. Pá- draig and his companions arrived in Ireland in 433 AD, during the summer, and were immedi- ately persecuted by the Druids (Celtic priests). And what about the Shamrock? St. Pádraig did spiritual battle with the The leaf of the yellow-flowered clover so com- Arch-Druid Lochru for the souls of the Irish mon in Ireland was used by St. Pádraig to teach people. Using a great display of sorcery, Lo- the Orthodox doctrine of the Most Holy Trin- chru raised himself high in the air to awe the ity: one stem (God) with three leaves (Persons). people. St. Patrick fell to his knees in prayer He is often depicted holding up a shamrock at this sight, and Lochru fell to his death between his thumb and first finger in icons. - stripped of his demonic power by God. Through his God-given gift to power- fully preach the Gospel and his wonder- working, St. Pádraig brought thousands into the fold of the True Faith, starting the demise of paganism on the Emerald Isle. St. Pádraig returned to the Lord on March 17, 493 AD, after receiving Holy Unction. He laid in state for several days before burial, “St. Pádraig, Apostle and Enlightener of Ireland” was adapted from ‘The Real Saint Patrick, Bishop of Ireland’, 11 with a heavenly light surrounding his body. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3374 Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church As God’s People, we are and inspired by God. called upon to fast: Thus we sing as we begin the season of Great Lent—the period • in secret, not revealing to of greatest fasting which prepares others what we are doing, us for the period of greatest cel- in obedience to the Lord’s ebration: specific command not to Let us begin the most precious judge the practices of oth- Fast with joy, Shining with the ers; and holy commandments of Christ our SEASONS OF FASTING God, With the splendor of love, from pg. 4 • joyfully, knowing that the aim of With the brilliance of prayer, With fasting is not the fasting itself but the cleanness of purity, With the The Church reserves certain sea- rather the acquisition of the Holy strength of blessed courage.... sons and days for fasting. These Spirit. Fasting from foods and not fast- are times when we are mobi- ing from passions.... lized in our struggle against evil, JOYFUL SEASONS The true fast is the alienation of armed in prayerful, vigilant ex- evils, The bridling of the tongue, pectancy for the coming of God. Thus, for Orthodox Christians, The laying aside of anger, We are called to fast in prepara- fasting seasons are joyful seasons. The cutting off of lusts, foolish tion for eucharistic services and They are not times for remorse, talking, lies and cursing.... during the seasons which prepare but for repentance. They are not The disappearance of these is a us for the celebration of the great occasions for mere “breast-beat- fast true and acceptable. festivals of the Lord’s presence ing” or, worse yet, for ritualistic and power among His People. but meaningless acts of penitence; These verses, chanted on the very During these times, God’s People rather, they remind us of the need last day of Great Lent, reveal the fast as a community; yet within for real personal, internal change. goal and purpose of fasting. We the community each person fasts In regard to fasting, they are not wash our faces. We anoint our differently, according to his or simply inducements to change heads. We look only to ourselves her own personal abilities and our diets, but rather to change our and to our God. We hide our ef- capabilities. The essential point words, actions, and thoughts from forts. We change our lives. We during these times and seasons is those which are evil and inspired rejoice with delight in our search that all should fast, at least mini- by Satan to those which are good for God. mally.

Let us fast with a fast pleasing to the Lord. This is the true fast: me casting off of evil, the bridling of the tongue, the cutting off of anger, the cessation of lusts, evil talking, lies and cursing. The stopping of these is the fast true and acceptable. —Lenten Vespers

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f all the solemn days in Orthodoxy the day of The Annunciation of the March 25 is one not only of religious signifi- Theotokos cance but of political significance as well, allowing the March 25 Greek Orthodox to commemorate God’s message to Mary and the independence of Greece on the same day. The expression, “For God and Country,” has real meaning for the Orthodox Greek on the 25th day of March, a day on which he can celebrate two events without diminishing either one for the ob- vious reason that devotion and patriotism have the same emotional root -- love. If Christianity could be compressed into a single word, that word would be love. The same holds true for patriotism. Uppermost in the true Greek’s mind on March 25, however, is Mary, chosen from all the women in the world to be the Mother of Jesus Christ. When the angel Gabriel brought the momentous message from God this day, the gentle Mary must have felt a solemn pride, but at the same time a disqui- eting apprehension at the prospect of this awe- alized only when the suffering of four some responsibility. Assured by the Archangel, centuries is called to mind. In 1458 the Mary’s answer was a simple: “Let it be according Ottoman hordes overran all of Greece to the will of God,” and the rest is glorious history. and most of the Balkans and held hos- The world of Mary of two thousand years ago is tage a people whose culture dated envisioned as one in which life was simple and free back more than two thousand years, of the complexities that plague the modern world, and who gave more to the world than but in that age of self-sufficiency there were -prob it could ever receive in return, and it lems which would be insurmountable today. The seems that the world just stood by while mother of that day was all things to her family, and the cradle of democracy and Christian- it can safely be said that when the Archangel Ga- ity was being defiled by a scourge that briel departed, the prospective Mother of God must would have undone a less hardy breed. have for several moments felt terribly alone, Every- Hopelessly outnumbered, Greece one knows about the nativity and the mission of Je- endured nearly four hundred years sus Christ, but the details of the days, months and of brutal oppression, but the spir- years in between are known but to Mary and to God. it of its people knew not a single The political importance of March 25 is fully re- cont’d on pg. 14 13 Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church The Annunciation from pg. 13 moment’s weakness. The fires of rebellion that the Turks thought they had snuffed out, but which had smouldered in Hellenic hearts for almost 400 years, were kindled into a conflagration on 25 March 1821, not by a bemedalled general but by a man of the cloth, Bishop Germanos of Patras, Greece, who chose the day of the Annunciation knowing God would be on the side of the Greeks. The good bishop held the Cross of Jesus Christ aloft on the 25th day of March, 1821, and pro- claimed freedom for all Greek Orthodox Chris- tians. It was a motion seconded by every Greek in the country. In addition to engaging in a war for independence, the Greeks were actually waging a holy war because it was not only Greek against Turk but Christian against Muslim, and the subse- quent Greek victory was a triumph of Christianity.

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StewardshipBar Graph of Weekly Income 2019 2019 $10,000.00 Weekly Income Graph as of Dec 15 On 12/15/19

$7,500.00 took in $2037.00 needed $2433.48 Weekly amount with full Weekly amount with full time priest time priest Using $20K $5,000.00 Using $20K Dividends and Dollars Dividends and $24K Capital $14K Capital Accounts Account.

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Weekly Amount received Yearly Budget Weekly Financial Requirements - Using Dividends($20K) and Capital Account($24K) 52weeks x 2445.48 = $127,164.96 Amount has beenWeekly Financial Requirements - Dividends ($20K) and Capital Account ($14K) readjusted due changing financial requirements

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70% Stewardship Collected 60% as of Dec 15, 2019

50% Percent to Goal 40% Collected 78% 30% ($10,849 in the RED) we have gone through 95% of the year 20%

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0% The collection met the weekly budget 11/50 times As shown by the graph above.

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In Memory of In Memory of Theodore & Ervin & Virginia Elizabeth Kleros Pelletier

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In Memory of In Memory of Mary James & Mary Samson Goranites

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