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The Promise- March 2021 v March 2021 ^ Volume 45, Issue 2 [email protected] 908-233-8533 holytrinitywestfield.org Have a Blessed Lent! Lenten Service The Lenten Prayer of St. Ephraim thE Syrian O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, faint-heartedness, lust of power, and idle talk. Great Lent is a time for prayer, fasting and almsgiving. The parish offers But give rather the spirit of chastity, several weekly services for our spiritual edification. Please join in-person or online humility, patience, and love to Thy servant. to pray together as we offer our prayers to God asking for His forgiveness. Yea, Lord and King, grant me to see my own errors Sundays Divine Liturgy of and not to judge my brother, St. Basil the Great for Thou art blessed unto ages of ages. Tuesdays Lenten Vespers at 5:00 PM followed by Theosis Amen. program at 6:30 PM Wednesdays Presanctified Liturgy at 6:00 PM Fridays Akathist Hymn at 6:00 PM Wait for the promise of the Father 1 COVID-19 and BY REV. FR. PETER DELVIZIS ΝΙΨΟΝΑΝΟΜΗΜΑΤΑΜΗΜΟΝΑΝΟΨΙΝ he COVID Era has reminded of human history, us about the importance of hopefully frequent Thand washing. Not only is this hand washing will preventive measure an important step always remain part in controlling the coronavirus, it also of our daily lives. puts the mind at ease knowing the hands While clean are free of contagions and grime. Once hands help keep COVID is long gone and becomes part us healthy, a clean soul is more ben- eficial to us. In a different way, the COVID Era can offer us insight Agia Sophia into how to live a healthy spiritual on a fountain used by the faithful before life. entering the cathedral. It read: In the Queen City of Constantinople outside the Great Church of Agia So- ΝΙΨΟΝΑΝΟΜΗΜΑΤΑΜΗΜΟΝΑΝΟΨΙΝ phia, a long palindrome was inscribed Continued on page 3 Dates in the Life of Our Church March–April 2021 MARCH 19 1st Salutations, 6:00 PM APRIL 4 Morning Coffee with Fr. Peter 20 3rd Saturday of Souls, 9:00 AM Divine 2 6:00 PM 3rd Salutations Liturgy 6 1st Saturday of Souls, 9:00 AM Divine Liturgy 4 8:15 AM Orthros; 9:30 AM Divine Liturgy Sunday of Orthodoxy, 8:15 AM Orthros; 9:30 7 8:30 AM Orthros; 9:30 AM Divine Liturgy 21 5:00 PM Great Compline AM Divine Liturgy 6 9 Forty Martyrs of Sebastia, 8:30 AM Orthros; 6:30 PM Theosis 9:30 AM Divine Liturgy 23 5:00 PM Lenten Vespers 7 6:00 PM Presanctified Liturgy 9 7:30 PM Parish Council 6:30 PM Theosis 9 6:00 PM 4th Salutations 13 2nd Saturday of Souls, 9:00 AM Divine 24 6:00 PM Great Vespers 10 11:00 AM Baptism Liturgy 25 The Annunciation, 8:30 AM Orthros; 9:30 AM 14 8:30 AM Orthros; 9:30 AM Divine Liturgy Divine Liturgy 11 8:15 AM Orthros; 9:30 AM Divine Liturgy 15 Great Lent Begins 26 6:00 PM 2nd Salutations 13 5:00 PM Lenten Vespers 5:00 PM Great Compline 28 8:15 AM Orthros; 9:30 AM Divine Liturgy 6:30 PM Theosis 16 5:00 PM Lenten Vespers 29 5:00 PM Lenten Vespers 7:30 PM Parish Council 6:30 PM Theosis 30 6:30 PM Theosis 14 6:00 PM Presanctified Liturgy 17 9:00 AM Presanctified Gifts 31 9:00 AM Presanctified Liturgy 16 6:00 PM Salutations 2 Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church ^ Westfield, New Jersey THE THEOSIS PROGRAM presents The Road to the Resurrection A Walk Through Holy Week In the Greek Orthodox Church Every Tuesday night at 6:30 PM during Great Lent ust as the disciples accompanied and vicious treatment. We will learn Jesus on His journey to Jerusalem that God’s desire to save us is so great Jduring Holy Week, the Church that He will encounter anything, even invites us also to walk with Him during death, for our sake. the last days of His earthly ministry. This year, The Theosis Program will Let us go with Him to witness His life- conduct virtual sessions meeting every giving Passion, to cast our eyes upon the Tuesday evening at 6:30 PM. These terrible Crucifixion, and celebrate His sessions are written to provide context rising from the dead on the third day. to the various themes introduced each Holy Week in the Greek Orthodox night during Holy Week. A better un- The Trial of Jesus Church is an important spiritual jour- derstanding of Holy Week will lead to ney. It bridges together the Great Fast deeper appreciation and fuller experi- Palm Sunday; March 23, Bridegroom of Forty Days with Pascha. God’s inef- ence of the Divine Services. Services; March 30, The Eucharist, fable love for mankind is made visible Tuesday Sessions are at 6:30 PM, Passion and Crucifixion; April 6, Holy through His endurance of humiliation March 16, Saturday of Lazarus and Friday & April 13, Pascha Continued from page 2 a part of our daily routine that it has wardly, but inside are full of hypocrisy now taken on a ritualistic dimension as and lawlessness.” Matthew 23:25-27 well. But still, the Church reminds us, as During the period of Great Lent, Translated: “Νίψον ἀνομήματα, μὴ did this palindrome of old, that a clean the Church asks us to cleanse ourselves μόναν ὄψιν” or "Wash (my) transgres- and healthy soul needs a good washing inwardly. Let us do so with the same sions, not only the face." This palin- too. Each of us takes precautionary care and concern given to COVID. Let drome, attributed to St. Gregory the measures when it relates to our health. us learn a spiritual lesson about how Theologian who served the City as So too must we take preventative steps equally important it is for our inner self Archbishop in the late Fourth Century, to preserve our souls. to be made clean. For what is better in conveyed a powerful spiritual message. Perhaps COVID can allow us to bet- eternal terms, hands that are microbial As the believer rinsed his face with ter understand the word’s echoed by Je- free and appear antiseptically clean or the flowing water, he was asked to sus, “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, consider the greater significance of this you hypocrites! For you cleanse the out- a soul that has been cleansed by the action. Here a deeply profound and nu- side of the cup and dish, but inside they grace and mercy of our Lord and Saviour anced message conveyed the priority of are full of extortion and self-indulgence. Jesus Christ. So the next time you find taking care of his personal transgression Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside your hands under running water wash- over a simple ritualistic washing. The of the cup and dish, that the outside of ing the filth of coronavirus away, think cleansing of the soul is by far more im- them may be clean also. Woe to you, about your inner self and pray that the portant than the mere physical washing scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! Lord of Heaven and earth may come to of the face or hands. For you are like whitewashed tombs wash away the many personal sins and COVID has made hand washing such which indeed appear beautiful out- offenses. The Promise ^ March 2021 ^ Volume 45, Issue 2 3 Ζήτω η Ελλάς! The cradle of Western civilization celebrates the Bicentennial of the 1821 Greek War of Independence BY PETER TARHANIDIS, CELIA KAPSOMERA AND HELEN BRUNO Greece is the cradle for Western civilization n 2021, Hellenes of Greece and the Greek diaspora along with Phil- Ihellenes from around the world will devotedly celebrate the bicentennial of the 1821 Greek War of Independence. Greece will forever be considered the cradle of Western civilization harking back to the 6th century B.C. During the antiquity Greeks formed the early foun- dations of science and mathematics, philosophy, theater and, artistic won- to a darkened world. Never resting, legacy of the Orthodox Church and ders, while also instituting democratic Greeks extended its early foundations Greek and Roman studies that helped government providing a framework into the longest running monarchy usher in the enlightenment of the Re- for the modern world. Their contribu- and Christian republic, the Byzantine naissance. Its influence lives today for tions were expanded when the Greek Empire. Constantinople, a center of many Western nations in the areas of language was selected as the means to increasing diverse trade and culture religion, art, architecture, and the law. proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ connecting Europe and Asia becoming For the next almost 400 years Hel- the wealthiest city uniquely referred to lenes fell under the yolk of Ottoman as the Queen of Cities. rule and were plunged into the darkest The legendary goal for the Ottomans of times. Under the Ottomans, Hel- was to conquer the Queen City or as lenes were enslaved, cast into a brutal they referred to it metaphorically the repression, remanded into conscription Red Apple. As legend has it the Red and left deprived with little hope. They Apple is believed to be the globe held were contained to the “ghetto” or the in the right hand of a giant statue of Rum Millet area of Constantinople the Emperor Justinian in front of Agia while the rest of Greece was held under Sophia. After the Byzantine Empire the “Tourkokratia” (Turkish Occupa- had endured many sieges over its 1100- tion) ruled by local Ottoman governors, year history, the city fell to Mehmet II “pashas”.
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