Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, Bluff City, Tennessee PUBLISH DATE: September 6, 2009

Epistle Reading
St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 16:13-24

BRETHREN, be watchful, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love. ...Read Full Text >

Gospel Reading
Matthew 21:33-42
13th Sunday of Matthew

The Lord said this parable, "There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge ...Read Full Text >

13th Sunday of Matthew
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The Miracle at Colassai of Archangel Michael
September 6 ...Read Full Text >

Holy Martyr Calodotus
September 6 ...Read Full Text >
Resurrectional Apolytikion Fourth Tone
Amen. When the tidings of the resurrection from the glorious angel was proclaimed unto the women disciples and our ancestral sentence also had been abolished to the Apostles with the boasting did they proclaim that death is vanquished ever more and Christ Our God has risen from the dead and granted to the world His great mercy. - Translation from Green Hymnal

Apolytikion of the Church
O blessed are You O Christ our God, Who by sending down the Holy Spirit upon them made the fishermen wise and through them Illumined the world. And to You the universe was ever drawn, all glory to You O Lord.

Kontakion
In your holy birth, Immaculate One, Joachim and Anna were rid of the shame of childlessness; Adam and Eve of the corruption of death. And so your people, free of the guilt of their sins, celebrate crying: "The barren one gives birth to the Theotokos, who nourishes our life." - Translation by Narthex Press
Many things does He intimate by this parable, God's providence, which had been exercised towards them from the  ...Read Full Text >
-St. John Chrysostom, Homily 68 on Matthew 21, 4th Century


And observe also both His great care, and the excessive idleness of these men for what pertained to the  ...Read Full Text >
-St. John Chrysostom, Homily 68 on Matthew 21, 4th Century


And where do they take counsel to kill Him? "Out of the vineyard." Do you see how He prophesies even the place  ...Read Full Text >
-St. John Chrysostom, Homily 68 on Matthew 21, 4th Century


... that even when prophets had been slain, He had not turned away from them, but had sent His very Son; that the  ...Read Full Text >
-St. John Chrysostom, Homily 68 on Matthew 21, 4th Century

Matins
SUNDAY 9:30AM - 10:30 AM

Liturgy
SUNDAY 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Bible Study
WEDNESDAYS @ 7:00 PM

Parish Information
Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church
150 Elizabeth Ann Circle
Bluff City, Tennessee 37618

Phone: 423-538-0701
Fax: 423-538-0701
Website: holytrinitybluffcity.org
Email: holytrinitybluffcity@gmail.com

Proistamenos: Fr. Kevin Millsaps

 
August 24, 2009
Beginning of the Ecclesiastical New Year Day for the Protection of our Natural Environment
Protocol 63/09

September 1, 2009

To the Most Reverend Hierarchs, the Reverend Priests and Deacons, the Monks and Nuns, the Presidents and Members of the Parish Councils of the Greek Orthodox Communities, the Distinguished Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the Day, Afternoon, and ...Read Full Text >
September 2, 2009
HIS EMINENCE`S REFLECTIONS ON THE FEAST DAY OF THE ELEVATION OF THE HOLY AND LIFE-GIVING CROSS
Soon we will celebrate the blessed Feast Day of the Elevation of the Holy and Life-giving Cross.

The finding of the Holy Cross is of course an historical event. Naturally we all know the story of how St. Helena discovered the Cross in the foundation of the Temple in Jerusalem. St. Helena was ...Read Full Text >
Upcoming Services and Events at Holy Trinity
Sunday, September 6, 2009: Orthros: 9:30 PM; Divine Liturgy: 10:30 AM; Holy Baptism of Demetrius Grammatikas: 11:45 AM

Tuesday, September 8, 2009: Divine Liturgy for Nativity of the Theotokos: 6:45 PM

Wednesday, September 9, 2009: Adult Religious Education/ Catechumen Class: 6:00 PM; Parish ...Read Full Text >

In our Prayers
"Then your light shall break forth like the dawn,
and healing shall spring up quickly." Isaiah 58:8

"Who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, being dead to sin, should live unto righteousness, by whose stripes we were healed."
I Peter 2:24

"Who forgiveth ...Read Full Text >
Ecumenical Patriarch's Message for the Day of the Protection of the Environment

August 31, 2009
The present crisis offers an opportunity for us to deal with the problems in a different way, because the methods that created these problems cannot provide their best solution. We need to bring love into all our dealings, the love that inspires courage and compassion. Human progress is not just the accumulation of wealth and the thoughtless consumption of the earth's resources. ...Read Full Text >
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