Church Bulletin - Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA

Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA

PUBLISH DATE: August 13, 2008

Epistle Reading
I Cor. 3:9-17

BRETHREN, we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building. According to the grace ...Read Full Text >

Gospel Reading
Matthew 14:22-34

At that time, Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, ...Read Full Text >

Our Holy Father Ireneaus, Bishop of Lyons
August 23 ...Read Full Text >

Apolytikion for Myron the Martyr of Cyzicus
Thy Martyr, O Lord, in his courageous contest for Thee received the prize of the crowns of incorruption and life from Thee, our immortal God. For since he possessed Thy strength, he cast down the tyrants and wholly destroyed the demons' strengthless presumption. O Christ God, by his prayers, save our souls, since Thou art merciful. - Translation by Holy Transfiguration Monastery

Kontakion
Since thou didst love Christ from childhood, O all-lauded one, and strictly didst keep His precepts and divine commands, thou didst run whole-heartedly unto Him, O Myron, and foundest rest and with Angels glorifiest Him, while asking divine forgiveness for us all. - Translation by Holy Transfiguration Monastery

The principle and source of the virtues is a good disposition of the will, that is to say, an aspiration for ...Read Full Text >
-St. Gregory of Sinai, On Commandments and Doctrines no. 83, Philokalia Vol. 3 edited by Palmer, Sherrard and Ware; Faber and Faber pg. 228, 14th century

Let us, then, cry out loudly with Peter's words, "Lord, save us." And if we are willing to receive Christ into ...Read Full Text >
-St. John Chrysostom, The Gospel Commentary, edited by Hieromonk German Ciuba, 2002, 4th Century

Parish Information
Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Atlanta
2480 Clairmont Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30329

Phone: 404-634-9345
Fax: 404-634-2471
Website: atlanta.goarch.org
Email: kpowers@atlmetropolis.org

Proistamenos: His Eminence Metropolitan Alexios
Email: patras@atlmetropolis.org

AWARENESS OF THE PRESENT
Fr. Kevin Millsaps, HOLY TRINITY, Bluff City, TN

Awareness of the present

Death is the touchstone of our attitude to life. People who are afraid of death are afraid of life. It is impossible not to be afraid of life with all its complexity and dangers if one is afraid of death. This means that to solve the problem of death is not a luxury. If we are afraid of death we will never be ...Read Full Text >

August 13, 2008
HIS EMINENCE METROPOLITAN ALEXIOS ON THE DORMITION
On Friday, we will celebrate the culmination of the month of August - the Dormition of the Theotokos, the Mother of our Lord, the number one intercessor for us with her Son in Heaven. Yet we feel that we are close to her and connected to her, that she is one of us, a human woman, a mother who has ...Read Full Text >

EOCS Announces Recipients of 2008 Scout Scholarships

August 12, 2008
The Eastern Orthodox Committee on Scouting [EOCS], a SCOBA agency, announces the selection of the winners of the sixteenth annual Scout Scholarships. The 2008 winners are Anastasia C. Markiw, of Pittsburgh, PA and the runner-up Samuel C. Ely of Merrillville, IN. who received $1,000 and $500 respectively. ...Read Full Text >

Decisions on Some Palestinian and Jordanian Communities in the USA

August 5, 2008
After a long process that began in 1993 related to the ecclesiastical status of a portion of the Palestinian and Jordanian communities in the USA, the portion connected to the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, there has been a final agreed decision by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Patriarchate of Jerusalem concerning these communities. The Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Jerusalem Patriarchate have agreed that the canonical and pastoral supervision of these communities and their clergy should belong to the canonically established jurisdiction in the United States which is the Eparchy of the Ecumenical Throne in America, that is, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. Henceforth, the Patriarchate of Jerusalem no longer asserts any jurisdiction in the Western Hemisphere. ...Read Full Text >

Come Receive the Light Schedule of Programs for August 2008

August 5, 2008
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PANAGIA PROUSSIOTISSA

The story goes back a thousand years to the time when the heresy against the holy icons, Iconoclasm, was raging all over the Christian world. The Byzantine Emperor Theophilos had ordered all holy icons removed from the churches and burned. The Orthodox people were protecting and hiding the holy icons,even at risk of exile and death.

In 829 this Holy Icon of the Theotokos, according to tradition painted by the hand of St. Luke the Evangelist, was kept in a beautiful church in the renowned city of Proussa. Today the church still stands in Brusa, a city in Turkey near Constantinople. Many miracles have taken place in this Church.

As soon as the decree of the Emperor reached the city of Proussa, a godly man, the son of an officer of the royal court, decided to disobey the Emperor`s order. He took the Holy Icon and fled to the mainland of Greece, because the persecution was less violent there. The young man was on his way to the city of ...Read Full Text >

Previous Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Atlanta Bulletins

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Publish Date:	July 1, 2008

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