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

Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA

PUBLISH DATE: September 11, 2008

Epistle Reading
I Cor. 1:18-24

BRETHREN, the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the ...Read Full Text >

Gospel Reading
John 19:6-11, 13-20, 25-28, 30

At that time, when the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, "Crucify him, ...Read Full Text >

The Elevation of the Venerable and Life-Giving Cross
September 14 ...Read Full Text >

Euphemia the Great Martyr
September 16 ...Read Full Text >

Sophia & her three daughters: Faith, Hope, and Love
September 17 ...Read Full Text >

Apolytikion of the Church
O Commanders of the Heavenly Host, we the unworthy beseech you, that through your entreaties you will fortify us, guarding us in the shelter of the wings of your ethereal glory, even as we fervently bow before you crying: "Deliver us from all danger, as Commanders of the Powers on high!

Apolytikion for The Elevation of the Venerable and Life-Giving Cross
Lord, save Your people and bless Your inheritance, granting our rulers to prevail over adversaries, and protecting Your commonwealth by Your Cross. -Translation by Narthex Press

Kontakion
Lifted up on the Cross by Your free will, Christ God, grant mercies to the new commonwealth that bears Your name. Gladden our faithful rulers by Your power, giving them victories over their adversaries. May Your alliance be for them a weapon for peace, an invincible standard. -Translation by Narthex Press

For He went forth bearing the Cross as a trophy over the tyranny of death: and as conquerors do, so He bare upon ...Read Full Text >
-St. John Chrysostom, Homily 84 on John 18 and Homily 85 on John 19, 4th Century

Those taught by God will be regarded as fools by the disciples of such as are wise in the wisdom of the world. But ...Read Full Text >
-St. Symeon the New Theologian, Practical and Theological Texts no. 105, Philokalia Vol. 4 edited by Palmer, Sherrard and Ware; Faber and Faber pg. 47, 11th 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

ELEVATION OF THE HOLY CROSS
Fr. Vasile Bitere, ST. PAUL, Savannah, GA
Each year on Sept. 14 the Orthodox Church celebrates the feast of “The Elevation of the Honorable and Life-giving Cross.” This is one of the great feasts of the Church year, and one which has an important historical background. Although one or two of the hymns for the day refer obliquely to the vision of the cross in the heavens, the actual ...Read Full Text >

US Commission on International Religious Freedom Presses For Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Rights

September 10, 2008
Yesterday, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom threw its weight behind the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights that had ruled in favor of the rights of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, specifically as to its historic Orphanage on the island of Pringkipos . In the official Press Release of the Commission, Commission Chair Felice Gaer stated: ...Read Full Text >

Archbishop Demetrios of America Offers Invocation at Republican National Convention

September 5, 2008
Archbishop Demetrios of America, Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in America, offered the Invocation at the Republican National Convention yesterday afternoon, September 4, 2008, the last day of the convention during which the Republican nominee for President gave his acceptance speech. Archbishop Demetrios had also offered an invocation at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado last week. ...Read Full Text >

THE FEAST OF THE UNIVERSAL EXALTATION OF THE PRECIOUS AND LIFE-GIVING CROSS

The Feast of the Universal Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross is celebrated each year on Sept. 14. The Feast commemorates the finding of the True Cross of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ by Saint Helen, the mother of the Emperor Constantine.
Background
In the twentieth year of his reign (326), the Emperor Constantine sent his mother Saint Helen to Jerusalem to venerate the holy places and to find the site of the Holy Sepulchre and of the Cross. Relying upon the oral tradition of the faithful, Saint Helen found the precious Cross together with the crosses of the two thieves crucified with our Lord. However, Helen had no way of determining which was the Cross of Christ.
With the healing of a dying woman who touched one of the crosses, Patriarch Macarius of Jerusalem identified the True Cross of Christ. Saint Helen and her court venerated the Precious and Life-Giving Cross ...Read Full Text >

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