Events Throughout Our Church Year

Throughout the year, we have a number of special events that highlight the loving fellowship of our Church Family, and that help us grow as the Body of Christ.

JANUARY:

  • Fr. Luke will go into the homes of almost all the parishioners (more than 150 homes) and bless them with the Holy waters of Epiphany.

  • We have our Vasilopita Luncheon to bring in the blessing of the New Year

FEBRUARY

  • Our Godparents/Grandparents Sunday Luncheon with a Special Program for the kids

MARCH

  • Our Great Lenten Journey typically begins

  • Throughout Lent we have Wednesday Night Pre-Sanctified Liturgies followed by delicious Lenten pot-luck dinners

  • Our Lenten Spring Retreat with a special guest speaker

APRIL(typically Pascha falls in this month)

  • Lazarus Saturday Pancake Breakfast for our Youth along with Making of the Palm Crosses for Palm Sunday

  • Palm Sunday Community Fish Dinner

  • Easter Egg Hunt

  • Pascha Lamb Luncheon

MAY

  • Feastday Vespers and Dinner for Sts. Constantine and Helen

  • Annual Bible Bowl for our Youth

JUNE

  • Missions Sunday with an International Luncheon

JULY

  • Mission/Service Project with Project Mexico or Habitat for Humanity

  • Metropolis of Boston summer camp

AUGUST

  • Vacation Church Camp

  • Camping at the Cape with our Church Family

SEPTEMBER

  • Annual Greek Festival (1st weekend after Labor Day)

  • Start up of Sunday School

DECEMBER

  • St. Nicholas Celebration

  • Christmas Pageant

  • New Year's Eve Party

Saints, Feasts, and Readings for 8/17/2017

11th Thursday after Pentecost

St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 4:1-12

Matthew 24:13-28

Myron the Martyr of Cyzicus; Straton, Philip, Eutychian, & Cyprian the Martyrs of Nicomedea; Afterfeast of the Dormition of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary; Demetrios the New, Righteous-Martyr of Samaria; Eutychios, Eutychianos and Kassiani the siblings; Paul, Juliana, and those martyred with them (the executioners)

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Recent Sermons
July 30, 2017 -
Today’s heretical Christianity is a comfortable, easy Christianity. Go to church, follow some commandments, wear a cross and have a few icons, maybe even go to Project Mexico once or twice, but DON”T ALLOW CHRIST TO CHANGE OUR LIVES. Too many follow the wide and easy path, which leads to destruction, and ignore the narrow and difficult path which Christ tells us leads into the kingdom of heaven. Radical Christianity is not easy, but it is the Christianity of the saints.
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July 17, 2017 -
This idea of God’s superheroes, the saints, are what I want to focus on today. I’m going to use, however, the beautiful new 10-foot icon we just hung on the wall of our Church
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