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METROPOLIS COMING EVENTS
 Sunday, October 12th Fanari Camp Reunion Dance at
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Holy Apostles Church in Westchester @ 7:30p.m.
Wednesday, October 22nd Great Vespers at St. Iakovos
Church in Valparaiso, IN @ 7p.m.
Thursday, October 23rd Hierarchical Divine Liturgy of
St. Iakovos at the Annunciation Cathedral in Chicago @
10a.m.
Thursday, October 23rd Feast Day Celebration Dinner of
Metropolitan IAKOVOS at the Cotillion Banquets in
Palatine @ 6p.m. Proceeds to benefit the St. Iakovos
Retreat Center and Ministries of the Clergy Syndesmos.
Saturday, October 25th Great Vespers at St. Demetrios
Church in Libertyville, Chicago, Elmhurst, and
Hammond, IN @ 7p.m.
Friday, October 31st Great Vespers in Holy Anargyroi
Chapel at St. Demetrios Church in Elmhurst @ 7 pm.
Friday, November 7th Great Vespers at St. Haralambos
Church in Niles @ 7p.m.
Saturday, November 8th Great Vespers at St. Nectarios
Church in Palatine @ 7p.m.
Wednesday, November 12th Great Vespers at St.
John Chrysostom Monastery in Kenosha, WI.
Monday, November 24th Great Vespers in St. Catherine
Chapel at Assumption Church in Chicago @ 7 p.m.
Saturday, November 29th Great Vespers at St. Andrew
Church in Chicago, 7 p.m.
Friday, December 5th Great Vespers at St. Nicholas
Church in Chicago and Oak Lawn @ 7 p.m.
Thursday, December 11th Great Vespers at St. Spyridon
Church in Palos Heights @ 7 p.m.
Sunday, December 14th Metropolis Christmas Open
House.
Tuesday, December 16th Great Vespers at St. Dionysios
Chapel at Holy Trinity Church in Chicago @ 7 p.m.
Wednesday, December 31st Great Vespers at St. Basil
Church in Chicago @ 7 p.m.
Sunday, January 11th Metropolis Vasilopita Celebration
at St. Demetrios in Elmhurst.
Saturday, January 24th Hellenic Letters Πανσχολική
Εορτή at SS. Peter & Paul Church in Glenview.
Sunday, January 25th Hellenic Letters Luncheon at
Chateau Ritz Banquet Hall in Niles.
The Greek Orthodox Church of St. Demetrios
893 N. Church Road, Elmhurst, IL 60126
Office-630-834-7010
Visit www.saintdemetrioselmhurst.org
ORTHODOX AWARENESS
Holy Neomartyr Chryse as a Model for Our Lives
Orthodox Christian Synergy Symposium
“Operation: Thy Kingdom Come…”
Speaker: His Grace Bishop ANTHONY,
Holy Resurrection
Serbian Orthodox Cathedral in Chicago
Saturday, October 18th
www.chicagosynergy.org
In the pages of the New Martyrology authored by St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite,
we are presented with numerous Neomartyrs. Among them a prominent position
is given to a young daughter from the area of central Macedonia, whose name
was Chryse. She was truly Golden (Chryse) in both her name and deeds. She
was tested as “gold in a furnace” and found to be with faith that was 24-carat
gold. Bathed in her martyric blood, she was cleansed and brightened to be
accepted by the Giver of heavenly goods as a “whole burnt offering”.
Orthodox Christian Clergy Association
Of Greater Chicago
Christmas Gift/Toy Drive—November
Sanctity of Life Prayer Service
January 2015 TBA
Sunday of Orthodoxy Vespers
March 1, 2015 TBA
Pan-Orthodox Akathist Hymn
March 31, 2015 TBA
Compassionate Friends Outreach
& Evangelism Ministry
“Grace Café”
On Monday October 13, our church will host
Grace Café for the first time.
Grace Café started in 2007 as an ecumenical
mission project designed to provide a free hot
meal to anyone in the community who is
hungry, feeling the pressure of the economy,
facing a tight budget or is lonely and eager to
share a meal with other folks. We have joined
eleven other Elmhurst churches that will provide meals on every 2nd and 4th Monday of
each month through May 11, 2015. Serving
hours are 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. No reservations
are needed and meals are open to anyone who
would enjoy them. All meals are free of charge.
If you, or someone you know, are experiencing
financial difficulties, are hungry, homeless, or
lonely, please join us on October 13. Also
check the Compassionate Friends Outreach &
Evangelism Ministry bulletin board for the
Grace Café 2014-2015 schedule.
May God bless this mission project and we
pray that our first time of hosting Grace Café is
a huge success!
Her exterior life was simple, and she was also simple in her behavior and ways.
She was a villager of little education, but wise according to God with a living
faith, inner purity and amazing stability. Born to poor parents, they were honorable strugglers of life, and she was a hard worker together with her three sisters.
Chryse was very beautiful on the outside which at that time was an unfortunate thing for the enslaved
Greeks, because beautiful girls were captured by the Agas for their harems or they were pressured to
change their faith to Islam to marry them. The latter happened to St. Chryse.
While gathering firewood on the mountain with her fellow villagers, a Turkish soldier was dazzled by
her beauty. He captured her and then tried in every way to convince her to change her faith and marry
him. He forced her parents and sisters to visit her and persuade her. However, St. Chryse responded: “I
have my Lord Jesus Christ as my father, the Lady Theotokos as my mother, and the Saints of the Church
as my brothers and sisters”, then she sent them away. Finally, on Oct. 13, 1795, her body was cut into
pieces with a knife and in this way the most worthy one received the crown of martyrdom from the
Bridegroom of Christ.
St. Nikodemos comments on and praises St. Chryse on the following:
1. She refused to marry someone of another faith when he asked of her to deny her faith and traditions
with which she was nurtured and was raised. She was not enticed with riches and indulgence, nor
daunted by intimidation, threats and inhumane torture. She was a young girl with a future and
dreams in life. When forced to betray any honor she had, her holy faith, the living tradition, even
her very life, she preferred martyrdom. It was impossible for her to live as if dead, which is why she
died that she may live. This is because life is not a biological existence, but communion with the
Creator and the Source of life, the Triune God. Whoever has come to know God within the limits of
their personal life and tasted life-creating divine Grace, counts death as nothing.
2. The response she gave to her parents and siblings match the words of Christ when He spoke of His
mother and siblings, saying: “My friends and siblings are those who do the will of My heavenly
Father.” St. Nikodemos says, “Bravo to her brave great soul! Bravo to her wise intellect, which is
worthy of heavenly praise! In truth, brethren, what the divine David said was fulfilled in this Saint:
“Father and mother have forsaken me, but the Lord has received me” (Ps 26:10), and that which the
Lord said: “Think not that I came to bring peace on earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword:
to set a man against his father and a daughter against her mother, and ones enemies will be found in
their own household” (Matt 10:34).
The inner freedom, stability in faith, and selfless and valiant spirit of the Virgin-Martyr in the evil days
such as we are living in, in which hypocrisy, selfishness, fickleness and spiritual enslavement to the
dictatorship of the passions reigns, is for all of us a bright beacon and shining example of imitation.
(Mystagogy, The Weblog of John Sanidopoulos)
This week at
Saint Demetrios...
Sacraments This Week
Baptisms
“All who have been baptized into Christ, Have put on
Christ. Alleluia.”
We welcome into the Greek Orthodox Faith,
Sunday, October 12th
Nikolas & Vasiliki
Son & Daughter of George & Angie Kapotas
Godparents—
Vasiliki-Presbytera Dimitra & Anastasia Georganas
Nikolas-Peter & Penny Vitogiannis
Sunday, October 12th
Christos
Son of George & Staci Costopoulos
Godparents-Nikki & Tony Circolone
Saturday, October 18th
Josephine
Daughter of Chris & Rosemary Bozonelos
Godparents-Pete & Dina Nasios
Wedding
We congratulate the following who have joined their
lives together, and we pray that God grant them
many years Of Christian happiness and love!
Saturday, October 18th
Bride— Luisa Doulas
Groom— John Spilios
Sponsors-John & Maria Dulles
2014 PARISH REGISTRY
(As of October 10th)
Weddings 19
Baptisms 47
Chrismations 1
Funerals 20
Clergy Hospital Visitations 203
Clergy Shut-In Visitations 64
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Monday, October 13
Compassionate Friends: Grace Café, 12p.m.-8p.m.
(Serving Elmhurst Residents Home Cooked Meals)
Men’s Basketball, 8p.m.
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Tuesday, October 14th
Pythagoras Children’s Academy, 8:40a.m.-3p.m.
Philoptochos Feed the Hungry, 9a.m.-3p.m.
(Annunciation Cathedral in Chicago)
Μελέτη της Αγίας Γραφής 10π.μ.-12μ.μ.
Elmhurst College OCF, 12:15p.m.-1:15p.m.
7th & 8th Grade Boys Basketball, 6p.m.-8p.m.
Parish Council Meeting, 6:30p.m.
Young Adult Basketball, 8p.m.
Wednesday, October 15th
Philoptochos Baking Day, 8a.m.-3p.m.
Pythagoras Children’s Academy, 8:40a.m.-3p.m.
PPO Meeting, 9a.m.-10:15a.m.
Pythagoras Greek School (PGS), 4:30p.m.-6:30p.m.
Dionysos Dance Troupe, 7:30p.m. - 10p.m.
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Thursday, October 16th
Philoptochos Baking Day, 8a.m.-3p.m.
Pythagoras Children’s Academy, 8:40a.m.-3p.m.
Girls’ Basketball, 5p.m.-7p.m.
High School Boys Basketball, 7p.m.-9:30p.m.
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Friday, October 17th
Pythagoras Children’s Academy, 8:40a.m.-3p.m.
JOY Gathering, 5:30p.m.-6:45p.m.
(K, 1st, 2nd Grades)
The WAY Gathering, 5:30p.m.-6:45p.m.
(3rd, 4th, 5th Grades)
Jr. GOYA Gathering, 7p.m.-8:30p.m.
(6th, 7th, 8th Grades)
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Saturday, October 18th
Pythagoras Saturday Greek School (PSGS), 9a.m.-1p.m.
Compassionate Friends: Meals on Wheels, 10a.m.-2p.m.
Dionysos Jr. Dance Troupe, 1:15p.m.-2:15p.m.
Dionysos Inter. Dance Troupe, 2:30p.m.-3:30p.m.
Sr. GOYA & All Youth Invited to “Light the Night”
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Walk @ Berens Park,
Elmhurst, 4:30p.m.
From the Mouths of Babes: While walking along the sidewalk in fr ont of his chur ch, a minister hear d the intoning of a prayer that nearly made his collar wilt. Apparently, his 5-year-old son and his playmates had found a
dead robin. Feeling that proper burial should be performed, they had secured a small box and cotton batting, then
dug a hole and made ready for the burial. The minister’s son was chosen to say the appropriate prayers and with sonorous dignity intoned his version of what he thought his father always said: ‘Glory be unto the Faaather, and unto
the Sonnn, and into the hole hegoooes.’
PARISH DATES TO REMEMBER
“The rich man is not one who has much,
but one who gives much.
For what he gives away remains his forever.”
St. John Chrysostom
Stewards To date 520 (As of October 10th)
We need an AVERAGE yearly commitment of $700 from every one of
our 567 Stewards to meet our $370,000 goal for 2014. Please remember your commitment can be paid in weekly or monthly installments.
Χρειαζόμαστε κατά μέσο όρο μια ετήσια δέσμευση των $700
από κάθε ένα από τους 567 ενορίτες μας για να μαζέψουμε
τα $370,000 δολάρια που είναι ο στόχος μας για το 2014.
Μην ξεχνάτε ότι η δέσμευσή σας μπορεί να καταβληθεί σε
εβδομαδιαίες ή μηνιαίες δόσεις.
St. Demetrios Youth Ministries
Youth Ministry Calendars and registration forms can be
found in the vestibule by the south doors (by the Church
Office). If you have not yet returned a Youth Ministry
Registration Form, please do so at your earliest convenience
so we can have your up-to-date information.
Friday, October 17th
JOY and THE WAY, 5:30p.m.-6:45p.m.
Jr. GOYA,7p.m.-8:30p.m. (Fireside chat-please
dress for the weather that night)
Saturday, October 18th - “Light the Night” Leukemia &
Lymphoma Society Walk @ Berens Park, Elmhurst.
Event begins at 4:30p.m. with walk kicking off at
6p.m. All youth and their families are invited to
join “Team Evan” and walk to support this worth
while cause. Please speak with Mr. Alex for more
information or join “Team Evan” at
pages.lightthenight.org/il/WSuburbn14/TeamEvan.
Sunday, October 19th- Altar Boy Meeting following Divine
Liturgy. All Altar Boys are kindly asked to attend this short
meeting.
Tuesday, October 21st-Sr. GOYA Outing to Dave & Busters, Addison @ 6:30p.m. (More details to come)
SAVE THE DATE! Sunday, November 9th is Youth Sunday, including our pancake breakfast.
For families with children in our Youth Ministries-we
encourage you to join the St. Demetrios Youth Ministries
Facebook Group. You can request to join at:
facebook.com/groups/SDEyouth
YOUNG ADULT MINISTRIES
Elmhurst College OCF—Every Tuesday @ 12:15p.m. in
the “Roost” (EC Grille) or outside patio (weather permitting).
Please spread the word.
If you have any questions please contact
Mr. Alex Magdalinos (alexmagdalinos@gmail.com).
Sunday, October 19th
ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΑ 2014
Pythagoras School OXI Day Program
Sunday, October 19th
ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΑ 2014
Anniversary Celebration in honor of Fr. Panagiotis
40 years at St. Demetrios
Saturday, October 25th
ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΑ 2014
Μέγας Εσπερινός—Great Vespers
Sunday, October 26th
ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΑ 2014
Parish Feast Day
Complimentary Luncheon Following Divine Liturgy
Saturday, November 1st
ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΑ 2014
Retreat with Mother Gabriella
Gerontissa of the Dormition Orthodox Monastery
Sunday, November 9th
Youth Sunday/Pancake Breakfast
Parish Fall General Assembly/Γενική Συνέλευση
Saturday, November 15th
Family Christmas Retreat
Wednesday, November 26th
Smoker Fundraiser
Saturday, January 3rd
Coffee with Sister Vassa Live!
Sunday, January 18th
Godparent / Godchild Sunday
Saturday, January 31st
PCA GALA 2015
Friday, February 6th
Philoptochos Fashion Show
Saturday, February 7th
PTO APOKREATIKO Dinner Dance
Saturday, May 9th
PPO Annual Dinner Dance
PYTHAGORAS CHILDREN’S
ACADEMY
The Pythagoras Children’s Academy
is looking for substitute teachers
to add to the substitute list.
If you are, or know of a certified teacher who is
interested in being a substitute teacher,
please email Vicky Frigelis at