a community for all - Panagia Pantovasilissa Greek Orthodox Church

THE MONTHLY BULLETIN OF
PANAGIA PANTOVASILISSA
HOLY MOTHER QUEEN OF ALL
GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH
A COMMUNITY FOR ALL
3001 Tates Creek Road
Lexington, KY, 40502; phone: 859-266-1921
Website: www.goclex.org
Parish Priest: Fr. Cosmin Sicoe
Phone: 859-469-1596
Email: [email protected]
July 2016
We are making progress towards the completion of the church. Since the builders started
working on May 10th, they insulated the roof of the church, they framed the dome, the area
underneath the dome, the sidewalls of the church and they started working on the frames of the
barrel ceilings. Please keep this project in your prayers!
The children of the three Orthodox Churches of
the Lexington area got together to learn about God
and to establish friendships during the Vacation
Church School that took place from June 20th to
the 24th at St. Athanasius Orthodox Church in
Nicholasville. Many, many thanks to the organizers
and the hosting parish!
As you could see in this edition of the
bulletin, our Church Family Life Committee
(chaired by Joel Scott) is organizing a pilgrimage to
the Holy Cross Monastery in Wayne, WV. The
pilgrimage is scheduled for Saturday, July 23rd.
But why a pilgrimage?
Because of the same reason we are doing
everything we are doing in our relationship with
God: we offer ourselves to Him in order to become
one with Him and to find His peace and His joy.
Dealing with the daily brokenness of the
world, being pressured by the different
requirements of life, we lose our interior peace and
unity. This is why we are called to stop from time to
time, to retreat and to connect ourselves with the
One who brought everything into the loving
communion of God. After reconnecting ourselves,
we will have again the energy needed for dealing
with the realities of life.
The Lord Himself went “up the mountain”
many times to pray and reconnect Himself so that
He could come down the mountain and heal the
brokenness of the world. St. Luke noted in His
gospel that the Lord “often withdrew into the
wilderness and prayed.” (Luke 5:16)
The early monks and nuns also sought
communion with God in the wilderness since the
beginning of Christianity and this is how the first
monastic communities occurred and developed. The
married Christians, who could not completely
retreat in the wilderness and dedicate themselves to
prayer, would go from time to time to find the peace
and the connection with God offered by the
monasteries.
And this is what we will try to do on July
23rd. We will go to the Holy Cross Monastery in the
wilderness of the Appalachian Mountains of West
Virginia where more than two dozen monks are
offering themselves to God in order to become more
and more like Him and we will offer ourselves to
God in order to become one with Him and to
reconnect ourselves.
If you want to be part of the pilgrimage,
please contact Joel Scott at 859-229-6765 or
[email protected].
Fr. Cosmin Sicoe
Ken
Kiriacopoulos
– Parish
Council
Member
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No, I haven’t lived
in Kentucky all my
life. I’m the man on
the parish council who
speaks Bostonese! May father was Jim
Kiriacopoulos, born in Karitena, Greece and was a
Greek immigrant to Boston, MA where he worked
in his own business as a cobbler repairing and
making new shoes. He married my mother Bessie
Geanakakis (a first generation Greek-American) in
Ipswich, MA. To this union were born three girls
and two boys. Sadly, my father died when I was
fifteen years old. My mother lived until she was
ninety-eight years of age.
I attended Boston English High School, the
oldest public high school in the United States. I
studied in the technical college course consisting of
math and science. I was selected captain of the
football team, and was selected to all city, all
conference, and all state. A member of the all
decade, all century high school hall of fame teams. I
received a scholastic football scholarship to Boston
College where I received a Bachelor of Science
degree in business. Upon graduation, I was invited
for a tryout with the professional football team The
Cleveland Browns.
After graduation from Boston College in
1964, I joined the United States Marine Corps.
After Officer Candidate School, I was
commissioned a second lieutenant. I then attended
basic school for six months.
The following is a list of my duty stations
and assignments:
PLT CMDR of combat engineer platoon (Vietnam)
1966-67
CAPT OIC Schools Detachment 29 Palms CA 1967
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Student advanced engineer school Fort Belvoir
Army Base, VA 1968
CO combat engineer company second tour,
Vietnam 1968
CO engineer support company, Camp Shaub,
Okinowa
Assistant inspector instructor fourth shore party
battalion, Seattle, WA training reserves 1970
Wing engineer marine corps base, Kaneohe, HA
1973
OPS officer/XO 7th engineer support battalion,
Camp Pendleton, CA 1974
OPS officer/XO wing engineer squadron-17
Iwakuni, Japan 1976
O head engineer section (LTCOL) headquarters,
marine corps, Washington, DC 1979
Second service support group, group engineer 1982
Commanding officer, 8th engineer support battalion,
1983
Head, facilities management department, Marine
Corps Base, Camp Lejeune, NC 1985
Retired, August 30th, 1989. Moved to Lexington,
KY in July 1992
Kate and I married on June 20th, 1981 at St.
Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Falls Church,
VA. Kate was a beautiful bride as she walked down
the aisle in church. She is now a retired Navy nurse
commander.
Military awards: Bronze Star Medal with
Combat V, Purple Heart Medal, Meritorious Service
Medal with Gold Star, Navy Commendation Medal
with Combat V, Combat Action Ribbon,
Presidential Unit Citation Ribbon, Meritorious Unit
Ribbon, National Defense Medal, Vietnam
Campaign Medal with Silver Star, Vietnamese
Cross of Gallantry Medal with Palm, Personal
Award and Vietnam Cross of Gallantry Ribbon and
Vietnam Service Medal.
In 1983 we adopted our only child, Katie,
who was two days old when we brought her home.
We now proudly have four grandchildren who live
in Lexington.
We have been happily married for 35 years
and have lived in Lexington, KY for 23 years.
Ken Kiriacopoulos
Elizabeth
Smith –
Parish
Council
Member
Greetings
brothers and sisters
in Christ! For those
who don't know me,
my name is
Elizabeth Smith.
Originally I am from Charleston, West Virginia, the
granddaughter of Orthodox immigrants from Syria
and Lebanon.
My husband, Tom, and I met while we were
students at U.K. and we recently celebrated our
32nd wedding anniversary. God has blessed us with
3 wonderful daughters who are all out of college
and live away from Lexington. I have been a retired
pharmacist since 1999 and as a retiree I have
hobbies that keep me busy. Cooking is a great
passion as well as daily walking for exercise and
therapy. I am both flattered and humbled that I was
chosen to serve on the parish council as adult
education chair. If you don't know me, stop me in
church and introduce yourself-I'd love to get to
know you.
Elizabeth Smith
Worship and Church
Events Schedule
Sunday, July 3rd
9:00 am – Matins
10:00 am – Holy Liturgy: Epistle: Romans 2:10-16;
Gospel: Matthew 4:18-23
Agape
Sunday, July 3rd – Friday, July 8th – Archdiocese
Clergy-Laity Conference in Nashville, TN
Sunday, July 10th
9:00 am – Matins
10:00 am – Holy Liturgy: Epistle: Romans 5:1-10;
Gospel: Matthew 6:22-33
Memorial Service and Lunch – Eliopoulos Family
Sunday, July 17th
9:00 am – Matins
10:00 am – Holy Liturgy: Epistle: Titus 3:8-15;
Gospel: Matthew 5:14-19
Agape – July Birthday Cake
Monday and Tuesday, July 11 & 12
9:00 am – 5:00 pm – Children’s Day Out with
Father
Saturday, July 23rd - Church Family Life Event
Trip to Holy Cross Monastery, Wayne, WV
Wednesday, July 13th
9:00 am – 12:00 pm – Office Hours
7:00 pm – Parish Council Meeting
Thursday, July 14th
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Office Hours
Saturday, July 16th – Church Family Life Event
6:00 pm - Baseball Game: Lexington Legends vs.
Ashville Tourists
at Whitaker Bank Ball Park
Sunday, July 24th
9:00 am – Matins
10:00 am – Holy Liturgy: Epistle: Romans 10:1-10;
Gospel: Matthew 8:28-34; 9:1
Agape
Sunday, July 24th – Saturday, July 30th
Nicholas Summer Camp, TN
- St.
Sunday, July 31st
9:00 am – Matins
10:00 am – Holy Liturgy: Epistle: Romans 12:6-14;
Gospel: Matthew 9:1-8
Agape
Our church would like to hire a part time bookkeeper and office helper. If you know somebody who has these
skills, is not a member of our church and would be interested in this position, please let Fr. Cosmin know.
Thank you very much!
Please consider giving the food for one of our Sunday Agape. In order to keep this beautiful tradition going, all
of us will have to support it. Please contact Rita Watts or Pam Cox for more details and for scheduling your
family for providing one Sunday’s agape.
Income
Expenses
May
$ 16,678
$ 14,988
January – May
$ 74,673
$ 69,723
Overall Total
$ 1,690
$ 4,950
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