PARISH NEWS & EVENTS  

St. Sophia Scholarships for the 2010-2011 year will be presented today to those students selected to receive awards for their full-time college studies. Congratulations and best wishes for a successful academic year.

Seniors, mark your calendars. Chef James has scheduled a senior luncheon for this Thursday, August 26th. Call the office to make your reservations.

Registration for Greek School will begin today.

There is a need for Sunday School teachers and assistant teachers for the coming year. See Lainie Christou or Father Pat.

Graceland Cemetery will be raising prices on SS-1 and SS-2 plots from $850 to $1,000 each. However, you may still purchase two grave plots for your family until October 1, 2010 at the current price of $850. Call the cemetery at 463-8408.

The Bingo café refreshment team is still in need of volunteers to work one night a month. Please see Cookie Patelos or call the church office.

Please remember the food basket by the church office is routinely picked up by Food Pantries for the Capital District which then distributes the food to various locations to serve those in need.

St. George Church in Schenectady is in need of volunteers for their September Greek Festival which will be held September 10, 11, 12. Please call Elaine Euripidou at 456-9000. Even a few hours will be appreciated.

A notice from St. Sophia and Holy Wisdom Senior Housing. HUD has raised the income eligibility for one year. The eligibility for a single person occupancy is $42,300; $48,350 for a couple. The housing is open to the community-at-large. Please inform friends and family.

Next Sunday there will be a 40-day memorial for the late Angeline Thomas and a 40-day memorial for the late George Lambros.

Epistle Reading

The Reading is from St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 16:13-24

BRETHREN, be watchful, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love. Now, brethren, you know that the household of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints; I urge you to be subject to such men and to every fellow worker and laborer. I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicos, because they have made up for your absence; for they refreshed my spirit as well as yours. Give recognition to such men. The churches of Asia send greetings. Aquila and Prisca, together with the church in their house, send you hearty greetings in the Lord. All the brethren send greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss. I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. If any one has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord, come! The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you. My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

Gospel Reading

13th Sunday of Matthew

The Reading is from Matthew 21:33-42

The Lord said this parable, "There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into another country. When the season of fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants, to get his fruit; and the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. Again he sent other servants, more than the first; and they did the same to them. Afterward he sent his son to them, saying 'They will respect my son.' But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, 'This is the heir; come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.' And they took him and cast him out of the vineyard and killed him. When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?" They said to him, "He will put those wretches to a miserable death, and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons." Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures: 'The very stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner; this was the Lord's doing, and it was marvelous in our eyes?'"