We are glad you have found our online home! We would love to see you in person so please visit us at any of the service times listed to the right. Holy Trinity is a parish of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese in America serving the Lynchburg, Virginia region. If you visit us in person for the first time and our parking lot is crowded, parking is available on the street (across from the church) and next door at rear of New Vistas School. Just drive through the lot and take a left on the street behind us.
Sunday, November 17
Twentieth Sunday after Trinity / St. Gregory the Wonder-worker
Matins Lessons: Ecclesiastes 9:4-10 / Ephesians 6:1-9
Collect of the Day:
O almighty and most merciful God, of thy bountiful goodness keep us, we beseech thee, from all things that may hurt us: that we, being ready both in body and soul; may cheerfully accomplish those things that thou wouldest have done. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.
The Epistle Ephesians 5:15-21
BRETHREN: See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
The Holy Gospel Matthew 22:1-14
AT that time, Jesus spake unto the chief priests and Pharisees by parables, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage. But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise: And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them. But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city. Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests. And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few are chosen.