Services at St. Andrew

Sunday 2/18

Sunday of the Canaanite Orthros @8:15 & Divine Liturgy SJC @9:30am

Godparent's Sunday

Memorial Service

A One Year Memorial Service will be prayed for + Demetri Δημητρίου James Pittas, beloved father of: Despina Pittas-Szelag (Adam J Szelag), Vicki Pittas Garces (Cesar A. Garces) grandfather of; Luka Garces, Mateo Garces, Elli Szelag, Eva Szelag, ex-husband and dear friend of Elli Pittas, nephew of (the late Takis) and Soultana Seretis. Friends and relatives are invited to join the family for refreshments downstairs in honor of James’ blessed memory. May his memory be eternal.

Trisagion service will be held on for the repose of the soul of +Panagiotis Mastrogiannakos, beloved husband of Dimitra, father of Tim (Patti) and Eugenia Mastrogiannakos ,grandfather of Olivia and Sophia; brother of Nikos, Vasili Margaret and Eleftheria. May his memory be eternal.

Saturday 2/24

Wedding: On Saturday at 2pm Christopher Ibrahm and Ammanda Yaccarino of Morrristown, NJ will be joined in Holy Matrimony according to the rites of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Sunday 2/25

Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee: Triodion Begins Today +Orthros @8:15 & Divine Liturgy SJC @9:30am

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Announcements

Sunday School CLASSES after Holy Communion

COFFEE HOUR: hosted Daughers of Penelope today

HOSTS ON: 2/25 GOYA, 3/3 Philoptochos, 03/10 PTA , 3/17 DOP , 3/24 GOYA, 3/31 Bakaliko, 4/7 Philoptochos, 4/14 PTA , 4/21 DOP, 4/28 GOYA…

Bagels are donated by Jimmy Psaras of ALFA BAGELS on Route 10 in Randolph, NJ
Coffee is donated by Aristotle Leontopoulos of Coffee Associates in Edgewater, NJ

Godparent’s Sunday

Please join us as we celebrate and pray for this special relationship and ask for God’s blessing for godparents and godchildren everywhere. Godparents, Godchildren, Family and Friends will Worship God Together. Following the Services please join us in the social hall for fellowship and refreshments.

Festival 2024 Planning Meeting Sunday 2/18 after Services

Please join us for a Festival Meeting in Room102. Will review the planning activities and assign roles and responsibilities. All are welcome to attend. Rm 102

Stewardship 2024 Update 2-6-2024
We would like to thank everyone who brought in and or mailed their 2024 Stewardship Pledge. We have received 105 totaling a commitment of $153,046 for the coming year. If you were not able to bring your card to church, we ask you to prayerfully consider your blessings as you make your 2024 commitment to Saint Andrew. We are moving toward becoming a percentage giving community. Find out more about our "Rounding Up" approach to Stewardship giving at https://standrewgonj.org/stewardship/#round-up

House Blessings AGIASMO
Fr. John has begun the House Blessings in our community. The Saint Andrew Parishioners will be notified of his pending visit. Please look for an “Email” or “Post Card” indicating date and time.

If you do not receive notification when your town is listed in the weekly bulletin, please contact the office ASAP to make arrangements for «Agiasmo» in your home.

If you are not able to receive Fr John on this day, contact the church office 973-584-0388 to reschedule for «Agiasmo» for your home.

Please try to accommodate this date as rescheduling of missed appointments are difficult and may be after Pascha

House Blessings AGIASMO

Tuesday 2/20 Rockaway (1st of 2)

Thursday 2/22 Rockaway (2nd of 2)

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Fr. John's Message

LORD'S VOICE

HAVE MERCY ON ME, LORD, SON OF DAVID!

Today's miracle of the gospel passage, shows a "hard" Christ with a behavior, the like of which we have never seen before in the New Testament. On the contrary, the behavior of the Canaanite mother is impressive. The Canaanite woman, that is, an idolater, approaches Christ and loudly cries out to Him to heal her daughter from the demon that she has. In this particular passage, no scream is heard from the possessed girl, but rather, the mother’s begging cry.

Knowledge through love

Christ does not pay attention to her, and treats her uncompassionately, with the aim of testing her faith. The idolatrous woman, as we heard in the Gospel dialogue, shows humility and sincerity and she courageously declares her faith in Christ’s healing power. The result was, for what she asked with such strong faith, to happen.

However, let's not focus on Christ's behavior or the faith of the Canaanite woman, but on the Lord’s effort to avoid showing His power. It is hidden in the Old Testament, in Moses and in Isaiah. It is also hidden in the New Testament, as the evangelists John and Matthew tell us. It is hidden from the Pharisees and the priests of the temple and the scribes of Israel. But where does it manifest itself? The evangelist John gives us the answer. We can know Christ only through our fellow human beings. In other words, God transfers the possibility of knowing Him, in love, as the only feeling that has the ability to understand Him.

Meeting with Christ

There is a great difference between knowing God and loving Him. Whoever loves Him, will know Him. Whoever does not love Him, will never know Him, even if he wants to. God, therefore, hides Himself from everywhere, so that we can know Him within ourselves.

We may not meet Him in our big churches, in the majesty of nature, or the ballast of people. It is certainly there, but it is hidden. We cannot locate Him. The Canaanite woman shows us the place of meeting with Christ. It is in us when we are tested, when we cry, when we hurt, when we long. He waits, without answering, as Christ did today. He waits for us to seek Him and loudly call out His name to heal us with His presence.

And then Christ will shout: "Man, you have great faith. Let what you wish, be done to you." And what we want is to know Christ so that our life can gain meaning. The Canaanite woman shows us the way.

Ways of encountering Christ
First, our faith must remain unaffected and unshaken by the silence of God in the requests and supplications of our prayers. We remain and insist on our request, and when God judges, then He answers in time, and in the way that is the most beneficial for our soul.

Second, God is drawn by our humility and brokenness, not only before His power, but mainly before people. Sincere and constant humility. A modern wise saint said: "Humility is not trying to convince others that we are not something, but the effort to convince ourselves. And then we have the grace to see the world and people as God made them". Not as we made it end up. So, humility opens our spiritual eyes to meet Christ within ourselves.

Daily Calendar

Monday 2/19

@11am GOYA S & S Practices

@5-6pm GYM RENTAL

Tuesday 2/20

House Blessings in Rockaway (1^st of 2)

@4:30-9pm GYM RENTAL | @7pm GOYA S&S practice

Wednesday 2/21

@11am Knitting Crocheting & Pillow Ministries

@4:30-9pm GYM RENTAL

Thursday 2/22

House Blessings in Rockaway (2^nd of 2)

@ 4:30pm Hellenic Afternoon School All Grades

GREEK DANCE 1^st Session: Group 1 @ 6:30pm | Group 2 @7:15 pm | GOYA @8:00pm

@6:30pm GOYA Sports in GYM | @7pm GOYA Meeting

@7pm Bible Study also on Feb 29

Saturday 2/24

FAITH KITCHENPhiloptochos hosting

@2pm Yaccarino_Ibrahim Wedding

Sunday 2/25

Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee: Triodion Begins Today

+Orthros @8:15 & Divine Liturgy SJC @9:30am

Memorial Service +Politimi, Evangelia +Anneta, + Triantafyllos

@5pm Mardi Gras -PTA @ Meadowood Randolph NJ

Monday 2/26

House Blessings in Morristown (1st of 2)

@4:30-9pm GYM RENTAL

Tuesday 2/27

House Blessings in Morristown (2nd of 2) @4:30-9pm GYM RENTAL | @7pm GOYA S&S practice (2/20) @7pm Philoptochos Meeting

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Mardi Gras

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Stewardship

As we move toward becoming a percentage giving community, we are adopting a rounding up approach to giving... To learn more about what this means, click on https://standrewgonj.org/stewardship/#round-up

SEEKING SUNDAY USHERS

If you want to learn more or participate on the Usher team, please email [email protected]

Walking with CHRIST

First Seminarian Benefit Luncheon Saturday March 16 @11am St Luke GOC 35 N Malin Rd, Broomall, PA

Philoptochos

Scholarship Applications are due May 3rd 2024

Saturday of Souls

March 9, 16, 23

YAL

NORTHERN NJ YAL BEEF STEAK FUNDRAISER March 9 2024

REMBETIKI VRADIA

Saturday February 24TH

Camp Good Shepherd

June 23-2024

Prayer List

Prayer for a Sick Person:

Heavenly Father, physician of our souls and bodies, who have sent Your only-begotten Son and our Lord Jesus Christ to heal every sickness and infirmity, visit and heal (me) Your servant from all physical and spiritual ailments through the grace of Your Christ. Grant (me) patience in this sickness, strength of body and spirit, and recovery of health. Lord, You have taught us through Your word to pray for each other that we may be healed. I pray that You heal (me) as Your servant and grant (me) the gift of complete health. For You are the source of healing and to You I give glory, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen

Please keep these names in your prayers

Ioannis, Peter, Stanley Maria, Samuel, Peter, Vasilios, Evmorfia, Demetrios, Despina, Natalia, Lori, Klaus, Eleni, Demetrios, Roye, Elias, Eleana, Ellen, Andrew, Eleni, Denise, Eleni, Robert, Maria, Michael, Pamela, Angeliki, Theodoros, Constantinos, Andrew, Chari, Penelope, Evmorfia, Antonia, Kathleen, Michael, Jeffrey, Kleio, Maria, Irene, Mimika, Stacey, Bonnie, Melissa, Stanley, Anastasia, John, Barbara, Gladys, Nico, Spyridonas, Magdaleine, Eleni, Mary, Herbert, Paraskevi, George, James, Andrew, Andrew, Brandon, Michelle, Kevin, Vivian, Elaine, Anna, Vasilios, Maryanne, Joseph, Angeliki, Alexandra, Taxiarchis, Pres Spyridoula, Eleni, Stephanie, Theoseva, Costantinos, Eleni, Ioannis, Terry Ann, George, Elias, Eleni, Robert, John, Christina, Helen, Haroula Vasileke, John, Efrosini…

If you would like us to remember you or your loved one in our prayers, please contact the office. 973-584-0388 or send us an email to [email protected]

Names will be kept on this list for approximately three months. Please resubmit Names if needed. Fr. John will pray for the Names above during the PROSKOMIDI “Offering of gifts” during the first part of the Divine Liturgy when our priest prepares the mystical gifts of bread and wine. Please keep these names in your prayers as well.

Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

Fourth Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from Luke 24:1-12

On the first day of the week at early dawn, the women went to the tomb, taking spices, which they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel; and as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen. Remember how He told you, while He was still in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise." And they remembered His words and returning from the tomb they told all this to the eleven and to all the rest. Now it was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them who told this to the Apostles; but these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them. But Peter rose and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; and he went home wondering at what had happened.

Fourth Orthros Gospel
Κατὰ Λουκᾶν 24:1-12

Τῇ μιᾷ τῶν Σαββάτων, ὄρθρου βαθέος ἦλθον ἐπὶ τὸ μνῆμα, φέρουσαι ἃ ἡτοίμασαν ἀρώματα, καί τινες σὺν αὐταῖς. Εὗρον δὲ τὸν λίθον ἀποκεκυλισμένον ἀπὸ τοῦ μνημείου, καὶ εἰσελθοῦσαι οὐχ εὗρον τὸ σῶμα τοῦ Κυρίου Ἰησοῦ. Καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ διαπορεῖσθαι αὐτὰς περὶ τούτου, καὶ Ἰδού, δύο ἄνδρες ἐπέστησαν αὐταῖς ἐν ἐσθήσεσιν ἀστραπτούσαις· ἐμφόβων δὲ γενομένων αὐτῶν καὶ κλινουσῶν τὰ πρόσωπον εἰς τὴν γῆν, εἶπον πρὸς αὐτάς· Τί ζητεῖτε τὸν ζῶντα μετὰ τῶν νεκρῶν; οὐκ ἔστιν ᾧδε, ἀλλ' ἠγέρθη. Μνήσθητε ὡς ἐλάλησεν ὑμῖν, ἔτι ὢν ἐν τῇ Γαλιλαίᾳ, λέγων, ὅτι δεῖ τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου παραδοθῆναι εἰς χεῖρας ἀνθρώπων ἁμαρτωλῶν, καὶ σταυρωθῆναι, καὶ τῇ τρίτῃ ἡμέρᾳ ἀναστῆναι. Καὶ ἐμνήσθησαν τῶν ῥημάτων αὐτοῦ, καὶ ὑποστρέψασαι ἀπὸ τοῦ μνημείου, ἀπήγγειλαν ταῦτα πάντα τοῖς ἕνδεκα καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς λοιποῖς. Ἦσαν δὲ ἡ Μαγδαληνὴ Μαρία καὶ Ἰωάννα καὶ Μαρία Ἰακώβου, καὶ αἱ λοιπαὶ σὺν αὐταῖς, αἳ ἔλεγον πρὸς τοὺς ἀποστόλους ταῦτα. Καὶ ἐφάνησαν ἐνώπιον αὐτῶν ὡσεὶ λῆρος τὰ ῥήματα αὐτῶν, καὶ ἠπίστουν αὐταῖς, ὁ δὲ Πέτρος ἀναστὰς ἔδραμεν ἐπὶ τὸ μνημεῖον, καὶ παρακύψας βλέπει τὰ ὀθόνια κείμενα μόνα, καὶ ἀπῆλθε, πρὸς ἑαυτόν θαυμάζων τὸ γεγονός.

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Fourth Mode. Psalm 103.24,1.
O Lord, how manifold are your works. You have made all things in wisdom.
Verse: Bless the Lord, O my soul.

The reading is from St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 6:16-18; 7:1.

Brethren, you are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will live in them and move among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Therefore come out from them, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch nothing unclean; then I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty."

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, and make holiness perfect in the fear of God.

Προκείμενον. Fourth Mode. ΨΑΛΜΟΙ 103.24,1.
Ὡς ἐμεγαλύνθη τὰ ἔργα σου Κύριε, πάντα ἐν σοφίᾳ ἐποίησας.
Στίχ. Εὐλόγει ἡ ψυχή μου τὸν Κύριον.

τὸ Ἀνάγνωσμα Πρὸς Κορινθίους β' 6:16-18, 7:1.

Ἀδελφοί, ὑμεῖς ἐστε ναὸς Θεοῦ ζῶντος, καθὼς εἶπεν ὁ θεός ὅτι Ἐνοικήσω ἐν αὐτοῖς, καὶ ἐμπεριπατήσω· καὶ ἔσομαι αὐτῶν θεός, καὶ αὐτοὶ ἔσονταί μοι λαός. Διὸ, Ἐξέλθετε ἐκ μέσου αὐτῶν καὶ ἀφορίσθητε, λέγει κύριος, καὶ ἀκαθάρτου μὴ ἅπτεσθε· κἀγὼ εἰσδέξομαι ὑμᾶς, καὶ ἔσομαι ὑμῖν εἰς πατέρα, καὶ ὑμεῖς ἔσεσθέ μοι εἰς υἱοὺς καὶ θυγατέρας, λέγει κύριος παντοκράτωρ. Ταύτας οὖν ἔχοντες τὰς ἐπαγγελίας, ἀγαπητοί, καθαρίσωμεν ἑαυτοὺς ἀπὸ παντὸς μολυσμοῦ σαρκὸς καὶ πνεύματος, ἐπιτελοῦντες ἁγιωσύνην ἐν φόβῳ θεοῦ.

Gospel Reading

Sunday of the Canaanite
The Reading is from Matthew 15:21-28

At that time, Jesus went to the district of Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and cried, "Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely possessed by a demon." But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, "Send her away, for she is crying after us." He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." But she came and knelt before him, saying, "Lord, help me." And he answered, "It is not fair to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." She said, "Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table." Then Jesus answered her, "O woman, great is your faith! Be it done for you as you desire." And her daughter was healed instantly.

Sunday of the Canaanite
Κατὰ Ματθαῖον 15:21-28

Τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ, ἐξελθὼν ἐκεῖθεν ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς ἀνεχώρησεν εἰς τὰ μέρη Τύρου καὶ Σιδῶνος. καὶ ἰδοὺ γυνὴ Χαναναία ἀπὸ τῶν ὁρίων ἐκείνων ἐξελθοῦσα ἐκραύγαζεν αὐτῷ λέγουσα· ἐλέησόν με, Κύριε, υἱὲ Δαυΐδ· ἡ θυγάτηρ μου κακῶς δαιμονίζεται. ὁ δὲ οὐκ ἀπεκρίθη αὐτῇ λόγον. καὶ προσελθόντες οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ ἠρώτων αὐτὸν λέγοντες· ἀπόλυσον αὐτήν, ὅτι κράζει ὄπισθεν ἡμῶν. ὁ δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς εἶπεν· οὐκ ἀπεστάλην εἰ μὴ εἰς τὰ πρόβατα τὰ ἀπολωλότα οἴκου ᾿Ισραήλ. ἡ δὲ ἐλθοῦσα προσεκύνησεν αὐτῷ λέγουσα· Κύριε, βοήθει μοι. ὁ δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς εἶπεν· οὐκ ἔστι καλὸν λαβεῖν τὸν ἄρτον τῶν τέκνων καὶ βαλεῖν τοῖς κυναρίοις. ἡ δὲ εἶπε· ναί, Κύριε· καὶ γὰρ τὰ κυνάρια ἐσθίει ἀπὸ τῶν ψυχίων τῶν πιπτόντων ἀπὸ τῆς τραπέζης τῶν κυρίων αὐτῶν. τότε ἀποκριθεὶς ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς εἶπεν αὐτῇ· ὦ γύναι, μεγάλη σου ἡ πίστις! γενηθήτω σοι ὡς θέλεις. καὶ ἰάθη ἡ θυγάτηρ αὐτῆς ἀπὸ τῆς ὥρας ἐκείνης.

Saints and Feasts

February 18

Sunday of the Canaanite

February 18

Leo the Great, Pope of Rome

According to some, this Saint was born in Rome, but according to others in Tyrrenia (Tuscany), and was consecrated to the archiepiscopal throne of Rome in 440. In 448, when Saint Flavian, Archbishop of Constantinople, summoned Eutyches, an archimandrite in Constantinople, to give account for his teaching that there was only one nature in Christ after the Incarnation, Eutyches appealed to Saint Leo in Rome. After Saint Leo had carefully examined Eutyches's teachings, he wrote an epistle to Saint Flavian, setting forth the Orthodox teaching of the person of Christ, and His two natures, and also counseling Flavian that, should Eutyches sincerely repent of his error, he should be received back with all good will. At the Council held in Ephesus in 449, which was presided over by Dioscorus, Patriarch of Alexandria (and which Saint Leo, in a letter to the holy Empress Pulcheria in 451, was the first to call "The Robber Council"), Dioscorus, having military might behind him, did not allow Saint Leo's epistle to Flavian to be read, although repeatedly asked to do so; even before the Robber Council was held, Dioscorus had uncanonically received the unrepentant Eutyches back into communion. Because Saint Leo had many cares in Rome owing to the wars of Attila the Hun and other barbarians, in 451 he sent four delegates to the Fourth Ecumenical Council, where 630 Fathers gathered in Chalcedon during the reign of Marcian, to condemn the teachings of Eutyches and those who supported him. Saint Leo's epistle to Flavian was read at the Fourth Council, and was confirmed by the Holy Fathers as the Orthodox teaching on the incarnate person of our Lord; it is also called the "Tome of Leo." The Saint wrote many works in Latin; he reposed in 461. See also Saint Anatolius, July 3.

February 18

Agapetus the Confessor, Bishop of Sinai

Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Fourth Mode

Having learned the joyful proclamation of the Resurrection from the Angel, and having cast off the ancestral condemnation, the women disciples of the Lord spake to the Apostles exultantly: Death is despoiled and Christ God is risen, granting great mercy to the world.

Τὸ φαιδρὸν τῆς Ἀναστάσεως κήρυγμα, ἐκ τοῦ Ἀγγέλου μαθοῦσαι αἱ τοῦ Κυρίου Μαθήτριαι, καὶ τὴν προγονικὴν ἀπόφασιν ἀπορρίψασαι, τοῖς Ἀποστόλοις καυχώμεναι ἔλεγον· Ἐσκύλευται ὁ θάνατος, ἠγέρθη Χριστὸς ὁ Θεός, δωρούμενος τῷ κόσμῳ τὸ μέγα ἔλεος.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Second Mode

O Protection of Christians that cannot be put to shame, mediation unto the creator most constant: O despise not the voices of those who have sinned; but be quick, O good one, to come unto our aid, who in faith cry unto thee: Hasten to intercession and speed thou to make supplication, O thou who dost ever protect, O Theotokos, them that honor thee.

Προστασία τῶν Χριστιανῶν ἀκαταίσχυντε, μεσιτεία πρὸς τὸν Ποιητὴν ἀμετάθετε. Μὴ παρίδῃς ἁμαρτωλῶν δεήσεων φωνάς, ἀλλὰ πρόφθασον, ὡς ἀγαθή, εἰς τὴν βοήθειαν ἡμῶν, τῶν πιστῶς κραυγαζόντων σοι· Τάχυνον εἰς πρεσβείαν, καὶ σπεῦσον εἰς ἱκεσίαν, ἡ προστατεύουσα ἀεί, Θεοτόκε, τῶν τιμώντων σε.

Wisdom of the Fathers

She had a great perfection of faith. She had no uncertainty about His divine majesty. She had no small measure of the virtue of patience. Yet the pitying Physician of the pitiful disdained her petitions. He kept her waiting for answer in order to demonstrate to us the perseverence of this woman that we can always imitate. She had the characteristics of constancy and humility. She willingly embraced the indignity she received, and even confirmed the Lord`s statement. This woman rightly signifies the faith and devotion of the Church gathered from the nations

Saint Bede

Hom. I. 22, In Lent, Homilies on the Gospels, Bk. One, 216, 217.

He kept her waiting for an answer in order to declare that the minds of His disciples should also be merciful. As human beings they were ashamed of the clamor of the woman as she pursued them publicly, but He Himself knew the character of His mercy.

St. Bede

Hom. I. 22, In Lent, Homilies on the Gospels, Bk. One, 216

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Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Fourth Mode

Seasonal Kontakion in the Second Mode

Wisdom of the Fathers