Orthros at 8:15 am & Divine Liturgy at 9:30am
Weekday Orthros and Liturgies begin at 8am
Sunday 7/7
2nd Sunday of Matthew +Orthros @8:15am & Divine Liturgy @9:30am
A 40 DAY Memorial Service will be prayed for the repose of the soul of +Evangelie C Troth beloved mother of Mary and Lucy Troth. May her memory be eternal.
Baptism: On Sunday, July 7h 2024, at 12:30 pm the daughter of Dimitri and Kayla (Mills) Spiropoulos will be Baptized and Christmated according to the rites of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. Godparents will be Christopher and Lauren Spiropoulos.
Sunday 7/14
Sunday of the Holy Fathers +Orthros @8:15am & Divine Liturgy @9:30am
Participation in services is also available via livestream - go to: Home | St. Andrew Greek Orthodox Church (orthodoxws.com) and choose LIVESTREAM on the Menu bar
Prayers/Liturgy can always be found at: https://www.agesinitiatives.com/dcs/public/dcs/dcs.html
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Coffee Hour Hosts JULY & August Summer Schedule
Summer Coffee Hour: It is our summer tradition that all coffee hour trays will benefit our Ministries. We all share the responsibility of bringing food. Please bring a cake, cookies, fruit, etc. to church with you from time to time to add to our coffee hour table. Or arrange to host/sponsor a coffee hour in Memory of or in Honor of by contacting the churchoffice. Thanking-you in advance for your participation this summer.
Thank you! To all the volunteers who worked so hard before, during and after our 2024 Big Greek Festival. As well thank you to all who came out to support us. We need all of you to continue our work at Saint Andrew.
now we need your help in selling the Car raffle tickets
pick up your raffle tickets – Please help with cost of postage
Please sell your raffle tickets, mail, or bring in your money with the stubs to the office, and consider selling more tickets in front of the church.
We need your help to make this year’s raffle a success! Sign up for JUST 2 HOURS and sell raffle tickets! Sit and read or even bring your laptop (Wi-Fi available).
To schedule times email [email protected] or call 973-584-0388. It is an easy way to help our church meet our annual budget and unforeseen expenses. We have made over $1,000 in just one day by manning the curbside raffle ticket sales. Please consider helping out in this easy way. Your church needs your support.
OPEN ENROLLMENT
Hellenic Afternoon School
Thursday September 12, 2024
at 4:30pm Agiasmo in Church followed by open house and then
first day of Class for all HAS grades
GREEK DANCE
1st day Thursday September19
1st Session: Group 1 @ 6:30pm | Group 2 @7:15 pm | GOYA @8:00pm
Religious Education
Classes will begin on Sunday September 8 after Holy Communion
Registration Forms
contact the Church office [email protected]
HOPE & JOY is a Youth Group
for children in K-6th grades. We offer one activity per month after church and one “fun day” activity, sometimes at church and sometimes out.Please donate candy for the egg hunt. We will fill the eggs during Greek school on Thursday 4/18 and 4/25, and we would love your help. at a location. We look forward to your participation! See our website for event info https://sites.google.com/view/hopejoystandrew/home Any questions contact: Jenny Manis 732-547-4790 [email protected]
Stewardship 2024
As we move toward becoming a percentage giving community, we are adopting a rounding up approach to giving.
We ask you to join the Parish Council and Stewardship Ministry who have pledged to give a percentage of their income.
Please join us in this commitment to achieve our parish vision.
To learn more about what this means, click on - https://standrewgonj.org/stewardship/#round-u p or speak to a member of the Parish Council or the Stewardship Ministry.
If you are not already a member of Saint Andrew, please consider a pledge starting out at 1% of your income.
In gratitude for God’s Blessings, please click on and fill in the 2024 Stewardship Pledge. please send to the church office
phishing / CON ARTISTS TEXTS/EMAILS : Someone is sending out texts and emails asking for assistance and signing Fr John’s name. This is not Fr John’s cell number or email address. His cell number is 973-219-2941, his email is [email protected] . Please report the text/email as junk and delete and block the sender. We contacted the FBI about this problem and was informed that they do not take a case like this. We hope no one is fooled by these criminals. Please tell your friends. Fr will never reach out to anyone asking for “assistance” in this way. Thank you for your patience and understanding. God Bless!
GREEK ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESE OF AMERICA
ARCHEPISCOPAL ENCYCLICAL
Prot. No. 197/2024
Archepiscopal Encyclical on the Fourth of July
July 4, 2024
Unto the Most Reverend and Right Reverend Hierarchs, Pious Priests and Deacons, the
Monks and Nuns, Presidents and Members of Parish Councils, Honorable Archons of the
Ecumenical Patriarchate, Members of Leadership 100, the Day and Afternoon Schools,
Philoptochos Societies, the Youth, Greek Orthodox Organizations, and the entirety of the
Christ-named Plenitude of the Holy Archdiocese of America.
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we
mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
My beloved brothers and sisters in the Lord,
The Fourth of July is our National Birthday, celebrating the Declaration of
Independence, a truly remarkable document that every American should read every year on
this date. For with mere language, it renewed a positive vision for the human polis, one that
has stood the test of time, but which has always been a process. Through the centuries, our
Nation has suffered incalculable harms: slavery, the Civil War to end it, genocidal programs
against Indigenous Peoples, and battles for equality, suffrage, and economic opportunity by
women and all manner of minorities, racial, ethnic, and otherwise. The Constitution of our
Nation, ratified fourteen years after the Declaration of Independence, presciently predicted
that our United States of America would always be in process to “form a more perfect Union.”
For “democracy,” the noble experiment conceived by the Hellenic mind over 2,500 years
ago, has never been static. Democracies — even a representative one like ours — cannot be
reduced to historical models that resemble fossils more than living organisms. And this is why,
in the last line of the Declaration, lies a roadmap for how our great country can come together,
regardless of the political views one might hold.
We behold how “a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence” is the guarantee
of our liberties. On such a basis, without exclusivism, we can “pledge to each other our Lives,
our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.” A belief in a higher purpose for our freedom is ultimately
the unifying principle by which we can bond as fellow-citizens, even when there are passionate
differences among us. It has held this great Nation together through the greatest struggles,
both foreign and domestic, and it can bind up and heal any wounds in our national
consciousness, lest they fester and infect our domestic tranquility and prosperity.
Therefore, on this and every Fourth of July, let us appeal to our Loving and Providential
God in unison with all our fellow citizens. Let us remember what it is to love this Land, and be
willing to sacrifice our utmost for the benefit of all. If we can thus “mutually pledge to each
other” on the foundation of God’s providential love for us, we shall remain a truly United
States of America. A blessed and happy Fourth of July to all!
With paternal love in Jesus Christ,
† ELPIDOPHOROS
Archbishop of America
Sunday 7/14
Sunday of the Holy Fathers +Orthros @8:15am & Divine Liturgy @9:30am
Memorial Service: +Alexandros Staikos; +Rev Fr Konstantine Tsigas; +Kanella and +Nikolaos Perdikoulias
Monday 7/15
@5pm Education Committee Meeting
Wednesday 7/17
The Holy Great Martyr Marina (Margaret) +Orthros @8am & Divine Liturgy @9am
Saturday 7/20
The Glorious Prophet Elias (Elijah) +Orthros @8am & Divine Liturgy @9am
This day of this year marks the 50th anniversary of the invasion of Cyprus 7/20/24
Sunday 7/21
4th Sunday of Mathew +Orthros @8:15am & Divine Liturgy @9:30am
Memorial Service: +Fallen Cypriots 7/20/74 Turkish invasion Cyprus;
+Anastasios and +Panagiota Kalli.
@12:30pm Strongilos_Russo Wedding
Saturday7/27
FAITH KITCHEN GOYA hosting
Sunday 7/28
5th Sunday of Matthew +Orthros @8:15am & Divine Liturgy @9:30am
@12:30pm Veninger Baptism @2:30pm Monda Baptism
Thursday & Friday 8/1 & 8/2
@6pm PARAKLESIS SERVICE
Sunday 8/4
6th Sunday of Matthew Orthros @8:15am & Divine Liturgy @9:30am
Monday 8/5
@6pm Great Vespers
@7:30pm Parish Council Meeting
Tuesday 8/6
Transfiguration of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ +Orthros @8:00am & Divine Liturgy @9:00am
Tuesday -Wednesday 8/6-8/7
@6pm PARAKLESIS SERVICE
Sunday 8/11
7th Sunday of Matthew +Orthros @8:15am & Divine Liturgy
Monday -Tuesday 8/12-8/13
@6pm PARAKLESIS SERVICE
Wednesday 8/14
@6pm Great Vespers
Thursday 8/15
The Dormition of the Theotokos +Orthros @8am & Divine Liturgy @9am
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
2024 MERCEDES-BENZ GLC 300 W4 - MSRP $54,220 |TICKETS $25 EACH | DRAWING SEPTEMBER 29, 2024, 12:30PM
ALL FAMILIES that are registering for: Sunday School, Greek School, Greek Dance, GOYA Dance, please complete FORM and submit PTA Family Membership ($30) in addition to Tuition Fees for above
HELLENIC AFTERNOON SCHOOL THURSDAY September 12, 2024 at 4:30pm AGIASMO in Church followed by OPEN HOUSE and then first day of Class for all HAS grades | must complete Family & Student Form as well
2024-2025 GREEK DANCE GROUP starts on Thursday September 19: Group 1 (ages K thru age 7) 6:30-7:15pm | Group 2 (ages 8-11) 7:15-8:00pm | GOYA (ages 12-18) 8:00pm
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
Gianna, Konstantinos, Fr George, Thomas, Eftichia, Meropi, Paul, Fotios, Eftychia, Isaac, Alexandros, George, Johnathan, Christopher, Irene, Ioannis, Maria, Samuel, Peter, Vasilios, Evmorfia, Demetrios, Despina, Natalia, Lori, Eleni, Demetrios, Roye, Elias, Eleana, Ellen, Andrew, Eleni, Denise, Eleni, Robert, Maria, Michael, Pamela, Angeliki, Theodoros, Constantinos, Andrew, Chari, Penelope, ..
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.
Second Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from Mark 16:1-8
When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Salome, bought spices, so that they might go and anoint Jesus. And very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb when the sun had risen. And they were saying to one another, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the door of the tomb?" And looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back - it was very large. And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe; and they were amazed. And he said to them, "Do not be amazed; you seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen, He is not here; see the place where they laid Him. But go, tell His disciples and Peter that He is going before you to Galilee; there you will see Him, as He told you." And they went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come upon them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.
Second Orthros Gospel
Κατὰ Μᾶρκον 16:1-8
Διαγενομένου τοῦ Σαββάτου, Μαρία ἡ Μαγδαληνὴ καὶ Μαρία ἡ τοῦ Ἰακώβου καὶ Σαλώμη ἠγόρασαν ἀρώματα, ἵνα ἐλθοῦσαι ἀλείψωσιν τὸν Ἰησοῦν. Καὶ λίαν πρωῒ τῇ μιᾷ τῶν σαββάτων ἔρχονται ἐπὶ τὸ μνημεῖον ἀνατείλαντος τοῦ ἡλίου. Καὶ ἔλεγον πρὸς ἑαυτάς· Τίς ἀποκυλίσει ἡμῖν τὸν λίθον ἐκ τῆς θύρας τοῦ μνημείου; καὶ ἀναβλέψασαι θεωροῦσιν ὅτι ἀποκεκύλισται ὁ λίθος· ἦν γὰρ μέγας σφόδρα. Καὶ εἰσελθοῦσαι εἰς τὸ μνημεῖον, εἶδον νεανίσκον καθήμενον ἐν τοῖς δεξιοῖς, περιβεβλημένον στολήν λευκήν, καὶ ἐξεθαμβήθησαν· ὁ δὲ λέγει αὐταῖς· Μὴ ἐκθαμβεῖσθε, Ἰησοῦν ζητεῖτε τὸν Ναζαρηνὸν τὸν ἐσταυρωμένον, ἠγέρθη, οὐκ ἔστιν ᾧδε· ἴδε, ὁ τόπος ὅπου ἔθηκαν αὐτόν, ἀλλ' ὑπάγετε, εἴπατε τοῖς μαθηταῖς αὐτοῦ καὶ τῷ Πέτρῳ, ὅτι προάγει ὑμᾶς εἰς τὴν Γαλιλαίαν· ἐκεῖ αὐτὸν ὄψεσθε, καθὼς εἶπεν ὑμῖν. Καὶ ἐξελθοῦσαι ταχὺ ἔφυγον ἀπὸ τοῦ μνημείου, εἶχε δὲ αὐτὰς τρόμος καὶ ἔκστασις, καὶ οὐδενὶ οὐδὲν εἶπον· ἐφοβοῦντο γάρ.
Prokeimenon. Fourth Mode. Psalm 67.35,26.
God is wonderful among his saints.
Verse: Bless God in the congregations.
The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Galatians 3:23-29; 4:1-5.
Brethren, before faith came, we were confined under the law, kept under restraint until faith should be revealed. So that the law was our custodian until Christ came, that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a custodian; for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise. I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no better than a slave, though he is the owner of all the estate; but he is under guardians and trustees until the date set by the father. So with us; when we were children, we were slaves to the elemental spirits of the universe. But when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
Προκείμενον. Fourth Mode. ΨΑΛΜΟΙ 67.35,26.
Θαυμαστὸς ὁ Θεὸς ἐν τοῖς Ἁγίοις αὐτοῦ.
Στίχ. Ἐν Ἐκκλησίαις εὐλογεῖτε τὸν Θεὸν.
τὸ Ἀνάγνωσμα Πρὸς Γαλάτας 3:23-29, 4:1-5.
Ἀδελφοί, πρὸ τοῦ δὲ ἐλθεῖν τὴν πίστιν, ὑπὸ νόμον ἐφρουρούμεθα, συγκεκλεισμένοι εἰς τὴν μέλλουσαν πίστιν ἀποκαλυφθῆναι. Ὥστε ὁ νόμος παιδαγωγὸς ἡμῶν γέγονεν εἰς Χριστόν, ἵνα ἐκ πίστεως δικαιωθῶμεν. Ἐλθούσης δὲ τῆς πίστεως, οὐκέτι ὑπὸ παιδαγωγόν ἐσμεν. Πάντες γὰρ υἱοὶ θεοῦ ἐστε διὰ τῆς πίστεως ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ. Ὅσοι γὰρ εἰς Χριστὸν ἐβαπτίσθητε, Χριστὸν ἐνεδύσασθε. Οὐκ ἔνι Ἰουδαῖος οὐδὲ Ἕλλην, οὐκ ἔνι δοῦλος οὐδὲ ἐλεύθερος, οὐκ ἔνι ἄρσεν καὶ θῆλυ· πάντες γὰρ ὑμεῖς εἷς ἐστε ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ. Εἰ δὲ ὑμεῖς Χριστοῦ, ἄρα τοῦ Ἀβραὰμ σπέρμα ἐστέ, καὶ κατʼ ἐπαγγελίαν κληρονόμοι. Λέγω δέ, ἐφʼ ὅσον χρόνον ὁ κληρονόμος νήπιός ἐστιν, οὐδὲν διαφέρει δούλου, κύριος πάντων ὤν· ἀλλὰ ὑπὸ ἐπιτρόπους ἐστὶν καὶ οἰκονόμους, ἄχρι τῆς προθεσμίας τοῦ πατρός. Οὕτως καὶ ἡμεῖς, ὅτε ἦμεν νήπιοι, ὑπὸ τὰ στοιχεῖα τοῦ κόσμου ἦμεν δεδουλωμένοι· ὅτε δὲ ἦλθεν τὸ πλήρωμα τοῦ χρόνου, ἐξαπέστειλεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ, γενόμενον ἐκ γυναικός, γενόμενον ὑπὸ νόμον, ἵνα τοὺς ὑπὸ νόμον ἐξαγοράσῃ, ἵνα τὴν υἱοθεσίαν ἀπολάβωμεν.
2nd Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 4:18-23
At that time, as Jesus walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. And he said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." Immediately they left their nets and followed him. And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them. Immediately they left their boat and their father, and followed him. And he went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every infirmity among the people.
2nd Sunday of Matthew
Κατὰ Ματθαῖον 4:18-23
Τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ, περιπατῶν δὲ παρὰ τὴν θάλασσαν τῆς Γαλιλαίας εἶδε δύο ἀδελφούς, Σίμωνα τὸν λεγόμενον Πέτρον καὶ ᾿Ανδρέαν τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ, βάλλοντας ἀμφίβληστρον εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν· ἦσαν γὰρ ἁλιεῖς· καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς· δεῦτε ὀπίσω μου καὶ ποιήσω ὑμᾶς ἁλιεῖς ἀνθρώπων. οἱ δὲ εὐθέως ἀφέντες τὰ δίκτυα ἠκολούθησαν αὐτῷ. Καὶ προβὰς ἐκεῖθεν εἶδεν ἄλλους δύο ἀδελφούς, ᾿Ιάκωβον τὸν τοῦ Ζεβεδαίου καὶ ᾿Ιωάννην τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ, ἐν τῷ πλοίῳ μετὰ Ζεβεδαίου τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτῶν καταρτίζοντας τὰ δίκτυα αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐκάλεσεν αὐτούς. οἱ δὲ εὐθέως ἀφέντες τὸ πλοῖον καὶ τὸν πατέρα αὐτῶν ἠκολούθησαν αὐτῷ. Καὶ περιῆγεν ὅλην τὴν Γαλιλαίαν ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς διδάσκων ἐν ταῖς συναγωγαῖς αὐτῶν καὶ κηρύσσων τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τῆς βασιλείας καὶ θεραπεύων πᾶσαν νόσον καὶ πᾶσαν μαλακίαν ἐν τῷ λαῷ.
Saint Thomas, though wealthy in material goods, though illustrious for the military trophies he had won in wars against the barbarians, forsook all that he had that he might gain Christ, and was led by a pillar of fire to Mount Maleon. By divine grace he wrought wonders, cast out demons, gave sight to the blind, caused springs of water to gush forth, healed many, and while in prayer appeared as a pillar of fire. The century in which he lived is not known.
Saint Kyriake was the daughter of Christian parents, Dorotheus and Eusebia. She was given her name because she was born on Sunday, the day of the Lord (in Greek, Kyriake). She contested in Nicomedia during the reign of Diocletian, in the year 300. After many bitter torments she was condemned to suffer beheading, but being granted time to pray first, she made her prayer and gave up her holy soul in peace.
On the Sunday that falls from the 13th to the 19th of the present month, we chant the Service to the 630 Holy and God-bearing Fathers who came together for the 4th Ecumenical Council who assembled in Chalcedon in 451, to condemn Eutyches, who taught that there was only one nature, the divine, in Christ after the Incarnation, and Dioscorus, Patriarch of Alexandria, who illegally received Eutyches back into communion and deposed Saint Flavian, Patriarch of Constantinople, who had excommunicated Eutyches.
In the Slavic tradition, on this Sunday, the Fathers of the first six Ecumenical Councils are all commemorated.
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