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St. Anna Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2021-05-16
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St. Anna Greek Orthodox Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (908) 968-4004
  • Fax:
  • (908) 968-4002
  • Street Address:

  • 85 Voorhees Corner Road,

  • Flemington, NJ 08822


Contact Information






Services Schedule

Weekly Services (Due to COVID protocols, all services are by invitation only.  Contact Fr. A with any questions.)

(Please note schedule subject to change.  Please call church office to confirm times.)

Sunday Services:  Orthros 8:30 am; Divine Liturgy 9:30  am.  (by invitation only)

Weekly Feastday / Major Saint Day Liturgies:  9 am Orthros followed by Divine Liturgy.


Past Bulletins


Parish News

2021 Stewardship Status: we have 132 Pledges totaling $183,975 and $114,944 received to date.  We also have 6 families who have contributed $3,050 to date but have not submitted a stewardship card.  It is important that all families complete a stewardship card to be considered a steward. 

 

 

2021 Stewardship List

 
 

* Contributed but have not submitted stewardship card

Report Date: May 4, 2021

 
 

1

Agrapides, Peter & Stella

65

Logothetis, Nikita & Sophia

129

Veneman, Ryan & Polyxeni-Tolis

 
 

2

Andreou, Anthony

66

Loukedis, Alexander & Jennifer

130

Vespa, Paul & Fay

 
 

3

Angelus, James&Elizabeth

67

Lutkus, Anthony & Vasiliki

131

Vlahakes, Louis & Anastasia

 
 

4

Archimedes, Alexander & Debbie

68

Manoussakis, Stamati & Sofia

132

Vlahakis, Dan

 
 

5

Argiropoulos, Anthony & Amy

69

Manteo, Michael & Gramatiki

133

Wolfe, Richard & Penelope

 
 

6

Balios, Efthimia

70

Mardakis, Arge

134

Wygera, Walter & Constance

 
 

7

Bongiovanni, Robert & Michele

71

Mariani, Anthony & Kristen

135

Ypsilantis, Peter & Antonia

 
 

8

Bozzo, Daniel&Maria

72

Markos, Peter & Elaine

136

Zajac, Pegi

 
 

9

Bulzacchelli, Thomas & Valerie

73

Martin, Stephen & Despina

137

Zanidakis, Theodore & Charlotte

 
 

10

Bunce, Daniel & Marianne

74

Mavrode, Michael & Demetra

138

Zannikos, Peter & Amy

 
 

11

Collett, Martin & Adriane

75

Mazza, Emily Connelly & Costa & Poulis, Renee

139

   
 

12

Costalas, Paul & Josephine

76

McElroy, Stephanie

140

   
 

13

Coutros, George & Lana

77

Millett, Matthew & Maria

141

   
 

14

Coutros, Peter *

78

Mulcahy, Dr. Wayne and Mary

142

   
 

15

Coutsouridis, John & Denise

79

Nelson, Stephanie

143

   
 

16

Demetriou, Dorothy&James

80

Paitakes, John&Linda

144

   
 

17

Diagelakis, Gerasimos & Kristen

81

Paliatsos, Mary

145

   
 

18

Diamantis, Ioannis & Gerasimoula

82

Panageas, Bill & Margaret

146

   
 

19

Disla, Mark & Anastasia Pappas

83

Panayote, William & Deborah

147

   
 

20

Diver, Sean & Joanne

84

Pelios, Georgia

148

   
 

21

Douvris, John & Aimee

85

Peppe, George & Demetra

149

   
 

22

Douvris, Katerina & Jorge Higueros

86

Petromelis, Christopher & Georgette

150

   
 

23

Fallon, Tom & Anna

87

Petromelis, Phyllis

151

   
 

24

Fearon, TJ & Colette

88

Procyk, Eugenia

152

   
 

25

Ferreira, Jorge & Angela

89

Rentoulis, Nikolaos

153

   
 

26

Gacos, Chris & Frances

90

Roupas, Daniel & Mary

154

   
 

27

Gatanis, Michael & Angela *

91

Rudy, George & Sofia

155

   
 

28

Georgeles, George & Maria

92

Sacalis, John

156

   
 

29

Giambrone, Charles J

93

Sakellos, Evan & Catherine

157

   
 

30

Gianakos, Michael & Dianne

94

Sakellos, George

158

   
 

31

Giannouris, John & Tracey

95

Sfondouris, John & Maria

159

   
 

32

Gianos, Irene

96

Shepardson, Lilyan

160

   
 

33

Gilman, Cliff & Karen *

97

Sideris, Leonidas & Elizabeth

161

   
 

34

Giotis, John & Karen

98

Soteropoulos, Dean & Elizabeth

162

   
 

35

Glynos, Peter & Cindy

99

Soteropoulos, Marisa

163

   
 

36

Grina, Peter & Diana

100

Staikos, George & Christi

164

   
 

37

Halkiadakis, John & Vassie

101

Staikos, Nicholas, Eirini Daskalakis

165

   
 

38

Hawes, Ashlynn

102

Stathopulos, Peter&Julan, Adriana

166

   
 

39

Hawes, Brian & Allison Faches

103

Stavrakis, Michael & Sophia

167

   
 

40

Hawes, Carrick

104

Stellakis, John & Eileen

168

   
 

41

Heinke, Michael & Simone

105

Stellakis, Stanley & Kathleen

169

   
 

42

Ibrahim, Robert&Doniki

106

Stieglitz, Alexander

170

   
 

43

Iliakostas, Vasilis & Konstantina

107

Stieglitz, Robert & Katerina

171

   
 

44

Iliopoulos, Christos & Anna

108

Stier, Benjamin & Eleftheria Tsatsos

172

   
 

45

Jaghab, Danny & Delmy

109

Sutton, David & Maria

173

   
 

46

Johnson, Bill

110

Tattoli, Larry & Maria

174

   
 

47

Johnson, Gloria

111

Tattoli, Mark

175

   
 

48

Kalamaras, Stella *

112

Tattoli, Steven

176

   
 

49

Kaldes, John & Zoi

113

Ticas, Alexia

177

   
 

50

Kamnitsis, Christopher

114

Ticas, Cesar&Areti

178

   
 

51

Kamnitsis, Constantine & Nancy

115

Toulatos, Polixenia

179

   
 

52

Kasimatis, Kosmas & Dimitra Bairaktaris *

116

Trumpy, Fred & Larisa

180

   
 

53

Kazantzis, Sava & Nancy

117

Tsentas, Constantine & Eugenia *

181

   
 

54

Kefalas, Carrie

118

Tsokas, Lorraine

182

   
 

55

Kehayes, Peter & Helen

119

Tsokas, Spyros

183

   
 

56

Kehayes, Stephen & Beth

120

Tzovolos, Demetri and Arete

184

   
 

57

Kika, John & Tina

121

Tzovolos, Olympia

185

   
 

58

Kizoulis, Menas & Antonia

122

Vaporakis, Efharis Karise

186

   
 

59

Kosoglou, Teddy and Roula

123

Vaporakis, John & Kim

187

   
 

60

Kousoulas, Constantine

124

Vaporakis, Kaliope

188

   
 

61

Kousoulas, Fr. Anastasios & Presv. Nektaria

125

Vaporakis, Mihail

189

   
 

62

Kousoulas, Panayiotis

126

Varas, Alexander Pericles

190

   
 

63

Kubu, James & Evangeline

127

Varas, Loukas Michael

191

   
 

64

Kypridakes, Michael & Asimina

128

Varas, Michael & Elaine

CHRISTOS ANESTI!  CHRIST IS RISEN!  

TODAY is the 1-Year Memorial for Hristos Vaporakis, brother of John Vaporakis, husband of Valderes, and father of Mihalis and Alexander Vaporakis. May his memory be eternal!

Save the Date:  GREEK DINNERS TO GO! is back on Saturday, June 26!!! More info to follow about preordering the week or so prior.

GOYA will host an END-OF-YEAR PICNIC today after church. God bless all our youth as we come out of this pandemic together with renewed strength and peace from above.

Parish Fishing Trip this Summer!  We are booking a charter for Sunday afternoon/ evening, August 1.  We have about 30 people already interested.  Still some room for others, but contact Fr. A as soon as possible if interested.

From Your Parish Council President                                                    

UPDATE - COVID-19 Vaccine Appointments

If you are a New Jersey resident 55+ or an individual of any age with a disability and in need of help scheduling yourselves for a Covid-19 vaccine, please register at www.wgirls.org/requestforhelp and someone will be in touch ASAP to pair you with a vetted volunteer.  These are dedicated volunteers who have been able to help secure hundreds of appointments for those who are struggling with the tech-heavy process.  As a reminder, NO volunteer will ever ask you for your Social Security Number or insurance details.  Good luck!

- John S. Douvris, Parish Council President

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Saints and Feasts

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May 16

Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women

About the beginning of His thirty-second year, when the Lord Jesus was going throughout Galilee, preaching and working miracles, many women who had received of His beneficence left their own homeland and from then on followed after Him. They ministered unto Him out of their own possessions, even until His crucifixion and entombment; and afterwards, neither losing faith in Him after His death, nor fearing the wrath of the Jewish rulers, they came to the sepulchre, bearing the myrrh-oils they had prepared to annoint His body. It is because of the myrrh-oils, that these God-loving women brought to the tomb of Jesus that they are called the Myrrh-bearers. Of those whose names are known are the following: first of all, the most holy Virgin Mary, who in Matthew 27:56 and Mark 15:40 is called "the mother of James and Joses" (these are the sons of Joseph by a previous marriage, and she was therefore their step-mother); Mary Magdalene (celebrated July 22); Mary, the wife of Clopas; Joanna, wife of Chouza, a steward of Herod Antipas; Salome, the mother of the sons of Zebedee, Mary and Martha, the sisters of Lazarus; and Susanna. As for the names of the rest of them, the evangelists have kept silence (Matt 27:55-56; 28:1-10. Mark 15:40-41. Luke 8:1-3; 23:55-24:11, 22-24. John 19:25; 20:11-18. Acts 1:14).

Together with them we celebrate also the secret disciples of the Saviour, Joseph and Nicodemus. Of these, Nicodemus was probably a Jerusalemite, a prominent leader among the Jews and of the order of the Pharisees, learned in the Law and instructed in the Holy Scriptures. He had believed in Christ when, at the beginning of our Saviour's preaching of salvation, he came to Him by night. Furthermore, he brought some one hundred pounds of myrrh-oils and an aromatic mixture of aloes and spices out of reverence and love for the divine Teacher (John 19:39). Joseph, who was from the city of Arimathea, was a wealthy and noble man, and one of the counsellors who were in Jerusalem. He went boldly unto Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus, and together with Nicodemus he gave Him burial. Since time did not permit the preparation of another tomb, he placed the Lord's body in his own tomb which was hewn out of rock, as the Evangelist says (Matt. 27:60).


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May 16

Theodore the Sanctified

This Saint, who was born in the Upper Thebaid of Christian parents, joined the community of Saint Pachomios at about the age of fourteen years, and became the greatest of his disciples. Because of Theodore's utter humility and unquestioning obedience, Pachomios called him more and more to his aid in governing the monasteries he had established. Although some found fault with this, because Theodore was younger than they, Pachomios continued to put his confidence in him, to such a degree that once he told the brotherhood, "Theodore and I fulfil the same service for God; and he also has the authority to give commands as father." Pachomios was succeeded as governor of the monks by Saint Orsiesius in 346, and Orsiesius later took Theodore as his fellow abbot. At Theodore's death in the year 368, the monks mourned him so bitterly that the sound of their crying was heard on the other side of the river.


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May 21

Constantine and Helen, Equal-to-the Apostles

This great and renowned sovereign of the Christians was the son of Constantius Chlorus (the ruler of the westernmost parts of the Roman empire), and of the blessed Helen. He was born in 272, in (according to some authorities) Naissus of Dardania, a city on the Hellespont. In 306, when his father died, he was proclaimed successor to his throne. In 312, on learning that Maxentius and Maximinus had joined forces against him, he marched into Italy, where, while at the head of his troops, he saw in the sky after midday, beneath the sun, a radiant pillar in the form of a cross with the words: "By this shalt thou conquer." The following night, our Lord Jesus Christ appeared to him in a dream and declared to him the power of the Cross and its significance. When he arose in the morning, he immediately ordered that a labarum be made (which is a banner or standard of victory over the enemy) in the form of a cross, and he inscribed on it the Name of Jesus Christ. On the 28th Of October, he attacked and mightily conquered Maxentius, who drowned in the Tiber River while fleeing. The following day, Constantine entered Rome in triumph and was proclaimed Emperor of the West by the Senate, while Licinius, his brother-in-law, ruled in the East. But out of malice, Licinius later persecuted the Christians. Constantine fought him once and again, and utterly destroyed him in 324, and in this manner he became monarch over the West and the East. Under him and because of him all the persecutions against the Church ceased. Christianity triumphed and idolatry was overthrown. In 325 he gathered the First Ecumenical Council in Nicaea, which he himself personally addressed. In 324, in the ancient city of Byzantium, he laid the foundations of the new capital of his realm, and solemnly inaugurated it on May 11, 330, naming it after himself, Constantinople. Since the throne of the imperial rule was transferred thither from Rome, it was named New Rome, the inhabitants of its domain were called Romans, and it was considered the continuation of the Roman Empire. Falling ill near Nicomedia, he requested to receive divine Baptism, according to Eusebius (The Life of Constantine. Book IV, 61-62), and also according to Socrates and Sozomen; and when he had been deemed worthy of the Holy Mysteries, he reposed in 337, on May 21 or 22, the day of Pentecost, having lived sixty-five years, of which he ruled for thirty-one years. His remains were transferred to Constantinople and were deposed in the Church of the Holy Apostles, which had been built by him (see Homily XXVI on Second Corinthians by Saint John Chrysostom).

As for his holy mother Helen, after her son had made the Faith of Christ triumphant throughout the Roman Empire, she undertook a journey to Jerusalem and found the Holy Cross on which our Lord was crucified (see Sept. 13 and 14). After this, Saint Helen, in her zeal to glorify Christ, erected churches in Jerusalem at the sites of the Crucifixion and Resurrection, in Bethlehem at the cave where our Saviour was born, another on the Mount of Olives whence He ascended into Heaven, and many others throughout the Holy Land, Cyprus, and elsewhere. She was proclaimed Augusta, her image was stamped upon golden coins, and two cities were named Helenopolis after her in Bithynia and in Palestine. Having been thus glorified for her piety, she departed to the Lord being about eighty years of age, according to some in the year 330, according to others, in 336.


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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Second Mode. Psalm 117.14,18.
The Lord is my strength and my song.
Verse: The Lord has chastened me sorely.

The reading is from Acts of the Apostles 6:1-7.

In those days, when the disciples were increasing in number, the Hellenists murmured against the Hebrews because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution. And the twelve summoned the body of the disciples and said, "it is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables. Therefore, brethren, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint to this duty. But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word." And what they said pleased the whole multitude, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochoros, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaos, a proselyte of Antioch. These they set before the apostles, and they prayed and laid their hands upon them. And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were obedient to the faith.


Gospel Reading

Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women
The Reading is from Mark 15:43-47; 16:1-8

At that time, Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the council, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God, took courage and went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus. And Pilate wondered if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he was already dead. And when he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he granted the body to Joseph. And he bought a linen shroud, and taking him down, wrapped him in the linen shroud, and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out of the rock; and he rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was laid.

And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. 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; for 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.


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Hymns of the Day

Apolytikion of Great and Holy Pascha in the Plagal First Mode

Christ is risen from the dead, by death, trampling down upon death, and to those in the tombs He has granted life.

Apolytikion for Holy Myrrhbearers Sunday in the Second Mode

When Thou didst descend unto death, O Life Immortal, then didst Thou slay Hades with the lightning of Thy Divinity. And when Thou didst also raise the dead out of the nethermost depths, all the powers in the Heavens cried out: O Life-giver, Christ our God, glory be to Thee.

Apolytikion for Holy Myrrhbearers Sunday in the Second Mode

The noble Joseph, taking Thine immaculate Body down from the Tree, and having wrapped It in pure linen and spices, laid It for burial in a new tomb. But on the third day Thou didst arise, O Lord, granting great mercy to the world.

Apolytikion for Holy Myrrhbearers Sunday in the Second Mode

Unto the myrrh-bearing women did the Angel cry out as he stood by the grave: Myrrh oils are meet for the dead, but Christ hath proved to be a stranger to corruption. But cry out: The Lord is risen, granting great mercy to the world.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Plagal Fourth Mode

Though You went down into the tomb, You destroyed Hades' power, and You rose the victor, Christ God, saying to the myrrh-bearing women, "Hail!" and granting peace to Your disciples, You who raise up the fallen.
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Archepiscopal Message

Eulogy for Anastasios (“Tasso”) Tsakos, NYPD Officer

05/04/2021

In the face of the overwhelming grief and sorrow of this moment, the Church speaks to us with the name of the man we are here to remember and honor today, for Anastasios means “Resurrection.”

Archiepiscopal Encyclical on AHEPA Sunday

05/11/2021

I extend the warmest greetings and congratulations of the Holy Archdiocese of America to all of the honorable and beloved members of the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association on the occasion of our annual observance of AHEPA Sunday.
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Wisdom of the Fathers

They [the women] had followed Him ministering to Him, and were present even unto the time of the dangers. Wherefore also they saw all; how He cried, how He gave up the ghost, how the rocks were rent, and all the rest.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 88 on Matthew 27, 4th Century

And these [the women] first see Jesus; and the sex that was most condemned, this first enjoys the sight of the blessings, this most shows its courage. And when the disciples had fled, these were present.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 88 on Matthew 27, 4th Century

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