July 25
St. Anna Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2021-07-25
Bulletin Contents
St. Anna Greek Orthodox Church
General Information
- Phone:
- (908) 968-4004
- Fax:
- (908) 968-4002
- Email:
- stannagoc@gmail.com
- 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
- Publish Date:
- 2021-08-01
- Publish Date:
- 2021-07-18
- Publish Date:
- 2021-07-11
- Publish Date:
- 2021-07-04
- Publish Date:
- 2021-06-27
- Publish Date:
- 2021-06-20
Parish News
2021 Stewardship Status: we have 145 Pledges totaling $191,265 and $141,315 received to date. We also have 5 families who have contributed $2,950 to date but have not submitted a stewardship card. It is important that all families complete a stewardship card to be considered a steward. Current Stewardship List and other stewardship information is posted in bulletin board by water cooler.
Today we celebrate the 40-day blessing of Peter Markos. May his memory be eternal!
Thank you to Olympia Tzovolos who offered the sweet loaves (Artos) for the Artoklasia (Blessing of the 5 Loaves) today.
Young Adult Ministry: hosted a regional picnic at our church on Saturday, July 24. Many young adults from the region attended the cookout and enjoyed wonderful fellowship. Stay tuned for our next event in the coming month or so. If there are others that want to join this vital ministry (ages 18 to 30ish), please contact Fr. A.
Sunday School: As we prepare for classes this fall, we are in need of Sunday School Teachers. Please contact Aimee Douvris, Sunday School Director aimeedouvris@gmail.com, or Fr. A if interested. Thank you.
As previously announced, we have stopped taking reservations. All are invited as walk-ins. Please join us for this special day in the life of our church!
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! GOYA Camp Good Shepherd - Aug. 15-21. Camp Tecumseh, NJ. Fr. A would like to invite all youth (grades 7 to 12) to join him and the entire region for overnight summer camp. The cost is $500 per camper. Official registration is now open! Please text or email Fr. A for the official link.
OPA! Festival Survey: Thanks to the many that committed time to make our annual Festival a big success (Friday, Sept 10 - Sunday, Sept 12, 2021). If you have not done so yet, please fill out the quick survey now:
Here is the survey link again: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1mee1PT0CQKs0ta2YgsJxBcnBJ_BXqGOpe9BO7kdN1_8/edit
Metropolis Holy Cross Celebration: The Annual Celebration this year will be presided by His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021, in Asbury Park.
Saints and Feasts
July 25
5th Sunday of Matthew
July 25
Eupraxia & Julia the Righteous of Tabenna
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Epistle Reading
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 4:22-27.
Brethren, Abraham had two sons, one by a slave and one by a free woman. But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, the son of the free woman through promise. Now this is an allegory: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar. Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother. For it is written, "Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and shout, you who are not in travail; for the children of the desolate one are many more than the children of her that is married."
Gospel Reading
5th Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 8:28-34; 9:1
At that time, when Jesus came to the country of the Gergesenes, two demoniacs met him, coming out of the tombs, so fierce that no one would pass that way. And behold, they cried out, "What have you to do with us, O Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?" Now a herd of many swine was feeding at some distance from them. And the demons begged him, "If you cast us out, send us away into the herd of swine." And he said to them, "Go." So they came out and went into the swine; and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and perished in the waters. The herdsmen fled, and going into the city they told everything, and what had happened to the demoniacs. And behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus; and when they saw him, they begged him to leave their neighborhood. And getting into a boat he crossed over and came to his own city.
Hymns of the Day
Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Fourth Mode
When the women Disciples of the Lord had learned from the Angel the joyful message of the Resurrection and had rejected the ancestral decision, they cried aloud to the Apostles triumphantly: Death has been despoiled, Christ God has risen, granting His great mercy to the world.
Apolytikion for Dormition of St. Anna in the Fourth Mode
O Godly-minded Anna, thou didst give birth unto God's pure Mother who conceived Him Who is our Life. Wherefore, thou hast now passed with joy to thy heavenly rest, wherein is the abode of them that rejoice in glory; and thou askest forgiveness of sins for them that honour thee with love, O ever-blessed one.
Seasonal Kontakion in the Second Mode
We celebrate now the mem'ry of Christ's ancestors, while asking their help with faith, that we may all be saved from all manner of tribulation as we fervently cry aloud: Be thou with us, O Lord our God, Whose pleasure it was to glorify them both.
Wisdom of the Fathers
Now, should any one say, "And wherefore did Christ fulfill the devils' request, suffering them to depart into the herd of swine?" this would be our reply, that He did so, not as yielding to them, but as providing for many objects thereby.
Homily 28 on Matthew 8, 4th Century
One, to teach them that are delivered from those wicked tyrants, how great the malice of their insidious enemies: another, that all might learn, how not even against swine are they bold, except He allow them; a third, that they would have treated those men more grievously than the swine, unless even in their calamity they had enjoyed much of God's providential care. For that they hate us more than the brutes is surely evident to every man.
Homily 28 on Matthew 8, 4th Century