April 10
St. Anna Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2022-04-10
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
Sunday Services: Orthros 8:30 am; Divine Liturgy 9:30 am.
Weekday Services: See parish website calendar link for updates.
Past Bulletins
- Publish Date:
- 2022-04-03
- Publish Date:
- 2022-03-27
- Publish Date:
- 2022-03-20
- Publish Date:
- 2022-03-13
- Publish Date:
- 2022-03-06
- Publish Date:
- 2022-02-27
Parish News
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Note from the Treasurers: 2021 Donation Statements were emailed in late January from Saint Anna Greek Orthodox Church <quickbooks@notification.intuit.com> with Subject: Statement from Saint Anna Greek Orthodox Church. Please don’t wait until Friday to tell us you can’t find it! 2022 Stewardship Status: we have 120 Pledges totaling $140,770 and $82,212 received to date. We also have 13 families who have contributed $6,390 to date but have not submitted a stewardship card. It is important that all families complete a stewardship card to be considered a steward. The current Stewardship List and other stewardship information is posted on the bulletin board by water cooler.
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Today, Orthros at 8:15 am (start time through Lent) followed by Divine Liturgy at 9:30 am. Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt.
This Sunday’s fellowship is sponsored by Sunday School. May your continued Lenten journey be blessed.
Spring Parish General Assembly TODAY Sunday, April 10: Please join us after services as we discuss the progress of our parish as one family in Christ. If you can only stay for a short while, please be sure to sign in regardless so we can reach a quorum for the meeting. Thank you.
RESCHEDULE FOR TODAY! Candlelight Vigil for Ukraine on Sunday, April 10 at 7 pm at the Historic Courthouse on Main St. in Flemington. Our own Connie Wygera is one of the organizers. Fr. Anastasios will attend and offer a prayer. Please join them in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Ukraine who need our prayers, especially now.
Choir News Our Choir is now singing regularly. We will be preparing for Holy Week soon. If you would like to sing please contact choir director Diana Grina at dianakg2003@yahoo.com. Adults and Youth 9 yrs old and up are welcome!
LAST CALL!!! Palm Sunday Luncheon. On Palm Sunday, April 17, 2022, a luncheon presented by the Parish Council will be offered immediately after Liturgy in the church hall. The menu includes a fish (flounder) and spanakorizo (spinach and rice) entree for adults for $16.00, and a pasta entrée for children for $5.00. We are taking in-person reservations during coffee hour. If it will be more convenient for you to make your reservation through PayPal, you may do so by making a notation in the PayPal transaction stating it is for the Palm Sunday Luncheon. If using PayPal, you also need to let Arge Mardakis know of your reservation. You can let Arge know during coffee hour or email her at mardakis@co.somerset.nj.us So that we know how much food to order, please let us know as soon as possible of your attendance. The last time we met for this event was in 2019, and we enjoyed the fellowship during this special time of year. Let’s all get together again this year. Kali Anastasi.
LAST CALL! Please help with our Holy Week and Easter needs. The Easter Appeal Letter was sent via email. Extra copies are in the narthex. Thank you for your continued generosity!
Our Parish St. John Chrysostom Oratorical Festival took place on Friday, March 25. Congratulations to all 5 participants: Aris Diagelakis, Yianni Logothetis, Andreas Kousoulas, Stephanie Ticas, and Demetri Kousoulas. Today, Stephanie Ticas will offer her speech. Stephanie and Andreas represented our parish at the District Level on the morning of April 2 in Wyckoff, NJ. Congratulations to all our speakers!
Holy Services: This Week Before Palm Sunday:
Monday, Great Compline at 5:30 pm
Presanctified Liturgy: Wednesday at 6 pm and on Friday at 8:30 am
Thursday at 6 pm - Great Compline
Holy Week Schedule: Please check out the updated Holy Week calendar online: https://www.stannagoc.org/ (calendar link on the upper right.) PALM FOLDING WILL TAKE PLACE AFTER SERVICES ON SATURDAY, APRIL 16 STARTING AT ABOUT 11 AM. WE NEED YOUR HELP! (ALL AGES WELCOME.) Also, please note that the Holy Thursday evening service (12 Gospels) will start this year at 6:30 pm and the Agape Vespers on Easter Sunday will begin at 10 am.
PC CORNER
The Spring Parish Assembly is scheduled for TODAY, Sunday, April 10 after services. Please join us as we discuss the life and progress of our St. Anna Parish.
SAVE THE DATE! SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13 - 20TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION! His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America is expected to preside at services this day along with other clergy. We are planning a wonderful 20th Anniversary Luncheon locally for all to celebrate our 20th Anniversary together! More details soon...
CHURCH BEAUTIFICATION: The pew kneelers were installed on Monday, Feb. 27. Also, stained glass has been ordered and installation will begin soon. Thank you to all the donors who have made this possible.
PARISHIONER IN NEED: During Lent, as Orthodox Christians, we are called to strengthen our prayer life, intensify our fasting, and commit ourselves to almsgiving. When we think of almsgiving, we tend to associate it with supporting those who are in financial need. However, we can think in broader terms and consider helping those who have different types of needs.
Andrea Kalliaras is a parishioner within our Metropolis who has a health need. She has been diagnosed with a rare form of Leukemia that can only be cured by a stem cell transplant. We have an opportunity to help Andrea by volunteering to take a test to determine donor suitability. This 10-second cheek swab test can be done in the convenience of one's home and is free of charge. We ask that you please include Andrea in your prayers and consider participating in the donor process.
Please use the following link to learn more about Andrea's situation and to find the instructions for ordering a test kit. www.swab4andrea.com.
(See Fr. A for more info). Thank you.
Young Adults - Fr. A is helping to organize the Young Adult ministry in the region. Many events are being planned for our region! Please be sure that Fr. A has email and cell number of all our 18-35 year olds so that he can reach out to them. Thank you.
Philoptochos
Philoptochos has been reinvigorated to continue outreach where we can be of service to our St. Anna family as well as to our Hunterdon County community. Many parishioners (old and new friends) are Philoptochos members and enjoy this very important ministry of the church. If you are not a current member, Philoptochos invites you to become a member and welcomes your talents and support. For membership information and an enrollment form, please contact either Maria Tattoli at mtattoli@gmail.com or Arge Mardakis at mardakis@co.somerset.nj.us. We look forward to hearing from you.
For those that ordered Tsoureki, they will be available for pick up on Palm Sunday during fellowship.
Thank you to those that donated the baby items for the United Way. They are most appreciative.
Holy Friday-please join us after morning services to decorate the church and the kouvouklion. Bring your cutting tools. Feel free to share a Lenten snack. All are welcome.
Lastly, thank you to the PTO for supporting the Lenten retreat. Their generosity is appreciated for this yearly event.
Book Study: Last session before Easter! (7 to 8 pm each of these Thursdays via Zoom - please email Fr. A for the Zoom link.) April 14 - pgs 218-237
Key dates for Sunday School: Sunday, April 10: Walk Through Holy Week Retreat (during Sunday School and Fellowship Hour for all to enjoy). Saturday of Lazarus, April 16 (Palm Folding and Fellowship after services). May 22: Last Day of Sunday School. High School Senior Recognition Day.
OPEN GYM: for all youth on selected Sundays from 12:30 to 2 pm, restarting on May, 1!! GOYA - it's time to get together to prepare for the outdoor Olympics (Coed Volleyball) at Monmouth U. on Memorial Day Weekend! All youth are invited.
Beginning on Wednesday, March 9th, the remote classes started 30 minutes earlier. The 5:00 class will start at 4:30 pm and end at 5:30 pm. Additionally, the 6:00 class will start at 5:30 pm and end at 6:30 pm. This time change will be in effect from 3/9/22 through 4/13/22.
GREEK DANCE: (STARTED MONDAY, MARCH 28) after Greek School for 7th to 12th graders. See Fr. A today if interested. The more the merrier!
Please contact Larisa or Fr. A for more information about the Junior Greek Dance practices (OPA! Festival is always the 2nd weekend in September.)
Kidney Donor Needed for 18-year-old: Melina Galias of the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Egg Harbor Township, NJ has been on dialysis since June 2021. She has been accepted to Drexel University but needs a kidney transplant. Please register with VirtualHealth Kidney Donor Program on behalf of Melina. A donor must be older than 18 and in good overall health. A living donor is sought with O or B blood types. For more info re: registration --> virtua.org/KidneyDonation or call Jennie Roggio at 856-796-9376. Thank you.
From St. George GOC, Hamilton, NJ: We are looking for a part-time office administration assistant in the Hamilton church. (See Fr. A for full job description). Interested applicants should email a cover letter and resume to St. George’s Admin@stgeorgehamilton.com email address.
Byzantine Music Lenten Concert "The Book of Revelation" will take place on Friday, April 15, 2022, at the St. John the Theologian Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Tenafly, New Jersey, beginning at 7:00pm. For tickets please contact the St. John the Theologian Cathedral office at 201-567-5072. Thank you
Saints and Feasts
April 10
Gregory V, the Holy Martyr and Patriarch of Constantinople
April 10
150 and more Righteous Martyr Fathers of the Sacred Monastery of Pantocrator Daou Pentelis
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Epistle Reading
Prokeimenon. 1st Tone. Psalm 32.22,1.
Let your mercy, O Lord, be upon us.
Verse: Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous.
The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 9:11-14.
BRETHREN, when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) he entered once for all into the Holy Place, taking not the blood of goats and calves but his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. For if the sprinkling of defiled persons with the blood of goats and bulls and with the ashes of a heifer sanctifies for the purification of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
Gospel Reading
Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt
The Reading is from Mark 10:32-45
At that time, Jesus took his twelve disciples, and he began to tell them what was to happen to him, saying, "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death, and deliver him to the Gentiles; and they will mock him, and spit upon him, and scourge him, and kill him; and after three days he will rise." And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came forward to him, and said to him, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you." And he said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?" And they said to him, "Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory." But Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?" And they said to him, "We are able." And Jesus said to them, "The cup that I drink you will drink; and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized; but to sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared." And when the ten heard it, they began to be indignant of James and John. And Jesus called them to him and said to them, "You know that those who are supposed to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them. But it shall not be so among you; but whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. For the Son of man also came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
Hymns of the Day
Resurrectional Apolytikion in the 1st Tone
When the stone had been sealed by the Jews and the soldiers were guarding Thine immaculate Body, Thou didst arise on the third day, O Saviour, granting life unto the world. Wherefore, the powers of the Heavens cried out to Thee, O Lifegiver: Glory to Thy Resurrection, O Christ. Glory to Thy Kingdom. Glory to Thy dispensation, O only Friend of man.
Apolytikion for Sun. of St. Mary of Egypt in the Plagal 4th Tone
In thee the image was preserved with exactness, O Mother; for taking up thy cross, thou didst follow Christ, and by thy deeds thou didst teach us to overlook the flesh, for it passeth away, but to attend to the soul since it is immortal. Wherefore, O righteous Mary, thy spirit rejoiceth with the Angels.
Apolytikion for St. Anna (Dec. 9) in the 4th Tone
Today the bonds of childlessness are loosed; for God hearkened to Joachim and Anna. And though it was beyond hope, He clearly promised them that they should bear a divine child, from whom was born the Uncircumscribable One Himself Who became a mortal, and through an Angel commanded them to cry unto her: Rejoice, thou who art full of grace, the Lord is with thee."
Seasonal Kontakion in the 2nd Tone
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.
Wisdom of the Fathers
But let no man be troubled at the apostles being in such an imperfect state. For not yet was the cross accomplished, not yet the grace of the Spirit given. But if thou wouldest learn their virtue, notice them after these things, and thou wilt see them superior to every passion.
Homily 65 on Matthew 20, 2,3,4,6. B#54, pp.399-401,403., 4th Century
For with this object He reveals their deficiencies, that after these things thou mightest know what manner of men they became by grace. ... No one shall sit on His right hand nor on His left.
Homily 65 on Matthew 20, 2,3,4,6. B#54, pp.399-401,403., 4th Century