General Information
- Phone:
- (732) 775-2777
- Fax:
- (732) 775-0109
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Street Address:
- 1033 West Park Avenue
- Ocean, NJ 07733
- Mailing Address:
- 1033 West Park Avenue
- Ocean, NJ 07733
Contact Information
Past Bulletins
- Publish Date:
- 2025-06-29
- Publish Date:
- 2025-06-22
- Publish Date:
- 2025-06-15
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- 2025-06-08
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- 2025-06-01
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- 2025-05-25
Hymns of the Day
Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Third Tone
Apolytikion to St. George in the First Tone
Liberator of captives, defender of the poor, physician of the sick, and champion of kings, O trophy-bearer, Great Martyr George, intercede with Christ God that our souls be saved.
Seasonal Kontakion in the Second Tone
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Epistle Reading
Prokeimenon. Third Tone. Psalm 46.6,1.
Sing praises to our God, sing praises.
Verse: Clap your hands, all you nations.
The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 6:18-23.
Brethren, having been set free from sin, you have become slaves of righteousness. I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once yielded your members to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now yield your members to righteousness for sanctification.
When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. But then what return did you get from the things of which you are now ashamed? The end of those things is death. But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the return you get is sanctification and its end, eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Προκείμενον. Third Tone. ΨΑΛΜΟΙ 46.6,1.
Ψάλατε τῷ Θεῷ ἡμῶν, ψάλατε.
Στίχ. Πάντα τὰ ἔθνη κροτήσατε χεῖρας.
τὸ Ἀνάγνωσμα Πρὸς ῾Ρωμαίους 6:18-23.
Ἀδελφοί, ἐλευθερωθέντες δὲ ἀπὸ τῆς ἁμαρτίας, ἐδουλώθητε τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ. Ἀνθρώπινον λέγω διὰ τὴν ἀσθένειαν τῆς σαρκὸς ὑμῶν· ὥσπερ γὰρ παρεστήσατε τὰ μέλη ὑμῶν δοῦλα τῇ ἀκαθαρσίᾳ καὶ τῇ ἀνομίᾳ εἰς τὴν ἀνομίαν, οὕτως νῦν παραστήσατε τὰ μέλη ὑμῶν δοῦλα τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ εἰς ἁγιασμόν. Ὅτε γὰρ δοῦλοι ἦτε τῆς ἁμαρτίας, ἐλεύθεροι ἦτε τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ. Τίνα οὖν καρπὸν εἴχετε τότε ἐφʼ οἷς νῦν ἐπαισχύνεσθε; Τὸ γὰρ τέλος ἐκείνων θάνατος. Νυνὶ δὲ ἐλευθερωθέντες ἀπὸ τῆς ἁμαρτίας, δουλωθέντες δὲ τῷ θεῷ, ἔχετε τὸν καρπὸν ὑμῶν εἰς ἁγιασμόν, τὸ δὲ τέλος ζωὴν αἰώνιον. Τὰ γὰρ ὀψώνια τῆς ἁμαρτίας θάνατος, τὸ δὲ χάρισμα τοῦ θεοῦ ζωὴ αἰώνιος ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ τῷ κυρίῳ ἡμῶν.
Gospel Reading
4th Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 8:5-13
At that time, as Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, beseeching him and saying, "Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, in terrible distress." And he said to him, "I will come and heal him." But the centurion answered him, "Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I am a man under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to one, 'Go,' and he goes, and to another, 'Come,' and he comes, and to my slave, 'Do this,' and he does it." When Jesus heard him, he marveled, and said to those who followed him, "Truly, I say to you, not even in Israel have I found such faith. I tell you, many will come from east and west and sit at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth." And to the centurion Jesus said, "Go; be it done for you as you have believed." And the servant was healed at that very moment.
4th Sunday of Matthew
Κατὰ Ματθαῖον 8:5-13
Τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ, εἰσελθόντι δὲ αὐτῷ εἰς Καπερναοὺμ προσῆλθεν αὐτῷ ἑκατόνταρχος παρακαλῶν αὐτὸν καὶ λέγων· Κύριε, ὁ παῖς μου βέβληται ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ παραλυτικός, δεινῶς βασανιζόμενος. καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς· ἐγὼ ἐλθὼν θεραπεύσω αὐτόν. καὶ ἀποκριθεὶς ὁ ἑκατόνταρχος ἔφη· Κύριε, οὐκ εἰμὶ ἱκανὸς ἵνα μου ὑπὸ τὴν στέγην εἰσέλθῃς· ἀλλὰ μόνον εἰπὲ λόγῳ, καὶ ἰαθήσεται ὁ παῖς μου. καὶ γὰρ ἐγὼ ἄνθρωπός εἰμι ὑπὸ ἐξουσίαν, ἔχων ὑπ᾿ ἐμαυτὸν στρατιώτας, καὶ λέγω τούτῳ, πορεύθητι, καὶ πορεύεται, καὶ ἄλλῳ, ἔρχου, καὶ ἔρχεται, καὶ τῷ δούλῳ μου, ποίησον τοῦτο, καὶ ποιεῖ. ἀκούσας δὲ ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς ἐθαύμασε καὶ εἶπε τοῖς ἀκολουθοῦσιν· ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, οὐδὲ ἐν τῷ ᾿Ισραὴλ τοσαύτην πίστιν εὗρον. λέγω δὲ ὑμῖν ὅτι πολλοὶ ἀπὸ ἀνατολῶν καὶ δυσμῶν ἥξουσι καὶ ἀνακλιθήσονται μετὰ ᾿Αβραὰμ καὶ ᾿Ισαὰκ καὶ ᾿Ιακὼβ ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ τῶν οὐρανῶν, οἱ δὲ υἱοὶ τῆς βασιλείας ἐκβληθήσονται εἰς τὸ σκότος τὸ ἐξώτερον· ἐκεῖ ἔσται ὁ κλαυθμὸς καὶ ὁ βρυγμὸς τῶν ὀδόντων. καὶ εἶπεν ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς τῷ ἑκατοντάρχῳ· ὕπαγε, καὶ ὡς ἐπίστευσας γενηθήτω σοι. καὶ ἰάθη ὁ παῖς αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ ὥρᾳ ἐκείνῃ.
News & Events
Welcome to Saint George Orthodox Church!!!
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Sunday, July 6, 2025, 4th Sunday of Matthew
8:30 am Orthros
9:30 am Divine Liturgy
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Memorials
Vasilios Goutos ~ 40 days
Efrosini Goutos ~ 1 year
May their memory be eternal
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Today we commemorate:
Sisoes the Great
Holy Apostles Archippus, Philemon & Onesimus
Loukia the Virgin-martyr, Rixios & the 24 Companion Martyrs
Juliana the Virgin-martyr
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Welcome Newcomers & Visitors!
Liturgical services are live streamed
Live Stream on Facebook, link for services
(Facebook membership NOT required)
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or visit our website: www.stgeorgeap.org & click on Live Stream
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Visit our website for daily/monthly list of Name Days
Wish 'Xronia Polla' to those celebrating!
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Today's Coffee Hour is sponsored in loving memory of
Vasilios Goutos & Efrosini Goutos
by their Family
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"Light A Candle & Say A Prayer" for Today's Liturgy. Visit our webpage https://saintgeorgenj.square.site/ & include names so Father Andrew may silently pray for them during Liturgy
To Light a Candle
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Each Sunday we celebrate the One who paid the ultimate price of crucifixion, death and resurrection so we can have life everlasting, Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, to those that have submitted and are paying their stewardship commitment.
As many travel during the summer months, please attend services via Facebook or YouTube, Say a prayer, light a candle, and if you haven't yet, make your Stewardship commitment-online with a credit or debit card, cash or check in the office. The air conditioning will be on, our staff and volunteers will be serving and God will be glorified all summer long.
"Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so that there may be food in My house. And try Me in this, says the Lord of hosts, If I will not open the windows of Heaven and pour you such blessing that there will not be enough room to receive it," Malachi 3.10
Wishing you all God's blessings,
St. George Stewardship Committee
Stewardship forms available in church office, Narthex, or accessed through the church website ~ You can also connect to Vanco, our current online-giving vendor, by visiting www.stgeorgeap.org. ONLINE GIVING
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**Save the Date**
Patriarchal Great Doxology
Welcoming His All Holiness
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I
on His Apostolic Visit to the United States
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 ~ 10:00 A.M.
Greek Orthodox Metropolis of New Jersey
St. Katherine Greek Orthodox Church, Falls Church, Virginia
Further information is forthcoming
See flyer below
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HOLY METROPOLIS OF NJ ~ CAMP GOOD SHEPHERD
July 13 - 19, 2025
Registration form for GOYA aged Youth ~ See below
Application for Camp Staff ~ See below
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Philoptochos August Bake Sale 2025
Order by Friday, July 25, 2025
Pickup on Saturday, August 2 ~ 11:00 am - 12 noon
See flyer & order form below
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Philoptochos Annual Luncheon 2025 ~ Saturday, November 1
'Luncheon at Tiffany's'
Celebrated at the Grand Marquis in Old Bridge, NJ
Gift Auction
See flyer below
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**** New Ministry **** Prosforo Baking!!!
No experience necessary!
Need more info? Contact Claire Chrysanthopoulos: (732) 236-9405
SignUp Genius Link ~ Link contains recipe on baking Prosforo
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St. George Security!!
~~~ Propping of doors is NOT permitted ~~~
~~~ Bags & Backpacks might be subject to inspection ~~~
Constant reinforcement of security measures & procedures always maintain a trouble free environment for our community!!! Please be vigilant!!!
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St. George Iconography
List of available Icons on our website ~ AVAILABLEICONS
We ask those of you who have pledged to please fulfill your pledge - To those of you who have not yet contributed, please join us - In addition, the Gold Leaf Program or any donation you would like to offer to the Community Icon is available - Contact Athena Loesch or Anne Papageorge
Thank you for your generosity
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St. George Beacon Advertising ~ Contact
Marguerite in the Church Office: 732-775-2777
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Fellowship of Prayer
Use this link to pray for those who are in need of prayer at this time
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The Mustard Seed Bookstore
Open Sundays following Divine Liturgy
Or weekdays during office hours, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
For inquiries, contact Faye Deet [email protected]
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Bible Study
Tuesday, July 8, 2025, 7:00 pm via zoom
Book of the Prophet Hosea, Chapters 13-14
Flyers
Save the Date - HAH Ecumenical Patriarchal Bartholomew Visit to Falls Church, VA
Save the Date HAH Ecumenical Patriarchal Bartholomew Visit to Falls Church, VA Wednesday, September 17, 2025 ~ 10:00 A.M
NJ Metropolis Camp Good Shepherd 2025 Registration
NJ Metropolis Camp Good Shepherd 2025 Registration for GOYA aged Youth
NJ Metropolis Camp Good Shepherd 2025 Camp Staff Application
NJ Metropolis Camp Good Shepherd 2025 Camp Staff Application
Philoptochos Annual Luncheon 2025 Save the Date
Philoptochos Annual Luncheon 2025 Save the Date
Philoptochos August Bake Sale 2025
Philoptochos August Bake Sale 2025 Order form