There will be NO coffee hour today and on the following Sundays due to Lions Games:
December 4^th & 11^th; and January 1^st.  Thank you for your kind understanding and consideration.

Our Fall General Assembly will be held on Sunday, November 13, 2022.

CRETAN ASSOCIATION will be having their annual Memorial, Artoklasia and coffee hour on Sunday, November 13, 2022.

The Annunciation Cathedral Family will be preparing 100 bagged lunches to feed the poor in November at St. Peter and Paul Orthodox Church in Detroit.  We are in need of donations and volunteers to prepare, assemble and deliver the food.  Preparation and bagging of the lunches will take place on Saturday, November 19^th in the Cathedral kitchen at 9:00am.  If we have enough helpers, the project will be complete by 10:30am.  On Sunday, November 20^th, we will need 3 people to deliver the food after the Divine Liturgy.  If you are able to help on either day, please email Will Lianos at wglianos67@gmail.com.

Checks for donations should be made out to the Annunciation Cathedral.  Thank you for your support of this great event that is organized by Alex Shashko every year.

The consulate General of Greece in Chicago - visit to Detroit on Saturday, November 19, 2022.
Please see "Bulletin inserts" page for more information or to book your appointment.

Bible study will begin mid-November, right around Christmas fast.  More details and information to follow in future bulletins.

One of the most important things we can do for our children is ensure that they learn about our Orthodox faith.  Religious education should be an important part of their lives.  Classes for the 2022-2023 Sunday School have begun and are available for students from pre-K (age 4) to 12th grade.  Also, if anyone is interested in becoming a Sunday School teacher, please contact Fr. George.

Your choir has begun another year in song and we invite you to join us – young and old are welcome in the choir loft.  We accommodate all levels of musicality, and you do not have to read Greek to sing.  We practice once or twice per month, and sing with our whole hearts.   If you have always wanted to try, come sing with us!  We encourage you to offer your talents to your church.   

“Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head:  they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.  Isaiah 51:11

Any questions can be directed to your nearest choir member or Kim Lianos at kim.lianos04@gmail.com.  

The 707 East banquet hall is back in operation! After a two-year break due to the pandemic, we are pleased to announce that we have partnered with Ernie's Catering to handle our catering needs and to oversee all aspects of 707 East. They come highly recommended and also handle the catering for St. Nicholas in Troy. For all your catering needs, call Ernie's direct at 586-286-8435.

 Our Philoptochos Membership Form is included in the insert section of the bulletin.

The Holy relic (‘Αγιo Λείψανο) of St. Andrew the Apostle will be on display in the reliquary of the Annunciation Cathedral of Detroit for embracement and veneration for whomever wishes to do so.

The Holy relics have been safe-guarded in the sanctuary of the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral for over one hundred years, and it is now the time for them to be venerated and presented to all the faithful Christians.

"As the Father has sent me, so I send you." John 20:21. Christian stewardship is a commitment to God through our time, talent, and treasure. Your 2022 Stewardship pledge card is available in the Narthex. Please take the time to complete your card and place it in the Stewardship box.

Please call Fr. Georgios Manias or the Church Office to schedule and confirm in advance, Sacraments and special Liturgical services, such as Memorials and Trisagion in order to honor your beloved ones. 

Meetings with Father Georgios Manias are by appointment only. Please schedule meetings through the church office or by contacting Father at 313-588-0829.  Thank you! 

Any individual wishing to schedule an appointment for Confession with Fr. Georgios Manias may do so by contacting Father at 313-588-0829.

Live streaming of the Annunciation Cathedral services begin at 10:00 a.m. every Sunday.  

Please go directly to our website: http://www.annunciationcathedral.org and click the link: Annunciation Cathedral Services.

http://www.annunciationcathedral.org/

Or, you can click on the following link to go directly to the "Donate" PayPal page:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=L5LRXU8CDMKJW&source=url

The Department of Religious Education (DRE) is pleased to announce the release of the 2023 St. John Chrysostom Oratorical Festival Topic Tips & Resources. Formerly known as ‘Topic Tips’ just for the youth participants, this year, the DRE has expanded it to ‘Topic Tips & Resources’ for participants, parents, mentors, GOYA advisors, and religious educators.

Father Constantine G. Shiepis of Canton, age 91, passed peacefully on Sunday, October 23rd, 2022 surrounded by his family.

Tomorrow is the Twenty-eighth of October – a solemn day for all Greeks around the world. For on this day, in the year 1940, the Greek People stood up for freedom and took their stand against tyranny.

We live today – both in Greece and in America – as free peoples, because of the sacrifice of others. They sowed the harvest of our liberty, as the Psalmist says, “with tears, and they wept as they cast their seeds” (Psalm 125:6-7, LXX). They sowed in cold and rain. They sowed in hunger and thirst. They sowed and fought and labored, experiencing horrific deprivations. Many died without seeing the final triumph over the Axis powers. But they knew in their hearts and in their very bones the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

We have chosen this day to bring you into the brotherhood of the clergy, because it is the day when my ordained name found its way into the mind and heart of our Ecumenical Patriarch. My baptismal name was Ioannis, so I feel a certain solidarity with you at this moment. You shall retain your name, as is the tradition for married clergy. But in doing so, I exhort you to consider carefully the great Forerunner and Baptizer of our Lord Jesus Christ, whose name you bear.

And my joy is made complete by the continuing spiritual happiness, occasioned by the 31st Anniversary of the Enthronement of the Spiritual Father of us all, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. The blessing of this longest tenure upon the See of the Holy Great Church of Christ is an ineffable blessing for both the Orthodox and secular worlds.