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Annunciation/Evangelismos Church, Elkins Park, PA
Publish Date: 2019-07-14
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Weekend Update
Saints and Feasts
Hymns of the Day
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Community News & Events
Greek School News
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Focus on Our Church Family
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese News
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Annunciation/Evangelismos Church, Elkins Park, PA

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (215) 635-0316
  • Fax:
  • (215) 635-8301
  • Street Address:

  • 7921 Old York Road

  • Elkins Park, PA 19027

Contact Information

Presiding Priest: Rev. Fr. John L. Johns


frjohn@anngoc.org | (215) 635-0316

Services Schedule

We meet for divine worship every Sunday morning starting with Orthros (Matins) 8:30, Divine Liturgy 9:30-11AM, followed by a fellowship hour in our community center. All are invited!

Please see Community Calendar for a complete listing of all weekday feast-days and worship services.

Past Bulletins


Weekend Update

 Sunday of the Holy Fathers, July 14, 2019

 Κυριακὴ τῶν Ἁγίων Πατέρων. Το κήρυγμα ΕΔΩ

  • 8:30 am MATINS, 9:30 am DIVINE LITURGY
  • Memorial prayers are offered today for the repose of the soul of Elizabeth Onassis of blessed memory (40-day). Relatives and friends are invited to attend.
  • The artoklasia (offering of five loaves, wine, and oil) is offered for health and salvation by the Giannoumis family for the feast of Agia Marina, July 17.
  • The fellowship hour is hosted by GOYA.
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
  • 7 pm Parish Council meeting.
Next Sunday, 5th Sunday of Matthew, July 21, 2019
  • 8:30 am MATINS, 9:30 am DIVINE LITURGY
  • Memorial prayers will be offered for the repose of the souls of Demetrios Golias (40-days), and Nicholas Hadgimallis (1-year) of blessed memory. Relatives and friends are invited to attend.
  • The artoklasia (offering of five loaves, wine, and oil) will be offered for health and salvation by the Niamonitos & Ballas families for the feast of Agia Markella, the Virgin-martyr of Chios, July 22.
  • The fellowship hour will be hosted by the Greek School.
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Saints and Feasts

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July 14

Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the 4th Ecumenical Council

On the Sunday that falls from the 13th to the 19th of the present month, we chant the Service to the 630 Holy and God-bearing Fathers who came together for the 4th Ecumenical Council who assembled in Chalcedon in 451, to condemn Eutyches, who taught that there was only one nature, the divine, in Christ after the Incarnation, and Dioscorus, Patriarch of Alexandria, who illegally received Eutyches back into communion and deposed Saint Flavian, Patriarch of Constantinople, who had excommunicated Eutyches.

In the Slavic tradition, on this Sunday, the Fathers of the first six Ecumenical Councils are all commemorated.

Allsaint
July 14

Aquila the Apostle among the 70

Saint Aquila, who was from Pontus of Asia Minor, was a Jew by race and a tent-maker by trade. In the year 52 he and his wife Priscilla were in Corinth when Saint Paul first came there. They gave him hospitality, and the Apostle remained with them for many days, himself working at the same trade as they (Acts 18:2-3). And having believed in Christ through Paul, they followed him from that time on, working together with him and suffering perils with him for the sake of the preaching of the Gospel, as he himself testifies concerning them in his Epistle to the Romans, saying: "Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my helpers in Christ Jesus: who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the nations" (Rom. 16:3-4). When and where they reposed is unknown.

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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Third Mode

Let the Heavens rejoice; let earthly things be glad; for the Lord hath wrought might with His arm, He hath trampled upon death by death. The first-born of the dead hath He become. From the belly of Hades hath He delivered us, and hath granted great mercy to the world.
Εὐφραινέσθω τὰ οὐράνια, ἀγαλλιάσθω τὰ ἐπίγεια, ὅτι ἐποίησε κράτος, ἐν βραχίονι αὐτοῦ, ὁ Κύριος, ἐπάτησε τῷ θανάτῳ τὸν θάνατον, πρωτότοκος τῶν νεκρῶν ἐγένετο, ἐκ κοιλίας ᾅδου ἐρρύσατο ἡμᾶς, καὶ παρέσχε τῷ κόσμῳ τὸ μέγα ἔλεος.

Apolytikion for Sun. of the Holy Fathers in the Plagal Fourth Mode

Most glorified art Thou, O Christ our God, Who hast established our Fathers as luminous stars upon the earth, and through them didst guide us all to the true Faith. O Most Merciful One, glory be to Thee.
Ὑπερδεδοξασμένος εἶ, Χριστὲ ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, ὁ φωστῆρας ἐπὶ γῆς τοὺς Πατέρας ἡμῶν θεμελιώσας, καὶ δι' αὐτῶν πρὸς τὴν ἀληθινὴν πίστιν, πάντας ἡμᾶς ὁδηγήσας· πολυεύσπλαγχνε, δόξα σοι.

The Apolytikion of the Annunciation/Evangelismos in the Fourth Mode

Today is the summary of our salvation, and the revelation of the age-old mystery. For the Son of God becomes the Son of the Virgin, and Gabriel announces the good news of grace. Therefore, let us join him, and cry  aloud to the Theotokos: “Rejoice, Maiden full of grace! The Lord is with you.”

Cήμερον τῆς σωτηρίας ἡμῶν τὸ Κεφάλαιον, καὶ τοῦ ἀπ' αἰῶνος Μυστηρίου ἡ φανέρωσις, ὁ Υἱὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ, Υἱὸς τῆς Παρθένου γίνεται, καὶ Γαβριὴλ τὴν χάριν εὐαγγελίζεται. Διὸ σὺν αὐτῷ τῇ Θεοτόκῳ βοήσωμεν· Χαῖρε Κεχαριτωμένη, ὁ Κύριος μετὰ σοῦ.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Second Mode

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.
Προστασία τῶν Χριστιανῶν ἀκαταίσχυντε, μεσιτεία πρὸς τὸν Ποιητὴν ἀμετάθετε. Μὴ παρίδῃς ἁμαρτωλῶν δεήσεων φωνάς, ἀλλὰ πρόφθασον, ὡς ἀγαθή, εἰς τὴν βοήθειαν ἡμῶν, τῶν πιστῶς κραυγαζόντων σοι· Τάχυνον εἰς πρεσβείαν, καὶ σπεῦσον εἰς ἱκεσίαν, ἡ προστατεύουσα ἀεί, Θεοτόκε, τῶν τιμώντων σε.
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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Plagal Second Mode. Psalm 31.11,1.
Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O righteous.
Verse: Blessed are they whose transgressions have been forgiven.

The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to Titus 3:8-15.

Titus, my son, the saying is sure. I desire you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to apply themselves to good deeds; these are excellent and profitable to men. But avoid stupid controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels over the law, for they are unprofitable and futile. As for a man who is factious, after admonishing him once or twice, have nothing more to do with him, knowing that such a person is perverted and sinful; he is self-condemned.

When I send Artemas or Tychicos to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there. Do your best to speed Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way; see that they lack nothing. And let our people learn to apply themselves to good deeds, so as to help cases of urgent need, and not to be unfruitful.

All who are with me send greeting to you. Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.

Προκείμενον. Plagal Second Mode. ΨΑΛΜΟΙ 31.11,1.
Εὐφράνθητι ἐπὶ Κύριον, καὶ ἀγαλλιᾶσθε δίκαιοι.
Στίχ. Μακάριοι, ὧν ἀφέθησαν αἱ ἀνομίαι.

τὸ Ἀνάγνωσμα Πρὸς Τίτον 3:8-15.

Πιστὸς ὁ λόγος, καὶ περὶ τούτων βούλομαί σε διαβεβαιοῦσθαι, ἵνα φροντίζωσιν καλῶν ἔργων προΐστασθαι οἱ πεπιστευκότες θεῷ. ταῦτά ἐστιν καλὰ καὶ ὠφέλιμα τοῖς ἀνθρώποις · μωρὰς δὲ ζητήσεις καὶ γενεαλογίας καὶ ἔριν καὶ μάχας νομικὰς περιΐστασο, εἰσὶν γὰρ ἀνωφελεῖς καὶ μάταιοι. αιῥετικὸν ἄνθρωπον μετὰ μίαν καὶ δευτέραν νουθεσίαν παραιτοῦ, εἰδὼς ὅτι ἐξέστραπται ὁ τοιοῦτος καὶ ἁμαρτάνει, ὢν αὐτοκατάκριτος. Ὅταν πέμψω Ἀρτεμᾶν πρὸς σὲ ἢ Τυχικόν, σπούδασον ἐλθεῖν πρός με εἰς Νικόπολιν, ἐκεῖ γὰρ κέκρικα παραχειμάσαι. Ζηνᾶν τὸν νομικὸν καὶ Ἀπολλῶν σπουδαίως πρόπεμψον, ἵνα μηδὲν αὐτοῖς λείπῃ. μανθανέτωσαν δὲ καὶ οἱ ἡμέτεροι καλῶν ἔργων προΐστασθαι εἰς τὰς ἀναγκαίας χρείας, ἵνα μὴ ὦσιν ἄκαρποι. Ἀσπάζονταί σε οἱ μετ ᾽ἐμοῦ πάντες. Ἄσπασαι τοὺς φιλοῦντας ἡμᾶς ἐν πίστει. ἡ χάρις μετὰ πάντων ὑμῶν.

Gospel Reading

Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the 4th Ecumenical Council
The Reading is from Matthew 5:14-19

The Lord said to his disciples, "You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid. Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven. Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven."

Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the 4th Ecumenical Council
Κατὰ Ματθαῖον 5:14-19

Εἶπεν ὁ Κὐριος τοῖς ἑαυτοῦ μαθηταῖς· ῾Υμεῖς ἐστε τὸ φῶς τοῦ κόσμου. οὐ δύναται πόλις κρυβῆναι ἐπάνω ὄρους κειμένη· οὐδὲ καίουσι λύχνον καὶ τιθέασι αὐτὸν ὑπὸ τὸν μόδιον, ἀλλ᾿ ἐπὶ τὴν λυχνίαν, καὶ λάμπει πᾶσι τοῖς ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ. οὕτω λαμψάτω τὸ φῶς ὑμῶν ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ὅπως ἴδωσιν ὑμῶν τὰ καλὰ ἔργα καὶ δοξάσωσι τὸν πατέρα ὑμῶν τὸν ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς. Μὴ νομίσητε ὅτι ἦλθον καταλῦσαι τὸν νόμον ἢ τοὺς προφήτας· οὐκ ἦλθον καταλῦσαι, ἀλλὰ πληρῶσαι. ἀμὴν γὰρ λέγω ὑμῖν, ἕως ἂν παρέλθῃ ὁ οὐρανὸς καὶ ἡ γῆ, ἰῶτα ἓν ἢ μία κεραία οὐ μὴ παρέλθῃ ἀπὸ τοῦ νόμου ἕως ἂν πάντα γένηται. ὃς ἐὰν οὖν λύσῃ μίαν τῶν ἐντολῶν τούτων τῶν ἐλαχίστων καὶ διδάξῃ οὕτω τοὺς ἀνθρώπους, ἐλάχιστος κληθήσεται ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ τῶν οὐρανῶν· ὃς δ᾿ ἂν ποιήσῃ καὶ διδάξῃ, οὗτος μέγας κληθήσεται ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ τῶν οὐρανῶν.

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Community News & Events

Orthodox Christian Fellowship (OCF)

The First Forty Days: High School to College Transition

Research has shown that many college students form the habits and social groups that they will maintain for the entirety of their college career in the first six weeks of their freshman year.

If you have a freshman going to college this August, be sure to connect them with the local OCF chapter HERE.


Preparing for Your Summer Get-Away?


2019-2020 Youth Ministries Registration Now Open

We are blessed here at Annunciation/Evangelismos Church with many Christ-centered Youth Ministries, headed by faithful and caring parishioners who have completed background clearances based on Pennsylvania state laws.

We invite you to visit our website and learn more about each Annunciation Youth Ministry: PTO, Catechism School, Little Apostles, JOY/HOPE, GOYA,  Greek School, Greek Folk Dance.

You will see that the following goals are at the core of every Youth Ministry:

  • Reach out to young people to help them grow in God’s love.
  • Assist our youth in understanding and deepening their faith.
  • Provide a place of Christian acceptance and Christian role models.
  • Help our youth to build a community with their peers in our church.
  • Provide opportunities for young people to share in the ministry of the church and develop a willingness to serve the needs of others.

Why Youth Registration?

We request every young person participating in youth ministry (regardless of how much or how little) to be registered through the parish office. The information allows us to have home/emergency information on hand as well as birth dates and interests of each youth involved.

We kindly ask you to register now to give us time to organize our volunteers and be ready to welcome our youth in September.

The online 2019-2020 Youth Ministries Registration Form takes just a few moments to complete from any computer or mobile device. Youth Ministry events will be included as soon as they are scheduled on our web calendar.

Annunciation Youth Ministries are led by parent volunteers and we encourage you to get involved in Youth Ministry with your child.  Please review the various Youth Ministries on our website and don’t hesitate to reach out to Fr. John if you are able to assist.


Philoptochos News & Events

Philoptochos 2019 - 2021 Board of Directors

Congratulations to the newly elected Officers and Members of the Ladies Philoptochos 'Nausica' Board of Directors for the 2019-2021 term.

President - Stella Fisfis
1st Vice President - Cathy Avgiris
2nd Vice President - Maria Mountis 
Treasurer - Maria Grigorakakis 
Assistant Treasurer - Olga Econome
Recording Secretary - Stella Nikolopoulos 
Corresponding Secretary - Patra Karidas
Advisor - Diane Saphos 

Board Members: Debra Exarchos, Polly Georgiou, Joyce Gutchigian, Mary Jaxheimer, Kiki Malitas, Maria McNally, Dora Mikroulis, Toula Pithis, Vaso Trifonidis, Kathy Verros, Angela Vlahos.

 Heartfelt Thanks ~ Ευχαριστώ

We extend our heartfelt thanks and sincere appreciation to the following outgoing Board members for your many years of dedicated service, and the sharing of your time and talent as members of the Ladies Philoptochos 'Nausica' Board of Directors:
Argie Fentross, Peggy Lambrou, Lina Paidas, Dea Papadopoulos.


In Honor of the Dormition of the Mother of God, August 15*

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Paraklesis/Supplication Prayers to the Mother of God will be prayed on:
  • Thursday, August 1,  6:30 pm.
  • Friday, August 2, 10 am.
  • Monday, August 5, 6:30 pm with vespers of Transfiguration.
  • Wednesday, August 7, 6:30 pm.
  • Thursday, August 8, 10 am.
  • Friday, August 9, 6:30 pm.
  • Monday, August 12, 6:30 pm.

Please bring the names of your loved ones (living) to be lifted up in prayer during these services. Bilingual booklets will be available so we can sing/pray these services together.

Great Vespers will be prayed on Wednesday, August 14, at 6:30 pm. Please let us know in advance of you would like to offer artoklasia -the blessing of the bread, wine & oil- for health and salvation of your family in honor of the Dormition Feast.

The Feast Day Orthros & Divine Liturgy will be celebrated on Thursday, August 15th starting at 8:30 am. Join us for a  luncheon afterward offered by Philoptochos.

 *The Fast of the Dormition of the Theotokos begins on August 1st and follows the fasting guidelines of Great Lent.
 

Liturgical Items Needed

  • Prosforo (offertory bread for the Eucharist). Please see Diane Tzouras, or Dea Papadopoulos, if you can offer your baking talents in this ministry.
  • Charcoal briquettes & Incense.  Donations are preferred since we purchase a specific kind of charcoal & incense.

2019 Summer Volunteer Opportunity

Office volunteers are needed to cover the parish office for a few days during the summer.

Light office work such as answering the phone, assisting Fr. John, greeting visitors, sorting mail, and small projects as assigned.

Please review the available days HERE and sign up. The 9-3 time slot is flexible.

Thank you!


Reminders

Bulletin Announcements: During the summer months, please submit your material via email to office@anngoc.org by Monday 12 noon for the upcoming Sunday’s bulletin.   All submissions will be placed on a first-come, first-served, space available basis and all submissions are subject to editing and review.
Sunday Special Services: Please contact the parish office at least two weeks in advance if you would like to have a 40-day Mother & Child Blessing, Memorial, or Artoklasia. All requests are considered based on the ecclesiastical calendar.

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Greek School News

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Greek School Registration

Registration is OPEN for Greek School for the year 2019-20

Children Pre-K to 6th Grade & Adult Classes

Sign up HERE

ALL REGISTRANTS MUST BE PAID IN FULL BY SEPTEMBER

*NEW* Offering Beginner Adult Classes

Every Friday from 7 pm to 9 pm

 

Οι εγγραφές είναι ΑΝΟΙΧΤΕΣ για το Ελληνικό Σχολείο για το έτος 2019-20

Παιδικές Τάξεις Προ-Κ έως 6ης & Μαθήματα Ενηλίκων

Εγγραφείτε ΕΔΩ

Τα δίδακτρα πρέπει να καταβληθούν πλήρως τον Σεπτέμβριο

 

*Προσφέρουμε Μαθήματα Ενηλίκων Beginner Greek

κάθε Παρασκευή από τις 19:00 έως τις 21:00

Help Needed

Our Greek School is looking for a music/vocal instructor who would be interested in volunteering twice a month with our 4th to 6th grade Greek School students. Please contact Debbie Sourias for more information debbie.thomadi@gmail.com or 215.407.1872.

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Focus on Our Church Family

Celebrations, Milestones, Gratitude, Comfort & Support

Pastoral care:

If you or someone you know is sick, homebound elderly, or scheduled for surgery, please call the church office to let us know so Fr. John can make a pastoral visit, or to add someone to the prayer list.

Let us pray to the Lord for health and salvation:

Suffering and persecuted Christians in the Middle East and the non-Christian world, Antonios, Anthony, Debora, Despina, Peter, Nikolaos.

Names will be kept on this list for approximately 3 months. Please resubmit Names if needed. Fr. John will include the submitted names at the Psokomide “Offering of Gifts” during the first part of the liturgy when he prepares the mystical gifts of bread & wine. Please lift these names up to the Lord in your personal prayer life as well.

Prayer for healing: Heavenly Father, physician of our souls and bodies, who have sent our Lord to heal every sickness. Visit and heal us. Grant patience in this sickness, the strength of body and spirit, and recovery of health. Lord, You have taught us to pray for each other that we may be healed. We pray that You heal, guide and protect your servant (s) (pray by name for those who are sick) and grant them the gift of complete health. You are the source of healing and to You we give glory, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen

Happy wedding anniversary! To those celebrating next week:

Vellios, Jonathan & Sarah; Cunningham, Randy & Kalli; Economopoulos, Nicholas & Beverly; Ferello, Stephen & Christine; Rega, Kevin & Joanna; White, Darren & Angelique; White, Michael & Georgette.

Χρόνια πολλα!  Happy birthday!   God grant you many years!  To those celebrating next week:

Angelina Costa,  Helen Giannakopoulos,  Sanja Economou, Alexis Vaganos, Marika Karivalis, Nick Kontogeorgos, Sarah Mazenko, Julia Giannoumis, Maria Gonzales, Magda Pappas, Anthony Prousi, Anna Zacharcenko, Alexia Bougioukas, Christos Dinoulis, Dimitrios Loizos, Steve Vaganos, Jonathan Vellios, Jasmine Vlahos, Devon Niamonitos, Christos Bazalekos.

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Greek Orthodox Archdiocese News

Archbishop Elpidophoros Visits the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of New Gračanica

07/09/2019

NEW YORK – During his multi-day visitation of the Metropolis of Chicago over the Fourth of July weekend, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophros of America, accompanied by Metropolitan Nathanael of Chicago, made a pilgrimage to the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of New Gračanica-Midwestern America.
https://www.goarch.org/-/archbishop-elpidophoros-visits-the-serbian-orthodox-diocese-of-new-gracanica

Archbishop Elpidophoros Praises the Work of the Clergy Laity Assembly of the Atlanta Metropolis

06/29/2019

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America travelled yesterday, June 28, to Jacksonville, Fla. where the Clergy-Laity Assembly of the Holy Metropolis of Atlanta is taking place June 25-29. The theme of the Assembly is “Go into all the world and proclaim the Good News to the whole creation” (Mark 16:15).
https://www.goarch.org/-/archbishop-elpidophoros-praises-the-work-of-the-clergy-laity-assembly-of-the-atlanta-metropolis
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