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 add someone to the prayer list.
Let us pray to the Lord for the health and salvation of: Suffering and persecuted Christians in the Middle East and the non-Christian world, Virginia, George, Vaia, Maria, Constantino, Panagiotis, Peter, Zoë, Penelope.
We will keep the names 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 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, 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 this week: Elyse & Anthony Vlahos, Kristina & Brian Wittig, Nancy & Eric Angelucci, Charlotte & Demetrios Varoumas, Andrea & Alan Gnessin, Theresa & Markos Hatzis, Sofia & Leontios Bougioukas, Stella & Vasilis Bekos, Dawn & Dimitrios Loizos, Aspasia & Stephen McGrath, Daphne & Demetrios Melekos.
Χρόνια πολλά & ευλογημένα! God grant you many years! To those who are celebrating birthdays this coming week: Emilia Alfaro, Costas Grigorakakis, Mihalis Louvaris, Michelle Marmarou, Kalliopi Melekos, Katherine Moore, Kostas Sfiridis, Nicholas Calliagas, Anthony Kosmatos, Andara Quigley, Jonathan Torres, Anastasia Voutsinas, Dimitrios Voutsinas, Eleni Apostolidis, Evangelia Avrich, Elaine Dietz, Marisa Downie, Yanni Mamounas, Marina Stolarczyk, Alexa Vassilakis, Harisios Hirst, George Johns, Theodora Kastanos, Arianna Olga Kosoglou, Despina Sourias, Kristina Wittig, Thomsen Ray Cummings, Jordan Demetris, Kaliopi Hionas, Ekaterini Hirst, John Kanakis, Nicole Kosmatos, Elyse Vlahos, Heather Christodoulakis, Andreas McKendry, Nikolas Vargas, Nina Borras, John Telegadis, Katherine Zanikos.
Our deepest sympathy to the Lambrou family for the passing of their beloved husband, father, son, brother, and uncle, Dimitri P. Lambrou, 50, of blessed memory. May his memory be eternal.
Friends and family are welcome to attend his viewing on Monday 10/11/21 from 10 am to 11:30 am at the Annunciation/Evangelismos Church, 7921 Old York Rd. Elkins Park, PA 19027. His funeral service will follow at 11:30 am. His interment will be private.
Please see his obituary here https://www.vraimfh.com/obituary/Dimitri-Lambrou
His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America will welcome His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to the United States for an official visit which will begin on October 23, 2021 and continue through November 3, 2021. The visit, originally scheduled for May 2020, was postponed due to the worldwide pandemic. This is the third official visit of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to the United States.
This week’s “How-to” Green Your Parish episode features Angeliki Brouard “Greening your Parish - Going Solar”
On Friday, October 1, 2021, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America visited the Holy Protection Monastery of the Theotokos in White Haven, Pennsylvania and celebrated the Divine Liturgy together with His Grace Bishop Athenagoras of Nazianzos and clergy from the surrounding area, on the occasion of the Monastery’s feast.