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Annunciation Church
Publish Date: 2021-05-23
Bulletin Contents
Parish Calendar
Sunday School Games
Parish News & Events
St. Photios National Shrine's Second Annual Commemoration of the Fall of Constantinople
Saints and Feasts
Hymns of the Day
Gospel and Epistle Readings
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Annunciation Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (231) 799-0185
  • Street Address:

  • 185 East Pontaluna Road

  • Muskegon, MI 49444

Contact Information

Fr. John Sakellariou


frjohn@orthodoxmuskegon.church | 716-730-1982

Fr. Basil Aden



Services Schedule

Orthros/Matins: Sunday, 9:00 AM
Divine Liturgy: Sunday, 10:00 AM

 

 

Past Bulletins


Parish Calendar

  • Parish Calendar

    May 23 to May 31, 2021

    Sunday, May 23

    9:00AM Matins Service (Orthros)

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy: Sunday of the Paralytic

    Sunday, May 30

    6 Month Memorial for Magdalene Afendoulis

    9:00AM Matins Service (Orthros)

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy: Sunday of the Samaritan Woman

    Monday, May 31

    Memorial Day - Church Office Closed

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Sunday School Games

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Parish News & Events

Sunday School

Sunday School will take place this Sunday following Holy Communion in the classrooms for all children in the 4th grade and under.


Philoptochos Board Elections

This Sunday, Philoptochos will hold board elections in the classrooms following Divine Liturgy and coffee hour.


Coffee Hour

This Sunday's outdoor coffee hour is sponsored by Nick Davros.

As the weather improves, we are looking for volunteers who would like to sponsor a Sunday coffee hour.  The signup sheet is located in the community hall or by clicking here.  Coffee hours can also be sponsored in which the parish will prepare and host the coffee hour on your behalf. Please see a parish council member in church or call the church office for more information.


Baptism of Emma Rose (Vasiliki)

Paul and Gina Demos would like to invite all parishioners to the baptism of their granddaughter Emma Rose (Vasiliki) on Sunday, June 13 following Divine Liturgy at 12:00 PM. All parishioners are invited to witness the sacrament and to join the Family for the luncheon to take place out on the community patio following the service. If you would like to attend the Baptism and the Luncheon, please contact Gina (708)-606-9942 or gina.demos@yahoo.com by June 6.


Upcoming Services

  • Apodosis of Pascha & Great Vespers for Holy Ascension – Wednesday, June 9th  @ 6:00 PM
  • Divine Liturgy for  Holy Ascension – Thursday, June 10th:  9:00 AM Orthros & 10:00 AM  Divine Liturgy.
  • Saturday of Souls Divine Liturgy- Saturday, June 19th: 9:00 AM Orthros & 10:00 AM  Divine Liturgy. Names can be emailed to Fr. John. 
  • Great Vespers for the Synaxis of the Twelve Holy Apostles – Tuesday, June 29th @ 6:00 PM
  • Synaxis of the Twelve Holy Apostles, - Wednesday, June 30th: 9:00 AM Orthros & 10:00 AM  Divine Liturgy.

Live Streaming for this Sunday's Divine Liturgy

Christ is Risen! Truly, He is risen!  ╬  Χριστὸς ἀνέστη! Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη!   

Hristos a înviat! Adevărat a înviat!

المسيح قام! حقا قام! 

Христос воскресе! Воистину воскресе!  

Cristo ha resucitado! Verdaderamente ha resucitado!

The Orthros and Divine Liturgy for Sunday will be streamed live around  8:30 AM. To access the stream please click here.

If you would like to pray along, click on the links below for the Sunday's service:


Metropolis of Detroit Summer Camp

Camper Registration is now open. Weekly camper capacity has been reduced, so it’ll be important to register early! The camp registrar will maintain a waitlist should your preferred week fill up.


Updated Parish Guidelines

GREEK ORTHODOX METROPOLIS OF DETROIT

COVD-19 Parish Procedures and Directives

Effective May 20, 2021

Due to the recent guidance offered by the CDC, the ensuing relaxation of restrictions in the states of the Metropolis of Detroit, and the recent guidelines from the Archdiocese (to the Direct Archdiocesan District), the Metropolis of Detroit will be following these new protocols beginning May 20th, 2021:

SECTION 1 – General Directives

  1. Masks  
    1. Those who are fully vaccinated may wear a face-covering and social distance but are no longer required to do so in churches.
    2. Those who have not been fully vaccinated are to continue wearing face-coverings and to practice social distancing to protect themselves and others in churches. Because a parish community – and our society – requires mutual trust and a commitment to the common good, each individual is asked to make the best decisions for himself as well as for others. Parishes do not have the responsibility to verify who is and who is not vaccinated.
  2. Capacity 
    1. For the protection of everyone, the parishes should remain seating people in every other pew until further notice.  While in the aisles waiting for Holy Communion or antidoron, the people should remain socially distanced.
  3. Sanitization 
    1. Keep the sanitization stations in place.

SECTION 2 – DIVINE SERVICES

  1. The churches should offer masks at the entrance of the church to those who want/need one.
  2. Anyone who is currently experiencing any symptoms of illness must stay at home.
  3. Until further notice, icons should not be reverenced with a kiss.
  4. Bulletins may be left for parishioners to pick-up at a suitable place in the narthex or nave.
  5. There will be no choirs until further notice.  
  6. Items to be distributed (Antidoron, Artous, Koliva) are to be prepared and individually bagged by one person wearing gloves and a mask. The priest may designate a person who is wearing gloves to distribute Koliva. 
  7. Donations or stewardship should be received in a centralized location. Traditional trays/baskets should not be passed. Online giving options are encouraged and should be referenced where available. 
  8. Outdoor fellowship hours are encouraged.  You may offer indoor coffee hours following restaurant seating protocols.  Coffee and food should be served by designated people wearing gloves (carafes already on the tables are acceptable). 

SECTION 3 – MINISTRY RE-OPENING

Below are guidelines for the re-opening of certain ministerial activities.  All activities must follow the general directives of Section 1 of this protocol.

  1. All ministries may resume.  Fully vaccinated people are not required to wear masks.  If you are not fully vaccinated, wear a mask.
  2. All reasonable efforts should be made to have a zoom option for meetings for participation of anyone not comfortable attending in-persons meetings.
  3. Hand-sanitizing stations must be in every room in which a gathering could take place, and everyone must use the sanitizer upon entrance to the room.
  4. Food and drinks are allowed, but they should be offered by designated people wearing gloves.
  5. If you are offering children’s ministries indoors already, nothing is to change as to how you currently offer them.  If you have not started offering in-person youth events, please note the following:
    1. Church School and Greek School programs may resume in-person classes after having submitted a plan of procedures and receiving permission from the Metropolis.  When preparing a plan of procedure to submit to the Metropolis assuring compliance with these directives, consider including the following:
      1. Procedures to avoid crowding, class starting and ending times, size of meeting spaces, layout of class space, etc.
      2. Limiting areas of possible virus transmission: shared supplies, etc.
      3. Ventilation: Doors/windows remaining open, etc.

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St. Photios National Shrine's Second Annual Commemoration of the Fall of Constantinople

    St. Photios National Shrine's Second Annual Commemoration of the Fall of Constantinople

    St. Photios National Shrine's Second Annual Commemoration of the Fall of Constantinople

    Saint Augustine, FL: On Saturday, May 29, 2021, at 8PM EST the Saint Photios Greek Orthodox National Shrine will livestream its second annual Commemoration of the Fall of Constantinople, “The City Lives,” online at St. Photios National Shrine Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/SaintPhotios. The event will feature musical performances by the famous Greek recording artist Glykeria.

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Saints and Feasts

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May 23

Sunday of the Paralytic

Close to the Sheep's Gate in Jerusalem, there was a pool, which was called the Sheep's Pool. It had round about it five porches, that is, five sets of pillars supporting a domed roof. Under this roof there lay very many sick people with various maladies, awaiting the moving of the water. The first to step in after the troubling of the water was healed immediately of whatever malady he had.

It was there that the paralytic of today's Gospel way lying, tormented by his infirmity of thirty-eight years. When Christ beheld him, He asked him, "Wilt thou be made whole?" And he answered with a quiet and meek voice, "Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool." The Lord said unto him, "Rise, take up thy bed, and walk." And straightaway the man was made whole and took up his bed. Walking in the presence of all, he departed rejoicing to his own house. According to the expounders of the Gospels, the Lord Jesus healed this paralytic during the days of the Passover, when He had gone to Jerusalem for the Feast, and dwelt there teaching and working miracles. According to Saint John the Evangelist, this miracle took place on the Sabbath.

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May 24

Symeon the Stylite of the Mountain

Saint Symeon, the "New Stylite," was born in Antioch; John his father was from Edessa, and Martha his mother was from Antioch. From his childhood he was under the special guidance of Saint John the Baptist and adopted an extremely ascetical way of life. He became a monk as a young man, and after living in the monastery for a while he ascended upon a pillar, and abode upon it for eighteen years. Then he came to Wondrous Mountain, and lived in a dry and rocky place, where after ten years he mounted another pillar, upon which he lived in great hardship for forty-five years, working many miracles and being counted worthy of divine revelations. He reposed in 595, at the age of eighty-five years, seventy-nine of which he had passed in asceticism.

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May 25

Third Finding of the Precious Head of St. John the Baptist

Because of the vicissitudes of time, the venerable head of the holy Forerunner was lost for a third time and rediscovered in Comana of Cappadocia through a revelation to 'a certain priest, but it was found not, as before, in a clay jar, but in a silver vessel, and "in a sacred place." It was taken from Comana to Constantinople and was met with great solemnity by the Emperor, the Patriarch, and the clergy and people. See also February 24.

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May 26

Carpos and Alphaeus, Apostles of the 70

This holy Apostle was numbered with the Seventy, and ministered unto the holy Apostle Paul, journeying with him and conveying his epistles unto those to whom they were written. He became Bishop of Beroea in Thrace, where he endured great tribulations while bringing many of the heathen to holy Baptism, and also suffered martyrdom there. Saint Paul mentions him in II Timothy 4:13.

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May 27

The Holy Hieromartyr Helladius

Concerning Saint Helladius, little is known except that he was a bishop who refused to sacrifice to idols, and that during his martyrdom our Lord Jesus Christ appeared to him and healed him of his wounds, after which he was cast into fire and was preserved unharmed, suffered further torments, and finally was beaten to death with the blows of fists.

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May 28

The Holy Hieromartyr Eutychius, Bishop of Melitene

All information concerning this Martyr has been lost, except that he presented himself before the tyrants, mocked the idols, suffered many unspeakable torments, and was finally drowned in the sea.

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May 29

Theodosia the Virgin-Martyr of Tyre

The holy Virgin Martyr Theodosia was born in Tyre of Phoenicia. At the age of eighteen she was seized in Caesarea of Palestine during a persecution and was brought before Urban the ruler. Because she refused to offer sacrifice to the idols, her sides and breasts were mercilessly scraped even to the inward parts and bones. She endured this in silence with astonishing courage. When Urban again asked her to sacrifice, she mocked him, and after being tormented even more horribly than before, she was cast into the sea in the year 308.

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Hymns of the Day

Apolytikion of Great and Holy Pascha in the Plagal First Mode

Christ is risen from the dead, by death, trampling down upon death, and to those in the tombs He has granted life.

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Third Mode

Let the heavens sing for joy, and let everything on earth be glad. * For with His Arm the Lord has worked power. * He trampled death under foot by means of death; * and He became the firstborn from the dead. * From the maw of Hades He delivered us; * and He granted the world His great mercy.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Plagal Fourth Mode

Though You went down into the tomb, You destroyed Hades' power, and You rose the victor, Christ God, saying to the myrrh-bearing women, "Hail!" and granting peace to Your disciples, You who raise up the fallen.
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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

Fifth Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from Luke 24:13-35

At that time, two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were kept from recognizing him. And he said to them, "What is this conversation which you are holding with each other as you walk?" And they stood still looking sad. Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?" And he said to them, "What things?" And they said to him, "Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, and how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him. But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since this happened. Moreover, some women of our company amazed us. They were at the tomb early in the morning and did not find his body; and they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. Some of those who were with us went to the tomb, and found it just as the women had said; but him they did not see." And he said to them, "O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?" And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

So they drew near to the village to which they were going. He appeared to be going further, but they constrained him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent." So he went in to stay with them. When he was at table with them, he took the bread and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to them. And their eyes were opened and they recognized him; and he vanished out of their sight. They said to each other, "Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the scriptures?" And they rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem; and they found the eleven gathered together and those who were with them, who said, "The Lord has risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!" Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he was known to them in the breaking of the bread.

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Third Mode. Psalm 46.6,1.
Sing praises to our God, sing praises.
Verse: Clap your hands, all you nations.

The reading is from Acts of the Apostles 9:32-42.

In those days, as Peter went here and there among them all, he came down also to the saints that lived at Lydda. There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years and was paralyzed. And Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; rise and make your bed." And immediately he rose. And all the residents of Lydda and Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord. Now there was at Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity. In those days she fell sick and died; and when they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room. Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him entreating him, "Please come to us without delay." So Peter rose and went with them. And when he had come, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him weeping, and showing tunics and other garments which Dorcas made while she was with them. But Peter put them all outside and knelt down and prayed; then turning to the body he said, "Tabitha, rise." And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter she sat up. And he gave her his hand and lifted her up. Then calling the saints and widows he presented her alive. And it became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.

Gospel Reading

Sunday of the Paralytic
The Reading is from John 5:1-15

At that time, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Hebrew called Bethesda which has five porticoes. In these lay a multitude of invalids, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water; for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool, and troubled the water; whoever stepped in first after the troubling of the water was healed of whatever disease he had. One man was there, who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him and knew that he had been lying there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be healed?" The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is troubled, and while I am going another steps down before me." Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your pallet, and walk." And at once the man was healed, and he took up his pallet and walked.

Now that day was the sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who was cured, "It is the sabbath, it is not lawful for you to carry your pallet." But he answered them, "The man who healed me said to me, 'Take up your pallet, and walk.' "They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your pallet, and walk'?" Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place. Afterward, Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse befall you." The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.

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