Attending services at Saint Andrew

Below are the links for upcoming services.

Registration to services will be open until allowed seating has been reached.

Just Click on the Eventbrite Link  below and make your Reservation.

You will then get a confirmation that you may attend the service. For Sunday’s Liturgy please come to church by 10:15am. Late arrivals will lose their reservation if we have people waiting to be seated.  If you are not able to attend please cancel your reservation.

If you are having problems with link or do not have access to the internet call the church office 973-584-0388 (leave a message and we’ll get back to you).

Saturday, 12/12

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/130123915133

+Saint Spyridon the Wonderworker of Trymithous

@8am Orthros & @9am Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom

*Divine Liturgy Youth & Family Worship for Sunday School Students & Families @9am

SUNDAY, 12/13 

 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/130125535981

 +11^th Sunday of Luke

 @8:45am Orthros & @10:15am Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom

 A 40 Day Memorial service will be held on Sunday for the repose of the soul of +Thalia  Arvanitis, beloved wife of Konstantine and devoted mother of George Arvanitis and Vasiliki Kazoglou, grandmother of Michelle, Kosta and Christopher 

 A Three-Year Memorial service will be held for the repose of the soul of +Nick Bardis beloved husband of Elizabeth. 

 May their memory be eternal.

Tuesday, 12/15

 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/130126865959

 +Saint Eleutherios the Holy Martyr

 @8am Orthros & @9am Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom

 *Youth & Family Worship:  Inlieu of an in-person or virtual Sunday School, the Religious Education Department is offering Youth Family Worship on select Saturdays each month. We encourage all our families to join us on these Saturday mornings. The Religious Education Department is focusing on “Family & Orthodoxy” as a way to bring our Orthodox Faith into the home and have a comprehensive spiritual life on the daily. Additional materials/lessons will be provided during  these services.

Prayers/Liturgy can  always be found at: https://www.agesinitiatives.com/dcs/public/dcs/dcs.html 

Stewardship 2020 Update

As of December 10^th  a total of 376 families committed $318,428 towards their membership in the church. 59 families gave $25,575 without a pledge and 318 families pledged $293,503 ($30,144 unfulfilled to date). The average pledge for the year 2020 is $929.

If you have not submitted your stewardship 2020 or fulfilled your commitment to Saint Andrew, please do so as our ministries depend on your support.

Stewardship 2021 Update

On December 10, 2020 58 families made their 2021 Pledge to Saint Andrew Greek Orthodox Church totaling $80,518.  The average pledge for 2021 is $1388

Saint Andrew Philoptochos Christmas Card: Please contact a Philoptochos member to participate. Deadline for greetings is December 14, 2020

Saint Andrew Family News issues are on our Web site :  https://www.standrewgonj.org/

 Attending services at Saint Andrew

1. Wear your mask throughout the service

2. Social distancing is 6 feet please

3. No seating where indicated..

At this phase, our Church occupancy is limited during the  service and is on a first come, first serve basis and we will adhere to the protocols outlined in our web site. In order to attend a service you MUST pre-register using the link which will become available a few days prior to the service or by calling the church during office hours (If NO Answer: please leave a message and we will return your call). You will then get a confirmation that you may attend the service. Please bring that with you when you come to church. If you are not able to attend, we invite you to participate in the celebration of the Divine Services through live streaming services that are available.

 Live Stream of Services : From the Church's Facebook Page

Prayers/Liturgy can always be found at: https://www.agesinitiatives.com/dcs/public/dcs/dcs.html

 Light a Virtual Candle

We know we can't physically be at church, but if you're following the live video stream of the services and would like to continue to light a candle as you "enter" the church or would like to "drop some money in the basket" please consider a donation by lighting a "virtual candle".

Just go to the church's Facebook page and select "posts". You can light your virtual candle via the Facebook donate button which you should be able to see.

If you don't have Facebook or prefer not to donate through Facebook, you can always go to the Saint Andrew Website and select either PayPal or WeShare from the home page.

Father John will pray for the living and the reposed during Liturgy.

Just email him at prayersstandrew@gmail.com  PLEASE indicate Living or Reposed 

Saint Spyridon, December 12th 

By Photios Kontoglou

Saint Spyridon is one of the most honored saints of the Orthodox Church, whom Christians call upon in situations, as is St. Nicholas, St. George and St. Demetrios. Kerkyra has his precious relics, just as Zakynthos has the relics of St. Dionysios and Kefallonia has St. Gerasimos.

He was born on the island of Cyprus, of poor parents. This is why in his younger years he was a shepherd who kept sheep. He was very simple in his thinking just like the fishermen Christ chose to make his disciples. When he came of age, he married, and after some years he widowed, and so great were his virtues that they made him bishop in a city called Trymithounda, even though he was completely illiterate.

Receiving this spiritual office in the time of Emperor Constantine the Great, he became even more simple and humble, and shepherded his reasonable flock which Christ entrusted to him with love, though was strict if needed for their salvation. He was a protector of the poor, a father of orphans, a teacher of sinners. And he had such purity and holiness that he was given the grace from above to work many miracles, which is why he is called "the Wonderworker". With his prayers he would gather the clouds and it would rain on the dry earth, he healed the sick, and he punished deceptive people, as he did with certain black marketers for whom he tore down their storage barns in which they kept the wheat even though the people were dying of hunger, and they were crushed together with the wheat. And despite this he lived in such poverty that when a poor man went to him for help to pay a debt, he had nothing to give him, and by a miracle he made a snake that was in the area into gold, gave it to the poor man, he melted it, and payed off his debt. Another time a cataclysm occurred and the rivers flooded the area, but when St. Spyridon prayed, the waters pulled back and the land that was flooded dried up. He healed also the Emperor Constantius who came down with an incurable illness, a deacon who became dumb he made well, evil and greedy people he punished with supernatural strength, and other innumerable miracles did he also perform so that the lawless and unrighteous may fear him and have him as a protector and refuge. But he always had great love and sympathy towards sinners, which is why when certain robbers went one night to steal sheep from his pen, which he managed in order to help the hungry, they went blind and could not escape, crying out for mercy. The saint did not only restore their sight, but gave them also a ram because, as he told them, they suffered all night, and since he exhorted them to be good people, he sent them back to their homes without letting anyone know of the robbery they wanted to commit. He also foretold things before they occurred with exactness, making the people wonder whether he was a superhuman personality, since from a shepherd he was found worthy to achieve such heights. And at the First Ecumenical Synod which took place in Nicaea, St. Spyridon was among the three hundred and eighteen God-bearing Fathers, and though illiterate, he shut the mouth of the heresiarch Arius who was the most learned of all the bishops present.


Throughout his whole life he did not cease to perform miracles. The greatest was that of the resurrection of his dead daughter who arose from her tomb and gave witness to the place she had left some money which belonged to another woman, and afterwards she fell back asleep. Another time a woman whose child just died went to the saint, and implored him with many tears to resurrect him, so accustomed were the people to the miracles of the saint. And he resurrected him through his prayers. When the mother saw the child alive, the same died out of her great joy. And St. Spyridon resurrected the mother as well.

Word of these great miracles spread throughout the world, and St. Spyridon, while still alive, was honored as a saint and wonderworker. And till this day he works many miracles in his shrine which is the treasure of the citizens of Kerkyra.

When he liturgized, angels stood around him which many of the pious Christians saw with their own eyes; and when he said "Peace be to all" the Angels responded "And with your spirit" instead of the chanters. And he was showered in supernatural light.

 Memorial Service +Vasilios “Bill” Paleokostas   + Aikaterini & +Demetrios Rotsides, +Demetrios Rotsides +Mary & +Andreas Boyadjis , +Maria + Ioannis +Panagiota Mpakarakis

 12/22 +St. Anastasia the Great Martyr

12/24 +Eve Of The Nativity Of Christ, +Eugenia The Righteous |Orthros, Great Hours, Great Vesperal Liturgy of St. Basil the Great

12/25 +Holy Nativity Of Our Lord Orthros & Divine Liturgy of SJC @6pm

12/27 Sunday After Nativity |+St. Stephen, Archdeacon & First Martyr

12/27 Memorial Service: +Katie Sedereas, +Petra Knox, +Gregory_+Photini ‘Sikolas & +Konstantinos_+Garifalia Skoufi 

12/31 Circumcision Of Our Lord & Commemoration St. Basil | Great Vespers @3:30pm 

2021

1/1 Circumcision Of Our Lord & Commemoration Of  St. Basil @8:45am

1/3 Sunday before Epiphany

1/5 Eve of the Theophany of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: + Orthros, Great Hours, Great Vespers, & Divine Liturgy Of St. Basil The Great, Great Agiasmos  (Fasting Day) 

1/6 Holy Theophany, Baptism Of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ , Orthros, 

Divine Liturgy & The Great Agiasmos

1/7 The Synaxis Of The Holy Prophet +St. John The Baptist

1/10 Sunday after Epiphany

 1/10 Memorial Service: +Anastasios "Ernie" Stamoutsos 

1/17 12^th Sunday of Luke | +St. Anthony the Great

1/18 +St. Athanasios the Great & Cyril, Patriarchs of Alexandria

1/20 + St. Euthymios the Great

1/23 Divine Liturgy Youth & Family Worship @ 9:00AM

1/24 14^th Sunday of Luke 

1/30 +Synaxis of The Three Hierarchs: |+Basil the Great, +Gregory the Theologian, & +John Chrysostom

1/31 15^th Sunday of Luke 

If you would like us to remember you or your loved one in our prayers, please contact the office. 973-584-0388 or send us an email to info@standrewgonj.org 

Names will be kept on this list for approximately 3 months. Please resubmit Names if needed.   Fr. John will pray for the Names above during the Proskomide “Offering of gifts” during the first part of the Divine Liturgy when our priest prepares the mystical gifts of bread and wine. Please keep these names in your prayers as well.

Vasiliki, Christina, Eleni, Fr. Konstantine, Prz Spiridoula, Margaret, Linda, Margaret, Jeremy, Angeliki, Alexandra, Nikolaos, Ismini, Kyriacos, Olga, Antonia, Angeliki, Constantinos, Panagiotis, Fevronia, Maria, Anastasia, Kleio, Sofie, Marina, Vasiliki, Klaus, Lori, Despina, Bob, Isabella, Julie, Kyriaki, Sergios, Nikoletta, Roger, Constantinos, Ioanna, Alexandra, Dimitri, Maria, Eleni, Anastasia, George,  Vasiliki, Jeff, George, Eugenia, Joanna, Eliana, Constantinos, Elena, Nicholas, Konstantinos, Georgia, Vasileke, Jutta, Irene, George, Eftihia, Athena, Christina, Athanasios,  Anna, John, Rick, Christine, John, Freda, Estelle, Christina, Fotios, Julie, Joanna, Efthymios, Evangelos, John, Joanna, Lisa, Rich, Magdalini, Irini, Christos, Fr. Christos, Nancy, Brian, Thomas, Vasilios,  Evanthia, , John, Stavroula, Anna Christina, Manny, Mary, George, Susan, Dimitrios, Peter, Michael, Ryan, Ioannis, Monica, Katerina, Tasia, Christina, Andrew, Andrew, Margaret, Eleni, Paraskevi, Panagotis, Maria, Caroline, Demetrios, Konstantinos, Susan, Afrodite, Aristea, Konstantinos, George, Mary, Holly, Gary, Roye, Christos, Panagiota, Anna, Panagiotis, John, Nicos, Hannah, Christos, Theoseva, George, Genevieve, Christine, Anna, Louis, Marilyn, Suriana, Antonios, John, Maria, Dimitry, Elias, George, Kyriaki, John,  Evmorfia….

Prayer for a Sick Person:

Heavenly Father, physician of our souls and bodies, who have sent Your only-begotten Son and our Lord Jesus Christ to heal every sickness and infirmity, visit and heal (me) Your servant from all physical and spiritual ailments through the grace of Your Christ. Grant (me) patience in this sickness, strength of body and spirit, and recovery of health.  Lord, You have taught us through Your word to pray for each other that we may be healed.  I pray that You heal (me) as Your servant and grant (me) the gift of complete health. For You are the source of healing and to You I give glory, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen