On Saturday May 7^th at 11am Timothy and Alexis (Galinis) Harris will baptize their daughter.

Participation in services is also available via livestream - go to: Home | St. Andrew Greek Orthodox Church (orthodoxws.com) and choose LIVESTREAM on the Menu bar 

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

Online Giving System: Website: https://www.standrewgonj.org/ and choose PayPal / online WeShare

Happy Mother’s Day to all our loving, wonderful mothers! 
May God bless you and keep you in His care!

Mother Of The Year : A woman from our parish who best exemplifies “Mother of the Year” has been chosen.  Our Philoptochos Committee will present her with a gift and a bouquet of flowers.  All the mothers in our parish will receive a carnation.  We wish them all blessings from the Lord above.

save the dates

Honoree Grand Banquet   Monday, May 9^th @ 6pm | Venetian in Garfield, NJ

Annual Tricky Tray Friday May 13^th at 6pm in the Saint Andrew gym

Hellenic Afternoon School Graduation Thursday May 26^th at 4:30pm

Greek Independence Day PARADE in NYC June 5^th 2022 at 1:30pm

Religious Education Graduation & Scholarship Awards Presentation on June 12^th

Saint Andrew Big Greek Festival 2022 JUNE ●17(Fri) ●18(Sat) ●19 (Sun)

60^th Anniversary Gala Sunday November 13^th at the Meadow Wood in Randolph NJ

Honoree Grand Banquet   Monday, May 9^th @6 pm | Venetian in Garfield, NJ : Saint Andrew Greek Orthodox church will honor only a few of the many hard working and dedicated parishioners of our community.  We will honor them in our church on Sunday May 22^nd after Divine Liturgy.

Greek Independence Day Parade - June 5^th in NYC : 

The Parade will take place on Fifth Avenue, rain or shine, on Sunday, June 5^th, 2022, at 1:30 p.m. Let us proudly celebrate the 200^th Anniversary of March 25, 1821, the start of the Greek War of Independence, the Bicentennial Celebration which we were not able to properly celebrate last year. Our church is organizing a bus trip to New York City. We plan on leaving church parking lot no later than 12:15 pm and returning about 6:00pm. Please make your Reservations

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using the Google Link above. Seating will be 1^st come, so make your Parade Reservations ASAP. We will be requesting $5 per student & $10 per adult. 

Big Greek Festival

We are looking forward to having our 50^th Big Greek Festival at Saint Andrew.  It is only possible with the contributions of our devoted volunteers, like you!  Please consider joining the festival team. 

Volunteering is a great opportunity to meet your fellow parishioners, to serve the church community, and to show pride in our Greek heritage and Orthodox faith. Come join us: A great fellowship event -- come make friends that last a lifetime! Volunteer Signup sheets are up by the church office.

Commercial business/services: for more information on how you or someone you know can join our Community Partners Program contact the church office. We have five different levels you can advertise your business to thousands of guests that come to our festival.

Philoptochos:

May 13^th Tricky Tray: our main fundraiser |proceeds to benefit Philoptochos charities Cann you help? Please contact mmichailidis@yahoo.com 

Saint Andrew Philoptochos Facebook Page:Please keep up with the news at our NEW Facebook Page by making a friend request to follow us.

Knitting & Crocheting & Pillow Ministries meet at @ 10:30am on the 1^st & 3^rd Wednesday of the month. Please join us on the 1^st and 3^rd Wednesday of the Month at 10:30am for knitting and or sewing. We need you to help us provide blankets, scarves, and pillows to the different organizations we are helping. Feel free to drop in for a cup of coffee …  we usually have little lunch a lot of laughs.

(LAP) Join us for Little Angels Playgroup! @9:30 am Fridays on May 6 & 20,  June 10 & 24  to attend or mro more information contactAthina amv1823@gmail.com  or  text 973-879-7095 

Hellenic Afternoon School  

Mondays  at 4:30pm for Jr.PK, PK, K, Levels 1 & 2.  

Thursdays at 4:30pm for Levels 3,4,5 and 6

Greek Dance Class: Thursdays for Group 1 at 5:45pm & for Group 2 and 6:30pm

GOYA GREEK DANCE:  Thursdays at 7:30pm 

Christ is Risen! When we think about the resurrection of Christ, we think about our Lord in all of His glory rising from the grave on a Sunday morning. We think about his power over death. We also think about how He said, “I am the way the truth and the life.” Our Lord is so magnificent in all His works, in wisdom He has made everything. When I think about the beauty and the wonder of our Lord I think about all of His miracles and healings, and life changing teachings.

One such miracle is the raising of Jairus’ daughter. On a busy day, with a crowd of people on all sides, a man named Jairus, who was a ruler of the synagogue, fell down at Jesus’ feet and begged Him to come to his house, for he had an only daughter about twelve years of age, and she was dying. Before Jesus could answer Jairus with the people all pushing around, a woman, who had a flow of blood for years, reached out and touched the hem of His garment. Power went away from Christ and healed the woman. Christ stopped everything to find out who touched him. When the woman realized that He knew about her healing she fell at His feet and revealed to all that it was to her that the healing had taken place. And He said to her, “Daughter, be of good cheer; your faith has made you well. Go in peace.” Just then, a servant from Jairus’ house said to him, your daughter is dead do not trouble the teacher anymore. But when Jesus heard it, He answered him, saying, “Do not be afraid; only believe, and she will be made well.” When Jesus got to the house He took Peter, James and John and the girl’s parents into the room where the girl was lying and he took her by the hand and said, “Little girl, arise.” And then her spirit returned and she arose!

The people who had once mocked Jesus for saying that she would be alright must have marveled and praised God. Their faith was in a coma, (a death like sleep), but it’s as if He were speaking to all of them when He spoke to the little girl commanding her to rise up. It’s as if He were commanding their faith to rise up and become a living and thriving faith. The truth is that He is indeed speaking to all of us when commands a dormant and weak faith in each one of us to rise up.

Our faith should rise up in each of us as the myrrh bearing women, who arose early on a Sunday morning on the third day after their master and Lord had been crucified. They rose up and went to the tomb to properly anoint their Lord, and to their astonishment they found the stone rolled away and an empty tomb. They began to weep and search, wondering what has happened to the Lord. Then Mary Magdaline spoke to someone whom she believed was the gardener. And only as Christ called her name did she turn and recognize that was Him. Then she cried out “Rabboni Master.” Everything began to make sense and she and the other myrrh bearing women understoond and believed in the resurrection of Christ.

Each Sunday in the Orthodox Church is a celebration of the Resurrection of Christ, but we should treat each day as an opportunity to remember and celebrate the resurrection of our Lord. One author wrote concerning the Resurrection, “Thou too, Thou didst arise. Thou didst leave the sleep of death. Thou didst arise, living and glorious. And the glory of thy resurrection rests over each of our mornings… Lord, let no new day come to illumine my life without my thought going out to thy Resurrection, and without my going out, in spirit, with my poor spices, to the empty tomb in the Garden.

For it is the Risen Christ who comes to me each day at dawn. Whatever difficulties there may be, whatever dangers, each of my days will start radiantly if I remember- with my whole soul and all my thought- that my Savior has conquered the powers of evil and death. My first act of faith, each morning, will be an act of faith in Thy final victory,” (In Thy Presence, by Fr. Lev Gillet, page141, 1977, SVS Press). Each day should for us be another victory of faith added to the many victories that won throughout His time here on earth; like the raising of Jairus’ daughter. Our faith should reawaken as the myrrh bearing women arose early in the morning and as Jairus’ little daughter came back to life. Christ arose early morning on Pascha so that one day we would resurrect also.

Friends in Christ I pray that the experience of our Lord’s Resurrection will be for all of us a life changing event which transforms each day of our life into a celebration of the risen Lord, and a daily reawakening of our faith in God. O Lord, we pray that you raise our faith as you have raised Jairus’ little daughter and help us to change our life and grow as you helped Mary Magdaline. Amen.

Sunday’s Coffee Hour May 8^th

Is hosted by Parish Council in honor Mother’s Day

Bagels are donated by Jimmy Psaras of ALFA BAGELS on Route 10 in Randolph, NJ

Coffee is donated by Aristotle Leontopoulos of Coffee Associates in Edgewater, NJ

HOSTING ON: 5/15 GOYA, 5/22 DOP & AHEPA Memorial, 5/29 Bakaliko,   6/5 Philoptochos, 6/12 DOP, 6/19 FESTIVAL,

WEEKLY SCHEDULE

Monday 5/9

@8am Lifeline Screening

@4:30pm HAS CLASSES: JPK, PK, K, L1, L2

@6pm 2022 Northern New Jersey Honoree Grand Banquet /The Venetian, Garfield, NJ

Tuesday 5/10

@7:30pm GOYOA SOCCER

@10pm Orthodox Theology -SHORT COURSE| 1^st of 6 @7-9 PST | Registration Required

Wednesday 5/11

Pillow & Knitting Ministry meet

Thursday 5/12

@5:45 Greek Dance Class Group 1 | @6:30pm Greek Dance Class Group 2

@7:30pm GOYA GREEK Dance Practice

Friday 5/13

@10am Bible Study also on 5/20

@6pm Tricky Tray

Saturday 5/14

GOYA Metropolis Soccer Tournament in Wall Township              

Sunday 5/15 Sunday of the Paralytic +Orthros 8:15am & DL of SJC @9:30am

Memorial Service: + Vasiliki Grapsas, +Hristos Kalavriziotis

@2pm Baptism

Monday 5/16

2022 Metropolis of New Jersey Clergy Laity Assembly and Philoptochos Convention 

@8pm Parish Life: Stewardship topics will be discussed on Mondays at 5pm PST :
 May 16 I June 20 | July 18 I September 19 | October 17 I November 21 | December 19  

Tuesday 5/17

Wednesday 5/18  Mid-Pentecost +Orthros 8 am & DL of SJC @9am

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

Please keep these names in your prayers 

Sophia, Tara, children and families of Ukraine, Ioanna, Landon, Lueda, Evangelia, Christine,  Vasiliki, Anastasia, Aikaterini, Cynthia, Demetrios, Robin,  Paraskevi, Nikoletta, Theodore, Eleni, Athena, Katerina, Sophia, Eleni, Corinne, Maria, Ioannis, Michael, Eleana, Demetra, Kenneth, Eleni, Anastasios,  Gregory, John, Marny,  Chari, Nikolaos, Janet, Melissa, Marty, Andreas, Fotini, Georgia, Pamela, Haralambos, Photeine, Christina, Michael, Adrianne, George, Anastasia, Nicholas, Michael, Alexandra, Sofia, Joseph, Vasilios, Robert, Chrisopigi, Guadalupe, Barbara, Ioannis, Margaret, Ava, Venessa, Chris, Dominic, Ralph, Ralph L,  Elenitsa, Sophia, ….

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.