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Annunciation Church
Publish Date: 2019-08-04
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Annunciation Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (603) 742-7667
  • Street Address:

  • 93 Locust Street

  • Dover, NH 03820


Contact Information



Services Schedule

Matins
9:00 am

Liturgy
10:00 am

 



Other Parish Info
Directions: from Boston - take Rte 95 into NH, bear left on Rte 16 in Portsmouth, get off at Exit 8E for downtown Dover and turn left at the second light on Locust St. (follow public library sign). Go past the church on your left and turn left into the public library parking.

Father's Office Hours: M,T,W,& Fr 10:00am - 4pm
Secretary Office Hours:(Summer) Tues-Fri  9:30am - 12:30pm


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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Plagal Second Tone

When the angelic powers appeared at Your grave, the soldiers guarding it feared and became as dead. And standing by the sepulcher was Mary who was seeking Your immaculate body. You devastated Hades, not afflicted by it. You went to meet the virgin, and granted eternal life. You resurrected from the dead. O Lord, glory to You.
Ἀγγελικαὶ Δυνάμεις ἐπὶ τὸ μνῆμά σου, καὶ οἱ φυλάσσοντες ἀπενεκρώθησαν, καὶ ἵστατο Μαρία ἐν τῷ τάφῳ, ζητοῦσα τὸ ἄχραντόν σου σῶμα. Ἐσκύλευσας τὸν ᾍδην, μὴ πειρασθεὶς ὑπ' αὐτοῦ, ὑπήντησας τῇ Παρθένῳ, δωρούμενος τὴν ζωήν, ὁ ἀναστὰς ἐκ των νεκρῶν, Κύριε δόξα σοι.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Grave Tone

You were transfigured upon the mount, O Christ our God, and Your disciples, in so far as they could bear, beheld Your glory. Thus, when they see You crucified, they may understand Your voluntary passion, and proclaim to the world that You are truly the effulgence of the Father.
Επί τού όρους μετεμορφώθης, καί ως εχώρουν οι Μαθηταί σου τήν δόξαν σου, Χριστέ ο Θεός εθεάσαντο, ίνα όταν σε ίδωσι σταυρούμενον, τό μέν πάθος νοήσωσιν εκούσιον, τώ δέ κόσμω κηρύξωσιν, ότι σύ υπάρχεις αληθώς, τού Πατρός τό απαύγασμα.
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Prayer List

Please pray for our brothers and sisters: James,  Elizabeth, Tom, Kostas,  William, Alexandra, Rita, John, Mikaela, Connor, James, Bobbie, Peter,  Vasili, Sophia, Rachel, Nicole,  Christine,  Michael, Irina,  Abigail, Shirley, Bridie, Christopher, Malina, Andrew, Vera, Erin, Paula,  Milton, Galini, Yevgeniy, Alexey, Nadia, Vasiliki, Diane, Deborah, Phillip,  Jim,  Jave, Demetrios, George, Kathy, Elaina,  Panagiota, Conan, Hosea, John, Jo Anne, Bill, James, Colleen, Barbara, Theophana, Paul, Tasso, Roula, Thomas,  Jim, Prescott, Sze, Prudence, Brittany, Dionysios, Konstantinos, Evangelia, Nikolaos, Penny, Taki, Maki, Andre, Pavlos.

If you or a loved one is going through a difficult time and would like the community to pray for you, please call the office and request to be added on the prayer list.  We will list the first names only in the weekly bulletin for six months, or until you ask to be removed from the list.  I will also make a special mention of the Orthodox names at the Proskomede. 

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Saints and Feasts

Twoblindmen
August 04

7th Sunday of Matthew


Transfiguration
August 06

Transfiguration of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

Our Lord had spoken to His disciples many times not only concerning His Passion, Cross, and Death, but also concerning the coming persecutions and afflictions that they themselves would endure. Since all these evils were near at hand, but the enjoyment of good things which they hoped to receive in their stead was yet to come, our Savior desired to give them full assurance, evidently and openly, concerning that glory which is prepared for those who endure to the end. Therefore, fulfilling that which He had promised shortly before, that "there be some standing here which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in His Kingdom" (Matt. 16:28), He took His three foremost disciples and ascended Mount Tabor, where He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became white as the light. Suddenly, together with this dread and marvelous effulgence of light, there appeared those pinnacles of the Prophets, Moses and Elias, who spoke with the Lord Jesus concerning His saving Passion which was about to take place. Standing before Him as reverent servants, they showed that He is the Lord of both the living and the dead, for Moses came forth from Hades, having died many centuries before, and Elias, as it were from heaven, whither he had been taken up while yet alive. After a little while a radiant cloud overshadowed them and out of the cloud they heard that same voice which had been heard at the Jordan at the Baptism of Christ, testifying to the Divinity of Jesus and saying: "This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well-pleased; hear ye Him" (Matt. 17: 5).

Such are the marvels, truly worthy of God, celebrated in this present feast, which is an image and prefiguring of the future state of the righteous, whose splendor the Lord spoke of, saying: "Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun" (Matt. 13:43). It is because of this that the Kontakion of this Feast is said daily (when there is not a great feast) in the Service of the Typica in perpetual commemoration of the glory that will be the lot of the Saints. According to tradition, the Lord's Transfiguration came to pass forty days before His Crucifixion; this is why the Transfiguration is celebrated forty days before the Exaltation of the Cross.


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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Epistle Reading

7th Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 15:1-7

Brethren, we who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves; let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to edify him. For Christ did not please himself; but, as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached thee fell on me." For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that by steadfastness and by the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope. May the God of steadfastness and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Welcome one another, therefore, as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.

7th Sunday of Matthew
Πρὸς ῾Ρωμαίους 15:1-7

Ἀδελφοί, ὀφείλομεν δὲ ἡμεῖς οἱ δυνατοὶ τὰ ἀσθενήματα τῶν ἀδυνάτων βαστάζειν, καὶ μὴ ἑαυτοῖς ἀρέσκειν. Ἕκαστος ἡμῶν τῷ πλησίον ἀρεσκέτω εἰς τὸ ἀγαθὸν πρὸς οἰκοδομήν. Καὶ γὰρ ὁ Χριστὸς οὐχ ἑαυτῷ ἤρεσεν, ἀλλά, καθὼς γέγραπται, Οἱ ὀνειδισμοὶ τῶν ὀνειδιζόντων σε ἐπέπεσον ἐπʼ ἐμέ. Ὅσα γὰρ προεγράφη, εἰς τὴν ἡμετέραν διδασκαλίαν προεγράφη, ἵνα διὰ τῆς ὑπομονῆς καὶ διὰ τῆς παρακλήσεως τῶν γραφῶν τὴν ἐλπίδα ἔχωμεν. Ὁ δὲ θεὸς τῆς ὑπομονῆς καὶ τῆς παρακλήσεως δῴη ὑμῖν τὸ αὐτὸ φρονεῖν ἐν ἀλλήλοις κατὰ Χριστὸν Ἰησοῦν· ἵνα ὁμοθυμαδὸν ἐν ἑνὶ στόματι δοξάζητε τὸν θεὸν καὶ πατέρα τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ. Διὸ προσλαμβάνεσθε ἀλλήλους, καθὼς καὶ ὁ Χριστὸς προσελάβετο ὑμᾶς, εἰς δόξαν θεοῦ.


Gospel Reading

7th Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 9:27-35

At that time, as Jesus passed by, two blind men followed him, crying aloud, "Have mercy on us, Son of David." When he entered the house, the blind men came to him; and Jesus said to them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this?" They said to him, "Yes, Lord." Then he touched their eyes, saying, "According to your faith be it done to you." And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly charged them, "See that no one knows it." But they went away and spread his fame through all that district.

As they were going away, behold, a dumb demoniac was brought to him. And when the demon had been cast out, the dumb man spoke; and the crowds marveled, saying, "Never was anything like this seen in Israel." But the Pharisees said, "He casts out demons by the prince of demons."

And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every infirmity among the people.

7th Sunday of Matthew
Κατὰ Ματθαῖον 9:27-35

Τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ, παράγοντι ἐκεῖθεν τῷ ᾿Ιησοῦ ἠκολούθησαν αὐτῷ δύο τυφλοὶ κράζοντες καὶ λέγοντες· ἐλέησον ἡμᾶς, υἱὲ Δαυΐδ. ἐλθόντι δὲ εἰς τὴν οἰκίαν προσῆλθον αὐτῷ οἱ τυφλοί, καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς· πιστεύετε ὅτι δύναμαι τοῦτο ποιῆσαι; λέγουσιν αὐτῷ· ναί, Κύριε. τότε ἥψατο τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν αὐτῶν λέγων· κατὰ τὴν πίστιν ὑμῶν γενηθήτω ὑμῖν. καὶ ἀνεῴχθησαν αὐτῶν οἱ ὀφθαλμοί· καὶ ἐνεβριμήσατο αὐτοῖς ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς λέγων· ὁρᾶτε μηδεὶς γινωσκέτω. οἱ δὲ ἐξελθόντες διεφήμισαν αὐτὸν ἐν ὅλῃ τῇ γῇ ἐκείνῃ.

Αὐτῶν δὲ ἐξερχομένων ἰδοὺ προσήνεγκαν αὐτῷ ἄνθρωπον κωφὸν δαιμονιζόμενον· καὶ ἐκβληθέντος τοῦ δαιμονίου ἐλάλησεν ὁ κωφός, καὶ ἐθαύμασαν οἱ ὄχλοι λέγοντες ὅτι οὐδέποτε ἐφάνη οὕτως ἐν τῷ ᾿Ισραήλ. οἱ δὲ Φαρισαῖοι ἔλεγον· ἐν τῷ ἄρχοντι τῶν δαιμονίων ἐκβάλλει τὰ δαιμόνια.

Καὶ περιῆγεν ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς τὰς πόλεις πάσας καὶ τὰς κώμας διδάσκων ἐν ταῖς συναγωγαῖς αὐτῶν καὶ κηρύσσων τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τῆς βασιλείας καὶ θεραπεύων πᾶσαν νόσον καὶ πᾶσαν μαλακίαν ἐν τῷ λαῷ.


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General Announcements

Coffee Hour: There will be no coffee hour today.

Church Services this week:

Please note: NO MONDAY PARAKLESIS SERVICE

¨ Tuesday, August 6th at 9:30am  Holy Transfiguration

¨ Wednesday, August 7th at 7pm  Paraklesis Service.

¨ Friday, August 9th at 7pm  Paraklesis Service.

Orthodox Life & Bible Study: will be off from now  through the summer. We will resume in September.

Coffee & Chat:  Wednesday, August 7th at 10:30am.

Festival Meeting: Thursday, August 8th at 6:30 pm

Festival Cooking Workshops:  Please see below  for dates and times. All workshops will take place at the Hellenic Center.

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August 15, 2019

Dormition of the Theotokos

Divine Liturgy will be held at  9am 

The Dormition Church 

In Somersworth Tates Brook Road

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Outreach Coffee & Chat , & Senior Luncheon 

 Coffee & Chat  Wednesday, August 7th  10:30am-11:30am

Monthly Senior Luncheon: Wednesday, August 14th 11:30-2pm 

Call church office to RSVP. Rides are available if needed. 

603-742-7667 

Please note Coffee & Chat has switched to Wednesdays 

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 Festival Cooking Workshops @ Hellenic Center

Thursday,    August 15 Pastichio 2pm Meat prep, 4pm assembly - finish

Saturday,    August 17 Koulourakia 8am dough making, 10am rolling

Sunday,      August 18 Finikia, Dough 9am, baking & dipping 10am, cupping 2pm

Monday,      August 19 Kourambiethes 4:30pm

Saturday,    August 24 Baklava & Spanakopita

Sunday,      August 25 Pasta Flora 1pm

Tuesday,     August 27 Halvah 6pm

Wednesday, August 27 Meat Cutting

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A Message from the Festival Chairpersons

Hello!
 
The festival is only a few weeks away and the festival committee is trying to get volunteers signed up! 
 
Every year it is a scramble to make sure that every station is covered during the festival. As festival chairs, this is the part of the job that causes the most stress because we are constantly waiting until the day of the festival to to see if people are going to show up to volunteer.
 
This year, we are putting in extra effort to get people signed up ahead of time. Without volunteers, we have no festival. Based on the number of volunteers we had last year, we are not confident on how many more festivals we will have.
 
PLEASE let us know if you available to help this year!  We have all the pastry slots open as of right now. They are all two hour commitments, but we encourage you to sign up for multiple time slots! If you are interested in volunteering in another area, let us know! There are plenty of spots to go around! 
 
Let us know by either emailing the Greek festival email (greekfestivaldover@gmail.com), calling the church, or clicking on the link below! 
 
Best,
Rebecca Maskwa and Robert Mitropoulos
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Festival Ad Book

As you know our Festival is just right around the corner!  As a reminder, anyone who would like to place an ad in the Festival program book must get their request in to us by August 10th at the latest before we have to send it to the printers.  In the flyer section is the sponsorship form.  Please email us and let us know if you are interested.

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Calendar

  • Church Calendar

    August 6 to August 30, 2019

    Tuesday, August 6

    9:30AM Divine Liturgy - Transfiguration

    Wednesday, August 7

    10:30AM Community Coffee & Chat

    7:00PM Paraklesis

    Thursday, August 8

    6:30PM Festival Meeting

    Friday, August 9

    7:00PM Paraklesis

    Monday, August 12

    7:00PM Paraklesis

    Wednesday, August 14

    11:30AM Community Luncheon

    6:30PM Parish Council Mtg.

    Thursday, August 15

    9:00AM Liturgy in Somersworth - Dormition of the Theotokos

    2:00PM Pastichio Meat

    4:00PM Pastichio Assembly

    Saturday, August 17

    8:00AM Koulourakia dough

    10:00AM koulourakia rolling

    Sunday, August 18

    9:00AM Finikia Dough

    10:00AM Finikia baking & Dip

    2:00PM Finikia cupping

    Monday, August 19

    4:30PM Kourambiethes

    Wednesday, August 21

    10:30AM Community Coffee & Chat

    Thursday, August 22

    6:30PM Festival Meeting

    Saturday, August 24

    Baklava & Spanakopita

    Sunday, August 25

    1:00PM Pasta Flora

    Tuesday, August 27

    6:00PM Halvah

    Wednesday, August 28

    Meat Cutting

    10:30AM Community Coffee & Chat

    Friday, August 30

    Greek Fesival

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Flyers

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