SUNDAY WORSHIP GUIDE AND WEEKLY NEWS

ANNUNCIATION GREEK ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL Norfolk, VA Rev. Presbyter George Bessinas, Proistamenos Rev. Protopresbyter Constantine Rogakos, Associate SUNDAY WORSHIP GUIDE AND WEEKLY NEWS The Restoration of the Holy Icons First Sunday of the Fast Sunday of Orthodoxy Sunday, March 5, 2017

Sunday March 5, 2017 Orthros (Matins) Divine Liturgy (of St. John Chrysostom) 8:45 AM 10:00 AM On March 5, we commemorate the holy monastic martyr Conon of Isauria, the holy Martyr Conon the gardener, our devout father Mark the Monk and Wonderworker, the holy Martyr Evlogios of Palestine, the holy Martyr Evlampios, the holy Martyr Archelaos and the 142 Martyrs with him died by the sword. On this day, the first Sunday of Lent, we commemorate the restoration of the holy and venerable icons enacted by the ever memorable Emperors of Constantinople, Michael and his mother Theodora, during the patriarchate of Saint Methodius the Confessor. Resurrectional Apolytikion. Mode 4. When the women Disciples of the Lord had learned from the Angel the joyful message of the Resurrection and had rejected the ancestral decision, they cried aloud to the Apostles triumphantly: Death has been despoiled, Christ God has risen, granting His great mercy to the world. Apolytikion For the Sunday of Orthodoxy. Mode 2. We venerate Your immaculate icon, O good Lord, and entreat You to forgive our offences, O Christ our God. By Your own choice you were pleased to ascend the Cross in the flesh, to deliver us, whom You created, from our slavery to the foe. Therefore we cry to You with gratitude: You have filled all things with joy, O our Savior, by coming to save the world. Apolytikion of St. Theodore the Commander. 2nd Tone. When in God's army you had truly enlisted, O holy Theodore, the bearer of trophies, you were made a splendid general of the heavenly King; using as a weapon faith, you were ready for battle and utterly destroyed the ranks that were amassed by the demons, and as a victorious athlete you were seen, wherefore in True faith, we bless you and honor you. Apolytikion of the Annunciation. 4th Tone. Today is the beginning of our salvation, The revelation of the eternal mystery! The Son of God becomes the Son of the Virgin. As Gabriel announces the coming of Grace. Together with him let us cry to the Theotokos: Rejoice, O Full of Grace, The Lord is with You! Seasonal Kontakion. Mode 4. O Champion General, I your City now ascribe to you triumphant anthems as the tokens of my gratitude, being rescued from the terrors, O Theotokos. Inasmuch as you have power unassailable, from all kinds of perils free me so that unto you I may cry aloud: Rejoice, O unwedded Bride.

St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 11:24-26, 32-40 Prokeimenon. Mode 4.Daniel 3. 26,27 Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of our fathers. Verse: For you are just in all you have done. Brethren, by faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets -- who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, received promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, won strength out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign enemies to flight. Women received their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, that they might rise again to a better life. Others suffered mocking and scourging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, ill-treated -- of whom the world was not worthy -- wandering over deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. And all these, though well attested by their faith, did not receive what was promised, since God had foreseen something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect. Πρὸς Ἑβραίους 11:24-26, 32-40 Προκείμενον. Ἦχος δ Δανιήλ 3.26-27 Εὐλογητὸς εἶ, Κύριε, ὁ Θεὸς τῶν Πατέρων ἡμῶν. Στίχ. Ὅτι δίκαιος εἶ ἐπὶ πᾶσιν, οἷς ἐποίησας ἡμῖν. Ἀδελφοί, πίστει Μωϋσῆς μέγας γενόμενος ἠρνήσατο λέγεσθαι υἱὸς θυγατρὸς Φαραώ, μᾶλλον ἑλόμενος συγκακουχεῖσθαι τῷ λαῷ τοῦ θεοῦ ἢ πρόσκαιρον ἔχειν ἁμαρτίας ἀπόλαυσιν μείζονα πλοῦτον ἡγησάμενος τῶν Αἰγύπτου θησαυρῶν τὸν ὀνειδισμὸν τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἀπέβλεπεν γὰρ εἰς τὴν μισθαποδοσίαν. Καὶ τί ἔτι λέγω; Ἐπιλείψει γὰρ με διηγούμενον ὁ χρόνος περὶ Γεδεών, Βαράκ τε καὶ Σαμψών καὶ Ἰεφθάε, Δαυίδ τε καὶ Σαμουὴλ καὶ τῶν προφητῶν οἳ διὰ πίστεως κατηγωνίσαντο βασιλείας, εἰργάσαντο δικαιοσύνην, ἐπέτυχον ἐπαγγελιῶν, ἔφραξαν στόματα λεόντων, ἔσβεσαν δύναμιν πυρός, ἔφυγον στόματα μαχαίρας, ἐνεδυναμώθησαν ἀπὸ ἀσθενείας, ἐγενήθησαν ἰσχυροὶ ἐν πολέμῳ, παρεμβολὰς ἔκλιναν ἀλλοτρίων. Ἔλαβον γυναῖκες ἐξ ἀναστάσεως τοὺς νεκροὺς αὐτῶν ἄλλοι δὲ ἐτυμπανίσθησαν, οὐ προσδεξάμενοι τὴν ἀπολύτρωσιν, ἵνα κρείττονος ἀναστάσεως τύχωσιν ἕτεροι δὲ ἐμπαιγμῶν καὶ μαστίγων πεῖραν ἔλαβον, ἔτι δὲ δεσμῶν καὶ φυλακῆς ἐλιθάσθησαν, ἐπρίσθησαν, ἐπειράσθησαν, ἐν φόνῳ μαχαίρας ἀπέθανον περιῆλθον ἐν μηλωταῖς, ἐν αἰγείοις δέρμασιν, ὑστερούμενοι, θλιβόμενοι, κακουχούμενοι - ὧν οὐκ ἦν ἄξιος ὁ κόσμος - ἐν ἐρημίαις πλανώμενοι καὶ ὄρεσιν καὶ σπηλαίοις καὶ ταῖς ὀπαῖς τῆς γῆς. Καὶ οὗτοι πάντες, μαρτυρηθέντες διὰ τῆς πίστεως, οὐκ ἐκομίσαντο τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν, τοῦ θεοῦ περὶ ἡμῶν κρεῖττόν τι προβλεψαμένου, ἵνα μὴ χωρὶς ἡμῶν τελειωθῶσιν.

The Gospel according to John 1:43-51 At that time, Jesus decided to go to Galilee. And he found Philip and said to him, "Follow me." Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael, and he said to him, "We have found him of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see." Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said of him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!" Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you." Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the son of God! You are the King of Israel!" Jesus answered him, "Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You shall see greater things than these." And he said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man." Ευαγγελικóν Ανάγνωσμα Κατὰ Ἰωάννην 1:44-52 Τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ, ἠθέλησεν ὁ Ιησοῦς ἐξελθεῖν εἰς τὴν Γαλιλαίαν καὶ εὑρίσκει Φίλιππον καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ ἀκολούθει μοι. ἦν δὲ ὁ Φίλιππος ἀπὸ Βηθσαϊδά, ἐκ τῆς πόλεως Ανδρέου καὶ Πέτρου. εὑρίσκει Φίλιππος τὸν Ναθαναὴλ καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ ὃν ἔγραψε Μωϋσῆς ἐν τῷ νόμῳ καὶ οἱ προφῆται, εὑρήκαμεν, Ιησοῦν τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ Ιωσὴφ τὸν ἀπὸ Ναζαρέτ. καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ Ναθαναήλ ἐκ Ναζαρὲτ δύναταί τι ἀγαθὸν εἶναι; λέγει αὐτῷ Φίλιππος ἔρχου καὶ ἴδε. εἶδεν ὁ Ιησοῦς τὸν Ναθαναὴλ ἐρχόμενον πρὸς αὐτὸν καὶ λέγει περὶ αὐτοῦ ἴδε ἀληθῶς Ισραηλίτης, ἐν ᾧ δόλος οὐκ ἔστι. λέγει αὐτῷ Ναθαναήλ πόθεν με γινώσκεις; ἀπεκρίθη Ιησοῦς καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ πρὸ τοῦ σε Φίλιππον φωνῆσαι, ὄντα ὑπὸ τὴν συκῆν εἶδόν σε. ἀπεκρίθη Ναθαναὴλ καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ ῥαββί, σὺ εἶ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ, σὺ εἶ ὁ βασιλεὺς τοῦ Ισραήλ. ἀπεκρίθη Ιησοῦς καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ ὅτι εἶπόν σοι, εἶδόν σε ὑποκάτω τῆς συκῆς, πιστεύεις; μείζω τούτων ὄψει. καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ ἀμὴν ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, ἀπ ἄρτι ὄψεσθε τὸν οὐρανὸν ἀνεῳγότα, καὶ τοὺς ἀγγέλους τοῦ Θεοῦ ἀναβαίνοντας καὶ καταβαίνοντας ἐπὶ τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου.

Altar Boys Alexander Wise, Seth Douklias, Nicholas Araboglu, Michael Marcou, Luke Jacovides, Michael Waters, Michael Wise, Alexander Marcou, Dominius Yordanova, Callius Yordanova Epistle Reader Sotiria Bessinas TODAY Sunday of Orthodoxy Procession of the Holy Icons Coffee fellowship hour in the Hellenic Center Sunday of Orthodoxy Pan-Orthodox Vesper Service (see enclosed flyer) Worship Services for the Week Refer to enclosed flyer for all Lenten Services EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS GOYA Monday, March 6, Open gym for boys and girls from 5:00pm to 6:00pm, Compline Service at 6:30pm and lenten meal to follow. GOYA Pascha card fundraiser (see enclosed flyer). Bible Study Fellowship will not take place this Monday, instead join us following Compline Service in welcoming Jesse Brandow, missionary to Guatemala. Women s Study Group Tuesday, March 7, 10:00am in the Pantokrator Room. Golden Years Tuesday, March 7, 10:30am. Lenten lunch will be provided. St. Maria of Paris Outreach Ministry Committee thanks team captain Debbie Woodell and her team for serving the February 23 community dinner: Antonis Leondaridis, Maria Parker, Angelo Neskis, Takrim Labib, Rita Parish, Jim Milonas, Andriani Vastardis, Anna Tsivourakis, and Presvytera Athena Constantinou. Philoptochos meeting on Sunday, March 12, following the Divine Liturgy in the Hellenic Center. Lunch Donation is $10.00 Cultural Committee invites everyone to a movie night: Sunday, March 12 at 6:00pm in the social hall. We will watch the film Ouzeri Tsitsanis or Sinefiasmeni Kiriaki. This epic drama takes place in 1942-1943 in Thessaloniki Greece under German Occupation. The film is directed by Manoussos Manoussakis and is in Greek..

Alumni Dancer Registration If you are an Alumni Dancer and you would like to perform at our Annual Greek Festival May 18-21, 2017, please note that the deadline to register is April 2, 2017. Fifteen dancers are needed and priority will be given to recent High School graduates and to 2016-2011 graduates in declining order. Please indicate your commitment to the email address below along with your contact information and inquires by April 2, 2017. annunciationdanceministry@gmail.com Altar Boy Workshop Saturday, March 18, 2017, 12-2pm. Mandatory for all Altar boys. Lunch will be served prior to the workshop. Please RSVP to thomas@annunciationva.org, or 757-400-0500. Illuminarios for Great and Holy Friday may be purchased following the Divine Liturgy. Proceeds benefit the Annette Mavrophilipos Dance Scholarship. Hellenic Woman s Club Scholarship Applications and order forms for bread and koulourakia are available on the table outside the bookstore. Hellenic Woman s Club will be baking on Wednesday, March 8 at 9:00am. We love having new hands join us. Hellenic Woman s Club meeting on Saturday, March 18th in the Social Hall.

Donations for Flowers and Liturgical items for Lent and Holy Pascha First Salutations March 3 $70 Second Salutation March 10 $70 Third Salutation March 17 $70 Veneration of the Holy Cross Daffodils March 19 $200 Icon of the Annunciation on the Iconostasion March 24 $155 Annunciation Processional Icon Frame March 24 $70 Ribbons for Annunciation (4) March 25 $100each The Akathist Hymn March 31 $70 Palm Sunday Palms April 9 market price Holy Week Icon of the Nymphios Flowers (Palm Sunday, $100.00 each Holy Monday, Holy Tuesday) 2 Wreaths for the Crucifix $300, $150 Candles for the Crucifix (3 sets) $60 each Candles for the 12 Gospels $60 Apokathilosis Linen sheet $25 Orchid bouquets $200 Kouvouklion candles $40 Kouvouklion flowers market price Rose Water $25 Holy and Great Saturday bay leaves $150 Father George s Resurrectional Lambatha $250 Icon of the Resurrection $100 Lenten Ribbons (4) $100 each Christos Anesti Ribbons (4) $100 each To make a donation please contact the Cathedral Office 440-0500

ANNUNCIATION COMMUNITY PASCHA CARD SPONSORED BY G.O.Y.A. Please fill out the following information for the annual Pascha Card that will be sent to the entire Annunciation Community. GOYA asks for a minimum donation of $20.00 per listing. Please make checks payable to Norfolk GOYA. Deadline for participation is Monday, April 3. Name: Donation Amount: Payment Received: Cash Check

Young Adult Gathering Featuring Jesse Brandow Tuesday, March 7, 6 pm Host: Sam Williams 410 Abbotsleigh Court Virginia Beach, VA

March Liturgical Schedule 5 Sunday of Orthodoxy Orthros 8:45 am, Divine Liturgy 10 am 5 Sunday of Orthodoxy Pan Orthodox Vespers St. Demetrios, Williamsburg 6 Great Compline Service (Chapel) 8 Presanctified Liturgy (Chapel) 5:00 pm 10 2 nd Salutations Service (Cathedral) 12 Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas Orthros 8:45 am, Divine Liturgy 10 am 13 Great Compline Service (Chapel) 15 Presanctified Liturgy (Chapel) 17 3 rd Salutations Service (Cathedral) 19 Sunday of the Veneration of the Holy Cross Orthros 8:45 am, Divine Liturgy 10 am 20 Great Compline Service (Chapel) 22 Presanctified Liturgy (Chapel) 24 Vespers of the Feast of Annunciation and 4 th Salutations Service (Cathedral) 25 Feast of the Annunciation Orthros 8:45 am, Divine Liturgy 10 am (Cathedral) 26 Sunday of St. John of the Ladder Orthros 8:45 am, Divine Liturgy 10 am 27 Great Compline Service (Chapel) 29 Presanctified Liturgy (Chapel) 31 Akathist Hymn Service (Cathedral) April Liturgical Schedule 2 Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt Orthros 8:45 am, Divine Liturgy 10 am 3 Great Compline Service (Chapel) 5 Presanctified Liturgy (Chapel) 8 Saturday of Lazarus Orthros/Liturgy 9 Palm Sunday Orthros 8:45 am, Divine Liturgy 10 am 8:45 am

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