SUNDAY, MAY 6 - Sunday of the Samaritan Woman

Job the Prophet and Our Holy Father Seraphim the Struggler of Mt. Domvu

Office: (336) 765-7145 wsgoc.office@gmail.com Website: www.wsgoc.org

We extend a warm welcome to visitors worshipping with us today. We would like to remind you that Holy Communion is reserved for those who have been baptized or confirmed in the Orthodox Church, and who have prepared themselves to receive the Eucharist. All visitors are welcome to receive the blessed bread at the end of the Divine Liturgy.

THIS WEEK AT ANNUNCIATION….

USHERS – George Bambalis, Pete Bobotsiares, Pete C. Strates, Sammy J. Ballas CHURCH SERV COMM Team 1 - Tom Giannopoulos, Tony Franzese, Presv. Stacy Shepherd, Paul Anthony MAIDENS FOR CHRIST Team 4 – Mara Kessler, Jackie Nikas, Corina Hellmer READER – Dr. Chris Baker ALTAR BOYS Team 4 - Vasileios Karagiannis, Stevie Raptis, Max Rogatsios, Dimitrios Mitropoulos, William Nolan, Niko Vlahos, Nektarios Vgenopoulos, Pavlos Anson, Vasili Johnson, Andreas Kazakos NURSERY – Mary Paloumbas, Helen Sialmas, Stella Tsiaras

We love having infants & young children in Church being immersed in worship. However, out of respect for fellow worshippers, if a child is acting up, please step out of Church until he/she calms down. Thank you.

Proistamenos - Fr. Demetri Kangelaris Assistant - Fr. Costa Shepherd Parish Council President - Stan Carroll Philoptochos President - Kiki Gonzales

Sunday School Coordinators - Zoe Bobotsiares, Helen Karagiorgis, Heather Vlachos

TODAY

Regular Schedule

Fellowship Hour is offered by the Parish Council.

Mon May 7

“Warm–up America Ministry” in the Breeze-way 9-Noon. A knitting group for ALL ages.

Tue May 8

Men’s Discussion Group Meeting 6:30 am

Spanakopita Prep - MEN 9:00am

Adult Discussion 9:30 am

Festival Baking preparation - Spanakopita - 4:00 pm

Sun May 13

Mother’s Day Regular Schedule Angel Choir Rehearsal 9:00am in the Choir Room. Angel Choir will participate in the Divine Liturgy.

Meeting for all Holy Land Participants after Divine Liturgy.

EISODIKON/ENTRANCE HYMN

Εν εκκλησίαις ευλογείτε τόν Θεόν, Κύριον εκ πηγών Ισραήλ. Σώσον ημάς, Υιέ Θεού, ο Αναστάς εκ νεκρών, ψάλλοντάς Σοι* Αλληλούια.

Bless God in the churches, the Lord from the fountains of Israel. Save us, O Son of God, risen from the dead, we sing to You, Alleluia.

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

Χριστός Ανέστη εκ νεκρών, θανάτω θάνατον πατήσας, καί τοίς εν τοίς μνήμασι, ζωήν χαρισάμενος.

APOLYTIKION (Resurrectional Hymn of the day)

When the women Disciples of the Lord had learned from the Angel the joyful message of the Resurrec-tion and 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 OF THE ANNUNCIATION

Σήμερον της σωτηρίας ημών το Κεφάλαιον, και του απ’ αιώνος Μυστηρίου η φανέρωσις, ό Υιός τού Θεού, Υιός της Παρθένου γίνεται, και Γαβριήλ την χάριν ευαγγελίζεται, Διό και ημείς σύν αυτώ τη Θεοτόκω βοήσωμεν, Χαίρε Κεχαριτωμένη, ό Κύριος μετά σού.

Today is the beginning of our salvation,* and the revelation of a mystery which was hidden;* the Son of God* becomes the Virgin's Son,* and Gabriel announces the grace of this good news,* let us also join with Him,* to the Theotokos calling;* Hail to you O Lady full of Grace,* the Lord is with you.

KONTAKION (Hymn of the season)

Though You went down into the tomb, O Immortal One, yet You brought down the dominion of Hades; and You rose as the victor, O Christ our God; and You called out "Rejoice" to the Myrrh-bearing women, and gave peace to Your Apostles, O Lord who to the fallen grant resurrection.

Please see back of bulletin for calendar information

3-DAY VACATION CHURCH SCHOOL

The Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church is planning to have Vacation Church School Monday, June 18 - Wednesday, June 20

9:00am-1:00pm.

Vacation Church School classes will be offered for youth

from age 3 through 5th grade.

YOUR CHILD MUST BE THREE YEARS OLD BY 4/15/18.

PLEASE, NO CHILDREN IN DIAPERS.

Registration forms are on Fr. Dennis’ desk and must be turned in by June 10th

to ensure that we will have enough craft items for all.

Annunciation Christian Academy is offering a One Week-Long

Summer Camp for Preschool Students!

June 25-29 9:00am to 1:00pm Daily

Toddlers Three-Year-Olds Two-Year-Olds Four-Year-Olds/Pre-K

Camps will Feature Literacy, Math, Arts & Crafts, Music, and Movement

Cost Per Camp: $150.00 per child Registration Deadline: April 30th, 2018

Registration forms on Fr. Dennis’ desk. Snack will be Provided Daily.

Please Send Lunch with Your Child.

Holy Land Pilgrimage Participants Meeting Our pilgrimage is quickly approaching and I hope that you are excited about our upcoming trip. We will have a Special Pilgrimage Meeting on Sunday, May 13, after the Divine Liturgy to answer any questions you may have and to give you additional information. Please make every effort to be present.

Ladies of Philoptochos Please join us at Cities Bar and Grill on Thursday, May 31st at 6:30 for our last General Meeting and our Year-End Dinner Celebration. To RSVP, text/email Kim Toompas 336-682-3852/ toomp10s@aol.com by May 28th.

NAMES OF LIVING AND DEAD TO BE READ AT TOMB OF CHRIST

Those wishing to have the names of loved ones read at the tomb of Christ during the Midnight Divine Liturgy may do so by giving the names to Fr. Demetri or any pilgrim-age participant. Please put a cross on sheet with names of deceased. Any contribu-tions received will be given by the group to the Jerusalem Patriarchate as a gift.

Ὡς ἐμεγαλύνθη τὰ ἔργα σου Κύριε, πάντα ἐν σοφίᾳ ἐποίησας. Στίχ. Εὐλόγει ἡ ψυχή μου τὸν Κύριον.

Πράξεις Ἀποστόλων 11:19-30 τὸ ἀνάγνωσμα

Ἐν ταῖς ἡμεραῖς ἐκείναις, διασπαρέντες οἱ Ἀπόστολοι ἀπὸ τῆς θλίψεως τῆς γενομένης ἐπὶ Στεφάνῳ διῆλθον ἕως Φοινίκης καὶ Κύπρου καὶ Ἀντιοχείας, μηδενὶ λαλοῦντες τὸν λόγον εἰ μὴ μόνον Ἰουδαίοις. Ἦσαν δέ τινες ἐξ αὐτῶν ἄνδρες Κύπριοι καὶ Κυρηναῖοι, οἵτινες εἰσελθόντες εἰς Ἀντιόχειαν, ἐλάλουν πρὸς τοὺς Ἑλληνιστάς, εὐαγγελιζόμενοι τὸν κύριον Ἰησοῦν. Καὶ ἦν χεὶρ κυρίου μετʼ αὐτῶν· πολύς τε ἀριθμὸς πιστεύσας ἐπέστρεψεν ἐπὶ τὸν κύριον. Ἠκούσθη δὲ ὁ λόγος εἰς τὰ ὦτα τῆς ἐκκλησίας τῆς ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις περὶ αὐτῶν· καὶ ἐξαπέστειλαν Βαρνάβαν διελθεῖν ἕως Ἀντιοχείας· ὃς παραγενόμενος καὶ ἰδὼν τὴν χάριν τοῦ θεοῦ ἐχάρη, καὶ παρεκάλει πάντας τῇ προθέσει τῆς καρδίας προσμένειν τῷ κυρίῳ· ὅτι ἦν ἀνὴρ ἀγαθὸς καὶ πλήρης πνεύματος ἁγίου καὶ πίστεως· καὶ προσετέθη ὄχλος ἱκανὸς τῷ κυρίῳ. Ἐξῆλθεν δὲ εἰς Ταρσὸν ὁ Βαρνάβας ἀναζητῆσαι Σαῦλον, καὶ εὑρὼν ἤγαγεν αὐτὸν εἰς Ἀντιόχειαν. Ἐγένετο δὲ αὐτοὺς ἐνιαυτὸν ὅλον συναχθῆναι τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ καὶ διδάξαι ὄχλον ἱκανόν, χρηματίσαι τε πρώτον ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ τοὺς μαθητὰς Χριστιανούς. Ἐν ταύταις δὲ ταῖς ἡμέραις κατῆλθον ἀπὸ Ἱεροσολύμων προφῆται εἰς Ἀντιόχειαν. Ἀναστὰς δὲ εἷς ἐξ αὐτῶν ὀνόματι Ἄγαβος, ἐσήμανεν διὰ τοῦ πνεύματος λιμὸν μέγαν μέλλειν ἔσεσθαι ἐφʼ ὅλην τὴν οἰκουμένην· ὅστις καὶ ἐγένετο ἐπὶ Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος. Τῶν δὲ μαθητῶν καθὼς εὐπορεῖτό τις, ὥρισαν ἕκαστος αὐτῶν εἰς διακονίαν πέμψαι τοῖς κατοικοῦσιν ἐν τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ ἀδελφοῖς· ὃ καὶ ἐποίησαν, ἀποστείλαντες πρὸς τοὺς πρεσβυτέρους διὰ χειρὸς Βαρνάβα καὶ Σαύλου.

The Gospel According to John 4:5-42

At that time, Jesus came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there, and so Jesus, wearied as he was with his journey, sat down beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.

There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." For his disci-ples had gone away into the city to buy food. The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?" For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him and he would have given you living water." The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?" Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst; the water that I shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw." Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here." The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no husband'; for you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband; this you said truly." The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain; and you say that Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship." Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." The woman said to him, "I know that the Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ); when he comes, he will show us all things." Jesus said to her, "I who speak to you am he." Just then his disciples came. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but none said, "What do you wish?" or, "Why are you talking with her?" So the woman left her water jar, and went away into the city and said to the people, "Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?" They went out of the city and were coming to him. Meanwhile the disciples besought him, saying "Rabbi, eat." But he said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know." So the disciples said to one another, "Has anyone brought him food?" Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work. Do you not say, 'There are yet four months, then comes the harvest'? I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see how the fields are already white for harvest. He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. For here the saying holds true, 'One sows and another reaps.' I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor." Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman's testimony. "He told me all that I ever did." So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them; and he stayed there two days. And many more believed because of his word. They said to the woman, "It is no longer because of your words that we believe, for we have heard ourselves, and we know that this is indeed Christ the Savior of the world."

O Lord, how manifold are your works. You have made all things in wisdom. Verse: Bless the Lord, O my soul.

The reading is from Acts of the Apostles 11:19-30

In those days, those apostles who were scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to none except Jews. But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who on coming to Antioch spoke to the Greeks also, preaching the Lord Jesus. And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number that believed turned to the Lord. News of this came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch. When he came and saw the grace of God, he was glad; and he exhorted them all to re-main faithful to the Lord with steadfast purpose; for he was a good man, full of the Ho-ly Spirit and of faith. And a large company was added to the Lord. So Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul; and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church, and taught a large company of people; and in Antioch the disciples were for the first time called Christians. Now in these days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. And one of them named Agabos stood up and foretold by the Spirit that there would be a great famine over all the world; and this took place in the days of Claudius. And the disciples determined, every one according to his ability, to send relief to the brethren who lived in Judea, and they did so, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

REGENTS TEST INFORMATION

REGENTS TEST speed up class will start in May thru June.

The fee for the class including the test is $250, due at the beginning of the class and it is not refundable.

If you interested please contact or return the registration by May 11th, 2018 to Alexandra Karagiorgis at

336 – 682-0642 or at askaragiorgis@gmail.com. The test will be in June 18th from 1:00 -4:00 with no extra

charge. If you speak Greek and you need help with the grammar do not hesitate to participate, the Regents

proves your skills in Greek language and is accepted in some Universities as second language.

Thank you

Alexandra Karagiorgis

Class schedule:

Saturday May 12th, 9:00 -12:00

Saturday May 26th, 9:00-12:00

Monday May 28th, 9:00-12:00

Saturday June 2nd, 9:00-12:00

Friday June 8th 5:30 -7:30

Saturday June 9th 9:00 -12:00 oral part

Test Day June 18th 2018

Registration

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Year graduated from Greek school if applicable: __________________________________________

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