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ANNUNCIATION OBSERVER

May-June 2014 Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral 7220 Granby Street Norfolk, VA 23505

PARISH COUNCIL OFFICERS

President

Ron Russell

1st Vice President

Lona Liosatos

2nd Vice President

Nick Harrison

Secretary

Lynne Eklund

Treasurer

Maria Stefanis Maroulis

Council Members

Dwight Jenkins

John Katsias

Dr. Yiannis Papelis

Kathy Stephanitsis

Martha Pantelides

Tony Damalas

ANNUNCIATION GREEK ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL Parish Ministry Team

Rev. Father George Bessinas Rev. Protopresbyter Constantine P. Rogakos, PhD Presiding Priest Associate Priest

SUNDAY SERVICES

ORTHROS: 9:00am DIVINE LITURGY: 10:00am

WEEKDAY SERVICES


SUMMER SUNDAY SERVICES: June 1—August 31


Check out the following links:

Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America

www.goarch.org

Metropolis of New Jersey

www.nj.goarch.org

Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral

www.annunciationva.org

Stewardship Committee

Maria Stefanis Maroulis

Lynne Eklund

Greek School

George Pantas, Director

Emilia Simmons, Deputy Director

Stavroula Marshall, Teacher

Dr. Maria Mendrinos, PTO

GOYA Advisors

Linda Meares

Phil Roussis

Katherine P. Milonas

Theodore Malamatos, GOYA President

HOPE/JOY

Anna Feliberti

Young Adult League

Alyki Pantas

Orthodox Campus Ministry

Yianni Manuel, President

Dance Instructors & Assistants

Eva Kyrus - Director, Grades 9-12

Anna Maria - Grades 3-8

Anna Manning - Pre-K - 2nd

Dance Assistants

Angela Dimas

Christy Kyrus

Tommy Kyrus

Yianni Manuel

Chrissy Mavrophilipos

Aliki Pantas

Christiana Vastardis

Terry Wygant

Bible Study

Jane Williams, Coordinator

Cultural Committee

Jane Williams

Library

Presvytera Eleni Rogakos

Irene Pahno

Stewards of the Altar

Presvytera Eleni Rogakos

Choir Director

Christopher Kypros

Head Chanter

Efthimios (Tim) Dermanis

Altar Servers

T. John Mangus, Jr., Coordinator

Philoptochos Society

Joanna Goumenis, President

Golden Years

Virginia Elliott, President

Cathedral Office Manager

Elizabeth Miller

Layout Editor

Thomas John Mangus, Jr.

Mailing Volunteers

Chris Bachas, Donnell Catherines, Mary Gretes, Dwight and Pela Jen-kins, Toulla Koyzis, Irene Mathas

Stewardship Update—April 30, 2014

As of the end of April, we thank the 193 families who have submitted stewardship cards pledging a to-

tal of $221,684. Between now and the end of August, members of the Stewardship Committee will be reach-

ing out to families in our community to ask for a stewardship commitment. In 2013, our stewardship total

was a little over $374,000. We are confident that this community can commit $400,000 to our Cathedral; this

is our goal. Remember as we reach out to you, that you decide the amount of your commitment based upon

the gifts God has bestowed upon you and your family. There is no minimum level of commitment and your

commitment is confidential.

Spring has finally arrived and summer will soon follow. As we enjoy the beautiful weather and the

wondrous nature, which surrounds us in Hampton Roads, let us remember to thank our Lord, Jesus Christ. We

do this best by attending the Divine Liturgy on Sunday and partaking in Holy Communion. We all have travel

plans during the summer, but when you are at home, plan on attending the Divine Liturgy. Your attendance

will nourish your soul and sustain you.

“O LORD, how manifold are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all. The earth is full of Your

possessions. This great and wide sea, in which are innumerable teeming things, living things both small and

great. There the ships sail about…May the glory of the LORD endure forever; May the LORD rejoice in His

works.” (Psalm 104: 24-31, NKJV).

“One thing I have desired of the LORD, that will I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all

the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD…” (Psalm 27:4, NKJV).

STEWARDSHIP

PARISH REGISTRY

FUNERALS

Angela Rellos February 1

Zeno Chrysostomides February 25

Dimitrios Vlahos February 25

Christ Ladicos March 23

Jerry Caravas, Sr. April 28

Helen Strawhand April 29

Salutation Services Fellowship after Salutation Services Feast of the Annunciation

~ May 2014 ~

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1

Greek School, 4:30 Community Dinner 6pm

2

Greek School, 4:30

3

4

Orthros 9am, Divine Liturgy 10am

5

Greek School, 4:30

6

Greek School, 4:30 Bible Study 6:30pm

7

Greek School, 4:30

8


9

Greek School, 4:30

10

Hope and Joy Meeting 2-4 Philoptochos Mtg.

11

Orthros 9am, Divine Liturgy 10am Happy Mother’s Day NJ Clergy Laity

12

Greek School, 4:30 NJ Clergy Laity

13

Greek School, 4:30 NJ Clergy Laity

14

Greek School, 4:30

15

Annual Greek Festival Community Dinner 6pm

16

Annual Greek Festival

17

Annual Greek Festival

18

Festival Worship Hours: Orthros 8am, Divine Liturgy 9am Annual Greek Festival

19

Greek School, 4:30

20

Greek School, 4:30 Vespers: SS Constantine and Helen, Newport News 6:30pm

21

SS Constantine & Helen 8:30am Orthros, 9:30am Divine Liturgy Greek School, 4:30

22


23

Greek School, 4:30

24

25

Orthros 9am, Divine Liturgy 10am

26

Memorial Day Office Closed

27

28

29 Holy Ascension: Orthros 8:30am, Divine Liturgy 9:30am Community Dinner 6pm

30

31

~ June 2014 ~

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1

Orthros 8am, Divine Liturgy 9am Greek School Graduation Sunday School Graduation

2

3

4

AHEPA Scholarship Dinner

5

Community Dinner 6pm

6

7

Saturday of Souls: Orthros 8:30am, Divine Liturgy 9:30am

8

Pentecost Sunday

Summer Worship Hours: Orthros 8am, Divine Liturgy 9am

9

Feast of the Holy Spirit: Orthros 8:30am, Divine Liturgy 9:30am

10

11

12


13

14

H&J End of the Year Party

15

Summer Worship Hours: Orthros 8am, Divine Liturgy 9am Happy Father’s Day

16

17

18

19


20

21

22

Summer Worship Hours: Orthros 8am, Divine Liturgy 9am

23

Youth Day Camp 9:15am-3pm

24


25


26

Youth Day Camp 9:15am-3pm Community Dinner 6pm

27


28

29

Feast of SS Peter & Paul Summer Worship Hours: Orthros 8am, Divine Liturgy 9am

30

Notes:

“Friend of the Poor” and “Mother of the Church”

PHILOPTOCHOS SOCIETY

Christos Anesti! As summer approaches, Philoptochos prepares for the 42nd Biennial Clergy-Laity Congress in Philadelphia, July 6-9. We plan to return with many new and innovative ideas to assist us in our philanthropic mission, and, at the same time, we encourage the young women of our church to join our or-ganization to assist in serving those less fortunate. His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios stated, “It is the duty of every woman in the Greek community to become a member of Philoptochos.” We encourage all who are not members to seriously consider joining our Christian support group of women who care for one another and pray and work together towards a common goal. The rewards can be great.

We thank all of you who visited our Agora during the festival, and we always appreciate your contin-ued support each Sunday throughout the year. We started this tradition in 2000 as well as providing any needs for Makarias. These two sources provide the funds to help not only our parishioners needing assis-tance, but also the poor and indigent of Hampton Roads.

Our mother-daughter luncheon at Yanni’s Casual Greek Restaurant in May provided a wonderful op-portunity for our sisterhood to share in fellowship and delicious food. We will have more of these special get-togethers later this year.

We wish all of you a beautiful, restful summer, and may God guide you and your families safely in all your travels.

His Eminence Metropolitan

Evangelos with Father

George, Presbytera Chrysan-

thie, Anne Michals, and the

Philoptochos board members.

Congratulations to our 2014 Scholarship

recipients: Evan Katsanos, Nick

Moscopulos, Nicole Dixon, Andrew Mills,

and Stephen Olivencia. Nick Katsanos

and Andrea Mills accepted for Evan and

Andrew.

The Robert E. Lee, Chapter 122, Order of AHEPA began the New Year by holding their first General

Meeting of 2014 on, January 9 at the AHEPA House. Dinner was served at 6:30 p.m. which included: Braised Meat with Orzo, Baked Chicken & Potatoes, Greek salad, various Greek cookies, and the cutting of the Vasi-lopita Cake.

The General Meeting followed the dinner discussing the success of last year’s events: the Thanksgiv-

ing Luncheon in honor of the Golden Years Club; and the Annual Christmas Party. Over 60 seniors attended the Thanksgiving Luncheon and everyone enjoyed the traditional Thanksgiving feast. The Christmas Party was sold out with over 130 people in attendance. The attendees enjoyed the Prime Rib Dinner and later lis-tened to traditional Christmas songs and Greek music. Each attendee was asked to bring an unwrapped toy for the Marines’ Toys-for-Tots Program. Over 200 toys were collected by two Marine Sergeants (husband and wife) that were in attendance.

During the end of December, at the Chapter’s Board Meeting, a motion was passed by the board

members to share our blessings with those most in need. AHEPA National was asking each Chapter to do-nate a minimum of $12 per member to feed the children of Greece. With approximately 120 paid members in our local Chapter the amount we were asked to donate came out to $1,440. The Board unanimously passed a motion to raise the bar for the other Chapters by donating $2,000 to AHEPA National for the Feed the Chil-dren of Greece campaign. Also at the same Board Meeting the board members passed another motion to be-come a sponsor for the Mikrokosmos Concert by donating $500 to the Annunciation’s Cultural Committee.

During the month of February, the Robert E. Lee Chapter held its annual Super Bowl Party. Over 60

adults and kids attended the party and enjoyed an evening of good food, good company but unfortunately the game was not even close as the Seattle Seahawks demolished the Denver Broncos. On February 22, the Chapter held its Annual “Apokriatiko Glendi” (Masquerade Party). Over 100 “maskarathes” (people dressed in costumes) attended the evening’s festivities. Heavy appetizers were served and the dinner included chicken & potatoes, homemade Greek bread and Greek salad. Everyone enjoyed the costume contest and the danc-ing with live Greek music.

On March 3rd, the Chapter was to fly kites in the church parking lot to celebrate the first day of Lent

(Kathara Deftera). Unfortunately, and the second year in a row, the rainy weather cancelled the event. At the March General Meeting, the Chapter enjoyed a Lenten Seafood Dinner. The meeting followed with the Ritual of Initiation. The Ceremony of Initiation is based on accurate historical information and is a significant ritual. It contains an important message, intended to remind all Brothers, as well as to instruct new Candidates, about the essential purpose of AHEPA. The two new candidates that were initiated were: Mr. John Vastardis and Mr. George Dimas. Throughout the month of March, the Chapter continued to support our church by donating the wine for the Luncheon for His Eminence Metropolitan Evangelos of New Jersey, donated funds for the Annunciation’s March 25th Feastday Celebration and sponsored the 3rd Salutations to the Theotokos Friday Service by providing the food.

On a beautiful and sunny morning on Saturday, April 5

th, seventeen AHEPAn brothers along with the

Rev. Fr. George Bessinas and two representatives from the City of Norfolk’s Bureau of Cemeteries, met at the “Old Greek” section of Forest Lawn Cemetery off Granby Street to pay tribute to their departed fraternal brothers, families, and church parishioners. The mission and the obligation of the Chapter were to clean and remove the dirt, algae, lichen, and fungi from gravestone markers. Armed with buckets, gloves, scrapers and brushes it took approximately 4 hours to complete the task. Chairman of the Project, Nick Harrison, stated: “As attested by all my brothers of the Robert E. Lee, Chapter of AHEPA, and myself, this sense of duty was the most self-gratifying and rewarding project that our Chapter has ever performed.”

Order of AHEPA

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION NEWS

Also in April, on Saturday, April 26th, the Chapter sponsored the Greek Float by donating funds for the decoration of the float at the 2014 Norfolk NATO Festival Parade. Brothers along with Annunciation parishion-ers, Greek NATO officers and their families, walked beside the Greek float (decorated with the “ATLAS” theme) along the parade’s 1.5 mile route in Downtown Norfolk.

On May 15-18, the brothers of the Chapter will support the Norfolk Greek Festival by volunteering their

time as well as holding the Festival’s Cooking Classes at the AHEPA House. The following week on May 21st, the Chapter will hold its 18th Annual AHEPA Charitable Golf Tournament at Sewell’s Point Golf Club to raise funds for the Scholarships they will be awarding during the June 4th, Scholarship Awards Dinner at the AHEPA House. We hope everyone has a happy and safe summer!

HELLENIC WOMANS CLUB

The Hellenic Womans Club would like to Congratulate the 2014 Scholarship Recipients: Spiros Skenderis, Marissa Knott, Alexis Papadopoulos, Alexandra Renesis, Nicholas Moscopulos, Andrew Mills, Stephen Olivencia, John Papademas, Evan Katsanos, Nicole Dixon, Christiana Vastardis, Nicole Marshall, Elisabeth Douklias and Ellen Russell.

Our end of the year outing will be on June 14 in Colonial Williamsburg . We will leave the Cathe-dral at 10am, have lunch at the Williamsburg Lodge and explore Colonial Williamsburg. The cost for the trip is $40, which includes bus, lunch and gratuities. Please call Connie McMahon for reservations. Thank you to all who supported our Spring Bake Sale. We hope you have a wonderful summer!

HELLENIC WOMANS CLUB

2014 Scholarship

Recipients and Donors

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Change of Address? If you have recently moved or are vacationing long term, please let the Cathedral Office know, 757-440-0500.

Services To schedule all services such as memorials, 40 day blessings, baptisms, and weddings, please call the Cathedral Office, 757-440-0500.

Hospital and Shut-In Visitations When parishioners of the Annunciation are admitted into a hospital or recovering at home and wish to have a priest visit them, it is imperative that a family member contact the Cathedral Office, 757-440-0500, immediately. Hospitals do not notify the Church when Orthodox patients seek medical attention.

Kollyva The Cathedral does NOT provide Kollyva for Memo-rial Services. Parishioners in need of Kollyva may call Drucie Papafil, 757-489-4313 or Tasy Penner, 752-1294.

Artoclasia For anyone interested in having Artoclasia made, please contact Emilia Simmons, 757-481-1509.

Annunciation Observer Deadline

The deadline for submitting articles for the July/August 2014 Annunciation Observer is June 9, 2014. Articles not submitted by June 9 will NOT BE IN THE Annunciation Observer. Please

send all articles to John Mangus at

[email protected]

Important Phone Numbers,

Addresses and Email Addresses

Father George Bessinas:

Office: 757-440-0500 Ext. 225

Email: [email protected]

Father Constantine Rogakos:

Office: 757-440-0500 Ext. 224

Cell: 757-617-0773 EMERGENCY ONLY


Elizabeth Miller

Office: 757-440-0500 Ext.221


Bonnie Winstead—Bookkeeper


Bookstore: Christina Rudloff, Lynne Ek-lund and John Mangus.


Hellenic Center: 757-963-5634

Office Fax: 757-423-6929

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