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+++ UPCOMING EVENTS
SPECIAL PARISH ASSEMBLY --- Sun, June 8, 2025
The Agenda & 10-day Notice was mailed on Tue, May 27. To be eligible to vote, a Stewardship Pledge Form for the year 2025 must be submitted & 25% of your Treasure commitment must be fulfilled prior to the meeting. If catching up on the actual date of the assembly, please bring it to the Church Office. Join us to establish quorum & cast your vote!
Metropolitan Nathanael’s Name Day Celebrations --- Tue/Wed, June 10/11, 2025
The details for the Hierarchal Vespers (June 10), as well as Matins & Hierarchal Divine Liturgy (June 11) for St. Bartholomew (Metropolitan Nathanael’s patron saint) can be seen in the flyer and in our calendar. Receptions honoring our hierarch will follow both services. Speak to Fr. Ciprian if interested to attend and/or carpool to Chicago.
Greek Fest 60th Anniversary --- Friday-Sunday, June 13, 14, 15 at State Fair Park. Hours will be 11AM-9PM on Friday and Saturday and from 11AM-6PM on Sunday. We need volunteer helpers. Anyone interested in leading a booth or volunteering should reach out to Festival Chairman Michael Stavropoulos or connect with a tent chairman to confirm your volunteering efforts. Please see the flyer for more information!
+++ PARISH ANNOUNCEMENTS
ATTENTION: ACCESS TO CHURCH --- Please be careful when you approach the ramp this Sunday, as there is a small area of gravel only (no cement) right before the ramp to enter the church. Just be sure to say a little thank you prayer for all the visible progress on the front steps and plaza area between steps and water fountain.
Congratulations to Chase & Lily (Tippit) Haggard for being united and conjoined in the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony on Saturday, May 31, 2025. May their household always be filled with every good thing. Their Koumbaroi are Johnny & Stephanie Koremenos.
Farewell to Elias Pagones --- Elias’ last day as Fr. Ciprian’s Pastoral Assistant will be Sunday, June 8, 2025. He will be honored at Coffee Social that day, as we thank him dearly for his exemplary devotion and good work for almost 2 full years here at Annunciation; he will begin studies abroad in Greece (Thessaloniki) later in June. He and Amelia will both be missed and we will always welcome and receive them with open arms in Milwaukee, as they now have sacramental ties into our Annunciation Parish Family.
SATURDAY OF SOULS --- The list to submit names for commemoration on Sat, June 7 is available in the Narthex and the Office. Please print legibly for Father to be able to read. If you have already submitted names for the Saturdays of Souls earlier this year, Fr. Ciprian will read/commemorate them on June 7 as well; there is no need to submit another list.
Sarah Kojis, our part-time Financial Admin, can be reached for all financial and stewardship matters at accounting@annunciationwi.org or 414-279-0379 on Mon, Tue, & Fri.
STEWARDSHIP --- As of Tuesday, May 27th, 2025, we have received 219 Stewardship Pledges totaling $334,649.80 To date, we received $191,019.83 from Pledged Households and $33,969.75 from non-pledged households and donors. Help us reach our goal of $450,000. If you haven’t already done so, please submit your 2025 Pledge form ASAP, so we reach our goal of 400+ Pledged Households before summer. The 2025 Stewardship Pledge Form is available in the Office, in each Koinonia edition, and you can also submit your pledge form ONLINE on our website www.annunciationwi.org
COFFEE SOCIAL --- Contact the Office (414-461-9400) to sponsor on June 29.
GREEK FEST APPAREL SALE --- The 60th Anniversary of GreekFest is fast approaching. The Apparel sale is continuing today in the Cultural Center after Liturgy. Youth and adult T-shirts are only $10.00. Sweatshirts are priced at $25.00. The pre-sale will end on Sunday, June 8. The festival pricing will be $15.00 for all t-shirts and $30.00 for all sweatshirts after June 8th and on the fairgrounds. The Annunciation gray long sleeve t-shirts will also be available for $20. The festival chairman is asking all volunteers to wear the 60th anniversary shirts while working at the festival. Contact Loretta at lorettakrenitsky@gmail.com or 262-366-2332 with any questions. Please see the flyer for more information!
FANARI SUMMER CAMP --- 5 Sessions/Weeks – June 15 to July 19, 2025
Learn more and register now at https://www.fanari.camp/summer-camp. Fr. Ciprian & Pres. Maggie will be attending/helping Fanari Session/Week 5 (Sun, July 13 to Sat, Jul 19, 2025).
LIGHTHOUSE CAMP --- Sat, June 21 – Sat, June 28, 2025 (High School Graduates Only)
Learn more and register now at https://chicago.goarch.org/lighthouse
As usual, our parish will be hosting all the High School Light House campers at our parish for the Divine Liturgy of Sunday, June 22nd, which is part of their program.
PATRIARCHAL ENCYCLICAL - 1700TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1ST ECUMENICAL COUNCIL IN NICAEA --- www.goarch.org/-/patriarchal-and-synodal-encyclical-issued-on-the-occasion-of-the-1700th-anniversary-of-the-first-ecumenical-council-in-nicaea
ARCHEPISCOPAL ENCYCLICAL ON THE SUNDAY OF THE NATIONAL SISTERHOOD OF PRESVYTERES --- www.goarch.org/-/archepiscopal-encyclical-on-the-sunday-of-the-national-sisterhood-of-presvyteres-june-1-2025
Confirming the Evangelical Spirit of our Holy Metropolis --- To read this Follow-up Encyclical on Catechumen Prayers by His Eminence Metropolitan Nathanael of Chicago, click here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HHb7X3kzMIyEOILOi7RGeSbv1HgovID8/view?usp=drive_link.
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