WORSHIP SCHEDULE

ANNOUNCEMENTS

BRING BACK YOUR COIN BOXES TODAY

We will prayerfully collect our coin boxes for the Orthodox Christian Mission Center.

NO SUNDAY SCHOOL TODAY

Children will sit with their families for the duration of the service.  

PALM SUNDAY POTLUCK LUNCH TODAY

April 5 plan to bring food for the Potluck lunch. The church will provide fried fish, please bring side dishes, beverages and wine, and desserts and donations accepted as well.

BREAD FOR LIFE * BREAD BASKET BENEFIT

Support the current graduating class with a donation. BFL was started by our church in our commercial kitchen - inspired by the life of St. Philothea - and has grown and is now run by The Classic Center doing a world of good! Donate gift baskets for their auction or make a monetary gift. DONATE HERE

REGISTRATION FOR TLAA NOW OPEN Read more

For detailed information go to:

HOLY WEEK & PASCHA PAGE

TEAM LISTS: CLICK HERE.

If you would like to be added or removed from a team, text Presvytera at 706-340-6366. Remember...you are not required to be on a team, and everyone is welcome to stay and eat whether on a team or not. This is an AGAPE meal!

THE COUNCIL OF MINISTRIES

VIEW THE CoM CHART HERE

Philanthropy & Outreach

COIN BOXES

Lenten collection boxes for the Orthodox Christian Mission Center (OCMC) are available in the narthex and should be returned on Palm Sunday April 5.

PARISH COUNCIL MEETING

Apr 15 at 7:00 PM

ST OLYMPIA SISTERHOOD FELLOWSHIP

Next gathering date is Apr 23 (note date change!) All women of the parish are invited to come for refreshment and fellowship. Call Presvytera to be added to the GroupMe to get all the details. 706-340-6366

GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP

Apr 20 at 7:00 pm at church. You can obtain your discussion book, “Memory Eternal” from the church bookstore.

ACTS FOOD BANK **FIRST Tuesday every other month

April 7, 9:00 to 1:00 pm to stock shelves at the Area Churches Together Serving food bank of Oconee County. 130 E Thompson St, Bogart **Come-and-Help

SPAGHETTI DINNER

Thursday May 14, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.

OCF CHEW & CHAT DINNERS - SIGN UP

2026 Schedule: Consider sponsoring dinner for the college students on the 1st & 3rd Tuesdays of the month - Apr 14. We are a big group this year and we encourage co-hosting with other families. See SIGN UP DATES HERE

BIGGER VISION DINNERS **4th Monday- NEXT: Apr 27.

We provide a protein, vegetable, starch and serve at the Bigger Vision homeless shelter. To learn more about it go to our BV webpage ...and... Join the BV GroupMe.

Education

SUNDAY SCHOOL & CGS NEWS WEBPAGE

• Parent Volunteers: Flower Donations for Atrium - Sign Up HERE

BYZANTINE CHANT LESSONS

For beginners to learn Byzantine notation. Wednesday evenings after church. (approx. 7:00 pm).

INQUIRER'S CLASS

This is open to those who want to learn more about the Orthodox Church. Please email prchristine@ilicons.us for more information. Class runs from September to January then Lenten services are the practicum for Inquirers. We will schedule a meet and greet with new inquirers probably after Pascha. Stay tuned.

CHOIR & YOUTH CHOIR

New voices welcomed.

BOOKSTORE & LENDING LIBRARY

are in need of volunteers to keep up these ministries. See Regina if you would like to offer your talents in these areas. View our library holdings here

VIEW THE COUNCIL of MINISTRIES CHART here 

Don't see your name on the Chart? Contact Presvytera Christine to be added.

OTHER NEWS

JOIN THE ONLINE PRAYER GROUP

to post prayer needs and to be a prayer warrior. To join send your email address to rose@lieffring.com. You will receive emails when someone posts a prayer request or you can post to st-philothea-prayer-group@googlegroups.com

A WORD ABOUT CHURCH SEATING - please...

• Leave the front row for people with special needs
• Leave the back 2 rows, right and left, for families with children
• Fill in all the rows by moving in towards the center aisle.
• Our pews fit 5 or 6 persons, so be mindful of families so they can sit together.
• Single persons should fill in rows that have may have one or two seats left.
• ...and thank you!

CEMETARY PLOTS

St. Philothea section in the Oconee Memorial Park in Watkinsville. Burial Plots available at our special group price. Please see the flyer below.

SUBSCRIBE TO THE ORTHODOX OBSERVER

News from the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. OrthodoxObserver.org

STEWARDSHIP

Please remember to turn in your 2026 Stewardship Pledge Card

Your offering to Christ and His Church can do as much as you empower it to do. 

We give to Christ and His Church not according to our means but according to our love for Him.

“I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit.” John 15:16

Cathedral of Saint Paul, Hempsted, NY

SUNDAY April 5 - Palm Sunday  

WE COMMEMORATE:

Monk-Martyrs Claudius, Diodore, Victor, Victorinus, Pappias, Nicephorus, and Serapion, Theodora the Righteous of Thessaloniki , Agathopodes and Theodulos the Martyrs, George the new Martyr

Apolytikion of Palm Sunday Mode 1

To confirm the general resurrection before Your Passion, You resurrected Lazarus from the dead, O Christ our God. Therefore imitating the children, carrying the symbols of victory, we cry out to You the Victor over death: “Hosanna in the highest! Blessed are You, the One, who comes in the name of the Lord.”

Entrance Hymn Mode 2

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. God is the Lord, and He revealed Himself to us. Save us, O Son of God, who sat on a donkey’s colt. We sing to You, Alleluia.

Apolytikion  Mode 4

We were buried with You through Baptism, O Christ our God, and thus by Your Resurrection we have been granted immortal life, and extolling You we cry aloud, “Hosanna in the highest! Blessed are You, the One who comes in the name of the Lord.”

Kontakion Mode pl. 2

In heaven upon the throne, on earth upon the colt, * You were carried, O Christ our God; * and the praise of the Angels, and the hymns of the children, You received as they cried to You, * “Blessed are You, the One, who is coming to call Adam back again.”

Hymn to the Theotokos Mode 4

God is the Lord, and He appeared to us. * O Christians, appoint a feast, and with exultant joy * come and let us magnify the Christ, * waving our palm-leaves and branches, crying aloud in hymns: * “Blessed is the One who comes * in the name of the Lord our Savior.”

Prokeimenon. Mode 4

Psalm 117.26,1

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

Verse: Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good. His mercy endures forever.

BRETHREN, rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let all men know your forbearance. The Lord is at hand. Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, do; and the God of peace will be with you.

Six days before Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazaros was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. There they made him a supper; Martha served, and Lazaros was one of those at table with him. Mary took a pound of costly ointment of pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment. But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was to betray him), said "Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?" This he said, not that he cared for the poor but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box he used to take what was put into it. Jesus said, "Let her alone, let her keep it for the day of my burial. The poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me."

When the great crowd of the Jews learned that he was there, they came, not only on account of Jesus but also to see Lazaros, whom he had raised from the dead. So the chief priests planned to put Lazaros also to death, because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.

The next day a great crowd who had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!" And Jesus found a young donkey and sat upon it; as it is written, "Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey's colt!" His disciples did not understand this at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that this had been written of him and had been done to him. The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazaros out of the tomb and raised him from the dead bore witness. The reason why the crowd went to meet him was that they heard he had done this sign.

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