WORSHIP SCHEDULE

ANNOUNCEMENTS

PROCESSION OF ICONS TODAY

Procession of Icons today celebrating the restoration of icons. You are encouraged to bring an icon from home.

NO COFFEE HOUR TODAY

Due to kitchen remodeling.

PARISH COUNCIL AND COUNCIL OF MINISTRY MEETING

PC will meet with the 9 Department Heads today.

SUNDAY OF ORTHODOXY VESPERS

Today at 5:00 PM at the Annunciation Cathedral in Atlanta. Meet at church 3:30 pm if you want to ride share. See flyer below.

SAVE THE DATE FOR METROPOLITAN SEVASTIANOS VISIT

Sunday March 15. He will be with us for Divine Services and to meet with the PC and the Expansion Committee.

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.

THE APPALACHIAN SERVICE PROJECT

A ministry to restore homes in the Appalachian Community. Contact maryannamcclain@gmail.com to get involved.

LENTEN SSERVICES

Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts - Every Wednesday of Lent at 5:30 pm

Lenten Dinner & Book Study - Wednesdays of Lent after church

Salutations to the Theotokos on the first five Fridays of Lent at 6:00 pm

Full Canon of St. Andrew on Thursday March 26 at 6:00 pm

RETREAT IN MARIETTA

March 14 on Psychology and Orthodox Pastoral Theology - details in flyer below. Orthodox experts talking about the ailments of the soul.

LENTEN BOOK STUDY

We will be reading and discussing "The Crucifixion of the King of Glory" by Dr. Eugenia Constantinou on Wednesday evenings of Lent. Read pages 50-100 approximately.

TEAM LISTS: CLICK HERE.

If you would like to be added or removed from a team, please 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

Philanthropy & Outreach

PARISH COUNCIL MEETING

Mar 18 at 7:00 PM

ST OLYMPIA SISTERHOOD FELLOWSHIP

Next gathering date is March 19 at TBD. 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

Mar 2 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 Mar 12, 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 - Mar 17, Mar 31, Apr 14. We are a big group this year and we encourage co-hosting with other families. See SIGN UP DATES HERE

OCF SOUTHEAST REGIONAL RETREAT

March 27-29, Speaker Fr. Barnabas presenting "Taming the Passions" at the Alexios Retreat Center. See flyer below. REGISTER HERE

BIGGER VISION DINNERS **4th Monday- NEXT: March 23rd.

We need volunteers to provide a protein, starch and vegetables in addition to those who can serve the meal. Thank you all who serve on this ministry. 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

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.

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

CLICK THE FLYER FOR MORE INFORMATION & REGISTRATION

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

Faithful Stewards recognize that God owns it all. This is the foundation of stewardship, and it leads to all kinds of Christlike characteristics – gratitude, contentment, patience, diligence, generosity, faith.

Annunciation Cathedral San Francisco  

SUNDAY March 1st - Sunday of Orthodoxy

WE COMMEMORATE:

The Holy Righteous Martyr Eudocia the Samaritan , Andonina the New Martyr,

David the Archbishop

Apolytikion of the Feast Mode 2

We venerate Your immaculate icon, O good Lord, and entreat You to forgive our offenses, 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.

Entrance Hymn Mode 2

Come, let us worship and bow down before Christ. Save us, O Son of God, risen from the dead. We sing to You, Alleluia.

Resurrectional Apolytikion Mode pl. 1

As the Father and Spirit are unoriginate, * so the Word, who was born from the Virgin for us. * Let us praise Him, O believers, and let us worship Him. * For our salvation He was pleased * to be crucified in the flesh, * and to undergo death, * and to resurrect the dead, by His glorious resurrection.

Kontakion Mode pl. 4

O Champion General, I your City now inscribe 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.

Hymn to the Theotokos

In you, O Lady full of grace, all creation rejoices, the hosts of Angels and the human race. O consecrated temple and allegorical Paradise, virgins boast of you. For God became incarnate from you, yes, our eternally existing God became a child from you. He made a throne of your womb, and He made your body wider than the heavens. In you, O Lady full of grace, all creation rejoices. Glory to you!

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. He considered abuse suffered for the Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he looked to the reward.

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.

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."

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