Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church Mobile, Al

05/25/2026

05/18/2026

With faith in Christ and hope in the Resurrection we announce the falling asleep in the Lord of Anna Hartzes.
At this time we offer our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Mrs. Hartzes.

May her Memory be Eternal!

Celebrate the life of Anna Hartzes, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information care of Radney Funeral Home - Mobile.

05/13/2026

Christ is Risen! We’re happy to announce that our parish has an app available to download for both iPhone and Android devices. We will be adding more content soon and working toward utilizing the many communication features. A major component of our having this app is the push notifications alerts. Our parish council and I have made the decision to use this only for critical announcements and abrupt schedule changes. We encourage you to enable this feature and not silence it since it will only be used when absolutely necessary.

You can enter “Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church Mobile, AL” in your preferred App Store to download our parish app for free.

+Fr. Matthew

05/02/2026

Please join us this Sunday to worship with us and see our beautifully restored iconography! A special thank you to our benefactors who sponsored this project and to Damianos Manoukas, the master Iconographer who restored these sacred images. May God continue to bless the work of your hands for His glory 🙏

04/12/2026

04/08/2026

On Great and Holy Wednesday, the Orthodox Church offers the Sacrament of Holy Unction for the healing of body and soul and the forgiveness of sins. Learn more at www.goarch.org/holyunction

04/06/2026

https://www.goarch.org/bridegroom-learn

Beginning on the evening of Palm Sunday and continuing through the evening of Holy Tuesday, the Orthodox Church observes a special service known as the Service of the Bridegroom.

04/05/2026

Catholics and Protestants around the world celebrated Easter today, April 5. Greeks and other Orthodox Christians won't celebrate until next Sunday, April 12. The reason goes back over 400 years to ten days that simply vanished from the calendar.

In October 1582, Pope Gregory XIII ordered a calendar correction so drastic that October 4 was immediately followed by October 15. Ten days were erased overnight. The new Gregorian calendar was designed to fix a growing lag in the older Julian calendar, introduced by Julius Caesar. Catholic and Protestant churches adopted it. Most Orthodox churches did not.

The rule for Easter itself has never changed. Since the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, all Christians have agreed that Easter falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the spring equinox. The problem is that the two calendars place the spring equinox on different dates, so the same rule produces two different results.

The Julian calendar now runs 13 days behind the Gregorian. That gap explains why Orthodox Christmas falls on January 7 rather than December 25 for churches like Russia's, which use the old calendar for everything. Greece is a special case: the Greek Orthodox Church uses the reformed Julian calendar for fixed feasts like Christmas, which is why Greeks celebrate Christmas on December 25 alongside Westerners, but still uses the old calendar for Easter.

The Council of Nicaea (325 AD) established that Easter should not coincide with Passover. However, the Orthodox Church does not have a formal "must follow Passover" rule.

The reason Orthodox Easter often follows Passover is a mathematical byproduct. Because the Orthodox Church uses the Julian calendar and a different lunar cycle (the Metonic cycle), their "calculated" Passover usually falls later than the actual Jewish holiday, creating the illusion of a dependency.

Last year, 2025, was a rare exception when both Easters landed on the same date. The next time this happens will be 2028.

Because the Julian calendar gains one day of error every 128 years, the gap between the two calendars will eventually become so large that the Julian "spring" starts after the Gregorian "spring" has already passed its first full moon.

04/04/2026

Join us this morning as we celebrate the Divine Liturgy for Lazarus Saturday! Orthros begins at 9am followed by the Divine Liturgy at 10am. After, we will gather in our Hellenic Center to fold Palm crosses for Palm Sunday and enjoy a Lenten pancake breakfast.

We apologize for the live stream not working. We are having problems with accessing our Youtube account. God willing, this will be fixed soon.

03/17/2026

With faith in Christ and hope in the Resurrection we share the obituary and funarl arrangements of Augustus Markris. At this time we offer our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Mr. Markris. The funeral service will be at 11:30 am on Wednesday, March 18, at Presentation of the Theotokos Greek Orthodox Church in Malbis.

May his Memory be Eternal!

View Augustus Zacharias Markris's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.