{"id":50,"date":"2014-09-26T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.st-andrew.church\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2021-02-06T14:12:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T20:12:58","slug":"guests","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.annunciationtx.com\/?page_id=50","title":{"rendered":"Visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>GUESTS AND NEWCOMERS<\/h2>\n<p>Holy Annunciation Orthodox Church, located in Liberty Hill, Texas is a mission community of the Avlona Synod (GOC-A), an Old Calendar Greek Orthodox jurisdiction. &nbsp;Although our mother church is Greek, our services are in English.<\/p>\n<p>Cradle Orthodox, converts, families, inquirers and the simply curious&nbsp;are invited to participate in the life of the mission as we build an Orthodox community right here in Liberty Hill.<\/p>\n<p>If you are new to Orthodoxy, just curious, and want to stop by please do come. Our community enjoys meeting new people, and talking over a cup of coffee and some food after our Sunday services.<\/p>\n<h3>SERVICES<\/h3>\n<p>Sunday services begin with the reading of the 3rd and 6th Hour Prayers at 9:40 am (or private prayer if no reader is available) followed immediately by the Divine Liturgy at 10:00 am. The services are led by our rector, Bp. Irineos, and we invite you to join in the&nbsp;congregational singing of the ancient hymns. &nbsp; When we are able to offer Vespers or Feast Day liturgies, it will be posted on the calendar and included in our weekly e-mail.<\/p>\n<h3>COFFEE HOUR<\/h3>\n<p>After the Divine Liturgy&nbsp;all are invited to stay for coffee, tea, and pastries.<\/p>\n<p>We certainly hope you will participate together with us in the Orthodox faith and life.<\/p>\n<h3>YOUR FIRST VISIT TO AN ORTHODOX CHURCH?<\/h3>\n<p>You may want to read, <a href=\"http:\/\/frederica.com\/12-things\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201c12 Things I Wish I\u2019d Known\u2026\u201d<\/a>, a lighthearted introduction to some of the distinctives of Orthodox worship.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUESTS AND NEWCOMERS Holy Annunciation Orthodox Church, located in Liberty Hill, Texas is a mission community of the Avlona Synod (GOC-A), an Old Calendar Greek Orthodox jurisdiction. &nbsp;Although our mother [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":700,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annunciationtx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annunciationtx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annunciationtx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annunciationtx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annunciationtx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.annunciationtx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"http:\/\/www.annunciationtx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annunciationtx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annunciationtx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}