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Worship Sunday Orthros 8:15 am & Divine Liturgy 9:30 am
Confession (by appointment - call or email [email protected])
Weekday Services (www.stgeorgegoc.org/calendar)
Streaming
Fellowship Hour Sunday following Divine Liturgy
Office Hours Tuesdays, Wednesdays, & Thursdays: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Our Mission St. George Greek Orthodox Church is a Christ-centered community that: inspires faith and worship, cultivates spiritual growth and fellowship, and encourages benevolence and outreach.
Our Vision Ascending together to the fullness of Life.
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+Nativity Fast
10th Sunday of Luke
8:15AM Orthros
9:30AM Divine Liturgy
10:45AM Church School Christmas Program Rehearsal
11:00AM Parish Assembly & Parish Council Elections
+The Conception by St. Anna of the Theotokos
5:00PM Great Vespers
+St. Spyridon
5:30PM Capital Projects Meeting
+St. Herman of Alaska
11th Sunday of Luke
+St. Eleftherios
8:15AM Orthros
9:30AM Divine Liturgy
11:00AM Church School Christmas Lessons & Carols
6:00PM Greek School
7:00PM Book Group
11:45AM Youth and Family Caroling and Delivering Gifts
12:00PM Basketball Practice
6:00PM Greek School
24th Sunday after Pentecost
The Reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Ephesians 2:14-22
Brethren, Christ is our peace, who has made us both one, and has broken down the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in his flesh the law of commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby bringing the hostility to an end. And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near; for through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are built into it for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
10th Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 13:10-17
At that time, Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years; she was bent over and could not fully straighten herself. And when Jesus saw her, he called her and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your infirmity." And he laid his hands upon her, and immediately she was made straight, and she praised God. But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the sabbath, said to the people, "There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be healed, and not on the sabbath day." Then the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger, and lead it away to water it? And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?" As he said this, all his adversaries were put to shame; and all the people rejoiced at all the glorious things that were done by him.
Dylan Eisenhuth & Robert Hattling
Paul Werger
Thank you to the Stewardship Committee for hosting today's fellowship.
Starting November 15th, the beginning of Advent, we will be collecting food for the Focus Second Helping Pantry. This season we are focusing on Pasta and Sauce, Peanut Butter and Jelly, and Meals in a can. Let's remember those less fortunate when we are at the grocery store this Advent.
Join us today, December 08, following Liturgy for our fall Parish Assembly and Parish Council Elections. This assembly reviews and passes our 2025 budget and elects auditors for our 2024 financial audit. We will also discuss and request approval of an architect for our capital project initiative. Please contact Angie if you have any questions.
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84290595046?pwd=4rGTfXamOeOqs3iI2xrbpJ93VV0nbR.1
ID: 842 9059 5046 Passcode: 994928
This Sunday, December 8th is your last chance to join in on the Parish Community Christmas Card. If you'd like to be included in this year's card, please visit the Philoptochos table in the Social Hall after Liturgy.
Philoptochos is preparing the Christmas Card mailing this Wednesday, December 11th, at 1:30 p.m. in the church office. If you are available, we would love for you to drop by and lend a hand for an hour or two. Your assistance would mean a lot to us!!
Look out for the MB Bakers at the Union Depot Annual Holiday Bake Sale, next Saturday December 14 from 10-5. This will be our ninth year participating alongside some of the best bakeries and start-ups in the Twin Cities.
Registration is now OPEN for Greek School's fall session. Greek School is for youth in grades preK-12. We offer a hands-on learning environment for students to strengthen their knowledge and connection to the Greek language and culture.
Please register at this link: https://z.umn.edu/GreekSchool24_25 or use the following QR code:
Registration for virtual, adult Greek School classes is now open. Register here. Let Joanna know if you have any questions: [email protected]
Need some Christmas gift ideas? Please place your bids by December 15 for the Silent Auction items currently set up in the social hall. All proceeds go to Missions & Benevolence in support of local charities.
Save the Date! Practices begin Dec. 15th
It's that time again to get your sneakers on! This year the tournament will be hosted by St. Demetrios in Libertyville, IL.
Player registration and hotel reservations will open Dec. 2nd on the Western Region Family Basketball Tournament Website. https://www.greekbball.com/
***Note: Practices will begin at a New Location! due to construction at our previous facility.
Highland Park Elementary School (approx.3 miles from church)
1700 Saunders Ave, St. Paul, 55116
Practice schedule - Sunday 12-2:30pm
Dec 15 (beginning after the Church School Christmas Program)
Dec 29
Jan 5
Jan 12
Jan 19
Jan 26
Scholarships will once more be offered. For inquiries, please contact Fr. Perry, and for any questions, reach out to Angie Kontenakos at [email protected]
See you at the gym! Go St. George!
The 2025 Summer Camp Staff Applications are being accepted November 1- December 31
Summer Camp 2025 will be held: June 28- July 4, 2025 at Camp Wapogasset
Our staff is carefully selected annually by an application process. We welcome Orthodox Christians active in their parish and willing to teach and reflect the doctrinal and moral precepts of the teachings of Christ and the Orthodox Church. If you are unclear about this statement, please speak with your Priest or Spiritual Father (Father Confessor) before proceeding. Applicants must be 17 years old at the time of camp and have graduated high school or received their G.E.D. Please review the Staff Selection Criteria before applying. Applications must be completed 100% by December 31st. To apply to be on Staff, visit https://app.campdoc.com/!/dn/login?r=stmaryscamp Questions? Please contact Doria or Scott at [email protected].
Please host an upcoming coffee hour! Individuals, families, or even groups can sign up to host or co-host. Remember that coffee is now provided, courtesy of Thrivent Financial, so your commitment can be as simple as picking up some cookies! Thanks to all who have already hosted this year! Use this URL to sign up.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D4CA5AD2BABFF2-46964197-fellowship#/
Session 1- The Holy Face here at St. George GOC & Zoom: Tuesdays, January 7, 14, 21, & 28 from 6-9 pm
Session 2- Icon of a saint of the student's choice (full figure) here at St. George GOC & Zoom: Tuesdays, February 4, 11, 18, & 25 from 6-9 pm
Please contact Deb at [email protected]/612-889-5868 or Steve Arsenault at [email protected]/ 612-206-7369. Cost for tuition and supplies approx. $298. Cost of tuition only $155
Goal
$199,935 of $275,000 (through October)
At the Fall Parish Assembly, we approved the 2024 Stewardship Goal of $275,000. We have hit this mark in the last couple of years, and we truly believe that with everyone’s support, we will hit that mark again. Now is the time to submit your 2024 pledge. Pledge Cards are at the candle stand, or click the link below to complete the form online. Thank you for your support of the work of the Church.
2024 Theme
"Well Done, Good and Faithful Servant,” from the Parable of the Talents. We are all blessed with certain gifts. This parable stresses the importance of developing our gifts, multiplying them, and offering them back in service to God.
Make a Stewardship Donation Online
https://onrealm.org/StGeorgeStPaul/give/online
Thank you for joining us in worship. Whether you are an Orthodox Christian or this is your first visit to an Orthodox Church, we are pleased to have you with us! Although Holy Communion is offered only to baptized and chrismated Orthodox Christians, all are invited to receive the Antidoron (blessed bread) at the end of the service. The Antidoron and fellowship hour are reminiscent of the Agape Feast that followed worship in the early Church.
One does not have to be of Greek descent nor speak Greek to be an Orthodox Christian and member of our parish. All people of any background are welcome to join the Orthodox Church. For those interested in learning more about the Christian Faith or becoming a member of our church, please see Fr. Perry after services or contact him at [email protected] or (651) 222-6220.
We hope you will join us in our hall upstairs this morning after services for fellowship and refreshments!
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Thank you to those who make the prosfora/offering bread for Liturgy. If you would like to sign up to bake and make an offering of bread to the church, please get in touch with Krisandrea at [email protected].
“Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.” John 6:27
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All content for the bulletin (flyers, blurbs, calendar events, etc.) is due Wednesday each week. Content submitted after Wednesday will be included in the bulletin for the following week.
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To our ministry leaders and volunteers, please save receipts when making purchases for church activities. A reminder that reimbursement forms are located on the tower outside of the admin and treasurer’s office. Please make sure to submit the form with a copy of your receipt (you keep the original receipt). Finally, please make sure to submit for reimbursement contemporaneous with the expense(s). Although we do not have a set cutoff date for reimbursements, please do your best to have all prior year reimbursements submitted before the end of January of the following year. Please contact Lani if you have any questions at [email protected].
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Thank you to all who continue to support our parish ministries! For those who would like a receipt of their donations to a particular church ministry for tax purposes, please make all deductible contributions directly to the church, noting a designation of the gift in the memo line. For example, you might put in the memo line “2024 Philoptochos Stewardship/membership,” “donation to Missions and Benevolence,” "priest discretionary fund," etc. Resources will be earmarked and distributed to the ministry you note, and your donations will be included in your end-of-year statement. Thank you again for your commitment to the work of the church!
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Advance planning can give you and your family peace of mind and is also cost-effective. Annual cost increases are typically at least 2% and have risen over 26% since 2013. The St. George Roselawn Cemetery Program continues to offer lots at Roselawn in Roseville for a 15% discount off list prices. All revenue from lots supports our church and its ministries. These lots are in the St. George section, adjacent to the “Greek” section, and easily identifiable by the monument/altar table. Contact the church office for more information.
2024 Discounted Prices for Parishioners:
$7,182 = Monument Lot (2 Graves)
$5,095 = Flat Lot (2 Graves)
$2,762 = Flat Lot (1 Grave, Limited Availability)
(These prices reflect a 15% off Roselawn Retail Price)
This continues to be one of those great opportunities where you can support the church, save some money, and create a legacy for your family all at the same time.
Lots for both monument and marker (flat) stones are still available.
Please follow Roselawn regulations for the care and beautification of your loved one’s lots.
The table-like monument marking our area from Victoria street is visible on google maps and google satellite view at the links below and can be found on the church website.
http://tinyurl.com/4cte47f3
http://tinyurl.com/5n6abxwa
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Annual giving to the Metropolis Annual Vision Campaign supports current Metropolis programs and ministries to directly impact parishes and leadership. As operations are covered, the Metropolis can direct GOA Parish Allocations to our parishes to fuel growth locally. His Eminence invites those who have already become active stewards of their local parish, to give to this campaign. Click here to support the campaign: https://chicago.goarch.org/donate/
St. George has moved to a new social media platform designed specifically for parish life. Here, we communicate more dynamically regarding specific ministries, events, and stewardship. For those who haven't, please use the QR code here to sign up! If you have any questions or have issues, please contact Dylan at [email protected].
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We have some AWESOME Youth & Family events, and you don't want to miss out. Join our text message system Remind to stay up to date with all of our communications. Join by visiting https://www.remind.com/join/stgyandf
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St. George GOC broadcasts its worship services live on the internet. Your presence in the church is subject to audio and video recording.
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This Saint was from the Thebaid of Egypt and struggled many years in the wilderness. He departed for Constantinople, and having performed many miracles and healings, he reposed in peace in a mountain cave on the Gulf of Corinth, where his holy relics are found incorrupt to the present day.
According to the ancient tradition of the Church, since Saint Anna, the Ancestor of God, was barren, she and her husband Joachim remained without children until old age. Therefore, sorrowing over their childlessness, they besought God with a promise that, if He were to grant them the fruit of the womb, they would offer their offspring to Him as a gift. And God, hearkening to their supplication, informed them through an Angel concerning the birth of the Virgin. And thus, through God's promise, Anna conceived according to the laws of nature, and was deemed worthy to become the mother of the Mother of our Lord (see also Sept. 8).
Spyridon, the God-bearing Father of the Church, the great defender of Corfu and the boast of all the Orthodox, had Cyprus as his homeland. He was simple in manner and humble of heart, and was a shepherd of sheep. When he was joined to a wife, he begat of her a daughter whom they named Irene. After his wife's departure from this life, he was appointed Bishop of Trimythus, and thus he became also a shepherd of rational sheep. When the First Ecumenical Council was assembled in Nicaea, he also was present, and by means of his most simple words stopped the mouths of the Arians who were wise in their own conceit. By the divine grace which dwelt in him, he wrought such great wonders that he received the surname 'Wonderworker." So it is that, having tended his flock piously and in a manner pleasing to God, he reposed in the Lord about the year 350, leaving to his country his sacred relics as a consolation and source of healing for the faithful.
About the middle of the seventh century, because of the incursions made by the barbarians at that time, his sacred relics were taken to Constantinople, where they remained, being honoured by the emperors themselves. But before the fall of Constantinople, which took place on May 29, 1453, a certain priest named George Kalokhairetes, the parish priest of the church where the Saint's sacred relics, as well as those of Saint Theodora the Empress, were kept, took them away on account of the impending peril. Travelling by way of Serbia, he came as far as Arta in Epirus, a region in Western Greece opposite to the isle of Corfu. From there, while the misfortunes of the Christian people were increasing with every day, he passed over to Corfu about the year 1460. The relics of Saint Theodora were given to the people of Corfu; but those of Saint Spyridon remain to this day, according to the rights of inheritance, the most precious treasure of the priest's own descendants, and they continue to be a staff for the faithful in Orthodoxy, and a supernatural wonder for those that behold him; for even after the passage of 1,500 years, they have remained incorrupt, and even the flexibility of his flesh has been preserved. Truly wondrous is God in His Saints! (Ps. 67:3 5)
Greek Schools
Amended PA Agenda
Parish Assembly 120824 Agenda Back
Winter Camp 2025
Age of Division Presentation - Fr John Strickland @ St George Antiochian Updated noting Zoom
Christmas Flowers/Cards Combined Form
Metropolis News December
Church School Calendar
AHEPA CHristmas Party
christmas schedule 2024