Small Paraklesis - Wednesday 6:00PM
Great Vespers - Saturday 5:00PM
Matins - Sunday 8:30AM
Divine Liturgy - Sunday 9:30 AM
Confessions - Saturday after Vespers or upon request
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)
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Second Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from Mark 16:1-8
When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Salome, bought spices, so that they might go and anoint Jesus. And very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb when the sun had risen. And they were saying to one another, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the door of the tomb?" And looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back - it was very large. And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe; and they were amazed. And he said to them, "Do not be amazed; you seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen, He is not here; see the place where they laid Him. But go, tell His disciples and Peter that He is going before you to Galilee; there you will see Him, as He told you." And they went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come upon them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.
Prokeimenon. Grave Mode. Psalm 28.11,1.
The Lord will give strength to his people.
Verse: Bring to the Lord, O sons of God, bring to the Lord honor and glory.
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.
Special Service: prayer for the 2025 stewardship offering
2024 STEWARDSHIP and financials as of 12/6/2024
Goal: $555,660
Pledged: $523.278
Received To Date of Pledged: $467,083
Pledges Submitted: 197
2025 STEWARDSHIP and financials as of 12/6/2024
Goal: $550,000
Pledged: $130,786
Pledges Submitted: 30
Needed to be Pledged: $419,214
DOME ICONOGRAPHY financials as of 12/6/2024
Total Project value: $411,000
Balance in the account at the beginning of the campaign: $110,898
Pledged (including grant): $224,279
Number of pledges: 52
Needed: $75,823
TODAY, AFTER SERVICE:
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Prayer Request – December 8, 2024
(Use the baptismal name when commemorating.
If not available, please use the first name.)
Members of our parish who are in hospital or rehab:
Name: Baptismal name:
Members of our parish who are in assisted living or nursing home:
Name: Baptismal name:
Members of our parish who are ill / in recovery:
Name: Baptismal name:
Members of our parish who have chronic illnesses:
Name: Baptismal name:
Members of our parish with limited mobility:
Name: Baptismal name:
Family members who fell asleep in the Lord in the last 40 days:
- Nicholas - Konstantinos Bosnakis - Rose Clark
- David Hunter - Terry Murray - Nathan Nimri
- Tom Savage - Jeffrey Turner - Milorad Pavlovic
- Theodosia Kinman - Demetra Morakis
Kindly let us know of anyone else that should be on this list.
Nativity Lent
8:30AM Orthros
9:30AM Divine Liturgy
10:45AM Sunday School
11:00AM PARISH COUNCIL ELECTIONS
11:00AM Coffee Hour - Potluck
12:15PM Explore Orthodoxy Class
5:30PM Christmas Dinner
6:00AM Hours and Divine Liturgy
7:30PM Parish Council Meeting
6:00PM Vespers
6:45PM Gladsome Light Dialogues
6:00AM Hours and Divine Liturgy
11:00AM Homeschool Co-op
4:00PM Confession
5:00PM Great Vespers
8:30AM Orthros
9:30AM Divine Liturgy
10:45AM Sunday School
11:00AM Coffee Hour - sponsored by Philoptochos
11:00AM Philoptochos Bake Sake Forms Deadline
11:00AM Memorial service for Theresa (Theodora) Alexander
12:15PM Explore Orthodoxy Class
5:00PM Confession
6:00PM Paraklesis
6:45PM Gladsome Light Dialogues
11:00AM Homeschool Co-op
9:00AM Philoptochos Baking Day for the Christmas Bake Sale (using kitchen)
9:00AM Sunday School Nativity Retreat
12:00PM Baptism Nicholas Ashford
4:00PM Confession
5:00PM Great Vespers
8:30AM Orthros
9:30AM Divine Liturgy
11:00AM Nativity Pageant
11:00AM Pick Up Bake Sale Orders
12:00PM Coffee Hour - Potluck
12:15PM Explore Orthodoxy Class