WEEKLY ONLINE BULLETIN

March 2, 2025

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Forgiveness (Cheesefare) Sunday

Orthros/Matins 830am

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Divine Liturgy 930am

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Forgiveness Vespers

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For those that are not able to join us in person we welcome you to participate virtually by clicking here

Feasts & Saints Celebrated Today

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The Sunday of Forgiveness, the last of the preparatory Sundays before Great Lent, has two themes: it commemorates Adam’s expulsion from Paradise, and it accentuates our need for forgiveness. There are obvious reasons why these two things should be brought to our attention as to continue click here

Holy martyr Hesychius lived during the reign of king Maximian in 302. He was the first and the leader in the royal palace and the Senate, because he was magistrianus by office. When Maximian ordered that all Christians who were royal soldiers ought to be deprived of their belts (which were a sign of their royal merit) and live as civilians and without honour, many Christians preferred to live without any outward honour due to this illegal order than to be honoured and lose their soul. St. Hesychius was to continue click here

Saint Nicholas Planas was born in 1851 A.D. on the island of Naxos in Greece. He was married as a teenager and soon after ordained to the diaconate and then the priesthood. His wife reposed soon after and so he assumed the burden of being a widowed father and a parish priest. He was known for his zeal in serving the liturgy, especially his habit of serving the Divine Liturgy every day for 50 years. Many altar boys would see him radiating light or raised off the ground while serving the liturgy. Being so revered by his parishioners, he became known as “Papa,” which is an affectionate term for a parish priest. Papa Nicholas reposed in 1932 and was formally canonized as a saint in 1992.

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PRAYER LIST

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Click here to download A PRAYER IN TIME OF NEED

Click here to download a PRAYER FOR THOSE GOING THROUGH DEPRESSION

CHILDREN'S WORD

Click on the image above to download the current or previous Children's Word publications.

Click Here for This Week’s Theme: Treasure on earth, treasure in heaven

Virtual Tour of our St. George

We ask all members of our Parish Family to share this virtual tour (18 minutes) which explains everything one may see inside our Cathedral of St. George.

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Light a Virtual Candle

Did you know that you can light a Virtual Candle from your computer?

YOU CAN!!!

Simply click on the picture and you will be taken to our website where you can light virtual candles. There are 3 easy steps:

Take your computer mouse over the candles on the table.
Click on a candle to pick it up and bring it the the virtual flame.
Light your candle and hover over the candlestand until the base is highlighted, click on your mouse and the candle will be placed in the virtual sand!

We thank the Library/Museum Committee for overseeing the setup of the online program and of course the Internet Ministries Department of the Archdiocese who is able to make this happen!

PROSFORA NEEDED - You are invited to make this offering to be used for The Divine Liturgy. We use 5 loaves for every Sunday Divine Liturgy. We appreciate your help with this wonderful opportunity. See the more info below in this bulletin.

BIBLE STUDY - Our weekly Bible Study is gathering on its regular day and time, Wednesdays at 11am. We hope you will join us as we learn more about Holy Scripture!

ORATORICAL FESTIVAL CHAIRPERSON *NEEDED*- Please see Fr. Demetri if you would like to help organize the Parish Oratorical Festival.

COMMUNITY CENTER CLOSED SUMMER 2025 - The community center will b e unavailable from approximately the middle of June through the middle of August for maintenance.

NH CHRONICLE FEATURES THE ST GEORGE LIBRARY - NH Chronicle will feature a spotlight on the Greek community of Manchester and the St. George Library. Be sure to watch on Thursday, March 6 at 7pm on WMUR-TV.

STORYTIME AT THE LIBRARY - The next St. George Library Storytime will be held on Sunday, March 16.

WAYPOINT DONATION DRIVE - March 9-17, the Anagennesis group is collecting gently used and new items for Waypoint. Please see the flyer in the Church window for more information.

MOVIE NIGHT - Join us on Friday, Mach 14 at 4pm for Peter Rabbit (all ages) and after Church services for Man of God (12+). Please see the flyer with more information.

BLOOD DRIVE - The next blood drive will be on Thursday, March 20.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY - The Families in Transition (FIT) Soup Kitchen serve hundreds of families and individuals in the community who need help. The Assumption Parish has requested to help on the 4th Sunday of every month. Starting on Sunday, January 28th from 430-630pm they once again nbegan support the Soup Kitchen with 4 volunteers. Anyone who is 16 or oder can volunteer to help! If you are passionate about making a difference in your community, there is no better time than right now to join our volunteer team! Please contact Sophia Koustas Sophia.koustas@gmail.com if you are interested in volunteering!

WEEK IN REVIEW

Mon. Mar 3

CLEAN MONDAY

First Day of Great Lent

Basketball: 3/4 Coed 530pm

Great Compline 6pm

Men's Basketball 715pm

Tues. Mar 4

Greek Preschool 4pm

Basketball: 3/4 Coed 530pm

Wed. Mar 5

PreSanctified Liturgy 930am

Bible Study 11am

Girl Scouts 6pm

Orthodoxy 201 (on Zoom) 630pm

Thurs. Mar 6

Do Drop in Social 930am

Choir Rehearsal 6pm

Basketball 5/6 & 7/8 6pm

Fri. Mar 7

Salutation Service 6pm

Sat. Mar 8

3rd Saturday of Souls

Matins 830am

Divine Liturgy with Memorials 930am

Sun. Feb 9

Sunday of Orthodoxy

Matins 830am

Divine Liturgy 930am

Procession of Holy Icons

Sunday School

HS Discussion Group

HOLY WATER BOTTLES – Are available to be taken home, one per household is plenty (as you can pour the water into other containers). If there is a drop of Holy Water left in the bottle it can be refilled and sanctify the new water added to it.

“DO DROP IN” ON THURSDAYS – Is back and we welcome everyone to enjoy the fellowship that takes place on these days!

MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE

The choir meets on Thursday at 6pm to practice. Please come make a joyful noise with us - no experience necessary! Come to practice and try it out. Please see Cathy our Choir Director for more information.

CALENDAR ITEMS - Please go to the St. George website calendar (click here) for the up-to-date calendar. Sometimes the schedule changes after the monthly calendar has been printed.

SPONSOR A BOOK – Please consider sponsoring a copy of Introducing the Orthodox Church: Its Faith and Life by Anthony M. Coniaris. By sponsoring a printed copy at $32 or a Kindle copy at $10, someone interested in learning about the Orthodox faith will receive a complimentary copy.

GREAT LENT 2025

Bible Study

Our weekly Bible Study has resumed on Wednesdays at 11am! We hope you will join us as we learn more about Holy Scripture.

Youth Sermon 2/23/25

Today we are blessed to have our Metropolis Youth and Young Adults Director Pano Coufos to offer the youth sermon (the first 1min is an intro by Fr Demetri and sound quality is not great)

Pano talks about the Gospel passage of the day and the importance of having love especially before we enter Great Lent!

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Main Sermon 2/23/25

Fr Demetri offers the sermon on the first three Sundays of the Triodion Period, because we were not able to have The Divine Services for two consecutive weeks!

What can happen when we allow pride to enter the root of our souls and forget to have the love God in and through us?

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YOUTH INFORMATION

Takes place every Sunday

We ask that all parents/legal guardians register their child(ren) for the 2024-25 year by simply clicking this link

+PROSPHORO NEED+

Bread has been the emblem of God’s providence for us, throughout humanity’s history. Both physical (bread as food) and spiritual - the επιούσιον (epiousion) or “supersubstantial” bread of the Lord’s prayer, the bread of Holy Communion.

In the Orthodox Christian church, the pinnacle of our worship is union with Christ, both spiritually but also physically, by consuming the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Since the Last Supper, before every Divine Liturgy, one or more of the faithful prepare and bring bread to church to be used as the Body of Christ in the Eucharist. The Orthodox church is liturgical. For those of us who bake prosphoro, the liturgy begins as we prepare to bake!

Prosphoro is an offering to God, made from His material gifts to us, and prepared lovingly and prayerfully.

A special website is available to share with the faithful this ‘proper’ method of preparation of the holy gift according to the Greek Orthodox tradition. Please click here to learn how to bake this beautiful offering.