WEEKLY ONLINE BULLETIN

May 4, 2025

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Myrrh-bearers Sunday

Orthros/Matins

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Divine Liturgy

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Memorial Service

George Gatzoulis (40 days)

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Feast Celebrated Today

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The third Sunday of Holy Pascha is observed by the Orthodox Church as the Sunday of the Holy Myrrhbearers. The day commemorates when the women disciples of our Lord came to the tomb to anoint his body with myrrh-oils but found the tomb empty. As the woman wondered what this meant, angels appeared proclaiming that Christ had risen from the dead.

About the beginning of His thirty-second year, when the Lord Jesus was going throughout Galilee, preaching and working miracles, many women who had received of His beneficence left their own homeland and from then on followed after Him. They ministered unto Him out of their own possessions, even until His crucifixion and entombment; and afterwards, neither losing faith in Him after His death, nor fearing the wrath of the Jewish rulers, they came to His sepulcher, to continue click here

PRAYER LIST

Click Here to offer your prayers for those in need of prayer.

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: For they were affraid

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.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE TOUR

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!

SPRING GENERAL ASSEMBLY - Will take place today following Divine Liturgy.

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

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 began support the Soup Kitchen with 4 volunteers. Anyone who is 16 or order 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!

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

PROSFORA - 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.

SAVE THE DATES – GLENDI 2025 meeting will be held Thursday, April 24 at 6:30pm; Spring General Assembly will be held on Sunday, May 4 following Sunday services.

WEEK IN REVIEW

Tues. May 6

Greek PreSchool 4pm

Adult Conversational Greek Class 6pm

Wed. May 7

Bible Study 11am

Girl Scouts 6pm

Orthodoxy Answers Your Questions (ZOOM Only) 630pm Click here to register

Thurs. May 8

Do Drop In 930am

DOP Handbag Bingo

Doors open 5pm, games begin 6pm

Sunday May 11

Matins 830am

Divine Liturgy 930am

Mother's Day

Sunday School Classes

HS Discussion Group

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! We will resume on April 30th.

ORTHODOXY ANSWERS YOUR QUESTIONS - All are invited to participate in this question and answer discussion group that takes place every Wednesday evening on Zoom at 6pm. We will resume on April 30. Click here to register

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.

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.

RAFFLE ITEMS WANTED – Do you own a restaurant, a hair salon or an insurance agency? Maybe a law firm, a floral shop or some other enterprise? If you do, please consider publicizing your business by donating products or services to either the Mini (under $100 value) or Mega Raffles. It’s a great way to get new customers! And for those of you who have already donated prizes and taken out ads, we appreciate and thank you for your continued patronage.

Religious Education

Bible Study

Our weekly Bible Study will resume at the end of April! We hope you will join us as we learn more about Holy Scripture.

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+

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.