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ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE
The Vicariate For Palestinian/Jordanian Christian Orthodox Communities In America
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Archiepiscopal Vicar Father George Jweinat
TheVery Rev. Father Issa Awwad
Rev. Father Hanna Khoury
Office Phone:# 415-334-2234
Fr. George’s Cell: 415-860-4447
Home Phone# 650-692-4519
Sunday January 11th, 2015
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www.Stgeorgesf.org
Rev. Fr. Nektarios Raie
Office Fax: # 415-334-2275
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Volume 22 Number 2
2015 Budget
Was Approved Last Sunday January 4th, 2015
The Parish Family Extends Their Sincere Thanks
To The Outgoing 2014 Board Of Trustees & Auxiliaries For An
Outstanding & Fruitful Year
Also We Would Like to Welcome Our 2015 New Officers
Of The Board Of Trustees
Dalia Abuelezam, Mary Jaber, Nawal Kharsa, Suzie Mizirawi,
& Jacob Sahourieh
We Pray To The All-Mighty God To Help The New Board
Lead Us Into A Fun and Fruitful Year
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High Feast Of The Theotokos Thursday, January 8th, 2015
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Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos.
"Yesterday, together with the Angels, the Magi and the Shepherds, we
offered our worship to God made man, and born a little child for our
Salvation; and today we rightly pay homage to His Mother, the All Holy
Virgin Mary. The Church sets her before us in the cave beside her Son as
the new Eve, the first and pre-eminent representative of the renewed
human race, chosen and prepared by God throughout all generations, for
the fulfillment of the Great Mystery of His Incarnation." (Synaxarion)
Here we follow the pattern of most major Feasts: on the day following
feast , we honor those who also played a part in the accomplishment of
God's plan.
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Liturgy 12:30 pm
Archiepiscopal Vicar Father George Jweinat
TheVery Rev. Father Isa Awwad
Rev. Father Hanna Khoury
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One Year Memorial For the Servant of God
HANNA IBRAHIM NASRA
This Sunday Jan. 11th, 2015
By his beloved Wife SAMEERA, Brothers SALEEM & AMAL,
Sister NAWAL & JALAL SMEIR & All the NASRAH &
HATTAR Families in blessed One Year memorial of the Servant
of God HANNA IBRAHIM NASRA. Also for the repose of his
Beloved Parents IBRAHIM HANNA & QNU NASRA. May
Their Blessed Memory Be Eternal.
Holy Bread Altar Offering:
The Holy Bread Altar Offering (Corban St. Mark 7:11) will be specially offered for the Holy Sanctify of the Divine Liturgy.
The St. George’s Parish Family is deeply saddened by the passing
into eternal life our sister in Christ SUHAILA SOUDAH. Our
Deepest sympathies to all the SOUDAH Families. May Her
Blessed Memory Be Eternal.
By Her Children BETTY & JIMMY KELLEHER, NICK & AMAL
MICHAEL & Her Grandchildren LAILA & JAMIE in blessed 20
Years Memorial of Beloved Mother & Grandmother LAILA
MICHAEL. May Her Blessed Memory Be Eternal.
By The St. George Parish Family in Thanksgiving to God and in
Congratulations to KHADER & YUKA KEILEH on the occasion
of their Wedding. Many Years
By The St. George Parish Family in Thanksgiving to God for the
continued good health of GEORGETTE MUHAWIEH.
By the St. George Parish Family in thanksgiving to God and in
Congratulations to JARIR & LORIE FARRAJ on the occasion of
the baptism of their Child of God LUCCA FARRAJ.
By the St. George Parish Family in Thanksgiving to God and in
Congratulations to FARAH & FARIDA KHOURI on the
occasion of the Baptism their Children GUSSAN & JOHN
KHOURI.
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Head of Ushers: Maher Haddad
Altar Boys: Issa Kaileh, Jacob Dudum, Adrian Husary & Jason Arbeed
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Stephen Archdeacon The First Martyr
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Saint Stephen was a Jew, by race, and, as some say, a disciple of
Gamaliel, the teacher of the Law mentioned in Acts 5:34 and 22:3.
He was the first of the seven deacons whom the Apostles
established in Jerusalem to care for the poor, and to distribute
alms to them. Being a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, he
performed great signs and wonders among the people. While
disputing with the Jews concerning Jesus, and wisely refuting
their every contradiction, so that no one was able to withstand
the wisdom and the spirit whereby he spake, he was slandered as
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a blasphemer and was dragged off to the Sanhedrin of the elders.
There with boldness he proved from the divine Scriptures the
coming of the Just One (Jesus), of Whom they had become the
betrayers and murderers, and he reproved their faithless and
hardheartedness. And finally, gazing into Heaven and beholding
the divine glory, he said: "Lo, I see the Heavens opened and the
Son of man standing at the right hand of God." But when they
heard this, they stopped up their ears, and with anger cast him
out of the city and stoned him, while he was calling out and
saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." Then, imitating the longsuffering of the Master, he bent his knees and prayed in a loud
voice for them that were stoning him, and he said, "Lord, lay not
this sin to their charge," And saying this, he fell asleep (Acts 6, 7),
thus becoming the first among the Martyrs of the Church of
Christ.
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"The Holy Virgin Martyr Anysia lived in
the city of Thessalonica during the reign of
the emperor Maximian (284-305). Upon the
death of her parents, who had raised her in
Christian piety, St Anysia sold everything
she owned, distributing her riches to the
poor, and she began to lead a strict life of
fasting, vigil, and prayer. Fervent in her
love for Christ, she often said: ``Oh, how
false is the life of youth, for you either
scandalize or are scandalized. Better is old
age; but sorrow overcomes me because of
the length of time that separates me from
heaven.''...When sleep overcame her she
would say to herself: ``It is dangerous to
sleep while my enemy keeps vigil.'' During
his persecution against Christians, Maximian issued an edict
stating that anyone had the right to kill Christians with no fear
of punishment. Soon there were many bodies to be found in
cities, towns, and by the roadside. Once, when St Anysia was on
her way to church, a pagan soldier stopped her and demanded
that she come along to the festival of the sun to offer sacrifice.
St Anysia gently pulled herself away from him. When he soldier
boldly grabbed her and attempted to tear the veil from her head,
she shoved him, spit in his face and said, "My Lord Jesus Christ
forbids you!" In anger, the soldier ran her through with his
sword. Those gathering over her body wept and loudly
complained against the cruel emperor for issuing an edict that
resulted in the death of many innocent people. Christians buried
the martyr near the city gates, and a chapel was built over her
grave."
Are you up-to-date with your 2014 pledge?
Time flies, and with the busy Christmas & New Year season we
tend to forget our dues to our church. If your 2014 pledge is
falling behind, this is the time to make it up-to-date and get tax
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Sunday After Christmas
Section from the Epistle of St. Paul to the
Galatians (1:11-19)
YE brethren: I certify you, that the gospel which was
preached of me is not after man.
For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it,
but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.For ye have heard
of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion,
how that behind measure I persecuted the church of God
and wasted it:And profited in the Jew's religion above
many my equals in mine own nation, being more
exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
But when it pleased God, who separated me from my
mother's womb, and called me by his grace.
To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among
the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and
blood:Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which
were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and
returned again unto Damascus.
Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see
Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. But other of the
apostles saw I none, save James and the Lord's brother.
The Gospel: From St. Matthew (2:13 to end)
And after the Magi were departed, the angel of the Lord
appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take
the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and
be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek
the young child to destroy him.When he arose, he took
the young child and his mother by night, and departed
into Egypt:
And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be
fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet,
saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the
wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew
all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the
coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according
to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise
men.
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the
prophet, saying,
In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and
weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her
children, and would not be comforted, because they are
not.But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the
Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,Saying,
Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go
into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought
the young child"s life.
And He arose,and took the young child and his mother,
and came into the land of Israel
But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea
in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go
thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a
dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee:
And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it
might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He
shall be called a Nazarene.
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