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St. Spyridon Greek Orthodox Christian Church
Publish Date: 2022-08-21
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St. Spyridon Parish News, Events, Activities and Announcements
Inserts and Fliers
Archdiocese News
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Hymns of the Day
Wisdom of the Fathers
Saints and Feasts
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St. Spyridon Greek Orthodox Christian Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (619) 297-4165
  • Fax:
  • (619) 297-4181
  • Street Address:

  • 3655 Park Boulevard

  • San Diego, CA 92103

Contact Information

Parish Priest Fr. Andrew S.

frandrew@stspyridon.org | 619-297-4165

Parish Office For General Office Information

office@stspyridon.org | 619-297-4165

Services Schedule

Sunday Services

Orthros/Matins: 8:30am

Divine Liturgy: 10:00am

Past Bulletins


St. Spyridon Parish News, Events, Activities and Announcements

This Sunday's Memorials

William (Billy) Demos - 1 year

Spiro Demos - 19 years

Mae Demos - 31 years

Rosa Mastt - 43 years

Jim Mastt - 55 years

William Demos - 46 years

George Demos - 15 years

Maria Kouchis - 3 years

Spyridon Kouchis - 5 years

Lazaros Dali - 22 years

Margarita Dali - 7 years 

Women of the Word Bible Study Signups This Sunday

The Women of the Word are sponsoring Fellowship Hour this Sunday, August 21st, and will also have a Signup table and an Opportunity Drawing in the Hall.  Come and sign up for our weekly study or just to learn about our ministry and enter your name for the chance to receive a custom-tabbed Orthodox Study Bible. The Drawing is open to all parishioners.

Youth Ministries Informational Meeting

Mark your calendar for our Youth Ministries Information Zoom Meeting either Monday, 8/22/22 at 6:30 pm or Wednesday, 8/24/22 at 9:00 am. Choose either meeting to log in and learn all about the Youth Ministries and ways that you can get plugged in this year - Kids’ Corner, HOPE, JOY, GOYA, Dance & Choral School, Sunday School, Service Sunday, Project Mexico, St. Nicholas Summer Camp, Vacation Church School, Oratorical Festival, and more! If you have children, are interested in learning more about the youth ministries, or are interested in volunteering, I hope you will join us at one of the meetings. It is time to PLUG IN and ENERGIZE our Youth Ministries at St. Spyridon! --- Zoom info: Meeting ID: 411 777 1178 Passcode: YMspyridon --- Contact Julie Dennis: youthministries@stspyridon.org or 619-940-5167.

Greek Night with the Padres This Sunday

Please join the Dance and Choral School for their annual Greek Night with the Padres this Sunday, August 21st at 1:10 pm at Petco Park. Order your tickets online at https://fevo.me/greek22

For more information, contact Kathy Meck, 760-390-0101 or sprnodiva@aol.com 

Please see the Greek Night with the Padres flyer in the "Inserts & Fliers" section below.

Greek Language School - Fall Registration is Open!

We are offering classes of all levels for children (in-person) and adults (in-person and online)!

Fall Semester Dates: September 7, 2022 – January 28, 2023

REGISTER HERE: www.stspyridongreekschool.org 

Need for Greek Teachers!

If you and/or somebody you know is interested in teaching Greek, please contact us at: stspyridongreekschool@gmail.com

YAL Conference Labor Day Weekend

If you are 18-35 years old, please join the Young Adult League for their conference on September 1-5, 2022, at the Wyndham Bayside Resort, San Diego. To register go to https://sanfran.goarch.org/events/yal-conference-2022?date=2022-09-01 

Adult volunteers from St. Spyridon parish are needed Friday and Saturday, September 2nd and 3rd.  Interested in helping out - please contact Bill Navrides. 

Upcoming Memorials for August

Sunday, August 28th - George Elias Koutros - 40 days 

Summer Stewardship Reminder

To ALL the faithful stewards of Saint Spyridon parish,

The Stewardship Committee once again takes this opportunity to thank you and to remind you that the operating expenses of our beloved Saint Spyridon parish do not cease throughout the summer months.  The same payments and bills have got to be paid throughout the summer as they do throughout the entire year.  Because of your generosity and positive response, our 2022 stewardship efforts continue to grow and bear good fruit. 

However, for many and varied reasons meeting the parish’s operational expenses throughout the summer months has always been a challenge, but as a community, we have been getting better.  You can do your part by continuing to fulfill your 2022 pledged stewardship amount throughout the summer months.  Therefore, as you made your 2022 stewardship pledge at the beginning of the year, the Stewardship Committee of the parish is encouraging you to continue to fulfill that pledged amount on a weekly and/or monthly basis throughout the summer months. We THANK YOU in advance for your consideration and encourage you all to keep up the good and most honorable work.

Enjoy your summer, be safe and keep praying, making the Divine Liturgy and everything that flows from it a priority in your life.

Sincerely and Respectfully, 

John T. Kalas, Stewardship Committee Chair

Kids' Corner for Children Under Age 4 

Located in the Education Building downstairs. Every Sunday after receiving Holy Communion, kids (age 4 and under) and parents can come and play, meet new friends and hang out with old friends! Toys for kids and coffee for parents are provided! 

Save the Date for GOYA Kick Off Event!

All Goyans and their families are welcome to the Kick Off Event on Saturday, September 24th! If you have a youth in 7th-12th grade, we hope that they will join GOYA! For more information, call GOYA President, Luka Maude at 858-335-3879.   

Philoptochos Needs Sunday Fellowship Sponsors

We need your help in providing the refreshments that we share during this time of fellowship. Please consider sponsoring with your friends and family.  Let's keep it simple by providing cookies or donuts, fruit, and juice. To reserve your date contact Anne Zouvas at (619) 248-6644. Thank you for your support!

Give Back 0.5% From “Amazon Smile” Foundation

We remind you to please participate in the AmazonSmile program.  When you shop on Amazon, the AmazonSmile Foundation will give back 0.5% of your purchase price to St. Spyridon Greek Orthodox Church.  That’s right, every eligible/registered purchase you or someone else makes at AmazonSmile 0.5% will be donated back to your parish!!!

It's quick and easy to register by visiting AmazonSmile (smile.amazon.com) and select “St. Spyridon Greek Orthodox Church” before you make your first purchase (be sure to select St. Spyridon Greek Orthodox Church - San Diego, California).    

For more information about AmazonSmile, go to http://smile.amazon.com/about 

We hope you’ll consider this easy way to support your beloved parish.  Everyone is eligible to participate so tell your friends and relatives and spread the word about this wonderful opportunity. 

Your Legacy and Your Church  

...to whom much is given; from them much more is required (Luke 12:48).  

Please remember to include your Saint Spyridon parish in your estate plan and bequest. 

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Inserts and Fliers

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Archdiocese News

Camp St. Paul Concludes 17th Successful Summer

08/13/2022

centennial
https://www.goarch.org/-/camp-st-paul-concludes-17th-successful-summer

Archdiocese Audit Committee Updates the Clergy-Laity Congress on Audit Results

08/13/2022

At the Clergy-Laity Congress, Archdiocesan Audit Committee Chair Maria Stefanis reported on the activities of the Audit Committee and the results of the 2021 financial audit. She noted that the financial audit was completed by April 26, 2022.
https://www.goarch.org/-/audit-committee-updates-clc-audit-results

Oxford Press Publishes Groundbreaking Book on the Bible in Orthodox Christianity

08/03/2022

Boston— A groundbreaking new text with a foreword by His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America has been published by Rev. Dr. Eugen J. Pentiuc, the Archbishop Demetrios Professor of Biblical Studies and Christian Origins at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology.
https://www.goarch.org/-/oxford-press-publishes-groundbreaking-book-bible-in-orthodox-christianity-2022
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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

Tenth Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from John 21:1-14

At that time, Jesus revealed Himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias; and He revealed Himself in this way. Simon Peter, Thomas, called the Twin, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of His disciples were together. Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing." They said to him, "We will go with you." They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. Just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the beach, yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to them, "Children, have you any fish?" They answered him, "No." He said to them, "Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some." So they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in, for the quantity of fish. That disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his clothes, for he was stripped for work, and sprang into the sea. But the other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish, for they were not far from the land, but about a hundred yards off. When they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fire there with fish lying on it, and bread. Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish that you have just caught." So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, a hundred and fifty-three of them; and although there were so many, the net was not torn. Jesus said to them, "Come and have breakfast." Now none of the disciples dared ask Him, "Who are you?" They knew it was the Lord. Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and so with the fish. This was now the third time that Jesus was revealed to the disciples after He was raised from the dead. .

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. First Mode. Psalm 32.22,1.
Let your mercy, O Lord, be upon us.
Verse: Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous.

The reading is from St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 4:9-16.

Brethren, God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men. We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and buffeted and homeless, and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become, and are now, as the refuse of the world, the off-scouring of all things. I do not write this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. I urge you, then, be imitators of me.

Gospel Reading

10th Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 17:14-23

At that time, a man came up to Jesus and kneeling before him said, "Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and he suffers terribly; for often he falls into the fire, and often into the water. And I brought him to your disciples, and they could not heal him." And Jesus answered, "O faithless and perverse generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me." And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon came out of him, and the boy was cured instantly. Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, "Why could we not cast it out?" He said to them, "Because of your little faith. For truly I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move hence to yonder place,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you. But this kind never comes out except by prayer and fasting." As they were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of man is to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him, and he will be raised on the third day."

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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the First Mode

Though the tomb was sealed by a stone and soldiers guarded your pure body, you arose, O Savior, on the third day, giving life to the world. Therefore, O giver of life, the heavenly powers praise you: Glory to your resurrection, O Christ, glory to your kin

Apolytikion for Afterfeast of the Dormition in the First Mode

In giving birth you retained your virginity, and in dormition you did not forsake the world, O Theotokos. You were translated unto life, being the Mother of Life. And thus by virtue of your intercessions you deliver our souls from death.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Second Mode

Neither the grave nor death could contain the Theotokos, the unshakable hope, ever vigilant in intercession and protection. As Mother of life, He who dwelt in the ever-virginal womb transposed her to life.
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Wisdom of the Fathers

Here Christ is not speaking of that faith which believes in Him undoubtingly and knows Him to be true God, but of the faith (needed) to work miracles. If ye have faith, He said, so exceedingly warm and burning as a grain of mustard seed (for these are its qualities), and if it is believed without a doubt that ye will perform signs, then ye will receive such power, that if ye desire to move the very mountains, ye will move them.
St. John Chrysostom
The Gospel Commentary, edited by Hieromonk German Ciuba, 2002, 4th Century

For a man to have such faith appears simple, but it is, on the contrary, something very lofty, not easily attained by many. Such faith is born of boldness before God; but such boldness comes (only) from pleasing God. Beloved, great labour is needed to acquire, through pleasing God, such boldness before Him that one firmly believes that he will grant all that one asks; as it is written, Ask, and it shall be given to you.
St. John Chrysostom
The Gospel Commentary: edited by Hieromonk German Ciuba, 2002., 4th Century

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Saints and Feasts

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August 21

Thaddeus the Apostle of the 70

The Apostle Thaddaeus was from Edessa, a Jew by race. When he came to Jerusalem, he became a disciple of Christ, and after His Ascension he returned to Edessa. There he catechized and baptized Abgar (see Aug. 16). Having preached in Mesopotamia, he ended his life in martyrdom. Though some call him one of the Twelve, whom Matthew calls "Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus" (Matt. 10:3), Eusebius says that he is one of the Seventy: "After [Christ's] Resurrection from the dead, and His ascent into Heaven, Thomas, one of the twelve Apostles, inspired by God, sent Thaddaeus, one of the seventy disciples of Christ, to Edessa as a preacher and evangelist of Christ's teaching" (Eccl. Hist. 1: 13).

Allsaint
August 22

Agathonikos the Martyr of Nicomedea & his Companion Martyrs

The Martyr Agathonicus, because he converted pagans to Christ, was seized in Nicomedia, violently beaten, haled about in bonds, and beheaded in Selyvria, during the reign of Maximian, in the year 298.

Irenaeus
August 23

Our Holy Father Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons

The Holy Hieromartyr Irenaeus was born in Asia Minor about the year 120, and in his youth was a disciple of Saint Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna. Saint Irenaeus was sent to Lyons in Gaul, to be a fellow labourer of Pothinus, Bishop of Lyons (celebrated June 2), who had also been a disciple Saint Polycarp. After the martyrdom of Saint Pothinus, Saint Irenaeus succeeded him as Bishop of Lyons. Besides the assaults of paganism, Irenaeus found himself compelled to do battle with many Gnostic heresies, against which he wrote his greatest work, A Refutation and Overthrow of Knowledge Falsely So Called . He was also a peace-maker within the Church. When Victor, Bishop of Rome, was prepared to excommunicate the Christians of Asia Minor for following a different tradition celebrating Pascha, Irenaeus persuaded him to moderate his zeal, and mediated peace. He made Lyons an illustrious bastion of Orthodoxy and a school of piety, and sealed his confession with martyrdom about the year 202, during the reign of Septimius Severus. He is not to be confused with Saint Irenaeus, Bishop of Sirmium, also celebrated today, who was beheaded and cast into a river in 304 under Diocletian.

Kosmaito
August 24

Kosmas the New Hieromartyr & Equal-to-the Apostles of Aetolia

Our holy Father Cosmas was from the town of Mega Dendron (Great Tree) of Aetolia. At the age of twenty, he went to study at the school of the Monastery of Vatopedi on the Holy Mountain. Later, he came to the Athonite Monastery of Philotheou where he was tonsured. With the blessing of his abbot, he departed for Constantinople where he learned the art of rhetoric, and thereafter, he began to preach throughout all the regions of northern Greece, the Ionian Islands, but especially in Albania, for the Christian people there were in great ignorance because of the oppression and cruelty of the Moslems. Finally, in 1776, after having greatly strengthened and enlightened the faithful, working many signs and wonders all the while, he was falsely accused by the leaders of the Jewish people and was executed by strangulation by the Moslem Turks in Albania.

Allsaint
August 25

Titus the Apostle of the 70

Saint Titus was a Greek by race, and an idolater. But having believed in Christ through the Apostle Paul, he became Paul's disciple and follower and labored with him greatly in the preaching of the Gospel. When Paul ordained him Bishop of Crete, he later wrote to him the Epistle which bears his name. Having shepherded in an apostolic manner the flock that had been entrusted to him, and being full of days, he reposed in peace, some ninety-four years of age.

Natalia
August 26

Adrian & Natalia the Martyrs & their 33 Companion Martyrs in Nicomedea

The holy Martyrs Adrian and Natalie confessed the Christian Faith during the reign of Maximian, in Nicomedia, in the year 298. Adrian was a pagan; witnessing the valor of the Martyrs, and the fervent faith with which they suffered their torments, he also declared himself a Christian and was imprisoned. When this was told to his wife Natalie, who was secretly a believer, she visited him in prison and encouraged him in his sufferings. Saint Adrian's hands and feet were placed on an anvil and broken off with a hammer; he died in his torments. His blessed wife recovered part of his holy relics and took it to Argyropolis near Byzantium, and reposed in peace soon after.

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