Welcome to St George Church of Kingston

Your Spiritual Home

Come home to St George this Sunday!

ALL ARE WELCOME

AT SAINT GEORGE CHURCH of KINGSTON, NY

Sunday Worship Services:

Divine Liturgy (Eucharist) 10:00 AM

Put Sunday Worship back in Your Life

DIVINE LITURGY BEGINS PROMPTLY AT 10:00

and Usually Ends around 11:15

Please sign up in the Narthex to Host a Coffee Hour

In the Gospel of Luke... we read of the man who planned a great feast and invited many people. When it was time to serve the dinner, they were all too busy – one with his farm, one with his bride, another with his oxen. We can become so busy making a living that we forget to make a life. God gets crowded out of our lives over the most unimportant things.

Come to church. Pray. Worship. Learn. Grow in faith.

SATURDAYS OF THE SOULS

FEBRUARY 29 & MARCH 7

Diving Liturgy at 10:00 AM

followed by memorial prayers

There will be no services on Saturday, February 22

as Fr Jim will be traveling for his work at the Archdiocese

Saint George Church

General Assembly/Town Hall Meeting

rescheduled

Sunday, February 23 Following Divine Liturgy

Come hear and be heard.

Share in the Vision and Mission of our Parish!

You will be updated on our Ministries and Activities

Your questions, ideas & suggestions are welcome.

NOTE: Only members in good standing are permitted to vote.

See Mary Matthews to check if you are current on your stewardship.

GREAT LENT BEGINS MARCH 2

SAINT GEORGE DINNER DANCE APRIL 26

at the Chateau

Please mark your calendar!

Tuesday Greek Dance Class

The Corporate Paradigm

To refer to the Parish Council as “The Board” is a symptom of our inclination to apply the corporate paradigm to the operation of the Church. Although some tools used in corporate life may also be useful in the operation of the Church, the corporate paradigm falls short and reduces the local church to something less than she was meant to be.

HELLENIC WOMEN’S CLUB CHRISTMAS DINNER

at CHRISTINA'S

In place of the gift exchange,

members donated to the

Saint George Philanthropy Fund

in Memory of Loukia Kalimeras

with her family's blessing.

Click HERE to donate.

“Every church needs to

grow warmer through fellowship,

deeper through discipleship,

stronger through through worship,

and larger through evangelism."

Rick Warren The Purpose-Driven Church

SAINT GEORGE CHRISTMAS PAGEANT 2019

MORE THAN JUST FOLLOWING RULES....

“…in the end, to be Christian is not simply to follow rules and assent to propositions; to be Christian is to love in the form of the greatest commandment. Like being a dancer, it is to perform love in such a way that love (God) has seized our being.”

-Dr. Aristotle Papanikolaou

Aristotle Papanikolaou is Professor of Theology and the Archbishop Demetrios Chair in Orthodox Theology and Culture at Fordham University He is Co-Director of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University.

“Every temple of the Lord is a house of divine Presence and a house of prayer.
Every temple is also a house of peace. May the soul of all those who enter into this holy
temple to take part in the assembly of God, become itself a house of peace.”

from Serve the Lord With Gladness by A Monk of the Eastern Church

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We are studying the Parables of Jesus.

Greek School

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ST GEORGE KINGSTON

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to our beloved Saint George.

“It does not matter how much we give,

but how much love we put into our giving.”

Mother Theresa

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UPDATING OUR DIRECTORY

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The Work of Jesus Christ: “…it is our Orthodox teaching that the Church continues the work of Christ on earth. When laypeople sing in the choir, teach Sunday school, instruct their children to pray, etc., they are doing the work of the Church.”

- Fr. Stanley S. Harakas, Contemporary Moral Issues

“With us everything should be secondary compared to our concern with children, and their upbringing in the instruction of the Lord."

St John Chrysostom

Your 2019 Parish Council

Fr Jim, Priest

Anthony Moustakas, President

Xenakis Loizou, Vice President

Mary Matthews, Treasurer

George Kotzias, Secretary

Bill Kresser

Phil Lettre

John Zacharia

Nick Maouris

Ephie Trataros

Dennis Larios

Saint George Church seeks to offer:

A sense of Peace and the Presence of God in worship;

Opportunities to Serve Others;

Meaningful opportunities for Fellowship;

Education in aspects of the Faith for all ages; and

A well-maintained and inspiring place of worship & fellowship

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Is a Member of our St George Family

in the Hospital, Rehab or Extended Care?

Please contact Fr Jim with the name and location of any members of our Saint George family that may be in the hospital, Rehab or Extended Care/Nursing Home. Please indicate whether the need is urgent. Call Fr Jim's office 646-519-6721 or email FrJimK@goarch.org. Please leave a clear message and a contact number in case additional information is needed.

“The oil of religion should be used to soothe and heal the wounds of others,

not to ignite the fires of hatred.”

-Archbishop Anastasios of Albania

WHAT IS CHRISTIAN STEWARDSHIP?

Stewardship is what a person does after saying "I believe," as proof of that belief.

(Williams & McKibben in Oriented Leadership)

Saint George E-List We are developing an e-list (listserv) for parish communication. Your email will not be disclosed through the list or to other members of the list. The list will be used for weekly bulletins and timely information. Please send your email to FrJimK@goarch.org and request to be added to the Saint George Kingston e-list.

"Be not forgetful to entertain strangers:

for thereby some have entertained angels unawares."

Hebrews 13:2 (KJV)

Gospel and Epistle Readings

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Second Mode. Psalm 117.14,18.
The Lord is my strength and my song.
Verse: The Lord has chastened me sorely.

The reading is from St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 6:12-20.

Brethren, "all things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be enslaved by anything. "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food" -- and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I therefore take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! Do you not know that he who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two shall become one flesh." But he who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. Shun immorality. Every other sin which a man commits is outside the body; but the immoral man sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God? You are not your own; you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body and in your spirit which belong to God.

Gospel Reading

Sunday of the Prodigal Son
The Reading is from Luke 15:11-32

The Lord said this parable: "There was a man who had two sons; and the younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the share of the property that falls to me.' And he divided his living between them. Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took his journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in loose living. And when he had spent everything, a great famine arose in that country, and he began to be in want. So he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would gladly have filled his belly with the pods that the swine ate; and no one gave him anything. But when he came to himself he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and to spare, but I perish here with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me as one of your hired servants.' And he arose and came to his father. But while he was yet at a distance, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. And the son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.' But the father said to his servants, 'Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet; and bring the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry; for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.' And they began to make merry. Now his elder son was in the field; and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. And he called one of the servants and asked what this meant. And he said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has received him safe and sound.' But he was angry and refused to go in. His father came out and entreated him, but he answered his father, 'Lo, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command; yet you never gave me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends. But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your living with harlots, you killed for him the fatted calf!' And he said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. It was fitting to make merry and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.'"

Wisdom of the Fathers

... but since he repented, and did not despair, he was restored, even after such great corruption, to the same splendour as before, and was arrayed in the most beautiful robe, and enjoyed greater honours than his brother who had not fallen.

St. John Chrysostom

AN EXHORTATION TO THEODORE AFTER HIS FALL, 4th Century

Saints and Feasts

February 16

Sunday of the Prodigal Son

Through the parable of today's Gospel, our Saviour has set forth three things for us: the condition of the sinner, the rule of repentance, and the greatness of God's compassion. The divine Fathers have put this reading the week after the parable of the Publican and Pharisee so that, seeing in the person of the Prodigal Son our own wretched condition -- inasmuch as we are sunken in sin, far from God and His Mysteries -- we might at last come to our senses and make haste to return to Him by repentance during these holy days of the Fast.

Furthermore, those who have wrought many great iniquities, and have persisted in them for a long time, oftentimes fall into despair, thinking that there can no longer be any forgiveness for them; and so being without hope, they fall every day into the same and even worse iniquities. Therefore, the divine Fathers, that they might root out the passion of despair from the hearts of such people, and rouse them to the deeds of virtue, have set the present parable at the forecourts of the Fast, to show them the surpassing goodness of God's compassion, and to teach them that there is no sin -- no matter how great it may be -- that can overcome at any time His love for man.

February 16

Romanos the Younger

February 16

Pamphilus the Martyr & his Companions

This Martyr contested during the reign of Maximian, in the year 290, in Caesarea of Palestine, and was put to death by command of Firmilian, the Governor of Palestine. His fellow contestants' names are Valens, Paul, Seleucus, Porphyrius, Julian, Theodulus, and five others from Egypt: Elias, Jeremias, Esaias, Samuel, and Daniel. Their martyrdom is recorded in Book VIII, ch. 11 of Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History, called The Martyrs of Palestine.

February 16

Flavianos, Patriarch of Constantinople

Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Second Mode

When Thou didst descend unto death, O Life Immortal, then didst Thou slay Hades with the lightning of Thy Divinity. And when Thou didst also raise the dead out of the nethermost depths, all the powers in the Heavens cried out: O Life-giver, Christ our God, glory be to Thee.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Third Mode

O Father, foolishly I ran away from Your glory, and in sin, squandered the riches You gave me. Wherefore, I cry out to You with the voice of the Prodigal, "I have sinned before You Compassionate Father. Receive me in repentance and take me as one of Your hired servants."

Greek Orthodox Archdiocese News

Bishop Metodije of Diokleia visits Archbishop Elpidophoros of America

02/12/2020

NEW YORK – On Monday, February 10, 2020, Bishop Metodije of Diokleia visited Archbishop Elpidophoros of America at the Archdiocese Headquarters, to discuss the current religious and political situation in Montenegro.

https://www.goarch.org/-/bishop-metodije-of-diokleia-visits-archbishop-elpidophoros-of-america

Archbishop Elpidophoros and Metropolitan Tikhon to Feed Those in Need

02/11/2020

NEW YORK – Archbishop Elpidophoros and Metropolitan Tikhon met yesterday at the headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America in an ongoing effort to strengthen the relationship between the Archdiocese and the Orthodox Church in America.

https://www.goarch.org/-/archbishop-elpidophoros-and-metropolitan-tikhon-to-feed-those-in-need

Responding to the Crisis of Homelessness in the New York Metro Area

02/05/2020

NEW YORK – On February 12, 2020 at 7:00 p.m., the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America will be hosting an event focused on homelessness at the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity (337 E 74th St, New York, NY 10021). The event will feature a panel, including His Grace Bishop ...

https://www.goarch.org/-/responding-to-the-crisis-of-homelessness-in-the-new-york-metro-area

Archbishop Elpidophoros Meets Catholic University of America Officials

02/04/2020

https://www.goarch.org/-/archbishop-elpidophoros-meets-catholic-university-of-america-officials

General Information

Contact Information

Services Schedule

Past Bulletins

Welcome to St George Church of Kingston

Gospel and Epistle Readings

Epistle Reading

Gospel Reading

Wisdom of the Fathers

Saints and Feasts

Sunday of the Prodigal Son

Romanos the Younger

Pamphilus the Martyr & his Companions

Flavianos, Patriarch of Constantinople

Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Second Mode

Seasonal Kontakion in the Third Mode

Greek Orthodox Archdiocese News

Bishop Metodije of Diokleia visits Archbishop Elpidophoros of America

02/12/2020

Archbishop Elpidophoros and Metropolitan Tikhon to Feed Those in Need

02/11/2020

Responding to the Crisis of Homelessness in the New York Metro Area

02/05/2020

Archbishop Elpidophoros Meets Catholic University of America Officials

02/04/2020