Speaker Series Collaboration Launched Between Orthodox Christian Studies Center and GOARCH Department of Religious Education
The Orthodox Christian Studies Center of Fordham University, in collaboration with the Department of Religious Education of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, and with the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros, is pleased to announce the launch of the Speaker Series: Orthodox Scholars Preach.
Starting today, every week until Pascha, a different Orthodox Scholar will release a new 10-minute video. This Series provides a platform for Orthodox scholars to reflect on the spiritual themes of each Sunday's liturgical calendar while drawing on their expertise. The Series offers a space where Orthodox Christians and others interested in Orthodox spirituality can encounter the depth and richness of the tradition through stimulating, theologically-informed preaching by respected and diverse Orthodox scholars.
This week's sermon for the Sunday of the Last Judgment features Dr. Lori Branch, associate professor of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Iowa. Her first book, Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment and Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth, was named 2007 Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature. She has published widely on literature, religion, and the postsecular, from the fourth-century Sayings of the Desert Fathers to seventeenth-century Dissent, contemporary Gothic novels, and Eastern Orthodoxy. Prior to the pandemic, she lectured in Los Angeles, Boston, Beijing, and Shanghai about postsecular studies, Wordsworth, and the Bible, and with her collaborator Mark Knight she co-taught two NEH Summer Seminars for faculty on religion, secularism, and the novel. She edits the monograph series “Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies” for Ohio State University Press and is currently at work on a book project titled Postsecular Reason: Beyond Coercion. She lives in Iowa City with her husband and two daughters, where they are members of St. Raphael Orthodox Church, a pan-Orthodox parish in the Antiochian Archdiocese, singing in the choir and helping with the education and spiritual growth program.
With just the click of a button, anyone anywhere can watch these distinguished Orthodox scholars preach. Each Speaker Series video will be released weekly on the Center’s YouTube channel: video.fordhamorthodoxy.org and on the Religious Educators email list: religioused.goarch.org, so be sure to subscribe to receive notifications.
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AHEPA Scholarship Information
For 2022 High School Graduates
AHEPA Chapter 43 of Milwaukee will have scholarship applications for the high school graduating class of 2022 available at the church offices of Annunciation and Sts. Constantine and Helen shortly after January 1, 2022.
They will also be available at high school guidance offices in the four county area of Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington, and Waukesha and also on line at
Those who wish to apply fo the apprenticeship awards, please see the information at the above website under the TRADES link. Be sure to use the appropriate application.
Application deadline is Friday March 4, 2022.
Interviews will be held on Sunday March 20, 2022.
Awards will be presented on Sunday May 1, 2022.
These two scholarships have different and specific requirements. Please review the appropriate application.
If you have other questions, please contact
Dr. Dean Copoulos @ 414-759-3614
or
Dr. Peter Gaveras @ 414-795-7100
For TRADES questions contact
Peter Copoulos via e-mail @ pcopoulos@nvs.us.com
Youth Lock-In
2022 Oratorical Festival Topic Tips Are Now Available
For those of you in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, the St. John Chrysostom Oratorical Festival Topic Tips are now online! The Oratorical Festival was created by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese Department of Religious Education in 1983 to provide junior and senior high school students an opportunity to research, write, and talk about their faith using one of the predetermined topics. There are parish, district, and Metropolis Festivals, culminating in the Archdiocese Festival. The Archdiocese Festival will be held June 3-5, 2022 at the Holy Trinity church in Dallas, Texas. Finalists will participate in a weekend of activities including delivering their speeches. The Oratorical Festival scholarship fund provides college scholarships to the top speakers. Visit the Oratorical website for details and helpful resources on the festival. |
Man of God - Film Based on the life of St. Nektarios
We are pleased to announce that MAN OF GOD, the highly anticipated award-winning box office hit based on the inspiring life of our beloved Orthodox saint, Saint Nektarios of Aegina that won the hearts of the public in Greece, Russia and Serbia starring Hellenic Academy Award winner Aris Servetalis, Russian superstar Alexander Petrov, and Golden Globe winner Mickey Rourke, is finally coming to the big screen across the United States in 800 theatres nationwide on March 21st as one-night only Fathom Events release.
It’s a great opportunity to gather parishioners, families and friends together to experience this beautiful film.
You can find a theatre near you and get your tickets now HERE!
To organize group ticketing (25 people+) please click HERE!
You can watch the MAN OF GOD trailer HERE!
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Our parish's Friday Fish Fry is included in a Journal Sentinel article! The article is online since Thursday, 2/24 and wil be in print next week!
Thank you George Karioris to taking the lead on this!