Sunday Orthros - 8:00 a.m. followed by the Divine Liturgy
Saturday Vespers - 6:00 p.m.
Andrew the First- Called Apostle
The Reading is from Matthew 4:18-23
At that time, as Jesus walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. And he said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." Immediately they left their nets and followed him. And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them. Immediately they left their boat and their father, and followed him. And he went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every infirmity among the people.
Prokeimenon. Plagal Fourth Mode. Psalm 18.4,1.
Their voice has gone out into all the earth.
Verse: The heavens declare the glory of God.
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.
Andrew the First- Called Apostle
The Reading is from John 1:35-52
At that time, John was standing with two of his disciples; and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God!" The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus. Jesus turned, and saw them following, and said to them, "What do you seek?" And they said to him, "Rabbi" (which means Teacher), "Where are you staying?" He said to them, "Come and see." They came and saw where he was staying; and they stayed with him that day, for it was about the tenth hour. One of the two who heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. He first found his brother Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (which means Christ). He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, "So you are Simon the son of John? You shall be called Cephas" (which means Peter).
The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. And he found Philip and said to him, "Follow me." Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see." Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said of him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile! " Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you." Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!" Jesus answered him, "Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You shall see greater things than these." And he said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man."
This Saint was from Bethsaida of Galilee; he was the son of Jonas and the brother of Peter, the chief of the Apostles. He had first been a disciple of John the Baptist; afterwards, on hearing the Baptist's witness concerning Jesus, when he pointed Him out with his finger and said, "Behold the Lamb of God, Which taketh away the sin of the world" (John 1.29,36), he straightway followed Christ, and became His first disciple; wherefore he is called the First-called of the Apostles. After the Ascension of the Saviour, he preached in various lands; and having suffered many things for His Name's sake, he died in Patras of Achaia, where he was crucified on a cross in the shape of an "X," the first letter of "Christ" in Greek; this cross is also the symbol of Saint Andrew.
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Fasting Day
Andrew the First- Called Apostle
8:00AM Orthros & Divine Liturgy
9:00AM Archangels Academy
9:30AM Craft Show Prep - Packaging
4:30PM Greek School
6:00PM Readers Meeting
Fasting Day
Philaret the Merciful of Amnia
8:30AM First Hour, Divine Liturgy & Agiasmos
9:00AM Christmas Craft Show
11:00AM Readers Meeting
12:00PM Confession
6:00PM Great Vespers
Fasting Day
Saint Porphyrios of Kafsokalivia
8:00AM Orthros & Divine Liturgy
11:30AM Christmas Craft Show
Fasting Day
Prophet Zephaniah
8:30AM First Hour & Divine Liturgy
9:00AM Archangels Academy
4:30PM Greek School
7:00PM Parish Council
Fasting Day
Greatmartyr Barbara at Heliopolis, in Syria
8:00AM Orthros & Divine Liturgy
9:00AM Archangels Academy
7:00PM High School Boys Basketball Practice
Fasting Day
Sabbas the Sanctified
8:30AM First Hour & Divine Liturgy
9:00AM Archangels Academy
7:00PM Vespers at St. Nicholas
Fasting Day
Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra
8:30AM Orthros & Liturgy at St. Nicholas
9:00AM Archangels Academy
Fasting Day
Ambrose, Bishop of Milan
8:30AM First Hour & Divine Liturgy
9:00AM Archangels Academy
4:30PM Greek School
6:45PM Basketball Practice 3rd-8th grade
Fasting Day
Venerable Patapius of Thebes
Sunday Bulletin for November 25th, 2018
Our community of Saint Spyridon is hosting the Annual Christmas Craft Show with over 60 vendors and wonderful food and pastries
All are invited to the Chicago Metropolis Christmas Open House - December 16th, 2018 at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Chicago.
The Saint Spyridon PTA invites all the faithful and their Godparents to the Divine Liturgy and Brunch on Godparents Sunday in celebration of their special spiritual bond.
Join the Archangels Academy families as they host a festive pancake breakfast that benefits the needs of our school.