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St. George Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2019-04-07
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Community News
Saints and Feasts
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Wisdom of the Fathers
Hymns of the Day
Allsaint
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St. George Greek Orthodox Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (405) 751-1885
  • Fax:
  • (405) 751-1889
  • Street Address:

  • 2101 NW 145th Street

  • Oklahoma City, OK 73134
  • Mailing Address:

  • 2101 NW 145th Street

  • Oklahoma City, OK 73134

Contact Information

Proistamenos John Tsaras


Deacon Nicodemos (Will) Crowe


Services Schedule

Every Saturday we have Great Vespers (unless otherwise noted) at 6:00 p.m. Every Sunday - Orthros at 8:50 a.m., Divine Liturgy at 10:00 a.m. Weekday Services are as listed on the Calendar and Community News.

Past Bulletins


Community News

Great Lent

As we begin this glessed time of Holy and Great Lent, we are invited to enter into a period of intense prayer, fasting and serivce, so that we may draw closer to God, commune with Him, and experience His grace as we reflect on our lives, our relationship with Him, and our journey to salvation.

Archbishop Demetrios (2019)

Weekday Services...

Every Sunday we have Orthros beginning at 8:50 a.m. and Divine Liturgy beginning at 10:00 a.m.  Saturday evenings we have Great Vespers at 6:00 p.m., unless otherwise noted.  Weekday services begin at 9:00 a.m. with Orthros followed by Divine Liturgy. Unless otherwise stated service will be at St. George.

(Note: All services are at 9:00 a.m. and at St. George unless otherwise noted)

Repeaiting service for Pre-Lent & Lent

Great Compline (Mondays 7:00 p.m.) - March 11th, 18th, 25th, April 1st, 8th, 15th

Pre-Sanctified Liturgy (Wednesdays 6:30 p.m.) 

    At St. George - March 13th, 27th, April 10th

    At St. Elijah - March 20th, April 3rd, 17th

Salutations to the Theotokos (Fridays 7:00 p.m.) - March 15th, 22nd, 29th, April 5th

Akathist (Friday 7:00 p.m.) - April 12th

Holy Week Schedule

April 20th - Saturday of Lazarus

    9 a.m. - Orthros & Liturgy

    6 p.m. - Great Vespers

April 21st - Palm Sunday

    8:50  - Orthros followed by Divne Liturgy

    7 p.m. - 1st Bridegroom Service

April 22nd - Holy Monday

    9 a.m. - Presanctified Liturgy

    7 p.m. - 2nd Bridegroom Service

April 23rd - Holy Tuesday

    9 a.m. - Presanctified Liturgy

    7 p.m. - 3rd Bridegroom Service

April 24th - Holy Wednesday

    9 a.m. - Presanctified Liturgy

    5:30 p.m. - Holy Unction

    7 p.m. - Orthros for the Last Supper

April 25th - Holy Thursday

    9 a.m. - Vesperal Liturgy of St. Basil (Last Supper)

    7 p.m. - Crucifixion Service

April 26th - Holy Friday

    9 a.m. - Royal Hours

    3 p.m. - Great Vespers (Christ Decent from the Cross)

    7 p.m. - Lamintations Service

April 27th - Holy Saturday 

    9 a.m. - Proto-Anastasi

    11:30 p.m. - Anastasi Service

April 28th - Pascha

    1 p.m. - Agape Vespers

Bright Week Schedule

April 29th - Bright Monday - St. George

    9 a.m. - Orthros & Liturgy

May 3rd - Bright Friday - The Life-Giving Fountain (Zodocho Pigi)

    9 a.m. - Orthros & Liturgy

    

Thought of the Day

Worshipping Thee, O Christ our God, with cedar, pine and cypress, the Church cries out to Thee:  At the prayers of the Theotokos, grant victory to our rulers and have mercy upon us. (Isa. 60:13).

Exalt ye the Lord our God: and worship at His footstool, for He is holy.

O Christ my God, nailed for my sake to the Cross, in Thy love accept my praise and vigils.

+Sessional Hymns of the Cross (Tone 7), Matins, Fourth Wednesday of Lent

God allows difficulties to come our way for purification

When we hear the words, “all is sent down by you” this does not mean that God wills anything evil to happen but only that we always need to be open to God’s presence, grace and mercy, no matter what. God allows difficulties to come our way as a means of purifying us and drawing us toward Him in a deeper and more profound way. Difficulties and trials come that we may turn toward God in total surrender, with nothing distracting us from our destiny, which is eternity with God.

Love in Christ,
Abbot Tryphon

SAINT GEORGE BOOK CLUB

We are continuing with our book "The Mountain of Silence" by Markides, Chapter 13 to the end of the book, for our next meeting.  Our next meeting will be announced shortly.  More information to follow.

Community Connections  

Easter Card Vote

Immediately following service today, in Fellowship Hall is display of drawings by our Sunday School Children. Please take a moment to place your vote for the 2019 Easter Card.  Today is the last day to order & be included in the Easter Card.

Pick Up Easter Eggs

Empty eggs are available to take and fill with candy for the Easter Egg Hunt on Pascha Sunday, April 28th.  Please return before Saturday, April 27th.

Saint George Dinner Dance

Hosted by St. George Parish Council, Silent Auction by the Philoptochos

Saturday, May 4th - Cocktails 6:30 p.m., Dinner at 7:00 p.m.

Adults $45 / Children $15

Philoptochos Corner

40/40 Lenten bags available: gently "used items" for charity donation  Instructions listed on all bags.

Pre-sanctified Volunteer Schedule:

April 10:  Zigo T. & Nadine P.

Easter Card donations/orders to begin March 17th.  $20.00.  Children's artwork vote for cover.  No Abbrviations on artwork please.

May 4: St. George Dinner Dance.  Philoptochos will be providing "themed baskets" for action.  Those donating baskets please remember to provide a list of its contents.  We will be helping with auction set up.

Friday, May 10th at 6:30:  Wine & Paint Night/Moms Night Out in church hall.  Macey Poff/Lloyd & Louise will be our artist/leader. Please let a Philoptochos board member know if you will be attending by May 4th.  *Philoptochos will provide the wine.  Open to all ladies in our community.  Come join in the fun!

Classes...

Bible Study is every Thursday from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. provided that there is not a Service.

Fellowship Hour...

Today's fellowship is provided by the family and friends of Ted Zaemes & Helga Constant.

We invite you to take part in our fellowship hour by hosting for a Sunday.  Bring your own food or have the Church cook for the congregation.  Sign up as a Sunday School class, or celebrate a special birthday or name-day, the list goes on.  You can even offer to buy the donuts for the day, and we will add your name in the bulletin.  Call Stacy in the Church office to sign up today!

Prosfora Schedule

April

7th - Patrick Ingle

14th - Patrick Ingle 

20th - Patrick Ingle

21st - Patrick Ingle

25th - Patrick Ingle

27th - OPEN

We are need of a few people to make the Prosfora for the upcoming months.  Please call the office if you would like to have your name added to the list.  Thank you! 

The making of Prosfora is an honor and gift we offer to Christ and His Church, thus the name of Prosforo, which means "offering."  We are in need of a few people to join the list of bakers.

Pleased call the office if you would like to have your name added to the list.  Thank you!

 

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Saints and Feasts

Allsaint
April 07

Sunday of St. John Climacus

The memory of this Saint is celebrated on March 30, where his biography may be found. He is celebrated today because his book, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, is a sure guide to the ascetic life, written by a great man of prayer experienced in all forms of the monastic polity; it teaches the seeker after salvation how to lay a sound foundation for his struggles, how to detect and war against each of the passions, how to avoid the snares laid by the demons, and how to rise from the rudimental virtues to the heights of Godlike love and humility. It is held in such high esteem that it is universally read in its entirety in monasteries during the Great Fast.

Allsaint
April 07

George, Bp. of Mytylene

The righteous George struggled in behalf of the holy icons, and reposed in peace about the year 821.

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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

First Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from Matthew 28:16-20

At that time, the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. And when they saw him they worshipped him; but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age. Amen."

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Fourth Mode. Psalm 103.24,1.
O Lord, how manifold are your works. You have made all things in wisdom.
Verse: Bless the Lord, O my soul.

The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 6:13-20.

BRETHREN, when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore to himself, saying, "Surely I will bless you and multiply you." And thus Abraham, having patiently endured, obtained the promise. Men indeed swear by a greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation. So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he interposed with an oath, so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible that God should prove false, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us. We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner shrine behind the curtain, where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

Gospel Reading

Sunday of St. John Climacus
The Reading is from Mark 9:17-31

At that time, a man came to Jesus kneeling and saying: "Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has a dumb spirit; and wherever it seizes him it dashes him down; and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid; and I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they were not able." And he answered them, "O faithless generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him to me." And they brought the boy to him; and when the spirit saw him, immediately it convulsed the boy, and he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth. And Jesus asked his father, "How long has he had this?" And he said, "From childhood. And it has often cast him into the fire and into the water, to destroy him; but if you can do anything, have pity on us and help us." And Jesus said to him, "If you can! All things are possible to him who believes." Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, "I believe; help my unbelief!" And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "You dumb and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again." And after crying out and convulsing him terribly, it came out, and the boy was like a corpse; so that most of them said, "He is dead." But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose. And when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why could we not cast it out?" And he said to them, "This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer and fasting." They went on from there and passed through Galilee. And he would not have any one know it; for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, "The Son of man will be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, after three days he will rise."

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Wisdom of the Fathers

Seest thou how He now proceeds to lay beforehand in them the foundation of His doctrine about fasting? ... See, at any rate, how many blessings spring from them both. For he that is praying as he ought, and fasting, hath not many wants, and he that hath not many wants, cannot be covetous; ...
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 57 on Matthew 17,4,5. B#54, pp.355,356., 4th Century

... he that is not covetous, will be also more disposed for almsgiving. He that fasts is light, and winged, and prays with wakefulness, and quenches his wicked lusts, and propitiates God, and humbles his soul when lifted up. Therefore even the apostles were almost always fasting.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 57 on Matthew 17,4,5. B#54, pp.355,356., 4th Century

He that prays with fasting hath his wings double, and lighter than the very winds. ... For nothing is mightier than a man who prays sincerely. ... But if thy body be too weak to fast continually, still it is not too weak for prayer, nor without vigor for contempt of the belly. For although thou canst not fast, yet canst thou avoid luxurious living.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 57 on Matthew 17,4,5. B#54, pp.355,356., 4th Century

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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Fourth Mode

Having learned the joyful proclamation of the Resurrection from the Angel, and having cast off the ancestral condemnation, the women disciples of the Lord spake to the Apostles exultantly: Death is despoiled and Christ God is risen, granting great mercy to the world.

Reading is under copyright and is used with permission, all rights reserved by: Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Brookline, MA


Apolytikion of Sun. of St. John Climacus in the Plagal of the Fourth Tone

With the streams of thy tears, thou didst cultivate the barrenness of the desert; and by thy sighings from the depths,thou didst bear fruit a hundredfold in labours; and thou becamest a luminary, shining with miracles upon the world, O John our righteous Father. Intercede with Christ God that our souls be saved.

Reading is under copyright and is used with permission, all rights reserved by: Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Brookline, MA


Apolytikion for Saint George in the Fourth Mode

Liberator of captives, defender of the poor, physician of the sick, and champion of kings, O trophy-bearer, Great Martyr George, intercede with Christ God that our souls be saved.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Plagal Fourth Mode

To you, Theotokos, invincible Defender, having been delivered from peril, I, your city, dedicate the victory festival as a thank offering. In your irresistible might, keep me safe from all trials, that I may call out to you: "Hail, unwedded bride!"

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