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SAINT GEORGE
GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH OF KINGSTON
All are Welcome at Saint George
Location: 294 Greenkill Avenue, Kingston, NY 12401
Mail: PO Box 3062, Kingston, NY 12402
Fr Jim Kordaris, Pastor
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Feel the Presence of God in Worship.
Grow in Faith and Knowledge.
Participate as we serve our Greater Community.
Join us in Fellowship.
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GRACE SMITH HOUSE FOOD DRIVE | |
Join us as we Support this Local Organization
through the month of March
Please place your offerings in the collection box in the Narthex.
Thank you!
We are Collecting Pantry Items:
Rice, Pasta, Mac & Cheese
Mashed Potato Mix Canned Potatoes
Canned Vegetables, Chicken, Beans, Fruit
Hot and Cold Cereal Oatmeal
Flour, Sugar, Artificial Sweeteners
Pancake and Waffle Mix Syrup
Cooking Oil, Spices, Condiments
Individually Wrapped Snacks
100% Juice Boxes
Cake & Muffin Mixes Frosting Jello Pudding Mix
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Saint George Hellenic Orthodox
Women's Club
MEETING
THIS Sunday, March 3 2024
The Women's Club will Host Fellowship
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Fr Charles Joanides
will Celebrate Divine Liturgy
THIS SUNDAY, MARCH 3
at Saint George Church
in Father Jim's absence
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Have no anxiety about anything,
but in everything
by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving
let your requests be made known to God.
And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
-St. Paul’s letter to the Philippians
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The SAINT GEORGE
LENDING LIBRARY
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We have been collecting Children's Books for our Church Library.
We also Welcome suitable books on the Faith for Adults.
Give books to Father Jim or place them in the
Library Shelves in the back of the Church Hall
Thank you!
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4:30-5:30 WEDNESDAYSAT SAINT GEORGE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH
OF KINGSTON, NY
Ages 7-15
All kids are welcome to learn and play.
Suggested donation per class $15.
No one will be turned away.
JOIN US!
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Is a Member of our St George Family
in the Hospital or Extended Care?
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Is a Member of our St George Family
in the Hospital 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 Nursing Home. Please indicate whether the need is urgent. Call Fr Jim's office 646-519-6760 or email FrJimK@goarch.org. Leave a clear message and a contact number in case additional information is needed.
Remember, If you don’t tell Fr Jim, he won’t know.
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COFFEE FELLOWSHIP
is an important ministry of our church
and a continuation of Divine Liturgy
in the tradition of the Early Church
Please...
sign up for a Sunday to host fellowship.
Sign-up sheet is in the Narthex
Near the Candle Stand
Thank you!
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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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Wisdom from the Church Fathers
There is an old saying: 'Excesses meet.' Too much fasting and too much eating come to the same end. Keeping too long a vigil brings the same disastrous cost as ... sluggishness... Too much self-denial brings weakness and induces the same condition as carelessness. Often I have seen men who would not be snared by gluttony fall, nevertheless, through immoderate fasting and tumble in weakness into the very urge which they had overcome. Unmeasured vigils and foolish denial of rest overcame those whom sleep could not overcome. Therefore, 'fortified to right and to left in the armor of justice,' as the apostle says (2 Cor. 6:7), life must be lived with due measure and, with discernment for a guide, the road must be traveled between the two kinds of excess so that in the end we may not allow ourselves to be diverted from the pathway of restraint which has been laid down for us nor fall through dangerous carelessness into the urgings of gluttony and self-indulgence.
St. John Cassian
Conference Two: On Discernment no. 16; Paulist Press pg. 76, 5th century
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Commemorated Today:
Sunday of the Prodigal Son
The Holy Martyrs Eutropius, Cleonicus, and Basiliscus
Theodoretos the Holy Martyr of Antioch
Nonnita, Mother of Saint David
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Sunday Epistle and Gospel Readings
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 ith 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.
The Gospel According to 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.'"
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Pray, my brethren, to the Mother of God when the storm of enmity and malice bursts forth in your house. She, Who is all-merciful and all-powerful, can easily pacify the hearts of men. Peace and love proceed from the one God, as from their Source, and Our Lady - in God, as the Mother of Christ the Peace, is zealous, and prays for the peace of the whole world, and above all - of all Christians.
--St. John of Kronstadt
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Chosen and Appointed
Life in Christ is never a bed of roses. He promised pruning. But if we respond to the Gardener’s tending as fruitful branches, yielding the sweet wine of virtue, we have the joy of knowing that He chose and appointed us to go and bear fruit—in good times, in bad times, and in eternity.
-Fr. Mark Sietsema
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"We," not "I"
Jesus Christ took on human flesh in order to reunify us to Him and to each other. Our true nature is “we” not “I.” We are parts of a far greater whole. This is why we were created. This is why Jesus came into the world. This is why we unite ourselves to each other in the Church. This is why we give ourselves to Christ and to each other through the Eucharist. This is “who we are” “We” are the branches of the True Vine.
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