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Church Commemorates Nag Hammadi Martyrs

February 15, 2010 By Eusebius Leave a Comment

On Sun­day, Feb­ru­ary 14, 2010, the con­gre­ga­tion of the church solemnly com­mem­o­rated the For­ti­eth Day Memo­r­ial of the Nag Ham­madi mar­tyrs, who received the crown of mar­tyr­dom as they were shot and killed while exit­ing the church after cel­e­bra­tion of the Divine Liturgy on the Feast of the Nativity.

On this day, the con­gre­ga­tion remem­bered in its prayers Mina Helmy Said, Bishoy Farid Labib, Boula Atef Yassa, Ayman Zakaria Louka, Abanoub Kamal Nashed, and Rafik Refaat William.

His Grace Bishop Ser­a­pion has posted an Ara­bic Pas­toral Mes­sage of H.G. Bishop Ser­a­pion on the For­ti­eth Day Memo­r­ial of the Mar­tyrs of Nag Ham­madi.

In the Ara­bic homily after the memo­r­ial ser­vice, Fr. Mina Wahba spoke about the Nag Ham­madi Mar­tyrs: Per­se­cu­tion of Copts in Mod­ern Day.

May the Lord repose their souls in eter­nal joy and rest, and com­fort all the fam­i­lies and those who are griev­ing over this tragic incident.

Filed Under: Church News Tagged With: church events, Death, Featured, Nag Hammadi, Persecution

Great Lent Book Study 2010 for the Youth

February 15, 2010 By Fr. Moses Leave a Comment

With great joy and enthu­si­asm, we announce the begin­ning of our book study for the Great Lent 2010 in the Fri­day night youth meet­ing, which meets every Fri­day evening from 7:30 p.m. until 9:00 p.m.

This year, we will read together the book “Father Arseny, 1893–1973: Priest, Pris­oner, Spir­i­tual Father,” which tells the story of a Russ­ian Ortho­dox priest who reflected Christ’s light in the severe con­di­tions of a Siber­ian death camp dur­ing the Com­mu­nist era. To help make the book relat­able to our spir­i­tual jour­ney dur­ing the Great Lent, the book study will fol­low the Sun­day themes of the Great Lent in the Cop­tic Ortho­dox Church.

Youth who have not yet pur­chased the book are invited to speak with me or pur­chase the book directly from Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Father-Arseny-1893–1973-Narratives-Concerning/dp/0881411809

Down­load the syl­labus here.

May God bless this holy sea­son in our lives that it may be a source of spir­i­tual nour­ish­ment and joy.

Filed Under: Church News Tagged With: church events, spirituality, Youth

Church Cleanup Day a Blessed Success

February 15, 2010 By Eusebius Leave a Comment

On Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 13, 2010, the youth of St. Demi­ana Cop­tic Ortho­dox Church gath­ered for a spir­i­tual day involv­ing a com­pre­hen­sive cleanup and improve­ment of some areas of the church.

With the grace of God, the spir­i­tual day was a blessed suc­cess. The youth came to church early in the morn­ing for the cel­e­bra­tion of the Divine Liturgy. After­wards, they shared an agape lunch together and began the work. Two teams worked dili­gently in two areas of the church. One team focused on clean­ing and paint­ing the Sun­day School rooms while the other focused on the area behind the Holy Altar and the church generally.

At the end of the day, both of these areas were greatly improved through the efforts of the youth. May the Lord reward them and accept their sacrifice.

There is, how­ever, still much work to be done. God will­ing, the church hopes to announce the next spir­i­tual day/activity for the youth in the com­ing weeks.

Filed Under: Church News Tagged With: community service, Service Opportunity, spiritual day, Youth

Church Cleanup and Painting Day

February 8, 2010 By Fr. Moses 1 Comment
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On Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 13, 2010, the church will have a spir­i­tual day for all youth and young pro­fes­sion­als that will focus on com­pre­hen­sively clean­ing the church facil­ity and paint­ing the Sun­day School rooms.

The spir­i­tual day will begin with the cel­e­bra­tion of a Divine Liturgy from 8:30 a.m. fol­lowed by brunch at 10:30 a.m. God will­ing, the cleanup and paint­ing activ­i­ties will start around 11:00 a.m. and end at approx­i­mately 4:30 p.m.

We encour­age all youth and young pro­fes­sion­als to vol­un­teer their time to care for their church.

Filed Under: Church News Tagged With: church events, Great Lent, Service, spiritual day