February 6, 2012

About Fr. Moses Samaan

Father Moses Samaan is a presbyter at St. Demiana Coptic Orthodox Church in San Diego, California. He holds a Bach­e­lor of Arts in His­tory from the Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia at River­side and a Juris Doc­tor law degree from the George Wash­ing­ton Uni­ver­sity Law School in Wash­ing­ton, D.C. Prior to his con­se­cra­tion and ordi­na­tion, he prac­ticed law in Cal­i­for­nia from 2003–2009. On Decem­ber 26, 2009, His Grace Bishop Ser­a­pion ordained him as Archdea­con Moses to con­tinue his ser­vice at St. Demi­ana. On April 18, 2010, he was ordained as a pres­byter by Their Graces Bishop Ser­a­pion, Bishop Sara­pa­mon, Bishop Tadros, and Bishop Youssef.

Church to Celebrate Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos on Monday, January 30

On Jan­u­ary 30, 2012, the Cop­tic Ortho­dox Church will cel­e­brate the Feast of the Dor­mi­tion of the Holy Theotokos Saint Mary in which we remem­ber how the pure Mother of God reposed in the Lord after com­plet­ing her strife on earth. God will­ing, we will cel­e­brate this major Mar­ian feast with the cel­e­bra­tion of the Divine […]

Ordination of a Fr. Cyril Gorgy for St. Mark Church in Los Angeles

With great joy, the Dio­cese announces the ordi­na­tion of a new priest on Sun­day, Jan­u­ary 15, 2012 to serve in the Dio­cese at St. Mark Cop­tic Ortho­dox Church in Los Ange­les.
Emad Gorgy was ordained as Dea­con Cyril on Sat­ur­day, Jan­u­ary 14, 2012 and o…

Bishop Serapion Attends Reception for Newly Elevated Antiochian Orthodox Archbishop Joseph

On Sun­day, Jan­u­ary 8, His Grace Bishop Ser­a­pion attended a ser­vice and recep­tion at St. Nicholas Cathe­dral hon­or­ing the Anti­ochian Ortho­dox Arch­bishop Joseph (Zehlaoui) who was ele­vated to the rank of Arch­bishop by His Beat­i­tude Patri­arch Ignatius IV o…

Renewal of our Faith

Patriarch Abraham

Among all of the tal­ents and abil­i­ties that God has given us, faith is the most pre­cious, because faith gives us the proper out­look to under­stand God and our rela­tion­ship with Him. Faith reveals to us the very pur­pose of our lives; it encour­ages us dur­ing tribu­la­tions and glad­dens our heart; it moves our prayer […]

Statement by the President on the Celebration of Coptic Christmas

Michelle and I wish Cop­tic Ortho­dox Chris­tians in the United States and around the world a blessed and joy­ous Christ­mas. On this spe­cial day, we give thanks for the extra­or­di­nary con­tri­bu­tions that Cop­tic Chris­tians have made to the United States. I wa…

Festal Message for the Glorious Feast of the Nativity 2012

My Beloved, the Blessed Chil­dren of the Holy Church,
It is my plea­sure to wish you a
Blessed Feast of the Nativ­ity of our Lord, God, and Sav­ior Jesus Christ and a
joy­ous New Year.
This past year was deeply tinted
with the blood of our martyrs…

New and Improved Ad-Free Live Services

Ustream

With great joy, we announce the avail­abil­ity of a new and improved Live Ser­vices fea­ture through our web­site. We started broad­cast­ing live ser­vices from our church almost one year ago. Since then, this ser­vice has been a great suc­cess with God’s grace. Today, we announce that our video is now ad-free and streams at a higher qual­ity than before. […]

Now Available: “More than Just Sports” DVD

Par­tic­i­pat­ing in sports activites is not only about phys­i­cal gain. It’s about teach­ing our youth life lessons and mainly about build­ing their psy­cho­log­i­cal and spir­i­tual strength and expe­ri­ence.
“More Than Just Sports” presents t…

Lecture 6 Material — Persecution in the Second Century

St. Ignatius of Antioch

St. Ignatius of Anti­och In the year 107, this elderly bishop was con­demned to death by the Roman author­i­ties. Since the Romans at that time were cel­e­brat­ing their vic­to­ries in war, they decided to trans­port St. Ignatius to the cap­i­tal so that his exe­cu­tion might pro­vide some enter­tain­ment for the Roman cit­i­zens. On his way […]

The Annunciation and the Virgin

Annunciation

On the sec­ond Sun­day of Kiahk, we cel­e­brate the Annun­ci­a­tion of the Birth of our Lord Jesus Christ to the Holy Vir­gin Mary. As we rejoice in the news of our Lord’s glo­ri­ous Birth, we can­not under­es­ti­mate the value and impor­tance of the Holy Theotokos St. Mary. She was the per­son for whom all generations […]