Church Commemorates Nag Hammadi Martyrs

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 […]

Great Lent Book Study 2010 for the Youth

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 […]

Church Cleanup Day a Blessed Success

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, […]

Church Cleanup and Painting Day

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 […]

Trip to St. Antony’s Monastery re-scheduled for March 13, 2010

Due to fore­casted rainy and windy weather con­di­tions at the monastery, the church has decided to re-schedule this weekend’s trip, to take place on Sat­ur­day, March 13, 2010.
For those of you who already reserved seats, your reser­va­tion will be valid for the 3/13/10 date, but if you will not be able to make it on […]

Spiritual Trip and Retreat to St. Antony Monastery

St. Demi­ana Cop­tic Ortho­dox Church joy­fully announces a spir­i­tual trip and retreat to St. Antony Cop­tic Ortho­dox Monastery in Yermo, CA on Sat­ur­day, Jan­u­ary 23, 2010 for all fam­i­lies and youth. This trip is designed to be a spir­i­tual retreat and fel­low­ship for the con­gre­ga­tion of the church under the super­vi­sion of Fr. Mina Youssef and Archdeacon […]

Ordination of the Blessed Servant Paul Samaan as an Archdeacon

With great joy, we announce and invite you to the ordi­na­tion of the blessed ser­vant Paul Samaan as an Archdea­con on Sat­ur­day, Decem­ber 26, at St. Mau­rice Cop­tic Ortho­dox Church in Pomona.
The joy­ful day begins at 8:00am with the bap­tism of Samuel Athana­sius Samaan, son of Paul and Carol Samaan. The bap­tism will be followed […]

H.G. Bishop Serapion’s Visit to St. Demiana Church

St. Demi­ana Church will be blessed by H.G. Bishop Serapion’s visit this week­end (12/11 — 12/13). His Grace will be at Church on Fri­day evening for the youth meet­ing and on Sat­ur­day for the Holy Liturgy, spir­i­tual day and Ves­pers prayers. His grace will also cel­e­brate the Holy Liturgy with us on Sun­day.
We hope you […]

Spiritual Day for the Youth, Deacons, and Servants on December 12, 2009

With great joy and enthu­si­asm, the church announces a Spir­i­tual Day for dea­cons, ser­vants, and the youth of the church on Sat­ur­day, Decem­ber 12, 2009 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
This Spir­i­tual Day will be full of ben­e­fi­cial activ­i­ties for all ages. The focus of the Spir­i­tual Day will be devel­op­ing an under­stand­ing of the Divine Liturgy […]

Community Service Day a Blessed Success

With God’s grace and through your prayers, a Com­mu­nity Ser­vice Spir­i­tual Day for the col­lege youth on Novem­ber 21, 2009 was a blessed suc­cess. The pur­pose of this day was to help the less for­tu­nate all around us in the form of a spir­i­tual day of ser­vice and fel­low­ship.
The youth of the church, includ­ing many stu­dents from the […]