February 6, 2012

Schedule of Services for the Pastoral Visit of H.G. Bishop Serapion

With great joy, we announce the pas­toral visit of our beloved father, His Grace Bishop Ser­a­pion, to our parish this week­end from Fri­day, Decem­ber 9 to Sun­day, Decem­ber 11. God will­ing, our sched­ule of ser­vices with His Grace will be as fol­lows. Fri­day, Decem­ber 9 Board of Dea­cons Meet­ing from 7:00–9:00 p.m. Sat­ur­day, Decem­ber 10 Divine Liturgy in […]

Weekly Announcements for November 27 — December 4, 2011

Ara­bic Announce­ments — Fr. Mina Youssef 11-27-2011 — Fr Mina Youssef Eng­lish Announce­ments — Fr. Moses Samaan 11-26-2011 Fr Moses Samaan

Αχια Αχια Αχια!

Orthodox dome icon of the Baptism of our Lord Jesus Christ

The parish com­mu­nity of St. Demi­ana Cop­tic Ortho­dox Church warmly con­grat­u­la­tions Mary Demi­ana (Layla) Gir­gis and her fam­ily for her blessed bap­tism into the Holy Ortho­dox Church. Fr. Moses Samaan bap­tized Mary Demi­ana in the early morn­ing hours of Tues­day, Novem­ber 15 before the 6:00 a.m. Liturgy.

11/12 Spiritual Day to Be Rescheduled

The parish announces that our Spir­i­tual Day for all of our Sun­day School chil­dren and youth sched­uled for Sat­ur­day, Novem­ber 12 will be resched­uled due to fore­casted rain. Despite this change, we will cel­e­brate the Divine Liturgy in Eng­lish on Sat­ur­day, Novem­ber 12 from 8:00–10:00a at the main church.

Reminder: Church Spiritual Night on October 31

As a reminder, our parish will host a beau­ti­ful and enjoy­able Spir­i­tual Night this Mon­day, Octo­ber 31 as an alter­na­tive to the cel­e­bra­tion of dark­ness, hor­ror, and evil that is called Hal­loween. As Fr. Moses has said through­out the last few weeks, it is not appro­pri­ate for our chil­dren to cel­e­brate this hol­i­day in any way, shape or […]

Weekly Announcements for October 23 — 30, 2011

Ara­bic Announce­ments — Fr. Mina Youssef 10-23-2011 — Fr Mina Youssef Eng­lish Announce­ments — Fr. Moses Samaan (Includ­ing plans for Hal­loween alter­na­tive) 10-23-2011 Fr Moses Samaan

Egyptian National ID — 10/28 — 11/4

The National ID Com­mit­tee لجنة الرقم القومي will be in Los Ange­les from Octo­ber 28th to Novem­ber 4th for the pur­pose of receiv­ing and review­ing appli­ca­tions for Egypt­ian National ID cards from Egypt­ian nation­als. Our parish is pleased to offer the instruc­tions to obtain the Egypt­ian National ID Num­ber (in PDF for­mat) by click­ing on […]

Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Expresses Sincere Support for the Coptic Christians of Egypt

NEW YORK – At the Fall 2011 meet­ing of the Holy Eparchial Synod of the Greek Ortho­dox Arch­dio­cese of Amer­ica, the Most Rev­erend Mem­bers of the Holy Synod unan­i­mously adopted the fol­low­ing state­ment: “On behalf of the faith­ful Clergy and Laity of the Greek Ortho­dox Arch­dio­cese of Amer­ica, we, the Mem­bers of the Holy Eparchial […]

Weekly Announcements for October 2 — 9, 2011

Ara­bic Announce­ments — Fr. Mina Youssef 10-02-2011 — Fr Mina Youssef Eng­lish Announce­ments — Fr. Moses Samaan 10-02-2011 Fr Moses Samaan

Help Save Antonious Awed’s Life

Our Lord and the Good Samaritan

Beloved parish­ioners, there is a youth in River­side by the name of Anto­nious Awed who was born with only one kid­ney. Cur­rently, this kid­ney is not func­tion­ing, and he is on dial­y­sis daily. This youth was recently mar­ried and has a child less than one year of age. We need your prayers for him and his fam­ily. We are actively looking […]