February 6, 2012

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. […]

New Titles from Chrysostom Press Available in Parish Bookstore

Commentary on Galatians

St. Didy­mus Ortho­dox Book­store is pleased to announce lim­ited avail­abil­ity of sev­eral new titles from Chrysos­tom Press (www.chrysostompress.org/). The new titles con­tain Ortho­dox com­men­taries on the four Gospel accounts and St. Paul’s Epis­tle to the Gala­tians by the East­ern Ortho­dox saint Theo­phy­lact, Arch­bishop of Ochrid and Bulgaria. Written around 1100 A.D., these com­men­taries are among the […]

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…

Weekly Announcements for December 18–25, 2011

Eng­lish Announce­ments — Fr. Moses Samaan 12-18-2011 Fr Moses Samaan

Axios Axios Axios, Izaiah Domian

The parish com­mu­nity of St. Demi­ana Cop­tic Ortho­dox Church warmly con­grat­u­lates Iza­iah Domian, his par­ents, Numan and Chris­tine, and the entire fam­ily for his blessed bap­tism into the Holy Ortho­dox Church on Sat­ur­day, Decem­ber 17, 2011. Fr. Mina and Fr. Moses bap­tized and chris­mated Iza­iah before the all-English Liturgy in the pres­ence of fam­ily, friends, and […]

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

Ordination of a New Priest for Archangel Michael Church in Santa Ana

With great joy, the Dio­cese announces the ordi­na­tion of a new priest on Sun­day, Novem­ber 27, 2011 to serve in the Dio­cese at Archangel Michael Cop­tic Ortho­dox Church in Santa Ana.
The can­di­date, Habeeb Hanna, was ordained Dea­con Mau­rice Hanna on F…

Joint Declaration of the Heads of the Oriental Orthodox Churches (November 14, 2011)

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
H.H. Pope Shenouda III, Pope of Alexan­dria and Patri­arch of the See of St. Mark, H.H. Patri­arch Mar Ignatius Zakka I, Patri­arch of Anti­och and all the East, H.H. Catholi­cos Aram I, Cat…

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.