23rd Sunday After Pentecost Divine Liturgy on November 15, 2020November 15, 2020 | Highlight, Livestream |
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St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki Divine Liturgy on November 8, 2020November 8, 2020 | Highlight, Livestream |
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21st Sunday After Pentecost Divine Liturgy on November 1, 2020November 1, 2020 | Highlight, Livestream |
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Holy Fathers of the Seventh Council Divine Liturgy on October 25, 2020October 25, 2020 | Highlight, Livestream |
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Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost Divine Liturgy Liturgy on October 18, 2020October 18, 2020 | Highlight, Livestream |
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Volunteer to Feed the Elderly in NeedOctober 11, 2020 | Highlight |
Would you like to help our neighbors in need? We will be packaging food boxes for our senior citizen members this Saturday, October 17, during 8:30-10:30 am. Please join us and other FOCUS volunteers at OC Food Bank at 11870 Monarch St, Garden Grove, CA 92841. Important: Please sign up at https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050e4aaeaa2ca6fe3-volunteer If this is your first time, please arrive around 8:20 am to receive your very own FOCUS t-shirt. If you have any questions, please contact FOCUS representative Reader Roman Vershynin at rvershyn@uci.edu |
Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost Divine Liturgy on October 11, 2020October 11, 2020 | Highlight, Livestream |
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Divine Liturgy with Bishop Maxim on October 4, 2020October 4, 2020 | Highlight, Livestream |
Donations and Stewardship (2020)Bishop Maxim Visits Our ChurchAmong the many ways the COVID-19 pandemic has affected our lives, one is especially hard to bear: a feeling of isolation from each other. An antidote to that feeling is a reminder that we faithful are united in Christ. A visit by the Bishop sends a joyful message: no matter how small and physically isolated our communities may be, we are not spiritually isolated. We form the same Church, the body of Christ. On the 17th Sunday after Pentecost, Bishop Maxim visited our Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos Church in Orange County. Two active parish members, Igor Prikhodtko and Nikola Zlatic, who have been helping in the altar for years, were tonsured as readers before the Hierarchical Liturgy. Vladika Maxim prayed that the new readers be “preserved in blamelessness of life” and reminded them that the ministry of a reader is very important. He instructed them to read the Holy Scripture daily. The new readers will continue their service for the glory of God and His Holy Church. Bishop Maxim was assisted in serving the Divine Liturgy by the parish priest Fr. Blasko Paraklis and Fr. Oleg Kostenko from Kyiv, who has been helping Fr. Blasko and the parish community in many ways during the last few months. The responses at the Divine Liturgy were sung by three members of the church choir. The visit of His Grace Bishop Maxim was even more joyful as it fell on the anniversary of Fr. Blasko’s ordination as a priest. The choir sang Mnogaja Ljeta to Fr. Blasko, who then thanked Bishop Maxim, the choir, and all the faithful for their prayers and continued support, wishing everyone many years of spiritual prosperity. After the Divine Liturgy, a group of parish members enjoyed an enlightening conversation with Bishop Maxim on several vital issues of Church life, including the boundaries of the Church, heresies and schisms, strict teachings of the church, and the practice of those teachings on ikonomia and akrivia.Our deep gratitude goes to Bishop Maxim for visiting us and serving at our church. We pray that he comes to us again in the near future. “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” |
Exaltation of the Holy Cross Divine Liturgy on September 27, 2020September 27, 2020 | Highlight, Livestream |
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Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost Divine Liturgy on September 20, 2020September 20, 2020 | Highlight, Livestream |
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