ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE The Vicariate For P/J Christian Orthodox Communities In America 3`7"%9 >= 5+!_/X' 5+W+^O]Z(' 5+O4\$[/X' 5+ZBYX' 5:3+W(' St. George Orthodox Church/San Francisco $`O+O!'"= c3Y/ b$+#/03# a7@B(' 5O+W4 Archiepiscopal Vicar Father George Jweinat Archimandrite of the Ecumenical Throne Damaskinos Alazrai The Very Rev. Father Issa Awwad Rev. Father Hanna Khoury Office Phone:# 415-334-2234 Fr. George’s Cell: 415-860-4447 Home Phone# 650-692-4519 Office Fax: # 415-334-2275 Sunday March 5th, 2017 First Sunday Of Lent Tone 4 < ;:96$ -8#276$ 543(210$ /.& -,+*)('&%$ #"! Volume 24 Number 10 www.Stgeorgesf.org [email protected]
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Though Bread Altar Offering: even in childhood she showed a love for The Holy Bread Altar Offering (Corban St. Mark 7:11) will be specially offered for the Holy ascesis and prayer, she was much sought- Sanctify of the Divine Liturgy. after as a wealthy heiress, and was married at the age of twelve to a By the St. George Parish Family in blessed Memory of our Brother in Christ IBRAHIM KHALIL BATSHON. Our rough, violent man. She endured his ill-treatment nobly, and prayed Deepest sympathies to our Beloved Father ISA & Khourieh daily for his conversion. After three years, the brutal husband died, FAIZEH AWWAD. May His blessed Memory be eternal. and Philothea gave herself entirely to a life of prayer and fasting, living like a hermitess though still in her parents' house. When her By GEORGE & WAFA, NIMITALLAH & HANAN, parents died ten years later, she used her entire fortune to found a MUNTAHA SHATARA & Their Families in blessed memory convent. Its design had been given her in a vision by the Apostle of beloved Parents & Grandparents NASER, FARIDEH, AZIZ Andrew, and it was dedicated to him. Alongside the monastery, she & JAMILEH SHATARA, GEORGETTE & IBRAHIM founded a hospital, a hospice for the poor, and schools where boys SALAMY , SAMI & SANDRA TOTAH, JALIL, TINA & and girls could receive a Christian education, something obviously RITA TOTAH, SALEM & JULIA JILDEHY . May Their not provided by the Turkish rulers. As soon as the monastery was Blessed Memory begun, she took monastic vows under the name of Philothea, and By GHASSAN & GEORGINA, SAMI & GEORGE & she, her own maidservants, and many young women of the city, NAWAL TOTAH in blessed memory of beloved Daughter & became the first nuns there. Philothea continued in her boundless Sister & Grand daughter SANDRA TOTAH. May Her Blessed compassion for the poor and infirm, whom she visited and tended. Memory Be Eternal. She was so free in her almsgiving that more than once the By the St. George Parish Family in Thanksgiving to God and monastery was left without food or other necessities of life, and the in Congratulations to HAIL & SAIDA JWEINAT on the sisters began to complain about her. But each time, large donations occasion of the Baptism of their Child of God ANABELLA appeared unexpectedly and saved the community from starvation. ANA JWEINAT. Philothea offered asylum and refuge to Christian slave women who By the St. George Parish Family in Thanksgiving to God for had fled their masters to preserve their faith and chastity. This the continued good health of JAMILEH MUHAWIEH. angered the Turks, who surrounded the monastery, seized Philothea, and brought her before the judge. She was told to deny Christ or die, By the St. George Parish Family in Thanksgiving to God for and when she refused was sentenced to death; but some influential the continued good health of KARIMEH RAFIDI. Athenian Greeks were able to intervene on her behalf and to obtain By the St. George Parish Family in Thanksgiving to God for the her release. Immediately upon her release she redoubled her continued good health of NABEEHA SAHOURIEH. prayers, her apostolic labors and her works of mercy, and was soon granted the gift of working miracles and healings. So many disciples By the St. George Parish Family in Thanksgiving to god for the came to join her that she established a second monastery. Her growing continued good health of FAYEQ KHOURI. ********************************************************************* influence aroused the hatred of some of the Turks, who broke into the Head Ushers: Maher Haddad, monastery one night and beat her violently, leaving her half-dead. She bore Ushers: Milad Dalo, Basem Husary & Elias Husary the effects of her injuries patiently, and after a short time gave back her Head of Altar Boys: Michael Batshon, soul to God in 1589. 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He exerted all his influence to put an end to the unrest by the heretics in the Church, and by his letters to the holy emperors Theodosius II (408-450) and Marcian (450-457), he actively promoted the convening of the Fourth Ecumenical Council, at Chalcedon in 451, to condemn the heresy of the Monophysites. At the Council at Chalcedon, at which 630 bishops were present, a letter of Saint Leo to the deceased Saint Flavian, Patriarch of Constantinople (447-449) was read. Saint Flavian had suffered for Orthodoxy under the “Robber Council” of Ephesus in the year 449. In the letter of Saint Leo the Orthodox teaching about the two natures [the divine and the human] in the Lord Jesus Christ was set forth. All the bishops present at the Council were in agreement with this teaching, and so the heretics Eutyches and Dioscorus were excommunicated from the Church. Saint Leo was also a defender of his country against the incursions of barbarians. In 452, by the persuasive power of his words, he stopped Attila the Hun from pillaging Italy. Again in the year 455, when the leader of the Vandals [a Germanic tribe], Henzerich, turned towards Rome, he persuaded him not to pillage the city, burn buildings, nor to spill blood. He knew the time of his death beforehand, and he prepared himself, with forty days of fasting and prayer, to pass from this world into eternity. He died in the year 461 and was buried at Rome. His literary and theological legacy is comprised of 96 sermons and 143 letters, of which the best known is his Epistle to Saint Flavian. Troparion — Tone 3 You were the Church’s instrument / in strengthening the teaching of true doctrine; / you shone forth from the West like a sun dispelling the errors of the heretics. / Righteous Leo, entreat Christ God to grant us His great mercy. Troparion — Tone 8 O Champion of Orthodoxy, and teacher of holiness, / The enlightenment of the universe and the inspired glory of true believers. / O most wise Father Leo, your teachings are as music of the Holy Spirit for us! / Pray that Christ our God may save our souls! 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