St. Andrew Greek orthodox Church

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Web Name: St. Andrew Greek orthodox Church

WebSite: http://saintandrewgoc.org

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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,We are working diligently to keep all our parishioners safe. We have disposable masks available upon entry for those who do not have them. If you would prefer a reusable mask, please contact the church office or Spyro Sinis-Terezis as Philoptochos is making masks for those who may need them.Along with the masks, there is a sanitizing station set up upon entry as well. Next to the sanitizing station, is a sign-in book. The CDC, the State of Indiana and the Metropolis of Chicago direct that parishioners sign in with their phone number at every service they attend. This allows for quick notification to all parishioners who attended a service if someone becomes ill. Every other pew is marked off and open pews are marked every 6 feet for social distancing. Households may sit together without social distancing but the next household should be 6 feet from the first. For example: Family A with x-amount of members who live together do not have to be six feet from one another but Family B with x-amount of members must be six feet from Family A.We ask for your cooperation to keep everyone safe:If you are ill or have a fever, do NOT attend service.If you are 65 and over and/or have a pre-existing condition, we ask that you attend Vespers services on Saturdays at 5pmFace covering:a. The laity, including those in the pews and the support staff (e.g. acolytes, ushers, parish council members, sextons, etc.) must wear a facemask or similar covering of the mouth and nose at all times.b. The face covering must be removed when receiving Holy Communion.c. Sextons and altar servers must disinfect their hands before and after handing or receiving any object.If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the office.With love in Christ, Fr. GeorgeFri, Oct 9Paraklesis to Theotokos 10am at Holy Dormition (Higher risk parishioners encouraged to attend this service)Sat, Oct 10 Great Vespers 5pm (Higher risk parishioners encouraged to attend this service)Sun, Oct 11Sunday of the Seventh Ecumenical Council 9:00 Orthros10:00 Divine LiturgyFri, Oct 16 Paraklesis to Theotokos 10am at Holy Dormition (Higher risk parishioners encouraged to attend this service)Sat, Oct 17 Great Vespers 5pm (Higher risk parishioners encouraged to attend this service)”Light A Candle” and Prayer Requests: SupportStAndrew.com In the biblical account, an Angel appears to Cornelius and proclaims exactly how he has found favor with God: "Your prayers and your alms have come up for a memorial before God" (Acts 10:4). It was his faithful prayer and love for the poor that placed Cornelius in a position to receive the visitation of God's grace. But this grace had still not come to dwell within him, for he was not yet regenerated in baptism.Read More "For the message of the Cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God" (1 Corinthians 1:18)Read More The fruit of the acquisition of divine grace is not only good works and virtue but an actual union with God. First, grace works to purify the heart from all sinful passions and inclinations. Those who reach this spiritual state are called dispassionate. This does not mean that one is uncaring or disconnected, but that the energies of the soul have been directed away from anything evil and redirected toward God. The dispassionate person is not compelled by any sinful impulse. Rather, he is free to love and to choose to love God and others without concern for self or for what other may think.Read More That grace is a real and substantial thing given by God to His creation is verified by several important passages of Holy Scripture. First, the Acts of the Apostles relate how many miraculously healings occurred through Saint Paul, "so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them" (Acts 19:12).Read More Saint Dionysius the Areopagite was born of noble parents who were pagans and was reared in the most glorious city of Athens, Greece. He began the study of Greek wisdom in his childhood, and such as his success therein, that by the age of twenty-five he had surpassed all his peers in his knowledge of philosophy. Nevertheless, he then departed to the city named Heliopolis, in the land of Egypt, where learned teachers had lived since antiquity, that he might perfect his knowledge.Read More "But Jesus said, 'Somebody touched Me, for I perceive power going out from Me" (Luke 8:46).As the Apostle Peter was preaching the Good News of Jesus Christ to Cornelius and the relatives and friends he had gathered together, they received the Gift of the Holy Spirit (Acts 10:44). Even as the Apostle explained that the Logos/Word of God had become flesh to open all flesh to the life and power of God, these Gentiles seekers were filled with Divine grace through the Descent of the Holy Spirit.Read More Kyriakos, our holy Father, was born at Corinth in the Peloponnesus, Greece, in the year 448 A.D. during the reign of the holy Emperor Theodosius. His father, John, was a priest in Corinth. His mother's name was Evdoxia, and it was her uncle, Peter, then Bishop of Corinth, that had ordained him to the Office of Reader (Anagnostis). The blessed Kyriakos would constantly read the Holy Scripture and marveled how, from the very beginning, God, in His Divine Providence, created everything for the salvation of man, and how He glorified His Righteous ones and the Prophets of old. Indeed, he was utterly amazed, yet he had confidence in every word of the Holy Gospel.Read More Our Venerable Father Chariton was born in the city of Iconium in Asia Minor, where he was reared in the ways and standards of God. When he reached manhood, he became famous for his piety and achieved prominence in that city. In those days, the pagan Roman emperor Aurelian (270-276 A.D.) reigned in Rome. In the beginning, he did not persecute the Christians nor prevent them from worshiping the True God, even though he, himself, was an idolater. Later, though, incited by the demons that he worshiped, he raised a terrible persecution against the Christians by dispatching godless decrees to all the provinces, requiring the governors to coerce the Christians--by any means possible--to return to the worship of the idols. Those that refused to submit to his orders were to be tortured and suffer a painful death.Read More In Luke 10:1-17, the Lord appointed seventy men to go out as missionaries--as Apostles. Though not so prominent as the Twelve, the Church confirms that the Seventy remained true to the Lord and their calling, fulfilling a vital role in the spread of the Gospel. These were not random choices or accidental volunteers but true Disciples, True Apostles, whose labors carried the message of their Lord throughout the Roman Empire and beyond.Read More

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