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Peace and grace, PARISHIONERS!

Blessed week to all!

 

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"Athanasius, the whole world is against you!"
Then Athanasius is against the world...

- St. Athanasius the Apostolic

 

FOR YOUR EDIFICATION

Read the story of the miracle that God worked to preserve St. Athanasius' life here.

 

SERVICES & EVENTS THIS WEEK

Thursday: UCSD Coptic Club: 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. (K1 Speed - meet at Price Center Loop)

Friday: Divine Liturgy: 6:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.

Saturday: Vespers & Midnight Praise: 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Saturday: Adult Education Class: 7:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. (Continuing our series on Spirituality)

Sunday: Divine Liturgy: 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (HE Metropolitan Serapion will preside)

 

Congratulations to Deacon Andrew!

The parish congratulates Deacon Andrew and his wife, Monica Iskander, for his elevation to the diaconate! God-willing, Deacon Andrew will be ordained a presbyter on October 30th, at St. Paul American Coptic Orthodox Church. Axios!

 

Practical spirituality

We will be using this book for the Saturday series. Please find the PDF at this link.

 

GYP CONVENTION

The Graduates and Young Professionals (GYP) committee invites you to the 12th Annual GYP Convention on October 13–16, 2016.  This year we are blessed to have His Grace Bishop Kyrillos (formerly Fr. John Paul of the Saint Paul Brotherhood) who will lead spiritual and introspective discussion as our speaker.  Click here for more info and to register.

The GYP committee has also indicated the following:

Due to an unprecedented amount of requests from San Diego locals for a non-hotel option, we have created a registration option that will only be extended to San Diego residents. The regular registration price, for everything, excluding the hotel stay, is $125. The price will be $150 for the late registration. The regular registration deadline is September 25th. 

In order to register as an SD resident, you register for the quad option and input the coupon code: SDLOCAL2016. Please note that all attendees must register in advance in accordance with the registration deadlines. Please let us know should you have any questions. 

 

UCSD Coptic Club

The Coptic Club at UCSD is a fellowship for the college-aged youth of San Diego and hosts weekly spiritual meetings and social events. The spiritual meetings take place every other week at the UC San Diego campus in La Jolla on Thursday evenings at 7 pm. Social events are held at a wide variety of places, like the beach, bowling, and many more! Coptic Club provides a fellowship to help youth grow in the love of Christ together and have a bond of unity in His name during a critical time of their lives. If you have questions or to join their mailing list, please reach out to Mariam Guirguis and David Kneiber.

 

WEBSITE & HYMNS

We encourage all congregants to take some time to check out the parish website.

All are also encouraged to listen to the liturgical hymns as they are chanted at St. Basil, which can be found here.

 

FOOD & CLEAN-UP

To sign up to bring food for the agape meal on Sundays, please see the bulletin board at church or contact Erene Hanna. We need as many volunteers as possible to keep the church clean on Sundays after the Divine Liturgy. Please consider this important expression of stewardship.