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PEACE AND GRACE, PARISHIONERS!
King David, commemorated on 1 January/23 Kiahk
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"Let us not grieve when we make a slip, but when we become hardened by it."
+St. Basil the Great
FOR YOUR EDIFICATION
"A New Year's Guide for Orthodox Christians" by Archimandrite Demetrios Antonopoulos
NATIVITY AGAPE MEAL POTLUCK
After the Divine Liturgy for the feast of the Nativity, we will be sharing in an agape meal to break the fast together as a family. Please consider bringing a dish to share! To sign up, please email Erene Hanna.
CHURCH RETREAT
"As for Me and My House, We Will Serve the Lord."
Come join St. Basil's for our first annual parish retreat on January 13th-15th! Enjoy a weekend of fellowship, edification, and fun with your parish family as we look at what it means to serve the Lord in unity and harmony. We will be at Twin Peaks Christian Center in the San Bernadino Mountains. Activities begin Friday at 7pm and continue through Sunday evening. The cost is $170 for adults, $150 for children 6-12, and $130 for children 3-5; children 2 and under are free. We look forward to spending this time together! Register now here!
SERVICES & EVENTS THIS WEEK
Wednesday: FOCUS service: 3:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. (come any time!)
Thursday: San Diego Coptic Club: 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Friday: Divine Liturgy for the Feast of the Nativity: 8:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.
Agape Meal: 12:00 a.m. - 1:00 a.m.
Saturday: No Vespers this week!
Sunday: Divine Liturgy: 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
FOCUS SAN DIEGO
Each Wednesday, volunteers from all of the Orthodox parishes in San Diego county work together through FOCUS at God's Extended Hand to help provide meals for the hungry. God's Extended Hand has been providing food and shelter to people in downtown San Diego since 1924 at 1625 Island Ave., San Diego, CA 92101. Teenagers and young adults from all parishes are asked to volunteer the 1st Wednesday of every month, and all the congregants of St. Basil's are asked to serve on the 3rd and 4th Wednesdays of the month; for months that have a 5th Wednesday, FOCUS asks all parishes to volunteer on that day. Help is needed with preparing and cooking the food from 3:00-6:00pm and serving the food and cleaning up from 6:20-7:00pm. Children are welcome to help their parents serve. Please stop by for any amount of time you can serve each week! If you have any questions, please contact Mary Jensen.
SAN DIEGO COPTIC CLUB
The San Diego Coptic Club is a fellowship for the college-aged youth of San Diego and hosts weekly spiritual meetings and social events. The meetings take place every week on Thursday evenings at 7 pm, alternating between spiritual meetings at the UC San Diego campus in La Jolla and social events which are held at a 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.