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PEACE AND GRACE!
Saint Photini - The Samaritan Woman
SERVICES & EVENTS THIS WEEK
Tuesday: Divine Liturgy: 3:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday: FOCUS service: 3:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. (come anytime!)
Thursday: UCSD Coptic Club: 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Friday: Matins: 6:30 a.m. - 7:15 a.m.
Psalms and Divine Liturgy: 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Saturday: Vespers & Midnight Praise: 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
**His Eminence Metropolitan Serapion will be blessing us with his presence**
Sunday: Divine Liturgy: 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Saint Antony Monastery Trip - 4/22/17
Saint Basil has organized a church trip to St. Antony Monastery in the California Desert on April 22. We have organized a 50 passenger bus to transport us to and from the monastery. The bus departs at 5:30am allowing us to attend the Divine Liturgy, enjoy lunch, a tour, services, and depart at 3pm back to San Diego arriving at 6:30pm. The chartered bus costs are $2,000 and the suggested donation is $50 per seat. If interested, please follow the following link to reserve your space! (CLICK HERE)
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.
FOR YOUR EDIFICATION
Have you ever wondered what happened to the Samaritan woman after she met with Jesus Christ? Church Tradition tells us that St. Photini was instrumental in bringing her five sisters Saints Anatole, Photo, Photis, Paraskeve, and Kyriake to Christ. Her two sons, St. Photinos, formerly known as Victor, and St. Joses, also became Christians and like their mother and five aunts, were tireless evangelists for Christ. On the Day of Pentecost, St. Photini and her sisters were baptized. She was given the name Photini, which means “enlightened one.” After St. Paul and St. Peter were martyred, St. Photini and her family left their homeland of Sychar, Samaria and travelled to Carthage (modern day Tunisia) to proclaim the Good News of Christ. In 66 AD, the entire family became martyrs for Christ under the persecutions of the Emperor Nero. Orthodox churches celebrate her feast day on separate occasions. In the Greek tradition, her feast day is on February 26 and she is commemorated on March 20 in the Slavic tradition. In the Coptic tradition, her story is read on the Fourth Sunday of Great Lent.