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St. Paul’s Newsletter Ιούνιος / June 2016

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3000 Argyle Road,

Regina, SK, S4S 2B2

Phone: 306-586-6402

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.gocregina.com

Community Priest: Rev. Fr. Spyridon Vandoros

Phone: 306-585-9359

Council President: Chris Perentes

Phone: 306-537-9447

Vol. 23, No. 5 Ιούνιος / June 2016

Submission deadline: June 15th Secretary

Panayiota A. Tompoulidou [email protected]

ST. PAUL’S LEADERSHIP SCHOLARSHIP

The St . Paul ’s Gr eek O rthodox Communit y Lea der ship Sch olar ship wa s cr eat ed to recognize and a war d

member s of the Gr eek community in R egina who ar e current ly enr ol led in or intend to p ursue p ost -

secondary educa tion at a recognized inst i t ut ion in Cana da or th e U nit ed Stat es .

Two scholarships wi l l be a warded, one for $1,000Cdn and one for $500Cdn . Th e a ward wi l l be app lied

to tu it ion. 201 6 Scholar ship candida tes must complet e and submit th e a pplicat ion no lat er than July 15 t h ,

2016 .

The packa ge that contains th e cr i t er ia , deta i led procedur e infor mat ion a nd the app licat ion for m are

avai lab le a t th e Chur ch (on th e bullet in board) or fr om Effie Makris .

For more infor mation, contact Ef f ie at 306 -501-4361 or emai l : [email protected]

Baptisms May 7th: Isabella (Elissavet) daughter of Renaldo Lila and Evelina Golemi. Godparent: Egriselda (Styliani) Hoxha

May 14th: Grace Elizabeth daughter of George Tsougriannis and Jennifer Grosy. Godparent: Marianna Kyriakoulias

Apostles Peter and Paul Annual

Community Barbeque

Our Community’s annual barbeque,

for our Church’s patron Saint name

day Apostles Peter and Paul, will be

held on Sunday June 26th at the

South Leisure Centre, following

church services

Ladies of Philoptochos Society

The next Philoptochos meeting will be on Monday

June 20th at 7:00 p.m. at the Community Hall.

This is the last meeting before the summer break.

Our Potluck Dinner will follow immediately after the

meeting. Everyone is welcome to bring whatever

food they like.

Hope to see you all there!

http://www.gocregina.ca/

mailto:306-501-4361

mailto:[email protected]


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Date Program Services Time

Sunday — 5 Κυριακή του Τυφλού

Sunday of the Blind man

Όρθρος και Θεία Λειτουργία

Orthros & Divine Liturgy

9:00 to

11:30 a.m.

Thursday — 9 Της Αναλήψεως του Κυρίου

Glorious Ascension of our Lord



9:00 to

10:30 a.m.

Sunday — 12

Των Αγίων Πατέρων Α’

Οικουμενικής Συνόδου

Fathers of the First Ecumenical

Council



9:00 to

11:30 a.m.

Wednesday — 15 Services will be held in

Swift Current

Θεία Λειτουργία

Divine Liturgy 7:00 p.m.

Saturday — 18 Ψυχοσάββατον

Soul Saturday



9:00 to

10:30 a.m.

Sunday — 19 Πεντηκοστή

Holy Pentecost



9:00 a.m. to

12:00 p.m.

Monday — 20 Αγίας Τριάδας

Holy Trinity



9:00 to

10:30 a.m.

Sunday — 26

1η Κυριακή του Ματθαίου —

Tων Αγίων Πάντων

First Sunday of Matthew —

All Saints



9:00 to

11:30 a.m.

Tuesday — 28 Των Απόστολων Πέτρου και

Παύλου

Apostles Peter and Paul

Εσπερινός

Vesper

7:00 to

8:00 p.m.

Tuesday — 29 Των Απόστολων Πέτρου και

Παύλου

Apostles Peter and Paul



9:00 to

11:00 a.m.

Friday — 1

Κοσμά και Δαμιανού των

Αναργύρων

Holy Unmercenaries Cosmas and

Damian


Orthros & Divine Liturgy 10:00 a.m. to

12:00 p.m.

Feast day of SS Anargyroi Church, Services will be held in Yorkton

Saturday July 2 —

Saturday July 30

Father Spyridon Vandoros will be away on holidays.

In case of emergency, please contact Popi Perdicaris at 584-7583 or Chris Perentes at

584-8657 (home) or 757-9667 (work).


CONFESSING THE CREED

Rev. Father Steven Tsichlis, Proistamenos Saint Paul Greek Orthodox Church – Irvine, California

Do you know what you believe? Every Sunday,

millions of Orthodox Christians around the world

recite the Creed. When we say the Creed, do we realize

what a remarkable thing it is that we’re doing? Do we

realize how different this makes us from the world

around us? In a society that celebrates individuality

above all else we are doing something together as a

community; in an age where the avoidance of

commitment has been elevated to a virtue, we are

pledging ourselves to a very specific set of convictions

and to one another; in a culture that celebrates novelty,

we are using words written long ago; in a throwaway,

consumerist world we preserve the tradition of

the “faith that was once for all delivered to the

saints” (Jude 3) for nearly two millennia; in a society

where the accepted wisdom changes from minute to

minute, we insist that some truths are so critical that

they do not change and must be repeated over and over

again.

The Creed, which is also called the Symbol of Faith, is

a brief summary of the essentials of the Christian faith

written in the 4th century at the first two ecumenical

councils: the Council of Nicea in 325AD and the First

Council of Constantinople in 381AD. These councils,

attended by bishops from all over the ancient Roman

world, were called to clarify the Christian teaching

about God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. In the

ancient world – like today – many individuals and

groups who claimed to be Christian - but were not -

taught things about the Lord Jesus at odds with the

authentic Christian faith.

The Creed is a summary of how we as Christians view

God, the world and ourselves. It is, in fact, a very

specific view of the world, a worldview that constitutes

the lens through which we are to see everything and

the structure by which we frame our thoughts,

experiences and ideas. What we believe about the

relationship between God and humanity, sin,

redemption and forgiveness, good and evil, heaven and

hell, as well as our responsibilities in this life, will

affect what we do and determine how we live. For an

Orthodox Christian to simply say the Creed by rote,

without understanding what these words imply for our

lives, is to stumble through life as if blindfolded,

unable to see reality as it truly is. When we say “I

believe” we are affirming that we see things as they

really are and that we have a personal responsibility to

live the vision contained in the words of the Creed. In

the end, we are what we believe.

We believe that our God is the one God revealed in the

book of Genesis as the utterly transcendent creator of

everything, both visible and invisible – from whales

and stars to mountains and grasshoppers, from photons

and quarks to black holes and angelic hosts – and that

in Jesus Christ we are able to address Him with

intimacy as our Father. We believe that Jesus is the

Christ, the Messiah awaited by ancient Israel, the only-

begotten and unique Son of God, of the same essence

as the Father, being fully divine; and yet, in taking

flesh from the Virgin Mary, becoming fully human.

We believe that in the Word of God becoming human

and being crucified for our salvation, we have been set

free from sin; and in His rising from the dead, death

has been conquered by God and the possibility of

eternal life in His kingdom “that will have no end” is

now open to us. We believe that the Holy Spirit is also

divine and proceeds only from the Father and is to be

worshipped by us together with the Father and the Son.

We believe in the Church, the community of believers

that the apostle Paul says is the Body of Christ and

which the Creed describes as one, holy, catholic and

apostolic – as possessing the fullness of faith and open

to all; as being rooted in the teaching of the apostles

and sent out into the world to proclaim the truth of

God’s love for the human race. We believe in the

necessity of the sacrament of baptism for the

forgiveness of our sins and to fully participate in the

death and resurrection of Christ (Romans 6:3-11). We

believe that Christ will come once again and that the

entire human race – both those who are alive and those

who are dead – will be under His judgment for how

they have lived (Matthew 25:31-46 and Romans 2:6).

We look forward to that day when Christ will return in

glory and we eagerly await the resurrection of all the

dead, and the life of the age to come, that time “which

no eye has seen nor ear heard, nor has the human

mind even conceived, what God has prepared for

those who love Him” (1 Corinthians 2:9).

If we live with this faith as the prism through which we

view the world and our lives, we shall become what

God has called us to be: His saints, a chosen and holy

people and a royal priesthood (1 Peter 2:9) that offers

His love and the gift of immortality to a fallen world

wrapped in evil and death.


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The Lord’s Day Δευτέρα -

Monday Τρίτη - Tuesday

Τετάρτη -

Wednesday

Πέμπτη –

Thursday Παρασκευή - Friday

Σάββατο -

Saturday

29

9:00 a.m.

Sunday of the

Samaritan Woman

30

Greek Dancing

Classes

31 1 2 3 4

7:.30 p.m.

Services will be

held in Yorkton

MOSAIC 2016 Hellenic Greek Pavilion - Show Sale Arena, EVRAZ Place

5

9:00 a.m.

Sunday of the Blind

man

6 7 8 9

9:00 a.m.

Glorious

Ascension of our

Lord

10 11

12

9:00 a.m.

Fathers of the First

Ecumenical Council

13 14

15

7:00 p.m.

Services will be

held in Swift

Current

16 17 18

9:00 a.m.

Soul Saturday

19

9:00 a.m.

Holy Pentecost

9:00 a.m. 20

Holy Trinity

21 22 23 24

25

7:00 p.m.

Ladies of

Philoptochos

meeting

9:00 a.m. 26

First Sunday of

Matthew —

All Saints

Annual Community

BBQ to follow Church

Services

27 28

7:00 p.m.

Apostles

Peter and Paul

29

9:00 a.m.

Apostles

Peter and Paul

30 10:00 a.m. 1

Holy Unmercenaries

Cosmas and

Damian

Feast day of SS

Anargyroi Church,

Yorkton

2


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