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Contact Information
- Phone:
- (301) 469-7990
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- Location:
- 7701 Bradley Blvd
- Bethesda, MD 20817
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Weekly Schedule
- Sunday
- 8:45am Orthros
- 10:00am Divine Liturgy
- 10:00am Sunday School Liturgy "Chapel"
- Thursday
- 10:30am Adult Bible Study
- 7:30pm Adult Bible Study
Event Calendar
- Nov 20 The Harbor School-GH
- Nov 20 Bible Study
- Nov 20 The Harbor School (L)
- Nov 20 Bible Club L 7-9pm
- Nov 20 Adult Greek School - Ed. Bldg.
- Nov 20 PDT Seniors 1 & 2 Practice
- Nov 21 The Entrance of the Theotokos
CLERGY
Rev. Father Dimitrios J. Antokas, Presiding Priest FrAntokas@stgeorge.org
Rev. Father George Khitiri, Associate Priest FrGeorge@stgeorge.org
Rev. Father Nick Despotides, Priest Emeritus
NINTH SUNDAY OF ST. LUKE
STEWARDSHIP SUNDAY
Today’s Gospel Passage from St. Luke is appropriate for STEWARDSHIP SUNDAY. It is the story of a rich man who stores up his grain and his goods in bigger barns, and then is satisfied and takes his rest. He is oblivious to anything but his material goods. He has no spiritual priorities. His vision extends only as far as what he can hoard and collect and own. The passage tells us that God calls him “FOOL” — telling him that his soul would be required of him that night. What will become of all he has hoarded? Stewardship is about having correct priorities in one’s life. It means that we give our time, our talent, and our treasure FIRST to God in His Church. We make a sacrifice in order to see that the community of faith is supported and sustained. After that, we give our resources to the many other things that are required of us. Returning to the Lord for all that He continually gives to us is the very definition of STEWARDSHIP. What will YOU give? Will you make your community of faith the first priority in your life? Will you take today’s Gospel seriously to heart? What if your soul were required of you this very night? It is up to you.
Divine Services
Sunday, November 23, 2008 Ninth Sunday of St. Luke Orthros 8:45 a.m.; Divine Liturgy 10:00 a.m.
Tuesday, November 25: Feast of the Holy Great Martyr Katherine (celebrated at St. Katherine's Church in Falls Church, VA Orthros 9:00 a.m. Divine Litrugy 10:00 a.m.)
Wednesday, November 26: Thanksgiving Divine Liturgy 7: 00 p.m. Join us in prayer to give thanks to the Lord God for all His many and constant blessings to us!
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Epistle, Sunday, November 23, 2008
EPISTLE
Ephesians 2:4-10
Brethren, God who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with him, and made us sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God: not because of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Gospel, Sunday November 23, 2008
GOSPEL
Luke 12:16-21
The Lord said this parable: "The land of a rich man brought forth plentifully; and he thought to himself, 'What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?' And he said, 'I will do this: I will pull down my barns, and build larger ones; and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, 'Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.' But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul is required of you; and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?' So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God." As he said these things, he cried out: "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
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