Sunday-May 21, 2023
This Sunday we remember the Man born blind
There is too much in all of us that prefers the darkness to the light. We are all quite comfortable with some of our sins and passions. We have gotten used to them and may have accepted the lie that we are justified in doing so out of honesty, out of being true to ourselves.
We often limit the bright light only to the services of Pascha (easter), and then we will have missed the point. For in Christ’s resurrection, our Lord brings light to the entire world. He restores sight to the blind and gives life to the dead. He opens the darkest tomb to the brilliant light of life eternal. The light of His resurrection floods the entire universe..
Open Your Eyes to the
Light of the Kingdom
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Today...Today...Today...
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Wednesday, May 24th
Divine Liturgy at 10:00 a.m.
Divine
Saints Cyril and Methodius:
Examples of Evangelism and Christianisation
By encountering the Slavic people through their own culture and language, they were able to win their love and trust and evangelize them. They did not impose foreign languages or strange customs upon them, but lived with them, mastered their speech and embraced their culture and traditions.
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Thursday, May 25th
The Feast of the Ascension of
our Lord and Savior
As we proceed through Christ’s passion and resurrection we come to His ascension. We conclude the story of His life with a heavenly happy ending. Everyone loves a happy ending, and this one rounds out the story of Jesus by saying in effect, “And He lived happily ever after at the right hand of God”.
In this way of thinking,
the story is not finished without the Ascension.
Although Christ ascends from us, He remains with us, uttering the words, “Behold, I am with you always, even to the close of the age” (Matthew 28:20). The evangelist Luke narrates the ascension, adding almost as an afterthought that “while He was blessing them, He went away from them and was carried up into heaven” (Luke 24:51), Luke later narrates it at somewhat greater length in his second volume, The Acts of the Apostles, saying with a similar economy of words, “while they were looking, He was taken up and a cloud received Him from their eyes” (Acts 1:9)—
Importantly it reveals that the Ascension was not the ending of a story, but the beginning of one, not the conclusion of Christ’s life so much as the beginning of the life of the Church.
We sometimes loose the meaning of the ascension through the temptation to regard the Holy Ascension as if it were the Holy Absence, as if Christ has gone away and we now have less of His presence than was available when He walked the earth.
But we now we learn His presence is no longer conditioned by time and space. Everyone can now be close to Jesus and by the power of the Spirit can be with Him every waking hour and even every sleeping hour.
The Ascension and the sending of the Spirit means that we now have more of Jesus, not less of Him. The end of Matthew’s Gospel Christ said He would be with us until the close of age.. The challenge for us now is to live as children of the Ascension, and as children of the Spirit. Our Lord’s presence and power are always available to us.
The question is: how often do we avail ourselves of them?
Divine Liturgy will at 10:00 a.m.
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We would like to thank everyone who made our Slava Djurdjevdan so special this year as we return from covid. To our Kumovi...guests, choir, kitchen ladies, donators, set up people, and to our entire St. George family...ХВАЛА!
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Just one more very special announcement and thank you.
This year for our Slava we received an unbelievable gift from a parishioner who wishes to remain anonymous.
This gift is something that is extremely rare in the entire Christian World.
We have been gifted a relic of our patron Saint George the great and holy Martyr.
(275 to 303 AD)
The relic has been authenticated as it is from the estate of the late and famous Orthodox Theologian
+Fr. Aleksandar Schmemann.
We are very humbled that our parish now possesses such a exceptional relic.
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