Christmastide Greetings!
Merry Christmas to all our website visitors and viewers! We here at St. George Church wish you the best, brightest,most hope filled Nativity ever. Please join us for our annual Christmas Eve service, 6 pm on Dec. 24th Our Christmas Eve service begins at 6pm with the baptismal service, followed directly by the Vesperal Liturgy of St. Basil the Great. As a little bonus, here is the Christmas Sermon of the great St. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople. Our father among the saints [Read more...]
Building The Body Of Christ
Fr. Hans Jacobse, director of the American Orthodox Institute, will be the featured guest speaker at St. George on Wed evening, Nov. 3rd immediately following 6 pm Vespers. The topic of his presentation will be “Building Up The Body Of Christ.” Guest speakers are a regular education feature offered to the residents of Prescott and St. George Church parishioners, continuing a tradition of bringing the best and brightest minds to speak on the issues of the heart and of the day. About Fr. [Read more...]
Pre-planning an Orthodox Funeral & Burial
LIVING FAITH Class for October 16th, 2010 St. George Church will hold a seminar on the Orthodox Christian Funeral & Burial customs, and information about pre-planning an Orthodox funeral and burial. Cassandra Pavka from Heritage Memorial will be present to offer free advice, free ‘pre-plan’ paperwork and information to all present. You will find out what happens at an Orthodox Christian funeral (and why), what can be prepared for ahead of time, what the schedule of services will be, who is permitted an [Read more...]
In The Spirit of St. George: The Vocation of the Christian Warrior
The vocation of the Christian warrior is a dangerous and demanding one requiring as it does that the solider stand physically between the aggressor and his intended target and that he respond with force—even deadly force if needed—and yet do so without malice. This requires to be sure not only intense self-discipline and physical courage equal to any monastic asceticism, it also demands that the warrior bear the physical, psychological and spiritual scars of his service. This burden is made all the more difficult I think when military personnel (to say nothing of law enforcement professionals) are greeted with a lack of appreciation for the positive good of their service to say nothing of open hostility and moral censure what their service.
