Teen SOYO Service Activity for the Ronald McDonald House TODAY following Liturgy. We will prepare meals for those staying at the house. Bring a change of clothes or an apron!

*Parish Freezer Sale: TODAY following Liturgy. This is your chance to get all your frozen favorites before the freezer inventory is locked down until December when we host our public freezer sale.  So think about all the wonderful Mediterranean additions and fantastic sweets you would like to see on your Thanksgiving weekend tables and plan to stock up during coffee hour! After that, the next time our frozen favorites and goodies will be available is Dec 6th during the Public Freezer Sale. Questions? Please contact Catherine Deep 412-527-4989 cell

 

Kibbee Trays (Large & Small)

Kibbee Footballs

Grapeleaves 

Cabbage Rolls

Meat Pies

Syrian Buns

 

Assorted Sweets: 

Pumpkin Rolls

Carrot Cake (limited quantity)

Nut Rolls (limited quantity)

Lady Locks

Baklawa

Kahlua Cakes

 

*As the Nativity Fast began on November 15, we have a number of opportunities to help those in need during the Fast. 15 $50.00 grocery gift cards will be distributed to the Bridgeville Area Food Bank. Your donation either by cash or check is greatly appreciated. If you choose to pay by check, please issue your check payable to St. George Church, earmarked "Holiday Food Fund."

 

*Our Annual Advent Toy Drive to benefit children through the Salvation Army, Carnegie, PA is beginning. You may bring your new unwrapped toys for children of all ages to the designated area in our social hall. The collection dates are Sundays November 23, 30 and December 7. You may also bring a toy following the other liturgical services as published in our bulletin. Thank you for your continued generosity.

 

*Great Vespers on Saturday evenings at 5:00 PM

 

*The Fellowship of St. Catherine will meet on Wednesday, November 19th at 6:30 pm. 

*Meal train for Mark Abraham – Please consider helping Mark as he is recovering at home from a fall. https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/781rwm

Presentation of the Theotokos, November 20, Great Vespers 5:30 pm, Liturgy, 6:30 pm.

 

Thanksgiving Divine Liturgy, Thursday, November 27 at 10:30 am

 

Feast of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, December 6, Divine Liturgy 10:30 am.

 

St. Herman of Alaska, December 13, Divine Liturgy, 10:30 am

 

 

*Join us for the first annual St. George Choir Christmas Concert featuring our adult and children’s choirs! Immediately following the Divine Liturgy on Sunday, December 7. Join us for beautiful song and fellowship as we prepare our hearts and minds for the coming Nativity of Christ. We hope to see you there!

*Pan-Orthodox Christmas Concert – Sunday, Dec. 14th St. Nicholas Serbian Orthodox  Church 4pm

Holy Bread: The Holy Bread is offered by Joe & Linda Shady and Rich & Marianne Ferris in memory of Charles & Mary Shady, Joseph, Anne & Kenneth Ferris and Charles & Wilma Love and for  the health and salvation of the Shady, Ferris, Devine and Love Families.

Coffee Hour: Please join us for Coffee Hour sponsored by the Ladies Society.

 Epistle:   Rocco Adams

Tray Collectors: Ted Ferdinand & Steven DelVitto

 

The Reading from the First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians. (4:9-16) Brethren, God has exhibited us Apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men. We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and buffeted and homeless, and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become, and are now, as the refuse of the world, the off-scouring of all things. I do not write this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the Gospel. I urge you, then, be imitators of me.

 

 THE GOSPEL: The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew. (9:9-13) At that time, as Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax office; and He said to him, “Follow Me.” And he rose and followed Him. And as He sat at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and His disciples. And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to His disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” But when Jesus heard it, He said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

 

 On November 15, we began, with God’s help, the forty-day Nativity Fast in preparation for the great feast of the Nativity of Christ on December 25. Throughout this period, we abstain from meat, poultry, eggs and dairy. According to the Patriarchate of Antioch, it is not necessary to fast from oil, but people may choose to do so. Please consult your spiritual father for guidance.

 

From November 15-December 11, fish, wine and oil are allowed every day, except Wednesdays and Fridays. But fish, wine and oil are allowed on November 21, the Entrance of the Theotokos, regardless on which day of the week it falls. From December 12-24, we observe a strict fast with katalysis (relaxation) for wine and oil on Saturdays and Sundays, on commemorations of vigilrank and intermediate-rank saints such as Nicholas and Ignatius, and for church patronal saints

 

Prayers: Please pray for the health and salvation of Gil Downing, Renee Reed, Mark Abraham, Tim Flanagan, Kathleen Engel, Kash Campbell, Tom Marzullo, Janet Shearer, Adam Youssef, Oakley Barnhart, Adam Korba, Rayna Chaber, Mikey Bohley(Air Force), Gary Goltz, Eli, Sienna Engel, Kimberly George, Renee Korba, Mitchell Haberman, Debbie Pomposelli, Tom Unger, Chip Davis, Carleen Tavoletti, Philip Ameris, Lindsay, Diane, Adam Khandji, Melissa Crawford, Gabriel Antypas, John Carpenter, Jennifer Pardini, Dolly Wall, Luann Azooz, Maya Rahal, Gemma Adib, Nelly Khandji, Iama & Afar Dib, Mia, Rana Malek, Jalal Younes, Khalil families, Ron Davis, Marianne & Leigh Ferris, Amin Megherhi, Avigal Deep, Renee Koskey, Carrie Ann Kondratiuk, Spiro Vass, Sayler & Noe Koskey, Hannah Maschak, Regina & Jason Stepp, Page & Mary Bowman, the Abdelahad family, Nina Bollinger, Louise Mattis, Shadi & Elizabeth Arnita, Joseph D, Edna Abraham, Ray Hufnagle, Kathleen Pehanich, Charles Caligiuri, Gregory & Liberta Shekas, Natalia Watzlaf, Denise Abernathy, Shannon Petty, Cheryl Benny, Sreya Dey, Ria Stoupas, Debra Amato, Edgar Kent, Gail & Doug Boyea, Tom Dunn, Dorothy Grimm, Elizabeth Bryan, Rosemary Wesdock, Gary & Nadya Swisher, Missy Palone, Don Parker, Shaolyn Noel, Debbie Priatko, Marsha Licata, Cassius Haynes, Father Larry Daniels, Joan Boyd, Donna Ellmore, Rebecca Courtad, Karen Hoover, Bob Reed, Luke Schwetzer, Rick Moses, Dorothy Gordon, Sarah Ismail & family, Stylious Rees & family, Michelle Wilson, Ray Buettner, Gerry Funk, Richard & Emily Daller, Josephine Zellie, George Cross, Jason Maschak, Mireille Corbin, Fran Corey, Arlene Yustak, Youssef Awad, Amelia Hanna, Emily Kuhn Augenstein, Carl & Bonnie Zellie, Lyndsay Molinaro, Francine King, Cindy Capanna, Fr. Douglas Wyper.