*The Paraklesis (comfort/supplication) Service to the Theotokos will be served Wednesday evening, August 12 at 6:30 pm. If you would like to submit names of the living for their heath and salvation, please email Fr. Jason, frjason1@verizon.net., or you can bring the list to the service; first names only, no nick names please.

*Sunday School will resume on Sunday, September 13.

*The Fast for the Dormition of the Falling-Asleep of the Theotokos began on August 1 and culminates with the celebration of the Feast Saturday, August 15. We will celebrate the Feast with the Matins service followed by the Divine Liturgy. Matins 9:30 am, Liturgy 10:30 am.

*2026 Steeler Raffle–Purchase tickets now for a chance to win a pair of 2026 Steeler season tickets!  Tickets are $10. Each parish family is encouraged to purchase 5-10 tickets to support this fundraiser.  Winner matches PA Lotto evening pick 3 on Sunday, September 6, 2026. https://stgeorgebridgeville.org/steeler-raffle

*The Fellowship of St. Catherine will not meet in the month of August.  We will resume in September. 

 

* 32nd Annual St. George Golf Outing –Next Sunday - August 16th, 2026 at Fort Cherry Golf Club - 1:30 pm shotgun start. A reminder to non-golfers planning to attend the dinner and door prize session at 6pm: please notify Dan Capanna at (412) 805-3208 by August 7.   Register now - https://stgeorgebridgeville.org/golfouting 

*Donations needed*  After the golf outing, all participants and diners receive gifts of all kinds. We’re appealing to your generosity to pitch in and donate any NEW items that you can to Dan Capanna (Chairperson) Many Thanks!  Golf Outing Committee.

 

Sat 9/12 Making Spinach Pies

Fri 9/25 Preparations Night

Sat 9/26 Medi Dinner Event! Lamb Chops & Chicken

Sat 10/17 Making Kibbee

Sat 11/14 Baking Sweets

The Assembly of Canonical Bishops of North America will be holding liturgical services and meetings in Pittsburgh this October. The Assembly of Bishops represents various jurisdictions throughout North America. Our parish has been graced to host the Bishops for the Great Vespers service on Saturday evening October 3, 6:00 pm. Our Metropolitan SABA may be in attendance. 

 

It is expected that between 25 - 30 bishops will be in attendance as well as their staff, deacons, etc. We have been asked to host a dinner for the bishops and their staff with light refreshments for those parishioners in attendance who wish to stay after the vespers service. It is my plan that we have a sponsored catered dinner for our Hierarchs; more details to follow. Please note that this event is being sent to all Orthodox parishes in the Pittsburgh area so we can expect fellow faithful from various parishes to attend the vespers service.  

 

This is truly a unique and special blessing to our community in that we have been chosen for this historic event. Therefore, I ask all of you to prepare to attend the Great Vespers service to offer praise and glory to God with our Hierarchs and fellow Orthodox Christians. 

 

 

Holy Bread: The Holy Bread isoffered by Fr. Fred & Kh. Kathy Pfeil in memory of their fathers, Fred & Clyde.

A Trisagion will be served after Liturgy in memory of Fred & Clyde.   Memory Eternal!

 

 Coffee Hour: Please join us for a Potluck Coffee Hour.

August 16: Jalal Abdulkareem & Nuha Jargis

August 23: Velencia Family

August 30: Ellen Schmidt

Epistle: Valerie Watzlaf    

Tray Collectors: Joe David & Jeremy David

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. (17:14-23) At that time, a man came up to Jesus and kneeling before Him said, “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and he suffers terribly; for often he falls into the fire, and often into the water. And I brought him to Thy disciples, and they could not heal him.” And Jesus answered, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me.” And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon came out of him, and the boy was cured instantly. Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?” Jesus said to them, “Because you have no faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you. This kind never comes out except by prayer and fasting.” As they were traveling together through Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of man is to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill Him, and He will rise on the third day.”. 

Prayers: Please pray for the health and salvation of Luca Freigi, Rebecca Bryan, Lyndsay Molinaro, Elizabeth Egan, Curt Reese, Dan Capanna, Alex Egan, 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, Gary Goltz, Eli, Ava, Sienna Engel, Kimberly George, Renee Korba, Mitchell Haberman, Debbie Pomposelli, 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, 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, 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, Jason Maschak, Mireille Corbin, Arlene Yustak, Youssef Awad, Amelia Hanna, Emily Kuhn Augenstein, Carl & Bonnie Zellie,  Francine King, Cindy Capanna, Fr. Douglas Wyper.