Weekly Events

 

Weekly Updates

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2025

The Sunday Before the Nativity • Ἡ Κυριακή πρό τῆς Γεννήσεως τοῦ Χριστοῦ

Orthros 8:00 am • Divine Liturgy 9:30 am

Children’s Christmas Pageant in Church

PTO Breakfast with Santa & Chinese Auction at 12:00 noon

Church Community Hall

Baptism at 1:30 pm

Callie Grace Audette, Daughter of Scott & Melissa Audette

MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2025

Bible Study Class in Upper Hall & on Google Meet 7:00 – 8:00 pm

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2025

Food Pantry 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2025

St. Evgenia the Nun-Martyr • Ἡ Ἁγία Εὐγενία ἡ Ὀσιοπαρθενομάρτυς

Orthros and Royal Hours 8:00 am

Christmas Eve • Παραμονή Χριστουγέννων

Vesperal Divine Liturgy of The Nativity of Our Lord 5:00 pm

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2025

The Holy Nativity of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

Ἡ Γέννησις τοῦ Κυρίου καί Σωτήρας μας Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ

Orthros 8:00 am • Divine Liturgy 9:30 am

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2025

St. Stephen the First Martyr • Ὁ Ἅγιος Στέφανος ὁ Πρωτομάρτυς

Orthros 8:00 am • Divine Liturgy 9:30 am

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2025

The Sunday After the Nativity • Ἡ Κυριακή μετά τή Γεννήσεως τοῦ Χριστοῦ

Orthros 8:00 am • Divine Liturgy 9:30 am

Nativity Bible Camp at St. Nicholas 12:00 noon to 5:00 pm

Open to all children of St. Nicholas Church – Pre-K to Grade 12

Weekly Sermon

 

Beloved in Christ,

The genealogy of our Lord, read on the Sunday before the Nativity, reveals a profound mystery (Matthew 1:1–25). The
eternal Son of God, begotten of the Father before all ages, truly entered human history. He took flesh of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became Emmanuel—God with us—uniting heaven and earth, God and man.

Though as God He has no genealogy, as the Son of the Virgin He is born in time for our salvation. He is Jesus, “God saves,”
and Christ, the Anointed One—Prophet, Priest, and King—whocomes to redeem humanity. His lineage places Him within
history, just as the Church remains rooted in history throughapostolic succession and the living transmission of grace.

The Word is born in humility, laid in a manger in Bethlehem, the House of Bread. From the beginning, the Bread of Life offers
Himself for the life of the world. Wrapped in swaddling cloths that foreshadow His burial, Christ is born to die and to rise again, destroying death by His death.

As the Fathers teach us, God became man so that man might be made divine. In the Incarnation, Christ sanctifies all of life—birth and death, time and history, the whole creation.

Let us open our hearts to receive Him, that He may be born in us by the Holy Spirit. For as we receive Christ, we become
children of God and partakers of His life.

†Rev. Fr. Elias Pappas

 

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