St Elizabeth Orthodox Church

05/24/2026

This week:
5/26: Choir Practice, 7pm
5/27: R Daily Vespers, 6:30 pm
5/30: R Great Vespers, 6pm

05/17/2026

05/17/2026

This week:
5/19: 7pm Choir Practice
5/20: 7pm, R Great Vespers of Holy Ascension
5/23: 10am, Divine Liturgy. 6pm R Great Vespers

05/16/2026

A wonderful interview with His Eminence, our Metropolitan Saba❤️☦️

05/11/2026

Blessed Sunday!

On this Sunday of the Samaritan Woman, we commemorate Jesus’ encounter with a woman at Jacob’s Well in John 4:5-42. She’s known to us in the Orthodox Church as St. Photini.

Jesus meets the Samaritan woman at the well and asks for water. This may seem simple, but it broke all kinds of social boundaries - Jews didn’t talk to Samaritans, and men typically didn’t speak to women like this in public. But Christ isn't concerned with social expectations. He sees her. He speaks to her with love, honesty, and compassion. As their conversation unfolds, He offers her something much deeper than water, “living water,” which means the grace and life of the Holy Spirit. He reveals that He knows everything about her life and still treats her with dignity. That encounter changes her. She becomes a witness to her whole town, leading others to Christ.

Just like with the Samaritan woman, Jesus reaches out to us in our daily lives, no matter our struggles, sins, or doubts. He meets us with love and offers us living water.

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"Having come to the well in faith, the Samaritan woman beheld Thee, the Water of Wisdom; whereof having drunk abundantly, she, the renowned one, inherited the Kingdom on high forever.
Let us hear of the august mysteries, as John teacheth us what cometh to pass in Samaria: how the Lord speaketh unto a woman, asking water of her, even He that gathered the waters into the places where they are gathered, and Who is of one throne with the Father and the Spirit; for He, the renowned One, came, seeking out His image forever." - Kontakion and Oikos of the Feast

St. Photini’s primary feast day is on February 26.

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The Church also commemorates the Apostle Simon the Zealot on this day.

Simon the Apostle was from Cana in Galilee and was known to Christ and His Mother. According to tradition, he was the bridegroom at the wedding where Jesus performed His first miracle, turning water into wine. After witnessing this, Simon became a devoted follower of Christ. He was one of the twelve Apostles and received the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. Apostle Simon traveled widely, preaching the Gospel in many lands, from Britain to the region of the Black Sea, and brought many people to Christ. In the end, he suffered martyrdom by crucifixion. He is remembered as a faithful Apostle who zealously shared the Good News. Apostle Simon is also commemorated with the other Apostles on June 30.

05/10/2026

Happy and Blessed Mothers Day!! ❤️

**Happy Mother’s Day**
May our loving Lord bless all of our beloved mothers, grandmothers, Godmothers, aunties, & all who provide loving & nurturing to our children.

05/10/2026

This week:
5/12: 7pm, Choir Practice
5/13: 7pm, R Daily Vespers
5/16: 6pm, R Great Vespers

05/06/2026

Blessed Feast...of the Midfeast!! ❤️☦️

Mid-Pentecost is the midpoint of the fifty days between the Feasts of Pascha and Pentecost.

05/04/2026

We are often too paralyzed in our own habits to accept the fullness of life that our Lord Jesus Christ offers us.

"The idea of immortality has accompanied man in all times and civilizations, and still does. Despite his discovery that this earthly life is unfulfilling for him, he does not want to replace it with what he does not know." -- His Eminence Metropolitan Saba, Thoughts on the Fullness of Life, Part One

Read more about the Sunday of the Paralytic at https://www.antiochian.org/regulararticle/73