St. John The Short Ministry "The Short"

06/02/2020

Hello all, great news!! We will be starting an apologetics course with George Bassilios during the Truth & Life meeting, starting next week (Monday June 8th). It will be a 4-month long course, meeting every Monday from 7PM-8PM PST. It is open to everybody high school and up and there will be a certificate of completion at the end of the course. Please take the opportunity to join and benefit, as we need to know our faith in order to strengthen and defend it. If you’re interested please register here by Sunday, June 7th 11:59 PM PST: https://forms.gle/mRVt5Hz3kikotM2t9

If you have any questions please feel free to reach out.

1. Course Duration: June 8th, 2020 - October 5th, 2020 2. Class Session: Mondays, 7:00PM-8:00PM PST 3. Syllabus and Course outline will be shared on the first day of class (June 8th) 4. Last day to register is June 7th, 2020 at 11:59 PM PST 5. If you have any questions, contact us at (510) 449-2428....

05/14/2020

Today is the commemoration of St Dolagy, a female saint from the town of Esna in Egypt.

Here are some deets (taken from a friend who served in Esna last year):

Governor Arianus persecuted all the Christians in the town of Esna. One of the stories is of Saint Dolagy and her sons. Her four sons were working in the field and Arianus came, they professed Christ so he threw them in jail. Mother Dolagy heard this and rushes to jail to strengthen them and she was put in jail too. Saint Mary appeared to them and comforted them. Since they did not recant their faith and worship idols, Arianius sought to kill them. Legend has it that Dolagy told him to kill her children first in front of her so she would be sure they all went to heaven and that none got too scared and recanted. So he said ok but they will die on your knees. And he cut off each of their heads on her knees. And then cut her head off and they all received crowns of martyrdom.

She's very little known outside of Esna but huge there. She was this amazing Sa3eedy widow who raised her four children by herself and then made sure they each entered heaven before her. 💪🏼

The bodies were buried in what was their home and they built a church. And when remodeling a few years ago, they dug up the bodies and ran DNA tests and found our relative ages of sons and everything.

كلمة البابا شنودة فيلم جبل الدم الأم دولاجى وشهداء اسنا St Dolagy Gabal Al Dam موقع البابا كيرلس السادس ومنتدى صداقة القديسين http://www.ava-kyrillos.com

04/26/2020

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04/19/2020

Happy Easter everyone! Piekhristos Aftonf!

04/11/2020

Happy Lazarus Saturday everyone! We will not be having our meeting tomorrow due to the very long services and start of Holy Week, however, we can always set up something on the fly so if you want to meet, just let us know. Hope you have a blessed Holy Week.

03/28/2020

Liturgy will be at our normal time of 8-10:30 so we’ll get the meeting started closer to 10:45 this week (and for the foreseeable future). Please use the zoom link posted last week. 🙂 hope you’re all keeping safe and healthy!

03/22/2020

Tentatively will start SJS after Liturgy- we’ll reevaluate in a bit. If you’re not part of the whatsapp group, please msg Dina directly.

02/16/2020

We’ll be in the large room downstairs in C*C for the foreseeable future. For “live” updates, please message Dina Hanna to be added to the WhatsApp group. Won’t spam you, promise 🙂