St. Augustine Coptic Orthodox Church, SUS Diocese

"You crown the year with Your goodness, And Your paths drip with abundance." Psalm 65:11 Schedule for the Week 09/7 - 09/13 Wednesday 8:00 AM - Divine Liturgy Friday 8:30 AM - Coptic New Year Divine Liturgy ... Saturday 6:30 PM Vespers 7:00 PM Bible Study (Number 9 - 12) Sunday: 8:30 AM Divine Liturgy Following the Liturgy: Servants' & Pre-Servants' Meeting Have a Blessed New Year See more

August 28, 2020 | Mesore 22, 1736 Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Doctor of the Church (AD 430) Introduction "And Thou, O Lord, how long? How long? Is it to be tomorrow and tomorrow? Why not now? Why not this very hour put an end to shame?"...Continue reading

Wishing everyone a joyous and blessed St. Mary's Feast! August 22, 2020 | Mesore 16, 1736 Assumption of the Body of Holy Virgin Theotokos Saint Mary On this day, was the assumption of the body of our pure Lady St. Mary, the Mother of God. While she was keeping vigil, praying in the Holy Sepulcher, and waiting for the happy minute of her liberation from the bonds of the flesh, the Holy Spirit informed her of her forthcoming departure from this vain world. When the time drew n...ear, the disciples and the virgins of the Mt. of Olives (Zeiton) came and the Lady was lying on her bed. Our Lord, surrounded by thousands and thousands of angels, came to Her. He consoled her, and announced her with the everlasting joy which was prepared for Her. She was happy, and she stretched out her hands, blessed the Disciples, and the Virgins. Then, she delivered up her pure soul in the hand of her Son and God, Jesus Christ, Who ascended her to the higher habitations. As of the pure body, they shrouded it and carried it to Gethsemane. On their way, some of the Jews blocked the way in the face of the disciples to prevent the burial. One of them seized the coffin. His hands were separated from his body, and remained hanging until he believed and repented for his mischievous deed. With the prayers of the holy disciples, his hands were reattached to his body as they had been before. St. Thomas was absent at the time of St. Mary's departure, but he came after the burial. On his way back to Jerusalem, St. Thomas saw angels carrying St. Mary's pure body and ascending with it to heaven, and one of the angels said to him, 'Hurry and kiss the pure body of St. Mary.' When he arrived to the disciples, they informed him about St. Mary's departure. He told them, 'I will not believe, unless I see her body, as you all know how I did doubt the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ before.' They took him to the tomb, to uncover the body but they did not find it, and they were perplexed and amazed. St. Thomas told them how he saw the pure body ascending to heaven, carried by angels. The Holy Spirit then told them, 'The Lord did not Will to leave Her Holy body on earth.' The Lord had promised his pure apostles that they would see her in flesh another time. They were waiting for the fulfillment of this truthful promise, until the sixteenth day of the month of Misra, when the promise of seeing her was fulfilled. They saw her sitting on the right hand of her Son and her Lord, surrounded by the angelic Host, as David prophesied and said, 'At your right hand stands the queen.' (Psalm 45:9) St. Mary's life on earth was sixty years. She spent twelve years of them in the temple, thirty years in the house of the righteous St. Joseph, and fourteen years in the care of St. John the Evangelist, as the Lord commanded her saying, 'Woman behold your Son,' and to St. John, 'Behold your Mother.' May Her intercessions and blessings be with us. Amen. See more

St. Mary's Fast: 08/07 - 08/21 Services for the Week of 08/17 - 08/23/2020 This is My beloved Son. Hear Him! (Mark 9:7) Wednesday: 8:00 AM Divine Liturgy~Transfiguration Feast (Minor Feast) Friday: 7:30 PM Vespers & Veneration of St. Mary's Feast... Saturday: 8:30 AM Divine Liturgy Feast of the Assumption of the Body of St. Mary 6:30 PM Vespers 7:00 PM Bible Study (Leviticus 23 -27) Sunday: 8:30 AM Divine Liturgy Following the Liturgy: Youth Meeting Blessed Week See more

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St. Mary's Fast: 08/07 - 08/21 Imitate her [Mary], holy mothers, who in her only dearly beloved Son set forth so great an example of maternal virtue; for neither have you sweeter children [than Jesus], nor did the Virgin seek the consolation of being able to bear another son. (Letters 63:111 [A.D. 388]) + St. Ambrose of Milan Services for the Week of 08/09 - 08/16/2020... Wednesday: 8:00 AM Divine Liturgy Saturday: 8:30 AM Divine Liturgy 6:30 PM Vespers with Veneration of St. Mary & Spiritual Word Sunday: 8:30 AM Divine Liturgy Following the Liturgy: Servants & Pre-Servants Meeting Blessed Week See more

St. Mary's Fast: 08/07 - 08/21 Services for the Week of 08/03 - 08/09/2020 "For He has regarded the lowly state of His maidservant; For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed" (Luke 1:48). Wednesday: 8:00 AM Divine Liturgy... Saturday: 8:30 AM Divine Liturgy 6:30 PM Vespers with Veneration of St. Mary & Spiritual Word Sunday: 8:30 AM Divine Liturgy Following the Liturgy: Youth Meeting Blessed Week See more

Sunday, August 2, 2020 | Epep 26, 1736 Divine Liturgy Holy Gospel according to Saint John 11:1-45 Departure of Saint Joseph the Carpenter On this day, the righteous man St. Joseph, the carpenter, who was worthy to be called the father of Christ in the flesh, departed at a good old age. The Holy Gospel bore witness that he was a righteous man, and God chose him to be betrothed to the all-pure, our lady, the Virgin St. Mary. When he finished his course, his strife, his toil in ...the journey together with the Lord and the Virgin Lady from Bethlehem to the land of Egypt, and the tribulations that befell him from the Jews, he departed in peace. When the time came for him to depart from this world, to the world of the living, the Lord Christ was present at his departure, and laid His hand upon his eyes. He extended his arms, and delivered up his soul, and was buried in the tomb of his father Jacob. All the days of his life were one hundred and eleven years; forty years before his marriage, fifty-two years married, and nineteen years a widow. His departure was in the sixteenth year of the advent of the Lord Christ. (Synaxarium) May his prayers and blessings be with us. Amen. See more

July 31, 2020 | Epep 24, 1736 Martyrdom of Saint Noub (Apanoub) On this day, St. Apanoub (Abba Nob) was martyred. He was born in the city of Nehisa (District of Talkha). His parents were pure and merciful and they reared him in the fear of God. When Diocletian incited the persecution against the Christian, St. Apanoub was twelve years old, and he desired to shed his blood for the Name of Christ. One day he went to the church, and he heard the priest teaching the believers, s...trengthening them in the Faith, warning them from worshipping the idols, and encouraging them to deliver themselves over to death for the sake of the Lord Christ. He returned to his house, and set before him all what his father had left him of gold, silver, and apparels and told himself it is written, 'The world is passing away, and the lust of it.' (I John 2:17) Straightway he rose up, and gave all his money to the poor and needy, then went to Samanoud, walking along the river bank. He confessed the Name of the Lord Christ before Lucianus the governor, who tortured him severely. Then he hung him up upon the mast of his ship head downwards. The governor sat down to eat and to drink, and the vessel which was in his hand became a stone. The angel of the Lord came down from heaven, released the saint, and wiped up the blood that was running down from his nose and mouth. The governor and his soldiers were greatly disturbed. Strong winds blew, that made the ship to sail fast to Athribis. When they arrived, the soldiers unfastened their belts, and cast them before the governor, then confessed the Lord Christ and they received the crown of martyrdom. The governor of Athribis tortured St. Apanoub (Abba Nob) severely, then sent him to the city of Alexandria. There, he was tortured until he delivered up his pure soul and received the crown of martyrdom. St. Julius El-Akfahsi was present, he wrote the biography of St. Apanoub, took his body and sent it with some of his men to his hometown Nehisa. Many churches were built in his name. Many signs and miracles were manifested from his body which is now located in his church in the city of Samanoud. (Synaxarium) May his prayers and blessings be with us. Amen. See more

July 30, 2020 | Epep 23, 1736 Martyrdom of Saint Marina of Antioch On this day also, is the commemoration of the martyrdom of the blessed St. Marina, who overcame the Devil. She was one of the daughters of the nobles of Antioch. Her parents were pagan. When her mother died, her father sent her to a nanny to raise her, who was a Christian. She taught Marina the Faith of Christ. When Marina reached the age of fifteen years, her father died. One day she heard her nurse talking a...Continue reading

Services for the Week of 07/27 - 08/02/2020 "Jesus said to her, 'I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?'" (John 11:25-26). Wednesday: 8:00 AM Divine Liturgy Saturday: 8:30 AM Divine Liturgy 6:30 PM Vespers... 7:00 PM Bible Study (Leviticus 18 - 22) Sunday: 8:30 AM Divine Liturgy Following the Liturgy: Servants' / Pre-Servants' Meeting Blessed Week See more