Welcome to St Johns Apostolic Syriac Church

We welcome you to St Johns blog. We are a small home mission in the state of Colorado. We are a liturgical church and we worship in the Syriac Orthodox Tradition. Our liturgy is known as the Holy Qurbana or offering/sacrifice. We also are sacramental church believing in the 7 sacraments handed down by our Lord. The Sacrements being 1. Baptism 2. Chrismation 3. Holy Communion (Eucharist) 4. Confession 5. Marriage 6. Holy Orders (Ordination) 7. Holy Oil (Unction). We are Trinitarian and hold to the Christological view of Him being both man and God the two being united without separation, confusion and alteration. We hold to the first 3 councils. What you will notice in our worship is the beautiful chant of the Qurbana in English, the Icons or windows to heaven, the sweet smell of the incense of our prayer being lifted to the throne of God, the bells and the candles or the light of Christ being the light to the world. If you desire to worship with us you can email us at elisha.quintana@hotmail.com and we will notify you of worship times and dates. We bid you grace and peace in the love of Jesus Christ.

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

New Parish accepted into the Syriac Orthodox Church

I know this was posted a few weeks ago, I thought it was worth putting up again. God Bless to all.
Fr Elisha

Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ,


Please join me in giving thanks this Christmas season to the merciful Incarnate Son for the gracious approval and acceptance by His Holiness Patriarch Ignatios Zakka I Iwas of St. Helena's Orthodox Mission in Leona Valley, California into the worldwide communion of our holy Church of Antioch.



The Patriarchal Document number 479/09 signed October 23, 2009 in Damascus affirming full communion marks the conclusion of over six years of communication between our mission and the SOC. We have been honored with two visits during that time from the Very Reverend Corepiscopa Kuriakose Moolayil of Kerala, India (the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church); four visits from the Reverend Sabu Thomas of St Mary's Church in Whittier, CA (the Malankara Archdiocese of North America); a visit in 2007 from His Beatitude Mor Baselios Thomas (Catholicose of India), accompanied by His Eminence Mor Titus Yeldho Pathickal (Archbishop of the Malankara Archdiocese of North America)and His Eminence Mor Clemis Eugene Kaplan (Archbishop of the Western Archdiocese of the USA); and several visits from faithful members of many SOC churches in the USA. It also follows upon my annual visits to India from 2007, several visits to St. Mary's in Whittier, my visit to His Eminence Mor Titus in New York in 2008, and many visits to His Eminence Mor Clemis in Burbank (which is happily only one hour from our mission).
We are a small group of Orthodox Christians, most of whom have come from other faith traditions.



We ask your prayers for us. Our mission hopes to serve as a light to our community of the beauty and joy of Orthodox faith and life, and to witness to its relevance to all - regardless of country of origin, ethicity or race.



I serve as pastor of the mission. I received my Master's degree in Religious Studies (Theology) from Mount Saint Mary's College in Los Angeles, California; and I am currently in the second year of my doctorate (the Eastern Christian Studies program of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary) co-sponsored by the Antiochian Orthodox Church (SCOBA) sited at its Ligonier, Pennsylvania location.



IF YOU LIVE in NORTH LOS ANGELES COUNTY our mission is now your closest church home.



If you are planning leadership meetings or retreats, youth retreats, young adult retreats, family or church retreats, picnics, etc.: we encourage you to use our facilities. Our overnight capacity is 33 at present; daytime use is 250. We believe we are the only Oriental Orthodox retreat facility in the United States at this time.



We have a YahooGroup (similar to this one) which you are invited to join:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StHelenasMission/



You may contact us at:


St. Helena's Mission & Retreat Camp

Fr. James Francis Gregory Colburn

9650 Lost Valley Ranch Road

P O Box 772

Leona Valley, CA 93551

phone: (661) 270-0616

email: StHelenasMission@yahoo.com

...........................................

Sinu P. John, PhD

3 Glenmore Terrace

Unit#1, Newton, MA,

02461, USA


Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)