ST. SIMEON ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHURCH
28042 Ave. Stanford, Unit D, Santa Clarita, CA 91355
A Mission Church of the Diocese of Los Angeles and the West
Antiochian Christian Archdiocese of North America, Metropolitan SABA, Primate
The very spiritual life taught at St. Simeon is represented by this week's homily by Father George!
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Icon of the Venerable Chariton
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~Schedule~
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Great Vespers for the 1st Sunday of Luke, Saturday September 28th @ 5:30pm​
Orthos for the 1st Sunday of Luke, Sunday September 29th @ 8:30am​
Divine Liturgy for the 1st Sunday of Luke, Sunday September 29th @ 9:30am​
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Reading for the 1st Sunday of Luke:
Epistle, Corinthians 6:1-10
Gospel, Luke 5:1-11
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The Venerable Chariton
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The Confessor Chariton was a distinguished and devout citizen of the city of Iconium. Imbued with the spirit of his compatriot, St. Thecla, Chariton openly confessed the name of Christ. When a bitter persecution of Christians began during the reign of Emperor Aurelian, Chariton was immediately brought to trial before the eparch. The judge ordered him to worship the gods, but Chariton replied: "All your gods are demons, and were cast from the heavens into the nethermost hell." Chariton clearly proclaimed his faith in the One Living God, the Creator of all, and the Lord Jesus, the Savior of mankind. The eparch ordered that he be tortured and beaten, until his whole body was like one great wound. When Aurelian's evil deeds caught up with him and he died an evil death, Chariton was freed from torture and prison. He then set out for Jerusalem. On the way he was seized by robbers, but escaped from them by God's providence. Chariton, not wanting to return to Iconium again, withdrew to the wilderness of Pharan, where he founded a monastery and gathered monks. He established a rule for the monastery and then, to avoid the praise of men, withdrew to another wilderness near Jericho. There he founded another monastery called the Monastery of Chariton. Finally, he founded a third monastery, Souka, which the Greeks called the Old Lavra. Chariton died at a great old age, and took up his abode in the glory of his Lord on September 28, 350. His relics repose in his first monastery. The composition of the rite of monastic tonsure is attributed to St. Chariton.
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-Excerpt from the Prologue of Ohrid by Saint Nikolai Velimirovic
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WEEKLY SCHEDULE OF REGULAR SERVICES
SATURDAY, 5:30 P.M
- GREAT VESPERS
SUNDAY 8:30 A.M,
- ORTHROS
-DIVINE LITURGY
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