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8 THE SHEPHERD • DECEMBER 2019 • SAINT SPYRIDON GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH OF SAN DIEGO We are working hard to prepare for our FDF competition February 13-17 in Anaheim, CA. Practices for all of our groups have been productive and are going very well. Attendance has been steady, and the children are hap- py. Please see below for a current list of Sunday practice times/locations: Youth Choir (3rd-12th grades): 12:20 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. in church lo “Levani” Young Adult Choir (8th- 12th grade): 1:00 – 1:30 p.m. in church lo Ionians (3rd-6th grades): 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. in the GOYA room Aegeans (7th-12th grades): 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. in church hall Pelagos (18 and up): 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. in the church hall e Ionians are also nowpracticing on Fridays from from 6:45- 8:15 p.m. as are the Aegeans from 7:00-9:00 p.m. With the holidays approaching, there may be some changes/rescheduling of practices, which will be communicat- ed by each director via email or group text. Dance & Choral will also be hosting fellowship on December 1st, so keep your eyes out for a Sign Up Genius by email with a list of items. We hope families are able to sign up to bring something to contribute for fellowship. Our next fundraiser is our December Nights Parking Lot Event on Decem- ber 6th and 7th . We will be managing and selling parking spots for this very popular event that takes place at Bal- boa Park. If you are able to help out with this event please email Maria Ter- ris at mterris@qti.qualcomm.com . We look forward to a very enjoyable and festive holiday season, and hope to see everyone at practice! In Christ, Saint Spyridon Dance School & Choral Board DANCE & CHORAL PANARCADIANS Greetings! ere will be no Arcadian meeting for the month of Decem- ber. We would like to wish everyone a blessed and Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year. Fraternally, Adrienne Robas Bell, President Tegea 101 LIBRARY & BOOKSTORE “Your birth, O Christ our God, dawned the light of knowledge upon earth. For by Your birth those who adored stars were taught by star, to worship You, the Sun of Justice, and to know You, Orient from on High. O Lord, glory to You” - from Hymn of the Nativity Feast. e nativity Fast has begun and we look forward to this joy- ous time of year. e bookstore has a wonderful selection of Christmas books for children of all ages. Please browse our Christmas book display table inside the bookstore. In addi- tion, we can recommend titles for gi giving to our teens, young adults, and and older. we have an assortment of beau- tiful Orthodox hand-painted glass ball ornaments, cross or- naments, and Nativity icon ornaments for your Christmas trees. Advent brings to us a reminder of “spiritual renewal”, a time to grow in our Orthodox faith and to share it with others. A newly stocked book: Meditations for Advent, Preparing for Christ’s Birth, by Archimandrite Vassilios Papavassiliou takes us through the hymnography, scripture readings, and iconography for the forty days leading up to the Nativity of Christ, showing how a full understanding of the Incarnation can enrich our spiritual lives. is is the time of year to ll your homes with Christmas music hymns and praises, for which we o er our choir’s Christmas concert CD. And we have other beautiful music CD’s by Eikona, and from the nuns chanting at the Life Giv- ing Spring Monastery. Please think of our bookstore for your Christmas giving gi s: Bibles, books, icons, icon brace- lets, prayer books, prayer ropes, small stocking stu ers, mu- sic, Antique Prayers DVD and more! Remember, a book is a gi that can be opened again and again. We thank each of you for supporting our St. Spyridon book- store. We all join in wishing our parishioners and friends a blessed Christmas season, and a healthy New Year! CHRIST IS BORN! GLORIFY HIM! Mary Mastorakos, Pat Tsopanoglou, Collette Pepelis, Steph- anie Mastorakos, and Francesca Captain T H E C O N C E R T St. SpyridonChoir and YouthChoir thChoir danos heLord menos lafaki s on ir rd menos see’erBlooming torius (1571-1621) Fanfare rom theMessiah) ricHandel (1818)