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Baptism & Chrismation

Information needed to prepare a Certificate of Baptism or Certificate of Chrismation. Please fill out and return to the church office before or shortly after the Baptism or Chrismation takes place.

Preparing for Your Child's Holy Baptism

Marriage

Information needed to prepare a Certificate of Marriage. Please fill out and return to the church office before or shortly after the Marriage takes place.

Article: And the Two Shall Become One Flesh: The Sacrament of Holy Matrimony

The "Lesser" Orders

Preparing for Tonsure as a Reader

Preparing for Ordination as a Subdeacon

A Guide to Readers and Subdeacons

Chanting

Guidelines for Epistle readers (pdf)

For audio samples of Epistle readings, visit our Choir/Chant Recordings page.

Epistle Reading Schedule Oct-Dec 2019 (pdf)

Epistle Reading Schedule July-Sept 2019 (pdf)

A Prayer before Singing

Holy Bread for the Eucharist

Liturgical Offerings

Holy Bread recipe (for the Eucharist)

Artos recipe (for Artoklasia)
Alternate ingredient list

Kollyva recipe (memorial wheat)

Another Koliva recipe (Ukrainian)

Calendar

Daily Readings

Saints, Feasts, and Readings for 03/12/2025

2nd Wednesday of Lent

Isaiah 5:16-25

Genesis 4:16-26

Proverbs 5:15-6:3

Searchable Scripture

Searchable Bible (King James Version), including the "Deuterocanonical/Aprocryphal" books
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kjv/

Podcasts

The Eucharist as the Mystery of Mysteries: Reflections on the Orthodox Unders...
13 Sep 2023 at 1:20pm

Justin and Nick discuss various aspects of how the Orthodox Church understands the Mystery, or Sacrament, of the Eucharist. What is the Eucharist? Why is it important? How do we prepare to receive it? These and other like questions.

Justin and Nick...

Why Do We Go to Church?: Worship&the Image of God
12 Apr 2023 at 2:47pm

In this reboot of Living Orthodoxy, Sdn Justin Gohl and Rdr Nick Muzekari discuss the importance of going to Church, participating in the worship of the Church, as the place where we encounter Christ and find the true purpose of our lives as human...

Homily: Fr Noah on The Sunday of the Prodigal Son (3/28/21)
12 Mar 2021 at 2:25pm

We are prodigals who have gone astray and need to return to the Father. We must see ourselves as the older brother...

End of Liturgy Homily: Fr. Witalis Sunday of the Prodigal Son
12 Mar 2021 at 2:06pm

Fr. Witalis reminds us of the perils of sexual immorality.

Homily: Fr James Thayer
18 Mar 2020 at 10:11am

Homily given by Fr James Thayer on the Divine Liturgy

And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. (Acts 11:26)

Saint Philip Orthodox Church
1970 Clearview Road
Souderton, PA 18964
215-721-4947
office [at] st-philip.net

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