Orthodox Christianity
Since 33 AD
Welcome
Glory to Jesus Christ! Glory to Him forever!
We welcome you with open arms. Please join us.
In Christ,
Fr. Justin, Pastor
Thank you for visiting the website of Saint George Orthodox Church of New Kensington, PA. We are a Parish of the Antiochian Archdiocese of North America. Please see our weekly service times, or browse our calendar for upcoming services and events; and feel free to contact us.
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Pick Up: Friday, February 13 in church hall between 12:00-1:30 pm
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Service Schedule
All Services in English
Feel free to spend time looking around on our website. It's here with you in mind. But ultimately we hope you'll make the decision to join us in person. Please come and see. If it's your first time attending an Orthodox service, we recommend starting with a Vespers Service..
Saturday Confession — 5:00pm
Saturday Great Vespers — 5:30 pm
Sunday Orthros — 9:00 am
Sunday Divine Liturgy — 10:00 am
Service Livestreams
Our Clergy
Rev. Father Justin Mokhiber
Pastor
Rev. Deacon Glenn McIntyre
His Beatitude
Patriarch JOHN X of Antioch
Rev. Deacon Abraham Cavalier
His Eminence Metropolitan SABA of New York
Subdeacon Paul (Keith) Melville
His Grace
Bishop THOMAS of Charleston
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St. Valentinus the Martyr for Christ and Valentine’s Day Now a heavily commercialized holiday celebrating modern Western ideas of courtship and romance with the giving of candy and flowers, the ancient Christian origins of Saint Valentine’s Day have largely been forgotten. In the ancient records of the martyrs of the Church of Rome February 14th is marked as the remembrance of “the martyr Valentinus, a presbyter (priest) of the Church of Rome” The name Valentinus means “vigorous” in Latin. Although the historical records of the life of this saint are somewhat fragmentary, what we do know is that Valentinus was arrested, tortured and executed by being beheaded in 270AD during the persecution of Christians under the Roman Emperor Claudius II (also nicknamed “the Cruel”). He was buried in the Church of St. Praxedes in Rome, a place that can still be visited today. In the middle of the 4th century Pope Julian I built the first known Church in honor of St. Valentinus; it was restored by Pope Honorius I in the 7th century and became a popular pilgrimage site. The celebration of his martyrdom by the Church in the West was officially placed on February 14th by Pope Gelasius in 496AD. However, over the centuries the memory of St. Valentinus became so distorted that the Roman Catholic Church officially ended its commemoration of him in 1969, effectively surrendering the historical person of St. Valentinus, the martyr for Christ, to the exploitation of his memory by western popular culture. Orthodox Christians still celebrate the memory of St. Valentine, but on July 6th instead of February 14th. H/t Paul Church
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