What a GREAT parish . . .

[Light of the East]

I just got this Email from Fr. David -

Fr. David Subu
St. Mary Orthodox Church | 407 Participants
NPF: Newly Planted Fellowship

Saturday, April 09, 2022 6:00 pm

St. Mary Orthodox Church

7223 Roosevelt Ave, Falls Church, VA, 22042

The Neophytos ("Newly-planted") Fellowship is a new group for anyone young in the Orthodox faith to gather together and explore Orthodoxy and life together. This includes anyone who is:

• exploring Orthodoxy,
• in the catechumenate,
• still relatively new to Orthodoxy, or
• a cradle Orthodox who is newly discovering the depths of the faith.

The group will meet at St. Mary's fellowship hall on the second Saturday of each month at 6:00pm (right after vespers) for a potluck dinner and informal discussion with Father David. The introductory meeting will be on April 9th.

This is an incredible parish! In the mornings I can pray the Hours with others on Zoom. The usual liturgies and feast days are available to me (they were not at my old parish). There is a great fellowship after the Sunday Liturgy and a men's fellowship group.

I think this is an important group for a catechumen because of the need to lose Western ideas and develop an Orthodox phronema.

 

[ArmyMatt]

glory to God!

 

[Pavel Mosko]

Neophytos ("Newly-planted")

Ah I learned a new Orthodox buzzword!

Kind of an interesting word, looks like it could be literally translated as something like "new natured" at least based on the study of that root word in relations to things like monophytism, miaphytism etc.