Liturgical Schedule

Saturdays:  5:30 pm

Sundays:  9:15 am, 11:00 am, and 12:30 pm

Daily Divine Liturgy
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, & Friday: 10:00 am

First Sunday of the Month – North County

Church of the Nativity
6309 El Apajo Road,
Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067
5:00 pm

Holy Days of Obligation: 7:30 pm

Confessions by appointment

Daily Bible Reading According to the Maronite Catholic Calendar

Wednesday after the Sunday of the Consecration of the Church

Wednesday, November 06

Letter to the Hebrews 10,26-31

If we wilfully persist in sin after having received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
but a fearful prospect of judgement, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.
Anyone who has violated the law of Moses dies without mercy ‘on the testimony of two or three witnesses.’ ……..

Lebanese Village Brunch

Sunday November 10

 

St. Ephrem Church Parish Hall

Following the 12:30PM Divine Liturgy

 

UPCOMING: RELICS OF ST BERNADETTE

Tuesday, November 19

Divine Liturgy

7:30PM

Please join us in welcoming, Father Mauricio Elias Naaman in November.

Fr. Naaman, a Maronite priest of Lebanese origin from Argentina, will be visiting St. Ephrem Church on Tuesday, November 19. He will celebrate Liturgy at 7:30PM. Liturgy will be celebrated in Spanish.

With him will be the relics of St. Bernadette to ba available for veneration.
Fr. Naaman was ordained in the Maronite church in 1994 and has permission to celebrate in the Latin Rite.

He is now in charge of the Latin communities and Spanish speaking pilgrims visiting Lourdes. He will be visiting USA and Mexico arriving to San Diego on the 19th of November celebrating at Saint Ephrem then traveling on to Mexico.

Importance of Relics
A Relic is a part of the physical remains of a saint after their death, or an object which has been in contact with their body. Relics are venerated to honour the holiness of God.

AID TO LEBANON

Send aid and help save lives and provide care in Lebanon Bring hope and relief to those caught in the midst of this escalating crisis. Donate now by visiting the following link.

 

Advent Retreat

December 7, 2024

10 am – 6:30 pm

with Divine Liturgy at 5:30 pm

At St. Ephrem Maronite Catholic Church

with Fr. Alan Benander, O. Praem.

$20 donation

Lunch included

ALL ARE WELCOME

Support Evangilization in the Middle East

“Let your light shine before others.” Said our Lord.

Tele Lumiere and Noursat, like many other institutions in Lebanon and the Middle East, is suffering tremendously and in danger of shutting down if it is not supported.

Very few parishes in the USA, of all Middle Eastern traditions, are supporting it. True there are millions living in poverty in the Middle East and we need to help them, but there are more millions living in darkness and need the message of hope and salvation. It is our responsibility to evangelize them.

We urge you in Christ’s name to help support Noursat. Here are few brotherly suggestions:

Talk about Noursat’s role of evangelization in the Middle East.
Announce this weekend the two-days Telethon. Share on your social media the attached video and flier about the Telethon.
Include in your weekly/monthly bulletin the attached flier about supporting Noursat.

God entrusted Noursat into our hands, let us unite our hands and hearts to keep it shinning.

With prayers and thanksgiving.
Chorbishop sharbel Maroun
President of Noursat, USA

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

First Friday of EACH Month 12:00 PM
FOLLOWED BY BENEDICTION 6:00 PM

MEMORIAL OF THE UNBORN

At St. Ephrem Church

“In God’s Hand is the Life of Every Living Thing and the Breath of All Mankind.”
(Job 12:10)

Daily Bible Reading

from the vatican

“Reading of the Day, Gospel of the Day, Words of the Holy Father”

REPORTING CHILD/VULNERABLE ADULT SEXUAL ABUSE in the eparchy

APOSTOLIC LETTER
ISSUED MOTU PROPRIO
BY THE SUPREME PONTIFF
FRANCIS
ON THE PROTECTION OF MINORS AND VULNERABLE PERSONS

OUR PRIEST

Reverend Toufic Nasr – Pastor

DEACONS

George Geagea and Georges Ghosn

VISITING PRIEST

Reverend Canon Thomas Thompson

Contact Us

St Ephrem Maronite Catholic Church

750 Medford St, El Cajon, CA 92020

(619) 337-1350

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