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Dear Parents & Guardians,

We are very happy to welcome your child to our church’s Sunday School program this year!

For the 2025- 2026 school year classes will run from 10:00am – 10:40am. Classes will be held on the first and third Sunday of each month, unless otherwise noted in the Sunday School Calendar and/or emailed by the Sunday School Director.

Sunday School permits a rolling admission, meaning, children are welcome to join at any point in the school year. Please keep in mind, children do benefit the most from regular attendance. All children are to meet their teacher’s downstairs between 9:55am – 10:00am, and will return upstairs at 10:40am to listen to our Gospel Reading and participate in our Divine Liturgy. Preschool will meet their parents/guardians in the Narthex, where we light our candles, while Levels 1, 2, and 3/Teen Talk are welcome to sit in the front pews reserved for Sunday School. After communion, children will not return downstairs, unless announced in advance.

  • Preschool (ages 3-5)
  • Level 1 (ages 6-8)
  • Level 2 (ages 9-12)
  • Level 3/Teen Talk (ages 13+)

Click here to register for Sunday School!

For your convenience here are the scheduled dates for the 2025-26 school year.

Our goals for this year:

An overall theme this year will be familiarizing the children with “What It Means To Be Orthodox”.

Throughout the year, our lessons and activities will help the children understand and live out their Orthodox faith.

Together we will explore age-appropriate topics such as:

  • Icons and what they teach us about Christ & the Saints
  • Epistle & Gospel readings of the day
  • Learning about the Saints
  • Learning the Jesus Prayer
  • Learning the Lord’s Prayer
  • Learning the Creed
  • Discussing major church events in the year (ie: Christmas and Easter)
  • Learning about our 12 Feast Days
  • Living as Orthodox Christians in today’s world – kindness, service, and faith in action

This will be done through discussions, stories, readings, Q&A, coloring and crafts! We also welcome your input! If there are particular topics you would like your children to learn about, please let us know – we would love to try to include them in our program.

The students will be taught prayers in English; however, a copy is provided in Greek below. We encourage you to recite prayers in whatever language(s) feels natural; reciting prayers with your child will help them learn them and feel comfortable saying them out loud.

We want you all to know that we appreciate the opportunity to work with you in bringing the spirit and message of Our Lord Jesus Christ into the heart and life of your beloved child.

Thank you + God Bless,

Your St. Demetrios Sunday School Teachers

Contact: sundayschool@calgaryhellenic.com

Resources:
Be the Bee  https://www.goarch.org/be-the-bee
Orthodox Pebbles  https://orthodoxpebbles.com/orthodox-basics/

Holy God and the Jesus Prayer
Holy God, Holy Almighty, Holy Immortal, Have mercy on us.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father,
Who art in Heaven,
Hallowed be Thy name,
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done on earth
As it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from the evil one.

The Creed
I believe in one God, Father Almighty, maker of Heaven and earth,
and of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God,
begotten of the Father before all ages.
Light of Light, true God of true God, begotten not created, of one
essence with the Father, through Whom all things were made.
Who for us men and for our salvation came down from Heaven, and
was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and became
Man.
Crucified for us under Pontius Pilate He suffered and was buried.
And rose on the third day according to the Scriptures.
He ascended into Heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the
Father.
And He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead,
and His kingdom will have no end.
And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, Who proceeds
from the Father, Who together with the Father and the Son, is
worshipped and glorified, and Who spoke through the Prophets.
In one Holy, catholic and apostolic Church.
I acknowledge one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
I expect the resurrection of the dead. And the life of the age to
come.