St. Maurice & St. Verena Coptic Orthodox Church (SMSV)
3300 Highway 7 East L3R 5N9 Markham, ON, Canada

This May long weekend, we will be holding a 3-day in-house Spiritual Retreat at SMSV entitled Unconditional Love, featuring guest speaker Fr. Botros Samy! Registration link in bio.

Cancellation: Co-Ed Volleyball will be cancelled this Wednesday, May 11 and will resume next week. -SMSV Gym Committee

The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in loving kindness. -Psalm 103:8

Happy Black History Month from our SMSV family! This month, we celebrate our saints, history, roots, and diversity. As the first African Church, the Coptic Church has been blessed with the legacy of many African saints. May their prayers be with us all.

SMSV family and friends from all nations come together to share a Nativity and New Year greeting. Christ is the desire of all nations and He is the source of our hope even in the most difficult of times. May our Lord bless the crown of this year and give comfort and joy to everyone around the world.

From the bottom of our hearts, we would like to thank you for your overwhelming generosity and kindness during the peak of the pandemic. The Community Care Campaign has been a great success! Through your generous donations, and in collaboration with Healing Wings Foundation, the church received over 3000 brand-new clothing and personal care items, in addition to electronics, and Bibles. All donations were sorted and distributed among six men, women, and youth shelters across Toronto and York Region. We look forward to many more opportunities to serve our Community. May our Lord bless and reward each one of you.

CREW is back! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to our CREW family! We will be starting this new year off with a series titled Coping with COVID: Finding Hope in Dark Times. We will be focusing on the challenges that people are facing during these tough times and how to find purpose and hope moving into 2021. Join us over zoom on Tuesdays to hear our special guest speakers!... *See our stories each Monday for start times and speakers!

Happy Lunar New Year to our SMSV friends and family! Wishing you all the best in this upcoming year! Swipe to view photos from our previous #LunarNewYear celebrations. Wishing we could all be together during this time!

University and college students! February is Black History Month, Friday is Lunar New Year, Sunday is Valentines, and Monday is Family Day Weekend. What do all these have in common? Come and find out tomorrow at The Mount as we’re joined by Fr. Pishoy!

We are so excited to be launching Phase 2 of our Meals for Our Heroes Campaign! Please share the fundraiser below and be sure to check out the promotional video on the page!

Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.- John 14:27

The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.- John 1:14 #NativityFast

There is always a reason to have hope even in the most difficult seasons of our lives. God is bigger than our worries, greater than our pains, healer to our wou...nds, victorious in battles, and glorious in majesty. "The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning, great is your faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:22-23) St. Maurice & St. Verena Coptic Orthodox Church (SMSV)

Lest we forget. We are thankful for all those who have fought for our country and for those who continue to protect, guard, and keep us safe. May God protect all the soldiers, veterans, and their families. #RemembranceDay2020

With York Region out of Stage 2, Co-Ed volleyball will resume at SMSV with restrictions. Each session will be capped at 18 people. To register, type the links below into your web browser! Session 1: https://smsvc.infellowship.com/Forms/443101... Session 2: https://smsvc.infellowship.com/Forms/443102 Reach out to [email protected] with any questions!

And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ - Ephesians 3:17-18

Celebrations look a little different this year, but that doesn’t stop us! Check out our first All Saints Day Drive Thru celebration! Families drove by SMSV in their costumes to pick up a special bag of goodies! All pictures were taken socially distanced so children could show off their face paint and costume details!