Sunday-May 8, 2022
This Sunday we remember the Myrrh Bearing Women
Today is dedicated to the Myrrh-Bearing Women; to the simple women, who on the day following the burial of Christ the Saviour early in the morning hastened to His tomb to anoint the lifeless body of their Teacher with sweet spices.
The Gospels focus very little on women. But the Gospel read today in Church we see the wonderful nature of femininity.
Why are the Myrrh-Bearing women the first to be honored with such news? The thing is that feminine nature itself presupposes that love and sacrifice are its main quality and its fundamental value. Any woman is by her very nature a mother, whether she is married or not.
A mother is someone who can and ought to take to her heart every single person who is next to her regardless of their gender or age, whether they be virtuous or sinful. And this feminine love with a disregard for deliberations and perplexities triumphs over the despondency and depression that took hold of the disciples and drives the women to act without deliberating.
Because of our human nature, women are particularly suited to accept and assure us of the angel's message; not just that CHRIST IS RISEN, but also of the unique motherly reassurance in our lives, "DO NOT BE AFRAID!"
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We would to express our most sincere love and gratitude to our mothers who not only brought us into the world but also attended to our every need with the love that only a mothers could provide
Our continued success
is a sign of your love!
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Our Church Slava
As we all know this has been slow returning to "normal"
We will be celebrating our
St. George Church Slava on Sunday, May 15th
We be having our traditional litany (procession) followed by a Slava Luncheon
Because still of some Covid concerns, we will not be having a "full blown" Banquet.
But rather we will be having a church family
Pot-Luck Luncheon...
In this we are asking our parishioners to bring prepared dishes to be shared by
all next Sunday
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WORTH REPEATING
What is being said about Orthodoxy and you might be surprised of what
is being said...
YouTube phenomenon Dr. Jordan Peterson recently discussing the essence of Christianity and Judaism with Ben Shapiro.
He, Dr. Peterson who is neither an Orthodox Christian nor Theologian , gave a explanation of why and how we the Orthodox are different from the western (Roman Catholics and Protestants) Christians.
PLEASE CLICK THE ABOVE PHOTO TO WATCH THE DISCUSSION...
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We are
"ORTHODOX BY CHOICE"
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Our last E-Bulletin had
395 "opens" and forwards
Thank you for your interest in our Church
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