From our Book Club text, Everywhere Present, chapter two, “we live in an altar,” we read, “On the one hand, we say that ‘God dwells in heaven.’ But the church also says that He is ‘everywhere present and filling all things.” Metropolitan Kalistos Ware goes so far as to say Christianity is panentheistic. This is the […]
Monthly Archives: August 2021
Sunday Bulletin 8/29/21
WEEKLY SCHEDULE Sunday, Aug. 29 – 14th Sunday after Pentecost / Beheading of John the Baptist 8:30 AM Matins 9:30 AM Divine Liturgy Monday, Aug. 30 – Return of the Relics of Bartholomew, Apostle 7:30 AM Morning Prayer Tuesday, Aug. 31 – Deposition of the Cincture of the […]
Help for Haiti
Bishop John has asked each parish in the Eparchy to take up a special collection to assist Catholic Relief Services with their humanitarian work in recently earthquake ravaged Haiti. If you are able to help please donate in the collection or online on our website (Mark donations for “Haiti”). Thank you! From CRS: Catholic Relief […]
Sunday Bulletin 08/22/21
WEEKLY SCHEDULE Sunday, Aug. 22 – 13th Sunday after Pentecost 8:30 AM Matins 9:30 AM Divine Liturgy Tuesday, Aug. 24 – Eutyches, Bishop-Martyr 7:30 AM Morning Prayer 4:00 PM Evening Prayer Wednesday, Aug. 25 – Return of the Relics of Bartholomew, Martyr 6:30 PM Divine Liturgy 7:30 PM Fire Pit Social […]
Everywhere Present
From our Book club text, Everywhere Present, Chapter two, Fr. Stephen Freeman writes about his experience at the monastery of Mar Saba that when a monk dies the other monks never say that such a one died, but “we always say, in the words of Scripture, they have ‘fallen asleep’. But mostly we say this because we see […]
Sunday Bulletin 8/15/21
WEEKLY SCHEDULE Sunday, Aug. 15 – Dormition of the Theotokos 8:30 AM Matins 9:30 AM Divine Liturgy: Blessing of flowers, herbs, and medication Tuesday, Aug. 17 – Myron, Martyr 7:30 AM Morning Prayer 4:00 PM Evening Prayer Wednesday, Aug. 18 – Florus and Laurus, Martyrs 7:30 AM […]
Sunday Bulletin 08/08/21
WEEKLY SCHEDULE Sunday, Aug. 8 – 11th Sunday after Pentecost 8:30 AM Matins 9:30 AM Divine Liturgy Monday, Aug. 9 – Matthias, Apostle 7:30 AM Morning Prayer 4:00 PM Evening Prayer Tuesday, Aug. 10 – Lawrence, Archdeacon-Martyr 7:30 AM Morning Prayer 4:00 PM Evening Prayer Wednesday, Aug. 11 – Euplus, […]
Is Jesus Lord in your life?
The St. Mary’s Proto-Cathedral book club is now reading Everywhere Present and Filling all Things: Christianity in a One-Storey Universe. The Introduction reads, “In the ‘one-storey universe’ has become a dualistic segregation of God from human life in the ‘two storey’ model, in which God is absent from the first floor, and people begin to wonder […]