March 2010

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St. Luke Parish Honors Scouts

Missionary Visit

Floyd Frantz made his fifth fund raising visit to St. Luke. Fr. Andrew suggested we adopt Floyd and his wife Ancuta as our foreign missionaries. Fr. Andrew asked Floyd what St. Luke could do to help his mission in Romania. Floyd said they needed a lap top computer and baby close. A new computer was presented to him before he left for Romania. The baby close will follow said Fr. Andrew. Click Here - Philantrophy - For more information on the Romanian mission or visit the Mission web site

Parish Council Installation

This Sunday our newly elected parish council members were gathered to recite the oath of office was administered to our new parish council Members led by Father Andrew. We pray that God will help them in their efforts.

Children's Sermon For March

We had a record number of children listening to Fr. Andrew's monthly children's sermon. The sermon was about the origin of the common pretzel. Fr. explained they were originally made to be eaten during lent because they are made with only flower, water, and yeast like Prophora.

The word pretzel comes from the German word brezel which means little hands. Pretzels are made in the form of a cross as when you fold your hands over your breast in prayer and when you come for communion. Fr. said gifts of pretzels were given when a person had their Lenten confession. All the children received a piece of a pretzel.

Sunday Of The Cross

The third Sunday of Lent is the half way point of Great Lent. On this Sunday a flower decorated cross is displayed in the center of the sanctuary during the Liturgy. At the point in the Liturgy when normally "Holy God" is sung it is replaced with "Before Your Cross we bow down and worship You." During this hymn three prostrations are made. They signify our devotion to God and that we have accepted His cross. It is also given as a help to fight off the attacks of the Devil who during Lent wants us to fail in our fast and it helps us to keep our heart pointed toward the Cross and Christ's victory over death at Pascha.

We invite all to join us at St. Luke's on our lenten journey to Pascha. If you are unable to attend in person please visit "Journey To Pascha" on our website to follow along and for more information on the faith and services. Each year we try to update this part of our site with new pictures so you can look ahead or follow along as we progress towards Pascha.

St. Raphael Of Brooklyn

Today Fr. Andrew blessed the Icon of St. Raphael of Brooklyn which is the first Icon of a new set of Icons of the saints of America. It was donated by the Kopulos family in memory of both the living and departed family members. This original Icon was painted by Cheryl Pituck from a photograph. Here Lee speaks about St. Raphael.

The feast day of St. Raphael was February 27, He was canonized a saint in 2000. He was the first Orthodox Bishop consecrated in America by Metropolitan Tikhon in 1904 and was assigned to care for the Arab Christians in America.

For information concerning the life of St. Raphael of Brooklyn please click here

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