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Rejoice Bulletin - Priest messages
August/September 2007
Dear parishioners,
It’s been only six weeks since my first day at Annunciation,
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October/November 2007
Dear parishioners,
The month of September marked a very healthy beginning of the ecclestiastical year in our community.
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December 2007/January 2008
Beloved faithful,
Christ is born, glorify Him!
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February/March 2008
We are at a turning point in the history of our parish
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April/May 2008
The Great Lent is that time of the year when we shift focus from material things to the spiritual
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June/July 2008
Christ has ascended!
We have just completed the forty days that separate the Resurrection from the Ascension of our Lord.
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August/September 2008
The summer months have stealthily gone by, and here we are, ready to enjoy another Festival.
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December 2008/January 2009
Every year, as the days get shorter and colder, as much of the life around us goes dormant and winter takes over, our hearts are warmed by the a great promise of new Life: our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is born
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March/April 2009
Man is not meant to be alone. As we advance through life, we develop a complicated net of relationships, which in many ways define who we are.
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May 2009
Christ is Risen!
Truly He is risen!
For forty days, we greet each other with these words,
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July 2009
We live in a world that is less and less Christian. God is no longer at the center of our lives. We do not talk about God and Christ, at least not in the passionate way in which our Byzantine ancestors did.
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September/October 2009
The peace and quiet of the summer months are coming to an end as we are ready to launch into a new ecclesiastical year.
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November/December 2009
The first weekend in October, a few of us attended the two-day Clergy-Laity conference organized by our Metropolis.
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April/May 2010
In just a few days we will begin to greet each other with these wonderful words that reflect the most dearly held belief of Christians: Christ, the Lord, has risen from the dead, having trampled down the power of death through his own voluntary, sacrificial death.
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May 2010
As many of you know, we are experiencing this year a profound revival in the leadership of our parish. Beginning with last year’s superlative Festival, we were blessed with a thorough involvement of our young adults, who brought a daring vision and renewed energy to our parish.
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July 2010
This past month we celebrated the Sunday of the Samaritan woman, and we read the account of the meeting between our Lord Jesus Christ and the Samaritan woman at the Well of Jacob.
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September 2010
Once again, we are approaching the end of the summer with that most important community event, our annual festival.
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October 2010
For many years now our community has wrestled with a confusing financial situation.
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November 2010
Last month we looked at a number of facts concerning the financial needs of the parish
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December 2010
In the two previous months we discussed what the actual monthly need of our church is ($90 per family) and what the church has to offer.
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