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A Short Meditation on Prayer
And it came to pass, that, as he was praying
in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his
disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray,
as John also taught his disciples. (Luke 11:1)
There are a lot ofimportant things to learn in
life, but none more important than learning
how to pray. One contemporary Athonite monk
wrote what he called a “Catechism on Prayer,”
a learner’s manual, if you please. In the
opening paragraphs, he clearly and, I might
add, starkly, states what is at stake concerning
our need to learn how to pray: “People who do
not know how to pray are, in reality, good for
nothing. There’s no chance that they will
succeed in life…they’ll always be people who
cleave to the earth and never attain to the
heavens”.
Generally speaking, people do not associate
words like “good for nothing” and
“successful” with the life ofprayer. How many
of us even place prayer on the list of things
through which we measure the effectiveness or
evolution of our life? Many go no further in
discovering the depths of prayer than the entry
level of “petition,” asking God to give them
something or other, particularly when they are
going through one struggle or another. When
prayer turns only toward what makes us
“cleave to the earth,” we are at odds with the
aim of true prayer and at risk of losing
ourselves in the world: “Ye ask, and receive
not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may
consume it upon your lusts” (Jas. 4:3).
Fortunately, as this passage of Scripture notes,
God does not cooperate with this lustful urge to
corrupt prayer.
The true aim of prayer is, as was noted
above, to “attain to the
heavens”. Later in the
same article, the writer
further explains that
prayer, in order to be
locomotion to God, is
linked to our worship as
a community and more
particularly to Holy
Communion.
The
sacramental life of the
community
is
indispensable to the mystical life of the
individual member.
We develop our
relationship to God through Christ’s first
uniting himself to the depths of our being in
Holy Communion. What remains after that is
for me to “speak to Him Who comes to me”
until a “total union occurs”.
This is the true aim and destination ofprayer.
This is also the aim and destination of our
Lenten journey. Sure, there will be contests,
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the need for deep repentance, the struggle to
make room for God through fasting, the
forgiveness of others, beautiful Lenten
services, and on and on. But the basic element
in all is the urge to receive Christ and to learn
how to communicate with Him in a way that
we can attain to the heavens – in other words,
in a way through which we are taught how to
pray.
Ifwe think ofprayer as both an activity itself
and the light that enlightens all other things we
do, we will understand that our aim is to “pray
without ceasing”.
A Pilgrim's Tale
My Journey to Constantinople,
Cappadocia and the Holy Land
October 22-November 4, 2013
Arman was able to give tours in English, Greek
and German; however, for us, he used English
(and a good thing, too: if Arman had used
German, I’m sure the only thing I would be
able to understand would have been something
like, “Und jetzt will Ich eine pause machen” –
assuming, of course, that that exact phrase
would have been employed by him during our
trip). But, alas, I digress.
We arrived at our hotel (named, curiously,
the “Titanic”), which was located in the heart
of İstanbul, right near Taksim Square, where
there had been demonstrations against the
Turkish government by
Turkish citizens only a
couple ofweeks prior to
our arrival. While we
were there, though,
things were fairly quiet.
(However, no sooner
had we left than the
demonstrations began
again [ifmemory serves
me correctly].) Our first
day in Turkey was
rather simple: we
checked into the Titanic (!), had our first
complimentary dinner at the hotel restaurant,
and crawled into bed for a well-deserved sleep.
Tomorrow would be our first day in
Constantinople, and we didn’t want to miss a
thing!
On October 22, 2013, I was granted the
inestimable joy of beginning a 13-day
pilgrimage to Constantinople, Cappadocia and
the Holy Land, led by Fathers Jon Magoulias
from Modesto and Peter Salmas from Belmont.
I, along with a group of50 other pilgrims from
all over the United States, were departing from
Los Angeles to go to Constantinople (now
called “İstanbul” by the Turks), flying non-stop
for 13 hours on Turkish
Air – which, incidentally,
is ranked among the top
10 airlines in the world
today (and for good
reason: the service was
excellent, as was the
choice of in-flight
entertainment – each
passenger had his own
private television screen,
mounted on the seat in
front of him, complete
with remote control). In any case, the flight
was uneventful: we landed in
Constantinople/İstanbul on October 23,
whereupon we disembarked from the jet and
were whisked over to the terminal by a long
double shuttle-bus. [For the purposes of this
narrative, I shall use “Constantinople” and
Day 1: October 24, 2013
“İstanbul” interchangeably, as both
appellations denote the same city.] Once We began our first official day in
through Customs and outside the airport, we Constantinople at 9:00am today. On our tour
met our tour guide, Arman Maşooğlu, an this morning, Arman told us about one of the
Orthodox Christian of mixed Greek and more fascinating aspects of Constantinople:
Armenian parentage, who also happened to be
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Selam from Adwa, Ethiopia
Selam is the Amharic greeting meaning
“hello” or “peace.” Amharic is the official
language of Ethiopia. Holding your hands up,
palms forward and saying “Selam” always
elicited smiles, handshakes, hand-holding and
speaking English that the Ethiopians are
learning in school. Last September, I traveled
to Ethiopia with Father Lawrence and my
friend Carol, to visit our dear Tsige and the
Gobezie Goshu Home she founded in Adwa,
her hometown in Ethiopia. We flew from Los
Angeles to Istanbul, Turkey, then on to Addis
Abba, Ethiopia and finally to Axum where
Tsige met us and we drove to Adwa. We spent
nearly 30 hours over three days traveling to
Africa.
Adwa is a fairly large town with many
churches, shops, restaurants, schools and an
open-air market. The highway to Adwa and its
main street are paved roads. Some of the
streets in the older sections ofAdwa are paved
with cobblestones. Most ofthe other streets in
town are unpaved and quite rutted. I drove
Tsige’s truck around town as we went to visit
the eleven schools attended by children we
sponsor; the local prison; an orphanage
sponsored by an Italian citizen; a home for
special needs children and adults run by the
Sisters of the Missionaries of Charity, the
Catholic order of nuns founded by Mother
Teresa; and individual elderly, mostly women,
in their homes who are also sponsored by
donations from across America. The traffic in
Adwa was made up of small motorcycle taxis,
flocks of sheep, herds of goats, donkey carts,
an occasional camel, some cows and many,
many pedestrians. While I was driving, Tsige
several times said to me, “This is Adwa”,
which meant, “Slow down!"
Tsige is highly respected and everyone is
always happy to see her. They also know that
she is serious and expects to see students
engaged and learning and the elderly getting
the help being paid for by the donations. When
we visited each school, we watched the
teachers in action with their students. The
curriculum includes reading and writing in
Amharic; Math; and English. I was impressed
by the quality of instruction and the hard work
of the children and their teachers in very basic
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classrooms.
Children sang “Welcome,
welcome”, demonstrated their math skills and
recited the letters in both Amharic and English
when we visited. One school was teaching
students to use computers, and all the schools
were building new classrooms or improving
the existing buildings. Schooling is different in
Ethiopia. Children enter the government
school system when they are seven years old.
The schools sponsored by the Gobezie Goshu
Home take students as young as three to
prepare them for school and to keep them off
the streets while their parents are away for
work during the day. Students work towards
the big test in what we call 10th grade. This
test determines the student’s path towards
completion of high school and from
what I was told, each student only gets
one attempt to take the test. Pass the
test, and the student goes on to finish
high school and perhaps even goes to
college. Fail the test, and the student
goes on to technical training such as
hotel management, accounting or
teaching. As a retired educator, I found
it interesting that the path to teaching
opened up after failing the 10th grade
test.
Each day started with prayers led by
Father Lawrence in Tsige’s private
chapel in her home. Then breakfast was
served and we went out on our visits for
the day. We had lunch and dinner with
Tsige at her home with many
discussions of the situations she faces in her
work and meetings with people anxious to visit
with Father Lawrence.
Ethiopia is an orthodox country. The
Ethiopian Orthodox Church is part of the
Coptic or Oriental Orthodox Churches. The
majority of the citizens in Adwa are Ethiopian
Orthodox. The church is a central part ofdaily
life. Sunday services begin at 2:00 a.m. and are
broadcast outside the church by huge
loudspeakers. We could hear the
services from our apartment. The
services go on until nearly 11:00 a.m.
We were able to visit the Holy Trinity
Church, where Tsige’s parents and other
family members are buried. Malaka
Brohamet, the head priest of the church
and the priest who works as Tsige’s
school inspector, gave us a tour of the
interior. The altar is located in the center
of the circular sanctuary. Women and
men stand on separate sides around the
altar, separated by a curtain at each end
ofthe respective half-circles. There was
a collection of tall wooden staffs which
were used by the worshipers to lean on
during the lengthy services. The Holy Trinity
church had about 25 clergy to serve in it as well
as a large group ofyoung men studying for the
priesthood on its grounds. Malaka Brohamet
was concerned about the small number of
young people attending church regularly. The
services are served in an ancient language that
very few people understand now. This makes
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For Health or in Need of Prayers:
† Hierarch Nikolai (Soraich)
† Marie, Mike Tscheekar’s mom
† Cody, son of Kerri Richey
† Natasha (prayer request)
† Tina (prayer request)
† John Deak, Bea’s father
† Janie, our beloved sister in Christ
† Natasha M., recovering from surgery
† Dan Callaway,
† Sarah, Bea’s aunt battling cancer
† Caroline, battling cancer
† Tracy & Robin, friends of Lana who
are battling cancer.
† Salina, daughter of Lana’s friend
† George, health issues
† Ronald, Matushka’s father who is
battling cancer
† Natasha, Olga’s friend
services hard to comprehend and follow. Even
so, the influence of the church is widespread.
Restaurants had special menus for fasting days.
When someone died, the family would hire a
man to walk through the neighborhood with a
loudspeaker announcing the funeral service so
that people would know when to attend. We
heard several of these announcements and had
to drive around one enormous funeral
procession of white-clad mourners.
Ethiopia follows its own ancient calendar, so
we were there for the feast of the Exaltation of
the Precious and Life-giving Cross about three
weeks after we observed the feast in our parish.
A large number of people gathered in a large
plaza around a cross made of tree branches
surrounded by lots of branches for a bonfire.
The clergy prayed, people played drums and
many others sang and danced in preparation of
the lighting of the fire. Father Lawrence and I
were standing on the edge of the crowd to
watch the ceremony while Tsige and Carol
waited in the truck. Malaka Brohamet saw us
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Selam from Adwa, Ethiopia
survive without Tsige’s work. The fact that so
many children are in school is
miraculous and the success they are
achieving now has the government
school system investigating how to
expand and serve children in the threeto seven-year age range. Providing for a
better education for Ethiopian children
will ensure a brighter future for them
and their country.
I am humbled by the work being done
by Tsige in Adwa. I am sorry that I was
not more helpful while I was there. My
words do not express effectively how
Tsige squeezes so much benefit for so
many people from the support given to
her project. I hope that we will all
continue to support this work and that
there and pulled us through the crowd for a we should all keep Tsige and the Gobezie
close-up view of the event. We ended up Goshu Home in our daily prayers.
sitting with the former mayor of Adwa who
spoke English and explained what was
happening to us. The wood around the cross A Pilgrim's Tale
was ignited and exploded into flames which
quickly engulfed the cross. As the branches
became fully involved with flames, boys and
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young men ran up to the bonfire and started
pulling burning sticks out of the fire and during the time of the Byzantine Empire, there
carried them through the crowd. The ashes were an array oftunnels that went out from the
from these sticks were used to bless all ofus in main Cathedral of Hagia Sophia to the various
the crowd with a cross on our foreheads. As we monasteries located outside the City walls. The
drove back to Tsige’s home, we saw many purpose of these tunnels was twofold: firstly,
smaller versions of the ceremony in the they served as walkways upon which the
neighborhoods of Adwa. I marveled at the monks and nuns traveled from the monasteries
controlled chaos of the celebration.
to Hagia Sophia for the Divine Services; and
Carol and I stayed in an apartment on the top secondly, they served as conduits for
floor ofTsige’s newest market building. It was messengers from the monasteries to travel
across the river and down the road from Tsige’s through to warn the authorities in the City of
home. The recent heavy rains had washed out any impending enemy attack.
the bridge built by Father Lawrence and his Our first stop was at the Monastery of the
friend, Paul Repucci, so we walked along the Life-Giving Spring, or
government road and across the main bridge to Zoodochos Pege, in Greek.
get there. We were always escorted by Haile, This monastery is perhaps the
one of Tsige’s guards, when we went home at most important monastery in
night. Haile carried a rifle when he was with us Constantinople. Located at
outside of the compound’s walls to protect us Baloukli (now Balıklı) on the
from the hyenas. I understand that these beasts outskirts and outside the land
have little fear of humans. I was both relieved walls to the west of the City of
and disappointed that we never saw a hyena, Constantinople, the Monastery
but we heard them at night and saw evidence of was built in the year 560 A.D.
their presence the next day.
by the Emperor Justinian, on
Ethiopia is a beautiful, growing country, not the site of a miraculous Spring
without needs and problems. The children of the Holy Theotokos. Many
were happy and curious. As we drove or miraculous cures have been
walked around town, they would point and cry wrought at that Spring since
“ferengi”, which means “foreigner”. The (and even before) that time.
children near our apartment waited for us each Inside the Monastery Church
morning to walk along the road with us, is the Spring itself. Inside the
holding our hands and asking questions. They Spring, you can see fish that
had such big, warm smiles, until I would take a have a curious physical
picture; then they would stand up very straight characteristic: one side of them is darker than
and look very seriously at the camera.
the other. The story behind this miraculous
It is hard to sufficiently describe the impact phenomenon goes like this: once, a monk was
that Tsige and the Gobezie Goshu Home is fishing at the site of the Spring. He had caught
having on the Adwa community. Numbers do several fish, and was starting to fry them over
not illuminate the hope in the future that people his campfire. Another monk ran up to him and
there have. There is no other support for many informed him that the City had fallen to the
elderly whose families have very little to Ottoman Turks. The first monk responded by
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saying, “If the City has fallen, then these fish
will come back to life and jump back into the
Spring.” No sooner had he said this than the
fish in the frying pan leapt out of the pan and
back into the water. The date was May 29,
1453. We, too, saw these fish at the Monastery
of Zoodochos Pege; and, indeed, looking
closely at the fish, one can see that one side of
the fish truly is darker than the other!
The feast day of the Life-Giving Spring is
celebrated on the Friday of Bright Week,
following the Great Feast of Pascha.
At this Monastery, many Patriarchs and
influential families of Constantinople are
buried. Fathers Jon and Peter stopped at the
tomb of the late Patriarch Athenagoras (who
had served as the Greek Orthodox Archbishop
of America during the mid-twentieth century)
and chanted a memorial. Also in this area is the
Orthodox cemetery of Constantinople.
Following our visit to the Holy Monastery of
the Life-Giving Spring, we went by bus to the
Patriarchate of Constantinople, located in the
Phanar district of the City. Upon entering the
sacred grounds ofthe Ecumenical Patriarchate,
we received from Arman a brief recounting of
the history ofthe Patriarchate in the Phanar. We
were then ushered into the reception room of
the Patriarchate, otherwise known as the “Hall
of the Patriarchs”, so named because of the
many portraits on the walls of Patriarchs who
had served as Ecumenical Patriarch from the
District of the Phanar.
Upon arriving at the Hall of the Patriarchs,
we were greeted by Metropolitan Athenagoras
of Kynodies, who extended to us the blessings
of His All-Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch
Bartholomew I, who had been on Mount Athos
and who was that week in Thessaloniki,
Greece, to celebrate the feast day of St.
Demetrios the Myrrh-Gusher, who is the
Patron Saint of Thessaloniki. Metropolitan
Athenagoras gave us a very beautiful
presentation in Greek (translated by Father
Jon), thanking us for supporting the sacred
work of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. His
Eminence acknowledged the work of the
Church by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of
America, which is an eparchy of the
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Ecumenical Throne; and he went on to
emphasize the importance of and the need to
support Orthodox theological schools, saying
that it is in educating future priests that the
Church grows and feeds the faithful.
Our next stop at the
Phanar was the
Patriarchal Cathedral
of St. George, which
has
been
the
Patriarchal Cathedral
since 1600, after a
period of relocations
within a 1,285-year
time frame, the bulk
of the relocations
occurring during the
Ottoman occupation.
The Cathedral of St.
George
contains,
among
other
treasures, the relics of
St. Basil the Great, St.
Gregory
the
Theologian, and St.
John Chrysostom, as
well as the relics of
three female saints:
the Great Virginmartyr Euphemia the
All-praised (+304
A.D.); the righteous
Solomone, mother of the seven Maccabean
Martyrs (+168 B.C.); and the Holy Empress
Theophano (+893 A.D.); the Cathedral also
contains within it part of the Column of
Flagellation – the column to which our Lord
Jesus Christ was bound and flogged prior to
His Crucifixion.
Finally at the Patriarchal Cathedral, we took
a group photo, for which we were joined by the
Patriarchal Deacon, Fr. Nephon Tsimalis.
Originally from Merrillville, Indiana, Fr.
Nephon is a graduate of Holy Cross School of
Theology in Brookline, Massachusetts, and is
the coordinator of the English Office of the
Ecumenical Patriarchate. Fr. Nephon spoke to
us beautifully about the occurrence at the
Patriarchal Cathedral, once every ten years, of
the Service of the Sanctification of the Myron,
or Holy Chrism, celebrated on Holy Thursday
during Passion Week. The heads of the
Autocephalous
Churches around the
world are invited here
by the Ecumenical
Patriarch, who gives to
them the Sanctified
Chrism; they, in turn,
take the Holy Chrism
to their respective
churches. Fr. Nephon
wanted to convey to us
the understanding that
as each one of us has
been baptized and
chrismated,
this
sanctification links us
both mystically and
spiritually to the
Ecumenical
Patriarchate
of
Constantinople.
(A humorous aside
here: when Fr. Nephon
learned that I was of
Russian descent, he
immediately
responded with a
perfectly intoned “Do-La-Fa”, and told me
how much he enjoyed hearing the Russian
Orthodox Choirs when he was in the United
States.) Thus ended our visit to the Ecumenical
Patriarchate.
After a brief rest and lunch, we then went to
the Church of the Virgin Mary of Blachernae.
Also built over a miraculous spring of water,
this Church is the same one in which the
Akathist Hymn to the Theotokos (complete
with the Kontakion “Ti Ypermakho” [“O
Victorious Leader” in English]) was first
chanted, following a miraculous victory of the
Byzantines over the barbarian hordes in 626
A.D. This victory was attributed to the
intercessions of the Most Holy Theotokos,
since shortly before the miraculous defeat of
the barbarians, the Venerable Patriarch Sergius
along with the Clergy and Official of
Byzantium Vonos, had marched endlessly
along the great walls ofConstantinople, armed
simply with an icon of the “Ultra-fighting
Commander”, the Most Holy Theotokos and
Ever-Virgin Mary. The appellation
“Akathistos” (in Greek meaning, “not seated”)
was given to the Hymn to the Virgin Mary,
since the Hymn had been chanted all night
without sitting by both the Clergy and the
Faithful. In this Church we too prayed and
chanted “Ti Ypermakho”, while we were
blessed with the Holy Water.
There are two unique aspects of this Holy
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Wish List
Thank you and many blessings to those who
made the contributions to make the
purchases for these and past items!
Short-Term Wish List Goals:
1. Wedding table; $1,500
2. Gold plating on the Cross for the Beautiful
Gates (Royal Doors); $350
3. Altar Servers’ robes; $100-$400 depending
on fabric
4. Vigil candles; under $100 per item
5. Large Hobart mixer; EBay (used): $2,500;
New: $4,000-$6,000
6. Dough Sheeter; approximately $1,500$5,000 depending on function
7. Commercial Oven $3,000+
8. Replacement chandelier for Hall; approx.
$1,000 (existing one was moved to
Church)
9. Painting ofrest ofSocial Hall... cost to be
determined
10. Sealing and buffing ofSocial Hall floor;
approximately $1,200
11. Wood table for Holy Water,
approximately $200 to $300
12. Donations for flowers
Long-Term Goals:
1. Bells and bell tower
2. Iconography in domes
Fund Raising Update
Last August, our pickle-making masters got
together to produce another batch of our
delicious and highly sought-after pickles: over
One Hundred (100+) jars were canned and are
available for $12.00 per jar. Pickle sales
produce a stream of income throughout the
year. Don't forget to pick one or two jars for
yourself and friends!
Our church was represented again this year
at the annual Grapes and Grain Festival held in
downtown Santa Maria and is a wonderful way
to reach out to the community and answer
questions about our faith and to have folks
taste our wonderful ethnic food delicacies.
Throughout October and November, our
annual sale of Christmas wreaths takes place
with a couple of extraordinary sales people in
our community vying for Sales Person of the
Year! Olga Howe was this year's winner by
selling eighty (80) wreaths. This is by far our
easiest and most profitable fund raiser. Think
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Parish Council Action Items
A Pilgrim's Tale
also is the only icon in which the Holy
Theotokos is depicted as garbed in a white
robe. The second unique aspect of the Church
at Blachernae, of course, is the one relating to
the aforementioned Akathistos Hymn.
Our final destination this day was to the
Church of our Savior at Chora, known during
the Ottoman period as Kariye Camii, or “Chora
Mosque”, as the Church had been converted to
a mosque after the fall of Constantinople.
Since 1947, it has been a museum. The inside
of the Church at Chora is adorned with
unparalleled beautiful frescoes
and mosaics from the 14th century
depicting, among other things, the
Life of the Most Holy Theotokos,
the Life of our Lord God and
Savior Jesus Christ, and – perhaps
most famously – the Resurrection
of our Lord. The magnificent
fresco of the Resurrection in the
side Chapel of the Church of our
Savior is one of the most
breathtaking in the entire Church
at Chora. Full of power and
majesty, it remains one of the
most enduring icons of our Faith.
The following day, we would
visit the magnificent Hagia
Sophia, the Byzantine cistern, and
the Grand Bazaar. In the evening
we would fly to Kayseri (ancient Cæsarea), in
Cappadocia. After a busy first day in
Constantinople, we were eager to see what lay
ahead of us.
(To be continued…)
Monastery Caskets
Words of Wisdom
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Church, the first being that the icon of the
Panaghia Vlachernon is written as a full body
icon without Christ being depicted. This icon
Fund Raising Update
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workers who do not attend our regular fund
raisers.
Last December our Christmas Open House
was an overwhelming success — surpassing
our previous Open Houses in both attendance
and sales! So many people commented on our
food and bought frozen take-out; perhaps this
is the planting ofa seed for making, advertising
and selling some of our frozen ethnic
specialties throughout the year…
Our Spring Food Faire held on April 5th got
off to a quiet start, but picked up and we had a
steady stream of dedicated food purchasers
throughout the four hours of the event. This
was the first time our new oven and stand
mixer were used to prepare or bake food items!
In the next few months, classes will be held to
teach anyone interested how to prepare
Baklava, Vareniki, Dolma, Sarmale and
Piroshki.
I want to thank everyone who worked so
hard to prepare, set up, sell, and clean up
before, during, and after every event. All you
have to do is look inside our church at the
iconography that Heather paints to see where
your efforts are paying off. Blessings to you
all!
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St. Barbara Monastery in Santa Paula how
has beautiful caskets available.
The monastery’s
caskets are simple,
beautiful
and
prayerfully made.
Each casket is
crafted at the
monastery from
solid redwood, and
is hand oiled and
finished out by the sisters. Your purchase helps
to support the life of the monastery. $1580 to
1780.
Custom calligraphy of the Trisagion,
Scripture verse, or some other desired text is
available for an additional cost.
Other caskets, such as a simple pine casket,
may also be available depending on their
current stock.
Contact the monastery at 805.921.1563 or
[email protected]; please visit
www.stbarbaramonastery.org for additional
information.
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ,
all shall be made alive. -- 1 Corinthians 15:22
The bread you do not use is the
bread of the hungry. The garment
hanging in your wardrobe is the
garment of the person who is naked.
The shoes you do not wear are the
shoes of the one who is barefoot. The
money you keep locked away is the
money of the poor. The acts of
charity you do not perform are the
injustices you commit.
~ St. Basil the Great ~
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Tidings is published quarterly each year
and relies on parishioner contributions!
If you have any ideas for articles or
any questions that you would like Father
Lawrence to address in his column, a
suggestion box is in the narthex for your
convenience.
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