41 Cross Rd, Waterford, CT06385
860-442-2211
Rt. Rev. Edward G. Kakaty
/ Sept. 22-23,2012
1st Sunday after the Cross
Intentions this weekend:
Sat. 5pm: PHS Mahrajan Committee Conception of St John the Baptist
Sun 10am: +Philip & Ruth Simon Jr by their family
Intentions Next Weekend: PRAY FOR PEACE & STABILITY IN SYRIA!
Sat 5pm: +George Solweyko (1yr) by wife Mary & Family
Sun 10am : +Julia Massad (10yrs) by sister Helen Villani & Family
This Weekend:Saturday ; John Jalonski Sunday: Denise Brooks
Next Weekend:Saturday: Rose LaFleur Sunday: Gerard Massad Fr Ed has served St Ann
Sept 15 19 gave 515 Additional Syrian Relief $100 10 years since 9/6/02
Sept 16 63 747
Please give $50 membership to Mary Dib or Anna Sobanski by Oct. 1 for new season of the 200 club.
Congrats to July winners: $50 Faouzi Hage,$25 Charles Lickwola, $10 Elias Hage, Mary Dib, Gerry Egan. Thanks to Jeremy Seidel for mowing the LAWN again. He uses our barn and also plows and does remodeling.
Oct 6 : 8pm-2am Shadi Jamil Concert @St BasilCenter, RI Georgeanna Deckey 401-723-3997 $60,70,85.
Oct 12-14 Bazaar @ Annunciation Cathedral, Boston : Arabic food, white elephant, raffles, etc. 617-323-5242.
Oct 11-14: Eastern Catholic Encounter @ St Mary Church, Hillsborough, NJ Let’s share a bus with Boston, RI
Suggested Donations for Church Services: Churching baby: $25, Christening: $200, Wedding: $300, Funeral: $200, Memorial: $30, Commemoration @ Liturgy: $15, Certificates: $20, Hall usage: $100 for those who gave $1500 to building fund, $100 Mercy meal, $200 active parishioners, $300 all others, $25 kitchen use extra. Hall is to be left clean, including restrooms, mopped, garbage taken away. Deposit of $100 non-refundable. Special insurance of $100 check to be paid with deposit that goes to Diocese of Newton. Parents must attend preparation class with Fr Ed before baptism of first baby only. Saint’s names are preferred for the baby to have a patron. Donations to the priest are not included and are optional. We are in the red & need to give more. We owe the diocese $21,558, property insurance $1500.
The sanctuary Lamp is lit in September by Albert & Jamal Doro for the good health of their family.
ChurchSchool classes will be @3:45-4:45pm every other Sat. Please register with Fr Ed /Joumana Hajj ASAP
We had a meet and greet class Sept 22 to get organized. Anyone who wants to teach or assist-tell Fr Ed
CONDOLENCES to the families of +Albert Sitty and +Philip Simon, Jr who passed to their eternal rewards on Sept 8 & 10. Philip was interred in Jordan Cemetery Thurs at 11 AM, Fr Ed did the service there.
The church received donation of $100 in his memory. His 40 day memorial service is Oct 20 @ 10am.
Thanks to Yost Home Improvement for donating & installing a heavy-duty downspout for our gutter system!
Next Sunday is the end of the FiscalChurch Year. We will be accepting new donations for fuel for the next year. We just filled the oil for the rectory and meeting room for $772. We appreciate the many people who give generously to keep our little church alive and we hope that everyone would do their share!
Our Mahrajan.Festival was a success, thanks to a few people who did an enormous amount of work: Gerry Egan, Joumana Hajj, Alia Hage, Fr Ed, Cathy Egan, Mary Dib, Lily Suntup, our neighbors, Jack Hage, Gerard Massad, Gloria Massad, Faouzi Hage, Samira Hajj, Tim & Denise Brooks, Melany Brooks, Mindy Hajj, LIna & Danielle Hajj, Lucy Meseha, Michael Smith, Ray & Anna Sobanski, Chris Massad, Katia Hage. Thanks to our guests from far & near, Honorary Consul of Lebanon Ibrahim Hanna, Fr Fares El Kleifat, Deacon Dennis Mc Carthy, Fr Simones, many from Worcester, Manchester, NH, Westerly, RI, etc
Thank God for the most beautiful weather, we were able to sit and eat outdoors, dance, enjoy the moon walk,
Face-painting, smoke hookahs, listen to the delightful voice and music of Nader Hawa and meet new friends. We netted a profit of $1200. Once again, we had food left because we anticipated that more people would attend ! Donation of money were appreciated from: Elias Gharios,100, Gerry Egan 100, Jack Hage 80, Nader Hawa, 80 James Sahady 50,Joe Doro 40,Gaby Hajj 30, Ramzi Awad 30, Catherine Yost 25,Halim Hage 25, Ron Abraham 25, Fr Simones, 20, John Jeffords 20. Thanks to Hannoush Jewelers, Chowder Pot, Maria Monenvasitis, Lina Hajj for raffle prizes, Coca Cola for 15 cases of soda, women who brought dessert, watermelons.
Dear Fr. Ed,
Thank you for the wonderful Mahrajan that you offered to the community. I t was a good decision to move it to this time of year. Your location is perfect to expand such an event. The Arabic people have great traditions and food to offer to the American people and I think that St. Ann’s will be able to take in a lot of money that is missing today by expanding on what you have there. I feel so bad that the church needs so many repairs and does not have the money to make them.
God bless,
Fr. Constantine J. Simones
Congratulations to the Coptic Orthodox community who have purchased a buiding and large property at 114 Dayton Rd, Waterford to be converted to a church for their worship. They have been praying here for 3 years. We wish them well and God’s blessings in all their endeavors. They will elect a new pope soon.
TODAY’S DIVINE LITURGY OF ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
Third Antiphon, Reurrection Troparion pg 74, Troparion (below), St Ann pg 19, Kondakion pg 20
Conception of StJohn the Baptist: Joy to you, O barren one unable to give birth! Behold, you conceive today the one who is really a Torch of the Sun, who will enlighten the whole world that suffered from blindness. Rejoice, O Zachary, and cry out with all confidence: “The One who will be born is a Prophet of the Most High!”
PROKIMENON:
Reader: The just shall rejoice in the Lord and place his hope in Him. All those with an upright heart shall be praised.
People: The just shall rejoice in the Lord and place his hope in Him. All those with an upright heart shall be praised/
Reader: O God, hear my voice when I pray to You; save my life from the dreadful enemy.
People: The just shall rejoice in the Lord and place his hope in Him. All those with an upright heart shall be praised.
Reader: The just shall rejoice in the Lord and place his hope in Him.
People: All those with an upright heart shall be pr aised.