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ST. ANNMELKITEGREEKCATHOLICCHURCH41 Cross Rd, Waterford, CT06385
860-442-2211
Rt. Rev. Edward G. Kakaty
/ June 16-17, 2012 Pentecost 3 HAPPY FATHER’S DAY
Intentionsthisweekend: Sat 5pm:+Mary H Murray (44yrs) by Edward Weyant PRAY FOR PEACE & STABILITY IN SYRIA!
Sun10am:For all Fathers, with us or with God Special Collection for Syrian Relief Today
PHS Grads:Nataly Hage, DanielleLaFleur, Rafka Hage, CharlieLickwola, Elias Gharios
Intentions next weekend:
Sat 5pm:+Boutros Hajj (11yrs) by son Gaby & Joumana & Family
+Blanche McCracken (1yr) by her family
Sun 10am:PHS Those named John, Hanna, Jean, Jeanette on their name day
This WeekendSaturday: John Jalonski Sunday: Gerard Massad
Next WeekendSaturday: Rose LaFleur Sunday: Denise Brooks
200 club for May:$50 Mark FacasJr, 25 Bob Conley, 10 Louise Massad, Dee Porlidis, Helen Villani
Please give $50 membership to Mary Dib or Anna Sobanski by July 1 for new season 2012-2013
Cleanup Day Thanks to: Tim Brooks, Ray & Anna Sobanski, Dave & Rose LaFleur, Mary Dib, Gerard Massad, Gerry & Cathy Egan. Thanks to Joe & Roberta Zizik for mowing the lawn.
July 5-8: 48th Melkite Convention, Dearborn, MI Deadline June 19 for $99 rooms & $260 Tickets
Sept 9: Annual Mahrajan/festival on ST ANN CHURCH GROUNDS. No more humidity/rain of July 25th!
Ful Donors since Oct. gave $100: Louise Massad, Marie Antipoff, Bechara El Khouri, Jeannette Massad, Sheila Burke, Ed Najim, Catherine Yost, MaryDib, Patrick Moukawsher, Barb Facas, Takla Hage, Jerry Villani,Bob Conley, Elias Gharios (250), Helen Popa (150), Frank Kozmon (650), Carol Shasha (200), Georges Haddad(600), Gaby Hajj (150), Jack Hage (250), anon (300), Joe Doro(300).
Congrats to college & highschool grads: Nataly Hage, Eastern CTState University and Danielle LaFleur, UConn Storrs, (both Registered nurses), Rafka Hage & Charles Lickwola, Waterford High, Elias Gharios, Stonington High School
Congrats to Fr John Azar, newVocations Director, appointed by Bishop Nicholas, replacing Fr Philip Raczka. The Melkite church needs a few good MEN IN BLACK! Call Fr John Azar (404)373-9522, or tell Fr Ed.
Bringbabybottlesfilled with change for mothers who chose life and kept their babies!
Congrats to Rita & Will Harper, blessed with Bryelle Madison, 6/14. Look forward to her churching/christening!
Welcome new parishioners: Dr John & Jenine Dorunda, Madison, Bryce, & Jonathan
Welcome new Barn occupant: Jeremy Seidel, who does remodeling, landscaping, snow removal
FYI: Profile News and new Sophia magazine have coverage of Fr Ed’s 40th anniversary, but not in The Day!
Second Antiphon,Resurrection: pg 68 , St Ann: pg 19,Kondakion: pg 20
Prokimenon:
Reader: My strength and my courage is the Lord, and He has been my Savior.
People: My strength and my courage is the Lord, and He has been my Savior.
Reader: The Lord has chastised me through His teaching, yet He has not delivered me to death.
People: My strength and my courage is the Lord, and He has been my Savior.
Reader: My strength and my courage is the Lord,
People: and He has been my Savior.
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Celebrate Your Dad...with these meaningful quotes, sayings and short poems...
• 'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness." – Aeschylus
• "Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are." -- Louisa May Alcott
• "I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well." -- Alexander the Great
• "Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did." – Anonymous
• "A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again." -- Enid Bagnold
• "If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right." -- Bill Cosby
• "A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station." -- Bill Cosby
• "Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, Who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, And joined in thy innocent glee." -- Margaret Courtney
• "I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week." -- Mario Cuomo
• "I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example." -- Mario Cuomo
• "My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it." -- Clarence Budington Kelland
• "My father told me that all businessmen were sons-of-bitches, but I never believed him until now." -- John F. Kennedy
• "My father said, 'Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?'" -- Dexter Scott King
• "His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path." -- Stephen King
• "When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.'" -- Jerry Lewis
• "I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be." -- Abraham Lincoln
• "Honor thy father and thy mother." -- Matthew 19:19
• "None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of such a Father who has not his equal in this world - so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal." -- Queen Victoria of England / • "My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.' " -- Jim Fox
• "The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat." -- Robert Frost
• "You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular." -- Robert Frost
• "A father is a banker provided by nature." -- French Proverb
• "I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection." -- Sigmund Freud
• "Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad." -- Anne Geddes
• "Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers - and fathering is a very important stage in their development." -- David M. Gottesman
• "If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement." -- Antonio Gramsci
• "When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, 'She's more beautiful than the BrooklynBridge.'" -- Helen Hayes
• "One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." -- George Herbert
• "If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time." -- Russell Hoban
• "For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers." – Homer
• "My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it." -- Natasha Josefowitz
• "The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan." -- Garrison Keillor
• "My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it." -- Abraham Lincoln
• "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." -- Friedrich Nietzche
• "Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards." -- Robert Orben
• "People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls; poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad." -- Carroll O'Connor
• "A wise son maketh a glad father." -- Proverbs 10:1
• "The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find Someone chock full of qualms and romantic terrors, Believing change is a threat Like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle It took such months to get." -- Phyllis McGinley