• Watch for the 2009 Liturgical Calendar available soon!
• The Women’s Guild has purchased a new freezer. Beginning today, Holupki (stuffed cabbage) will be available for $2.00 each and Kolcahi (nut, poppy and apricot rolls ) for $9.00 each. Contact a member of the Women’s Guild for more information. Take some home and try them. You will enjoy the homemade specialty items made by our women.
• Did You Know?? You can sign up to host a Sunday breakfast or to help with cleaning the church. Let one of the ladies of the Women’s Guild know what you would like to do. We need you!!
• Senior Moments will resume on Wednesday, October 29th at 1:30.
• Thank you to all who participated in the completion of the altar covering project. We now have all the appropriate colors donated and are in the process of making the coverings.
• The next Church Council Meeting is Tuesday, November 11 at 1:30 pm.
• There are many important items to discuss and as always the faithful of our community are invited and encouraged to attend. We are still in the process of bringing together ideas for renovation of our church please let us hear from you!
• The Women’s Guild has purchased a second case of The Orthodox Study Bibles – Old and New Testament for sale to interested parishioners. There are only one remaining so please contact a Women’s Guild member or Rachel Porcelli-Spanos for more information or see the order form on the greeting table if you would like a Bible.
• The Women’s Guild meets on the first Sunday of the month following coffee hour.

A Very Big Thank You to everyone who participated in the Russian/Ukrainian Dinner. Special thanks to those who planned, prepared and served the meal in such a professional and entertaining fashion and to everyone who helped in any way to make the dinner such a success including the seating
arrangements and cleaning of the church afterwards. Special thanks to all those who donated so generously of their time and money to once again make this dinner such a huge success and important
fund raiser for our community. The net profit on the dinner was $1,050.00!! We can look forward to another wonderful dinner next year!

• Watch for the 2009 Liturgical Calendar available soon!
• The Women’s Guild has purchased a new freezer to store various items such as holupki, poppy seed nut rolls and pascha used as fund raisers. Please join in their fund-raising efforts.
• Did You Know?? You can sign up to host a Sunday breakfast or to help with cleaning the church. Let one of the ladies of the Women’s Guild know what you would like to do. We need you!!
• Senior Moments will resume on Wednesday, October 29th at 1:30.
• Thank you to all who participated in the completion of the altar covering project. We now have all the appropriate colors donated and are in the process of making the coverings.
• The next Church Council Meeting is Tuesday, November 11 at 1:30 pm. There are many important items to discuss and as always the faithful of our community are invited and encouraged to attend. We are still in the process of bringing together ideas for renovation of our church please let us hear from you!
• The Women’s Guild has purchased a second case of The Orthodox Study Bibles – Old and New Testament for sale to interested parishioners. There are only one remaining so please contact a Women’s Guild member or Rachel Porcelli-Spanos for more information or see the order form on the greeting table if you would like a Bible.
• The Women’s Guild meets on the first Sunday of the month following coffee hour.

Several in our community are ill this week. Remember to send a message of prayer and support. Mary Konfederak, Lisa Holak (care of John and Loraine Holak), Mr. John Nicholas, Mrs. Anna Techansoff and Dimitri and Naomi Syros.

Many in our parish are laboring under great financial need and stress. These trying times give us all an opportunity to be a Good Samaritan. Recently, the Good Samaritan Fund has helped families purchase food, necessary medicine and other needful items of daily life. Please consider a donation to help the families of our parish survive this severe down turn in the economy. Our families need your help. Thank you all for your generosity. Your help at this time is very much appreciated by all who have been helped.

In 2007 the Church Council resolved to distribute the Missions and Charities collection to the Orthodox Orphanage in Guatemala (for the various needs of the resident Orphans), the Orthodox Project in Mexico City (for building one room dwellings for the poor), and to the Sarasota County Food Pantry which supplies the Venice area. In November of 2008 the Church Council will again determine how to disperse this year’s Missions and Charities collections. We look forward to any suggestions you may have with regard to the Missions and Charities dispersal for 2008.

It’s that time again – time for planning the Christmas Boutique. The Christmas Boutique is scheduled for Saturday, December 6th. Begin to think about what you can donate to the sale and we will be giving you more details as the sale date approaches.

Happy birthday wishes to Mr. Fred Marandiuk (October 25). Many, Many Years!

“Be free, and let God’s light shine. To be free of all things and enslaved by nothing we must act as someone living in a room cluttered by acquisitions of the past. Say: What don’t I need? What things are a nuisance? Take them and give them to God. Get rid of hindrances. But this must not be a chance to pride ourselves on our generosity, because we have merely given to God what belongs to the dustbin. Then as other things surface, we must give them to God until only the essentials remain. We must gradually acquire this mastery: to give without regret, daringly, with joy. But we can let go only if we do not fear annihilation. We must let go of our self-centeredness.” From: “This Holy Man, Impressions of Metropolitan Anthony” By Gillian Crow

• The Women’s Guild will have their next meeting on October 5th following coffee hour.
• Did You Know?? You can sign up to host a Sunday breakfast or to help with cleaning the church. Let one of the ladies of the Women’s Guild know what you would like to do. We need you!!
• Please make plans to attend “Senior Moments”. On October 1st we discussed “The Kingdom”. Please join us on Wednesday, October 8th at 1:30 pm for another stimulating discussion.
• Thank you to all who participated in the completion of the altar covering project. We now have all the appropriate colors donated and will be making the coverings in September/October.
• The next Church Council Meeting is Tuesday, October 7th at 1:30. There are many important items to discuss and as always the faithful of our community are invited and encouraged to attend. We are still in the process of bringing together ideas for renovation of our church please let us hear from you!
• The Women’s Guild has purchased a second case of The Orthodox Study Bibles – Old and New Testament for sale to interested parishioners. There are only two remaining so please contact a Women’s Guild member or Rachel Porcelli-Spanos for more information or see the order form on the greeting table if you would like a Bible.