Jan
15
1:00 PM13:00

Graveside Visit/Prayers

We will depart St John immediately following Fellowship Hour.

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Turn left at flags (sundial will be on your left), then veer to the right, pass headstones for Young, Ward, Sheehan (facing East)—Irene’s headstone is facing West between Eisenhower & Hon The Ma

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Dec
11
1:00 PM13:00

Visit Gravesite of Nadja and Nikolaus Onjanow

These are beloved parishioners and the parents of Michael Onjanow and Vera Poe. We will bless their graves and pray the prayers of the departed for them and see pictures of them and hear memories of them shared by their children and other parishioners who knew them.

Thermoses of Christmas Tea and cookies will be provided. We hope you will join us. We will depart for Liberty Hill immediately following the choir singing that signifies the end of coffee hour.

The address of the Liberty Hill Cemetery is:
16101 TX-29, Liberty Hill, TX 78642.

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Dec
4
11:30 AM11:30

Preparing for the Most Important Journey

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For all who are interested, Myrrhbearers will be on hand to handout, witness, notarize, and copy the legal forms required for St John to take possession of one’s body in order for the Myrrhbearers to prepare it for burial in the ancient way of washing and preparing one who has reposed.

In addition, the Myrrhbearers will have information available regarding plots at the Orthodox section at the Cedar Park cemetery.

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Feb
26
9:00 AM09:00

Saturday of Souls

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On this day, Soul Saturday, according to the order instituted by our Holy Fathers, we call to remembrance all those who have died from the beginning of the ages in faith and in the hope of the resurrection and of life eternal.

The present commemoration of the dead is based on the reality that many of our fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters died under such circumstances that funeral prayers and normal memorial services could not be offered for them. Either in a foreign land or on the seas, on impassable mountains or in gulfs or precipices, through starvation or diseases, in wars, in fires, or during earthquakes, and in so many other ways, perhaps in poverty or in need, our known and unknown brothers and sisters in Christ did not enjoy the chanting and necessary spiritual care. Therefore, our Holy Fathers, moved by their love for humanity, appointed the present celebration to take place in the Church everywhere, having received this from the Holy Apostles, so that all who have died through various mishaps or accidents may be remembered together, for the benefit of their souls. There is great profit to the soul from these memorials in the Church. This is the first reason.

The second reason is that since the Holy Fathers were going to place the memory of Christ’s Second Coming on the following day, Sunday, they appropriately commemorate the souls today, as it were, propitiating the fearful Judge, who cannot be deceived, to apply His usual compassion and to appoint them to the promised delight.

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