Father Gapon: the Time and Talents Through Your Singing and Love Rehearsals Can Help Singers Maintain Good Workingman’S Priest of Music
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IN THIS “SING PRAISES TO OUR GOD, SING PRAISES! ISSUE SING PRAISES TO OUR KING, SING PRAISES!” (Psalm 47:6) 1 pastoral message BY FR. JOHN MEMORICH As individuals, God blesses each of us with Church’s Music Ministry. 2 from the president a voice in the hopes that we will use this • The gratification that, as part of the choir, precious gift to join with the angelic choirs you are helping to make our services 3 Faces of the parish and continually give glory, honor, praise and beautiful and well pleasing unto God. thanksgiving unto our Lord. • That benefit of knowing that you are helping others to pray and give glory to 4-6 PARISH NEWS Although we are instructed to sing and pray God. daily, “I will bless the Lord at all times; his • Good physical health, for singing involves 7 PARISH YOUTH UPDATE praise shall continually be in my mouth” extensive use of the lungs and helps (Psalm 34:1), when we gather together as the increase their capacity. community of believers and the people of • With guidance from the director in the 8 BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES God, we are encouraged to “Praise God in proper way to sing and the development his sanctuary” (Psalm 150:1) and to, “Sing of your musical voice, he will help you to 9 MONTHLY CALENDAR His praises in the assembly of the faithful” utilize this gift to the greater glory to God. (Psalm 149:1). • Singing in the choir provides better understanding of the liturgy, its music, 10-11 Stewardship An excellent way of accomplishing this is to hymnography, and rubrics. join our choir family and “give back” your • The disciplines of attending services and 12 Father gapon: the time and talents through your singing and love rehearsals can help singers maintain good workingman’s priest of music. memory and have better concentration. • Singing in the choir awakens a passion Singing in the choir has many advantages. for liturgical worship. It increases our HEALTH HINT: washing 14 By attending services and rehearsals you will appreciation and understanding of the hands receive in return: biblical texts and hymns of the Church, as well as the theology that lies therein. • That “good feeling” that you are offering • Singing bolsters and adds to the beauty yourself to God and being a “Good and meaning to our relationship with Steward” with what He has blessed you Christ. with. • The sense of satisfaction and fulfillment Remember the Old Russian Proverb: “When by participating fully in liturgical worship. you sing in the choir, you pray twice!” • The knowledge that you are a part of the Volume 21 Issue 1 • JANUARY 2019 from the president I hope your December was warm and full of holiday spirit. Truly a fantastic time of year to celebrate with friends and family both spiritually and temporally. Your church board is making fantastic progress every month. I would like to summarize what your church board have worked on these past few months Archangel Michael in no specific order. If you have any thoughts or questions on these subjects, please do not Orthodox Church hesitate to ask any of your church board members. 5025 East Mill Road Broadview Heights, OH 44147 1. Sunday School administration and survey Office: 440.526.5192 2. Cost Savings Committee [email protected] 3. Woodside director hiring and transition www.StMichaelsCleveland.org 4. EPA fine 5. Stewardship/pledge letter to parishioners Woodside Event Center 6. Better use of technology and social media at St. Michael’s 7. Highland Cemetery plot sales Offce: 440.526.9696 8. His Grace Bishop Paul’s visit [email protected] 9. St Michael’s Banquet www.WoodsideEventCenter.com 10. Bingo 11. Transition from old board to new board Metropolitan Tikhon 12. CMCT (e.g., maintenance) Primate, Orthodox Church in America 13. Transparency in communicating church board functions Bishop Paul 14. Choir Director permanent hiring Bishop of Chicago & 15. 2019 budget preparation Diocese of the Midwest 16. Scholarship and Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) programs 17. Fundraising ideas V. Rev. Fr. John Memorich 18. Donations to charities Rector 19. Pre-Teen planning Home: 216.524.9795 20. Monthly Pastor’s report [email protected] 21. Monthly Financial report Deacon Daniel Kovalak 22. Protodeacon Dennis and Matushka Helen Lucak’s funeral 23. Church unity efforts Ryun Louie 24. Listening to parish voices Parish Council President Joachim Wyslutsky I hope your new year is full of peace, love and joy. I look forward to working hard this new Choir Director year to help our great parish flourish in 2019!!! God bless you all. [email protected] In Christ, Stephan Kovalak & Pat Hanchuk Ryun E. Louie Co-Superintendents, Church School Greg Mindala Hall Board President Tim Kormos Bingo Committee Chairman Phil Tesar Archangel Editor Cell: 216.210.9825 [email protected] Joan Benny, Helen Gaborick, & Patricia Patrick, labeling /StMichaelsCLE 2 The Archangel FACES OF THE PARISH GETTING TO KNOW YOUR FELLOW PARISHIONERS SEMINARIAN MATTHEW McDONALD & FAMILY Through the FOCA (Fellowship of Orthodox Christians in America) Seminarian Support Program, Archangel Michael Parish has adopted the McDonald family, currently at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary. The FOCA works with the administration at our seminaries to identify families who are in financial need. The FOCA connects these families with churches, organizations and individuals who volunteer to commit a set amount of monthly financial support. Depending on the need and as each family’s needs are met, the family next on the list is matched with remaining donors. This is one example of the FOCA’s commitment to our seminaries and the growth of the Orthodox Church. If you are interested in becoming a donor or learning more about the FOCA, please contact Becky Tesar at bjtesar@ gmail.com or talk to her after church. Hello, Archangel Michael family! My name is Matthew and I’m a first-year seminarian at St. Tikhon’s. My wife Christine and I have two children, a 10-year old girl, Abigail, and a five-year old boy, Aidan. My wife and I both converted to Orthodoxy 13 years ago shortly after we were married. Before coming to St. Tikhon’s, we attended St. Thomas the Apostle in Springfield, MO. While in Missouri, my wife worked as a Special Education teacher for middle school, and I worked as a specialized foster care case manager. Feeling a call to serve the Church, Christine and I decided last year that it was time to go to seminary. At St. Tikhon’s, my wife and I stay pretty involved. Christine sings in the mixed choir and takes classes with Benedict Sheehan on advanced music and conducting. I help teach the church school for teenagers. Thank you so much for your support! We are looking for both new and longtime parishioners to volunteer to be featured in our FACES OF THE PARISH section. Our main objective is not only to introduce new families to the parish, but to introduce our longtime members to our new families. Please contact the church office at [email protected] to volunteer! from the parish archives... St. Michael’s celebrated Christmas on January 7th following the old Julian calendar for many years. We began celebrating Christmas on December 25th in 1982 when the Orthodox Church in America officially changed to the revised Julian calendar. Though many Orthodox in the United States have made the switch, former Soviet Union, Middle Eastern Churches and several European countries tend towards the “old calendar”. Here in Cleveland, the Ukranian Orthodox and Serbian Orthodox still celebrate on January 7. The one feast day that is celebrated on the same day by all Orthodox Christians is Pascha, or Easter. JANUARY 2019 3 PARISH NEWS PHOTOS FROM THE ANNUAL SUNDAY SCHOOL YOLKA (Musarra Family) Mike, Erin, Rowan, Gianna, Brooke (Kirsh Family) Ted, Kate, Erika, Lindsey, Max, Heidi, Benjamin (Herzak Family) Mickey, Lara, Charlie, Dan, Paula, MJ, Mary PHOTOS FROM THE samaritan’s cookie project visit our parish website for more photo galleries and more pictures! 4 The Archangel PARISH NEWS AROUND THE PARISH 2019 Book CLub We are excited to announce our meeting dates for 2019, as well as the titles: THEOPHANY On Sunday, January 6, we will celebrate January 18, 2019 ...........................................................The Orchid Theif by Susan Orlean Theophany with the blessing of water. March 15, 2019 ................................... The 5 People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom Please remember to bring something to take May 10, 2019 ..................................................................... The Witch Elm by Tana French Holy Water with you. We do have some July 19, 2019 ........................ The President is Missing by James Patterson & Bill Clinton water bottles for sale at the candle desk and September 20, 2019 ........................................................Marie Curie and Her Daughters: Bookstore. The Private Lives of Science’s First Family by Shelly Emling November 15, 2019 ........................................One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus THANK YOU A number of “Thank You’s” are in order following our 2018 holiday season. Many TUITION ASSISTANCE APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE of you gave in a variety of ways, but we The new 2019 TAP application is available now on the church website. Completed whould like to escpecially thank those who: applications are due to Larissa Young by January 31st, 2019. All you need to turn in right • donated to our St. Herman’s House food now is the application. Grades and tuition bills are due at a later date. Any questions, drive. please see Larissa Young. • donated to the Sunday School’s collection of baby & child items for Zoe House. • baked, packaged or delivered cookies to our shut-ins. BOOKSTORE: GIFT ITEMs • called or visited a number of our shut-ins GIFTS FOR ALL OCCASSIONS this year.