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St. Nicholas Orthodox Church Monthly Parish Bulletin St. Nicholas Orthodox Church Monthly Parish Bulletin Orthodox Church in America 2143 S. Center Road – Burton, Michigan 48519 Served by: Fr. Matthew-Peter Butrie – Rector Deacon Kerry Luke Gonser Email: [email protected] Website: www.saintnicholasburton.org Fr. Matthew’s Email: [email protected] Home: 810-695-2023 Church: 810-744-0070 Fax: 810-744-4880 Services: Sunday - 9:30 a.m. Third Hour 10:00 a.m. Divine Liturgy Holydays, Vigil and Vespers as announced Confessions are heard before all morning services and after all evening services. “But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit; keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.” St. Jude: 20________________________ JANUARY 1 – 31, 2012 Bulgarian Diocese of Toledo Orthodox Church in America Chancery: 286 E. Woodsdale Avenue, Akron, OH 44301 (330) 724-7009 December 15, 2011 To the Beloved Clergy, Monastics and Faithful of the Bulgarian Diocese The Bulgarian Diocese will be celebrating the consecration and installation of Bishop-Elect Alexander (Golitzin) as our new diocesan hierarch on the weekend of Friday, May 4, to Sunday, May 6, 2012, at St. George Cathedral in Rossford, OH. On the evening of Friday, May 4, Bishop-Elect Alexander will make his profession of faith in preparation for his consecration. Saturday morning, May 5, he will be consecrated bishop at a Hierarchical Divine Liturgy celebrated by His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah, and other members of the OCA Holy Synod of Bishops. A consecration banquet will follow this Liturgy on Saturday afternoon. At the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy on Sunday, May 6, our newly- consecrated Bishop Alexander will be officially installed as Bishop of Toledo and the Bulgarian Diocese. Those of our diocesan clergy and faithful who wish to take part in this historic event may book hotel rooms that weekend at the Holiday Inn French Quarter, 10630 Fremont Pike, in Perrysburg, OH. A short drive from St. George Cathedral, the hotel is offering a special room rate of $89.00 per night. To book a room at this rate, please call the hotel at (888) 874-2592 and ask for the rate for the Bulgarian Diocese. You can also make your booking online at www.hifq.com; the group code for the special room rate is BDO. The hotel has a shuttle service to and from Toledo Express Airport. If you would like to use the shuttle, you will need to inform the hotel's reservation department when booking your room. Please note that if you are arriving at another airport, you will need to make your own arrangements to get to the hotel. On behalf of our Spiritual Council, I am also taking this opportunity to inform you that the diocese will be purchasing Bishop-elect Alexander's vestments and MITRE for his consecration, as our gift to him in recognition of this joyous event. The total cost of the vestments and MITRE will be approximately $3000.00. We are encouraging each of our parishes to make a special donation to the diocese of $200.00 in honor of our new bishop to help cover these costs. We thank you, in advance, for helping the diocese purchase this gift for our new bishop. We also want to make you aware that, in addition to the vestments and MITRE for Fr. Alexander's consecration, several other items are required for our new bishop. These items include: a set of purple vestments (approximate cost $1,500.00); a purple MITRE (approximate cost $1,500.00); a pastoral staff (approximate cost $500.00), and the monastic hat and veil called the klobuk (approximate cost $150.00). If your parish or individual parishioners are interested in making donations to purchase any of these items, please contact me directly to make arrangements. More information on Bishop-Elect Alexander’s consecration and installation, including service times and further details about the Saturday banquet, will be announced as it becomes available. We are hoping to see as many of our diocesan clergy and faithful as possible at this joyous celebration. If you have any questions concerning the consecration weekend, please do not hesitate to contact me by phone at (260) 484-2277 or by email at [email protected]. In Christ, Archpriest Andrew Jarmus Consecration Committee Chair THEOPHANY BANQUET Our traditional outdoor blessing of water and Theophany Banquet will take place on Sunday, January 8, 2011. The banquet will consist of lamb or chicken, rice, vegetables, salad and dessert. The cost for the meal is $10 for adults and $5 for children. Readers Schedule January February March 1 Eli 5 Esteban 4 Kathy 8 Shari 12 Eli 11 Eli 15 Esteban 19 Kathy 18 Johnny 22 Kathy 26 Johnny 25 Esteban 29 Johnny The Orthodox Book Club meets on Monday, January 9 at 6:00 at St. George Church. We will be reading Father Roman Braga’s “The Inner Universe”. For more information contact Deacon Michael Bassett / [email protected] / 989-725-2753 The Parish Council will meet on Monday, January 9 at 6:45 pm. Please call the parish office if you are unable to attend this meeting. ST. CATHERINE’S WOMEN’S LEAGUE There will be no meeting this month, instead we will have our annual dinner out. Join us at Lucky’s (Davison) on Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 5:30pm. Please see Rosemary Vuckovich or Roseanne Bagale for you reservation. HOUSE BLESSINGS Begin on January 9. See the enclosed flyer to set up your appointment. MANY THANKS Cookie Walk Thank you to everyone that helped with the Cookie Walk. Thank you to everyone that baked their wonderful cookies you helped make the Cookie Walk a great success. Outdoor Nativity Donkey, Ox and 2 Lambs for the outdoor nativity, were donated in memory of Chris (8yrs) and Mildred (18yrs) Aleksoff by Christine and Angelo Panoff. VISITATIONS TO THE SICK Please inform Fr. Matthew about any sick members of our parish. Please remember that most hospitals do not inform parishes about the sick. Father Matthew brings Holy Communion every week. If you would like to be added to his scheduled visits, please call the office. Remember that we pray for all the sick at every Divine Liturgy. SAVE THE DATE Mark your calendars for Saturday, May 26, 2012. Father Joseph Abud will be celebrating his 25th Anniversary in the Priesthood. St. George will be celebrating with Vespers on Saturday evening followed by a banquet. We will pass along more information to you as it becomes available to us. CHRISTMAS BASKET RAFFLE Congratulations to all of our winners. Thank you to everyone who purchased tickets you helped raise $562.00 for the Church School children’s summer trip. A special thank you to Anna Branoff, Diane Todorovsky, Rosemary Vuckovich, Dorothy Goodman, Gloria Zelenko, Barbara Brown, Roseanne Bagale & Sharon Jernigan for donating the wonderful baskets for the raffle. Coffee Hour Volunteers January 1: January 8: Theophany Banquet January 15: 40 day Parastas +Walter Borkovich January 22: 40 day Parastas +Domna Panagiotopolous January 29: Annual Meeting – sloppy joe luncheon PARISH PRIDE – A NEW BOILER SYSTEM This new system will cost between $ 35,000 and $ 40,000. The new system is a high efficiency system that will help reduce our winter heating bill dramatically. There is $15,000.00 in the Parish Pride fund for this project. We need $25,000.00 to complete the project. If you would like to donate toward the cost of the new system please see Debbie. MEMORY ETERNAL +Walter Borkovich, husband of Allison Borkovich, fell asleep in the Lord on Friday, December 9. Viewing and Parastas were at St. Nicholas Church on Sunday, December 11 with the funeral at church on Monday, December 12 followed by interment at Evergreen Cemetery. May God grant His servant +Walter blessed repose and eternal memory. +Domna (Batzos) Panagiotopolous, mother of, Helen Popoff, Olympia Meskos and Tom Batzos, fell asleep in the Lord on Monday, December 19, 2011. Funeral services were held in Church on Friday, December 23, 2011 followed by interment at Evergreen Cemetery. May God grant his handmaiden +Domna blessed repose and eternal memory. MANY YEARS James Hart and Kristin (Borkovich) Krug were crowned in Holy Matrimony on Saturday, December 17, 2011. May God grant them many and blessed years in peace, health and salvation! THEOPHANY 2012 We are in need of donors for the doves (4) for the blessing of water at Theophany. Please see Debbie is you are interested Choir Rehearsal Schedule in donating one or all of the doves. January 8 FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE We are looking for five January 15 volunteers from the parish to serve on a committee to list and evaluate other options for fundraisers throughout the year. January 22 If you are interested in being a part of this committee, please January 29 see Mike Stikovich. All Rehearsals are at 5:30pm or 2012 OFFERING ENVELOPES Offering envelopes are in the parish hall for you to pick up. following the 4:30 Vespers Please take those for your family members. If you do not see All rehearsals are subject to change envelopes with your name on them and did not request not to if needed. receive envelopes please see Debbie so that she can get Please call me on my cell phone if offering envelopes for you. you cannot attend at 586-665-0550. 2012 CALENDARS Thanks! Joseph Tome 2012 Church calendars have arrived. The calendars are in the rear of the church. Please, only one per family. MERRY CHRISTMAS Emil & Mary Harrison would like to wish their parish family & friends a very Merry Christmas & a Happy & Healthy New Year.
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