Thanks to all volunteers who helped to beautify our church for the Nativity. Thanks to Elaine Burke and Olga DiSavino for leading.
December Outreach – Help Our Veterans
During December, with your help, the Outreach Team is supporting the Falmouth Veterans Council. They currently assist 42 veteran families. Your monetary donation would be appreciated by December 17 so we can deliver everything in time to The Falmouth Veterans Council for distribution! Please make your checks payable to St. Michael Outreach with the memo “veterans”.
May God bless you as we prepare the celebrate the birth of our Savior who requires us to help those in need!
If you would like to be on the Outreach Committee in planning these programs for 2024, please contact Soraya Bandeli sbandeli@comcast.net
Book Club
St Michael‘s will be starting a book club soon. The book we will be reading is “Pearl of Great Price” by Sergei Hackel.
Pearl of Great Price is the moving story of Mother Maria Skobtsova, a nun of the Orthodox Church, who was born into a Russian aristocratic home but who died a martyr’s death in one of Hitler’s concentration camps. In the intervening years, the vicissitudes of life led her through two marriages, childbirth and childrearing, and exile from her homeland until she became an unconventional nun, devoted to the service of the destitute and the despairing in Nazi-occupied France during WWII. Mother Maria was eventually consigned to Ravensbrück concentration camp because of her support of the Jews in Paris. There she continued to help those around her up until and even by means of her own death. Now canonized by the Orthodox Church as St Maria, she demonstrates how to love the image of God in each person, even when surrounded by hatred, undiluted evil, and brutality.
Please email Fr James, dnjamesirving@gmail.com, if you would like to join the book club. When we have a count of people we will order the book and get started.
Ecclesiastical Calendar 2024
It’s hard to believe it – but that time of year is here!! There is a new ecclesiastical calendar for 2024 at the back of the church. The suggested donation is $10 for each calendar. Due to the limited quantity, please only take one per family.
Thanks for your continued support of St Michael.
St. Michael Nativity Card 2023
This year, St. Michael Women will send out a Nativity Greeting to all our parish members. A portion of the proceeds of this year’s Nativity card will be going to the Clergy Widows Fund. These women who have dedicated their lives and their families to the church will always be our “Khourie” / “Presvitera” / “Matushka” – even after they suffer the loss of their priest-husbands. This fund will cover some of their needs for utilities, food, and shelter.
The order form for the Nativity Greeting has been mailed out. If you would like your name on the St. Michael Nativity Card, please complete the form and return it by December 17, 2023. Please donate to St. Michael Women and write ‘Nativity Card’ in the memo. We thank you for your continued generosity.
You can also download the Nativity Card 2023 Order Form.
Thanksgiving Meals for Independence House – Thank You!
Thanks to everyone for bringing your food donations on time! Thanks to the following helpers for packaging the food this past Sunday: Alex Stewart, Anthony Williams, Rick Bardine, Emilio & Tatiana Netto.
Joe Rahal and Soraya Bandeli delivered 15 Thanksgiving meals to Independence House in Hyannis on Monday Nov 20. This organization offers services to victims of domestic and sexual violence.
The Outreach team is grateful for your generosity in answering the call to helping those in need. May God continue to bless you!
