Sunday of Forefathers (Ancestors) of Christ
Prophet Daniel and the Three Holy Youths Ananias, Azarias and Mishael;
Dionysios of Zakynthos, the wonderworker
December 17, 2023 Bulletin
Outreach Committee Forming
Our January outreach project is being planned with scarves for the homeless, thanks for the efforts of Vicky Abodeely who has been knitting all year!
We need people to join our committee to help with the planning and execution of this and future projects. Please contact Macrina or Soraya if you are able to help!
Thank you for your commitment to St. Michael and for living our Christian Faith by being involved in outreach to the Cape Cod community.
Thank You for Beautifying Our Church for Nativity!
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.
