Category: News
St. Michael Mail Buddies
Do you like writing letters? Do you enjoy receiving letters? Are you interested in getting to know a member of our Saint Michael family who was born a few decades apart from you? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, send your name and (snail) mailing address to Kh. Alyssa, and she will send you the name and (snail) mailing address of your St. Michael Mail Buddy. What an amazing opportunity to get to know and build a relationship with another member of our parish!
Thanksgiving Meals 2020
Once again, we have the opportunity to provide Thanksgiving meals to struggling families who are served by Faith Family Kitchen in Hyannis. Kh. Alyssa will be collecting money to purchase the meals, and we will be delivering the meals to Faith on the evening of Thursday 11/19. Thank you, in advance, for your generosity!
Thanksgiving meal checks should be made out to St. Michael with “Thanksgiving Meals” in the memo. Please mail checks to:
Kh. Alyssa Kjendal
PO Box 46
Sagamore, MA 02561
St.Michael Newsletter, September 2020
Content
| A message from Fr. Ben | Pg. 2 |
| Outreach | Pg. 3 |
| Stewardship Envelope System | Pg. 3 |
| Holy Week 2020 | Pg. 4 |
| From the Parish Council | Pg. 6 |
| Reading the Psalms | Pg. 6 |
| Recipe Box | Pg. 7 |
| Getting to know you… Alyssa Kjendal | Pg. 8 |
| From Women’s Group | Cover |
Cookbook Committee is Looking for Testers
The cookbook committee is still collecting recipes throughout the summer! Thank you for all that have already sent in their recipes and memories.
We are now looking for recipe testers. Please contact Soraya if you are able to test the recipes for us. This is a very important part of the process and your time and efforts are greatly appreciated.
Click here for the Recipe form.
With much love and thanks to you all,
Your Cookbook committee:
Linda Davis spiker383@gmail.com
Elaine Burke emacburke@gmail.com
Soraya Bandeli sbandeli@comcast.net
St. Michael International Cookbook Project
We hope everyone is doing well through this pandemic and finding comfort in Faith, Family, Friends and Food!! Speaking of food… the Women of the Church started thinking about its next project. We are very excited about this and hope you will be, too…
Our parish is very fortunate to have the BEST cooks, bakers and chefs around and we would like them to share their recipes and memories about them in a St. Michael International Cookbook. Everyone can contribute, young and old, men/women/children, amateur cooks and kitchen veterans! Our plan is to have our cookbook ready this fall, preceding the Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays.
There are lots of categories to which you can contribute, with some dishes falling into more than one category. Feel free to submit as many recipes as you like. Remember that variety is the spice of life! Please also let us know if there is a dish you would like included, but do not make yourself.
Perhaps consider including a memory about your recipe(s) if you have any (for example, making it with your grandmother or your children). Sharing artwork or photos would also be welcome. Consider this a love letter to our heritage, our families, and our experiences. Your memories and comments will make that possible. We can help you with the process if you need it.
Categories for your submissions are:
- Religious – example: Holy Bread; Memorial Wheat (Koliva)
- Appetizers
- Soups/Salads
- Main Dishes
- Side Dishes
- Lenten Dishes
- Kids’ Corner
- Pastries/Desserts
- Breakfast
Please, download the Recipe form, complete the form on your computer (without printing) and sent back to us with your recipe and information. This will minimize having to re-type and will help with editing formats. You can just email your recipe as well. If you have any questions or need some assistance, please contact us.
The deadline to submit the completed form is the end of summer.
With much love and thanks to you all,
Your Cookbook committee:
Linda Davis mailto:spiker383@gmail.com, Elaine Burke emacburke@gmail.com, Soraya Bandeli sbandeli@comcast.net
Updated COVID-19 policy from the Archdiocese
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
Christ is in our midst!
Our Lenten season is a time of renewed focus on prayer and repentance, as well as acts of love towards God and each other. We are normally sustained in this by a more active participation in the services and life of the Church.
Attached, find (and please read) the directive from our Metropolitan Joseph regarding actions each of our parishes will be taking during this time to help slow down the spread of COVID-19 (flatten the curve). Our service schedule on Fridays for Little Compline with the Akathist hymn and on Sundays for Orthros and Liturgy will remain the same, though we are asked to not have more than 10 people in the church at a time. I will be there on March 18 at 6:30, as well.
As our time together becomes limited due to the request to limit gatherings to 10 or fewer people, I encourage each of you to increase your time in prayer at home. Do not let this be a time where you take consolation in binge watching episodes of your favorite TV program or movie series! Rather spend more time reading the Scriptures, spiritual books (if you need suggestions, please send me an email), and praying (as a family if God has put you in such a situation). There are additional resources for the services appropriate for you to pray at home on the archdiocesan website. In addition to this, please consider how you can help your neighbors. There are many on Cape Cod and in our parish who can not or should not be spending much time outside of their homes due to the virus. Call them. Bring them food. Send them letters. Pray for them.
May we respond to this pandemic not with fear or outrage (at those around us or at God), but rather may we respond in repentance to God, reflecting on our sinfulness and knowing God’s mercy and love for each of us. May we turn our hearts and our minds to Christ, that we might be united to Him in our thoughts, words, and actions. I will continue to pray for each of you, and ask that you keep me in your prayers, as well.
Peace and joy in Christ.
Fr. Ben
UPD
To clarify some points from the letter:
I will be having Akathist on Friday evenings at 6:30 PM and Orthros and Liturgy on Sunday mornings beginning at 9:00 AM. The only people who will be in attendance at these services will be 2-3 choir members/chanters and 2-3 servers, all who are in good health and are not classified as high risk for the corona virus. We are working on having these live-streamed, most likely through our facebook page. If we are not able to do so, the resources for praying the Typika are on our archdiocesan webpage under the liturgics section for the day. I will also send out other options for watching the Liturgy with one of our sister parishes if we can’t. Holy Cross Monastery in WV is live-streaming their Lenten services, which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ-sqeQbmgzrL0t8uFJm4Ew
We will not be having the Pre-Sanctified Liturgy on Wednesdays at this time.
If there are other times that I will be able to be at the church to have the doors open for people to come in and pray (with appropriate social distancing), such as this evening (Wednesday the 18th) between 6 and 7, we will post this on the website or send out an email.
God be with you.