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WEEKLY ANNOUNCEMENTS – 08/05/2018

  1. Silver Jubilee Celebration — The Northeast American Diocese of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church will be hosting a banquet for the Episcopal Silver Jubilee of our beloved Metropolitan, His Grace Zachariah Mar Nicholovos. The formal banquet will be held on the evening of Sunday, August 26, 2018 at The Greentree Country Club, located at 538 Davenport Avenue, New Rochelle, NY 10805 at 5pm. His Holiness Moran Mar Baselios Marthoma Paulose II, Catholicos of the East & Malankara Metropolitan, will preside over the celebrations. Tickets are $100 per person if you wish to reserve seats. Esteemed leaders from the ecumenical community will also be present on this joyous occasion. See the invitation: http://www.neamericandiocese.org/multimedia/document/uncategorized/Episcopal%20Jubilee%20Invitation.pdf
  2. Feast of the Dormition of St. Mary — To end the Dormition Fast, the Feast will be celebrated on Tuesday, August 14th at 6:30pm. All are kindly requested to attend.
  3. Holy Confession — Those who desire to do Confession during this Lenten season kindly reach out to the Achens as soon as possible to arrange an appropriate time.
  4. MGOCSM & FOCUS Meeting — Next Sunday, August 12th we will be having a Google Hangout meeting as continuation of the Q&A from earlier this year. A link to join will be posted on the GroupMe and all are MGOCSM and FOCUS members are encouraged to log on at 7 pm.
  5. BQLI FOCUS Fellowship — On Friday, August 10th there will be a meeting of the areawide FOCUS at St. Basil, Franklin Square.  The meeting will be from 7pm-9pm. Please see the flyer on the website for more details.
  6. BQLI Martura – The MGOCSM of Brooklyn/Queens/LI will be hosting the fourth annual Martura summer conference at this church on August 10th & 11th from 9:30AM to 5PM. Registration is $10 for one day and $15 for both days and may be completed online (at: tinyurl.com/Martura2018). As part of a charity activity that will take place at the conference, there is a bake sale in the auditorium today after service.
  7. Sunday School Announcements —
    1. Sunday school classes will start again on September 2nd after Holy Qurbana.
    2. Sunday School parish level talent competitions will be held on September 9th after Holy Qurbana. Please give the name of the participants to the principal or the assistant principal.
    3. Sunday School area level competition will be held on September 22nd Saturday at St. Mary’s West Sayville church
    4. If there are any parish members who have the time, motivation, and are willing to teach next year’s Sunday school classes please contact principal or Asst. Principal
  8. General Body Meeting — The half-yearly General Body meeting will take place on Sunday, August 19th after Holy Qurbana.

  9. Softball tournament — Last Sunday our church softball team won first place in the St. John’s Softball League. They have been traveling for games as part of this tournament for many weeks and this is the third year they have won.

    STYL Takes The First Place Trophy At The St. John’s Summer Softball League Tournament!