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ST. ANN MELKITE GREEK CATHOLIC CHURCH
41 Cross Rd, Waterford, CT 06385
http://www.stannmelkitechurch.org
860-442-2211
Archimandrite Edward Kakaty
edkakaty@gmail.com
June 6-7, 2015
Sunday of The Divine Body
Intentions This weekend: Pray for peace Iraq, Syria, Leb, Libya, Ukraine, Nigeria, Yemen,11K Ebola, 8K Nepal
Sat: +Roddie Murad by the Kakaty Family
Sun +Jerome Gioia (40day mem) by the Ferrara Family
ThisWeekend
NexWeekend
Saturday: John Jalonski
Saturday: Joumana Hajj
Sunday: Rafka Hage
Sunday: Gerard Massad
May 30
30
Gave
263
May 31
51
Gave
657
Clothing Shed
needs your
castaways!
Thanks to all who
always make up their
missed envelope,
including fuel building
fund
200 Club Winners: $50 George/Lina Hajj $25 Catherine Yost, $10: Andrea Hall, Marie Antipoff, Carol Shasha
Congrats to Brian and Sarah (Brooks) Austin who were crowned for life, united by Christ May 30 th. God grant
them many years! Thanks to Tim & Denise Brooks for the four large flower pots in front of the church.
Fuel Donors:1200 Frank Kozmon 2000 Carol Shasha 300 Abroze Gharios100 Louise Massad 300 Charles Facas
850 anon, 100 Ed Najim, 100 Helen Villani, 200 Sue Bridge ,100 Catherine Yost,100 Takla Hage, 100 Gerry Egan,200
Gaby Hajj, 150 Patrick Moukawsher, 200 Michael Flaherty, 200 John Jeffords,100 Mary Dib,100 Hendrick Facas, 100
Ed Walker,100 Marie Antipoff,200 Alex Antipoff.
A Prayer for Peace in Syria/Iraq and Assistance for its Refugees –Melkite Patriarch Gregory III
Almighty and merciful God, grant that just as you made yourself known to Saul on the road to Damascus, you may soon
convert hearts to peace in Syria/Iraq, and that its people who have fled may soon return to their homeland.
We ask your blessing on those who, like your Son, have become refugees and have no place to call their own; look with
mercy on those who are fleeing from danger, homeless and hungry. Pray & Fast for those Suffering
Bless those who work to bring them relief; inspire generosity and compassion in all our hearts; through Jesus Christ.
Baby Bottles are to be filled with money to help moms who choose life (by Father’s Day ).
Congrats to High school/ college grads and couples married 25-50 years. We’ll honor you June 21, Father’s Day!
Do young kids need braces, but cannot afford them? See Fr Ed
Spring Clean-up: Thanks to Joumana, Mindy & George Hajj, Rita & Brayden Harper,Bryant & Brayona Jabbour, John,
Bryce, Jonathan Dorunda, Gerard & Chris Massad, Zak & Grace Allaire, Gerry & Cathy Egan, Rose LaFleur, Joanne &
Nicholas Moukawsher, Pierre Hage, Don Urso.
Aug 14: Annual pilgrimage to Ender’s Island Dormition/Assumption Liturgy 5:30, dinner 6:30
Aug 23 Mahrajan/Festival after 11am liturgy Nader Hawa, food, games, fun for all!
St Anne, North Hollywood, CA has been named Co-cathedral of the Melkites in the US! Cardinal Sandri and Bishop
Nicholas Samra will preside at the ceremonies on Aug 1.St Anne is the mother church of 10 Melkite parishes: Placentia,
San Bernardino, San Jose, Sacramento, Covina, Temecula, San Diego, El Segundo, CA, Seattle, WA and Phoenix, AZ.
St Anne was founded in1909, later built a beautiful round church in 1964 in N Hollywood. There are 45 parishes, 60
priests active & retired, 62 deacons in the Diocese of Newton. The cathedral of Our Lady of the Annunciation was built in
1966 in West Roxbury (Boston). Fr Philip Raczka is rector-(Fr Ed Kakaty was rector from 1994-2002, before coming
here.)
June 12 & 13: Taste of Lebanon @ O.L. Lebanon Hall, Waterbury 6-12, noon-midnight 203-753-6633
ST ANN HONOR ROLL (the active parishioners who gave a minimum of $500 in 2014)
Alex & Betty Antipoff, Barbara Facas, Sue Bridge, Tim & Denise Brooks, Sheila Burke, Bob & Ceil Conley, Gerry & Cathy
Egan, Mary Dib, Albert & Jamal Doro, Joe & Cyndi Doro, Beshara & Yolla ElKhoury,Charles & Mary Jane Facas, Hendrick
& Gail Facas, Dr.John & Jenine Dorunda, Michael & Alexsandra Flaherty, +Elias & Abroze Gharios, Bill & Christine Gorra,
George & Pam Haddad, Tony & Ferial Haddad, Afif Hage, Faouzi & Katia Hage, Jack & Alia Hage, Pierre & Saide Hage,
Gabriel & Joumana Hajj, John & Karen Jalonski, John & Gloria Jeffords, , Alexis Kozmon, Frank Kozmon, Gerard &
Laura Massad, Louise Massad, Patrick & Joanne Moukawsher, Edmond Najim, Carol H Shasha, Ray & Anna
Sobanski,Donald & Kelly Urso, Helen Villani, Catherine Yost, Joe & Roberta Zizik, (That’s 38 out of 71 on our list-if you
give $10 weekly, you would reach $500 yearly).Of the people listed above, 1 gave over $10,000, 7 gave over $2000, 17
gave over $1000.God loves a cheerful giver! When you miss church, our bills don’t! We still owe the diocese over
$72,000 and can’t fix our parking lot!
FUNERAL POLICIES OF OUR MELKITE DIOCESE will be published in the next Sophia magazine by Bishop Nicholas.
No eulogies in the church or cemetery are allowed-only at the Mercy Meal. Even the priest should emphasize the meaning
of death and the Resurrection, not to praise the achievements or good example of the deceased. We pray for the deadnot to be a celebration of his/her life. If the wake/viewing is in the church, there should be respect for the Blessed
Sacrament and not a loud social gathering. Mercy meal shouldn’t be extravagant!
No Divine Liturgy with the funeral-have that on the weekend. Commemorate the deceased every Sunday until the 40 day
memorial. The cremains are to be buried in a cemetery- not strewn over the water, or in a vase on the mantel, or to be
mixed with their pet’s or anyone else’s cremains.
DID YOU KNOW? Dr and Mrs Joseph Jabbra, president of the Lebanese American University, were married in St
Ann Church in New London, CT 8/21/74 by Fr Simon Hage.