St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Enlightener of North America
17th Sunday after Pentecost
This Sunday we commemorate St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Enlightener of North America. You can read more about him here and here.
Wednesday 6:30 pm Great Vespers, Tea and Psalms with Deacon following Thursday 6:30 am Divine Liturgy, St. Innocent of Moscow, and Apostle to America Saturday 5:00 pm Great Vespers, Confessions following Sunday 9:30 am Divine Liturgy Coffee Hour: A - K 5:30 pm Teens
Teen Synaxis
The next Teen Synaxis is Oct 9th at 5:30 pm. Let Fr Raphael know if you would like to provide food.
Baby Showers
There will be a joint baby shower for Victoria Johnson and Alecia Rogers on October 15th at 11am at St. Anne's.
Here are links to gift registries:
Weekday Liturgies
We have added some early morning (6:30 am) weekday Divine Liturgies to the calendar. Upcoming in October we have the following:
St. Innocent of Moscow, Apostle to America on the 6th;
Apostle and Evangelist Luke on the 18th;
St. Demetrios the Myrrh-gusher of Thessaloniki on the 26th.
Prosphora baking Lesson
Lynne Attaway is hosting and teaching a lesson about making prosphora, the bread we use for the Eucharist, on Saturday, October 8, from 10 to 12, at her home in West Knoxville. Please let Lynne know if you plan to attend.
Connections--Reading the Church Fathers
Join us on Sunday, October 9, during coffee hour, to talk about reading the Church Fathers. Where to start? Who has been especially helpful? Which book is good for a certain question?
It's good for experienced readers to help out the newcomers. Fr. Daniel will host the table.
Yard Sale
House Sitting and Teen Taxi
Jim Tilson is looking for someone who can stay at his house with Nina and Jonas while he’s out of town for four days in November. It would entail giving Nina a ride to and from dance practice each night. Please contact Jim for more details.
Building Fund
So far, we have added $50,338 of our $100,000 goal to the building fund. If you would like to donate towards the building fund - please highlight this in your gift, i.e. make a note on your check, memo line in Paypal, etc
Righteous Anne Pray for us!
Departed: Met. Herman, Anne, child Sophia, Edward
Shut-in: Frances, Suzie
Health & Misc: Jasmine, David, Jonathan, Maci - Matrona, Scott, Christina, Daniela, Dymphna, George, Daria
Pregnant: Victoria, Alecia, Catherine, Julianna
Catechumens: Isaac, Andrew, Peyton, Natalie, Stephen, Maria, Dylan, Konnor, Karina, Luke, Sarah, Todd, Hannah, August, Miles, Elizabeth