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<\/a>Jeremiah is getting better. He is undergoing extensive therapy at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, Georgia, a facility that specializes in injuries of the type Jeremiah suffered. He will be in Atlanta for at least a month and perhaps longer. I speak to him on the phone almost daily.<\/p>\nTherapy is intensive and rigorous but he is in good hands. However, we have to remain vigilant in our prayers for him because he still has a way to go. I can’t stress this enough. Healing takes time and our Lord is involved in the process. We pray too that the doctors and other caregivers receive the wisdom to know how to administer the therapy in the best possible ways.<\/p>\n
Another side of Jeremiah’s healing also involves Elder Paisios, a soon to be saint who lived in Greece and died in in 1994. Elder Paisios is known to intervene in brain related injuries. He helps young people in particular and is known in Greece for working miracle healings, much like St. Nektarios<\/a> does or St. John Maximovitch<\/a> (a Russian Orthodox Saint) does here in America. He came to the aid of Jeremiah through the prayers of many, including a friend in Greece who Jeremiah met some years back. I will have more on this down the road.<\/p>\n Jeremiah can’t receive visitors yet but you can send him a card or note at: Dylan Jeremiah Tewis, Shepherd Center, 2045 Peachtree Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30309. <\/p>\n The brunch was a fund raiser for the Jeremiah Tewis family to help them with costs for Jeremiah’s medical treatment. We raised $3,050 and hopefully counting. The generosity of the St. Peter congregation and our sister parish St. Paul’s is helping the Tewis family and that is the good and right thing to do. <\/p>\n Thank you again Katina, Harry and Bettina and Harry James and Savannah Katarina!<\/p>\n There were many in the parish that provided additional food and assistance. It was wonderful to see the love and cooperation that was evident through out the affair. We couldn’t have pulled this off without all who helped. <\/p>\n Pictures of the Brunch will be available soon on the parish website.<\/p>\n Thank you brothers and sisters in Christ,<\/p>\n Mary Copeland and Mary Jarvis Try to attend all the services that you can. Read what St. Theophan the Recluse (1815-1894) wrote about them:<\/p>\n Church services, that is, all the daily services, together with the entire arrangement of the church’s icons, candles, censing, singing, chanting, movements of the clergy, as well as the services for various needs; then services in the home, also using ecclesiastical objects such as sanctified icons, holy oil, candles, holy water, the Cross, and incense — all of these holy things together acting upon all the senses — sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste — are the cloths that wipe clean the senses of the deadened soul. They are strongest and only reliable way to do it.<\/p>\n The soul becomes deadened by the spirit of the world, and possessed by sin that lives in the world. The entire structure of our Church services, with their tone, meaning, power of faith, and especially the grace concealed with them, have an invincible power to drive away the spirit of the world. In freeing the soul from the world’s onerous influence, it allows the soul to breathe freely and to taste the sweetness of spiritual freedom.<\/p>\n Walking into church we walk completely into a completely different world, are influenced by it, and change according to it. The same thing happens when we surround ourselves with holy objects. Frequent impressions of the spiritual world more effectively penetrate within and more quickly bring about a transformation of the heart.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n You can find the complete schedule of Holy Week services on the parish website<\/a> or download it here<\/a>. <\/p>\n This is a very short service (by Orthodox standards anyway), about 45 minutes. We read the gospel in different languages to represent the gospel going into all the world. We will need people who know different languages to read the gospel that day.<\/p>\n Fr. Hans will do Greek and Dutch. If any parishioner knows a different language in which the gospel can be read, please notify Fr. Hans this week. <\/p>\n Everyone is invited, bring something to share, and be sure to bring a chair (a lawn chair is fine). Our pot lucks are always a great time of fellowship and the food is always great and there is always enough to go around. <\/p>\n Many, many thanks to Bob and Mary for hosting this.<\/p>\n A video of the Holy Cross Seminary students singing at the Memorial for the victims of the Boston bombings.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nOur First Palm Sunday Brunch a Huge Success<\/h4>\n
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\nPalm Sunday Brunch Captains <\/p>\nHoly Week and Pascha<\/h4>\n
<\/a>Holy Week is a journey. Each day has a different meaning that prepares us for Pascha (Passover or Easter<\/em> in English) when Christ enters death and defeats it. You can review a synopsis of the Holy Week Services at Journey Through Holy Week<\/a> on the Antiochian website.<\/p>\n\n
Agape Vespers to be held at St. Peter’s on Sunday, May 5 at Holiday Inn.<\/h4>\n
<\/a>Although we will celebrate the Paschal Liturgy (Easter Liturgy, the Resurrection Service) with our sister parish St. Paul’s, we will return to celebrate the Agape Vespers at the Holiday Inn starting at 11am. <\/p>\nEaster Pot-Luck at Bob and Mary Jarvis’ home on Sunday, May 5<\/h4>\n
<\/a>We celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ by getting together and breaking the fast together. This year Mary and Bob Jarvis are holding the celebration at their home (get directions<\/a>) starting at 2pm on Sunday, May 5.<\/p>\nStudents at Holy Cross Seminary Sing at Boston Memorial<\/h4>\n