Personal Calendar

This Monthly Calendar is intended to share with my friends some of my various activities and to ask for their prayers. It is also a substitute for personalized letters when the time is too short to write as I would like to.

SOME EVENTS FROM PREVIOUS MONTHS

Monday through Saturday, June 1-5 – The Annual Synod of the Bishops of the Melkite Catholic Church, presided by His Beatitude Gregorios III, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, of Alexandria and of Jerusalem, at Ain-Traz, the Summer Residence of His Beatitude.

June 5-25 - Three week vacation between Maghdoucheh, my Hometown, and Deir-el-Moukhalles. My Alma Mater. Evening daily Liturgy at the Miraculous Shrine of Our Lady of Mantara (The Waiting Lady.)

Wednesday, June 10, 5:00 PM – Funeral Service at the Church of Koufraya for Emilie Abou-Zeid, mother of Archimandrite Sleiman Abou-Zeid, Past Superior General of the Basilian Salvatorian Order.

Thursday, June 11, Feast of the Divine Body, 6:00 PM – Divine Liturgy at the Cave of the Miraculous Shrine of Our Lady of Mantara, followed by a Procession and Benediction of the Blessed Sacramenet between the Cave and the Bourj Chapel.
Saturday, June 20, 3:00 PM – Baptism of Grandniece Talia, daughter of Antoine & Hiba Elia Al-Dayekh, at St. Elias Armenian Catholic Church, Beirrut.
Thursday, June 25 – Return to the United States.

Tuesday, June 30-Wednesday, July 1 – Clergy Conference of the Melkite Eparchy of Newton, at the Hampton Inn Hotel, Persippany, NJ.

Wednesday-Sunday, July 1-5 – 45th National Melkite Convention sponsored by St. Ann Church, West Paterson, NJ. At the Hilton Hotel, Persippany, NJ.

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Saturday, August 1, 5:00 PM – Vesper Service at St. John of the Desert Church, Phoenix, AZ.

Sunday, August 2, 10:30 AM – Divine Liturgy at St. John of the Desert Melkite Church, Phoenix, AZ.

Tuesday-Thursday. August 4 &6- 127th Supreme Convention of the Knights of Columbus, held at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort and Spa in Phoenix, AZ., followed by the 1st International Marian Congress of Our Lady of Guadelupe

Friday, August 7 – Travel to Brooklyn, NY to substitute for the Pastor of the Virgin Mary Melkite Church, Fr. Antoine Rizk, BSO, during his vacation in Lebanon from August 11 to September 4.
Address: 216, 8th Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11215
Telephone number: 718-788-5454 My Cellular: 617-290-7315

Saturday, August 8, 7:30 PM – Divine Liturgy.

Sunday, August 9, 11:00 AM– Divine Liturgy at the Virgin Mary Church in Brooklyn, NY. Followed by
The Annual Parish Picnic at the Breezy Point, FT. Tilden in Brooklyn, NY.

7:30 PM, Every day in August, except Sunday, until August 14. The Paraclisis Service honoring our Lady Theotokos, in preparation to the Feast of Dormition/Assumption

Friday, August 14, 4:00 PM - Short Funeral Service at the wake of Alfred G.
Haddad, at the McLaughlin & Sons Funeral Home.
7:30 PM – Vespers of the Feast of the Dormition of the Blessed Ever-Virgin Mary Theotokos, at the Virgin Mary Church.

Saturday, August 15, Feast of the Dormition of our Lady Theotokos.
10:30 AM - Funeral Service for Alfred G. Haddad, at the Virgin Mary Church
7:30 PM – Divine Liturgy at the Virgin Mary Church, Brooklyn, NY.

Sunday, August 16, 23 & 30, 11:00 AM – Divine Liturgy at the Virgin Mary Chrch

SOME EVENTS IN THE FOLLOWING MONTHS

Saturday, September 19, 4:00 PM – Wedding of Michael Tarshi, Jr, and Adela Agolli at St. Leonard Church, North End, Boston.

Friday-Sunday, Sptember 25, 26 & 27 (Tentative) – Grand Prioral Council of the Military and Hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem, at the newly renovated Roosvelt Hotel in New Orleans. The Council will be concluded by the Patriarchal Divine Liturgy celebrated by His Beatitude Gegorios III, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, of Alexandria and Jerusalem, Protector of the Order.

Friday-Thursday, October 23-29 – In North Hollywood for the Centenary Celebration of St. Anne’s Melkite Church (October 24-25).
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I received this email from a friend and I like to share it with you:
PHONE vs. BIBLE

I wonder what would happen if we treated our Bible like we treat our cell phone?

What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets?
What if we flipped through it several time a day?
What if we turned back to go get it if we forgot it?
What if we used it to receive messages from the text?
What if we treated it like we couldn't live without it?
What if we gave it to Kids as gifts?
What if we used it when we traveled?
What if we used it in case of emergency?
This is something to make you go....hmm...where is my Bible?
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Oh, and one more thing.

Unlike our cell phone, We don't have to worry about our Bible being
disconnected because Jesus already paid the bill in full.

Makes you stop and think 'where are my priorities?



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GOD IS GOOD !