Protection Parish Newsletter - April/May 2012

Procession on Sunday of
Myrrh-bearing Women

Baptisms

John, Catherine Makins, Yulia, and David D. and David S.(fewer numbers because of cold weather)

Weddings

Nicholas Dalinkiewicz and Natalia Zarva (27 April)
Anastasios Sheidaee and Maria Simion (6 May)

Laid to rest

Anna Chervev, Nedelko Canov, Penelope Efthimiadis, Ivan Kamenev (former parish treasurer), Alexander Lachno, Galian Tully and Ludmilla Plotnikova

Clergy at the inter parish
gathering (20th  April)

New murals

The installation of the northern wall murals has been completed, showing the feasts of the Transfiguration and the entry of the Lord into Jerusalem. Antonina Ganin is the iconographer. In the last week of May, she was helped by many people including her husband Michael, Andrei and Varia Davidoff, Greg Uskhopov with his son Joseph, Kosta Diakoumakos (providing the scaffolding) and helped by Nick Mantis, Stepan Kichakov, Alexey and Rostislav K., Valery W. (who also helped with the installation and washing of windows). Luba Cowall (as she often does) provided the necessary food and refreshments for all the workers. The eastern and southern walls are expected to be completed early in the new year.

A thank you for members of the Sisterhood and helpers was held at the Church Hall on the Sunday of the Myrhh-bearing women (a traditional day for thanking the sisterhood).

Coming Events

June 8: Fundraising dinner at William Angliss restaurant for the Holy Ascension Mission. RSVP 25 May to Fr Kyril on 0400101981.

Letter from a nearby neighbour (April 12)

“I hear the bells chiming. Could we please hear them every evening? It is important to tune into such resonance as it imparts another depth of life that is missing from the material world. No one knows exactly what such resonance conveys – but it does- we can hear it and tune in – it is meaningful.”