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RHODIAN REUNIFICATION DANCE
Come Celebrate the Reunification of our Beautiful Island with our Mother Land! All are welcome to enjoy a night of Celebration with Culture, Dinner, Music, Dance, and Raffle. $35 Adults $20 Students Call Eleni Karanikis Sciarra or Chrisanthy Psaras for more info.
Sponsored by Pan Rhodian Society
IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN TO CELEBRATE OUR HERITAGE
Saturday March 8, 2014
8:00 pm - 2:00 am
HARTFORD HELLENIC SOCCER CLUB
799 WETHERSFIELD AVE, HARTFORD, CT 06114
The religious education students will again be participating in the Sunday of Orthodoxy procession at the end of the Divine Liturgy on March 9. Please have each student bring in an icon from home to carry in the procession.
GOYA: The GOYANs of St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Hartford, CT invite you to join us for a day of philanthropy and community at our Feeding Children Everywhere Hunger Project to alleviate the childhood hunger epidemic. This meal-packing event promises to be filled with purpose, music, and fun.
Mission Statement Feeding Children Everywhere is a social charity that empowers and mobilizes people to assemble healthy meals for hungry children.
Goal To empower and mobilize GOYANs to become "Hunger Heroes" by fundraising and assembling healthy meals for hungry children
Please Volunteer and Donate Help package casserole meals of rice, lentils, dried vegetables and pink Himalayan salt into meal bags that will be shipped around the world ($1.00 feeds four hungry children).
Please make checks payable by March 9, 2014 to "Feeding Children Everywhere." You can drop off checks after the Divine Liturgy on Sunday.
Video of a Meal-Packaging Event
Save the Date
Saturday, March 15, 2014
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (possibility of finishing at 11:00 a.m. with enough volunteers)
Registration & Contact Information All volunteers must register by contacting: Yasmine Forte yforte@charter.net
Other Ways to Help Feeding Children Everywhere tee-shirts and sweatshirts ranging from $20 - $40 will be available for purchase at the event which will also help fund the Hunger Project.
The local parish Oratorical Festival will take place after services on Friday evening, March 21. If you are interested or want additional information, please check out http://www.goarch.org/archdiocese/departments/religioused/ or contact Sotoria Montanari at sotoriam@gmail.com.
St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral is also privileged to host the District Oratorical Festival on Saturday, April 5 beginning at 8 a.m. for registration and refreshments. The top two candidates of the local parishes from the junior and senior division may participate in the district festival. Please contact co-chairpersons Sotoria Montanari at sotoriam@gmail.com or Dr. James Rouman if you are interested in participating or helping.
Both events are wonderful opportunities for us to showcase our youth! Parents: please encourage your children in 7th through 12th grade to participate in our parish oratorical festival on March 21st.
THIS YEAR THERE IS A NEW OPTION: If you are interested in submitting an essay or poetry entry, the deadline is March 16. Please review guidelines here and contact sotoriam@gmail.com
IMPORTANT - To all Event planners Please DO NOT schedule any events involving our parishioners, including bus trips, that would conflict with any of our divine services, including any Sunday morning, any Feastday of the Church when services are held, or any Psychosavato or other service. Please check with the Church Office in advance to make sure your event or trip does not conflict with our worship at St. George.
YALE RUSSIAN CHORUS IN CONCERT with support from the James and Tina Collias Liturgical Music fund
SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 2014 at 5 pm
St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 433 Fairfield Avenue, Hartford, CT 06114
"The Yale Russian Chorus (YRC), led by renowned Slavic music expert, Mark Bailey, is a repertory tenor-bass ensemble dedicated to learning and performing sacred and secular choral music from Slavic and related traditions. Founded in 1953, the YRC is recognized as one of the world's premier performance ensembles of Slavic music today. The chorus is composed of Yale undergraduates, graduate students, and New Haven community members. Its repertoire spans centuries of history and extends from Byzantine Greek liturgy to Ukrainian carols, from Russian patriotic anthems to Georgian toasting songs, from monophonic chant to gorgeous settings by 19th-century composers such as Tchaikovsky. The YRC has performed extensively for enthusiastic audiences at venues such Carnegie Hall, The White House and well-known churches and auditoriums throughout the country. Recent tours have included the Pacific Northwest, Florida, and Western New York and Ontario. The YRC is excited to be celebrating its 60th anniversary. We hope you will be able to join us for this night of music--foreign to some, a tradition for us!"
Tickets $15.00
Please call the cathedral office 860-956-7586
Reception to follow performance in the Matthews Fellowship Hall
Philoptochos
THE GREEK DISH Philoptochos cookbook with many special family recipes on sale. A wonderful gift idea for showers, weddings, birthdays, housewarming and also great holiday gifts for teachers, family and friends.
HELP IS NEEDED:
- We have an urgent need for volunteers from area towns who would be willing to pick up seniors, students or others who do not have transportation to Liturgies and other occasions and events at church. We have had many calls over the years and would appreciate your help with accommodating these faithful. Please call the church office if you would be willing to assist. There is a current need for ride from Trinity College and also from Farmington to church.
- HOME HEALTH AIDS are being collected for those in need: walkers, wheelchairs, canes, etc., in any condition. For information, please call Maria Troullas and drop off at the church office please.
- FOOD BARREL donations of non-perishables are needed year round.
GREEK COSTUMES thank you to those who have donated costumes. We are still in need of more Greek Costumes for our Cathedral Folk Dance Troupe. If you have a costume you would like to donate, please contact the church office, Penny Makris or Rita Papageorge.
HOUSE BLESSING: If you wish to have your home blessed this month, please call the church office (860-956-7586) to make an appointment.
HOSPITAL VISITS: If you or a loved one is in a hospital, nursing home, or homebound, please contact the office if you wish a visit from Father. Hospitals no longer provide patient lists unless a family member requests a pastoral visit, arrangements cannot be made.
Come be active in the life of our church and community! Join us for a year filled with activities for all. We encourage the parents of young children to consider enrolling their youngsters in Religious Education classes, Greek Language School, our church dance troupes, the basketball teams, and we have tentative plans for a Jr. Choir. For young mothers and their little ones LITTLE ANGELS (ages birth to preschool) , HOPE (kindergarten thru 2nd/3rd), JOY (3rd thru 6th grade), GOYA (Jr. High and High School) and for young singles and marrieds "20's, 30's, 40's, 50's" look for more information on these ministries and activities on our church website and in future bulletins (or call the church office 860-956-7586). For adults bible study, lecture series, Ladies Philoptochos Society, Cathedral Choir, "20's, 30's 40's 50's" (a Social organization for singles and couples), Daughters of Penelope and the Order of Ahepa.
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