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Mary Elizabeth Johnson's Baptism and First Communion

 Ella's Baptism and First Communion - 08/06/09

Mary Elizabeth Johnson, the newest addition to St. Sava, was baptized on the evening of the 5th of August, and received First Communion on the 6th of August 2009, the Feast of the Transfiguration of Christ.


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Monastery Trip Saint Paraskevi 2009

 Monastery Trip Saint Paraskevi 2009 - 07/25/09

A group of parishioners from St. Sava's went to Saint Paraskevi Monastery on July 25th 2009 to celebrate their feast day.


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Holy Week through Pascha 2009

Pasch Eggs for the basket
 Holy Week Through Pascha 2009



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Decorated and plain red ones, too
Festal icon
Making Kulich
Blessing the baskets
Cheese Paska
Decorated Tomb
Materials for Paschal candles
Blessing Candles decorated
Following along, Pascha night
Gregory waiting through the vigil
Entry into Jerusalem
Father with blessing candles
Lazarikia complete
Completed Paschal candles
Friends
The Tomb
Kulich fresh out of the oven
Kulich in the oven
Cheese Paska
Making Lazarikia for Lazarus Saturday
Lazarikia being cut out
Cheese Paska molds
Children finished Paschal candles
The Tomb
Palms for Palm Sunday
Paschal baskets
Beeswax candles, plain and fancy
The decorated Cross
The hall during preparations
Decorating the tomb
Our new liturgy books help
The decorated Cross
The tomb during the decoration process

Men's Retreat to Holy Archangel's Monastery

 Parish Retreat to Holy Archangel's Monastery

Many of our parishioners traveled to Kendalia, Texas, to visit Holy Archangel's Men's Monastery for the celebration of their feast day, November 2008.


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Ivan, lighting the candles on the chandelier

Women's Retreat 2008

A beautiful moth encountered at dawn outside of the Temple
 Women's Retreat to St. Paraskevi 2008

We traveled to St. Paraskevi with Fr. Seraphim in June of 2008 where we spent two very enjoyable days in fellowship, listening to lessons given by Father on living the spiritual life.


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Our group gathered for lessons
The guest house has a lovely room for groups.
Father Seraphim
The new Temple keeps getting more and more lovely
A patio has been added to the front
The weather was lovely
A perfect place for prayer and contemplation
Gabrielle
A new fountain
The sister's house
Under the oak trees
Butterfly garden
Long eared goats
Some not-so-friendly geese
Svetlana
Mary Lou
Irina
An icon of St. Paraskevi above the door
Irina
Father Seraphim
Anna
Garden in front of the guest house
The guest house
Ambrosia

Dedication of Our New Property

The choir from the back.
 Dedication of Our New Property

We gathered together to serve Divine Liturgy on our new property, located at 1501 Jupiter, Allen, Texas.  God being our helper, we hope to move there before Nativity of 2009.


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The congregation
Father Seraphim preaching his sermon
Gabrielle conducting
Our worship space that day was a large tent
Father Seraphim
A view of the property with the tent

Archimandrite Zacharias Visit


Visit from Archbishop Dmitri - 8/13/2006


Fr. Seraphim was awarded the Skoufia


Sunday of Orthodoxy ~ 3/12/2006

 Sunday of Orthodoxy - 03/12/06

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Prosphora Baking

 Baking Prosphora at St. Seraphim Cathedral

A group of parishioners gathered together to bake Prosphora for use at the Divine Liturgy.


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Mikhail
Big mixer
Taking a break.
Almost done.
We made bowls and bowls of dough
Cutting out
Our fearless leader, Elena.
Applying the seal.

Nativity 2005

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Breaking Bread
Breaking Bread
Breaking Bread
Holy Supper
Holy Supper
Holy Supper
Homily
Homily
Homily

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