May 30, 2010
1st Sunday After Pentecost
Sunday of All Saints



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LITURGY INTENTIONS 

Sunday, May 30, 2010    

9:30 a.m. Divine Liturgy

Health & Speedy Recovery of Fadi Antoun
+Evelyn Haddad, (1 yr.) by Nicholas Haddad & Family
+Olga Sawayer, by Josephine Kfoury
+Deborah Roy, (24 yrs.) by her Husband & Daughter
+Fr. David Kirk

12 Noon Divine Liturgy

+Fr. David Kirk


Wednesday, June 2, 2010      

7:30 p.m. Divine Liturgy (Feast of the Divine Body)           

Sunday, June 6, 2010      

9:30 a.m. Divine Liturgy

+Marion Donley, (1 yr.) by her Family
+Ramzy, Soubhie & Ilham Al-Eid, by Nuhad Al-Ied & Family
+Souad Geagea, by Yousseff & Therese Elkhoury
+Olga Sawayer, by Yvonne Moses
+Nora Beshwaty, (10 yrs.) by Judith Beshwaty
+Archimandrite Maximos Chalhoub
+Fr. George Essa Badie
+Fr. Raphael Riashi, B.C.O.

12 Noon Divine Liturgy

+Archimandrite Maximos Chalhoub
+Fr. George Essa Badie
+Fr. Raphael Riashi, B.C.O.


The Sanctuary Candle
Will burn this week for 

Our Graduates

This is a venerable tradition and we ask you to keep them in your prayers.

Please remember to pray for the health and Divine protection of our church family, especially for Edmund Bandar, Eugenia Dolabany, Michele Domaney, Arthur Donley, Kerry Ann Gamel, Saleem Ghazaleh, Edna M. Goguen, Edward Goguen, Sr., June Kahaly, Samira Karwashan, Mary Kenneally, Harry McKannon, Theresa Quinn, Shirley Sawayer, Frank Skuncik, Freida Williams, John Williams.


Congratulations to Joelle & Gabi Essber on the birth of their daughter Antonina on May 22, 2010. May the Lord grant them and their daughter many happy and healthy years!

A Prayerful Memorial Day to all our parishioners as we remember our dearly departed family and friends and especially all members of the military who have given their lives for their country.

 

Church Events and Announcements

 

The Cathedral uses QuickBooks 2010 for its accounting needs. We are presently looking for someone who is certified in the use of QuickBooks 2010 to provide assistance and back-up to our Secretary. If you can help. please call Maria at 617-323-5242.

SHATTUCK SHELTER DINNER 
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Thank You!
To All Who Donated, 
Prepared and Served.

after the 10:30 Combined Divine Liturgy 
Menu
Hashwe with Chicken
Meat Pies
Meatless Green Beans & Tomato Sauce
Arabic Potato Salad
Cucumber & Yogurt Salad
Dessert & Coffee

Entertainment: DJ
Donation: Adults, $15 Children Under 12, $10

Tickets
Tickets will be sold after each Sunday Liturgy at the Coffee Hour
 
Tony Perfetti 
 Martin Tragni
Ghassan Samaha
Therese Elkhoury
 
Bring your family! Bring your friends!
 



The Most Reverend Archbishop 
Elias Chacour
Eparch of Ackko, Haifa, Nazareth and all the Galilee for the Melkite Catholic Church in the Holy Land. Archbishop Chacour is the author of two bestselling books, Blood Brothers and We Belong to the Land. Blood Brothers covers his childhood and has been translated into 28 languages. His second book, We Belong to the Land, recounts his work in the development of Mar Elias Educational Institutions. This book has been translated into 11 languages.
In 2001, Archbishop Chacour gave an address at the Emory University commencement in Atlanta, Georgia where he accepted an honorary doctorate degree.
 

 

 


1st Sunday After Pentecost
Sunday of All Saints


Honoring the friends of God with much reverence, the Prophet-King David says, "But to me, exceedingly honorable are Your friends, O Lord" (Ps. 138:16). And the divine Apostle, recounting the achievements of the Saints, and setting forth their memorial as an example that we might turn away from earthly things and from sin, and emulate their patience and courage in the struggles for virtue, says, "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every burden, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us" (Heb. 12:1).
This commemoration began as the Sunday (Synaxis) of All Martyrs; to them were added all the ranks of Saints who bore witness (the meaning of "Martyr" in Greek) to Christ in manifold ways, even if occasion did not require the shedding of their blood.
Therefore, guided by the teaching of the Divine Scriptures and Apostolic Tradition, we the pious honor all the Saints, the friends of God, for they are keepers of God's commandments, shining examples of virtue, and benefactors of mankind. Of course, we honor the known Saints especially on their own day of the year, as is evident in the Menologion. But since many Saints are unknown, and their number has increased with time, and will continue to increase until the end of time, the Church has appointed that once a year a common commemoration be made of all the Saints. This is the feast that we celebrate today. It is the harvest of the coming of the Holy Spirit into the world; it is the "much fruit" brought forth by that "Grain of wheat that fell into the earth and died" (John 12:24); it is the glorification of the Saints as "the foundation of the Church, the perfection of the Gospel, they who fulfilled in deed the sayings of the Savior" (Sunday of All Saints, Doxasticon of Vespers).
In this celebration, then, we reverently honor and call blessed all the Righteous, the Prophets, Apostles, Martyrs, Confessors, Shepherds, Teachers, and Holy Monastics, both men and women alike, known and unknown, who have been added to the choirs of the Saints and shall be added, from the time of Adam until the end of the world, who have been perfected in piety and have glorified God by their holy lives. All these, as well as the orders of the Angels, and especially our most holy Lady and Queen, the Ever-virgin Theotokos Mary, do we honor today, setting their life before us as an example of virtue, and entreating them to intercede in our behalf with God, Whose grace and boundless mercy be with us all. Amen.