A Home Forever! from Rob Orr on Vimeo.

Three Orthodox Christian nuns take over a run down orphanage in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Hogar Rafael Ayau has been the home to over a thousand children for the past 14 years…but now their facility faces potential closure so they are working to build a new facility outside the city. U.S fundraising efforts are being coordinated by the FHRA - The Friends of the Hogar Rafael Ayau. For more information please visit their website at FriendsoftheHogar.org

Just a quick update on Antonia’s progress as we head into the Christmas Season. “Nia is doing great! She’s had a few bouts with colds and such, typical for a toddler in kindergarten, but she just keeps on surprising us with her joy and fortitude. She is actually in kindergarten now-the school she is in has a wonderful special ed program. Nia goes half days as they cannot hire a nurse to do her feedings throughout the day. But she goes Monday thru Friday and takes the bus back and forth. It’s funny, but she really enjoys riding the bus! Her face lights up when Katrina tells her the bus is here. And she loves school too. They do great work with her, and it shows. They even take her to the ‘normal’ kids kindergarten a couple of days a week.

Gary Vikan was named Director of the Walters Art Museum in 1994 after serving as the
museum’s Assistant Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Medieval Art since
1985. Before coming to the Walters, Dr. Vikan was Senior Associate for Byzantine Art
Studies at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC. A native of Minnesota, he received his
B.A. from Carleton College in 1967 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1976.

Homily on the 10th Sunday of St. Luke from Fr. Christopher Flesoras on Vimeo.

Homily on the 8th Sunday of St. Luke from Fr. Christopher Flesoras on Vimeo.

Homily on the 7th Sunday of Luke from Fr. Christopher Flesoras on Vimeo.

The Retreat will be hosted by the St. Timothy Chapter of the Fellowship of St. John the Divine, which is a Young Adult ministry within the Antiochian Archdiocese. With the blessing of Bishop JOSEPH and our Parish Priest, V. Rev. Father Silas, we will host this one-day retreat at St. Timothy’s on Sunday, November 27th.

Lecture on Monasticism from Fr. Christopher Flesoras on Vimeo.

On Wednesday evening, beginning at 6:30 we will welcome to our community, Very Rev. Fr. Makarios Mannos who will lecture on monasticism and St. Katherine Monastery in Sinai. Father Makarios Mannos was born and raised in the area of Salt Lake City, Utah.  In May of 1975, while still a student at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, MA, he was tonsured a monk, taking the name of Saint Makarios of Egypt.  In the fall of 1975, the monk Makarios was ordained to the rank of deacon at Holy Cross Seminary by Archbishop Iakovos of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South, of blessed memory.  In December of 1975, the newly ordained Deacon Makarios traveled to the Monastery of St. Katherine at Sinai.

With the blessings of Archbishop Iakovos, Deacon Makarios was ordained to the Holy Priesthood at the Holy Monastery of Saint Katherine on Pentecost Sunday in 1984 by the Abbot of the Monastery, His Eminence Archbishop Damianos.  Father Makarios was accepted into the brotherhood in April of 1985.

Currently on an extended leave from the monastery, Father Makarios remains under the care of Metropolitan Isaiah of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Denver.  On January 7, 1998, Father Makarios was bestowed the title of Archimandrite by Metropolitan Isaiah, with the approval of His Eminence Archbishop Damianos of Sinai.

Homily on the 5th Sunday of Luke from Fr. Christopher Flesoras on Vimeo.