We are very sad to announce that +Olga Petorak, a beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother in our parish community, reposed in Our Lord on Monday evening. We ask you to please keep the newly-departed Olga, and her family, in your prayers. May the newly-departed +Olga’s memory be eternal! The funeral arrangements are as follows:
Continue reading Memory Eternal: Olga Petorak
We were very saddened to learn that Charles Kaczinski, a beloved friend of our community, reposed in Our Lord yesterday afternoon, with his children and sister-in-law Barbara Kosko at his bedside.
We hope to post more about Charlie and his life at St. Andrew’s on our website as we are able to.
For the present time, please find the arrangements for his wake and funeral below:
Wake
Friday, Nov. 8, 2-4 PM & 7-9 PM
Jacobsen Funeral Home
1380 New York Ave, Huntington Station
Fr. John Klingel will lead a memorial service at 8pm
Funeral
Saturday, Nov. 9, 10:30 AM
St. Elizabeth Roman Catholic Church
175 Wolf Hill Rd, Melville, NY
The burial will follow at Calverton National Cemetery
Charlie was a treasured part of our parish family, and a great supporter of everything we did at St. Andrew’s. We hope many of you will be able join in praying for Charlie, holding him up before God in anticipation of the Life and Kingdom that are to come. May the newly-departed Charles’ memory be eternal!
From the OCA Website:
A Sermon by St. John of Kronstadt
“Magnify O my soul, the honorable Translation of the Mother of God from earth to heaven.” (Refrain for the 9th Ode of the Canon)
Let us be happy, beloved brothers and sisters that we belong to the Holy Orthodox Church, worthily and rightly glorifying the Most Holy Sovereign Theotokos on this eminent day out of all the days of the year with special solemnity. There exists on earth many societies and entire governments that do not consider the need nor the obligation to call upon and glorify the Queen of heaven and earth, the Mother of Our Divine Lord Jesus Christ, and other saints and angels; to submissively serve Her lovingly, as the true Mother of God. Sadly in Russia nowadays we have heretics (among us) who actively dishonor the Mother of God, the saints, their icons, their relics and their festivals. O, if only they also unanimously with us glorified the worthy Queen of heaven and earth! Continue reading The Great Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos
This morning, we received the sad news that the Deacon John Protopapas reposed in the Lord around 5:00 AM. We received this sad news from Fr. Jonathan Ivanoff, rector of St. John the Theologian Church in Shirley, where Fr John was attached and ministered for many years as a subdeacon and deacon.
We remember that Fr John and his family were very involved in the creation of our parish. Before being ordained to the Diaconate, John served as a leader in our community in many ways, not the least of which was as head of the building committee, during which time he led the design and construction of our present temple.
Funeral arrangements are as follows:
May the memory of the servant of God, the Deacon John, be eternal!
In the Church’s annual liturgical cycle, Pentecost is “the last and great day.” It is the celebration by the Church of the coming of the Holy Spirit as the end – the achievement and fulfillment – of the entire history of salvation. For the same reason, however, it is also the celebration of the beginning: it is the “birthday” of the Church as the presence among us of the Holy Spirit, of the new life in Christ, of grace, knowledge, adoption to God and holiness.
Continue reading Holy Pentecost: The Feast of the Holy Trinity