May 2025 Newsletter

Newsletter for May 2025
 
Thank you!
Holy Week thanks..
To Fr Lou, for providing us with a beautiful and memorable Holy Week and Pascha
To Rusty, Natasha, Gordon, Grace, Andrew, Logan, Jamal, and Elise for making the drive to St Andrews in Lubbock for Palm Sunday
To Gordon, Rusty, and Angela for folding palm crosses
To Fr Peter for blessing the palms 
To Rex and Svetlana for the gardening and landscaping
To Warren, for installing the faucet in the men's bathroom and fixing the women's sink
To Natasha, Grace, and Angela for decorating the Bridegroom icon
To Dan for fixing the front door 
To Samuel and Angela for helping with the Holy Week books
To Sarah for preparing father Lou's snack basket
To Julie and Elise for baking Prosphora
To Angela for making labels for the Holy Unction Oil bottle
To Rania, Shannon Mary, and Grace for donating flowers
To Sarah, Diana, Grace, Stephanie, Shannon Mary, Preston, Aaron and Natasha for decorating the kouvouklion and to Warren, Preston, and Andrew for cutting the floral wire
To the myrrh bearing girls for doing a wonderful job
To Samuel, Preston, Warren, Stephanie, Grace, Rusty, and Natasha for cleaning up the flower petals
To everyone who helped in the procession - Jonathan, Warren, Arlo, Wiley, Holly, Charleigh, Ridley, Eisley, Sophie, Preston, Cole, Samuel, Patrick F, Logan, Nolan, and the chanters
To Warren, Samuel, Preston, Logan, and Madison for assembling the Paschal candles 
To Diana for putting together the beautiful Holy Fire candle for Fr Lou
To everyone who brought treats to share for the midnight Pascha feast 
To Carl, Julie, Rex, and Rez for preparing the lamb feast
To Stephanie, Audra, Grace, Elise, Natasha, Warren, and Samuel for serving food and cleaning up afterwards
To Scarlett and Wiley for setting up the Easter Egg hunt for the kids
To Dan, Kam, John, Arlo and Wiley for serving in the altar
To Rusty, Grace, Logan, Caleb, Nolan, Patrick, Arlo, John, Ethan, and Jamal for chanting 
To Samuel, Warren, Grace, Gordon, Andrew, and Preston for coming early to each service and staying late after it was over and for always willing to offer a hand wherever we needed one
To all the mothers and fathers for bringing their children to church
 
Announcements
• Congratulations to the newly illumined the Nuckols family, Kelley family, and Jamal! We have been blessed to have Baptisms and Chrismations on Bright Saturday three years in a row. Thank you, Fr Peter!
 
• We will be joined by Fr Dan Suciu for a special weekend of services and seminars this month! Please join us. Details will be below on the schedule. 
 
• SignUp link for confessions (Baptized/Chrismated Orthodox Christians only) is here 
 
Birthdays
Sarah Brittain - May 2nd
Madison Gimpel - May 4th
Christelle Hajje - May 8th
Evie Boston -  May 18th
Matt Morelan - May 20th
Cole Nuckols - May 22nd
Natasha Hanson - May 24th
Degen Tessema - May 28th
Grace Dixon - May 29th
Preston McRae - May 31st
 
Reposed:
May 6th, 2023 - Evangeline “Eve” Botsonis Melotakis
 
Services for this month:
 
Saturday, May 3rd 
6:00pm - 9th Hour & Great Vespers w/ Fr Peter
 
Sunday, May 4th
9:00am - Orthros w/ Fr Peter
10:00am - Divine Liturgy w/ Fr Peter
 
Sunday, May 11th
9:00am - Reader's Orthros
10:00am - Typika Service & Bible Study  
 
Friday, May 16th
6:00pm - 9th Hour & Great Vespers w/ Fr Dan Suciu
Session 1 - Heavenly Liturgy: Jewish Copy - Christian Reality
 
Saturday, May 17th
9:00am - Orthros w/ Fr Dan Suciu and Fr Peter
10:00am - Divine Liturgy w/ Fr Dan Suciu and Fr Peter 
6:00pm - 9th Hour & Great Vespers w/ Fr Dan Suciu
Session 2 - To Heaven Together; To Hell Alone: the Orthodox Perspective on Salvation as a Corporate Process
 
Sunday, May 18th
9:00am - Orthros w/ Fr Dan Suciu
10:00am - Divine Liturgy w/ Fr Dan Suciu  
Session 3 - Attending Someone Else's Baptism: An Opportunity to Revisit our own and Recommit to Christ
 
Sunday, May 25th
9:00am - Reader's Orthros
10:00am - Typika Service & Bible Study  
 
Friday, May 30th
6:00pm - 9th Hour & Great Vespers w/ Fr Peter
 
Saturday, May 31st
9:00am - Orthros w/ Fr Peter
10:00am - Divine Liturgy w/ Fr Peter
 
Sunday, June 1st
9:00am - Reader's Orthros
10:00am - Typika Service & Bible Study  
 
For a complete and updated schedule, please see our church calendar: https://www.stjohnprodromos.org/news/calendar 
 
Reader Services
Our Reader services are done when we do not have a priest. It begins with Orthros at 9am, followed by Typika generally around 10am. Afterwards we have Bible Study and discussion in the community hall. This is a great time for any questions that anyone may have. We invite everyone to attend!
 
Prayer for Catechumens
O Lord our God, who dwells in the heavens, and looks down upon all thy works, look down upon thy servants, the catechumens, who have bowed their necks before thee, and grant them a light yoke. Make them honorable members of thy holy Church and vouchsafe unto them the laver of regeneration, the forgiveness of sins and the robe of incorruption, unto the knowledge of thee, our true God.
 
Orthodox Prayer for the Priesthood
O Lord Jesus Christ, enkindle the hearts of all Thy priests with the fire of zealous love for Thee, that they may labor unceasingly in Thine earthly vineyard for the salvation of our souls and the glory of Thine All-Honorable and Majestic Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.
 
How to find us:
Our website – stjohnprodromos.org
Facebook – Saint John Greek Orthodox Church Amarillo - fb.me/OrthodoxAmarillo
Gab - https://gab.com/OrthodoxAmarillo
Discord - for an invite to our Parish server, please contact Kameron or Rusty.
Tithe to our Parish - https://tithe.ly/give_new/www/#/tithely/give-one-time/4866268
 
Our physical address and phone number:
1101 S. Bell Street
Amarillo TX 79106
806-355-0683
 
If you have any questions or would like to add any content to the monthly newsletter, please feel free to contact us at stjohnamarillo@gmail.com or send a Facebook message to our church page. Natasha or Rusty will get back to you ASAP.

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