560 Oak Ridge Turnpike
Oak Ridge, TN 37830
News and Notes for St. Anne
Service Schedule
Wednesday- May 15
Vespers - 6:30 pm
Study Group follows

Saturday - May 18
Great Vespers - 5 pm
Confession follows

Sunday - May 19
Sunday of the Paralytic
Divine Liturgy 9:30 am
Last Day of Sunday School

Raising Them Right - Some Thoughts from Fr. Stephen

This Sunday we mark the end of another year of Sunday School, and we will honor our graduating high school seniors. I have been in ordained ministry for roughly 40 years. The first teens that I worked with (Mother Beth and I volunteered to work with Junior High Youth when we were in college) are now grandparents. To say that much has changed over the years is an understatement.

What remains a constant is the year-by-year growth of the young. To see those whom you baptized as infants now in college (or older) is a reminder that what we are doing in the lives of our youth is a serious business.

At St. Anne, I think it is fair to say that our youth are among the most devout and enthusiastic members of the Church. Their joy and commitment are examples to the adults around them!

God give grace to those who grow among us, and to those who go out from us into the wider world! May the saints pray for them!

 Coffee Hour Plan for This Sunday

Our new plan for managing Coffee Hour continues this week. This is week 3 in May, served by those whose last names begin with L-Q . Plan to bring food and to share in the clean up. Thank you for your generous service!

Let us break bread together!
Help With A Meal - Suzie Coffey

Thank you all ahead of time for your gracious hospitality to Suzie and her husband, Steve, while she recovers from a knee replacement surgery. The surgery will take place on Thursday, May 9th and she will come home to recover the following day. 

Suzie cares for her husband, Steve, at home, and neither of them will be able to be mobile while she recovers. Meals will be especially helpful! 

Instructions for how to contact her and other information is included in the Take Them a Meal link below:

Women's Book Club - New Book Selection

We are trying a different kind of book for our next book club meeting – we’ve been reading non-fiction, and this month we have chosen a work of fiction that has points of interest for discussion to us as an Orthodox reading group.  The Awakening of Miss Prim  has lots to recommend it – it’s a little “light reading” for us post-Pascha!
 
Next meeting: Sunday, June 2 
 
A young woman leaves everything behind to work as a librarian in a remote French village, where she finds her outlook on life and love challenged in every way. Prudencia Prim is a young woman of intelligence and achievement, with a deep knowledge of literature and several letters after her name. But when she accepts the post of private librarian in the village of San Ireneo de Arnois, she is unprepared for what she encounters there. The neighbors, are capable of charm and eccentricity in equal measure, determined as they are to preserve their singular little community from the modern world outside.

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