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Oak Ridge, TN 37830
News and Notes for St. Anne
This Week's Schedule
Wednesday October 3
Vespers 6:30 pm
Orthodox Study Group and Youth Group following

Saturday, October 6
Great Vespers 5 pm
Confession follows

Sunday October 7
Divine Liturgy 9:30 am
Sunday School Following

Adult Class with Fr. Daniel - Starts This Sunday!

  • Liturgy and Mysticism: The Experience of God in Orthodoxy

Come join us this Sunday after liturgy!

We will be discussing the first few pages of a talk given by Archbishop Alexander Golitzin .
This talk will provide us with a skeleton with which to discuss the Biblical and liturgical life of the Church as seen in the life and works of our holy Fathers.

There is a link provided here to the article. If it seems "meaty" and "academic," never fear! The class and our discussion will digest the work and feed our souls. Everyone is welcome and everyone is encouraged to read ahead!!

Due to scheduling issues we will be moving the first Sunday afternoon class given by Fr Daniel to this Sunday, October 7. The class will meet in the Narthex during the Coffee Hour.

Some October Schedule/Travel Notes

Fr. Stephen will be speaking in Atlanta at the Connect Conference this weekend. The following weekend, Fr. Daniel will be filling in for Fr. Kevin Rigdon at St. Maria's in Cleveland. On Friday and Saturday, October 19-20, Fr. Stephen will be in Miami, speaking at the Cathedral but will be back for Sunday services.

Thanks be to God for having two priests!
Thoughts on Touching the Robe of the Priest

Fr. Stephen offered a few words last Sunday on the practice of touching the priest's robe as he carries the Bread and Wine into the Altar (only the robe of the priest who carries the Gifts should be touched). Ryan Shelton found this wonderful description by Elder Zacharias of Essex on the subject. There is also a link to the entire talk .

When we touch the priest's robe during the Great Entrance:

"We must work out a little gift, fill our heart with humble dispositions, with dispositions of repentance, of humility, and even of love for God...

So when we go to the Liturgy, prepared with a little gift, and we invest this gift in the gifts the priest offers to God on our behalf, we put in those gifts all our prayers, all our repentance, all our humility, all our love, all our expectation we have of him, all our life, and we offer it to God through the words of the priest who does it on our behalf, “Thine own of thine own we offer unto thee, in all and for all.” Then God, who is faithful to us in his promises and his covenant he made with us in baptism, he does the same. He puts his life in the holy Gifts, the grace of the Holy Spirit, in making them his body and his blood, containing all the grace of the Holy Spirit."

from a talk by Archimandrite Zacharias

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St. Macrina's Bakesale

St. Macrina's is a group committed to founding an Orthodox school for our area. They will be holding bakesales for the next few Sundays. Please support this important work and pray for their success!
October 18-21 -- Orthodox Campout in NC
The 2018 Area-wide Orthodox Campout in Hot Springs, NC is scheduled for Oct. 18-21
The campout is attended by Orthodox parishes in the Carolinas, Tennessee, Georgia and Kentucky.

This year, St. Anne's has reserved 3 tent camp-sites for our parish for the event in Hot Springs, NC, this year – we hope to be able to accommodate everyone from St. Anne’s who may want to attend. These are riverside, central campsites. Deluxe Site 459 has water and electricity – and can accommodate 2 or 3 tents for those with special needs for electricity (sleep machines). It will also serve as our communal kitchen. Site 461 can handle 2 or 3 tents and has good trees for hammocks, and Site 463 is a group site that can accommodate about 10 tents.
The sites are filling up fast, so If you want space in the St. Anne's reserved group sites, please sign up on the reservation sheet at church. The cost of the sites will be split by those attending. Other campsites are available directly from the Hot Springs Resort and Spa site: https://www.nchotsprings.com/accommodations/   

St. Anne Women's Book Study Group

St. Anne's Women's Book Discussion Group   will read the book  Time and Despondency  by Nicole Roccas for their next meeting  on Sunday, October 28:  

“A condition as old as the ancients, despondency thrives in today’s culture of leisure, anxiety, and digital distraction. Time and Despondency is a penetrating synthesis of ancient theology, spiritual memoir, and self-help practicality. It envisions despondency as the extension of a broken relationship with the experience of time. Driven by the fear of death and the anxiety of living, despondency drives us to abandon the present moment, forsaking the only temporal realm in which we have true fellowship with Christ . ”

We will meet at Debra Mattingly's house. Bring a snack to share if you wish - we will eat and socialize from 4‑4:30 and will end promptly at 6 pm. !
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