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Website Last Updated: 10-Feb-2004 The purpose of this website is to provide information to our parishioners, as well as providing an insight into Orthodox Christianity to people in general. Parish Name: Sts Michael & Gabriel Orthodox Church Jurisdiction: Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia & New Zealand Parish Address: Corner Hornsey Road & Exeter Road Homebush West, NSW, Australia, 2140. Mailing Address: PO Box 625 Strathfield, NSW, Australia, 2135. Web Email: SMGAOC@HOTMAIL.COM Priest Email: FRJVESIC@OZEMAIL.COM .AU Phone: 0411 555 995 Thank you for taking the time to visit our website. If you have any suggestions or are experiencing technical difficulties with this site, please contact the WEBMASTER.
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2004 NSW Retreat It’s back. The spirirual retreat is on this year from Feb 20 - 22nd. From Friday night to Sunday afternoon, all the parishes of NSW will be enjoying each others company, as well as those from Melbourne and elsewhere. Its open to any Orthodox 18 and over and a great oppotunity to learn about Orthodoxy and meet others who are struggling to win Heaven in this crazy world. It costs $110 with all meals catered for and sleeping arrangements, you can’t get a cheaper getaway anywhere. Download an APPLICATION FORM HERE and send it back to your local youth representative or email it back to me at the email below. See you there. 2004 Parish Diary - Selling Fast Following the success of the diary in the previous two years, we are revamping it for the year coming. It will be slim lined, about half the size, with a leather look slip case that is reusable for years to come. The diaries are just $25AUS for both the exquisite cover and essential insert and are great for work or school or around the house. Containing all the Church feasts, fasts and activities aswell as public holidays, school terms with an address and notes section this is a must have item. Orders for other churches and organisations that order over 25 will receive 5% off each diary. Send in the order form under the group name or call Mary Makariou on 0413 756 065 or George Saadi on 0400 12 70 12 for delivery option, essential for oversees orders.
Feast Day Celebrations Nov 8th was our parish’s feast day, the second we have had at Homebush west, for Sts Michael and Gabriel and all the Archangels. We started the day with a Divine Liturgy on the Saturday with His Eminence celebrating with us. Following from this we went around the corner to St Dominics Church hall for a catered lunch and some fun. Opened with a prayer from Fr. John and Metropolitan Paul, we ate, sang songs, watched a brief preview of the church school play, had dessert and watched a touching video of our first 2 years together as a church of Christ. Put together with film and still images from the past two years, it was a great jesture to the parish. Thanks to Claire, Michael, Kh. Helen, Ramsey and anyone else who may have had the foresight to take photos and video of major events in our church life. Monastry Visit On the Queen’s birthday holiday we visited the skete of St John the Baptist with Fr Joachim, conveniently close to the monastry dedicated to the Holy Mother of God icon called Kazan of the Russian Abroad in Kentlyn. After Liturgy in his church we visited the nun’s church, simply beautiful, and saw the icon the have that is reappearing miraculously after fading over the years. It is of St Seraphim of Sarov. Each year the colour is improving and it is near completion. They also have many relics of saints and a splinter of the Holy Cross. Following lunch we visited Fr Joachim gave us a tour of his land, which has been a monastry for almost 70 years, not all with him there of course. We saw the cave that the previous monk, Saint Gregor, would spend nights in vigil. He passed to the Lord in 1992. Fr John lead us in an Akathist to the Baptist John at the same cave. Truely we are lucky to have a faith as ours is. Christ is still in His Church.
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