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FR. JOHN SHIMCHICK, RECTOR - CHURCH: (609) 654-4865
Services and upcoming events
- CROSSROADS – our weekly bulletin
UPCOMING SERVICES:
Saturday, November 16: NO Great Vespers
Sunday, November 17: Divine Liturgy – 10:00 / Following the Liturgy – "On the Way to Orthodoxy Session – Thinking and Doing Such Things as Are Well-Pleasing to You: Putting Faith in Action," led by Diana Pasca.
Wednesday, November 20: Vesperal Liturgy for the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple – 7 PM
Saturday, November 23: Great Vespers – 5 PM
Sunday, November 24: Divine Liturgy – 10:00
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Theology: What is It and Why It Matters
A Retreat at our church led by
DR. PETER BOUTENEFF
Saturday, November 9, 2024
Orthodox Church of the Holy Cross
11 Wilkins Station Rd.
Medford, New Jersey
9:30 – 10:00 / Registration
10:00 – 12:00 - First Session
12:00 – 1:00 - Lunch
1:00 – 3:00 - Second Session
3:30 – Vespers
What is the relationship:
— between theology and prayer?
— between theology and study?
— and between theology and life?
Is theology for everyone or only a select few?
Our sessions will aim to unpack questions like these in a series of substantive (but not stuffy) talks and discussions. Our retreat leader is Dr. Peter Bouteneff who has experience with specialized as well as wider parish audiences. He has taught at St. Vladimir’s Seminary for 25 years — many of you may have met him at events around New York, or at our parish when he gave his last retreat in our parish.
Attendancd is free - please RSVP by Sunday, November 3 at:
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BELOW is the final entry for our Daily Paschal Reader:
You can find complete archived copies of our Lenten and Paschal readers at:
https://holycrossmedford.org/lenten-readers
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Saturday, June 8–Sunday, June 9, 2024 – Our Final Daily Paschal Reader – Singing the Joy of Pascha – R.S. Thomas, from: “Fugue for Ann Griffiths”
Today’s passage – a short section from R.S. Thomas’s poem, “Fugue for Ann Griffiths” will be the last entry for our Daily Paschal Reader.
from: Fugue for Ann Griffiths
by R.S. Thomas
(Welsh Airs, 1987)
There are other pilgrimages
to make beside Jerusalem, Rome;
beside the one into the no-man’s –
land beyond the microscope’s carry.
If you came in winter,
you could find the tree
with your belief still crucified
upon it, that for her at all
times was in blossom, the resurrection
of one that had come seminally
down to raise the deciduous human
body to the condition of his body.
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Follow our 2023 Complete Paschal_Pentecost_All Saints Sermon Series - the following Sermons are in the same file - from most recent to the first:
Notes from the Sermon for All Saints_Thoughts on the Trip to Wales June 12, 2023
"The Gift of the Holy Spirit – In Time, Within Places, and Through People" (June 4, 2023)
"A Pascha of the Faithful" (May 21, 2023)
"A Pascha which is Christ the Redeemer:" The Samaritan Woman and Mother's Day (May 14, 2023)
"O Pascha of Incorruption" (May 7, 2023)
" Pascha of Beauty" and "The Beautiful Deed" (April 30, 2023)
"The Pascha of the Lord" (April 23, 2023)
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See Our Seasonal Daily Readers:
2024: Paschal Daily Reader
2024: The Spiritual Witness of Gaza
Natalka Pavlovsky
