theophany 2012

2012 Annual House Blessings

Please contact Fr. Lawrence to have your house blessed in the Theophany Season.  Lent comes early this year, and the parish has grown, so please make arrangements early!

How should I prepare for my house to be blessed?

1. Have the lights on and doors open in the rooms to be blessed (not the washrooms or storage spaces)
2. Turn off TV, radio and other electronic distractions
3. Prepare a table in the main room(preferably in the icon corner) and on it the following: 

• an icon with candle lit before it
• a bowl containing holy water
• lists of names of those you wish to pray for (living/departed)

If you have no holy water, the priest will supply some.

What will happen in the service of blessing?

1. When the family is gathered round the icon, the priest will begin with Trisagion prayers. Please join in with the Our Father
2. The priest will sing the tropar for Theophany; please join in(printed on the back of this leaflet).
3. The priest will pray the blessing prayer; the people respond “Amen”
4. A family member carrying the lit candle leads the priest to one room after another, where he sprinkles Holy Water. All follow in procession, singing the tropar repeatedly.
5. After all the rooms are blessed, the procession returns to the icon corner for the dismissal.

Hard copies of the house blessing leaflet are at church, or print your own from here. 

THEOPHANY services coming up!

Fast free season continues until and including Wed. Jan. 4th. 

Thurs. January 5th 


Complete fast from mid-day in preparation for communion


7 pm --- Vesperal liturgy and blessing of water
                                           FESTAL meal (all foods allowed)

Sun. January 8th   


Matins, Liturgy and lunch as usual

followed by BLESSING OF THE FRASER RIVER at Derby Reach Park 

Farleys Open House CANCELLED Fri. Dec 30th

Open House Friday 30th CANCELLED

Folks, due to stomach flu at our place, we are sadly going to 




have to CANCEL


our planned open house this Friday Dec. 30th. 


Please pass the word to anyone you know who might have 


intended to be there,


especially those who aren't online.

Meals for the Family P.

Robyn B

BABY P IS HERE!!!!!!

So, mommy, daddy and Zeke need some meals! I will be taking them some food tomorrow, but I need some more volunteers for a couple of weeks...

Please e-mail me at smallbyrd@gmail.com or call/text me at 604-897-8847 as soon as possible to let me know what days you are available. E-mail would be better for me since I can't have my cell phone with me at work, but I can respond to e-mails. I will, however, check my cell occasionally on my breaks.

Thanks in advance!!

Robyn

CHRISTMAS at St. Herman's-- NOTE special times!

Wed. Dec. 21 7 pm:   Vespers and CONFESSIONS. 

Sat. Dec. 24   6PM   CHRISTMAS EVE VIGIL: 

** Note: if you have not yet made your Advent confession and cannot come Wednesday Dec. 21 after vespers, please arrange to see Fr. Lawrence before Christmas Eve vigil on Saturday night.

If there is no other alternative, Fr. Lawrence will hear confessions after the Christmas Eve vigil but not on Christmas morning before liturgy.

Sun. Dec. 25  9 AM  CHRISTMAS DIVINE LITURGY


NO coffee hour after liturgy at church, but see Eileen if you want to pop by a Christmas brunch with fellow members in Langley, or Rhiannon for the same in Surrey.

Fri. Dec. 30th  1PM to lateish in the evening..... Fr. Lawrence & I want to invite all of you to drop by our Open House.

Prayers and Christmas wishes to those who must travel out of town to visit family at this time. See the rest of you at church!

St. Herman's North Star Post Office is OPEN!

BRING YOUR CHRISTMAS CARDS TO CHURCH! 

• Address clearly to your fellow members
• place in the post box in the library
• they will be sorted for delivery by me, and delivered at coffee hour with help from anyone willing
• I originally said the delivery would be Sunday the 18th, but so far there are no cards! So I'm thinking the delivery will be Christmas eve and Christmas day. 
• Any donations you would like to make can just be put in the box along with the cards. This will go to the building funds. Donation is not necessary to have your cards delivered. 

Blog problems

I'm trying to get Fr. Richard signed up with permissions/author status, but he isn't receiving the e-mail from Blogger. And now all the other authors have vanished from the settings page (behind the scenes, as it were).

I've posted a question on the blogger forums, but meanwhile if you are an author, will you try to sign in to the blog and let me know in the comments on this post if you are able to get access or not?