HOUSTON: Advent Retreat

Why We Worship the Way We Do in the Orthodox Church

This Saturday,
November 17, 2007
10:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M.

St. George Orthodox Church
5311 Mercer at Bissonnet
Houston, TX 77005

Retreat Master:
Rev. Fr. Anthony Michaels
Parish Priest, St. John Chrysostom
Antiochian Orthodox Church, Fort Wayne, Indiana

The Retreat begins with Matins @ 10:00 A.M.
10:45 –Continental Breakfast & Registration
11:15- Session 1: “The Meaning of the Trisagion Prayers & the Liturgy”
12:30 P.M. – Questions
1:00 P.M. – Lunch
2:00P.M. – Session 2: “The History of Worship (How we got here)”
3:15 P.M. – Questions
3:45 P.M. – Wrap – Up
4:00 P.M. – Great Vespers

Join us in prayer and fellowship as we prepare ourselves for the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

Registration: $10.00 per person – Deadline: NOW! Please call the church office today!

713-665-5252

Babysitting available call to reserve space ($5 per child).

Sponsored by the Fellowship of St. John the Divine & the Ladies Altar Society.

Image of St Philip — a 13th century fresco of the Sopocani Monastery of the Holy Trinity in Kosovo — courtesy of the Clergy Brotherhood email of the Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America.