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The Charter Members of the Parish Burn the Mortgage, December 2004 |
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December marked the 25th Anniversary of our parish and the payoff of our mortgage. Alleluia! |
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Waiting for the lovely bride |
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Susan Hansen and George Engel hard were joined in Holy matrimony December 28, 2004 |
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Fr Cassian delivers the wedding sermon |
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Raymond Jabbour prepares for his baptism, Christmastide 2004 |
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In his bright yellow swim trunks, Raymond is ready to be reborn! |
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Wow! |
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Brandon Jabbour, aged 3, is not so sure he likes his "special bath" |
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Jessica Jabbour is learning Arabic dancing from her mother Mayda |
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To celebrate the baptisms, the Jabbours provided a feast and dancing |
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Three lovely girls enjoying the party |
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Meredith Hinshelwood smiles for the camera |
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The youth joined His Grace, Bishop Antoun for pizza at Angelo's |
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Patty and Pascal taking a smile break from their pizza |
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Is the room tilting? |
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Michael and Simon Jabbour imitating the Leaning Tower of Pizza! |
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Bishop Antoun provides a blessing |
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His Grace speaks words of wisdom with a delightful sense of humor |
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The OFFICIAL burning of the mortgage |
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Pigging out on pancakes |
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The St Andrews Cub Scouts provided a Pancake Supper to the parish to raise funds for the troop |
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Awards Day |
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The Cub Scouts awarded the Shipes in thanksgiving for their leadership of the troop |
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The Palm Sunday Procession around the church |
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The Palm Sunday liturgy |
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Some of the children go forward to have their decorated candles lit |
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The Altar for the Garden of Gethsemane |
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Thanks to Robert Seitz for his talents and devotion! |
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It's gonna take a while for me to forgive you! |
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Kennady, daughter of Steve and Joy Kesterson and granddaughter of Connie Albright, was baptized at Pentecost, and she did not like Fr Cassian for quite a while afterwards |
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Connie and her helpers worked very hard to make this baptism celebration beautiful! |
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Kennady is ready to smile now |
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Chris and Jean Sapp have a delightful time teaching the Early Readers Sunday School class |
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I'm almost ready! |
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Nancy Sapp after preparing thoroughly performed her speech very well for the Oratorical Festival at the 2005 Parish Life Conference in Atlanta, GA in June |
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Girls Just Wanna Have Fun! |
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Kailen and Janet Hodge and Megan and Caitlyn Dunlop are entertaining each other after church |
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