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+Robert Peter Kornafel

+Robert Peter Kornafel, 79, fell asleep in the Lord today, Friday, August 5, 2011.  Robert was a communicant of our parish for many years.  He is survived by his wife Olga, daughter Kathryn, and son James.
A panikhida in Bob's memory will be served at our parish tonight (Friday) at 6:15pm, prior to Vespers for the Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord.
May our loving God give comfort to those Bob has left behind, and may his memory be eternal!
SERVICES CANCELED

Due to the expected arrival of Hurricane Irene this weekend, all scheduled services have been canceled.  This includes the Divine Liturgy for the Feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist on Monday morning.  Please take the time to pray, read from Holy Scriptures, and read the lives of the saints in lieu of attending services.  Scroll down for a link to the daily scripture readings and saints of the day.  As you pray, you may include the following prayer in this stormy time:

A Prayer against Bad Weather

O Master, Lord our God, who through Thy consubstantial and beginningless Word, and Thy life-giving Spirit who is equal in honor, hast brought everything out of nothingness into being; who hast set sandy barriers to the sea, and weighed the mountains and the valleys in a balance; who hast measured the skies and hold the water in the palm of Thy hand; who hast given to this visible world of the senses its law and rules, its harmony and order; who hast appointed changes to the weather and variations in the orbit of the sun; who, through the mingling of the elements, hold all things together by Thine inexpressible power, and keep them free from harm and intact: Do Thou Thyself, all-good King, extending to us Thine innate and customary love and goodness, visit the work of Thy hands.  Do not deprive us of Thy mercies and Thy compassion, and do not destroy Thine inheritance, for Thou hast ineffably created us in Thine own image.  Thou hast given Thine only-begotten Son as a ransom for us, and through the mystical communion of Thy Spirit hast made us share in Thine own divinity; forgive, we pray, the multitude of our sins in the far greater multitude, of Thy mercies.  Thou didst wash away the sins of humanity through the Cross and the Blood of Thy Son.  Restore the world of nature, which has been grievously disturbed into an unnatural state because of the unruliness and disorderliness of our lawless and corrupt behavior, and bring it back to its natural harmony and order.  Make the great ocean return to its usual calmness, bring to end the tempest and the disturbance of the elements that threaten us, order the winds to blow once more with gentleness and moderation.  Rebuke the raging of the sea and the unnatural violence of the gales; let the Spirit of the storm be stilled and the tempest return to tranquility.
Through the intercession of the most blessed Lady Theotokos, of the God-like Angels and all the Saints, and through the good pleasure and love of Thine only-begotten Son with whom Thou are blessed, together with Thine all-holy and good and life-giving Spirit, now and ever, and to the ages of ages.  Amen.

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