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| Volume 7 Number 24 - Tuesday, June 14th, 2005 |
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On Saturday, June 18th, 2005, beginning at 5:00pm, St. Mary Magdalene Orthodox Church will observe a Groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of their new temple. The Groundbreaking will take place on the parish’s newly-acquired property located at 2439 South Long Lake Road in Fenton, Michigan.
The ceremony will begin with Great Vespers at 5:00pm, and will be presided by His Eminence, Archbishop KYRILL, of the Orthodox Church in America and St. Mary Magdalene’s pastor, Fr. Paul Jannakos. Refreshments will be served following the service.
St. Mary Magdalene Orthodox Church began in July of 2002. Since its inception, the parish community, under the guidance of Fr. Paul Jannakos, has been conducting worship services and educational classes on the campus of St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic church, on Adelaide Street in Fenton. St. Mary Magdalene presently is composed of eighty-five families, and has pledged to serve as an Orthodox Christian witness to the mid-Michigan area.
The parish community is a “pan-orthodox” one, thereby including families from many backgrounds – Greek, Macedonian, Russian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Serbian, Bulgarian, and Syrian, etc. Americans who have entered into Christian Orthodoxy from both Roman Catholic and Protestant backgrounds constitute approximately half the membership of parish.
The architectural design for the Temple to be constructed has been drawn by Mrs. Shari Ananich of the Kensington Architectural Firm in Fenton, MI. The new church is being modeled after several of well-known churches designed and constructed in Alaska during the Nineteenth Century by the celebrated Russian Orthodox Architect, Rev. Ioann Veniaminov, who later became the Metropolitan and Archbishop of Moscow and All-Russia. (d. March 31, 1879).
For more information, call 810 695 5175 or access their web-site at www.st-marymagdalene.org
St. Mary Magdalene
Orthodox Mission Church
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