The Parish of St Catherine today farewelled Fr Athanasios with a wonderful presentation by its Sunday school children and their teachers followed by a moving speech by Mr Peter Varvaressos.
The parish president, Mr Eleftherios Sfidonios presented Fr Athanasios with an ornamental pectoral cross in honour of Fr Athanasios' service to our Church. Mr Christos Rossides, chanter of the Church for over 40 years, presented Fr Athanasios with a beautiful bouquet of flowers on behalf of the faithful.
Following the service, a lunch was offered in honour of Fr Athanasios, his presvitera Carina and his daughter Georgiana. Representatives of the Church comittee, Ladies Philoptohos, the Youth Fellowship and chanters attended the Lunch.
Members of our Youth Fellowship presented Fr Athanasios with beautiful flowers and a petrahili for Fr Athanasios' pastoral ministry.
Fr Athanasios thanked everyone for their lovely gifts and promised them that St. Catherine's will always have a special place in his heart.
ST. CATHERINE'S ANNUAL CHRISTMAS FOOD COLLECTION 2021
Once again our wonderful parishioners and friends answered the Church's call and brought their donations in order to assist those most vulnerable members in our community.
A big thank you to our amazing volunteers from SOFIA UNSW, SUGS, HELLSOC & ST. CATHERINE'S YOUTH FELLOWSHIP! They did a stellar job. Very proud of our youth!
This time, we were able to help 6 charities in the community. These are:
Pantry4ThePeople
St Elesa Food Initiative
South East Neighbourhood Pantry
Street Buffet
Bayside Women's shelter
Ronald McDonald house in Randwick
Once again we would like to thank all of our beautiful donors and volunteers for making this year a very successful food drive.
May God bless all of you!
LITANY OF HOLY ICON AND RELICS OF ST. CATHERINE THIS SUNDAY
Matins& Divine Liturgy from 7 a.m
As well we encourage all our faithful to join us this Sunday morning in farewelling Fr Athanasios as this will be his last Sunday at St. Catherine's.
Fr Athanasios will be moving to the Parish/Community of the Resurrection of our Lord at Kogarah to serve there as assistant Parish priest.
Fr Athanasios has served our Church as our Parish Priest for 16 years (and 14 years as a lay assistant) and with God's Grace has seen the Parish grow numerically, thrive and grow spiritually.
Let us give thanks to God for all His blessings!
Sincere gratitude to the O Kosmos newspaper for covering our Consecration service!
'A historic moment': St Catherine's Greek Orthodox Church in Mascot officially consecrated - Greek Herald https://greekherald.com.au/community/church/historic-moment-st-catherines-greek-orthodox-church-mascot-officially-consecrated/
Today is the Feast day of St Stylianos, protector of children.
May Our Lord through the holy intercessions of St. Stylianos protect all the children of this world. We are living in difficult times and we pray that St. Stylianos will safeguard our children and keep them positive, healthy, anxiety free and close to His Church.
Χρόνια πολλά to all who are celebrating their name day today!
May St. Stylianos protect our children who are in hospital at the moment and grant them a speedy recovery.