Church guide

Congratulations to the St. Athanasius Senior Bible Bowl Team! (Tom Ballew, Ginny Braun, Adam King and Peter Speier, and coach Subdeacon Michael Easbey) They won 1st Place tonight at the Diocese Parish Life Conference! In two weeks they will go to the Archdiocese Convention in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to compete in the national finals. If you would like to make a donation towards their travel to Michigan and accommodations, you can put a check in the tithe box this weekend or next, or donate through the parish website at this link: https://www.stathanasius.org/donation/ (Please use the "General Donation" earmark, and put the words "Bible Bowl travel" in the notes/comment box.) Thank you, team, for representing our parish! Thank you, also, to our junior team, which did a fantastic job: Ben Ballew, Jessica Berari, Luke Hoppe and Hannah Sieck.

Team Project Mexico 2019. The day they left.

Our SAOC Project Mexico 2019 mission team has finished building another house for a Mexican family, and they are on their way to do the house blessing this morning! More photos to follow. They return tomorrow evening. Thank you for your prayers! Please pray for their safe travels tomorrow.

Please help if you are able. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-for-the-heiduks

Tomorrow morning at 8:30 a.m. we will celebrate the Feast of SS. Peter and Paul with Divine Liturgy, followed by Coffee Hour.

Construction has begun on the patio expansion, shade structure and tot lot, praise God! Thank you to all who have supported the Golf Tournament and Building Fund! We will keep you updated on the progress.

Please pray for our mission team to Mexico. They leave this Thursday for 6 days to build a house. They have dedicated this trip to the memory of Dean Brunner and Gail Shannon; both generous supporters of Project Mexico, both of whom passed from this life in the past year. Memory eternal.

The St. Athanasius Choir gathered tonight for a very belated Pascha party. Was more of a Pentecost party. What a hard working, talented, good hearted, faithful, fun group of people. Thank you, Fr. Nicholas and Jan, for hosting the party at your house! May God continue to guide and bless the music ministry of our church.

Pentecost services at St. Athanasius: Festal Vespers & Trisagion for the Departed: Saturday, June 15 at 6 p.m. Festal Matins Sunday, June 16 at 9 a.m. Festal Divine Liturgy Sunday, June 16 at 10 a.m. The children of the Atrium invite you to choose the Gift of the Holy Spirit you will pray for and cultivate in the coming year! Followed by Kneeling Prayers and GREEN POTLUCK

Pentecost, the birthday of the Church, the coming of the Great Comforter: at an Orthodox Church near you this weekend!

I Madonnari update. Coming along quickly. The team will cover today's work with a tarp and hope for the best. We have a handout with the story depicted in our drawing on one side and the life of St. Brigid on the other.

I Madonnari progress. Racing to beat the rain. Go team!!

Our team working this morning at the I Madonarri Festival at the Mission. Pray that the rain predicted for tomorrow blows over!

I Madonnari Festival 2019 Drawing sponsored by St. Athanasius Church Schematic lovingly drawn by Asia Ballew. (St. Brigid of Kildare is the patron saint of St. Athanasius Church’s outreach ministry to the unsheltered and needy of our Santa Barbara/Goleta community.) St. Brigid of Kildare & the Wolf Once a rustic, seeing a wolf run about in proximity to the palace, killed it; not knowing that it was the tame creature of the king; and he brought the dead beast to the king, expecting a reward. Then the prince in anger ordered the man to be cast into prison and executed. Now when Brigid heard this, her spirit was stirred within her, and mounting her chariot, she drove to the court, to intercede for the life of the poor countryman. And on the way, there came a wolf over the bog racing towards her, and it leaped into the chariot, and allowed her to caress it. Then, when she reached the palace, she went before the king, with the wolf at her side, and said, “Sire! I have brought thee a better wolf than that thou hast lost, spare therefore the life of the poor man who unwittingly slew thy beast.” Then the king accepted her present with great joy, and ordered the prisoner to be released.

Hey, Santa Barbara peeps! St. Athanasius Church is sponsoring a square at this year's I Madonnari Festival. Asia Ballew, Dorothy Alexander and a team of artists will be drawing an illustration from the life of St. Brigid of Kildaire. Please stop by the Old Mission to cheer them on Sat, Sun and Mon of this Memorial Day weekend, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. And pray that the rain blows over on Sunday!! Rain on a festival about chalk drawings on the pavement: NOT a good thing!! We almost NEVER get rain this time of year. http://www.imadonnarifestival.com/

Empty tomb. Those holy hours between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection when Christ descended into Hades.

Agape Vespers of Pascha: reading of the Gospel in 12 languages.

Chrismations on Holy Saturday. Welcome to Natalie, Kyndal, Chris and Robert! God grant them many years!

Visit by His Emminence Metropolitan Joseph on Holy Monday for Bridegroom Matins, and tonsuring of Michael Easbey to the subdeaconate.

Christ is risen! Indeed He is risen! Wishing a blessed Pascha to all of our parish family and friends near and far!

Fr. Jon Braun reading the end of the Paschal sermon of St. John Chrysostom at Paschal Liturgy.