October 2nd, 2010
On October 15th, families around the world will be lighting candles at 7.p.m. in honor of their babies. As this International Wave of Light spreads around the globe, we have the opportunity here in Kona to join with others who grieve, remember, and hope for reunion in the world to come.
6:15 p.m. Memorial Service 7:00 p.m. Candle Lighting 7:15-8:00 Discussion with Jenny Schroedel, author of Naming The Child: Hope-filled Reflections on Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Infant Death about our role as keepers of the memory, as well as practical ways to support and help grieving parents in their journey toward healing.
Location: St. Juvenaly Orthodox Mission, Hualalai Gardens 74-4871 Palani Rd (enter from Mamalahoa Hwy. at Palani Junction).
Please RSVP to Jenny Schroedel, jenschroedel AT gmail.com (854-1770) with the name of your baby. We will be purchasing votive candles in honor of each baby remembered on this night, so it would be helpful to know the names in advance. If your baby does not yet have a name, just let us know and we will reserve a candle for you!
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September 28th, 2010
Matthew Lovein of Lovein Productions has just released a video of our 2010 Pascha service. He put a ton of work into this — 4+ hours of video was condensed into 4 minutes. Thanks Matthew!
St. Juvenaly Mission – 2010 Pascha from Matthew Lovein on Vimeo.
September 10th, 2010
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On September 18 and 19, St. Juvenaly Orthodox Mission will host a visit of the miraculous myrrh-streaming icon of Honolulu, a reproduction of the famous Iveron icon of the Mother of God that, according to Tradition, was authored by St. Luke, the New Testament writer.
A copy of this icon was entrusted in 1982 to Brother Joseph José Muñoz-Cortes while he was on pilgrimage to Mount Athos, the Holy Mountain. The abbot who gifted this icon to Joseph said to him “A church in which there is no love, compassion and mercy is not a church” and told him that this icon “wants to come to America.”
For 15 years this icon miraculously streamed myrrh and was safeguarded by Joseph. He often said that the “greatest miracle of the Myrrh-Streaming Icon is not so much the manifestation of the physical myrrh, so much as the grace that it gives people to change their lives for the better.” He was brutally murdered on October 31, 1997 (Halloween) and the icon has not been seen again.
In 2007, a copy of this icon in Honolulu began to stream myrrh. The “Hawaiian” icon of the Theotokos is a 7” x 9” paper reproduction laminated on a board one inch thick. Fr. Anatole Lyovin, the priest of the Russian church in Honolulu, purchased this icon in a church bookstore in Toronto, Canada and gave it as a gift to his parishioner Reader Nectarios. This miracle has been confirmed by Archbishop Kirill, of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad.
This icon will be preset at two services: Great Vespers, 6pm Saturday, September 18, and Divine Liturgy, 10am Sunday September 19.
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