Sophia Winter 2018

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In This Issue

Give Thanks to the Lord In the Bishop’s Appeal	3
Editor’s Column: What’s Going On?	5
Be Pro-Active: Refections on Pastoral Issues	6
Offcial Announcements from the Bishop	10
Memory Eternal Deacon Thomas Burke	10
Third Edition of Publicans Prayer Book Announced	11
You Can Help Your Priest Bond with the Community	12
From Eden to Eden: From Egypt to the Promised Land	14
For All Those Who Now Serve or Have Ever Served	16
In Defense of Christians Summit	17
What Your Pastor Won’t Tell You about Giving	18
Reclaiming Orthodoxy	20
When I Hear Our Music I am in a Sacred Space	22
Praying for the Government’s Good Deeds	23
The Olive Trees of the Holy Land	26
Twenty Questions about the Old Testament	28
The Liturgical Year Celebrating Christ (in Arabic)	30
Offce of Vocations Report	34
When Snoopy Met Scrooge	35
Bishops Appeal Corrections and Distribution	36
Around the Eparchy	37
NAMW	42
Navigating the Eparchy	43