Father's Message 
Beloved in the Lord!
Welcome to our parish website! If you have found us by surfing on the web, then we welcome you. If you are looking for a small community of faith or a church home, then we welcome you again. However you have arrived and for whatever reason, we welcome you.
Our faith is in Christ, our hope is for heaven, and our love is the love of the Holy Spirit. If this fits with your quest for God and your search for the heart's true home, then come visit us. Even if this does not fit with what you are looking for, come anyway! We firmly believe in the invitation that the Lord gave to His apostles in John 1:35-39. (This passage is often referred to as the “Come and See” passage.) The reading of the Bible can give us knowledge of God, but only the Church can give us the experience of God. Theology and Scripture study can help us understand our life in God, but only the Church, gathered and sent, can be the presence of God in the world. A loving relationship with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit comes through a sharing in the life of the Church.
We can explain who we are and Who we have experienced God to be, but only your presence can help you to share in the life of the Holy Trinity.
Join us for worship each Sunday at 10:00 AM. (All our church services are in English.) We have greeters who will welcome you and guides who will sit with you during the Liturgy to help you understand the Liturgy. Stay for refreshments and fellowship afterwards in our parish hall. Feel free to ask questions.
As we say in our Divine Liturgy: "We have seen the True Light, we have received the Heavenly Spirit, we have found the true faith, worshipping the Undivided Trinity, for the Trinity has saved us!"
Come and See!
Mercy and Peace to you from Christ our God,
fr. Philip Seeton
July 21-25, 2008
Iconography Workshop
Taught by
Master Iconographer
Father Elias Rafaj
St. Basil the Great Byzantine Catholic Church, Irving, will sponsor a five-day workshop in icon painting Monday, July 21 - Friday, July 25, 2008. Father Elias
Rafaj, pastor of St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Church in Houston, will teach the Workshop. The workshop will meet eight hours each day for a five-day total of 40 hours. Participants will be taught the techniques used in the ancient art of icon painting / writing, from transferring the drawing onto the icon board (at the beginning of the process) to applying the gold leaf (at the end of the process). Acrylic paints will be used in this workshop for the creation of the icons. The symbolism, meaning, and religious uses of icons (in church for public religious services and in the home for private devotions) will be explained during the course of the workshop. The various techniques used by iconographers through past centuries will also be explained.
The cost of the Workshop is $285 per person. This includes all art supplies and instruction. For more information, please e-mail
dallasbenedictine@yahoo.com or call 214-339-8483.
Monks on the Web!
Holy Resurrection Monastery has updated their website, including pictures of some people you just might recognize. They've also added a new blog to their website called The Anastasis Dialogue about the calling of Eastern Catholics to be active in spiritual ecumenism, and how they are living that out. Go check them out, leave a comment, and, if you can, offer them a donation through their new Paypal button.
Graphic courtesy of Father Maximos.
Update on the Dogaru Family
We ask that you keep Tatiana and Anastasia in your prayers as well as the rest of the Dogaru Family at this time. Thank you, as always, for your support, well wishes and fervent supplications.
