Scholarship in honor of Archbishop Benjamin DinnerThe Parish Council of Holy Trinity Cathedral in San Francisco is seeking to endow a named scholarship for seminarians in honor of His Eminence, Archbishop Benjamin, on the occasion of his retirement. He has been our Archpastor in the Diocese of the West since 2007 and has served the church for over 40 years, as choir director, deacon, presbyter, and finally bishop and archbishop. The goal is to raise $25,000 for an endowed scholarship. No donation is too small. Please send your check to:

Holy Trinity Cathedral
Memo: Abp Benjamin Scholarship 1520 Green Street
San Francisco CA 94123

St. Mary Magdalene Feast Day – August 4thThis year will celebrate St. Mary Magdalene according to the old calendar since I will not be in town for the typical celebration of our feast. We will celebrate on Monday August 4th at 10:00am. It will be a special feast as we will have our bishop elect The Very Reverend Archimandrite Vasily (Vitaly Permiakov) and our Chancellor Archpriest Kirill Sokolov in attendance. I am hoping we can plan a nice fish luncheon and give you an opportunity to meet our bishop elect. Archimandrite Vasily will be consecrated Bishop on August 16th at Holy Trinity Cathedral in San Francisco.

Thriving Parish Project
We will try and meet in late July to go over the small group discussion responses. We will wait for Jennifer to return from Hawaii.

Bookstore News – The new storage container is here – we will soon begin working on the bookstore which will be located in the former “storage” room.

Parish New Website
We will be going live with our new website on Monday July 28th. Our old website and all emails will go off line while bring the new website on line. We will have new emails (including the priest! :) and a new way for the community to be up to date on all parish activities. On July 28th (it may take a bit longer) go onto our new website www.stmarymagdalenechurch.org to register to receive information and the bulletin. Please change your bookmark to the new new website and do not use www.orthodoxmerced.org.