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Lady Sarakosti Recipe

A Poem for Great Lent
2-2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup salt
Quiet Lady Sarakosti
Sarakosti, 2-2 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
is a custom from long ago
ago, water (as much as needed)
Our yiayia’s
ayia’s used to make her
her,
* Not to be eaten! *
Out of flour and H20.
Combine flour, salt and cinnamon in a
She wears a simple nun’s dress, medium sized bowl and gradually add
enough water to form a stiff, but flexible
with a cross upon her head
head,
dough. Roll dough out to 1/2" thickness.
Her hands in prayer without a mouth
mouth, With a sharp knife cut out the figure as
To keep the fast with mostly bread. shown above. Cut out two long narrow
strips for arms and join at shoulders (wet
surface to which arms will be applied).
Her feet teach us to count
count, Make slits in dough for fingers.
The weeks of Lent are seven
seven, Mark closed eyelids and noise with
We cut one off each Saturday
Saturday, pointed object. Wipe entire figure
f down
with a lightly dampened cloth to make
until Pascha and the new heaven
heaven.
shiny. Bake in moderate oven until golden.
 PRAYER OF SAINT EPHRAIM THE SYRIAN

O Lord and Master of my life, Grant not unto me a spirit of

idleness, of discouragement, of lust for power, and of vain talk.

But bestow upon me, Your servant, the spirit of chastity, of

meekness, of patience, and of love.
Yes,, O Lord and King, grant that I may see my own faults,,
and not the faults of others
others, for blessed are You
unto ages of ages. Amen.
March 6, 2011 Sunday
unday of Forgiveness Matthew 6:14-21
6:14
March 13, 2011 Sunday of Orthodoxy John 1:43-51
March 20, 2011 Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas Mark 2:1-12
 Four Friends
Can you think of and write the names of four friends from
Church who would help you like in the Gospel reading?

1.
2.
3.
4.

Do you know of a friend who needs your help?

“There
There is no greater love than to lay down your life for a friend”.
John 15:13
ORTHODOX BINGO FOR GREAT LENT

Pick one
Say a prayer for Give away Visit with coat from your
Try not to
the same person 5 toys to an elderly person closet to give
eat meat
every night an orphan who is lonely to someone
without one

Make a Send a missionary

Pack a lunch
handmade gift a handwritten Make seven Sing a song
to give to someone
for someone letter of prostrations of praise to God
who is hungry
special encouragement

Give a pair of Make a care

Sit with a homeless Send a stuffed
Try not to eat shoes to a package for the
person and drink a animal to a
dairy today homeless I.O.C.C.
cup of hot cocoa hospital patient
shelter (www.iocc.org)

Gather canned Color

Bake cookies
foods from Attend a weekday Play a Church CD an icon of
for a homeless
people at Church Church service and sing along Christ for
shelter
to give away your refrigerator

Ask the Mother

Light a candle Thank God for Say a prayer for Visit a child
of God to help
for your 10 things the same person with special
all the children
godparents today each morning needs
who are sick
March 27, 2011 Veneration of the Cross Mark 8:34-9:1
April 3, 2011 Sunday of St. John Climacus Mark 9:17-31
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God,
Have mercy on me, a sinner.
April 10, 2011 Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt Mark 10:32-45
10:32
April 16, 2011 Raising of Lazarus John 11, 1-45
 April 17, 2011 Palm Sunday John 12:1-18

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 PARABLE
OF THE
10 VIRGINS
CHRIST WASHING THE FEET OF THE DISCIPLES
April 24, 2011 Great and Holy Pascha John 1:1-17