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- Our guiding principles were:
- Educate and inform our parishes
- Raise funds for the monastery
- Drive our expenses to zero if at all possible through donations and doing all work internally
- We planned the event to be on the feast day of a saint important to monasticism (1/17 Saint Anthony)
- The dinner was a great success with over 100 attendees and in addition we were blessed to have Abbess Mother Gabriella and 7 others from The Dormition of the Mother of God as our guests.
- The Mothers set up a wonderful display of vestments, books, icons and a Gift Shop
- A special blessing was to have Vespers served by our guests
- We raised over $5,200 for the Monastery in addition to nearly $1,000 of sales from their Gift Shop
- Most importantly over 100 members of our parishes and others were introduced to the Monastery
- Three wonderful talks were given
- Saint Anthony and His Legacy For Us Via Our Local Monasteries - Fr. Matthew Butrie
- Monasteries In Traditional Countries and Their Value For the Church - Fr. Paul Jannakos
- Life as a Monastic at Dormition Monastery and What Awaits us as a Visitor - Mother Gabriella
- Father Robert Royer gave the Invocation
- Father Joseph Abud gave closing remarks and the Benediction
- Assumption Church funded, brought and served hot wine, cider and soda
- Saint George Church led, hosted, funded, made and served the dinner, decorated the hall and cleaned afterwards and did the accounting
- Saint Mary Magdalene Church funded, made and served appetizers
- Saint Nicholas Church funded, made and served desserts
- All who came, cooked or donated or did all three made this event possible
- More than anything else, let us give all Glory to God
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