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Magnificent
2023 DIOCESAN ANNUAL
Slava
celebration with
Bishop Maxim in Saratoga, CA
On Sunday, Nov, 20th, the St. Archangel Mi- chael parish was blessed and honored with the Archpastoral visit by His Grace Bp. Max-
im from Los Angeles.
His Grace presided the Divine Hierarchical Lit-
urgy together with visiting Bay Area Clergy, Very Rev. Vasilije Cvijanovic from Moraga, Very. Rev. Djurica Gordic from San Francisco,
Deacon Dragan Stojanovich from Jackson, CA and the host priest Very. Rev. Vidoslav Vujasin. Al- tarboys were Mirko and Marko Macura, Vladan Bunjevic and Rafailo Stankovic.
Many faithful from the parish and many parishio- ners from the Bay Area parishes attended the service.
In his sermon about the demon possessed man in Gadarene, His Grace pointed out that the evil is re- lated to death and that Christ with his presence is healing and protecting us from the idles of the evil.
Further he said that we pray that God’s Kingdom come, and reminded us of an old aramaic expression used in the early days of the church “Maran ata” which means “Lord is coming”, or “O Lord come quickly”.
Christ is restoring the human dignity through his healing presence and power in our lives. He wished all a blessed Slava and protection form every evil through Christ and Archangel Michael and all Bodi- less powers.
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