December Services

We will be having services this December 14th and 15th.
Friday Dec. 14th - Vespers 6:30pm at St. Joseph's Catholic Church Library.
Saturday Dec. 15th - Divine Liturgy 9am at St. Joseph's Catholic Church choir room.

November Services

Services this month on the 16th and 17th at St. Joseph's Catholic Church.
Vespers - Friday, November 16th at 6:30pm
Divine Liturgy - Saturday November 17th at 9am

A word from Fr. Michael:

Blessings in our Lord!

I am happy to let you know that Father Joseph Corrigan and his wife,
Robin (newly moved to Yakima), will be joining us this Friday and
Saturday for our services, teaching and fellowship! Fr. Joseph was a
"Four Square" pastor in S. California who brought his congregation
into the Orthodox Church.

Change to Service Times in September

The time for Vespers this Friday will be the same, 6:30pm. Divine Liturgy on Saturday morning will be at 9am, contrary to the mailing and post which said 9:30am.

Saying from St. Basil the Great

From Fr. Michael:
Out of labor comes health, out of sweat salvation. Beware lest, from
your wish to keep certain obligations, you break your obligation to
God. Do not sink back. There is salvation, there is amendment. The
doors are not yet shut; the Bridegroom hears. Make the effort. Jesus
is merciful; the Kingdom is at hand. - Saint Basil the Great

Don't forget, Christ the Savior website is a great source for learning, for inspiration, for quotes from the Holy Fathers which give us the way to eternal life!

www.christthesavior.us

Fr. David Sommer To Lead Services Sept. 21&22

This will be privileged to welcome Fr. David Sommer to our community. Fr. David is the priest at St. Thomas Mission in Snohomish, WA. Friday Vespers service will begin at 6:30 in the St. Joseph's Catholic Church Library. Divine Liturgy will be at 9:30 Saturday Morning in the Choir Room on the south side of the Sanctuary.
Map to St. Josephs Catholic Church
Fr. David's Mission's website

Biography of St. Innocent of Alaska

A interesting biography of St. Innocent of Alaska in available on our website at:
http://wenorthodox.googlepages.com/st.innocent

Dr. H. Tristram Engelhardt To Speak Oct. 11-14th

The following email was sent out by Fr. Michael on Sept. 16th:
Brethren,

Wanted to make sure I got out the final schedule for Dr. H. Tristram Engelhardt's speaking engagement sponsored by Christ the Savior (below). Again, Dr. Engelhardt is a world-renown bio-ethicist and professor of philosophy. This is no small time guest...he is in great demand as a speaker both in the U.S. and abroad. He has authored several books and serves as editor for several high profile medical journals. His full biography is also below.

Despite his credentials, he is a very down-to-earth and humble servant of Christ, a convert to Orthodoxy (from Roman Catholicism), and a TEXAN (something he enjoys tell you!). He is an incredibly engaging speaker, and though an intellectual, is able to convey his topics to average folk like me. See below:

Thursday, Oct. 11, 7PM: Gonzaga University, Jepson School of Business, Wolff Auditorium

"Why Orthodox Christian Theology is so Different?"

Friday, Oct. 12, NOON: Sacred Heart Hospital, Sacred Heart Medical Center Children's Hospital, 4th Floor Classroom

"Ordinary versus Extraordinary Care: Re-thinking An Old Distinction"

Saturday, Oct. 13, 2PM: Christ the Savior Orthodox Church, 12407 E. 16th Ave. (16th & Pines)

"Christianity and the Culture Wars"

Sunday, Oct. 14, 2PM: Christ the Savior Orthodox Church, 12407 E. 16th Ave. (16th & Pines)

"Being Christian in a Post-Christian World"

Full Biography:

H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr., holds an M.D. with honors from Tulane University School of Medicine (1972) and a B.A. (1963) and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin (1969). In 2005 he received a doctor honoris causa from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Gr. T. Popa", Iasi, Romania. He was a Fulbright Graduate Fellow at Bonn University, Germany (1969-1970), a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in West Berlin, Germany (1988-1989), a Visiting Scholar at the Internationale Akademie für Philosophie im Fürstentum Liechtenstein (fall 1997), and a Visiting Scholar at Liberty Fund, Indianapolis, Indiana (spring 1998).

Currently, Dr. Engelhardt is Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Rice University, and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Medicine and in the Department of Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine. He has held appointments at Rice and Baylor since January, 1983, after leaving Georgetown University, where he was the Rosemary Kennedy Professor of Philosophy of Medicine. Dr. Engelhardt is editor of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, senior editor of Christian Bioethics, the Philosophy and Medicine book series with nearly ninety volumes in print, and the book series Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture. He has authored over three hundred ten articles and chapters of books in addition to over one hundred ten book reviews and other publications. His work ranges from Continental philosophy and the history of medicine to the philosophy of medicine and bioethics. There have been more than one hundred fifty reprintings or translations of his publications. He has also co-edited thirty volumes and has lectured widely throughout the world. His books include Bioethics and Secular Humanism: The Search for a Common Morality (Philadelphia/London: Trinity Press International/SCM Press, 1991) and the second, thoroughly revised edition of The Foundations of Bioethics (New York: Oxford, 1996), which has been translated into Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. A Chinese translation of Bioethics and Secular Humanism appeared in 1998. His most recent work is The Foundations of Christian Bioethics (Netherlands: Swets & Zeitlinger, 2000), which has appeared in Portuguese and Romanian. In 2006 a new edited volume is appearing, Global Bioethics: The Collapse of Consensus (M&M Scrivener Press).