Dan Everiss
<oregdan@hotmail.com> | Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 12:20 AM |
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Note: At this moment there are
many scattered and huge and out of human control fires, in many parts of
both northern and southern California. People and animals are fleeing
for their lives, houses have been burned
down and many towns are being evacuated.
PRAYERS
FOR THEM and FOR ALL IN DANGER AND SUFFERING FROM THESE FIRES, IS REQUESTED!
"O
Lord! Have Mercy Upon Us! and Save Us! in our affliction and danger,
and send Thy blessed rains from the vault of Heaven, we humbly beseech
Thee, and put these fires out!~ Through the holy prayers of Thy Most
Pure Mother, Our Lady Theotokos, and of All Thy Saints!
Amen and Amen!"
From: Fr Patrick Doolan <frp.sgm@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, October 9, 2017 10:02 PM
To: Gombos Michael & Philothei; Carver Steve; Doolan
Lorraine; SGM Father Anthony; Perkins Catherine; Schenone Ruth; Steger
Dr James; Schenone Rachel; Dela Cruz Emilio; Schenone Michael &
Shirley; Steinemer Julianna; Borissenko Gene; Carver Lisa; Hanick
Mitch; Kennedy James; Alexander Michael & Patricia; Schenone
Michael; Ryan David; Hanick Arlene; Zukin Demetri; Volkman Alexander;
Akins Robert; Mahany Metropolitan Moses; Taylor Gombos; Kalbasky James;
Everiss Daniel; Angela Koregelos; Volkman Paul; SGM Fr
Parthenius; Father Moses; Fr Theologos; Burns John; Fr John SGM; Tupman
Lee; McAfee Alison *HS; McAfee Amy; Stone Priscilla; BARLOIU CORNELIA
Subject:
We are all safe from the fires, Glory to God!
Dear Friends,
Bless!
Thanking our merciful Lord, we are all fine.
As we turned in to our cells last night, the winds were furious, and
there was a bit of smoke in the air. We were up most of the night with
keeping an eye out for fires.
As was the case for the fires of last year and the year before, it was
difficult to get any real information on what was happening. Two big
fires have affected us: The Sulphur Fire (2000 acres, and 0% contained),
north of Clearlake, and the Tubbs Fire (25000
acres and 0% contained), in northern Napa and Sonoma Counties. The
Sulpher Fire is about 45 minutes by car from the Monastery, while the
Tubbs is an hour away.
Mother Justina was evacuated early in the day from her home in
Clearlake. She sought refuge at Melanie McAfee’s house in Lower Lake,
but then moved on to the greater safety of a shelter in Kelseyville. She
is now staying with her old friend, Brenda Stark not
far from the monastery. Quite a day for our Mother Justina!
Melanie McAfee, who moved into the Meadowood Nursing Center in Clearlake
last Friday was roused and prepared to be evacuated in the wee hours of
the morning. The Sulphur Fire seems to not be threatening any more of
Clearlake, so they stayed put today, and things
seem calm. Melanie is doing well, and seems in good spirits.
Lisa and Steve Carver have been sick, but are safe at home in Hidden
Valley. Please pray for their daughter, Anna and their grandchildren,
who were evacuated in Santa Rosa early in the morning from the Tubbs
Fire.
Here at the monastery, we had an early meeting and did some preparation
for evacuation and prevention of fire. We were able to send off Fr.
Moses, with [ retired] Bishop Sergios [Black] all packed for Greece,
around 10AM to the San Francisco Airport. They avoided
the Napa Valley and Sonoma County due to reported road closures. They
went out of the county [Lake County] by passing south of the Sulphur
Fire, and had no problems. They were so early for the plane that they
were able to visit Dimitri Zukin in Oakland, and
have a short nap before heading to the airport. I spoke with his
Eminence just before his boarded his plane, and he was fine.
Father Parthenius was in Tuscan for the weekend, at the Sts Peter and
Paul Mission. His return flight to Santa Rosa was cancelled, so he got a
flight later in the day to San Francisco, and was able to take an
airporter bus to Petaluma, where Fr. Moses will
be picking him up tonight. He’ll stay in Santa Rosa with Fr. Moses at
the “monk hut” tonight, and drive home to the monastery tomorrow
morning.
Here at the monastery, things quieted down. Bishop Auxentios
[their diocesan bishop, who resides in the Etna, California Monastery of St. Gregory Palamas, in extreme northern California]
and other dear friends checked in on us, which was very
comforting. We will see what tomorrow brings, but we expect not much
more than inconvenience.
I am supposed to be in Santa Rosa tomorrow to fresco the next piece of
the Holy Women at the Tomb, but the devastating Tubbs Fire stands
between us and Santa Rosa. So we will see. There is a schedule trip to
the Santa Rosa Costco, and as we all know, little
can stand in the way of a well-needed Costco trip.
PLEASE PRAY for
the many, many people for whom this is much more than an inconvenience.
There are many people here left homeless, and some who have lost their
lives. May God help them all.
That you all for your prayers!
in our Merciful Savior,
Fr. Patrick
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Saint Gregory of Sinai Monastery is an Eastern Orthodox men's community established in ... The Monastery is located in the mountains of Northern
California.
in Lake County, north of the San Francisco Bay area.
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