September 22, 2008

• Yesterday was Jonah’s nameday- I was too exhausted from the whole weekend to get on the computer at all, yesterday.  The weekend went like this: Friday- clean house, prepare for party, party of 5 boys spending the night- pizza, pop corn, movie, cake ice cream etc….- Saturday- bagel run for breakfast, get out the door at 9:00am with 9 kids- sleeping bags, book bags etc…Greek School- for 7 of the 9 kids, ballet for Maria~Angelica- she loves it – I have video to post, Soccer game 1, Nicholas, Soccer game 2 , Jonah, Soccer game 3, Basil- on three different fields (meanwhile Fr. had a wedding at church and a sick visit an hour away). After the games ended, I took the kids to the mall- Fr. thought I was crazy to take 4 kids to the mall by myself after such a long day but it was better then coming home and messing up my clean house! Also, I had my eye on  a few  blouses for church and  was hoping they would be on sale. The were and not only that it was Macy’s ”Shop for a Cause“day.  The kids and I passed the time very nicely at the mall. The were quite patient while I found what I needed, then I treated them to pretzels  and a few sale shirts at Abercrombie. I love to get those shirts for $9.90! Basil is really into Abercrombie and he knows I won’t buy anything in there unless it’s on clearance- that store is so ridiculously over priced. Nicholas got a  few new shirts, too. It was nice to send them off  to school in some fresh new clothes this morning. Sunday-  Church- Divine Liturgy and a luncheon – we left Church at 3:30pm, Target for Basil to use a Birthday gift card- by which time it was 5 pm. and Fr. was almost done with his hospital visits so he met us for dinner at Carrabba’s- we had a gift certificate and I didn’t have the energy to cook. By the time we got home it was 7:30pm-  baths, homework and bed- including myself! So now I am getting around to posting Happy Name Day wishes for Jonah. Fr. gave his children’s sermon on the Holy Prophet Jonah, yesterday. The OCA celebrates Prophet Jonah today- so I am not too late!

  Happy Name Day Jonah! May God Grant you MANY YEARS!!!!

  ~The Feast Day of Prophet Jonah~

  September 21st

   

  The Holy Prophet Jonah lived in the eighth century before the birth of Christ and was a successor of the Prophet Elisha. The Book of the Prophet Jonah contains prophecies about the judgments on the Israelite nation, the sufferings of the Savior, the downfall of Jerusalem, and the end of the world. Besides the prophecies, the Book of Jonah relates how he was sent to the Ninevites to preach repentance (Jon. 3: 3-10).

  Our Lord Jesus Christ, addressing the Scribes and the Pharisees who demanded a sign from him, said that no sign would be given except for the sign of the Prophet Jonah, “As Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights, so also shall the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights (Mt. 12: 40). From these words the Lord shows clearly the symbolic meaning of the Book of the Prophet Jonah in relation to Christ’s death on the Cross, descent into Hell, and the Resurrection.

  Reproaching the lack of penitence and recalcitrance of the Jews, the Lord said, “The Ninevites shall rise in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and one greater than Jonah is here” (Mt. 12: 41).

  His feast day is celebrated on September 21 (Greek tradition) or 22 (Slavic tradition).

  http://orthodoxwiki.org/Jonah

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