This series of films will be shown in the Conference Room in the lower hall of our Parish Center.  The series is open to the public and there is no charge.  All are invited!

"Bridge to the East"
Jan. 10th, Sun at 12:00p.m. & Jan. 12th, Tues. at 7:30p.m.
This award winning film features commentary by the late Sir Steven Runciman, one of Great Britain's greatest historians.  Sir Runciman traces the lingering influence of Byzantine culture in Eastern and Western Europe and it's part in Christianity and Islam.  We are guided from the mosaics of Ravenna, to the beauty of Monemvassia, to the Ecumenical Patriarchate iin Constantinople, to spectacular Mistra and the harmony of its architecture.  54 minutes.

"Where God Walked on Earth"
Feb. 21st, Sun. at 12:00p.m. & Feb. 23rd, Tues. at 7:30p.m.
This is a wonderful production by the BBC on the 6th century Monastery of St. Katherine on Mount Sinai in Egypt.  This ancient Greek Orthodox Monastery has been a treasure house of icons, parchments and religious articles gathered over the centuries. The history, art, as well as the lives of the monks are alll superbly presented.  Assuredly, the best video you will ever see on this Holy Mountain where God walked and was seen by Moses and Elijah.  53 minutes.

"The Return of the Icon"
Mar. 14th, Sun. at 12:00p.m. & Mar. 16th, Tues. at 7:30p.m.
In the summer of 2004, the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God, one of several attributed to the work of the Apostle Luke, was returned to Russia after some 60 years in the USA.  The story begins in a Chicago house and ends in the famous Monastery of Tikhvin, east of St. Petersburg, Russia.  The history of the icon is related, and the miraculous escape of the Icon from both the Nazis and Communists.  The joyful greeting of the returned icon by the Patriarch of Russia and the clergy and faithful  numbering  in the hundreds of thousands is recorded. 85 minutes.