St. Sava Day

I go to St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church.  January 27th is the official commemoration of St. Sava, so our church has an annual banquet on the closest Sunday to that date (this year it worked out perfectly).  He's known for leaving his position as heir to the throne to join the monastery, inspiring his father, St. Simeon to do the same, building churches all throughout Serbia and Greece, and establishing the Serbian Patriarchate of the Orthodox faith.

To commemorate him, in addition to the banquet, all the Sunday School children have to prepare a speech.  However, this year instead of being given speeches in Serbian, we had to write our own.  The good news is that they were in English, and didn't have to be memorized, but this required an actual writing of our own.  

They were due to be handed in a week before the program.  V just used our nightly prayer.  A worked with a girl in her Sunday School class to do one together.  I wrote mine and was ready in time for the due date.  J wrote his on the car ride to church on the day they needed to be turned in.  None of us were that bad.  About half of the people didn't have theirs done, and had to write it during Sunday School.

Here's mine...

You had all the earthly glory

Man could ever own

But you were still not satisfied

With prospects of the throne

So you gave away the Earthly Cares

To worship God alone

And now you have all heavenly glory

And your name on Earth's still known

The program itself was today, and was very quick.  One speech right after the other.  None were that memorable, and I hope they go back to giving them to us next year.  But the reception was great!  Some of the best food that I've had in a long time!

-NM