January 2006 is Education month for Teen SOYO of the Antiochian Archdiocese. Resources for Education month may be found here. You can read a letter to all parish Teen SOYO presidents here.

Seminarian Dinner – November 14, 2005

On Monday, November 14, 2005 (The Feast Day of the Apostle Philip) His Eminence Metropolitan PHILIP hosted the annual dinner for the Antiochian seminarians and their spouses. The dinner was held in the main dining room at the Archdiocese Headquarters in Englewood, New Jersey . His Eminence addressed the group, encouraging them to surrender their lives to the will of God. The dinner was preceded by the celebration of Great Vespers in the Chapel of St. John Chrysostom. David Jacobs, a second year student at St. Vladimir, presented His Eminence with an icon of The Apostle PHILIP on behalf of all the seminarians. The icon was written by David. The entire group took a photo with the clergy who were also present for the dinner.

By A.J. Panian
TRIBUNE REVIEW
Monday, November 7, 2005

In 1926, Jack Mansour was born in a part of Greensburg then known by its inhabitants as “Syrian Hollow.”

“That was on Highland and Mt. Pleasant avenues near Urania Avenue. A lot of Arabic people congregated in that area at that time,” said Mansour, 79, of Southwest Greensburg. “You have to figure we were quite a minority group during that time.”

After first immigrating to the area in 1895, Syrian men, including Mansour’s father, Norman, formed the Syrian Charity Society in 1918. Five years later, neighborhood women formed a similar organization. In 1935, the two combined to form the United Syrians of America. That group then became St. Michael’s Syrian Orthodox Society in 1946, which met for a liturgy service in a small building across from Schaller’s Bakery on Highland Avenue.

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