[amen] HOSANNA: News on Prisons and a Prayer Request+More Pasternak Christmas Poetry in New Translation+PayPal Anyone to Help Now?

Dear Friends of Hosanna and of Christian Renewal!,
May this day after Christmas be no less radiant with joy for you all!
Three things to offer this time:
(1) News that we are packing foods and little presents for the prison
visits in early January where we will work with 4,500 prisoners. We very
much need your help on this, as indeed on our whole mission budget for
the coming year but this in particular...we have a new paypal setup 
where you can immediately put your donation in our account and I ask that
you consider just now doing so? (the question mark represents...why not?)

Now...besides this Fr Tim Zolotuski newly ordained to priesthood and
a long time community member had hoped to be assigned to youth work in
Moscow. It seems he will be going to Iceland and will have to start 
a church where none exists and maintain himself, they are renting their
apartment and in some months(after first 2 months assignment in Oslo)
will go to Reykjavik. Tim and Olga are wonderful warmhearted members of
the commubnity and this is not good news but pray for them that they can
make a life for themselves and serve in this place.

Now let me again give the link to the PayPal:
http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=hosanna
just click on "make a donation" and follow the simple directions...
a brief financial report after the poem on Christmas by Boris 
Pasternak, Nobel Prize winner, translated by Richard Dauenhauer
and kindly offered to us just to enjoy as a rough draft(stanzas 1-11
we sent before so now you have the whole):

(2)

Stanzas 12-20, rough draft, as of December 21, 2004.

12.

The tops of the alders were hiding/concealing a part of the pond
but part was clearly visible from here
through the nests of rooks and tops of trees.
The shepherds could look out well
on how the donkeys and camels went along around the (mill) pond.
?Should we go/join up with the rest, and worship/venerate the miracle??
They said, wrapping their sheepskin coats (tighter).

13.

Shuffling (on foot) through the snow made them hot.
Along the brilliant clearing like sheets of mica
barefoot tracks/footprints led behind a shack
and by the light of the star the sheep dogs
growled at these tracks, as at the flame of a candle stub.

14.


The frosty night was like a fairy tale
with someone from the storm-shaped, snowy ridge
always invisibly joining their cortege.
looking cautiously around, expecting trouble,
dogs pressed against a shepherd boy and then trudged on.

15.

Along that very road, that same terrain?
although invisible, since bodiless?
mingled with the crowd, went several angels,
with footprints left, impressions of each step.

16.

Daylight came. Cedar trunks could be discerned.
A mob of people crowded at the door stone.
Mary asked, ?Just who are you??
?We represent the shepherds and the embassy of heaven.
We?ve come conveying praises to both of you.?
?You can?t all fit at once. At the entrance, wait your turn.?

17.

In the gray, ash-like pre-dawn gloom,
drivers and sheep farmers stamped their feet,
riders and those on foot swore at one another,
and at the hollowed-out log drinking trough
the camels roared and the donkeys kicked.

18.

Daylight came. Dawn swept away the last
of stars from the firmament like dust of ashes,
and only the magi, of the countless riff-
raff, did Mary admit to the opening of the cliff.

19.
He slept, all radiant, in a manger of oak
like a moonbeam in the hollow of a tree.
For him a sheepskin /fleece was substituted/replaced
by the lips of donkeys and the nostrils of an ox.

20.

The magi stood in shadows, whispering
as in the semi-darkness of a barn,
hardly getting words. Suddenly, in dark, from somewhere
left of the manger, someone gently moved a wise man
aside. He turned (to see). There, looking at the virgin
like a guest (just) arrived, from through the doorway,
the Christmas Star looked in. 


Finally since it is our Annual Appeal time and very urgent this year
because of every difficult circumstance as we have said before in
finding our way to the goal, here is the report:
Needed for next year and in our Appeal $60,000
Received   $3,995
Pledged    $3,880
Promised and spoken of   $20,000
total: $27,875
In addition we know of friends and parishes that will
help us and the prospective total is more than this but
has a distance to go to reach what is needed to maintain our
ministries...I ask your help. The number of donors is greater than
in previous years and it is in this that we considerably hope that
a large number of donations will make up what is needed as God
Wills... with love in the Newborn Lord yours,
 +Seraphim
Seraphim Joseph Sigrist
Donations for HOSANNA to
The Patristic Society
c.o 320 South Broadway, Unity P-7
Tarrytown New York 10591
   (all correspondence to me:  ssigrist@xxxxxxxxx, or sigrist@xxxxxxxx )

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