This is a video slideshow of my home parish. St Anne's Orthodox Church is located 5 miles north of Corvallis, Oregon on Hwy 99 in the unincorporated Benton County community of Lewisburg. The church was established in 1990 as a parish of the Orthodox Church of America (OCA) and is named after the grandmother of our Lord Jesus Christ. The services are held on the upper floor of the historic Lewisburg Grange Hall. This building is also known as "Mountain View Grange No. 429" and it is on the National Register of Historic Places. 2011 will mark its centennial year for this building. About St. Anne aka The Righteous Anna: Saint Anne (also Ann or Anna, from Hebrew Hannah חַנָּה or Channah, meaning "favor" or "grace.") of David's house and line, was the mother of the Virgin Mary and grandmother of Jesus Christ according to Christian and Islamic tradition. The name Anne is the Greek rendering of her Hebrew name Hannah. Mary's mother is not named in the canonical Gospels or the Qur'an. Anne is the patron saint for carpenters, stay at home moms (SAHMS), pregnancy and childbirth, and grandparents. To learn more about St. Anne and her husband St. Joachim, please visit: orthodoxwiki.org Hymns sung on the feast day of the Dormition of the Righteous Anna July 25: Troparion - Tone 4 Divinely-wise Anna, you carried in your womb the pure Mother of God, who gave life to our Life. Therefore, you are now carried joyfully to the inheritance of heaven, To the abode of those who rejoice in <b>...</b>
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