Manuel (Manny) Andrade will present

“Saints Beyond their Caricatures”

Worship Leader: David Austin
Accompanist: Gary Smart
Special Music by Marilyn Smart

About our Service:

By going beyond the caricatures we paint of prophets and great teachers we lose their essence.

About our Speaker:

Manuel ( Manny) Andrade, was born in Lima Peru and raised in NY. He attended Hunter College in NYC. He is a life professed Franciscan Friar. He attended Sanctus Theological Seminary and since 2002 holds a Licentiate in Sacred Theology. He received Deaconal Orders in 2000 and was ordained a Priest in 2003 in the American Catholic Church. He entered the Monastery of Our Lady Of Maine in 2001, on the grounds of the Cathedral Church of St Luke (Episcopal) in Portland as a friar of the Anglican Order of Jonathan Daniels for 2 years.  He has been a Social Worker serving communities living with HIV in NY, VA, ME and FL since 1989. He married his husband Rusty Turner 2 years ago and share their home with their beloved mutt Roxy.

About our Musician:

Marilyn Smart has worked with Robert Shaw and the Seattle Symphony, Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Dave Brubeck at Indiana University. She has given solo performances in formal concert halls in Europe, Japan, and the US as well as university concert halls, rural American schools, special cultural outreach venues in Japan and even Eskimo villages in Alaska. Marilyn now teaches voice and vocal diction at UNF. She has long championed the works of contemporary classical American composers with her pianist-composer husband, Gary.

Pennies from Heaven is October 7th

Please save all of your coins for the first Sunday of each month, and remember bills are welcome too! Pennies from Heaven donations are given to Meals on Wheels programs in Mandarin and Clay County and are alternated each quarter.