Beloved Sisters and Brothers in the Lord,

          By the time all of you receive your April monthly bulletin we will have begun Holy Week. What a spiritually uplifting time in our Orthodox calendar! It is a time of personal reflection, a time of looking at our lives and re-evaluating our personal spiritual journey. Holy Week offers us a chance to more fully appreciate what Our Lord has sacrificed for us. It then becomes our responsibility to follow Him more closely, to love others as He loves us, and to do His work in His Church and in the greater community that we live in.

        You will be receiving in the mail your schedule of the upcoming Holy Week Services. I lovingly and warmly invite all of you to attend as many of the services as you can. In addition to your attendance, please remember your Church in your offering.

         It is my sincere prayer that this Holy Week be the best and most edifying week ever! May our Lord bless all of you and have a Blessed Pascha.

Your Brother in Christ,

Fr. Stelios N. Sitaras

read the August 2006 message