Father Stephen and Father Tom Paris recently visited Father Gregory and Khouria Mary Jane. Although Father Gregory speaks very little these days (remember his powerful sermons in recent years?), his eyes and his smile tell it all: Love the Lord God with all your heart and all your soul and all your might, and your neighbor as yourself. (Cf. Matthew 22:37, Luke 10:27).

As the photos, above, show, the laying of the pavers in the courtyard and all around the new Cathedral is nearing completion. The walls along Valencia Street have been built. Eventually the walls will be capped in granite, the same as the façade of our ancil ...

 

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Pascha (Greek: Πάσχα) (we prefer it to “Easter”), is the feast of the Resurrection of the Lord. Pascha is a transliteration of the Greek word, which is itself a transliteration of the Aramaic pascha, from the Hebrew pesach meaning Passover.

Pascha normally falls either one or five weeks later than the feast as observed by Christians who follow the Gregoria ...

Just 3 years from now, Annunciation will turn 100 years young. We were founded back in 1921. At a banquet, in fact, held on May 17, 1921. This was formalized at a meeting two days later. Following these paragraphs, under “How the Cathedral Got its Start,” is a translation of the minutes of that meeting, signed by its founder, Meletios Metaxakis. Metaxakis had been Archbishop of Athens. Afte ...

Photograph of the May 17, 1921 banquet, where the Cathedral was founded by acclamation, as referred to in the May 19, 1921 minutes. From the Cathedral’s archives.

Minutes from the founding meeting of May 19, 1921. The Cathedral had been come into being “by acclamation,” at a banquet two days previously. The minutes of the founding meeting of May 19, deal with by-laws and govern ...

See the photos that follow. They depict the laying of the pavers throughout the property, as well as the planter and other walls along Valencia Street. It seems, now, that construction is continuing at a fast pace.

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