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Dear Parish Faithful and Friends in Christ,
Today is the eighth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon, together with a fourth airliner that crashed in Pennsylvania. As a nation, we simply refer to that day as "9/11." Everyone old enough must remember that traumatic day with clarity. "Life goes on," and we move on with it, but we want to respectfully remember all of the innocent victims of those attacks and their continually-grieving families. I recall a blind Greek Orthodox man from Chicago retell the tragedy of his brother dying in the World Trade Center to the children of the Hogar back in 2004 - in fact it was my daughter Sophia who translated what he was saying into Spanish for the children - and how they listened in hushed silence. There were thousands of such personal stories that make the sense of loss from that day both more direct and poignant.
Memory Eternal!
Fr. Steven
