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Just received this from our beloved friend, Sister Vicki. She offers some comments on last week's meditation about the apparent loss of faith - or at least the practice of ones' faith - among today's college students. I am sure she wouldn't object in my sharing it with you. As she mentions at the end, Steve and Pat Pride were at the monastery last weekend and spent some time with her.
Fr. Steven
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Good morning Fr. Steven, evlogeite!
Hope and pray all is well. I read your last Thursday's med. about college students views on church and faith..Yes our society continues to change and without parents modeling and teaching the faith our kids are wandering out there. Certainly in most universities (faculty etc.) no one is going to speak the truth to students unless the adults themselves know the truth.
You have a very important mission with your students, to teach them about what the Gospels say and about our Lord and the church. I pray you can bring some hope and joy to your students. You are planting seeds now and when the Lord wills and when the students have the desire, they will hear and act.
Some of us attended the Missions and Evangelism conf. at AV last weekend. I was only there for one day (sat.) You may want to listen to two of the talks on, Campus Evang. and Working with Youth which were given by a young Greek Orth. priest from Lancaster, PA. (Fr. Hector) They are on the Ancient Faith Radio.
They are worth listening to. Fr. Hector explains what is was like to be on the huge campus of Penn State back in the late 90's.
Sunday Sept. 20 the is OCF Sunday. OCF is in need of funding right now.
We are having a few days of rest this week, thank God and will cont. to have guests through early Oct. Then....Lord willing , Mo. Galina and I will travel to Greece. The planning is slow and tedious right now, please pray that it will come together and that our contacts in Greece will come through. I'll let you know our dates later.
As you know , Pat and Steve were here last Sun. We had a nice visit.
Say hi to Presv. God be with you, and may our Lord grant you wisdom and hope as you preach the Good News! Don't be discouraged. Pray to St. Cosmas of Aiotolia.
Yours in IC XC,
Sr. Vasiliki
