Dear brothers and sisters,
Glory to God, we have found a place to continue our services!
This Sunday, July 12th, on the feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, we will celebrate a Divine Liturgy at the following address:
101 NW 1st Ave., Delray Beach, FL 33444
Parking is available in the inner courtyard.
Hours at 9:40 a.m.
Divine Liturgy at 10:00 a.m.
Everything will proceed as usual, just in a new location.
Please keep us in your prayers.
With love in Christ,
Archpriest Yaroslav
I have wonderful news. On Thursday we received our essential permit, such that we will be able to begin construction once again next week! However, we cannot go forward on all fronts until we are able to pay the permit and related fees, which we anticipate to be in the range of $75,000 -$85,000. I will know the exact sum this week.
On another note, a meeting took place with Father Peter Jackson, who is in charge of the Saint Luke Chapel for Paideia, together with the Webers, who, of course, run the school.
Before I give an account of the meeting, I again thank Paola and Charles for their kind treatment of us over the last twelve months in housing the ROC. After this extended period of time, and since we believe we have another six months before we can begin services in Deerfield Beach, several things came from the meeting.
Father Peter decreed, effective immediately, as follows:
ROC can no longer hold services at Paideia;
St Luke Chapel will exclusively schedule and hold services at Paideia;
Father Yaroslav will not officiate services - Father Nenad will officiate instead;
All services will be entirely in English;
The ROC choir will not run kliros.
Given this turn of events, we encourage you to attend whichever ROCOR Church you prefer until the ROC can hold services again, which we believe will be in approximately six months.
The ROC Choir is encouraged to sing at Three Hierarchs Orthodox Church in Hollywood during this interim period.
We will continue to provide updates regarding our progress with the new Cathedral and Hall through this WhatsApp Group Chat and our ROC Website.
May God bless all of us as we continue on our path, as difficult as it may be, to build the Resurrection Orthodox Cathedral. Given this mission, I wish to remind everyone that there is nothing that the evil one will not do to thwart the building of not just a new Church, but a Hierarchical Cathedral. We especially know this because of the two-year quagmire of bureaucratic events that we have endured and because of all of the difficulties and challenges along the way.
On Thursday, following fervent prayer at the Liturgy for St John of Shanghai and San Francisco, immediately following the Liturgy, I learned about our essential permit. Glory to Saint John for his intercession on our behalf!
Please continue to pray to the Theotokos, Saint John and Saint Luke of Crimea.
Never give up hope or faith! We will build this cathedral.
Alexis Lukianov
ROC Warden
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