By the grace of God, and the Theotokos, our beloved Chapel, in New Carlisle, now has a beautiful bell tower and a magnificent church bell from Greece. Our Chapel in honor of the Mother of God has been transformed into an active Orthodox Christian spiritual pege. From this spiritual pege (fount or spring) will come to benefit Orthodox Christians for years to come with their struggle and spiritual ascesis.

The road into the Kingdom of Heaven was made by the Lord Jesus Christ, and He was the first one who traveled it. The Holy Bible teaches that only he who follows Jesus can reach His Kingdom. But how can one follow Him? Hear what our Savior says about this: "Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me" (St. Mark 8:34).

We were created to live on earth unlike animals who die and disappear with time, but with the high purpose to live with God--not for a hundred years or so--but for eternity!

Protopresbyter Theodoros Zisis commenting on the interpretation of The Lord's Pray by Saint Maximos the Confessor writes: "...In the prayer's first phrase, 'Our Father, Who art in the heavens, hallowed by Thy name. Thy Kingdom come", he sees the first two blessings presented; Theology and Adoption. Here, "theology" means, in a literal sense, Triadology, in other words, the teaching concerning the Holy Trinity, "that from this beginning we may be taught to revere, invoke, and worship the Trinity in unity." The Holy Trinity is indeed proclaimed because although the Father alone is mentioned, mystically and anagogically the other two are implied in the words "name" and "kingdom," "For the name of God the Father exists in substantial form in the Only-begotten Son. Again, the Kingdom of God exists in substantial form as the Holy Spirit."

This great and wonderful athlete of Christ's was the son of a wealthy and high-ranking Cappadocian family. George having lost his father at the age of ten, his mother Polychronia, who had become a Christian without her husband's knowledge, returned to Palestine, her homeland, and brought up her son in the evangelical virtues. Handsome, intelligent and refined in manner, George embarked on a military career at the age of eighteen. He pleased his superiors and was quickly promoted to the rank of Tribune in the imperial guard, and then, it would appear, to that of Prefect.

The Nicaean-Constantinopolitan Symbol of Faith (the Creed), in the seventh, eleventh, and twelfth paragraphs, contains the Orthodox Christian confession of faith in the future coming of the Son of God to earth, the General (Last) Judgment, and the future life.