A Question for the Community

How long are we, as a community, going to allow the Dignity and the Moral Character of our members to be attacked by this Parish Council and the Proistamenoi? Metropolitans come and go, as do Priests. Parish Councils change yearly, but we the members of the community remain year after year to perpetuate our Greek Orthodox Faith, Cultural and Heritage.

For far too many years now, members are attacked as to their character for parish council membership, dismissed from the parish council and denied their Sacraments just because they ask questions. Stewards of the community, with unquestionable devotion, have had their character attacked. We have hit ROCK BOTTOM.

It is time for a town meeting where we tell the Proistamenoi to stick to their Ecclesiastical duties and leave all the secular duties to the parish council - a fairly and properly elected parish council, not one where candidates are cherry-picked on the whims of the clergy. The parish council from here forward is to represent the members of the community that elected them and not the clergy who come and go.

- Jim Kastanis