Thursday, January 07, 2016

Vale


“Give rest with the saints, O Christ, to the soul of your servant, where there is no pain, no sorrow, no suffering, but life everlasting. “








We are deeply saddened that Greek community lost one of its faithful members as Anthanasios Ntabassis   passed away on 2 January 2016 at the age of 84....




The bread of exile is bitter
Yet it nourishes us.
                         (Greek Story: Dreams of Clay Drops of Dew, p. 62)

When my father died in 1992, two weeks before Gabriella was born, I realized that when you lose your father, no matter how old you are, no matter how old he was, you feel yourself to be an orphan. It is a terrible loss...