PARISH VOICES

As many of you know, there has been a process underway for some time regarding my retirement and the transition to new pastoral leadership at our beloved Holy Apostles. Early in August, Metropolitan Gerasimos formally shared this news with the Parish Council. Effective September 1st, I will be retiring from my assignment here at Holy Apostles. At the same time, I am very happy to announce that Fr. Rob Spaliatsos will be assigned to Holy Apostles beginning September 1st. We wa

Every year around this time, I notice a familiar pattern at work. Annual review season shows up, and people start asking the same questions underneath the formal conversations. Things like: Am I doing okay? Am I growing? What's coming next? They aren't really work questions — they're human questions. They show up whenever life shifts, whether we want it to or not. These questions follow us everywhere. They show up in our families, our routines, and our decisions. They show

A few years back, a friend was talking to me and used the phrase, "Middle-aged people like us." It was one of those phrases that made me stop listening to whatever else he was talking about. I looked around and noted that only the two of us were present. I realized with shock that my friend thought that I was middle-aged. I received a second shock when it occurred to me that my friend was right. I suppose another indicator that I am aging happens when I'm around teenagers...