Sunday, May 15 2005, marked yet another significant occasion in the life of our school. Our School Chapel was opened and Divine Liturgy was celebrated.

While this is not the first time we have had services here, it is the first in terms of the new re-defined role the Chapel will play.

With the blessings of His Beatitude, Our Pope and Patriarch Theodoros II, and those of His Eminence our Metropolitan Seraphim, our school chapel will function every Sunday and feast-day and will serve the needs of the school community and the community at large.

His Beatitude, recognizing the demands of the times and the needs of our youth and of Orthodox faithful that are English-speaking, has decreed that our chapel will use English as its liturgical language. While every effort will be made to follow this instruction, the process will necessitate some preparation. We will implement it step-by-step.

Liturgical books have arrived. The priest’s words will be changed in English. The cantor shows willingness to adapt but asks for our patience as he becomes familiar with the new words and tones and as we form a choir to assist him.

Our chapel will become a beehive of spiritual activity. Children and adults will find spiritual sustenance and the development of an appropriate Orthodox Ecclesiastical Ethos and will assist in rectifying many misunderstandings and incorrect practices regarding the faith. At a time when we and our children are being exposed to and bombarded with varying and conflicting messages, the hearing of the Gospel truth becomes vital in our own formation.