I extend best wishes to you and your families, both personally and on behalf of our οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½ RegionοΏ½s Regional Coordinating Council, for a meaningful and joyous Easter this year.  For many of us, it kindles the fondest memories of Pascha in the villages: Holy FridayοΏ½s procession of the Epitafio through the streets, in a kouvouklion decorated with flowers from everyoneοΏ½s gardens; the excited preparations for the Easter Sunday meal all day Holy Saturday, leading to that ever-brighter moment between the profound οΏ½Come, Receive the Light!οΏ½ and the ecstatic, emphatic singing of οΏ½Christ is Risen!οΏ½ at midnight.   

It is during this holiest of seasons that we Hellenes feel more united than at any other time of the year: united with each other, with the Hellenes of the Diaspora, with our families in GreeceοΏ½ and with our Orthodox Faith, unchanged for twenty centuries. 

We want you to know that it is our Mission at οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½ to make that wonderful feeling of worldwide omogenia unity last all year long.        

Christ is Risen!  Truly, He is Risen!