I'm back online!  Sorry for being out of touch all last week.  We were getting our house ready to be put on the market for sale - so I was wrapped up with that all day, every day, last week.  

But now, thanks be to God, we're done and I am back and more pumped than ever!  Lots of stuff I can't wait to share with everyone out there in the blogosphere so stay tuned... But for today, I wanted to share the video of the message that I delivered yesterday: PREPARING FOR HOLY WEEK.

NOTE:  if you're not Orthodox and you're wondering why we're preparing for Holy Week now, it's because we are on a different calendar than you.  You celebrated Easter a few weeks ago; but we don't get to it till May.  So you can look at it as we are a month behind the rest of the Christian world, or as I prefer to see it, we are about 11 months ahead. :) 

Either way, check out the video and hopefully this helps get you in the right frame of mind - regardless of when you celebrate the Resurrection of the Lord.