Our effort to secure clean water continues throughout the whole of our Holy Diocese.
Another well is being dug in the parish of Saints Zacharias and Elizabeth in Antalaha, on a plot where we plan to create a new parish dedicated to Saint Nektarios and to build its Holy Church there.
This well will serve an entire village and is becoming reality thanks to the very great love and practical help of the parish of Saint Menas in Thessaloniki, through the mediation of the Missionary Association “Saint Kosmas the Aetolian”.
We want to thank from our hearts the priests of the parish of Saint Menas in Thessaloniki, Archimandrite Fr Dionysios Karagiannis and Protopresbyter Fr Konstantinos Angelopoulos, as well as all the people of the parish, who from the first day we went and celebrated there welcomed and hosted us with very great love.
After the Divine Liturgy we discussed with them the problems our Diocese faces, and especially the great problem of the lack of clean water. Then they said to us:
“Now that you are going back to your Diocese, we would like you to point out to us a place, a village that needs water, so that we can dig a well.”
And I answered them: “Gladly. We will make this well and we will name it ‘The Well of the Parish of Saint Menas’.”
So the time has now come for this beautiful proposal of love and giving to become reality.
Since yesterday we have already begun building the well in Antalaha, which will soon offer clean water, life and joy to a whole large village.
Another well becomes a small but very important act of love. For water is life, and every drop we offer becomes a blessing for the people of our land.
We warmly thank the parish of Saint Menas in Thessaloniki for its love, trust and valuable offering, and the Missionary Association “Saint Kosmas the Aetolian” for its valuable mediation.
May God bless Archimandrite Fr Dionysios Karagiannis, Protopresbyter Fr Konstantinos Angelopoulos, all the priests and people of the parish, and richly repay their love and offering.
