Greetings from the Mediterranean!

I hope all of you are warm and cozy in beautiful Harrisburg.  I hear things have cooled off a bit over there. 

We've had a cool spell ourselves-- I think the highs have only gotten up to about 19 degrees since Christmas.  'Course, that's 19 Celsius, so lemme think...that'd be...umm...about 70 Fahrenheit.  Brrrrr!

Everyone is doing quite well, thanks be to God.  I am assigned to a women's monastery, so it's all the services with none of the hassle.  Perfect!  The chapel is relatively new for this part of the world (about 1000 years), and I am really looking forward to celebrating the liturgy there with our beloved Fr Stephen Vernak very soon.  The sisters are jolly, generous and full of God's love.  This expresses itself in copious gifts of Cadbury's chocolates for the kids EVERY time we go.  So if you don't recognize the 250 pound Brigid Majmudar when she visits, you'll know why.

Brigid and John were offered free tuition at St Phanourios private school, so they troop out about 7 and return at 4:30.  Their Greek has now surpassed their parents', alarmingly.

Grandpa Kit, who has been living and travelling with us, is now in India and will be returning to California next month.

So with me at services and classes, the kids at school, and Granpa in South Asia, the music has stopped--and only Sophie's got a chair.  Hence, she spends her days lazing around our quaint stone village here in the wine country of Cyprus.  And of course, Granpaw hired Sita, a Sri Lankan woman in our village (and a professional cook) to make dinner three times a week, leaving Sophie with even less to do.  She claims she deserves it, having spent three years of slavery at work to "put her husband through seminary"-- pishaw!  Whatever THAT means...
 
You are all in our prayers to the Lord, as always.  Please keep us in yours.
 
And if Fr Stephen doesn't show up for work after his trip, you'll all know why...
 
In Christ,
Fr Seraphim