Peace.

I live in Mass, and find this site to be a great resource. Thank you for putting it up. I’m wondering if your group is still meeting and if the site is still being updated. I wish there were a local chapter that I could attend, but the website is the next best thing. Please give us an update when you can.

Thank you.

Thanks.

When the priest stands in front of the iconostasis and preaches on keeping the fasts, loving our brothers, encouraging one another, admonishing one another, bearing one another’s burdens, and acknowledging our sins to one another, it’s precisely because he won’t be there with us throughout the rest of the week – but our friends will be and our chosen companions – and so we encourage one another through the fasts, and to come to liturgy, and to pray, and admonish one another to stand strong against the world and the passions, and lift one another up, sharing in prayer and the readings of the holy fathers. 4S exists specifically for the things and the times from which the priest is necessarily and appropriately absent.

To your other question, I don’t know that we want to answer *precisely* where we meet – not sure that’s relevant – but lets just say we meet in homes. Right now, we’re not meeting at all. One of the core members lost a family member and immediately took on the responsibilities of two families, so we’ve suspended meeting for now. We may or may not resume, as God may provide. Of course, we still encourage one another to keep the faith and follow the fathers as often as we may.