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Dear Community Members,

Be forwarned, we are approaching a moment in cinematic history that will leave the film adaptation of Kazanzakis' "Last Temptation of Christ" in the dust, even 'The Ten Commandments' with Charleton Heston will pale in comparison, simply due to Computer Graphics.

At the Cannes Festival will be screened, Dan Brown's film adaptation of his mega bestseller (+40 million copies in hardcover alone). Yes, Ladies and Gentleman, "The Da Vinci Code" produced by our lovable Opie, on the Andy Griffith Show, from the '50's.

But money is money, and in the West, money is the last god to show up in fashionalbe dress.

If he was Muslim, the former Ayatollah Khomeni would have put a stop to this nonsense very quickly.

Now, tragically, it only fuels the ideology of Osama bin Laden, that the 'Crusader' West is awash in pornography and blasphemy.

Certainly, the 'Da Vinci Code' is a page turner. But, it is not what Dan Brown claims - only a ficitonal account.

How Christianity is so tolerant, so long suffering!

The Islamic world turns into a hail storm over cartoons. Yet we sleep, as our Lord who died for you and me, is depicted as a fornicator, a revealer of the true gnosis to Judas (supported by the National Geographic) and we sit by, watching the multi-cultural video game unfold.

Did not blessed Father Seraphim (Rose) who reposed in 1982, say that the end is 'closer than you think'?

Stigmata, imagination...it all leads to the crossroad where the Devil trades in souls.

We stand in Judgement. I do not speak lightly. If Salman Rushdie's life has been forever altered due to a fatwah against a false prophet and a false revelation, what are we doing? Sitting aroung eating potato chips and doing our taxes?

No doubt, you have attemped during Holy Week to attend the 12 Gospels, you will do your best to honour the Fast of Holy and Great Friday...so soon the Fast will end, and we will go from the Triodion to the Pentecostarion.

What does it mean, finally now in April 2006, that an Assistant Priest of the Cathedral of the Annunciation, under the Omophorion of Bishop Seraphim, has published, without blessing, the 'most heretical book' that Father Thomas Hopko has ever read?

Does it matter, that Dan Brown is allowed to write and publish a book in which Jesus marries Mary Magdalene, and a Blood-line continues, crushed by the 'ever-evil Catholic Church'?

Is day-to-day life so sufficient, that we never reflect on the impression we give to others?

Mahatma Gandhi is quoted as saying, that he did not become Christian, because he had never met anyone who lived the Gospel.

In our multi-cultural delirium we so easily lose clarity. Christ is Love. Yet out of false shame we prefer to remain mute, when Christ is assaulted right, left and centre. If Muslims defend their Prophet, Christians are too busy finding their 'inner self'.

"...some one says, what's mine and someone else says, well, what is, and you say, oh my God, am I here all alone...'

Was Hemingway's the 'Lost Generation'? Perhaps, in a certain sense.

We are truly lost and not yet found, because our media opium is dominated by the witchcraft of Harry Potter and the deceptively demonic 'Da Vinci Code'.

Let the credits roll...we do not ascribe to Inquistions, but it seems we do ascribe to a complicite silent agreement. Let the kids watch Harry Potter, and after all, the 'Da Vinci Code' is only fiction.

'Lost Generation' that is 2006. For we are so afraid to stand up and say CHRIST IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH, THE LIFE, all who came before Him (and after Him) are false Shephards.

Tomorrow is Great and Holy Friday. What does the death (and approaching Resurrection) of Christ truly mean? Furthermore, what does His death grant FINALLY to humankind? (Theosis).

Unique among all the world Religions, is the one embraced by poor fishermen from the Lake of Galilee, who left all, to follow Him, and in their earthly end to be crucified alike Him.

When Christ asks, "and you"...? what will be our response? "Yes..." or "first let me bury my dead"?