My beloved Youth Members and friends,
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022
May God grant you all health, strong faith, prosperity, success and joy in your hearts!
The pandemic is still here but we all have the experience until now how to protect ourselves and continue with our lives until the day that we can go back to normal by the grace of our beloved God.
I wish and I pray that the new year of 2022 shall be a year of success for our MetYouth. We must work in a humble, loving, cooperative spirit so that we can reach our goals! The purpose is to gather the youth in our ecclesiastical communities and to work all together. We must increase in faith and work to spread the good news of our Lord and to invite other people and especially young people to come, see and experience the love of God and the benefit of people together with the Church for their lives. Our presence in the Church and our active participation attracts the grace of God and leads us to good works that affect positively our societies entirely and we become ambassadors of God’s love for the creation for other people.
We must focus on the following goals
1. Gather together if the law allows it, now, during the pandemic, otherwise we can meet virtually so that we can continue to see each other.
2. Invite other people to join and participate!
3. Share ideas with each other for the improvement of our MetYouth.
4. Share articles that you might find interesting, with each other.
5. Organize events if it is lawfully allowed because of the pandemic, so that we can replace lost time.
My beloved friends, despite the difficulties that we are facing, for the last two years, we can be able to revive our Youth and to continue the good work that has been done until now!
I am always here to help and support you! This is our divine obligation and duty to continue the work of God, to offer opportunities to others to know God and to open the path for other young people to see what Christ offers to them.
Please don’t hesitate to communicate with me and discuss different matters that you might want to
share your opinions!
GOD BLESS YOU
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022
+Bishop Iakovos of Zenoupolis
Youth Director of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada