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<\/a>At Most Holy Theotokos Rescuer of the Perishing we want to return hope, purpose, meaning, and joy to the lives of our elderly.<\/p><\/div>\n
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The Background<\/h4>\n
About a year ago a few us got together to build an assisted living facility to take care of our Orthodox elderly. Any priest can tell you that some facilities are good and others aren’t but both lack something in common: spiritual care for the Orthodox client.<\/p>\n
Priests visit our Orthodox faithful in these facilities but every priest knows that it is not enough. What if we could build a facility that offers liturgies and more, that might even one day have an Orthodox priest on staff? What if we could do something more than distract or entertain our depressed elderly? What if we could build a community — a fellowship — within the facility?<\/p>\n
We want to return hope, purpose, meaning, and joy to the lives of our elderly. That’s why we are working to build Most Holy Theotokos Rescuer of the Perishing Assisted Living Facility<\/a> in Clearwater, Florida.<\/p>\n How it go started is another story. Some Orthodox faithful were asked to visit a dying Orthodox man who had no family. They went and took care of him, and out of that experience the idea for an Orthodox facility was born. Read the story of Angelo, the man to whom the parishioners ministered: Learning from Evangelos<\/a>. It opened our eyes to the great need that some of our elderly have.<\/p>\nThe Need<\/h4>\n
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