[kawaii]

Counting my boys, 5 generations of my maternal family have lived in America...and my boys both speak and understand Greek and are quite at home in our village. In many ways they are far more "Greek" than some of the GOA Greek chauvinists who continually spout off about Greece but have never been there and don't even know the name of the village their parents were from! But when it comes to spending money for "Greek Letters" or Greek TV in America, they are the first ones to say the Archdiocese should pay for this stuff. Its just awful! I am sorry to see +Alexei pushing this, but I suppose I am jo more surprised to see it from him than I am from my own hierarchs.

In fairness I haven't found an article with Alexy II mentioning it only Kirill (though I find it unlikely they disagree). Personally I think there's demand for both all slavonic churches, half and half churches, and all english churches, and that need should be met rather than creating barriers to folks. It seems most folks fixate on one or the other and become hostile toward the other; at least OCA folks...

[Kolokotronis]

"Personally I think there's demand for both all slavonic churches, half and half churches, and all english churches, and that need should be met rather than creating barriers to folks."

Creating barriers in a Russian parish to full participation in the life of the parish to Russian immigrants is monsterous as it would be if we were to do the same to Greek immigrants. The parish ALWAYS has to be home for immigrants from the old country, no matter how American or "pan Orthodox" it has become.