It was their joy to witness their daughter's wedding on the same
altar where they had been married.

On June 14th, 1953, their daughter, Marrietta Petsef, married Willian Ashworth. Fr. Zoganas officiated. Marietta is wearing her mother's wedding crown.

The Orthodox Church has two distinctive features: its changelessness and its sense of living continuity with the church of the early apostles. The church's doctrine of salvation teaches that Christ came to save us from sin for participation the in the life of God here on earth and for life after death. The whole emphasis is that we "put on Christ"as a way of life.

Orthodoxy believes that Jesus is the human way God chose to get close to us Orthodoxy accepts the teaching of the Holy Trinity because it preserves God in His fullness. "God" means the Father who loves us, the Son Who saves us, and the Holy Spirit who lives within us.

Finally on November the 8th, 1980, Diane Ashworth was married to Steve Collins with Fr. Sarris officiating.

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The Divine Liturgy is celebrated every Sunday where the celebrants can receive Holy Communion, the Body and Blood of Christ. Orthodoxy has he Sacred Tradition found in the writings of the early fathers which helps us to interpret the Scriptures.

Eastern Orthodoxy came to America in two ways. One was by way of Russian Orthodox missionaries on Kodiak Island, Alaska. The other was a Greek colony in New Smyrna, Florida, in 1768. It wasn't until after 1900 that Eastern Orthodox Christians began to migrate to North America in large numbers.