The Internet and our Church
	With The Internet, the world has become a worldwide village. Distances have been eliminated. The cyberspace, as it is called, is the most enterprising and at the same time most astonishing occurrence on our planet in the last few years.
	For the users of the Internet, there are two avenues. The one leads to a huge network where one can find everything, information linked to knowledge, entertainment, and facilitating the immediate exchange of ideas. The other avenue offers the unsuspecting person a superb, perhaps?... opportunity for alienation, pronounced loneliness, as one may escape reality, and forget that one exist.
	The Church is primarily a community of people. It offers itself to man in his entirety. It offers communication, love and brotherhood of nations and of the people. It offers man the ability to escape from the complex tower of his ego.
	Today, a large part of the earth’s population lives in the so-called urban centers. People live in little boxes. Even though the dwellings are so close to each other, people paradoxically have drawn away from each other.
	The Orthodox Parish of Pretoria, with the help of God, makes its own small humble attempt to enter cyberspace and to respond to the requirements of the times, giving the opportunity to Greeks and others, Orthodox and non-Orthodox, globally and especially to the cosmopolitan country of South Africa to communicate with it - surfing - through the Internet which they so love.
	That they may know the customs and traditions of our Orthodoxy. That we may exchange thoughts and ideas, and why not? That this technological web of the Internet may become a modern pulpit. We know, of course, that it is not possible for the cyberspace of the Internet to offer genuine and personal interaction between people.
	Surf and travel with us on our own Orthodox piece of the cyberspace.
	Lastly, I pray and plead for the blessing of God, for this endeavor and for all of us.
		The Parish Priest Fr. Michael Visvinis.

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