HISTORY: The year was 1990 when the St. Vasilios Church School was asked to put on a religious display for the October Festival. This first display was comprised of just a handful of icons and a handful of books .
In the ensuing years it was quickly recognized that there was an overwhelming response of gratitude for this ministry and outreach to our parishioners that it was wisely decided to designate the Religious Resource Center as an official organization of St. Vasilios Church.
Over the years The Religious Resource Center has put into the homes of Orthodox and other denominational Christian homes hundreds of icons, hundreds of spiritual books, liturgical books, and other religious material pertaining to the Orthodox Christian faith. . The outreach ministry of the Religious Resource Center was well evidenced by the response of the people, young and old who feel the yearning to learn and become educated in the Orthodox Christian faith. People have visited from other parishes and from out of state. Since 1990, the Religious Resource Center during the Church Festivals has featured an iconographer, and Father Andrew Demotses has put on several informational exhibits of precious liturgical items, vestments, and icons of our Church.
Father Andrew Demotses encouragement, insistence, and exhortation, is: that no child or parishioner of St. Vasilios will be deprived of the privilege to obtain an icon, bible or other spiritual material from our Church. Thus, the St. Vasilios Religious Resource Center functions as a true vehicle to fulfill this purpose and mission to put into the hands and homes of our faithful whatever material they may need to sustain and nourish their spiritual needs.
There is now a permanent religious resource display area so that the Religious Resource Center may feature icons, bibles, books, censors, and other religious items for the parishioners to purchase throughout the year for their homes.
Lastly, it is hoped that all children of St. Vasilios parish will have in their possession the icon of their baptismal patron saint to treasure and to emulate the tenets of that saint's life ... who died a martyr's death for their unwavering resolute faith and belief in our Lord Christ Jesus.
Religious Resource Center
Catherine Nicolakis, Director