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Being Orthodox Christian parents today is challenging. We believe the Orthodox Church provides all we need. Yet the depth of our faith often eludes us.

Take the Great Feasts, for example. Growing up in the Church, we prepared for confession and communion for every Great Feast. We attended the divine services, perhaps in a language we didn’t understand. We re-learned the general story of the feast and what the festal icon looked like. And maybe there would be a beautiful piece sung during the service that added to the festivity of it all.

That was it.

Oh wait! Don’t forget the festal meal! Sometimes that was a bigger highlight than the divine services.

Next year, we rinsed and repeated. It was all a bit…shallow.

But here is the thing. Behind the simplicity of it all, there is so much depth. It’s like the iceberg where we only see the top but underneath the water, there is so much more. When you see that awe-inspiring depth for the first time as an Orthodox Christian, something wakes up deep inside you.

For us, this was when the idea of Family Chotki was born.