Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA, September 2011 BLESSING THE WATERS The Greek Orthodox community gathered this past Sunday for a Blessing of the Waters ceremony that was hosted by the Holy Metropolis of New Jersey. From Philadelphia to NY people came for the religious services which was highlighted by  it’s traditional tossing of the cross into the Atlantic ocean by His Eminence, Metropolitan Evangelos of New Jersey. Teenagers in boy and girl categories dove in for the honor of being the first one to retrieve the cross to his eminence. 

Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA, September 2011

BLESSING THE WATERS

The Greek Orthodox community gathered this past Sunday for a Blessing of the Waters ceremony that was hosted by the Holy Metropolis of New Jersey. From Philadelphia to NY people came for the religious services which was highlighted by  it’s traditional tossing of the cross into the Atlantic ocean by His Eminence, Metropolitan Evangelos of New Jersey. Teenagers in boy and girl categories dove in for the honor of being the first one to retrieve the cross to his eminence. 

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