Here is an excerpt from a letter written by Metropolitan Tikhon on the 20th Anniversay of the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks:
"We
remember the lives that were cut short in the collapse of the towers of
the World Trade Center, the damage to the Pentagon, and the wreckage of
Flight 93 in Pennsylvania. There were almost three thousand people who
never came home, taken from their family and friends who were left to
grieve and try to make sense of their loss. Many more were injured and
forever scarred, both physically and emotionally. Even those who were
not present at the sites of the attacks have vivid imagery of that day
come into their minds unbidden.
Great tragedies in our world call us to repentance, and anniversaries like today remind us that we are sojourners and exiles here on earth (1 Pet. 2:11). We look with hope towards the Kingdom of God. Always do we, as St. Paul remarked, “desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one” (Heb 11:16).
Let us continue to remember in prayer all those who lost their lives, the survivors who continue to live with disability, the first-responders who carry emotional burdens of that day, and the families and friends of the victims who have suffered their grief over these twenty years."
Great tragedies in our world call us to repentance, and anniversaries like today remind us that we are sojourners and exiles here on earth (1 Pet. 2:11). We look with hope towards the Kingdom of God. Always do we, as St. Paul remarked, “desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one” (Heb 11:16).
Let us continue to remember in prayer all those who lost their lives, the survivors who continue to live with disability, the first-responders who carry emotional burdens of that day, and the families and friends of the victims who have suffered their grief over these twenty years."
Memory Eternal!
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