March 22, 2005

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  Konstantine Aliferakis “Kosta/Gus”, age 20 of Crown Point, entered into eternal rest on Saturday, March 12, 2005. He is survived by his loving parents, Rev. Father Constantine and Joanne Aliferakis; brothers and sisters: Andrew, Nectaria, Theofano, Nicoletta and Alexia; maternal grandfather, Rev. Father Constantine Eliades of New York; paternal grandmother, Sister Theoskepasti of Pleasant Prairie, WI and two great-grandmothers: Kyriaki Eliades and Calliope Poulis both of New York; uncle, Stephan (Marina) Aliferakis and daughter Anna of Glenview, IL; aunt, Connie (Thomas) Chiakulas and children, Christopher and Maria of Arlington Heights, IL; aunt, Cally (Victor) Viviani and son, Christopher of New York; uncle, Daniel Eliades and children, Alexandria, Michael and Katherine. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, March 16, 2005 at 11:00 a.m. at the St. John Chrysostomos Monastery in Pleasant Prairie, WI. At rest at the Monastery Cemetery. Friends are invited to call on Tuesday, from 4:00-9:00 p.m. at the Lincoln Ridge Funeral Home, 7607 W. Lincoln Highway, Schererville (Rt. 30 east of Cline Ave.). Trisagian Prayer Service at 7:30 p.m. Kosta/Gus was a member of the St. George Greek Orthodox Church of Schererville, a 2003 graduate of Crown Point High School and was attending Purdue University in Lafayette, IN. Published in The Times from 3/15/2005 – 3/16/2005.   Last week a fellow clergy family lost one of their six children.  Their young son Kosta (Gus) age 20 died in a car accident. Fr. and I don’t know the family personally but they have been in our thoughts and prayers this past week .  We are so very, very sad for them. I thought I would share with you the life of this young man. His friends and family have written so beautifully about his life and his witness to the Christ and the Orthodox faith. He was only 20. When I was 20 I lost two Orthodox friends, tragically. I remember well what that was like. We were all so close and had so much in common and so many shared memories. I was very touched by the beautiful words one of Gus’s friends wrote in her blog about her dear friend Gus. http://www.xanga.com/item.aspx?user=malenkaya&tab=weblogs&uid=222449184#firstcomment My heart goes out to Fr. and Presvytera. Our boys are young now but only God know what lies ahead for them. Gus’s great-grandmothers are still living. His maternal grandfather is a Greek Orthodox priest in NY and his paternal grandmother is a Greek Orthodox nun in the monastery of  St. John Chrysostomos Pleasant Prairie, WI  , were  Gus was laid to rest. I can’t imagine a place I would like to be buried more then on the grounds of an Orthodox monastery. What an extrordionary family this young man has.   May his memory remain eternal!!   Christ our eternal King and God, You have destroyed death and the devil by Your Cross and have restored man to life by Your Resurrection; give rest, Lord, to the soul of Your servant Konstantine who has fallen asleep, in Your Kingdom, where there is no pain, sorrow or suffering. In Your goodness and love for all men, pardon all the sins he  has committed in thought word or deed, for there is no man or woman who lives and sins not, You only are without sin. For You are the Resurrection, the Life, and Repose of Your servant Konstantine, departed this life, O Christ our God; and to You do we send up glory with Your Eternal Father and Your All-holy, Good and Life-creating Spirit; both now and forever and to the ages of ages. Amen

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