Holy Mother of God Greek Orthodox Church — Local services in Tallahassee

This is a beautiful church and some parishioners are genuine believers (thus some stars). I used to be a parishioner at this church, visiting fairly regularly. Fr. Robert O'Laughlin and his wife both of whom I've know for many years seemed to be very fond of me, he would typically say that it was "always a blessing" to see me. One would hope, in fact assume, that in this case, if someone tries to slander the person the priest would be the first to come to his parishioner's defense and stand firmly, together with the parishioner, against the accusations, supporting the parishioner in face of difficulties. Unfortunately when someone tried to bring proceedings against me to declare me mentally incompetent or insane and came to Robert O'Laughlin to get his sign-off, he, although probably initially in disbelief of accusations, allowed himself to be convinced thus betraying his parishioner. In my opinion the priest should have defended the parishioner at least until allowing the parishioner to respond to any accusations and present the other side. Moreover, when I asked for truth later, he denied and engaged in gaslighting, again believing or at least perpetuating the lies. Denying truth to the parishioner, particularly when being asked for it, is denying God in my opinion, given that God is Truth, and to me it indicates at least the weakness of Faith on the priest's part. Even for a plainly moral secular person the fact that the proceedings were conducted behind the back, dishonorably and in violation of human and civil rights, depriving the person the possibility to defend oneself, should have been a red flag. This situation also highlights the flaw in the legal system that considers evidence * as if * from independent sources but obtained by the accusing party upon presenting people with one-sided damaging information. The court should solicit others' opinions independently, without informing of the details of the allegations or who is...

I'm mainly go here for the Greek food festival but I did take a tour once we're at the rector or the priest talked about all the traditions and what they actually do their symbolism behind it just the rich flavor of their expression of their faith is actually kind of beautiful and it's just really awesome going in there because it seems like the church is like this medieval sort of Time machine you going there and everything's room is so nicely painted and all of it as such rich symbolism. and the Greek food festival is just a special thing last time I went they had this guy playing music and my kid goes up onto the dance stage cuz no one else is dancing at the time it just starts dancing and having a fun time and all the sudden all the kids are up there dancing and it was...

I am ONLY reviewing the Greek Festival. NOTHING else. If I could give it none I would. In all my years attending this festival I've never been so disappointed. I don't think I'm going back. I saw a decline in quality after the nixed the vegetarian options in the last few years. This year was just awful. The food was dry and the baklava was burnt with broken pecan shell in it. Seriously, this was not the high quality fun experience that I had with my family...