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Cultural Tradition and Continuous Renewal (Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana)

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Although he was an innovator , the attitude of the Apostle of the Gentiles towards the achievements of Greek civilization was one of respect and he didn’t hesitate to see them as part of God’s providence and to incorporate them into the Biblical tradition. “‘For in him we live and move and have our being”. As some of your own poets have said, “We are his offspring’” (v. 28). A clear reference to Aratos (Phenomena, 5). At the time when Saint Paul dared to express the Christian message in the capital of the ancient spiritual world, the Greek world- as many thinkers have observed- had made astonishing strides in terms of spiritual development, through the wonderful deployment of reason as the ...

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Sunday of the Last Judgement (Metropolitan Anthony Bloom †)

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13th February 1972 In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Today, on our preparation journey towards Lent, we have come to an ultimate stage: we are confronted with judgement. If we pay attention to it, next week our spiritual destiny will be in our own hands, because next week is the day of Forgiveness. The link between these two days is too obvious. If we only could become aware that all and each of us stand before the judgement of God and the judgement of men, if we could remember and realise with depth, wholeheartedly, in earnest that we are, all of us, indebted to each other, all responsible to each other for some of the pain and ...

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It ’ll become septic (Saint John of Kronstadt)

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The enemy often wounds our soul and sears us with his ill-will. Unless we heal that wound immediately with fervent prayer and faith it’ll become gangrene in our heart. God also wounds our heart, with His love, but this wound is sweet, welcome. It doesn’t burn but warms and invigorates.

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