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Our aim

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Our aim should be how we can remain united to Christ, how we can achieve the purification of our soul…With purification, a person can see the love and mercy of God. This is achieved principally through the observation of God’s commandments and the action of the sacraments.

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Andrew the First-Called. The Life of a Blessed Martyr (Fotis Kondoglou)

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30 November is the feast-day of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called. All the Apostles died martyr’s deaths , preaching the Gospel in various countries. Only one was martyred in Greece, Saint Andrew the First-Called, that is, the first who went to be with Christ. He was martyred in Patra. The city is greatly honored by being counted worthy for its earth to be soaked with the blood of him who Christ called before the other eleven, before his brother Peter. Initially, Andrew was a disciple of Saint John the Forerunner. One day, the Baptist was sitting with his two disciples and he saw Christ walking in the distance. He turned to them and said: ‘Behold, the Lamb of God’. When ...

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