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‘What bothers me is that I’m getting used to your absence…’ [Greek song] (Protopresbyter Antonios Christou)

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Recent images of churches celebrating their feast day amidst a strong police presence, with the courtyards cordoned off with railings and tape, are a sign of many things, the most obvious and not the least being the fact that the Church and our Orthodox churches are part of the problem not the solution, with everything this implies for the hearts and conscience of the people. They want us to be there for them, not to be cut off, celebrating liturgies by ourselves, like a separate, privileged caste that’s exclusive and not open to ‘the many’. Throughout this trial, our parishioners have fasted, exercised self-restraint, prepared, but they still can’t take communion, or even pray in a church, unlike the ...

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The Creative Word of God (Archimandrite Peter, Abbot of Monastery of St John the Baptist, Essex UK)

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The word of God has four meanings: 1. In the bosom of the Trinity, the Only-begotten Son of the Father is called the Word of God because He was the One Who delivered to us the revelation of God the Father. 2. Also in the bosom of the Trinity, the word of God is the energy, the power of God by which all things in heaven and on earth came into being: ‘God said, Let there be light: and there was light’ (Gen. 1:3). 3. On the historical level, the word of God is Holy Scripture. 4. The fourth meaning has to do with the human word: when it is integrated into the perspective of the divine word, the human ...

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