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Brothers and Sisters in the Lord, On the fourteenth of September, we celebrate the Feast of the Exaltation of the...

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The Exaltation of the Son of Man (Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian)

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‘And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up’. On the Sunday before the Exaltation of the Precious Cross, the Gospel reading is concerned, in the most realistic way, with eternal life. It contains a great revelation, from the Lord Himself. What He reveals is His love for humankind. God reaches out to the lost sheep, to sinful people, in order to save them by sending His Son into the world and surrendering Him to death for the sake of the human race. Christ also refers to a foreshadowing of His own exaltation* on the Cross. In the book of Genesis, the Tree of Life is a model for the Precious and ...

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