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The Church and Churches (George Mantzarides, Professor Emeritus of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

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In his second discourse ‘On the Procession of the Holy Sprit’, Saint Gregory Palamas writes: ‘It was the common fate of all the Churches to fall away from the correct way of thinking, since over the centuries, wickedness polluted one or other of them. Not recovering after this fall, however, is true only in the case of the Church of the Latins, even though it is the greatest and chief and enjoys the most illustrious eminence among the patriarchal thrones. What happened to it, the greatest of the Churches, is similar to what happened to the elephant, the greatest of the animals. They say that it does not lie down on the ground at the hour of sleep, but relaxes by ...

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Round the crazy wheel (Saint Paisios the Athonite)

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Source:news.psu.edu When people distance themselves from God, it’s only natural that they won’t find rest anywhere. This is why they even go circling around the moon, because the whole of our planet isn’t large enough to contain their anxiety. They go round and round like an engine lead round a crazy wheel and spend lots (of money on nothing). A lot of people go hungry, a lot of people are starving in the 20th century, so that these people will have plenty of bread with them on their long journeys

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