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Christ’s Behavior (Matth. 4, 12-17) (Metropolitan Ioïl (Frangkakos) of Edessa, Pella, and Almopia)

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‘When he heard that John had been delivered up, he withdrew into Galilee’. Christ’s behavior towards people wasn’t monolithic. He reacted in a variety of ways. In any case, He became incarnate, was made manifest to people and revealed His wisdom with the aim of ‘presenting His life as a model to be imitated’, as Saint Gregory Palamas puts it. The way He acted depended on the particular case. He didn’t behave diplomatically or out of self-interest but always with a view to the salvation of the person concerned. At times He spoke humbly about His person; at other times He revealed His divinity. Sometimes He went to Jerusalem and spoke openly about very serious matters and sometimes He left and hid ...

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Sunday after Epiphany (Hieromonk Georgios M. Thanasou)

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Epistle Reading Eph. 4, 7-13: “The Humility of Christ” Today is the first Sunday after the great feast of Theophany. As with all the feasts of the Lord, the Church acclaims the event of God’s Epiphany through its sublime hymns. The Nativity, the Baptism, the Crucifixion and the Resurrection manifest to us the mystery of salvation and the Kingdom of God. With His incarnation, Christ reveals His love, God’s plan for the salvation of humankind and also His humility. In today’s reading, Saint Paul reveals to us the depth of the humility of Christ, Who descended to the lowest depths of Hell and was raised “above the heavens, that he might fill all things” (Eph. 4, 10). Christ’s descent into Hell indicates ...

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