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18 Ιουνίου 2018

Οι Κύπριοι δίνουν το αίμα τους – Τιμητική πρωτιά για τη χώρα μας

Κατηγορίες: Επιστήμες, Τέχνες & Πολιτισμός, Θαύματα και θαυμαστά γεγονότα

«Είναι κάτι που με γεμίζει ηθική ικανοποίηση, ειδικά τη στιγμή που λαμβάνω μήνυμα ότι το αίμα μου έχει μεταγγιστεί σε...

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The Babel Syndrome (Fr. Stephen Freeman)

Κατηγορίες: In English

In the liturgical life of the Church, the event of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit descended on the Apostles and they began to speak in various languages, is linked to the story of the Tower of Babel in the Old Testament. There, too, people began to speak in different languages but with an entirely different outcome. Pentecost brought the unity of the gospel, Babel brought the scattering of peoples through the diversity of languages. There are lessons within the Babel story, however, that are worth noting. I leave it to others to worry about the historical nature of the Tower of Babel. Linguistic evidence points to widespread language differentiation for most of human history. But the lesson of Babel should not ...

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