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The Transfiguration of Time (Protopresbyter Vasileios Kalliakmanis)

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a) In every age, people want to measure, monitor and confer value on time, and, if at all possible, to surpass its limits. This can be seen from the monuments of world civilization, as well as from some of the notions which have been expressed regarding them. For the peoples outside the Bible and in secular religions, mythological views have developed on the sacredness and recycling properties of time. And so the concept arose that time recycles itself. This was the view that dominated Ancient Greek thought. Source:/www.digital-camera.gr/ b) In the pre-Christian period a variety of festal cycles arose. The first of each month, the first day of the year, the equinoctes, the solstices, and other important events were grounds for celebration. In ...

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Thirst and Light (Metropolitan of Toronto Sotirios)

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2020 NEW YEAR’S ENCYCLICAL “The fields thirst for water and the mountains for snow. The slave, she thirsts for freedom for so many years” (popular song). Our poor soul thirsts for the light of the God-Man. The year 2019 is over. Let us take a look at what happened. Unfortunately, the picture is not very encouraging. Wars. Disorder. Poverty. Troubles. Refuges drowning in the sea. They are trying to find a better life. Do they achieve this? Not always. Blood was spilled abundantly. Terrorists with knives slit the throats of the innocent. People lose their minds and kill indiscriminately with guns. Men. Women. Children. Students in school. So here it is: blood was shed abundantly in 2019. The year 2020 is upon us. We gaze at it ...

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