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3 Ιανουαρίου 2020
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On the new year († Dionysios, Metropolitan of Servia and Kozani)

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My beloved brothers and sisters, Of all the wishes exchanged at the dawn of the New Year, the most appropriate for us Christians is the Church’s supplication: ‘May we spend the rest of our life in peace and repentance’. This is the most apt, the most true prayer, that we may pass whatever remains of our life peacefully and repentant. When the Church says ‘in peace’, it doesn’t mean only external, political peace, but first and very much foremost our inner, spiritual peace, on which the peace of the world depends. Because it’s true that the world won’t find peace unless each of us finds our own peace, one by one, opening up to and welcoming God’ grace. God isn’t outside the world ...

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3 Ιανουαρίου 2020
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‘And he did not know her…’ (Matth. 1, 25) (Georgios N. Manolis, Theologian)

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In the passage 1, 25 in the Gospel according to Saint Matthew… ‘but he knew her not until she had given birth to a son’ many Protestant and other heretical interpreters consider the Greek εως ου to be a time limit, after which the married life of Joseph and Our Lady began. From these conjugal relations, they believe, were born siblings of Christ, or at least some of the siblings referred to in the Gospels. But, from a grammatical point of view, this interpretation is not necessarily correct, since the temporal conjunction εως is often used not to demote a time limit, but rather limitlessness within time. The passage is at the end of chapter 1 of the Gospel according to ...

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1 Ιανουαρίου 2020
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To the Horepiscopi (Saint Basil the Great)

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(The epistle was probably written in about 372 and was addressed to the horepsicopi, that is the local bishops who each had pastoral responsibility for a small part of the Metropolis of Caesarea, on which they were canonically dependent. Saint Basil chastises them for not being careful enough regarding the people involved in their churches and for not seeking his advice. He reminds them of the consequences of failure to staff the Church with good priests). I am much distressed that the canons of the Fathers have been abandoned, and that the strict discipline of the Church has been banished from among you. I am apprehensive lest, as this indifference grows, the affairs of the Church should, little by little, fall ...

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