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Spiritual Paternity (Protopresbyter Vasileios Kalliakmanis, Professor of the Theological School, A.U.Th.)

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1. Introduction These days, when we talk about a spiritual father, we usually mean a priest who’s a confessor. But in Church tradition, the sense of spiritual paternity is much broader. Only God is the Father . Christ, Who is the Son of God, is revealed also as our father, by manifesting the love of the Father to the world. Christ in His paternal capacity is even clearer at the Ascension. His disciples have a premonition of their spiritual orphanhood and are overwhelmed by indescribable pain. The Lord doesn’t abandon them as orphans, however. He sends the Holy Spirit, Who guides them to ‘all the truth’ . Through the Holy Spirit, the Apostles begat spiritual children and transferred their gifts to bishops, ...

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