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Romiosyni (Metropolitan Ierotheos of Nafpaktos and Ayios Vlasios)

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Romiosyni isn’t an intellectual ideology, nor it is merely a reference to the past. It’s an authentic and true experience, which many people still live today, since they’re in tune with aparticular attitude to life. This is a way of life radically different from the Frankish model and was lived not only in monasteries and places where ascetics dwelt, but also in the social milieu. The representatives and spokesmen for this way of life were the confessors of the faith, the holy Fathers who lived with the people and who have left us their writing as a legacy; the martyrs who bore witness and suffered death for the glory of God; the holy ascetics who strove against the passions and ...

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The Ascension of Jesus Christ in Glory (Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou)

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‘God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.’ The Ascension is the last event in Christ’s earthly life. Of course, Pentecost is the fulfilment of God’s dispensation, which is why is called ‘the last feast’. God the Father was well pleased to see man as he had conceived him before the foundation of the world and sent the Holy Spirit to the world to seal man’s reconciliation with God. In the person of Jesus Christ, God received all mankind, the ‘middle wall of partition’ broke down and all divergences converged. This feast’s magnificent splendour rests in the fact that when Christ ascends to heaven, when Christ ascends to heaven, He lifts up to the ...

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