The Three Hierarchs As Hierarchs Of The People
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The Three Hierarchs As Hierarchs Of The People
Below is an citation of a words delivered on the festival of the Three Hierarchs, at the Holy Clerical of Saint Demetrios in Nafpaktos.By Christos Ioannou, TheologianThe life and actions of the Three Hierarchs is timeless.Seeing the simple monastic life of Thyme the Well-known (whose acknowledge prospect was virtuously one book and his cassock), we indigence to vary the prime example and feature of fulsome function.We learn from his customary bounty and strictness. He is the lid director of the hospital and orphanage. He exemplifies and we vary our independent lifestyle and turn towards our fellow citizen everyplace they are geologically. Right it was able-bodied elsewhere that our league are possessed by generous standpoint towards league nightmare from natural disasters, wars, greed and scourge. Thyme the Well-known did not waver even to cuddle lepers, when on a regular basis modern introduction puts on the sidelines not virtuously population nightmare from communicable diseases, but even different views and opinions.We learn from the unruffled and solitary character of the optimal critic Gregory the Theologian, by whose poems we display God in the churches until today.We learn at the dreadfully time from the dealings under enemy control by John Chrysostom in Antioch to work on mood and the upper lessons of the clergy, the removal from the Altar of some of them, by educational the park of women in the Clerical in fresh the park of the deaconess in the churches, by educational the spiritual and equipment aid to population working from birth to end of the day with the introduction of the Vesperal Liturgy and feeding them. He had all the league with him, because he instilled the dynamics of love. He fought unwilling the feature for waste and of fine belief. The wonderful thankfulness and love of the league, but in addition his style caused the covetousness of a variety of, even some bishops. Following instinctive sentenced to death the verdict was commuted to cast out.The Three Hierarchs increase praxis and theoria (action and the belief of God), the go through of the Gospel with knowledge to unravel material problems and nightmare. Our fellow citizen is near and far. This is what Christianity teaches, and this was implemented by the Three Hierarchs. Just about the word "joint effort" (") acquires its true content: to be near one another ( ).Via the Three Hierarchs we go through Neat Organization. The hundreds of volumes that incorporate the comfort of the pied works of the Fathers speak to the material intention at all get older. They are translated taking part in dozens of languages, and important scientists (certified and imaginary scientists) disparage and exalt their work.We all read about the righteousness of God put taking part in practice by the Three Hierarchs, which was and is unnoticed by a variety of.We become aware of the words of the Holy Chrysostom: the God of Christians is not a God of war, but of group. And Thyme the Well-known, in his work "That God is Not the Fetch of Problems", explains why we want not attribute to God unjust acts and endeavors of league.The notion of the Three Hierarchs is encouraged to Greek lessons. It offers the universal announcement of the Church's timeless Greek civilization. The Three Hierarchs saw man as the medium of Creation, not of course as the medium for the sake of marauding all possessions, but as a introduction of God and protection of character. They considered him a person, and not a stash. Folks were not fit impersonal, but tale personalities who want be qualified in the environs of life.In this context of the tradition exhibit is positioned the celebration we formalize today. And the Three Hierarchs are supply in by every church indoors the ecclesiastical service in the role of we display God: Thyme the Well-known and Holy Chrysostom with the texts of the three liturgies and Gregory the Theologian with his poetry. In their faces we formalize the three-sunned Deity, the God of all Who showed them to be luminaries of the Ecumene, for our sake, and for the sake of all league.Source: "Ekklesiastiki Paremvasi", , February 2009. Translated by John Sanidopoulos.


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