Συνάντηση Οικουμενικού Πατριάρχη με τον Θεσσαλονίκης Άνθιμο (ΦΩΤΟ)

<p> <img alt="anthimos bartholomaios" height="514" loading="lazy" src="https://www.romfea.gr/images/article-images/2023/06/romfea2/ipodoxi/agarathoy/anthimos-bartholomaios.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="770" /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: black;">Σήμερα Πέμπτη, 22α Ἰουνίου 2023, ὁ Παναγιώτατος Μητροπολίτης Θεσσαλονίκης κ. Ἄνθιμος ὑπεδέχθη στὸ Ἐπισκοπεῖο τῆς τοπικῆς μας Ἐκκλησίας, τὸν Παναγιώτατο Οἰκουμενικὸ Πατριάρχη κ.κ. Βαρθολομαῖο, ὁ ὁποῖος ἐπισκέπτεται τὴν χώρα μας καὶ τὴν πόλη μας προσκεκλημένος ὑπὸ Ἐκκλησιαστικῶν καὶ Ἐκπαιδευτικῶν φορέων.</span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: black;">Τὸν Παναγιώτατο, συνοδευόμενο ἀπὸ ὀλιγομελῆ ὁμάδα κληρικῶν καὶ λαϊκῶν συνεργάτων του, ὑπεδέχθη, κατὰ τὴν ἄφιξή του στὸν ἀερολιμένα «ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑ», ὁ Πρωτοσύγκελλος τῆς Ἱερᾶς Μητροπόλεως Θεσσαλονίκης πανοσιολ. ἀρχιμανδρίτης π. Ἰάκωβος Ἀθανασίου.</span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: black;">Στὸ γραφεῖο του Παναγιωτάτου πραγματοποιήθηκε ὀλιγόωρη συνάντηση, κατὰ τὴν ὁποῖαν συνεζητήθησαν διάφορα θέματα, προσεφέρθησαν κεράσματα καὶ ἀντηλλάγησαν ἐνθύμια</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; text-decoration-line: underline;"><strong><a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAJMHa" rel="noopener" style="color: red;" target="_blank">ΠΑΤΗΣΤΕ ΕΔΩ ΓΙΑ ΤΟ ΣΧΕΤΙΚΟ ΦΩΤΟΓΡΑΦΙΚΟ ΥΛΙΚΟ</a></strong></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; text-decoration-line: underline;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; text-decoration-line: underline;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">ΠΗΓΗ</span></b><span style="color: red;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.romfea.gr/ieres-mitropoleis/57453-synantisi-oikoumenikoy-patriarxi-me-ton-thessalonikis-anthimo-foto"><b>https://www.romfea.gr/ieres-mitropoleis/57453-synantisi-oikoumenikoy-patriarxi-me-ton-thessalonikis-anthimo-foto</b></a></span></span></p>

Συνάντηση Οικουμενικού Πατριάρχη με τον Θεσσαλονίκης Άνθιμο (ΦΩΤΟ)

  Σήμερα Πέμπτη, 22α Ἰουνίου 2023, ὁ Παναγιώτατος Μητροπολίτης Θεσσαλονίκης κ. Ἄνθιμος ὑπεδέχθη στὸ Ἐπισκοπεῖο τῆς τοπικῆς μας Ἐκκλησίας, τὸ...

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ΓΕΝΕΥΗ - ΣΥΝΕΝΤΕΥΞΗ ΚΑΙ ΟΜΙΛΙΑ ΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΙΚΟΥ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΗ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ 75η ΕΠΕΤΕΙΟ ΤΟΥ Π.Σ.Ε.

<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4sLu1lKyMq4" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe> </p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Hd-b4wurQKs?start=988" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Beloved Sisters and Brothers in Christ,</span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Once again, we gather as the World Council of Churches to pursue and actively seek our unity in Christ – in mind, in heart, in spirit, and in practical reality. In this world, where division is sown daily in the human family, our task is all the more urgent.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB">The Ecumenical Patriarchate embraces with love and respect all who strive toward this longed-for goal – from every side and every actor in ecclesial affairs—and continues its mission to reach out across all Christian communities, to find the common ground that allows us to discover our unity in Christ – the unity that He prayed for, and which is our ultimate destiny in Him.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB">The Church of Constantinople shares also the joy of the 75<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> anniversary of the establishment of the World Council of Churches, as one of its founding members. The Holy Great Church of Christ takes no less pride in highlighting the inspirational role that the famous Synodal Encyclical of 1920 played as the “constitutional charter” of the process that led to the Council’s foundation back in 1948. Over a century ago, this Encyclical prophetically pointed out—among other things—the dangers that can “<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">attack the very foundations of the Christian faith and the essence of Christian life and society</em>,” such as war, which brings to light “<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">many unhealthy symptoms in the life of the Christian peoples</em>,” and often reveals a “<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">great lack of respect even for the elementary principles of justice and charity</em>.”</span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Indeed, the Orthodox Christian dedication to our own essential oneness has been profoundly injured by the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation in February 2022. This deep wound, which has spread to World Orthodoxy, has yet to find a “Balm of Gilead” to assuage the pain, the loss, and the cynical realpolitik that has been foisted upon the Orthodox Church.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB">We express our gratitude to the World Council of Churches for standing in the court of the Prince of Peace and for supporting the nascent democracy of Ukraine and the pious and noble Ukrainian people. Even now, the ecclesiastical presence of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine seeks ways to disambiguate itself from the aggressor State Church under Patriarch Kirill. We say “State” Church, because the proof is in the alignment, not the self-assertion. This sharp and grievous reality has already caused generational harm to the future of Orthodox Christianity in the Slavic Lands. We all pray for a swift and righteous conclusion to this unnecessary imperialist campaign and an end to the needless and heedless politicization of the Church in Russia. We cannot, and we must not allow the weaponization of our Christian faith to become the norm.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB">To this end, the text selected for our Opening Prayer is perfectly poignant. Those who had been taught and nourished by the Lord Jesus were operating on the most basic human level – that is, subsistence and survival. The Lord said to them:</span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Ἀμὴν ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, ζητεῖτέ με, οὐχ ὅτι εἴδετε σημεῖα, ἀλλ᾽ ὅτι ἐφάγετε ἐκ τῶν ἄρτων καὶ ἐχορτάσθητε.</span></span></span></span></em></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Truly, truly I say to you: you seek Me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were satisfied.<a href="https://www.oikoumene.org/resources/documents/homily-of-his-all-holiness-ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew#_ftn1" id="_ftnref1" name="_ftnref1" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" title=""><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">[*]</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></em></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Christ’s challenge to them was to elevate their minds and hearts – to seek after something more significant than what this world can give. And the people took the bait, as they say. They asked Him:</span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Τί ποιῶμεν ἵνα ἐργαζώμεθα τὰ ἔργα τοῦ Θεοῦ;</span></span></span></span></em></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">What must we do to work the works of God?<span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> <a href="https://www.oikoumene.org/resources/documents/homily-of-his-all-holiness-ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew#_ftn2" id="_ftnref2" name="_ftnref2" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" title=""><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">[†]</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></em></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB">And what does our Lord reply? To believe in Him – to believe that love is greater than hate, faith is greater than doubt, hope is greater than despair, and that sacrificing your life for the sake of others – by unalloyed and altruistic love – is what faith in our Lord Jesus Christ truly means. Here we come to the kernel of the seed and the way forward for all our church communities.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB">If we are serious about our ecumenical endeavour, and if we genuinely believe that our Lord Jesus Christ is the “Bread of God” that can sustain and nurture this world in every way, then we must “work the works of God” with renewed and enlightened diligence.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Definitions and agreements will be useless if our “orthopraxy” does not conform with our “orthodoxy.”</span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB">What use is a joint statement on peace if we are pursuing war? Especially in our technologically dominated world, where so-called “Artificial Intelligence” can mimic the artfulness of our declarations, we need, all the more, to manifest what the Lord so plainly said in another place in the Gospel of John:</span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Ἐν τούτῳ γνώσονται πάντες ὅτι ἐμοὶ μαθηταί ἐστε, ἐὰν ἀγάπην ἔχητε ἐν ἀλλήλοις.</span></span></span></span></em></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">By this, will all people know that you are My Disciples if you have love for one another.”<span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> <a href="https://www.oikoumene.org/resources/documents/homily-of-his-all-holiness-ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew#_ftn3" id="_ftnref3" name="_ftnref3" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" title=""><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">[‡]</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></em></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB">My dear and respected Sisters and Brothers in the Lord,</span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB">As you all know, to be a disciple of our Lord Christ is to be His follower, His pupil, His apprentice, and a member of His Body, the Church. We all may have different perceptions about what, where, and how the Church is constituted, but there can be no doubt about the sign of a true disciple.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Only love for each other, and our love for an unloved world manifests our worthiness to bear the name “Christian.”</span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB">If we are judged on anything on that Final Day, it will not be because we subscribed to this declaration or that affirmation. It will be whether we have in any way followed the Master on the path of love.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Therefore, as we look to the works of God that are our vocation as Christians, let us recommit to a truly unselfish and empathetic love for one another and our eight billion fellow human beings – each worthy and deserving of our love.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB">It is the ultimate ecumenical expression, because without such love, our inter-Christian witness will never be taken seriously by the world or, perhaps, even by our own communities. The results of love are not to be denied. They either impact what we do or they do not. And if they do not, how can we say we are Christ’s disciples?</span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB">We ask this question without rhetorical intention. In its final verse, our Gospel reading today speaks of eternal life and the resurrection. These are the long-awaited goals, the final destiny of the human family. But the journey to these is a daily living of the truth of the Gospel. And that truth cannot be hidden by any artifice of man.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Brothers and Sisters,</span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Let us pray that our meeting – our words to one another and our actions with one another – bear the hallmark of the love with which our Lord Jesus Christ loved us. Let this love be the “work” – τὸ ἔργον – the chief and principal labour of all our cooperative efforts.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB">After two thousand long, complex, and complicated years, the Churches cannot hide from the world. And after seventy-five brief years, neither can the World Council of Churches.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB">We have already received so much – even grace upon grace. We have been nourished and strengthened by the Bread of Heaven, Who feeds us as we are able to receive.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Now, let us manifest the strength of our hearts that the Bread of God grants us by mercy and grace.<span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> <a href="https://www.oikoumene.org/resources/documents/homily-of-his-all-holiness-ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew#_ftn4" id="_ftnref4" name="_ftnref4" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" title=""><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">[§]</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">And let our strength be the power of love! To the glory of God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – to Whom be all </span></span></span><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">honor</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> and praise, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="box-sizing: inherit;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Amen!</span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"> </p><hr style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; box-sizing: content-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; height: 0px; overflow: visible;" /><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://www.oikoumene.org/resources/documents/homily-of-his-all-holiness-ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew#_ftnref1" id="_ftn1" name="_ftn1" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" title=""><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">[*]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> John 6:26.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://www.oikoumene.org/resources/documents/homily-of-his-all-holiness-ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew#_ftnref2" id="_ftn2" name="_ftn2" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" title=""><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">[†]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> John 6:28.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://www.oikoumene.org/resources/documents/homily-of-his-all-holiness-ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew#_ftnref3" id="_ftn3" name="_ftn3" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" title=""><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">[‡]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> John 13:35.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://www.oikoumene.org/resources/documents/homily-of-his-all-holiness-ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew#_ftnref4" id="_ftn4" name="_ftn4" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" title=""><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">[§]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> Cf. Psalm 104:15 (LXX, 103:15).</span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.9; margin: 1.7em 0px; text-align: right;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://www.oikoumene.org/resources/documents/homily-of-his-all-holiness-ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">ΠΗΓΗ</span></b></a></span></span></span></span></p></div>

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