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The Baptism of yet another Norwegian, the Novice Monk Nicholas Lien.
3 October 1999
"Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven" (Mat. 5:16).
Dear Thavoria, as for you, I wish to meet you one day at the much-desired Monastery of St. Olav, in a warm atmosphere emanating from experiences of the Monastery of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.
Demetrios Delaveris
President of the Greek Community of Norway
Oslo, 12 May 1999
| 1 M + Bright Monday. Great-martyr George the Trophy-bearer. | 17 W Andronicus and June. Bessarion. |
| 2 T + Bright Tuesday. Translation of the relics of Athanasius the Great. Martyrs Raphael, Irene and Nicholas. | 18 T Dionysios. Heracleius. Christina, Julia. Photeini. |
| 3 W + Bright Wednesday. Martyrs Timothy & Maura. Peter, Bishop of Argos. | 19 F Patrick, Bishop of Proussa. Menandros. |
| 4 T + Bright Thursday. Martyr Pelagia. Hilarion the Wonderworker. | 20 S + Transfer of St. Nicholas' Relics, Martyr Thalellaeus. Lydia. |
| 5 F + Bright Friday. Life-giving Fountain of the Theotokos. Great-martyr Irene. | 21 S + SUNDAY OF THE PARALYTIC. Constantine & Helen. |
| 6 S + Bright Saturday. Job the much-suffered. Serapheim of Levadeia. | 22 M Martyr Zacharias of Proussa. Paul & Demetrios of Tripolis. |
| 7 7 S + SUNDAY OF THOMAS. Commemoration of the Cross which appeared in the heavens in 351 A.D. | 23 T Michael, Bishop of Synadon. Synesios, Bishop of Cyprus. |
| 8 M + John the Theologian. Arsenios the Great. | 24 W + MID-PENTECOST. Symeon the Stylite. Hilarion. Meletios. |
| 9 T Prophet Isaiah. Martyr Christopher. | 25 T + 3rd Finding of the Head of John the Forerunner. |
| 10 W Simon the Zealot. Blessed Lavrentios. | 26 F Carpus & Alphaeus of the Seventy Apostles. |
| 11 T Cyril & Methodius of Thessaloniki. Mocius. | 27 S + John the Russian. Hieromartyr Helladios. |
| 12 F Epiphanius, Bishop of Cyprus. Germanos. | 28 S + SUNDAY OF THE SAMARITAN WOMAN. Eutychus. |
| 13 S Martyr Glyceria. Sergius the Confessor. | 29 M Theodosia. Theodosia of Constantinople. |
| 14 S + SUNDAY OF THE MYRRH-BEARERS. Isidore of Chios. Hieromartyr Therapon. | 30 T Natalios the Martyr. Blessed Isaakios & Barlaam. |
| 15 M + Pachomius the Great. Achilles, Bishop of Larissa. | 31 W Hermeias the Martyr. Eusebios the Apostle. |
| 16 T Theodore the Sanctified. Neadios. |
May our lives be washed in tears – in interiors tears, if not also in exterior ones. There were saints who could not celebrate the Divine Liturgy if they were not weeping; there existed saints who, as a Father of the Church says, if even a wisp of a spider web, of the mind, psychological or spiritual, stood between them and the Holy Spirit, He did not descend.
Only by tears can our eyes be washed, and see. Otherwise, we are like those of whom the Psalmist says, "eyes have they, but they see not: They have ears, but they hear not" (Psalm 115:5,6).
Just asking for once, in case our stony hearts might soften and be shattered, so that we will be able to communicate with Him; and then, if even one of us catches fire, it’s enough: one candle is enough to illuminate the whole world.
EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS MONASTERY
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