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With His Eminence Athenagoras,
Metropolitan of Panama & Exarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Central America.
9 November 1999
Flooded with emotion I thank our Lord for the blessing of praying together, invoking the Grace of the All-good God upon this new Monastic field.
May the Lord our God be pleased, such that Your Sisterhood may strengthen the work of the One, Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church through the presence of Sisters from this Monastery in Mexico.
4 November 1999
Athenagoras,
Metropolitan of Panama
| 1 W + Cosmas & Damian, the Unmercenary Doctors. | 16 T + Apostle and Evangelist Matthew. |
| 2 T Aphthonios. Anempodistos. Akindynos. Elpidophoros. Pegasios. | 17 F Gregory of Neocaesarea. Gennadios of Constantinople. |
| 3 F Gregory of Neocaesarea. Gennadios of Constantinople. | 18 S Martyrs Plato, Romanos, and Zacchaeus. |
| 4 S Ioannikios the Great. Nicandros. Hieromartyr Hermaeos. | 19 S + 9TH SUNDAY OF LUKE. Prophet Obadiah. Martyr Balaam. |
| 5 S + 5TH SUNDAY OF LUKE. Martyrs Galaction & Episteme. | 20 20 M Gregory of Decapolis. Proclos of Constantinople. |
| 6 M Paul, Patriarch of Constantinople. Paul, Fool for Christ. | 21 T + ENTRANCE OF THE MOST-HOLY THEOTOKOS IN THE TEMPLE. |
| 7 T 33 Martyrs in Melitene. | 22 W Apostles Philemon & Archippus. Onesimus. |
| 8 W + Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and All Angels. | 23 T Amphilochios, Bishop of Iconium. Sisinios. |
| 9 T + Nectarios the Wonder-worker, Bishop of Pentapolis. | 24 F Clement, Pope of Rome. Peter, Bishop of Alexandria. |
| 10 F Olympas. Sosipatros. Arsenios of Cappadocia. | 25 S + Catherine the Great-martyr. Mercurios. |
| 11 S + Great-martyr Menas. Victor & Vicentios. | 26 S + 13TH SUNDAY OF LUKE. Stylianos. |
| 12 S + 8TH SUNDAY OF LUKE. John the Merciful, Patriarch of Alexandria. Neilos. | 27 M Great-martyr James the Persian. Blessed Nathanael. |
| 13 M + John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople. | 28 T Martyr Irenarchus. Stephan the Confessor. |
| 14 T Apostle Philip. | 29 W Paramonos, Phaedrus & 370 Martyrs. |
| 15 W Samonas. Abibas. (Advent Fast begins.) | 30 T + Andrew the First-called Apostle. |
Furthermore, in the year 2000 let us make it the watchword of our lives to offer confessed hearts to the Lord, not searching maniacally for converts like the various heretical groups, but rather knowing that the people who approach us want to hang themselves around our necks, whether it’s the President of the Parish, or of the Country, or someone throbbing on a sidewalk of life expiring, or our greatest enemy.The person who doesn’t betray personal and interpersonal relationship is himself surrendered as a victim.
So there you have it, action is the ladder to theory; the relationship of the confessor and confessee, the confessional relationship; in the morning we spoke about the priest as confessor and in the evening, as confessee. Maintaining this nuclear relationship, and by reason of one such faithfulness unto death and beyond, God creates signs and wonders, manifesting the love than which there is nothing greater, the love which causes him who loves to sacrifice himself.
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