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Meeting of the charitable association:
“American Women of Greece” (AWOG).
April 26th, 2001, Ledra-Marriott Hotel, Athens.
“…When we’re perfect, we need no exterior confirmation at all. Humility is perfect, exactly because it doesn’t need anybody to affirm it. It is. And when we are, what God wants us to be and gives us the possibility to be, we become free from every need for any kind of external recognition…”
| 1 M †Mary of Egypt, Martyrs Gerontius and Basilides. | 16 T Charissa, Nikes, Galena, and those with them, Martyrs of Corinth, Martyrs Agape, Irene and Chiona of Thessalonica. |
| 2 T Blessed Titus, Virgin Martyr Theodora. | 17 W †The Great Canon, Hieromartyr Symeon, Bishop of Persia. |
| 3 W Niketas the Confessor, Joseph the Hymnographer. | 18 Martyrs John and Athanasius of Aegina. |
| 4 T Blessed George of Maleon, Plato, Zosima. | 19 F †Akathist Hymn, Hieromartyr Paphnutius, Martyr Phillipa. |
| 5 F †3rd Stasis of the Salutations, Martyrs Claudius, Diodoros, Nicephoros. | 20 S Athanasius, Founder of the Monastery of Great Meteoron, & Ioasaph Meteorite. |
| 6 S Gregory of Sinai, Eutychius of Contantinople. | 21 S †Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt, Hieromartyr Januarius. |
| 7 S †Sunday of the Veneration of the Holy Cross, Martyr Aquilina, George of Mytilene, Kalliopios. | 22 M Nathanael Apostle, Righteous Theodore of Sykeon. |
| 8 M Herodion, Agabos & Rufus of the 70. | 23 T Martyrs Valerius, Anatolios & Protoleon. |
| 9 T Martyrs Empsychios, Blessed Vadim & his 7 disciples. | 24 W Luke of Mytilene, Righteous Elizabeth. |
| 10 W Martyrs Terentius, Afrikanus, Pompius. Maximus and those with them. | 25 T †Mark the Evangelist. |
| 11 T Bishop Antipa of Pergamum. | 26 F Basil Bishop of Amasea, Justas. |
| 12 F †4th Stasis of the Salutations, Bishop Basilios, Confessor of Parius, Righteous Anthousa, | 27 S †Raising of Lazarus, Symeon of Jerusalem, Demetrius of Tripolis. |
| 13 S Martin, Pope of Rome. | 28 S †Palm Sunday – The Entrance of the Lord into Jerusalem, 9 Martyrs of Cyzicos. |
| 14 S †Sunday of St. John of the Ladder, Apostles Aristarchus, Pudens, & Trophimus. | 29 M †Holy Monday – Joseph the All-Fair. |
| 15 M Leonidus Bishop of Athens. | 30 T †Holy Monday – Joseph the All-Fair. |
How different and how worldly is the opinion of many people who think that monks are a kind of aristocracy, and that only aristocrats can become monks. But it is entirely otherwise. A person can receive the Great Schema from God, when he has precisely this inner sense of inferiority. And it was this which Father Dionysios felt within his aristocratic nature, within his tall stature, and within his struggles, and it seems for this reason that God has blessed him. As imposing as his gaze and his body appear to be, so lowly was his life and his heart before God, and this is why God bowed down and helped him and gave him the grace of the Great Schema.
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