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Our Spiritual Father and Elder, the Very Reverend Archimandrite Dionysios, with others of the All-Holy Sepulchre, bearing the emblems of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, departed to the Lord, Diodoros of blessed memory. December 9/22, 2000.
Reg. No. 665/July 28, 1990.
“To the Very Reverend Archimandrite Aemilianos, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras, beloved son in Christ of our mediocrity, grace and peace from God the Father.
The auspicious flowering of Monasticism in the Holy Mountain of Athos, but also the complete re-manning, the progress and organization according to Christ of the renowned Monastery of Simonos Petras, known to Us, encourage Us to direct Ourselves to Your Reverence, renewing Our request towards the re-staffing of our Brotherhood of the All-Holy Sepulchre.
In Greece recently we got to know a certain priest, a Monk of Your Sacred Monastery and Its spiritual child, the Very Reverend Hieromonk Dionysios, whom we request be released, along with whomever other brother the Monastery blesses, for ministry to the All-Holy and Universal places of Pilgrimage, the grace and blessing of which we invoke upon the Monastery and all the fathers labouring together in asceticism.
With these we close, in anticipation of a positive reply from the Monastery.”
In the Holy City of Jerusalem, July 28, 1990.
Fervent intercessor to the Lord,
DIODOROS I, Patriarch of Jerusalem
Sacred Monastery Simonos Petras, Holy Mountain of Athos, Reg. No. 267, Sept. 20, 1990.
“Through our present signed and sealed monastic Letter we make known that the Very Reverend Hieromonk Fr. Dionysios, lay name George Kalampokas, son of Nicholas, is released, in order that he be able to serve the holy Church in the world.
The present certification is given to the said Hieromonk, with his priesthood unimpeded, tendered to minister to the needs of the Church of Sion under the orders of His Divine Beatitude Patriarch Diodoros.”
The Abbot of Simonos Petras Monastery
ARCHIMANDRITE AEMILIANOS
and the brothers with me in Christ
| 1 S †Fourteenth Sunday of Luke, Prophet Nahum, Philaret the Merciful, Theocletos, Archbishop of Lacedemonia. | 17 T †Prophet Daniel & the Three Holy Children, Dionysios of Zakynthos. |
| 2 M Prophet Habbakuk, Martyr Myrope. | 18 W Martyrs Sebastianos, Zoe & their Companions. |
| 3 T Prophet Zephaniah, Martyr Agapios. | 19 T Martyr Boniface, Aglaias the Roman. |
| 4 W †Great Martyr Barbara, John of Damascus, Hieromartyr Serapheim, Bishop of Phanarion. | 20 F †Ignatios the God-bearer of Antioch. |
| 5 T †Savva the Sanctified, Martyr Diogenes. | 21 S Martyrs Juliana, Themistocles and the 500 with them. |
| 6 F †Nicholas, Bishop of Myra and Lycia the Wonderworker. | 22 S †Sunday before the Nativity, Great Martyr Anastasia, deliverer from potions. |
| 7 S †Ambrose of Milan, Blessed Gerasimos. | 23 M 10 Martyrs of Crete, Nahum the Missionary. |
| 8 S †Tenth Sunday of Luke, Blessed Patapios, Sosthenes & Apollo, Apostles of the 70. | 24 T Eve of the Nativity (fast), Martyr Eugenia. |
| 9 M †Conception of the Theotokos by St. Anna. | 25 W †Nativity of Christ our Saviour. |
| 10 T Martyrs Hermogenes & Eugraphos, Righteous Thomas. | 26 T †Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos. |
| 11 W Daniel the Stylite & Luke the New. | 27 F †Stephen the First Martyr. |
| 12 T †Wonderworker Spyridon, Bishop of Trimythountos. | 28 S †Simon the Myrrh-Gusher, 20,000 martyrs of Nicomedia. |
| 13 F †Herman of Alaska, Virgin Martyr Lucia. | 29 S †Sunday after the Nativity, Holy Innocents slain by Herod. |
| 14 S Martyrs Thyrsus, Leucius, and Callinicus. | 30 M Martyrs Anysia & Philaret. |
| 15 S †Eleventh Sunday of Luke, Hieromartyr Eleutherios & Anna his Mother. | 31 T Blessed Melanie the Roman, Hieromartyr Zotikos. |
| 16 M Prophet Haggai, Modestos. |
If this day, if the whole of this life, is but one night with respect to the light of the heavenly life, then I awake in the midst of the night, and my life is so sweet. But if this day, if this life, is a day until this very day, “as long as it is called today”, as the Scripture says somewhere else (Heb. 3:13), perhaps night will come, a night which already begins to appear, a life which one calls night inasmuch as no one will see with corruptible eyes; then I will say, “I awoke, I slept, and the dream in which I live in the midst of this night, is so sweet, so beautiful.”
My beloved children, this is because you are all present in this dream. All of you are mixed with me and I with you. No one can separate us. No one can say that one of us would be what he is without the other. Let us take as an example Father Dionysios, who stands before us. I am in his life. How much each one of us owes to the other! And now that we close, so to say, that first, earliest stage of our life that we had begun, it is apparent to us how beautiful it is, the way God did it. If the flowers, and the thorns, and the birds, and the vultures, the birds of prey, everything, God saw, and “behold, they were exceedingly good” (Gen. 1:31), how much better is this beauty, which God has granted us?
Therefore let us wish our beloved Father Dionysios, that God might bless him in the beauty of virginity, that is to say, of divine and incorruptible life, that he may live therein forever, and that we too might be found together within the “sweetness” of the spiritual “throat” (Ps. 118:103).
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