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XXIX Inter-confessional and International Conference of Monks and Nuns with His Eminence Metropolitan Aemilianos
of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and other confrerees at our Sacred Monastery.
August 28 - September 3, 2000.
“The Resounding Failure of the Ecumenistic Conference at Thebes
The effort to create an ecumenistic pre-bridge in the area of monasticism in the Church of Greece fell into a vacuum. The Ecumenistic Conference, about which the monk Fr. Arsenios Vliagoftes wrote in our previous issue, finally took place from August 27th to September 3rd in the Conference Center of the Sacred Diocese of Thebes & Levadeia at Aliartos. But its failure was resounding, because this modernistic attempt in the area of monasticism met with frigid indifference; it was intensely frowned upon especially by the sum total of the Sacred Monasteries and Hesychasteria of our Church.
It is characteristic that no one participated, even from the Sacred Monasteries of the Diocese of Thebes & Levadeia, except the Sacred Monastery of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, of archimandrite Dionysios and abbess Diodora, of German descent, who were also the primary staff of the Conference from the Orthodox side, together with the veteran ecumenist, the Metropolitan of Selyvrias Aemilianos Timiades, of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. All the other confrerees were papists and protestants, chiefly Frenchmen and Spaniards. But neither did any public officials honor the Conference with their presence, although they had been invited. We remind you that, on the basis of the official program, this was an inter-confessional ecumenistic Conference of Monks and Nuns, dominated on a daily basis by alternating papist, protestant and Orthodox services.”
THE ORTHODOX PRESS
Issue No. 1378, September 8, 2000.
| 1 M †Unmercenary Physicians Cosmas & Damian. | 17 W †Great Martyr Marina. |
| 2 T Deposition of the Robe of the Theotokos in Blachernae. | 18 T †Martyr Aemilianos, Blessed Pambo. |
| 3 W Martyrs Hyacinth & Theodota, Anatolios of Constantinople. | 19 F Blessed Macrina & Dion. |
| 4 T Melodist Andrew of Crete, Martyr Lucia. | 20 S †Prohet Elijah the Thesbite. |
| 5 F †Athanasios of Athos, Blessed Lampadus, Elizabeth, New Martyr of Russia. | 21 S †Fourth Sunday of Matthew, Blessed John, Symeon, fool for Christ. |
| 6 S Sisoes the Great, Apostles Philemon and Onesimus. | 22 M †Myrrhbearer Mary Magdalene, Virgin Martyr. |
| 7 S †Second Sunday of Matthew, Great Martyr Kyriake, Thomas of Mt. Maleon. | 23 T Prophet Ezekiel, Martyr Phokas, Pelagia of Tinos. |
| 8 M †Great Martyr Procopios, Theophilos of Zichnes. | 24 W Great Martyr Christina, Theophilus of Zakynthos. |
| 9 T Hieromartyr Pangratios, Dionysios and Metrophanes of Athos. | 25 T †Dormition of St. Ann, Deaconess Olympiada. |
| 10 W 145 Martyrs of Nicopolis in Armenia. | 26 F †Blessed Martyr Paraskeve, Hieromartyr Hermolaos. |
| 11 T †Great Martyr Euphemia, Olga of Kiev Equal to the Apostles. | 27 S †Great Martyr and Physician Panteleimon. |
| 12 F Veronika, Martyrs Proklus and Hilarion. | 28 S †Fifth Sunday of Matthew – Deacons and Apostles Prochoros, Nicanor, Timon and Parmen. |
| 13 S Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel, Blessed Sarah. | 29 M Martyrs Kallinikos and Theodota, Emperor Theodosius. |
| 14 S †Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the Fourth Ecumenical Council, Nicodemus of Athos, Apostle Aquila. | 30 T Apostles Silas, Silouanos, and Crescens. |
| 15 M Martyrs Cyricus and Julitta, Vladimir, Equal to the Apostles. | 31 W †Joseph of Arimathea, Eudokimos the Righteous. |
| 16 T Hieromartyr Athenogenes, Martyr Faustus. |
Those groans of longing for Someone, for the presence of God, are that which make Fr. Dionysios an adornment for our monastery, and which make him entirely ours, but also they make God wholly his. He is certainly not the only one who thinks this way. His reception today of the Great Schema shows us that this is the thought, this is the mentality, this is the perception and the life of the brotherhood. That is how I think about the monastery. And so, in this way, God performs the Schema, in the effort to swathe the person, so to say, with His grace and with all the revelations and all the experiences and all the encounters that God can give.
EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS MONASTERY
322 00 THEBES BOEOTIA, GREECE.
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