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Our Chief Shepherd, His Eminence Ieronymos, Metropolitan of Thebes & Levadeia, together with sixteen journalists from the periodical God and Religion in our Sacred Monastery, where they held interviews in order to record the first-fruits and life of the Monastic Sisterhood.
“…The Very Reverend Archimandrite, Elder Dionysios, the founder and builder of the ‘spiritual beehive’ of the Holy Cross, has the spiritual direction of the nuns. One could say that this particular monastery constitutes an example and register of the embodiment of the ecumenical dimension of Orthodoxy and its message. Young nuns of different ethnicities and religious backgrounds come to know Orthodoxy and embrace Christianity, but also receive the monastic schema, with the sole aim of living in asceticism and service to the faithful.”
(From an inset in the periodical God and Religion: RELIGIONS, Number 1, 21st Century, year 2000, Greek Edition, p. 6. “The Rise of the New World - Ecumenicity in practice”, by John Tselios.)
| 1 T Tryphon, Perpetua, Anastasios. | 15 T Apostle Onesimos, Righteous Eusebius. |
| 2 F + Presentation of Christ in the Temple. | 16 F Martyr Pamphilos, Flavianos, Patriarch of Constantinople. |
| 3 S Symeon the God-receiver, Anna the Prophetess. | 17 S + Saturday of Souls, Theodore of Tyre, Marcianos, Pulcheria. |
| 4 S + Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee (Triodion), Isidore of Pelusium, Nicholas the Studite. | 18 S + Sunday of Meatfare, Leo, Bishop of Rome, Agapetos, Confessor of Sinai. |
| 5 M Martyr Agatha, Theodosius in Skopelos. | 19 M + Philothei of Athens, Archippus. |
| 6 T Bucolos Bishop of Smyrna, Photios, Patriarch of Constantinople. | 20 T Leo of Catania, Agathonos, Bessarion. |
| 7 W +Blessed Luke in Boeotia, Parthenios, Bishop of Lampsakos. | 21 W Righteous Timothy, Eustathios of Antioch. |
| 8 T Prophet Zacharias, Theodore the Commander | 22 T Anthousa, Martyr Eugenios. |
| 9 F Martyr Nikephoros, Pancratios. | 23 F + Polycarp of Smyrna, Gorgonia. |
| 10 S + Hieromartyr Charalambos, Anastasios of Jerusalem, Zenon of Tachydromos. | 24 S + First and Second finding of the head of John the Baptist. |
| 11 S + Sunday of the Prodigal Son, Hieromartyr Blasios, Empress Theodora. | 25 S + Cheesefare Sunday, Tarasios, Archbishop of Constantinople, Alexander. |
| 12 M Meletios Archbishop of Antioch, Antony of Constantinople. | 26 M Clean Monday (Great Lent begins). Porphyrios of Gaza, Photeini the Samaritan woman, Theocletos. |
| 13 T Aquila & Priscilla, Eulogios. | 27 T Stephan, Gelasios, Martyr Prokopios. |
| 14 W Auxentios, Maronos, Anthousa. | 28 W Blessed Basil the Confessor, New Martyr Kyranna. |
What can we say, my child, about the angelic sentinels who brought you here? What can we say about the fatherly embrace which hastens to open and encompass you, in order that you also be a vessel bearing manna on high, before that throne of the Triune God which has been prepared, and before this Royal Door, which the Cherubim always guard - why? Why especially today? Because today, God’s hand will constitute you a king crowned, a son of lightning, a perfect vision! Is this supposedly the first time that you go through this Door? I seek to comprehend the mystery. I want gradually to touch it.
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