“And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them” (Acts 2:3).

“I ought to acknowledge that your Calendar for the 2000th year after the Nativity of Christ enthused me. All its pages are as precious as pearls, as fragrant as roses and as full as ripe wheat. My eyes and heart stopped short at the quotations from the lectures upon the topics: ‘the Priest as Confessor. the Priest as Confessee, and the Priest before the Challenge of the Year 2000’. I thought, ‘It is natural for a soul which conceives such meanings, inspired by noble ideals, and which actualizes them, to be at the vanguard of the persons of the Spirit’.”

Euphronsyne Ath. Papaioannou
Director, Greek Red Cross of Florina
14 February 2000

 

June, 2001

  1  F  Justin the Philosopher and Martyr, Blessed Phyrrus. 16  S  Bishop Tikhon of Amathountos
  2  S  +Saturday of Souls, Nicephoros Archbishop of Constantinople, Herasmos. 17  S  +2nd Sunday of Matthew, Martyrs Isauros, Manuel, Savel, Ishmael, Basil & Innocent.
  3  S  +Sunday of Pentecost, Martyrs Lucilianos, Paula and their four infants. 18  M  Leontios of Aegina, Martyr Hypatios, Aetherios, & Theodoulos.
  4  M  +The Holy Spirit, Metrophanes of Constantinople, Martha and Mary. 19  T  Apostle Jude, Blessed Zenon, Paissios the Great.
  5  T  Bishop Dorotheos of Tyre, Martyrs Nikandros and Apollon. 20  W  Bishop Methodios, Nicholas Cabasilas.
  6  W  Blessed Hilarion, Attalos the Wonderworker. 21  T  Bishop Terentios of Iconium, Julian, New-martyr Niketa.
  7  T  Sebastiane, Bishop Theodotos of Ancyra, Zenais. 22  F  Hieromartyr Eusebius, Martyrs Zenon and Zena.
  8  F  Great Martyr Theodore, Martyr Kalliope. 23  S  Agrippina, Aristocles and Athanasios.
  9  S  Cyril of Alexandria, Ananias. 24  S  +3rd Sunday of Matthew, The Nativity of John the Forerunner.
10  S  +Sunday of All Saints, Martyrs Alexander & Antonina, Pansemne. 25  M  Blessed Martyr Febronia, Dionysios of Mt. Athos.
11  M  + Apostles Bartholomew of the twelve and Barnabas of the Seventy. 26TDavid of Thessalonica, Bishop John of Gotthia.
12  T   Blessed Onuphrius and Peter of Mount Athos. 27  W  Samson the Innkeeper. Myrrhbearers Joanna and Mary.
13  W  Martyrs Akylina and Diodoros. 28  T  Unmercenary Doctors Cyrus and John.
14  T  Prophet Elisha, Methodios Archbishop of Constantinople. 29  F  +Holy Apostles Peter & Paul (no fasting).
15  F  + Jerome, Blessed Augustine of Hippo, Prophet Amos. 30  S  +Synaxis of the Twelve Apostles.
 
 

                     And now? We all lose you? Oh, no. You were conceived as a wild animal. And now you surely resemble an angel-formed victim. Didn’t you seek the wholly unspeakable, untold lightning flashes of the divine beauty? Weren’t you imitating the words that Basil the Great was always saying, in your own life, asking that one look at nothing else?
                    But, however, what else would give you the right to live in this Monastery? What does the brother of that great father, God’s hidden mystic, say? “Whoever revels in the vision and yearning for God, is chastened by Him,” he says; “By Him, he is strengthened and made greater than himself, returning to his kin, communicating the miracles to them.”



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