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“Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together” (John 4:35). “Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers unto his harvest” (Mat. 9:38).
“My children, today he who speaks to you takes upon himself the responsibility for the sins of his whole generation against you, and he ask from you pardon.”
From the Enthronement speech of His Beatitude Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens and all Greece, 9 May 1998.
| 1TProphet Jeremiah. | 17TAndronicus and Junia of the 70. |
| 2.W+Translation of the relics of Athanasius the Great. | 18FMartyrs Herakleios, Christina, Peter, Julia, and Paulina. |
| 3TMartyrs Timothy, Maura, Peter of Argos. | 19SBishop Patrick of Proussa, Menander. |
| 4FMartyr Pelagia, Hilarion the Wonderworker, Nicephorus. | 20S+ Sunday of the Blind Man, Translation of the relics of St. Nicholas, Thalellaeus, Lydia. |
| 5S+ Great Martyr Irene, Bishop Euthymios. | 21M+ Constantine and Helen, Equal to the Apostles. |
| 6S+Sunday of the Paralytic, Job the long suffering, Serapheim of Domvou. | 22TBasiliscus, Paul and Demetrius of Tripoly. |
| 7M+ Commemoration of the Cross which appeared in the heavens in 351 AD. | 23W+ Leavetaking of Pascha, Bishop Michael of Synada, Synesios of Cyprus. |
| 8T+ John the Evangelist and Theologian, Arsenius the Great. | 24T+ The Ascension of Christ, Symeon the Stylite. |
| 9W+ Mid-Pentecost, Prophet Isaiah, Martyr Christopher. | 25F+ 3rd Finding of the Head of John the Forerunner. |
| 10TApostle Simon the Zealot, Blessed Lavrentios. | 26SCarpus & Alphaeus of the Seventy. |
| 11FCyril & Methodios of Thessaloniki, Mocius. | 27S+ Sunday of the 318 Holy Fathers, John the Russian. |
| 12SEpiphanius of Cyprus, Germanos of Constantinople. | 28MBishop Eutyches of Melitine, Martyr Helikonis. |
| 13S+ Sunday of the Samaritan Woman, Glyceria, Sergius the Confessor, Bishop Pausikakos of Synada. | 29TVirgin Martyr Theodosia of Constantinople. |
| 14MHieromartyr Therapontos, Isidore of Chios. | 30WMartyr Natalios, Blessed Isaakios, Eusebios, and Barlaam. |
| 15T+ Pachomius the Great, Achilles of Larissa. | 31TMartyr Hermeias, Eusebios, Martyrs of Ascalon. |
| 16WTheodore the Sanctified, Bessarion. |
All day you were raising your glance up, to find where God is, as if you were saying to Him: “I am Thy servant, Thou art my God. I am Thy slave. Thou art my Lord.” And this caused you to divide yourself up and be distributed, to melt yourself, to disappear, becoming all things to all men. Weren’t you the couch to which everyone resorted and found repose? Wasn’t it you, to whom everyone ran for whatever they needed? Weren’t you the one from whom they asked whatever they wanted? Most especially, certainly, your Elder could bear witness that constantly you belonged to him, constantly you gave yourself to him, you were like his slave, totally his, you became his own flesh.
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