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Our Metropolitan, His Eminence Ieronymos of Thebes & Levadeia, at his Conference Center in Aliartos, as host of the 29th Interconfessional and International Conference of Monks and Nuns, with “the soul” of the Conference, His Eminence Aemilianos, Metropolitan of Selyvria, of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and other participants in the Conference.
28 August - 3 September 2000.
“So, facing the Milennium, what do we see? Christ. But how? With each one of us holding his head in his hands, like John the Forerunner, whose beheading we commemorate today. The Byzantine Iconographers represent him as if complaining, holding his head in one hand and a scroll in the other on which is written: “Behold, O Lord, what Your friends suffer for You”. And decapitation means, not necessarily that they cut off our heads and drag them away from us, as was vouchsafed to the holy martyrs from the beginning of the ages: brought up in the Holy of Holies, the Forerunner chose another Holy of Holies - the desert, the desert of every kind, the place where God grants an appointment to the human being. And there in the desert, God is the one visible. He who appears and is seen, like the ram appeared to Abraham, then when he raised his knife against Isaac. When, with Abraham’s heart, we raise the knife against our own hearts, in order to deny ourselves, then God appears in our lives. And then, at least we are not the ones hindering Him from doing His work with the others and in history.”
From the Lecture: “Orthodoxy facing the Third Milennium”, by our Very Reverend Elder,
Archimandrite Dionysios, at the above Conference, 29 August 2000.
| 1 S + Beginning of the Ecclesiastical New Year, Symeon the Stylite, Ammoun & 40 Women Disciples. | 16 S + Sunday after the Exaltation of the Cross, Great Martyr Euphemia. |
| 2 S + 13th Sunday of Matthew, Martyr Mamas, John the faster, Patriarch of Constantinople. | 17 M Martyr Sophia and her three daughters Faith, Hope and Charity. |
| 3 S Martyrs Anthimos, Theoktistos, & Chariton. Deaconess Phoebe. | 18 T Bishop Eumenius, Gortynes the Wonderworker, Martyr Ariadne. |
| 4 T Prophet Moses. Hieromartyr Babylas, Martyr Hermione. | 19 W Martyrs Trophimos, Sabbatios, and Dorymedon. |
| 5 W Zacharias & Elizabeth, parents the Fore-runner, Martyr Abdaios of Persia. | 20 T + Great Martyr Eustathios, Theopistes, Agapios, Hilarion. |
| 6 T Commemoration of the miracle of the Archangel Michael at Chonai. | 21 F Prophet Jonah, Apostle Kodratos. |
| 7 F Sozon, Martyr Eupsychos. Righteous Luke. | 22 S Hieromartyr Phokas, Wonderworkers Isaak & Martin. |
| 8 S + Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos. | 23 S + 1st Sunday of Luke, Conception of John the Baptist, Blessed Polyxeni & Xanthippi. |
| 9 S + Sunday before the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Synaxis of Joachim and Anna. | 24 M + Martyr Thekla, Equal to the Apostles, Theotokos Myrrhtidiotissa, Silouan of Mt. Athos. |
| 10 M Martyrs Menodora, Metrodora & Nymphodora. | 25 T Blessed Euphrosyne, Martyr Paphutius and those with him. |
| 11 T Blessed Theodore, Euphrosynos the Cook, Martyr Euanthia. | 26 W + St. John the Apostle and Evangelist. |
| 12 W Holy Martyrs Autonomos & Kournoutos. | 27 T Martyr Kallistratos & those with him, Apostle Aristarchus. |
| 13 T Hieromartyr Cornelius, Martyr Aristeides, Blessed Hierotheos. | 28 F Prophet Baruch. Chariton the Confessor. |
| 14 F + Exaltation of the Holy Cross. | 29 S Martyrs Kyriakos, Petronia the anchorite. |
| 15 S Great Martyr Niceta, Blessed Philotheos, Symeon of Thessalonica. | 30 S + 2nd Sunday of Luke, Hieromartyr Gregory, Enlightener of Armenia. |
And now, behold! The Church wants you to be united with the entire Divinity always. Because then you will be a churchman. Then you will truly and dynamically belong to the community of the one Body. Then, oh treasure of my field, you will be a treasure-house given for the sustenance of the saints, of the Church, which is none other than the very body of Christ, of which He is the head – Your Jesus, Who is my Jesus, too; our Jesus, the God of us all.
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