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Δευτέρα 9 Σεπτεμβρίου 2019
Το "Νυχθημερόν" διδάσκεται στο St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary (OCA)
Τούτο αποτέλεσε μια ευχάριστη έκπληξη για εμάς, θελήσαμε μάλιστα να επικοινωνήσουμε με τον άγνωστο -μέχρι εκείνη τη στιγμή- ηλεκτρονικό επισκέπτη εξ Αμερικής. Έτσι, αναζητήσαμε το e-mail του και αφού αποστείλαμε ένα θερμό ευχαριστήριο για την εκπεφρασμένη αγάπη του, άμεσα λάβαμε την ακόλουθη θερμή απάντηση:
Fr. Panagiotis,
Thank you for your email, dear brother!
I have long admired your site, www.nyxthimeron.com. In fact, when I have taught teleliturgics at St. Vladimir's Seminary, I have often used pictures from this site to explain proper liturgical praxis.
Looking at the site has also made me greatly desire to visit Banato, Zakynthos! I pray that God grants me this desire in the future.
All my best!
Fr. AR
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The Rev. Dr. Alexander Rentel
Assistant Professor of Canon Law
St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary
Chancellor of the Orthodox Church in America
Είναι κατανοητό ότι η χαρά μας είναι μεγάλη, θα είναι όμως μεγαλύτερη και πληρέστερη, αν ο Παναιδεσιμώτατος Πρωτοσύγκελος της OCA Δρ Αλέξανδρος, βρεθεί κοντά μας, εδώ στο Μπανάτο της Ζακύνθου -όπως ήδη εκφράζει στο ανωτέρω ηλεκτρονικό μήνυμα- για γνωριμία και γόνιμο συμπνευματισμό εκ του σύνεγγυς! Γένοιτο!
ΔΙΕΥΚΡΙΝΙΣΤΙΚΑ ΣΤΟΙΧΕΙΑ
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Έχοντας πνευματική αναφορά στο Πατριαρχείο Μόσχας, στην περίπτωση της διακοπής μνημονεύσεως του Οικουμενικού Πατριάρχου, εξαιτίας της χορηγήσεως Τόμου Αυτοκεφαλίας στη νεοσύστατη Εκκλησία της Ουκρανίας, η OCA δεν ακολούθησε τη Μόσχα και ήδη διατηρεί άριστες σχέσεις με το Φανάρι.
Περισσότερα στοιχεία περί εν λόγω Εκκλησίας, δείτε ΕΔΩ!
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Ποιος είναι ο Πρωτοπρεσβύτερος Δρ Αλέξανδρος Rentel
Ποιος είναι ο Πρωτοπρεσβύτερος Δρ Αλέξανδρος Rentel
Very Rev. Dr. Alexander Rentel, Who is Who
Archpriest Alexander Rentel, a 1995 M.Div. graduate of St. Vladimir's, finished his doctoral dissertation under the direction of Fr. Robert Taft, SJ, at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome in January 2004. Prior to coming to St. Vladimir's as a professor, Fr. Alexander was a 2000-2001 Junior Fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. He has taken numerous research trips to Greece, Italy, and France. He was ordained to the priesthood in July 2001. He and his wife, Nancy (née Homyak, M.Div. 1995) are the proud parents of three children, Dimitrios, Maria, and Daniel.
Educational Background
B.A., The Ohio State University
M.Div., St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary
Doctor in Scientiis Ecclesiaticis Orientalibus, Pontifical Oriental Institute
Teaching Interests
Canon Law
Church History
Liturgics
Current Projects and Research Interests
I am interested in the interpretation and application of canon law. I am in the midst of considering various questions on the status of those outside the canonical limits of the Church. I am working slowly on a book on the so-called Diataxis of Philotheos Kokkinos and another on the Diataxis of Dimitrios Gemistos.
Recent Courses Taught at SVOTS
New Testament Greek
Oriental Liturgies
The History of the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
Ecclesiology
Δευτέρα 26 Αυγούστου 2019
Επιστολή πιστού της OCA προς τον Μητροπολίτη του Τύχωνα Mollard: «Όσοι βρίσκονται σε κοινωνία με τον Πρώτο Θρόνο της Ορθοδοξίας δεν μπορούν να θεωρούνται σχισματικοί»
Δημοσιεύουμε παρακάτω επιστολή ενός λαϊκού πιστού της Ορθόδοξης Εκκλησίας στην Αμερική (OCA), του Gregory J., προς τον επικεφαλής της εκκλησιαστικής αυτής δικαιοδοσίας, τον Μητροπολίτη Τύχωνα (Tikhon Mollard).
Ο ίδιος ο Gregory J., ο οποίος παρακολουθεί με ιδιαίτερο ενδιαφέρον τις εξελίξεις στην Ορθόδοξη Εκκλησία με αφορμή το Ουκρανικό εκκλησιαστικό ζήτημα, μας κοινοποίησε αυτή την επιστολή, επιθυμώντας αυτή να δημοσιευθεί προς ενημέρωση όσο το δυνατόν περισσοτέρων μελών της OCA, αλλά και γενικά των Ορθοδόξων πιστών.
Για αυτονόητους λόγους δεν επιθυμεί τη δημοσιοποίηση των στοιχείων της ταυτότητάς του, τα οποία φυσικά είναι πλήρως γνωστά στον παραλήπτη της επιστολής.
His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon
P.O. Box 675
Syosset, NY 11791
August 25, 2019
Your Beatitude,
Please forgive me. I am just a 17-year-old layman, but I have a huge concern. That concern is the ecclesiastical situation in Ukraine. This issue has caused me much stress, and I know Your stance on the matter, but to me it makes no sense. How can we deny tens of millions of Orthodox Christians from communion simply because they refuse to be part of the Moscow Patriarchate? How can we deny the restoration of their hierarchs and clergy to their canonical ranks through economy? How can we deny the obvious privileges of the Ecumenical Throne that were received from the Holy Fathers and Ecumenical Councils?
The common claim is that the formerly schismatic Ukrainian Churches possessed no apostolic succession. But this is untrue. The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) had three creations. The first, in 1921, was of course devoid of apostolic succession and canonicity since no bishops took part. The second, however, came with the blessings of the Polish Orthodox Church in 1942. The first Primate of the autocephalous Polish Orthodox Church was His Beatitude Metropolitan Dionizy (Waledynski), who was ordained to the holy episcopate by His Beatitude Patriarch Gregorios IV of Antioch in 1913 (1). In 1932, Metropolitan Dionizy ordained Polikarp (Sikorsky) as Bishop of Lutsk (2). Lutsk is in Western Ukraine, and when the Soviets occupied this area in 1939, Bishop Polikarp refused to submit to the Patriarch of Moscow and instead continued under the omophorion of the Polish Orthodox Church. With the blessings of Metropolitan Dionizy in 1942, Metropolitan Polikarp ordained new hierarchs for the UAOC (which despite the name, was under the Polish Church). One of these hierarchs was Bishop Mstyslav (Skrypnyk).
The Russian Orthodox Church claims that despite the clear apostolic succession of these bishops, they were “self-consecrated.” But, even if this was true (which its not), then how was the Ecumenical Patriarch able to receive the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA under his omophorion in 1994 without re-ordaining them? His Eminence Metropolitan Antony of the UOC-USA was ordained by Metropolitan Mstyslav in 1985 (3). Metropolitan Antony, along with Your Beatitude, is a member of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops.
I’m sure You are aware of Metropolitan Makariy (Maletich) of Lviv, who headed the UAOC from 2015-2018. He was a priest of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine until 1989, when he joined the newly revived UAOC. He was ordained to holy episcopate in this Church in 1996, which is why there are doubts cast upon his rank, despite the fact that the Ecumenical Throne recognizes him as a bishop. Makariy was consecrated by Patriarch Dimitri, Metropolitan Methodius, and Bishop Igor (4). These hierarchs trace their apostolic succession through Metropolitan Mstyslav, former Metropolitan of Kyiv Filaret (Denisenko), and Metropolitan John (Bodnarchuk) – the latter two being former bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church. While Metropolitan Makariy’s ordination took place in schism, it can still be accepted by economy (and it was). In 2011, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow offered the UAOC autonomy (similar to the ROCOR) if they agree to come under his omophorion – no re-ordination required. The letter, sent to Metropolitan Methodius (5), is still in possession of Metropolitan Makariy.
Speaking of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, they too were in schism. On June 22, 1934, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, under locum tenens Metropolitan Sergius, defrocked their hierarchy. In 2007 when the schism ended, they were accepted without re-ordination and without repentance! In November 2018, His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) visited the Russian Orthodox community in Seoul, South Korea. One of the faithful asked him, “Vladika, you told us that this will happen because the Ecumenical Patriarchate accepted the schismatics in Ukraine. Didn’t the Moscow Patriarchate accept the schismatic church ROCOR without any particular process?” Metropolitan Hilarion responded with, “This was done because the Patriarchate of Moscow, as the mother Church of the Russians, embraced the schismatics with love and forgave them everything they had done.” The layman then asked, “But doesn’t the Ecumenical Patriarchate do the same thing now in the case of the schismatic Ukrainians?” (6)
In 1872, the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate anathematized and defrocked Bulgarian Exarch Antim and his hierarchy (7). In 1945, at the signature of Ecumenical Patriarch Benjamin, the Bulgarian Orthodox were restored to canonicity and communion (without re-ordination). They were also given autocephaly, in order to ensure unity in the Orthodox Church. If we question the canonicity of the Ukrainian hierarchy under His Beatitude Metropolitan Epiphanios of Kyiv, shouldn’t we also question the canonicity of the Bulgarian hierarchy under His Holiness Patriarch Neophyte of Sofia?
There is the claim that the Kyivan Metropolis was transferred to the Moscow Patriarchate in 1686, and that Constantinople “uncanonically invaded” their territory. This is also untrue. The Patriarchal Letter of Dionysius IV of Constantinople only gives the Patriarch of Moscow permission, by economy, to ordain the Metropolitan of Kyiv (because of the historical circumstances). The Ecumenical Patriarchate never recognized the uncanonical annexation of the Kyivan Metropolis by the Moscow Patriarchate. As His Eminence Archbishop Job of Telmessos explained, “That was in no way the transfer of the Metropolis of Kyiv under the authority of the Moscow Patriarchs. For such a transmission would be anti-canonical, since in the letter of establishment of the Moscow Patriarchate the limits of canonical influences of the Moscow Patriarchs were recognized at the borders of the Moscow State in 1589. And these limits did not in any way include the Kyivan Metropolis, which included, under the omophorion of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, and Poland.” (8) The 1686 Letter states, “Nevertheless, whenever this Metropolitan of Kyiv celebrates the sacred, holy and bloodless sacrifice in this diocese, he should commemorate among the first the venerable name of the Ecumenical Patriarch as his source and authority…” (9) If the Kyiv Metropolitan were no longer under the Ecumenical Patriarch, why would he still have to commemorate him as his primate?
The Tomos of Autocephaly given to the Polish Orthodox Church in 1924 states, “…for it is recorded that the first separation from our See of the Kyivan Metropolia and the Orthodox Metropolia of Lithuania and Poland, dependent upon it, as well as their incorporation within the Holy Moscovite Church was accomplished contrary to canon law, as also all that which was agreed upon regarding the full church autonomy of the Kyivan Metropolitan, who at the time had the title Exarch of the Ecumenical See…” In 1970, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras told His Beatitude Patriarch Pimen of Moscow, “…reminding her [the Moscow Patriarchate] that her boundaries are defined, as is also the scope of her jurisdiction, and cannot be extended beyond what was allotted to her by the Golden Seal Certificate of Ecumenical Patriarch Jeremiah II in the year 1591…” (10) The Kyivan Metropolis was not included in the defined territory of the Moscow Patriarchate. It is true that His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew recognized Metropolitan Onuphry as the Metropolitan of Kyiv, but this was later explained as being out of economy and condescension and before Metropolitan Epiphanios was rightfully elected. Ukraine was not, is not, and never will be the canonical territory of the Moscow Patriarchate.
I appeal to Your Beatitude to please recognize the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. They are not schismatics. Those in communion with the First Throne of Orthodoxy cannot be considered schismatics. They are Orthodox Christians, just like us. The schism was healed by the wise actions of Patriarch Bartholomew. Why aren’t we joyous? Why are we still condemning our Ukrainian brothers and sisters as “schismatics”? Why aren’t we being loving and merciful?
Please pray for me, a sinner.
Sincerely,
Gregory J.
Notes
Τετάρτη 26 Ιουνίου 2019
Το διήμερο Πατριαρχικό Προσκύνημα στην Καππαδοκία (22-23.6.2019)
ΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΙΚΟΝ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΕΙΟΝ
Ὡς ἠγγέλθη, ἡ Α. Θ. Παναγιότης, ὁ Οἰκουμενικός Πατριάρχης κ.κ. Βαρθολομαῖος, τό Σάββατον, 22αν τ.μ. Ιουνίου (2019), μετέβη, ὡς κατ’ ἔτος, εἰς τήν ἁγιοτόκον Καππαδοκίαν διά τό καθιερωμένον ἀπό εἰκοσαετίας προσκύνημά Του. Ἡ Πατριαρχική συνοδεία ἀπετελεῖτο ἐκ τοῦ Σεβ. Μητροπολίτου κ. Τύχωνος, ἐπί κεφαλῆς τῆς «Ὀρθοδόξου Ἐκκλησίας ἐν Ἀμερικῇ» (Ο.C.A.), τοῦ Πρωτοσυγκέλλου αὐτοῦ Αἰδεσιμολ. Δρος Alexander Rentel, Καθηγητοῦ τοῦ Κανονικοῦ Δικαίου ἐν τῷ Θεολογικῷ Σεμιναρίῳ τοῦ Ἁγίου Βλαδιμήρου, τοῦ Πρωτοδιακόνου αὐτοῦ Ἱερολ. κ. Joseph Matusiak, τοῦ Διακόνου τῆς Σειρᾶς Ἱερολ. κ. Καλλινίκου Χασάπη καί τοῦ ᾽Εντιμ. κ. Μαρίου Ταρίνα, ἐκ τῶν Κλητήρων τῶν Πατριαρχείων.
Τό ἀπόγευμα τῆς ἰδίας ὀ Πατριάρχης ἐχοροστάτησε κατά τόν Μ. Ἑσπερινόν τοῦ Σαββάτου ἐν τῷ Ἱ. Ναῷ τοῦ Ἁγίου Θεοδώρου Μαλακοπῆς (Derinkuyu), συμπροσευχομένων τῶν Σεβ. Μητροπο-λιτῶν κ. Τύχωνος καί Λέρου, Καλύμνου καί Ἀστυπαλαίας κ. Παϊσίου, τοῦ Θεοφ. Ἐπισκόπου Στρατονικείας κ. Στεφάνου, τοῦ Ἐξοχ. κ. Πέτρου Μαυροειδῆ, Πρέσβεως τῆς Ἑλλάδος ἐν Ἀγκύρᾳ, πιστῶν ἐκ τῆς Πόλεως, ἐν οἷς καί οἱ ἐφετεινοί ἀπόφοιτοι τῶν Ὁμογενειακῶν Σχολείων αὐτῆς, καί ὁμίλων προσκυνητῶν ἐκ Κρήτης, Δωδεκανήσων, Σπάρτης, Λαρίσης καί Θρᾴκης. Εἰς τό τέλος τῆς ἀκολουθίας τήν Α. Θ. Παναγιότητα προσεφώνησεν ὁ Πρόεδρος τῆς Πανελληνίου Ἑνώσεως Καππαδοκικῶν Σωματείων Ἐντιμ. κ. Θεοφάνης Ἰσακίδης, τοῦ Παναγιωτάτου ἀντιφωνήσαντος καταλλήλως καί καλωσορίσαντος πατρικῶς τούς πολυαρίθμους προσκυνητάς.
Τό ἑσπέρας τῆς ἰδίας, ὁ Πατριάρχης καί οἱ σύν Αὐτῷ παρεκάθησαν εἰς δεῖπνον εἰς τό ἑστιατόριον «Old Greek House», εὐγενῶς παρατεθέν ὑπό τοῦ Ἐντιμολ. κ. Γρηγορίου Χατζηελευθεριάδου, Ὀφφικιαλίου τῆς Ἁγίας τοῦ Χριστοῦ Μ. Ἐκκλησίας.
Τήν ἐπαύριον, Κυριακήν τῶν Ἁγίων Πάντων, ὁ Πατριάρχης προεξῆρχε τῆς Θ. Λειτουργίας, ἐν συλλειτουργίᾳ μετά τοῦ Σεβ. Μητροπολίτου κ. Τύχωνος καί τοῦ Σεβ. ἁγίου Λέρου, ἐν τῷ αὐλείῳ χώρῳ τοῦ Ἱ. Ναοῦ τῆς Παναγίας (Dereyamanlı). Κατά τήν διάρκειαν τῆς Θ. Λειτουργίας, ὁ Παναγιώτατος ἐτέλεσε τήν εἰς διάκονον χειροτονίαν τοῦ μοναχοῦ Ἰακώβου, ἀδελφοῦ τῆς Ἱερᾶς Μονῆς Κυρίας τῶν Ἀγγέλων Γουβερνέτου Χανίων. Εἰς τό τέλος, ὡμίλησαν ἡ Α. Θ. Παναγιότης καί ὁ Σεβ. Μητροπολίτης Τύχων, εὐχαριστήσας διά τήν τιμητικήν πρόσκλησιν καί εὐλογίαν νά παρευρεθῇ ὡς μέλος τῆς Πατριαρχικῆς συνοδείας εἰς τήν ἁγιοτόκον γῆν τῆς Καππαδοκίας καί τονίσας τήν ἀνάγκην διά περαιτέρω συνεργασίαν μετά τῆς πρωτοθρόνου Ἐκκλησίας Κωνσταντινουπόλεως. Ὡμίλησεν ἐπίσης καί ὁ Διάκονος Ἰάκωβος, ἐκφράσας τήν εὐγνωμοσύνην του πρός τήν Α. Θ. Παναγιότητα.
Ἀκολούθως, ὁ Πατριάρχης καί οἱ σύν Αὐτῷ παρεκάθησαν εἰς ἄριστον, παρατεθέν εἰς τό ἰδιόκτητον ἀρχοντικόν τοῦ κ. Χατζηελευθεριάδου, ἀφοῦ προηγουμένως προσεκύνησαν εἰς τό ἐν αὐτῷ εὑρισκόμενον Παρεκκλήσιον.
Σημειωτέον, ὃτι ἀμφότεροι οἱ ὡς ἄνω Ἱεροί Ναοί, ὡς καί πλεῖστοι ἄλλοι, πολλούς ἐκ τῶν ὁποίων ἐπεσκέφθησαν καί ἔψαλαν διαφόρους ὕμνους ὁ Πατριάρχης καί οἱ συνοδοί Του, εἶναι ἐγκαταλελειμμένοι ἀπό τῆς ἐποχῆς τῆς ἀνταλλαγῆς τῶν πληθυσμῶν μεταξύ Τουρκίας καί Ἑλλάδος καί μόνον κατά τά τελευταῖα ἔτη τό Οἰκουμενικόν Πατριαρχεῖον τελεῖ ἐκτάκτως ἱεράς ἐν αὐτοῖς ἀκολουθίας, κατόπιν εἰδικῆς ἀδείας τῶν ἁρμοδίων ἀρχῶν, κατά τά ὀργανούμενα ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ ἐτήσια προσκυνήματα.
Ὁ Οἰκουμενικός Πατριάρχης μετά τῆς συνοδείας Αὐτοῦ ἐπέστρεψεν εἰς τήν Πόλιν τό ἑσπέρας τῆς Κυριακῆς, 23ης τ.μ..
Δευτέρα 24 Ιουνίου 2019
Ο Μητροπολίτης Τύχων (της O.C.A.), για το Γενέθλιο του Προδρόμου, στο εν ΚΠόλει Σιναϊτικό Μετόχιο
Σήμερα το πρωί, 24.6.2019, εορτή του Γενεθλίου του Αγίου Ιωάννου του Προδρόμου, ο Μητροπολίτης Τύχων, επικεφαλής της O.C.A. (δηλ. της λεγομένης "Ορθοδόξου Εκκλησίας εν Αμερική"), επιστρέψας στην Κωνσταντινούπολη από την Καππαδοκία, όπου συνόδεψε τον Οικουμενικό Πατριάρχη κ.κ. Βαρθολομαίο, για την ετήσια εκεί ιεραποδημία του, εκκλησιάστηκε στο Σιναϊτικό Μετόχιο στην Πόλη. Εκεί, της Ευχαριστιακής Συνάξεως προεξήρχε ο Μητροπολίτης Καλλιουπόλεως και Μαδύτου Στέφανος. Ο Μητροπολίτης Τύχων εκλήθη και ανέγνωσε το Σύμβολο της Πίστεως και την Κυριακή Προσευχή.
This morning His Beatitude attended the Divine Liturgy for the feast of the Nativity of the Holy and Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist, John at the Representation Church of Mount Sinai - Saint Catherine's Monastery in Contantinople. During the Divine Liturgy His Beatitude was asked to pray aloud the Creed and the Lord's Prayer in English. His Eminence Metropolitan Stephanos of Kalliopoleos and Madytos celebrated the Divine Liturgy.
Metropolitan Tikhon [OCA] guest of Ecumenical Patriarchate at annual pilgrimage to Cappadocia
DEREYAMANLI, CAPPADOCIA, TURKEY [OCA]
Orthodox Christian faithful who trace their roots to Cappadocia filled the Church of the Mother of God here on the Sunday of All Saints—June 23, 2019—as His All-Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople and His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon concelebrated the Divine Liturgy.
Metropolitan Tikhon and a delegation representing the Orthodox Church in America that included Archpriest Alexander Rentel, Chancellor, and Archdeacon Joseph Matusiak had been invited by His All-Holiness to participate in the annual pilgrimage to Cappadocia in conjunction with a three-day pilgrimage to the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
His Eminence, Metropolitan Paisius of Lerou Kalimnou also concelebrated with His All-Holiness, His Beatitude, and the OCA delegation.
At the conclusion of the Divine Liturgy, His All-Holiness warmly welcomed His Beatitude, recalling the many occasions on which Metropolitan Tikhon, representing the Orthodox Church in America, had visited the Patriarchate of Constantinople. He also spoke of the close friendship that has been built as a result of those visits.
His Beatitude responded by thanking His All-Holiness for the invitation, and especially for the opportunity to experience the martyric witness of the deserted caves and church ruins across the Cappadocian region. The complete text of Metropolitan Tikhon’s address appears below.
During the pilgrimage, Metropolitan Tikhon and the OCA delegation had the opportunity to visit the ancient cave churches and monasteries that dot the region, as well as churches that had been closed following the exchange of populations between Greece in Turkey in 1922.
Address of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon to
His All-Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople
Sunday of All Saints
June 23, 2019
Your All-Holiness, Patriarch Bartholomew,
It is a great joy for me to concelebrate the Divine Liturgy with Your All-Holiness, together with His Eminence, Metropolitan Paisios, and the brothers who serve with us, on this great day of the Feast of All Saints, when in the glory of Pentecost we honor the great cloud of witnesses offered to us in the holy men and women of our Orthodox Christian faith.
When I travel abroad, I normally bring the prayers and greetings of the faithful of North America to the place where I am travelling. But after these days, when I have had the honor of walking — at the invitation of Your All-Holiness — in the lands of Cappadocia, I feel that it is rather I who am receiving, on behalf of North Americans, the prayers and embrace of the martyric witness which resound from the deserted caves and the ruins of church temples around us.
In today’s Gospel, the Lord said to us: “And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.” These lands echo with the trials and loss of the past, but these clouds of past sufferings are made brighter by the hope offered to us by Jesus Christ, the Author and Finisher of our faith, Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
It is this hope, this faith, this joy which we find fulfilled as we gather as brothers and sisters in Christ in the celebration of this Divine Liturgy, which is the goal of our pilgrimage in life. We have all come here because we are seeking that which was lost: our homeland, our families, and our churches. But this seeking is also for something deeper in our hearts, as the Psalmist says: “As the deer pants after the fountains of water, so pants my soul after Thee, O God. My soul thirsted for God, the mighty, the living; when shall I come and appear before the face of God” (Psalm 41:1).
I come from America, the land of freedom, the land of abundance, the land of hope. It is to this land that many from Anatolia fled, and it is the land to which many emigrated from Eastern Europe, from the Middle East, and from other places where difficulties were to be found. But there are difficulties to be found in America as well, and we have been working, through the process of the Assembly of Bishops, to find solutions by which all the Orthodox in our lands might offer a strong and united witness to Christ and His Holy Church, in imitation of the great saints that we celebrate today and in fulfillment of the exhortation made by Your All-Holiness, that we all need “to move beyond what is mine and yours, to what is ours.” This is the goal for us as Orthodox Christians: to move beyond what is mine and yours, to what is ours – and what is ours is Jesus Christ and the communion of the saints.
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking, as our parents and grandparents did, to Jesus Christ, Who gives us life and Who gives us hope.
Thank you, Your All-Holiness, for your prayers and for your hospitality.
[oca.org]
Κυριακή 23 Ιουνίου 2019
Ο Μητροπολίτης Τύχων της OCA συλλειτούργησε με τον Οικουμενικό Πατριάρχη στην Καππαδοκία - Metropolitan Tikhon Mollard of OCA concelebrated with Ecumenical Patriarch in Cappadocia (video - photos)
Ο Μητροπολίτης Τύχων (Tikhon Mollard), επικεφαλής της «Ορθοδόξου Εκκλησίας εν Αμερική» (OCA), όπως είχαμε γράψει ήδη, συλλειτούργησε την Κυριακή των Αγίων Πάντων, 23 Ιουνίου 2019, στην Πατριαρχική Θεία Λειτουργία, προεξάρχοντος του Παναγιωτάτου Οικουμενικού Πατριάρχου κ. Βαρθολομαίου, στον Ιερό Ναό Κοιμήσεως της Θεοτόκου στο Avanos ή Βάνεσα της Καππαδοκίας.
Το εσπέρας της προηγούμενης ημέρας, Σαββάτου 22 Ιουνίου, ο Μητροπολίτης Τύχων παρέστη επίσης στον Πατριαρχικό Εσπερινό που τελέστηκε στον Ιερό Ναό Αγίων Θεοδώρων στη Μαλακοπή της Καππαδοκίας.
Το βίντεο και οι φωτογραφίες, στις οποίες ο Μητροπολίτης Τύχων επισημαίνεται με κόκκινο βέλος, προέρχονται από τουρκικά ΜΜΕ που κάλυψαν το γεγονός.
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Metropolitan Tikhon Mollard, head of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), as we already wrote, on Sunday, June 23, 2019, concelebrated with the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in the Holy Church of the Assumption of Virgin Mary in Avanos of Cappadocia.
On the evening of the previous day, Saturday, June 22, Metropolitan Tikhon also attended the Patriarchal Vespers that took place in the Holy Temple of Saint Theodoroi in Malakopi (Derinkuyu) of Cappadocia.
The videos and photos, in which Metropolitan Tikhon is highlighted in red arrow, have been taken from Turkish media that covered the event.
ΔΕΙΤΕ ΤΟ ΒΙΝΤΕΟ:
ΑΚΟΛΟΥΘΕΙ ΣΧΕΤΙΚΗ ΦΩΤΟΘΗΚΗ:
Ο Οικουμενικός Πατριάρχης λειτουργώντας επί ερειπίων στην Καππαδοκία (Κυριακή Αγίων Πάντων 2019)
Πατριαρχική Θεία Λειτουργία σήμερα, Κυριακή των Αγίων Πάντων (23-6-2019), στον Ιερό Ναό Κοιμήσεως της Θεοτόκου στο Avanos ή Βάνεσα της Καππαδοκίας, προεξάρχοντος του Οικουμενικού Πατριάρχου Βαρθολομαίου.
Κατάμεστος ο αύλειος χώρος του ναού από Ρωμηούς της Πόλης αλλά και προσκυνητές από την Ελλάδα. Επίσης, όμιλος προσκυνητών από την Μητρόπολη Λέρου, Καλύμνου και Αστυπαλαίας, υπό την ηγεσία του Μητροπολίτου κ. Παϊσίου. Παρών και ο βοηθός της Μητροπόλεως Λέρου, Επίσκοπος Στρατονικείας κ. Στέφανος.
Σημειωτέον ότι με τον Πατριάρχη συλλειτούργησε και ο Μητροπολίτης Τύχων (Tikhon Mollard), επικεφαλής της «Ορθοδόξου Εκκλησίας εν Αμερική» (OCA).
Κατά την Θ. Λειτουργία ο Πατριάρχης προέβη και σε χειροτονία Διακόνου.
Κατά την Θ. Λειτουργία ο Πατριάρχης προέβη και σε χειροτονία Διακόνου.
[πηγή: ΦΩΣ ΦΑΝΑΡΙΟΥ]
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