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Ecumenical Patriarch Continues Historic Visit to the United States20,000 Attend Patriarchal Divine LiturgyNEW YORK � An enthusiastic crowd of

several hundred faithful endured 39-degreeweather and a stiff wind to greet EcumenicalPatriarch Bartholomew at his 10:30 p.m. ar-rival at LaGuardia Airport on Oct. 24

His All Holiness, Archbishop Spyridonand hierarchs and clergy accompanying himstepped off the plane and proceeded togreet the nearly 100 priests and 400 per-sons standing behind a barricade. He thenmounted the podium, where MayorRudolph Giuliani and Archbishop Iakovos,former head of the Archdiocese, and otherdignitaries waited as the large crowd ap-plauded its approval.

A choir led by Catherine Zarbis, whoalso directed the combined choir of sev-eral hundred at the Madison Square Gar-den liturgy, sang the Patriarch�s fimi, orhymn. A small band consisting of studentsalso played during the arrival ceremonies.

Mayor Giuliani made a brief welcom-ing speech in which he called His All Holi-ness �a great religious leader who has in-spired so many to lead better lives.�

Archbishop Spyridon offered his wel-coming remarks and told the crowd that �thenation�s political leaders have received Pa-triarch Bartholomew�s message with greatappreciation.�

In his comments, the Patriarch thankedthe hundreds of faithful for turning out inthe cold weather to welcome him. �We arefilled with joy and great emotion by yourfilial devotion and love.�

He called his visit to the United States�a sacramental sign of the oneness that isshared among the 300 million Orthodoxworldwide.�

He continued, �This is the miracle ofthe Church: that, after 2,000 years, thepower of love and Orthodox truth aboutChrist which binds us liturgically, theologi-cally, and dogmatically, remains strong andunbroken.�

With the YouthHis first full day in New York, Oct. 25,

included breakfast at the famed Tavern onthe Green with nearly 500 young adultsattending, dedication ceremonies at Arch-diocese headquarters, and a meeting with

officials of the National Council of Churchesin Christ.

The opulent garden setting of NewYork�s Tavern on the Green was the settingfor a sunny morning breakfast hosted by theGreek Orthodox Archdiocese of AmericaYoung Adult League in honor of EcumenicalPatriarch Bartholomew.

In a warm and loving address, His AllHoliness imparted fatherly advice to about500 YAL members, saying, �The time is nowfor you to take on leadership roles within theChurch. For you are not just the future of theChurch but you are Her present also. TheHoly Mother Church looks to Her childrento set an example for all the world to follow.You must spread the light of Christ which weare certain is burning brightly within yourhearts,� he said, �Reach out to the lapsedOrthodox Christians. Reach out to the un-churched, many of whom are searching des-perately for a light of spirituality in a world

which often seems dark.�His All Holiness also instructed the

youth in attendance to be �a voice for yourfellow man, be a voice of Christ, be a voicefor the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, be avoice for the Great Church of Christ, theEcumenical Patriarchate to the world. Youcan and must bring out all which is good inGod�s Creation, for it is indeed good. Begood stewards of God�s creation: the earth,the Church and our nations, proclaiming inall things and to all people the saving mes-sage of Christ our God.�

The youth also expressed their abun-dant love and admiration for His EminenceArchbishop Spyridon, primate of the GreekOrthodox Archdiocese of America, when,rising to speak, he received a resoundingovation of applause and cheers.

�Patriarch Bartholomew Way�His All Holiness was greeted in mid-

morning by more than 500 people who

crowded into the block between 5th andMadison Avenues on E. 79th St. for a bless-ing (�agiasmo� service) and dedication cer-emony on the Greek Orthodox Archdioceseof America front steps in commemorationof its 75th anniversary.

New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, whowas in attendance, then followed His Emi-nence to a small stage in front of the Arch-diocese, over which flew �welcome to NewYork� banners and patriarchal flags. MayorGiuliani then officially dedicated the blockof 79th Street where the Archdiocese is lo-cated as �Patriarch Bartholomew Way,� tell-ing the faithful in attendance the Patriarch�svisit �brings a special blessing on New York.�

Humbly accepting the honor, His AllHoliness responded, �We are deeply movedto be in this great and gracious city � thecapital of the world, that is etched in theimagination of every person on the face ofthe earth. Here, the yearning of humanity forprosperity and advancement takes on tangibleform, in this place and in this land, a countryof democratic freedoms and boundless eco-nomic opportunity,� and offered his bless-ings for �all those who pass by or work on�Patriarch Bartholomew Way.�At the National Council of Churches

By mid-day, His All Holiness was onhis way to preside at an ecumenical serviceat the National Council of Churches ofChrist, where the Rev. Joan Campbell, gen-eral secretary of the NCCC, and other areaChristian clergy and about 200 faithful wel-comed the spiritual leader. The service wasaccompanied by a gospel choir, who per-formed a beautiful rendition of �AmazingGrace.� His All Holiness presented Rev.Campbell with an Orthodox censor for usein the NCCC chapel after she presented himwith pewter chalice and paten.

His All Holiness garnered a support-ive response from the multi-denomina-tional audience when he said, �In landswhere the Orthodox Church is recovering

More coverage of the visit:pp 9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16 and 24

See NEW YORK, on page 10

A SHOWER OF ROSE PETALS and a jubilant crowd greet His All Holiness at the steps ofThe Annunciation Cathedral, in Chicago. Pictured on the right, is the Devterevon Tarasios.

THE FAITHFUL of the Boston Diocese anxiously await to see and hear their Patriarch atthe Youth Rally held at Taxiarchate Church in Watertown, Mass. (D. Panagos photos)

FULL HOUSE was declared at the Madison Square Garden for the Patriarchal Divine Liturgy.Among the first row dignitaries, Tasso Manessis and Chris Philip, vice-commander andcommander of the Order of St. Andrew. (first and third from left) (D. Panagos photo)

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ATHENS (Reuters) - Women have be-gun banging on the Byzantine portals ofGreece�s all-male monastic community ofMount Athos, challenging its centuries-oldrefusal to allow anything female into itsgrounds.

�I can go to Denmark without a pass-port but not to an area that is part of the

By Dina Kyriakidou

Women fight tradition and heritage in Mount Athos

Greek nation,�� Athens city councillor FotiniPipili said. �It is a sexist, anti-democraticdecision taken by men, not God.��

Women fighting the ban see the lushgreen peninsula as a bastion of male chau-vinism and say the monks� discriminationis based on Dark Age notions about theposition of women in the world. But sup-porters of Mount Athos� unique status saythe world�s last monastic region would van-ish if its medieval ways of prayer, fastingand tilling the land were disturbed by thepresence of the opposite sex.

�After the near-destruction of Tibetthis is the only monastic community in theworld. If its status changes it will becomea tourist attraction and it will be de-stroyed,�� said Yannis Hadjifotis, spokes-man for the Church of Greece.

Administrative autonomy, granted ina 1926 decree, exempts the 20 cliff-hang-ing monasteries on the northern Greekpeninsula from paying taxes or voting andgives them the right to pick their visitors�human and animal. Not just women buteven most female animals are banned fromMount Athos.

Unique Orthodox ExperienceMale visitors say it is a unique Greek

Orthodox experience, completely removedfrom modern reality.

The monks live 13 days behind therest of the world, following the Julian cal-endar. Their wooden gongs toll Byzantinehours and traveling between monasteriesusually means a day-long trek on foot be-neath ancient trees.

The first cloisters were founded in the900s when Greek Orthodox monasticismtook root. They reached their heyday in the15th century under the protection of Byz-

antine emperors.Greece�s bid in September to persuade

European Union foreign ministers to signa joint statement safeguarding thecommunity�s unique status was blockedby Finland and Sweden.

�The foreign ministers of Finland andSweden, both women, blocked the joineddeclaration,�� European parliament deputyAlecos Alavanos said. The monks havefound an unlikely ally in Alavanos, a manwhose Left Alliance party is known for itsliberal stance on rights issues.

�It is a great cultural achievement thatwe have kept this place as it was in medi-eval times. Is it such an affront to women�srights that it needs to be abolished?�� heasked.

Alavanos said his effort to guard MountAthos�s special status in the European Par-liament was backed by some female depu-ties who argued that the women�s move-ment had more important battles to fight.But women like Pipili, who wrote to theGreek parliament in June demanding a de-bate on the issue, say the ban is intendedto make women feel degraded.

�Can tradition continue to marginalizewomen as symbols of Satan and offensiveto the holiness of the place?�� she asked.

Not intended to offendThe Church says the exclusion is not

intended to offend women and that, on thecontrary, Mount Athos is dedicated to hon-oring a woman � the Virgin Mary. �Byz-antine monasteries, male and female, havehistorically excluded the opposite sex fromits grounds. A mixed community is seenas worldly and contrary to monastic life,��Hadjifotis said.

Over the centuries the ban has beenrelaxed on occasion, sometimes to give ref-uge to women and children fleeing war.Nowadays chickens are tolerated for theireggs, used in pigments by monks paintingByzantine icons, Hadjifotis said.

An exhibition of art from Mount Athosin the northern Greek city of Salonika thissummer was swamped by visitors eager tosee gold-leaf icons, carved chalices and rare

Catholicos visitsAram I, catholicos of the Church of Armenia, paid a visit to Archdiocese headquarters onOct. 3 and participated in a doxology in the Chapel of St. Paul. He and ArchbishopSpyridon exchanged greetings and gifts and also met privately. (Orthodox Observer photo)

The New York State Division of Crimi-nal Justice Services has awarded $60,000in S.T.O.P. Violence Against Women Fund-ing to two women�s organizations withinthe Greek community to develop a collabo-rative effort that will reach out to victims ofdomestic violence who are isolated frommainstream services due to cultural and lan-guage barriers.

The project, which will begin in early1998, will be implemented by the GreekOrthodox Ladies Philoptochos Society Inc.,and Elpides Inc., a New York City-basedorganization of Greek women helpingGreek women. The program will target NewYork City, Long Island, Rockland, Orangeand Westchester counties.

Mimi Skandalakis, National Philop-tochos Board president said, �This fund-ing breaks new ground for Philoptochos.We are delighted that New York state isoffering us this opportunity to develop acollaborative program with a sister agencyto raise awareness of the prevalence ofdomestic violence in the Greek commu-nity, and to encourage victims to break thesilence and seek help.�

The project was developed by Paulette

Philoptochos-Elpides Collaborateon Domestic Violence Program

Geanacopoulos, CSW, Philoptochos SocialWork Consultant and Paula Gregoriades,CSW, of Elpides. The National Philoptochoswill reach out to Greek and Greek-Ameri-can women through its member chaptersand the clergy. It will develop and conducttraining seminars that will strive to createChurch environments in which victims feelconfident turning for help.

The training will examine and re-exam-ine re-frame cultural attitudes and beliefsthat appear to support family violence andwill offer bilingual literature and resourcematerials for victims and advocates.

Elpides Inc., will provide culturally sen-sitive and bilingual interventions to ensurethat victims are aware of their options andservices available. For women willing toseek legal recourse, it will provide escort,translation and legal advocacy services.

Both organizations will network withmainstream domestic violence services toencourage culturally sensitive responses tovictims from the Greek community.

For more information, contact PauletteGeanacopoulos, CSW Social Work Consult-ant at the national office of the PhiloptochosSociety.

See TRADITION on page 23

Archdiocesan Presbyters CouncilHolds Productive Meeting

NEW YORK.� The members of theArchdiocesan Presbyters Council met withHis Eminence Archbishop Spyridon at theArchdiocesan headquarters in Manhattan fortheir official fall meeting.

The Presbyters were warmly welcomedby His Eminence, the Chancellor and staffof the Archdiocese. During a working lun-cheon, a frank and open dialogue took placeregarding the life of the church including therecent decisions taken by the Archdiocesethat have brought about controversy.

The Presbyters were encouraged andwere allowed to ask any questions pertain-ing to the recent issues and felt His Emi-nence was most forthcoming with answers.Among the issues discussed in detail wereHellenic College/Holy Cross, SCOBA, TheCharter of the Archdiocese and the recentrumors that have affected our church inAmerica.

In addition, the visit of His All Holinesswas discussed to which all Presbyter�spledged their full support. A report on the

National Presbyter�s and Presvyteres Retreatin Chicago at which His All Holiness will bethe main speaker brought much excitementto the meeting as the Presbyter�s await withgreat anticipation this special time when theywill be with their spiritual father. They re-called the warmth and hospitality with whichHis All Holiness received them at the Patri-archate last spring.

The Rev. Alexander Karloutsos gave adetailed report on His Holiness�s visit andagain reiterated the need for everyone tobe fully behind and supportive of this in-credible visit of His All Holiness pointingout the importance of projecting Orthodoxyto the country, this being only the secondtime a Patriarch has visited the UnitedStates.

A detailed treasurer�s report was givenby the Rev. Michael Pastrikos on the Oper-ating Fund, the registrations thus far for theNational Retreat and the Benevolent Fundof the Presbyters Council and the Sisterhoodof Presbyteres. In addition a detailed reportwas given by the Chancellor of the Archdio-cese, The V. Rev. George Passias concern-ing all aspects of the clergyman�s life in ourArchdiocese. Of specific concern was theshortage of priests throughout the Archdio-cese which is now between 30-34. Fr.Passias stated his desire to assist the priestsin every way possible so that they can fullycarry out their mission.

See PRESBYTERS on page 23

A R C H D I O C E S E N E W S of Special Interest

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MEMBERS OF PAREA HELLAS DANCE GROUP

CULTURE & HERITAGE

Houston Dance Group�s Pilgrimage to Mytilene

By Joni Zavitsonis

On our flight back to Houston, I amreflecting on all the things we saw and didin Mytilene, on a recent visit.

From Aug. 1-9 Annunciation Greek Or-thodox Cathedral�s dance troupe, Parea Hellas,under the leadership of Director GeorgiaVoinis, traveled to the island of Lesvos (alsoknown as Mytilene, it�s capital).

Parea Hellas was started over fiveyears ago for the preservation of Greekculture and heritage through folk dancingby Mrs. Voinis, a 25 year-veteran of theGreek Festival Dancers in Houston.

The trip, which was to serve multi-pur-poses, was generously funded by the Min-istry of the Aegean, and was organized byDorothy Politi, a journalist and writer fromMytilene who had lived in Houston for 15years Many of Dorothy�s articles for theMytilene newspapers were about the Greekliving in Texas. After a one-month visit toTexas in December 1996 she began plan-ning a trip for the Greek Diaspora toMytilene to participate in their August festi-val event.

Our first Sunday in Mytilene we wereblessed to attend liturgy at the MetropolisCathedral with Bishop Iakovos of Mytilene,one of two bishops on the island, in atten-dance.

It was an awesome, traditional servicewhere men and women sat on oppositesides from each other. At the psalter�s standwere more than 10 men and women underthe leadership of the protopsalti, singing inbeautiful, harmonious Byzantine chantwhich flowed with the liturgy as smoothlyand majestically as the waves come and goacross the Mediterranean Sea.

Going up for communion, one truly feltthe �awesome mysteries� and the humilityof stepping before Christ Himself to receiveHis body and blood.

Bishop Iakovos humbled us in his ser-mon when he said to his congregation thatwe, the Greek Orthodox faithful living inAmerica, were more Greek and more Or-thodox than those living in Greece today.

I don�t know if that is true or not, but Ido believe that the filoxenia, the brotherlylove shown to us by our brothers and sis-ters from our homeland will stay in all ourhearts for a lifetime.

After the liturgy, our group, along withBishop Iakovos, the priest, and Greek armyrepresentatives, went to Mytilene�s Statueof Liberty to lay wreaths and hold a prayerservice for the 75th anniversary of theslaughter of the Greeks in Asia Minor, whenhundreds of thousands of Greeks weremurdered by the Turks, and millions of oth-ers were displaced.

Standing alongside army generals, navy

commanders and high-ranking diplomatswas a great honor for us all. It was a movingservice we were proud to participate in andbe a part of.

The following morning we made ourway to the St. Raphael Monastery and metwith Holy Mother Superior EugeniaKleidara. This was a great honor for all of usas the Abbess rarely meets with anyoneanymore.

Holy Mother Eugenia is well into her80�s, is a prolific writer of over 68 publishedbooks, including poetry, and speaks verysimply of our duty as Christians on thisearth. She says we should always act self-lessly and we are to love God and each otherwith all our hearts. The monastery of St.Raphael houses the relics of the named saintas well as St. Nicholas, his fellow monk, andSt. Irene, a young girl who was 12 years ofage and the daughter of a public official.

In 1463 all three were brutallymartyred by the Turks. Many miracles havebeen attributed to the saints even to thisday.

Yet another fascinating site was theclimb up to the Church of Panagia to viewthe first icon painted by St. Luke the Evan-gelist. The Panagia and Christos were barelyvisible, but you could make out their facesthrough the protective glass. It is said thatwhatever you pray for in faith to the Panagiathere would be answered. Standing beforethis icon, over 2,000 years old and, insteadof in a sterile museum, reverently and prop-erly displayed all these years for use ofworship in one of our Orthodox churches,reinforced for all of us the historical signifi-cance and truth of our sacred Orthodoxfaith.

There were many other such journeysas these and it seemed each day was filledwith trips to various holy sites, museums,castles and more. Our days began veryearly and ended in the wee hours of themorning. All these events were just a fewof the many �extras� given to the PareaHellas Dance Troupe, whose duty while onthe island was to perform Texas, Mexicanand Greek folk dances for Mytilene�s sum-mer festivals. Our night performances inthe various towns and villages (includingMolyvos and Plomari) were greeted withwarm smiles and great enthusiasm.

Needless to say it was an intense 10days and all left feeling a bit sad that ourjourney had come to an end, yet ready forthe trip home to catch up on some muchneeded rest and relaxation. It seems wewere there less as Greek dancers from theStates, and more as Greek Orthodox Chris-tians and ambassadors of those Greek Or-thodox faithful who had left their homelandyears before to make a life for themselvesand their family in America, yet could neverforget their Greek roots abroad.

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ST. GEORGE CATHEDRAL IN HARTFORD

Name: St. GeorgeGreek Orthodox CathedralLocation: Hartford, Conn.Size: about 900 familiesDiocese: Archdiocese DistrictFounded: 1931Clergy: Rev. Chrysostom Maniu-dakis, dean, (Halki theological school�60, masters in education from CanistusCollege in Buffalo, N.Y., Ph.D. in educa-tion administration from State Universityof New York-Buffalo; Th.D. from Aristote-lian University of Thessaloniki);Fr. Donald Augusta (St. Vladimir�s Or-thodox Seminary �70)Noteworthy:Prominent Church leaders amongformer parish priests

According to information from Fr.Maniudakis, Greek immigrants began tosettle in Hartford in the early 1900s. By1920, about 400 Greeks lived inConnecticut�s capital city.

The overwhelming majority weresingle men�only about 25 had families.As happened with other immigrantgroups, these settlers looked to eachother to maintain links to their Hellenictraditions and the common bond of GreekOrthodoxy.

For several years, they attendedchurch services in nearby New Britainor at All Saints Russian Orthodox Churchon Broad Street in Hartford. After an un-successful attempt to establish a parishin the 1920s, members of the HartfordGreek community came together andchartered the Eastern Hellenic OrthodoxEcclesia of St. George on June 26, 1931.

The first liturgy was performed onthe first Sunday of July 1931 by Fr. M.Stavidis. A committee of five men wasselected at a General Assembly meetingto govern until a parish council could beelected.

Church services were held at aformer Baptist church at 182 JeffersonSt. in Hartford�s Frog Hollow neighbor-hood, which was then the main area ofGreek settlement.

A parish council was elected andtook office in January of 1932.

In the year, membership grew from45 to 177 members. With enthusiasmand zeal, the new parish purchased icons,an iconostasion, desks for the churchschool and furniture for the social hall�all while establishing a separate buildingfund committee to buy the church build-ing.

Hartford�s St. George was blessedwith a number of extraordinarily capablepriests in its early years, including threewho became major figures in the Ortho-dox world.

Fr. Iakovos Coucouzes (later Arch-bishop Iakovos), who recently retired af-ter leading the Archdiocese for more thanthree decades, was succeeded by Fr. IzikielTsoukalas, who later served as Arch-bishop of Australia for many years. Fr.

Makarios Kykkotis then served as pastor,before returning to Cyprus, where he waselected archbishop and later served as presi-dent of the Cypriot republic.

St. George was also a center for thedevelopment of Greek parish institutions inAmerica.

Archbishop Athenagoras journeyed toHartford to formally organize one of thefirst Philoptochos chapters in the UnitedStates.

In 1941, Fr. Coucouzes also establishedwhat is believed to be the first official GreekOrthodox youth fellowship in the UnitedStates.

During the 1940s and 1950s, theChurch continued to grow, adding a BoyScout troop and youth athletic programs toits organizational life. The community alsoacquired a parish house and purchased aproperty for future development on FairfieldAvenue on the city�s southern border.

In 1959, Archbishop Iakovos returnedto Hartford to celebrate his first Divine Lit-urgy upon returning to the United States asArchbishop of North and South America.In that year, a General Assembly also au-thorized the parish council to sell theJefferson Street church, which was over-crowded and could not be expanded.

Groundbreaking ceremonies took placeat the Fairfield Avenue property in 1961,although construction actually began on thecurrent church complex in 1964.

The church was occupied in 1966 andconsecrated in 1968. The complex includesa beautiful Church, a classroom and officewing, and a large social hall.

The parish was blessed during the yearsleading up to the construction of the newchurch by the dedicated leadership of Frs.Nicholas Papageorge, Nicholas Terzakis, andJames Demetriades.

Fr. James� extremely influential minis-try extended for 30 years, a period cappedby the selection of St. George asConnecticut�s Greek Orthodox cathedral.

Over the years, the cathedral commu-nity has grown to include about 900 fami-lies. The members are an integral part of theprofessional and civic life of Greater Hartford,and include a former mayor of the city, judges,attorneys, legislators, administrators, and

many small-business owners.The community was greatly aug-

mented during the late 1960s and early1970s by a large wave of immigrants fromGreece, including a particularly largegroup from Rhodes, which was also thesource of many of immigrants who ar-rived before the mid-1920s.

As a result of this immigration, St.George in Hartford remains an active cen-ter of Greek culture and life, with activeorganizations of Rhodians, Cretans,Arcadians, and Macedonians.

Fr. Chris Maniudakis took up pasto-ral responsibilities in 1994 in the wakeFr. Demetriades� retirement. Like Fr. Jamesand several other pastors of St. George,Fr. Chris is a graduate of the celebratedPatriarchal seminary at Halki, outside ofConstantinople.

Under Fr. Maniudakis� leadership,the cathedral has given new attention tocouples involved in interfaith marriages,revitalized the Greek and religious edu-cation programs, and introduced theArchdiocesan Stewardship program.

Fr. Maniudakis recognizes the needof young couples, whether interfaith orwholly Orthodox, to have a Church thatis rooted in stable, centuries-old tradi-tion of Orthodoxy, but still able to meetthe wants and needs of the contempo-rary family. He began his ministry by re-vitalizing youth programming and givingnew emphasis to the parish�s JOY, GOYA,and YAL programs.

St. George parish has many otheractive ministries, including: religious edu-cation (the Sunday school has grown inrecent years from about 60 students tomore than 100), the Doxa Parent/TeacherAssociation, Greek school, Greek languageBible study,

English language Bible study, a pre-marital seminar group, a senior citizensgroup, Philoptochos chapter, choir, Byz-antine choir, Orthodox library, and aGreek folk dance troupe.

In addition to these ministries, therealso is the Friendly Visitors program,which involves laypersons visiting shut-

Connecticut�s Cathedral Offers Diverse Ministries

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. � St. Georgeparish will mark the completion of Phase IIof its building project on Nov. 15 with athyranoixia (door-opening service) for itsnew church. Bishop Alexios will officiate.

According to information from JamesPappi, Phase I was begun by Fr. ConstatnineVolaitis, now retired, who formed thenucleus of the community with 65 retireesand pruchased a 22-acre site in 1983. Acommunity center was completed in 1986.

Under the guidance of the currentpriest, Fr. Nicholas F. Nichols, the secondstage, a 10,000-square-foot, 500-capacitychurch was completed.

Detroit Bands toHelp the Needy

Church BuildingProject Completed

DETROIT � Three local Greek bandsare organizing a dance to raise money forneedy Greek families in the community.

According to information from PeterAlexander of the Levendes, that group,along with the Rhodians and Appolos willgive the to all the churches which will dis-tribute the proceeds to the famillies pri-vately.

�We felt that the Greeks in this coun-try have been very good to us over the yearsand we wanted to give something back,�said Alexander. �If this dance is successful,we intend on making this an annual event.�

Radio Ministryby the Youth

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. � For the first timeever, Alabama�s Greek Orthodox youth re-cently participated in a radio ministry of HolyTrinity-Holy Cross Cathedral.

Conceived and founded by Father PaulCostopoulos, Cathedral dean, the ministryis a weekly 30-minute radio show called�Come Receive the Light.�

Participants in the St. John ChrysostomOratorical Festival were encouraged by Fr.Paul to go on the air with their OrthodoxChristian testimonies. The young teen-agers wrote, produced, and broadcast theirstories of faith.

The local teens included Chris Lafakis,an 8th grader at Advent Day School; NicoleLedlow, a 9th grader at Pelham High School;Nick Papajohn, a 9th grader at Hoover HighSchool; and Brittany Costellos, a 7th graderat Gresham Junior High.

Teen topics included the Ten Com-mandments, the Sacrament of Confession,a passage in Matthew about being graciousto the needy, and the true significance ofEaster in receiving Christ as the unmanninglight of life.

Fr. Paul delivers the sermon and pro-duces the show with co-producer andbroadcaster Despina Vodantis. The programtitle was inspired by Frank Kanelos, poetlaureate for the city of Birmingham.

Programs topics range from church his-tory, ethics, and church music, to explana-tions of major feast days, Orthodox teach-ings, and sacred tradition.

A R O U N D T H E U S A

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Recent Missions and Orthodoxy

By Fr. Alexander Veronis

�Go make disciples of all nations...�Following this command of Our Lord,

Bishop Athenagoras of Elajas began a stu-dent Missionary Society in 1956 at the HolyCross School of Theology in Brookline. Hewas dean of the seminary at the time and I asecond-year seminarian.

A correspondence started betweenmembers of the Missionary Society and theneophyte Orthodox Churches of Ugandaand Korea. Several years later I met some ofthe same people at the University of Athenswith whom we had been corresponding.Friendships developed, especially with Fr.Reuben Spartas and Theodore Nankyamasof Uganda and Kosta Kim of Korea.

Simultaneously the �Porefthendes Mis-sions Movement� of Athens, under theo-logian Anastasios Yannulatos, was empha-sizing missionary outreach in the Churchof Greece.

In 1961, I began my parish ministry inLancaster, Pennsylvania and initiated aLenten self-denial club (LSDC) during GreatLent. The goal of the LSDC was to raise fi-nancial support for the missions of Ugandaand Korea. Our parish began sending up to200 boxes of books, bibles, religious arti-facts, and icons to these growing missionsannually.

In 1965-1966, Archbishop lakovosgranted me permission to conduct lecturetours for Fr. Theodore Nankyamas ofUganda and Fr. Paul de Ballester of Mexicothroughout America. Their tours covered85 parishes and Archdiocesan institutions.Both of these charismatic clergymen, laterto become bishops in their respectivecountries, stimulated more interest in mis-sions in our Archdiocese.

A report to the Greek OrthodoxArchdiocesan Clergy-Laity Congress of 1966in Montreal described the LSDC idea and themissions in Uganda and Korea. It also re-quested permission to initiate an ArchdiocesanMissions Program. The Congress and Arch-bishop lakovos gave a positive response andcreated a �Standing Committee of Missions�in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese.

The Archbishop appointed Bishop Silasas chairman and me as vice-chairman. Fr.Alexander Doumouras served as our sec-retary. Our committee operated for the next18 years under this format, with 12 inter-ested clergymen and lay persons servingwith us. All of us were volunteers. We raisedour own funds.

Our main source of income came fromthe annual Lenten appeal, based on theLancaster LSDC model. We mailed 200,000mission Lenten cards annually to the par-ishes of the Archdiocese. The Church re-sponded enthusiastically.

The Mission Committee�s focus in theearly years was three-fold:

1) To increase awareness of missionsoverseas,

2) To raise funds to support these mis-sions, and

3) To educate men and women fromthe mission churches at the Holy Cross

School of Theology and St. Basil�s Academy,by providing them with full scholarships.

In time it became obvious that the Mis-sions Committee needed to become a sub-sidized department of the Archdiocese witha full-time executive director.

This happened in 1984, with the ap-proval of Archbishop lakovos and theClergy-Laity Congress.

Archimandrite Demetrius Couchellbecame executive director. He turned outto be perfect for the task. With excellentadministrative skills, he had always givenardent support to the missions as formerEnglish editor of the �Orthodox Observer.�

His Eminence placed the ArchdiocesanMission Center at the St. Photios Shrine inSt. Augustine, Fla. It was here that the firstGreek Orthodox Christians arrived inAmerica in the 18th century. Our missionoutreach now entered a new dimension ofbringing Orthodoxy to the world.

By the mid- 1980s the Mission Centerbegan sending full and part-time mission-aries abroad with marked success. For thepast 12 years these missionaries have beenspreading the gospel worldwide throughteaching, the erection and renovation ofOrthodox churches, schools, clinics, andmonasteries. A vibrant medical missionaryministry has accompanied these programs.

Countries reached so far by our mis-sionaries are Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania,Ghana, Cameroon, Zaire, Chad, Poland,Romania, Russia, India, Mexico, Haiti,Slovakia, Albania, the Philippines, Indone-sia, Korea, Alaska, and Madagascar.

The Mission Center next turned its at-tention to Home Missions. This ministryincludes financial support of new small mis-sion parishes in the America, lecture toursby our missionaries, annual retreats/confer-ences on Missions & Evangelism and onPrison and Street Ministry. Plans for futureexpansion are underway.

Through the growth process, Fr.Couchell has published an informativenewsletter which caught the attention ofother Orthodox jurisdictions in America.They, too, began to participate in our mis-sion programs. In 1994 the Greek Ortho-dox Archdiocesan Mission Center joinedforces with SCOBA and took the more in-clusive name of OCMC (Orthodox Chris-tian Mission Center).

The OCMC now enjoys the financialsupport and participation of all canonicalOrthodox jurisdictions in America. Its min-istry has grown from a $10,000 a year pro-gram the early years to a worldwide mis-sions ministry with over a million-dollar an-nual budget presently.

The OCMC now operates underSCOBA with an executive director, a seven-member staff, a 45-member Board of Mis-sions representing all the jurisdictions ofSCOBA.

Mission expansion in the immediatefuture promises to be explosive for Ortho-doxy both at home and abroad.

Fr. Alexander Veronis is presidentemeritus of the OCMC Board of Missions,and pastor of Annunciation Church inLancaster, Pa.

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The Parent�s Touch

By Fr. Angelo Artemas

A new study by the Heinz Family Foun-dation has discovered that 48 percent of8-month-old infants are regularly cared forby someone other than a parent.

The percentages rise to 59 percent for18-month-old children, and to 66 percentfor 3-year-old toddlers.

These results come after considerableresearch has shown that the first three yearsof life are the most important developmen-tal years for human beings, and that plentyof attention from both parents is vital dur-ing that period.

Another study funded by 18 govern-ment agencies at a cost of $25 million de-termined that �more than anything else,teen-agers need love.� That�s right � love.The study further suggested that parentswho give in to their teenager�s every whim,buying them $125 Nikes, and $60 jeans,may actually be harming them.

Lack of curfews and other boundaries andrestrictions may further harm teens. Whenparents cave in to unreasonable demands, theyactually show weakness, not love.

Who would have thought that love ismore important than money and completefreedom.

Not surprisingly, another study by theAmerican Sociological Association revealedthat married couples who never had childrenwere the happiest (6.26 on a scale of 1 to 7),followed by married couples before they hadchildren (6.24). The least happy marriedcouples were those with teen-agers (5.79)and with school-aged children (5.89).

It doesn�t take a genius to understandthat taking care of physically and emotion-ally complex human beings that rely utterlyon mom and dad for two or three decadescan sap happiness out of Mary Poppins andMr. Rogers.

Parenting isn�t glamorous. Marriedcouples who think having children will

make them happier are naive. Raising chil-dren does make adults more mature andselfless, and that may ultimately lead to aprofound form of happiness that not toomany Americans are focused on.

The birth of a human baby is unlikeanything else in the world. The progeny ofmammals reptiles and fish are born withrelative independence, either already walk-ing or swimming next to mom.

Human infants are born without theability to even support the weight of theirown heads, making them completely reli-ant on their parents. The love, patience andenergy required of parents can only be de-scribed as �Christ-like.� Happiness will notbe the order of the day, but the joy of nur-turing, teaching and raising a human childis unlike anything else in the world.

As fragile as human beings are, it is nocoincidence that Orthodox faithful refer toGod as �Father� and the Church as �Mother.�

Even the most mature minds, bodies andhearts are still souls utterly reliant on fatherand mother, God and Church. those whoargue they don�t need God or a church to begood human beings are making themselvesspiritual orphans. They may be good people,but their souls aren�t being nurtured by par-ents. Human souls are fragile from birth tophysical death, and the love of God and theChurch nurtures those souls.

More specifically for Orthodox faithful,the spiritual father of world Orthodoxy isEcumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. TheEcumenical Patriarchate can be thought ofas the mother. Whether the progeny areinfants, such as the Church in the NewWorld, or seasoned, as is the Church ofGreece, spiritual children need spiritualparents. Orthodox faithful throughout theworld need the love and nurturing of theMother Church and His All Holiness.

May the visit of His All Holiness Ecu-menical Patriarch Bartholomew to Americabe filled with the love, energy and guidancethat the faithful of America need.

Editor,Concerning the letter from the parents

of the young man who entered a monas-tery, these parents should be happy andthank God that their son has chosen thispath in life. He has chosen to �fight thegood fight� in a most intense way.

�Monasticism vs. the Parish� is an un-fortunate title for the letter. There shouldbe no tension or competition between thetwo. The Monastery is the life blood of theChurch and is its conscience.

Without strong, healthy monasticism,the parishes and Dioceses become weakand can lose their way spiritually.

Thank God that young men and womenare entering the monastic ranks. This is ablessing for these parents to have a childof theirs enter the angelic life. To have achild who says �no� to materialism, world-liness, modernization, ungodliness and self-centeredness, and embrace a life pursuingholiness, God-pleasing struggle, blessed-ness, self-sacrifice, obedience, humility andlove, is something to rejoice over.

The parish priest of the time they aretalking about did them a great favor. Theyshould pray for him and thank God for thesoul-saving direction that he gave their be-loved son.

Fr. Nicholas J. CapilosSavannah, Ga.

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Praises decision to join monastery

Editor,Russian President Boris Yeltsin has

signed into law a highly controversial reli-gion bill that enshrines the Russian Ortho-dox Church as the country�s preeminent

Russia�s new law

religion and limits the activities of other re-ligious groups. For this he was vehementlycriticized.

What many fail to realize is that Russiahas been Orthodox for over a thousandyears. That is a very long time. Orthodoxyis deeply ingrained in the minds and heartsof the Russian people. It has shaped theirculture and is an integral part of who theyare as a people. The Bolsheviks tried verydiligently and methodically to eradicate theRussian Orthodox Church. Literally millionswere put to death during the reign of com-munism. If one were to combine the num-ber of all who have died for their faiththroughout all of Church history, it wouldnot equal the number of martyrs producedin Russia this century. The ranks of the clergywere decimated; hundreds of thousandswere killed or exiled. All of this is well knowand well documented, but convenientlyoverlooked by politicians in the West. Yetin the end, it is the communists who failed.Now they find themselves on the ash heapof history, not the Russian Orthodox Church.The gates of hell shall not prevail.

If we seek to understand the mind ofthe Russian people, it behooves us to un-derstand a little about Orthodoxy, their heri-tage for a millennium, and quit all of thisidealized, high-brow nonsense. The Russianpeople have already paid the price. Untoldnumbers laid down their lives. The soil ofRussia is dyed the color of red with the bloodof martyrs. What is it to them to endure arm-chair criticism from afar, very likely only somuch water off a duck�s back. Even if BorisYeltsin hadn�t signed the legislation, it is clearthat Orthodoxy would again assert itself asthe guiding spiritual influence. Orthodoxywill become very strong in Russia over thecourse of the next few years. According tothe holy people, it is their destiny.

Daniel MortonSt. Louis

The example of St. Nectarios

Editor,I am writing this letter in view of the

current situations that the church is facingin certain parishes.

Because of its relevance in the prob-lems that are occurring, I would like to ex-press and extol the virtues of our St.Nectarios as an exemplary example of trueChristianity.

We know St. Nectarios through hismiraculous healings. . . but these are merelythe means that our blessed Lord uses sothat we may be more fully aware of his per-fection in contrast to our sins and spirituallimitations.

Although he was a Bishop (with theknowledge and education it encumbers) hewas falsely slandered and banned by thePatriarch of Alexandria. He was povertystricken (because of his excessive charitytowards the poor and needy) shunned andleft with no support whatsoever, yet he re-fused continuously to do anything to coun-teract and destroy the authority of theChurch. Instead he did what all true Chris-tians are committed to do. . . pray for andbless his persecutors.

St. Nectarios emphasized respect forpriests for they are the vessel in the con-version of wine and bread into the Body andBlood of our Lord in the Holy Eucharist andyet he sternly reprimanded anyone wholoved him for himself rather than as a part-ner in their mutual love for Christ. . . therebystopping any cult-like adulation of the �cloth�that is sometimes used for demagoguery.

He was eventually exonerated, not be-cause he showed or did anything that wouldarouse sympathy toward his person, butbecause people became aware of his pastcharitable actions and self denial.

Nectarios aroused pride towards theOrthodox Church and its traditions and byso doing countered any western secularphilosophies that were reaching havoc inboth the Eastern and Western church (com-munism, etc.) at the time.

His sincere and extensive (not feigned)humility made him Our Lord�s willing tool.By becoming the head of the Rizarios Schoolin Athens and devoting his life and prayers toproducing clergy with integrity and trulyblessed with the Holy Spirit, he saved and pre-served the Orthodox Church (and Christian-ity) in Greece through a very tumultuous era.

Jeannette KotsonisWhite Plains, N.Y.

A Faith for All...

A s His All Holiness PatriarchBartholomew completes the last legof his month long visit to the United

States, one can only characterize the visitas an extremely successful one, forthrough his love and foresight he has re-newed our faith in God, reconfirmed theviability of the Greek Orthodox Church ofAmerica, and has shown us once again �through word and deed � the relevanceof Greek Orthodoxy to our lives as weprepare to enter the next century.

When His All Holiness was bestowedwith the Congressional Gold Medal, thefourth religious leader to be given such anhonor, he noted that religion and politicsare not two separate spheres, as Ortho-doxy and democracy have at their core thesame basic principles. �The Orthodox Faithis for all people, and always offered withrespect for difference and freedom; neverwith coercion or threat.... And this is themessage of the United States � a societythat is free and open, respectful and toler-ant of difference,� noted the Patriarch.

Attending an Ecumenical Doxology inWashington DC that included represen-tatives of Orthodox, Episcopalian,Lutheran, Methodist Churches and of theJewish and Moslem faiths, PatriarchBartholomew dispelled the notion thatreligion is invariably a divisive issue, buthighlighted instead that religion, whateverthe denomination, can serve as a bridgeto peace and harmony in the name of God.

And as he traveled across the US,greeting thousands of faithful, PatriarchBartholomew, repeatedly touched upontwo of the most important issues of ourera � human rights and the environment,

indicating once again that Orthodoxy isn�tlimited to the confines of a church, but hasapplication in every aspect of our lives. Inspeech after speech Patriarch Bartholomewemphasized Orthodoxy�s respect for andfreedom of the individual. �Orthodox spiri-tuality,� His All Holiness stated at South-ern Methodist University in Dallas, TX, �as-sures us that Orthodox Christians will al-ways respect the human rights of others. Ifthey do not respect those rights, then theyhave desecrated the image of God that isinherent in all human beings. It is the re-sponsibility of religion to guide personstoward God, that they might seek justiceand love one another.� As for the environ-ment, Patriarch Bartholomew, who hasearned the appellation �Green Patriarch�for his initiatives in protecting the environ-ment, took center stage in a symposiumon �Religion, Science and the Environment� in Santa Barbara, CA. So well known isPatriarch Bartholomew for his dedicationto this issue that President Clinton haspraised the Patriarch as �a man who hasalways stressed the deep obligations inher-ent in God�s gift of the natural world.�

Patriarch Bartholomew in his visit,which was initiated in a period of uneasi-ness for the Greek Orthodox communityand preceded by much speculation, hasrestored calm to our community and putto rest all misgivings that previously ex-isted. He has further shown us that thetenets of Orthodoxy � faith in God, love,compassion, respect � endowed to man-kind almost two millennia ago, are as validtoday as they were then, and if faithfullyadhered to have the power to make this aworld of peace, grace and harmony for all.


Frat . . . or Faith?

The media attention surrounding therecent deaths of two Boston teen-agers hasprompted parents, churches, and schoolofficials to evaluate the manner in whichthey are nurturing and educating their chil-dren. The first news story concerned an 18-year-old college male freshman whose soleambition was to become a member of apopular college fraternity �frat house.� Theinitiation rite included binge drinking. Hedied from an alcohol-induced coma causedby choking on his own vomit.

�Train up a child in the way he shouldgo, and when he is old, he will not departfrom it.� Proverbs 22:6

By Rev. Dr. Frank Marangos

nance, young college students frequentlyseek to familiarize themselves with theirnew-found campus culture . . . a culture thatis secular, anti-Christian and more often thannot, ethically out of control!

As we examine the recent campus lifetragedies, we must likewise take the time toreflect upon our own actions and interests.Are young adults merely pursuing their par-ents� secular ambitions and desires. Whenour children were young, did we model theneed for Christian education and spiritualdevelopment by our own actions. Did weattend catechism and Bible study classeswhen we sent them to Goya meetings andsummer retreats? Did we receive the sacra-ments with them? Or, did we merely carrythem up in our arms, or hold their hand. Didwe teach them, through our own example,how to lead a Eucharistic lifestyle . . . a lifecentered on prayer, repentance and worship?Did we teach them that life is more than hav-ing a good paying job, a three-car garage, andprofessional awards! Did we encourage themto seek spiritual nurture as well as academicexcellence? Did our home life match ourFaith�s liturgical rhythm?

As the Old Testament scriptural versequoted above exhorts, parents should�train up� their children �in the way thatthey should go.� King Solomon, the authorof this proverb, was here not referring toacademic preparation, financial prowess orsocial refinement. More important than allof these secular pursuits is our responsi-bility to train them in the �spiritual Way� aswell! It is indeed significant, however, thatwhen we take a good hard look at our ef-forts, we discover that secular pursuits haveeclipsed the need for spiritual develop-ment. If we as parents truly committed tonurturing our children in a holistic fashion,then we must likewise emphasize the de-velopment of their souls. Proverbs is right!If we train our children to seek the spiritualdevelopment of their souls as well as theirminds and bodies, when they grow old,they �will not depart from it� (the spiritualway). What a wonderful promise! But whatis the essence of this spiritual Way . . . thebackbone of our Orthodox lifestyle?

(to be continued)

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The second news story recounts theunfortunate death of a 16-year-old high-school senior who was so intoxicated thatshe fell down a flight of stairs at a privatehome party. What is more tragic is that whilethe young woman lay bleeding at the bot-tom of the stairs her friends walked overher for more than four hours without offer-ing a hand. They too were drunk!

What makes a college freshman engagein what one commentator described as �in-dustrial strength binge drinking?� Whatmakes a young man or woman allow them-selves to be forced to drink large quanti-ties of alcohol for the purpose of passingout and fitting in? Why is it that young col-legians are more interested in joining fra-ternities and sororities than Greek Ortho-dox Church communities? Why are theyin such a need to enter a �Frat� instead of aFaith House?

These are the questions that respon-sible parents, clergy and school officialsshould be seriously deliberating today . . .for in fact, they disclose a spiritual defect inthe lives of contemporary young adults!Over and over again we hear that collegestudents have not taken the time to discoverthe location of their closest Orthodoxchurch family. Are they unable because oftheir academic pursuits or are they simplyunwilling to attend the Sunday Liturgy andto be sustained by an Orthodox spiritual fam-ily? Instead of searching for spiritual suste-

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The Human Touch of the Heart

By Father George Nicozisin

�Touch� is a very expressive word. Andyet, �touch� is extremely difficult to confineto a single definition. For example, the dic-tionary has over 30 definitions for the word�touch.� What does it mean to �reach outand touch someone?� The New Testamentrelates numerous times when Jesus and theApostles touched someone.

Jesus touched the forehead of Peter�smother-in-law and her fever left her.

Jesus touched the casket of the widow�sson of Nain and the lad came back to life.

Jesus touched the leper and he washealed.

Jesus touched the daughter of Jairus,the synagogue leader, and she was healed.

The woman who had been bleeding forover 18 years merely touched the hem ofthe garment Jesus was wearing and she ex-perienced healing grace.

Jesus touched the multitude of peoplewith whom He came in contact daily.

Was it a touch of comfort? Yes. Was ita touch of solace? Strength? Courage? Un-derstanding? Yes, all of these and muchmore! Every touch of Jesus was uniquelywoven into the fabric of love. Mostly, how-ever, it is what we would call �the humantouch of the heart.�

Conveying affectionTouch can communicate feeling and

convey an affection no words can, no mat-ter how eloquent they may be. A womanreveals to her close friend an anguish withwhich she is struggling. The other stretchesout her hand on her arm and touches her.This single, simple, wordless gesture ex-presses an unexplainable solicitude and anindescribable sympathy.

Which one of us can deny the sooth-ing, therapeutic values of a mother�s lov-ing arms as she drew us close to her? Orthe titanic strength derived from our father,as he picked us up on his shoulders, mak-ing us feel 10 feet tall? And, of course, thatwhich endears us to the waiting father ofthe parable of the Prodigal Son is that whilehis ungracious offspring was still a long wayoff, the old man saw him, ran out to meethim, flung his arms around him, embracedhim and kissed him.

There are many ways the touch of thehuman heart affects us. It touches us whenwe become sensitive to the needs and con-cerns of others. One of the problems plagu-ing our society today is the problem of com-munication. We have conquered distancesand spanned the continents, but in personalrelationships we are, sadly, out of touch�people with people. Races with races andcreeds with creeds.

We have learned a great deal about thegeological makeup of the moon�s surfaceand the atmosphere of Mars, but we areestranged and alienated from each other.

Our fast and feverish pace of life, thepressures and unrelenting competitions weencounter, tempt us to the brink of losingtotal human touch. We become more andmore surrounded by things and become lessand less aware of people as human beingswho laugh, cry, hope and grieve, rejoice andbecome depressed, just as we do.

Although we may not intend it to be soand often are unaware of it, we tend to de-velop an impersonal attitude, an air of de-tachment, an aloofness. Ruminating anddwelling in our own cumbersome problems,we often overlook the human touch of theheart, which is part of our spiritual makeup.

Communications break-downIn the relationship between parents and

children, there is often a break-down in com-munications where we think we have themost right to expect understanding and af-finity. It is the tragedy of many a home

that parents and children are sadly out oftouch. They share the same house but notthe same values; not the same convictions,same interests, ideals and beliefs.

Thornton Wilder�s play �Our Town�drives this point home. Emily, the youngmother dies at childbirth. She is permittedto return to her home in Grover Corner torelive her 12th birthday. The experience isdisillusioning. Her mother and father areso busy with the preparations they over-look the important things. �Oh Mama!�Emily cries out in sheer desperation. �Justfor a moment let�s enjoy each other whilewe can! Let�s be happy! Let�s look at oneanother and appreciate each other!�

A psychiatrist at Mayo Clinic relates inan article how he sits in his office day afterday and listens to bewildered people say,�Doctor, I just can�t reach him.� Or, �I justcan�t get through to her.� �I talk my foolhead off and that child just won�t listen.�What counsel does the good doctor give?�Tell me,� he asks, �when is the last timeyou and your spouse went for a walk andheld hands?� �Has your family ever triedto hold hands around the dinner tablewhen you say grace?� �When was the lasttime you played on the living room floorwith your children?�

�Such questions may sound superfi-cial,� the psychiatrist goes on, �But they arenot. They are designed to crack the shell ofisolation surrounding troubled persons byusing the neglected language of touch.�

How can we cultivate human touch?God utilizes what to us seems a strange wayof guiding and enlightening us. For yearseverything seems to go well. So well thatwe tend to take things for granted: health,home, happiness and the ability to do ourwork with competence and zest. Then,sometimes with appalling suddenness, wefind ourselves in deep waters and sorrowslike sea billows roll. Ah, but the lessonswe learn! In that moment of introspectionour surrounding deepens with the turn ofthe eye. Our imagination quickens with newthought. Our compassion arouses to fullvolume. Suddenly we know what it is liketo be down and out. To have a heart thataches and pains and a soul that is in anguishand torment. To have everything seeminglygo awry. Why? Because we�ve been there.Did that. Presto! The human touch of theheart is acquired.

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Mingles with the Faithful

By Ira Rifkin

BALTIMORE (RNS).-- Last summer, 20-year-old Arieta Roros returned to her na-tive village on the Greek island of Chiosfor a family wedding. As it happened, theEcumenical Patriarch Bartholomew visitedthe island while she was there.

But family obligations came first, andRoros missed her opportunity to see thepatriarch. Thursday (Oct. 23), in her adoptedhometown of Baltimore, Roros had anotherchance. This time, she made the most of it.

With her mother, she snuck into an in-vitation-only, pan-Orthodox worship ser-vice that Bartholomew led at this city�sGreek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annun-ciation.

�What could I do?� said a laughingRoros. �How many opportunities does aGreek girl from Baltimore get to see theleader of our church?�

Roros was one of more than 1,000faithful from a variety of ethnic Orthodoxchurches who packed the cathedral�s mixedByzantine-Romanesque-style sanctuary tosee Bartholomew, who has direct jurisdic-tion over the Greek Orthodox Church andis viewed as the �first among equals� bythe leaders of the 14 other autonomousOrthodox Christian churches.

Bartholomew, 57, made this city of eth-nically flavored neighborhoods his first stopoutside of Washington during his currentmonthlong U.S. visit.

The patriarch�s last stop in Washing-ton was a breakfast meeting with Vice Presi-dent Gore, with whom he shares a concernfor the environment, beforeBartholomew�s motorcade made the hour

Away from the nation�s capital,Bartholomew began in earnest the morepastoral side of his visit, recalling in his re-marks at the cathedral and elsewhere Thurs-day the struggles of those Orthodox immi-grants who established the church in theUnited States more than a century ago.

He called them �simple, hard-working�people who sought only to build better livesfor their families. They brought with them,

BALTIMORE (RNS).-- Baltimore�s wel-come for Ecumenical Patriarch BartholomewI, spiritual leader of the world�s 300 millionOrthodox Christians, began at Interstate 95.As his motorcade arrived from Washingtonon Oct. 23 for an 11-hour visit, he wasgreeted by a billboard: �Welcome to Balti-more, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew,Archbishop of Constantinople and NewRome.�

Bartholomew has direct authority overthe Greek Orthodox Archdiocese inAmerica, as well as Orthodox churches inSouth America, Western Europe, Australia

Patriarch Bartholomew Holds Services, Meets Baltimore Leaders

The Rev. Constantine Monios, dean ofthe Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathe-dral, said the day was the culmination ofseven months of planning.

�That�s all I�ve done for seven months.It�s consumed me,� Monios said. �I havenever been this excited about anything.�

After meeting over breakfast in Wash-ington the morning of the 23rd with VicePresident Al Gore, Bartholomew traveledby motorcade up I-95, past the billboard, tothe Cathedral of the Annunciation at Mary-land and Preston streets, where he con-ducted a Patriarchal Doxology, at 10: 30 a.m.After the doxology, Bartholomew greetedthe people gathered outside from the por-tico of the cathedral.

Bartholomew sat in a bishop�s thronethat was recently refurbished and which iscrowned with a dome that was plated with22-karat gold leaf.

Following the pan-Orthodox doxologyat Annunciation Cathedral, Mayor KurtSchmoke hosted a tribute for PatriarchBartholomew at City Hall during theHierarch�s 11-hour visit in the city.

The Mayor had previously met His AllHoliness at a recent international habitatconference in Istanbul where he representedPresident Clinton.

During his brief stop the Patriarch notedthat Baltimore has been a �historic centerof patriotism, commerce and faith for thepast 200 years� and thanked the Mayor forhis spirit of service.

�We welcome the love of the people ofthis city with all our heart, knowing thatamidst Baltimore�s remarkable human mo-saic, we find the presence and contributionsof Orthodox faithful of every background.�he told the audience in the Ceremonial Room.

He also noted the diversity of the city�s

Orthodox communities, calling them �fullpartners in the tapestry woven from rich, di-verse religious, ethnic and social composites.�

Following his City Hall reception, thePatriarch attended a Humanitarian Relief Or-ganizations reception hosted by the Inter-national Orthodox Christian Charities inanother part of City Hall. At noon, he at-tended a meeting with representatives ofthe Baltimore-based International OrthodoxChristian Charities, a humanitarian aid or-ganization.

The largest public event was a luncheonat the Baltimore Convention Center. There,the more than 2,000 people watched a per-formance by pan-Orthodox dance troupesand listened to an address by the patriarch.

After a break, Bartholomew participatedin a 5 p.m. Service of Prayer and Praise atthe Basilica of the National Shrine of theAssumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Itwas the first time that an ecumenical patri-arch preached at a Roman Catholic churchin the United States.

Bartholomew sat in the chair used byPope John Paul II during his October 1995Camden Yards Mass. It was made for BishopJohn Carroll, who was the first bishop of Bal-timore when it was established as the nation�sfirst Roman Catholic diocese in 1789.

For the patriarch�s visit, a triple-archscreen, similar to the iconostasis that closeoff the sanctuary in Orthodox churches, hadbeen constructed at the front of the basilica�ssanctuary.

�It�s a historic moment, so I think it�snice to have a touch like this,� said CardinalWilliam H. Keeler.

The patriarch attended a 6:30 p.m. re-ception at the Walters Art Gallery and dinedafterward at Keeler�s residence with mem-bers of the Catholic-Orthodox DialogueCommission.

Compiled from a story by John Rivera,a reporter for the Baltimore Sun

drive north to Baltimore.Pomp and politics dominated in Wash-

ington, where Bartholomew met with Presi-dent Clinton, with whom he discussed theenvironment, Greek-Turkish relations andissues of religious freedom. He also re-ceived the Congressional Gold Medal, at-tended a State Department dinner and par-ticipated in official interfaith events withJews, Muslims and Roman Catholics.

he said at a Baltimore Convention Centerluncheon attended by more than 1,700, �thetorch of faith.� The present generation, hesaid, is responsible for renewing that faithand keeping it �pure.�

However, the Rev. Ernest Arambiges,recently retired parish priest of St.Demetrios, one of three Greek Orthodoxchurches in Baltimore, noted the difficul-ties involved in keeping Orthodoxy alive inmodern America.

Many young people, he said, havedrifted away from the church through mar-riage to non-Orthodox partners, becausethey do not speak Greek �the church�sprimary liturgical language� or simply be-cause of the pull of secular society.

Roros, a waitress in a Greek restaurant,underscored his remarks. She said mostyoung people she knows are less attractedto the church than is she. �I�d say I�m muchmore religious than my friends,� Roros said.

Asked why, she responded: �A lotdon�t think it�s important for them.�

Some 50,000 Orthodox Christians �most Greek, but also including Russian,Ukrainian, Syrian, Ethiopian, Serbian andothers � live in Maryland. They worshipin 19 parishes united by theology and wor-ship style, but divided along ethnic lines,as is Orthodoxy worldwide.

In his talks Thursday, Bartholomewcalled for closer cooperation among vari-ous Orthodox groups. As an expression ofthe sort of unity he foresees for Orthodoxy,the patriarch participated in a Baltimore CityHall event designed to draw attention toInternational Orthodox Christian Charities.Headquartered in Baltimore, the organiza-tion was established in 1992 as a pan-Or-thodox humanitarian relief agency.

BALTIMORE HONOR � His All Holiness is escorted up the steps of City Hall by Mayor KurtSchmoke (right).

PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW participates in a prayer service with William Cardinal Keelerin Baltimore�s Basilica of the Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, themother church of the Roman Catholics in the United States. (D. Panagos photos)

and Hong Kong. He is considered the �firstamong equals� among the patriarchs wholead the more than a dozen self-governingOrthodox churches.

�To the Orthodox, to the Greek Ortho-dox especially, he is like the pope,� saidHelen Monopolis, principal of the Greekschool at St. Nicholas Greek OrthodoxChurch in Highlandtown.

MAYOR SCHMOKE talks with PatriarchBartholomew



Three Days Full of Events Mark New York Visitfrom decades of persecution, a new threatto the Orthodox faith has appeared. ManyProtestant missionaries from the Westwhose voices were not heard during thedecades of oppression, have come not tolend support, but to convert Orthodox be-lievers. Orthodox who had suffered for gen-erations had expected the prayers, the sup-port, and the encouragement of their ecu-menical partners. Sadly, they have beentreated like the servant who is tortured byanother servant who was himself treatedwith mercy by his master. The good whichhas been done by some of our partners hasbeen overshadowed by the evil of others.These so called �missionaries� claim to beChristians, but they behave as wolves insheep�s clothing.�

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The Ecumenical Patriarch then enjoyedlunch with religious leaders at the Archdio-cese, followed by a meeting and dinner withOrthodox hierarchs at the ArchdiocesanHoly Trinity Cathedral. A pan-OrthodoxVespers for clergy, clergy families, monksand nuns at the Holy Trinity Cathedral com-pleted the day.

Inspirational MessageLater in the day, the Patriarch met with

hierarchs, monks, priests and their familiesrepresenting many Orthodox jurisdictionsat Holy Trinity Cathedral, and part in a pan-Orthodox vespers.

In his homily, the Patriarch spoke ofthe calling and responsibilities of the priest-hood.

�Being called to serve at the altar, orbeing called to make any special commit-ment to the work of Christ�s Church, is in-deed a high honor and privilege,� the Patri-arch said.

Addressing the presbyteres and chil-dren, His All Holiness said they �share agreat burden in supporting the priestly min-istry of your husbands and fathers, but youalso know great joy. If choosing to serveChrist and His Church brings with it greathonor and reward, it follows that the EvilOne, ever bent on subverting the Ark ofSalvation, will pay special attention to thosewho have accepted this vocation.�

He told the monastics attending theservice that �the contemporary world, at-tracted as it is to hedonism and material-ism, does not understand nor comprehendthe monastic way of life. The materially ori-ented culture pressures us to consider thepriesthood, the ministry of the Church, asjust another occupation or career we are wellaware that times have changed since thedays of Justinian the Great, when to servethe Church as considered a great honor bysociety.�

The Patriarch also urged the clergy topersevere and live out the faith, and to �seek

to transfigure the culture no mater how fu-tile it may seem to you.�

An Event-filled WeekendThe autumn colors that brilliantly paint

the bucolic campus of St. Vladimir�s Semi-nary in Scarsdale, New York, took on evenbrighter hues �even through a steadyrain� when the Ecumenical Patriarch of theworldwide Orthodox Christian Church ar-rived on the campus Saturday.

Greeted by His Beatitude Metropoli-tan Theodosious of the Orthodox Churchof America, His All Holiness con-celebrateda Doxology with Father Thomas Hopko,dean of the Seminary. Ecumenical PatriarchBartholomew was then awarded an honor-ary doctorate of divinity degree by the Semi-nary.

His All Holiness was also presentedwith an icon of St. Innocent containing theSaint�s relics, a certificate of the Order ofSt. Innocent, and a book of his conversa-tions published by St. Vladimir�s Press inhonor of his visit to America. The Ecumeni-cal Patriarch presented a chalice from theMother Church of Constantinople to HisBeatitude.

�The treasure of Orthodoxy is magnifi-cent and unknown by many as to its valueand usage. We pray and we hope that itsvalue will become known in the future tomore and more people,� said His All Holi-ness to the faithful gathered at the Semi-nary who came to greet him.

At St. DemetriosAbout 1,000 faithful�mostly chil-

dren� greeted His All HolinessBartholomew at St. Demetrios Church inJamaica. The Church�s center was filled tothe doors with youth who clapped andcheered with glee throughout a special cel-ebration presented by the children of St.Demetrios Church.

The children greatly delighted His AllHoliness with their fun and endearing skits,poetry readings, dances and songs, the lat-ter of which were written specifically forthe spiritual leader�s visit. The EcumenicalPatriarch smiled, laughed and clapped withjoy at the creative presentations dedicatedto him.

�Do you hear the children sing? Sing-ing the song of Byzantium, it is the music ofthe faithful flock, who honor their Patriarch.When His All Holiness is near, we are apeople without fear, there is a light that startsto glow within our hearts,� sang the chil-dren as His All Holiness arrived at theChurch Center.

Concert of PeaceA glorious evening began as the sun

descended upon New York City at the trulymagnificent Nana Mouskouri Concert ofPeace hosted by the Archons of the Orderof St. Andrew in the vast expanses of theCathedral of St. John the Divine. The con-cert was held in His All Holiness� honor andwas taped by PBS. This special presenta-tion will air on PBS stations on Dec. 4, 7and 11. More than 1,200 people were inattendance at what is the largest cathedralin the western world.

�This gift of music, this expression ofthe creative power with which our Merci-ful Creator has endowed great artists likeNana Mouskouri, is a hymn belonging tothe better angels of our nature,� His AllHoliness said.

�All of you whose hearts respond tothis call for peace, become angels your-selves - messengers of the Ecumenical Pa-triarchate in our shared quest for reconcili-ation. By lending your voices in the cause ofthe Ecumenical Patriarchate, you advancethe cause of peace. For the Great Church of

(Bottom)AT CATHEDRAL � His All Holiness, Archbishop Spyridon, Metropolitansof the Ecumenical Throne, and Orthodox hierarchs of otherjurisdictions, members of SCOBA, at Holy Trinity ArchdiocesanCathedral. During the same meeting, His Eminence Archbishop Spyridonwas acclaimed Chairman of the Standing Conference of OrthodoxBishops in America.

(Below)HIS ALL Holiness responds to the Mayor�s welcoming remarks. Alsoshown, from left, are Archbishop Spyridon of America, ArchbishopIakovos and Metropolitan Gennadios of Buenos Aires.

(Above)HIS ALL HOLINESS is greeted enthusiastically as he proceeds to St.Demetrios Greek Orthodox church in Jamaica, Queens.(Right)WITH U.N. Secretary General Kofi Anan at the United Nations.

(Dimitris Panagos photos)



Christ announces the coming of only onesovereignty � the Kingdom of Heaven, andserves only one sovereign � the Prince ofPeace,� he said.

The evening came to a close with anelegant dinner hosted by the Archons of theOrder of St. Andrew at the Plaza Hotel.

The Divine LiturgyThe innate magnificence of the Divine

Liturgy of St. John Chrysostomos was onlymade more so today when it was con-cel-ebrated by His All Holiness Ecumenical Pa-triarch Bartholomew and more than a dozenbishops and clergy amidst 20,000 faithful atthe Madison Square Garden.

The majestic beauty of the traditional

patriarchal vestments worn by His All Holi-ness was but one of the many delights to thesoul and senses that were experienced by allin attendance at today�s historic service.

�We are shepherds and flocks boundtogether by love. We are Orthodox Chris-tians from the ends of the earth and fromthe far reaches of history,� His All Holinesssaid in his sermon to his flock, adding, �Weare of earth and we are from the heavens.We are the living and those who have fallenasleep. We are the royal priesthood, theHoly Nation, who give thanks, glorify,praise and beseech our God, together withthe Angelic Powers in attendance, becauseGod has saved us and saved all the world.

We embrace all of you: friends and enemies,saints and sinners, friends and strangers, theliving and the dead. For we are united, and,we are all brothers and sisters.� His All Ho-liness commemorated Ecumenical PatriarchDimitrios and the founders, benefactors andfaithful, both clergy and laity, of the GreekOrthodox Archdiocese during the movingservice.

The afternoon brought His All Holinessto the New York City landmark ofRockefeller Center for a luncheon held inhis honor and hosted by the Governor ofNew York, George Pataki, and AlexanderPapamarkou.

Later in the afternoon, a warm fatherlyJim Golding, News Services and Patti

Paxson of Tampa, Fla., contributed to this story.

visit to St. Michael�s Home for the Aged wasa heartwarming delight for His All Holiness,as well as for those beloved senior citizenswho shared the greatly treasured momentswith their spiritual leader.

And as the day drew to a close, thebright lights of Manhattan at night and theevening�s stars lit the way to the New YorkPalace Hotel where Orthodox faithful gath-ered for the first of three national �Livingthe Legacy� patriarchal endowment dinnersthat will be held during His All Holiness�visit to America.

PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW and Mayor Giuliani unveil the street sign designating part ofEast 79th Street as �Patriarch Bartholomew Way.� (D. Panagos photo)

RELIGIOUS LEADERS join for an ecumenical service at the National Council of Churches inNew York. (Peter Christopoulos photo)

PATRIARCH LEADS Divine Liturgy amidst 20,000 faithful at Madison Square Garden.Pictured from left: Fr. Evangelos Kourounis, the Devterevon Tarasios, His EminenceArchbishop Spyridon and former Archbishop Iakovos (D. Panagos photo)

YAL BREAKFAST in honor of His All Holiness at Tavern on the Green. Standing (l. to r.):Demetrios Mamaes, YAL rep. NY; Despina Dinas, YAL coordinator; Maria Andriotis,fundraising; Theodore Germanakos, national district coordinator. Seated with thePatriarch (l. to r.): Fr. George Passias, Archdiocesan chancellor; Metropolitan Ioakim ofChalcedon and Archbishop Spyridon. (P. Tsiolas McHugh photo)

A 500-MEMBER CHOIR assists in the Liturgy at Madison Square Garden. (ETA Press photo)THE PATRIARCH greets performing artist Nana Mouskouri following the �Concert forWorld Peace� in his honor at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. (ETA Press photo)



BOSTON � His All Holiness received awarm reception on a cold day here as a largecrowd greeted him at Logan Airport.

Among them was Massachusetts� Act-ing Gov. Paul Salucci, Mayor ThomasMenino and Bishop Methodios who wel-comed the Ecumenical Patriarch. He ad-dressed the audience.

After the airport ceremony, the Patri-archal motorcade sped to the mayor�s offi-cial residence, the elegant Parkman Houseon Beacon Hill near the State Capitol, for aluncheon that Menino hosted that includedSen. Edward Kennedy who interrupted hisschedule in Washington to meet His AllHoliness in Boston. The two spoke privatelyfor 20 minutes prior to the luncheon.

In the �Athens of America�

By Jim Golding

�We�re deeply honored by his pres-ence,� Sen. Kennedy said of the Patriarchin his remarks during the luncheon. Henoted the �powerful impression His AllHoliness has made� in Washington.

He called Patriarch Bartholomew �anextraodinary man of faith and reconciliationwho has touched the hearts of all Ameri-cans. The Senator also said that thePatriarch�s �leadership, faith and eloquencehas touched the faith of countless people,� and added, �We are especially grateful foryour visit to our city.�

Mayor Menino praised the Patriarch forhis �environmental and quality of life con-cerns.�

Bishop Methodios, said that the Patri-arch came to America to offer �a global vi-sion of hope� and that his presence �is amanifestation of his concern for the poor.�

In his remarks, Patriarch Bartholomewrecalled the significance of the luncheondate, Oct. 28, as the anniversary of �Oxi�day, when the Greek people �spoke a singleword for freedom� and drew a comparisonwith the people of Boston who rose againstoppression during the American Revolution.

His All Holiness observed that this yearmarks the 60th anniversary of Holy CrossSchool of Theology and referred to theschool as �part of the intellectual and spiri-tual life of Boston� through its membershipin the �prestigious consortium of the Bos-ton Theological Institute.�

He also met with the ArmenianCatholicos, Aram I, at St. Stephen�s Arme-nian Apostolic Church located across thestreet from Taxiarchae.

As he ended his remarks and blessedthe gathering, a limousine carrying theCatholicos arrived and the ArmenianChurch leader joined His All Holiness at thepodium. The Armenian Church is part ofthe Oriental Orthodox group of churchesthat are monophysites.

Aram noted that he and the Patriarchhave been friends for years and that Arme-nians and Greeks �are one people of God.�

His All Holiness pledged that theywould �work toward full communion be-tween our Churches.�

The two hierarchs proceeded towardthe Armenian church under an ornatecanopy that resembled clerical vestment sus-pended on four poles. At St. Stephen�s, theyheld a brief meeting and conducted a thanks-giving prayer service.

Honored at libraryOne more venue awaited Patriarch

Bartholomew. An evening at the JFK Librarywhere His All Holiness was honored at aDistinguished Foreign Visitors Dinner spon-sored by the John F. Kennedy Library Foun-dation. He is the first religious leader andonly the second non-head-of-state to receivesuch an honor.

Other honorees have included formerPresident Mikhail Gorbachev and ForeignMinister Eduard A. Shevardnadze of theSoviet Union, King Juan Carlos and QueenSofia of Spain, and African National Con-gress Deputy and now President of SouthAfrica Nelson Mandela, and other leaders.

At a brief ceremony, Library Founda-tion officials presented the Patriarch with abust of President Kennedy in recognitionfor his international role in helping to bringpeace and reconciliation to peoples in East-ern Europe and the Middle East.

Following the presentation, the Patri-arch received a private tour of the library.

Bishop Methodios later remarked that�He is a Profile in Courage,� alluding to thePulitzer Prize winning book by PresidentKennedy.

A black-tie dinner sponsored by theArchons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate fol-

He also called Holy Cross �an institu-tion of national significance for the GreekOrthodox faithful in America that for 60years has produced pious, educated, spiri-tual and faithful priests.�

Patriarch Bartholomew presented a sil-ver encrusted icon of the Theotokos toMayor Menino, who gave a silver Paul Re-vere bowl to the His All Holiness.

Hundreds wait in WatertownLater in the afternoon, the Patriarch trav-

eled to Watertown, northwest of Boston,where the scene in front of TaxiarchaeChurch resembled the Anastasis service onEaster Sunday.

More than 600 persons from manycommunities filled the street in front of the

AT ARRIVAL ceremonies in Boston, Patriarch Bartholomew is greeted by Mayor ThomasMenino and Gov. Paul Sallucci. At left is Archbishop Spyridon. Metropolitan Ioakim ofChalcedon is at right.

A WINDY welcome. Archbishop Spyridon, Patriarch Bartholomew and Bishop Methodiosencounter a brisk wind as they deplane.

THE PATRIARCH receives a bust of President Kennedy at a briefceremony before the dinner.

WITH THE Armenian Catolicos Aram I at St. Stephen�s ArmenianApostolic Church in Watertown.

lowed and was attended by several hundred.The event featured a large-screen vid-

eotaped message by Sen. Kennedy, whoearlier had returned to Washington. TheSenator�s daughter, Courtney, representedthe Kennedy family at the dinner.

Following an introduction by Arch-bishop Spyridon, Patriarch Bartholomewmade a brief statement in which he ap-plauded the courage of President Kennedyand his role in bringing international peace.�President Kennedy gave his life for free-dom,� His All Holiness said.

church They held white candles affixed withthe red plastic cups that are an integral partof Pascha, and which they lit as the Patri-arch stepped outside the church to greetthem.

Children danced traditional Greek folkdances for the Ecumenical Patriarch, cheer-ing and praising him throughout the en-counter. The youth of the Boston Diocesecamp presented him with a camp baseballjacket, which the endearing hierarch mo-mentarily wrapped around his robed shoul-ders in loving acceptance.

In his welcoming remarks, BishopMethodios observed that the �ocean ofcandles that recall the joy we all feel on HolySaturday night. Today is Oct. 28,� he con-tinued, �but for us, it�s Easter. He presentedPatriarch Bartholomew with a jacket embla-zoned with the Boston Diocese Camp logo.

Patriarch Bartholomew, directing hisremarks to the many children and youth inthe audience, told them that �as Americansof Greek descent, you should be proud ofyour Greek Orthodox faith. It is a beautifuladornment to the United States of America.

HIS ALL HOLINESS attends a breakfast inhis honor hosted by Bernard Cardinal Law


MEDFORD, Mass.(RNS).� Addressingmore than 1,600 people gathered on TuftsUniversity�s Ellis Oval athletic field, Ecu-menical Patriarch Bartholomew Wednesday(Oct. 29) offered Orthodox Christian theol-ogy as a way �toward peace in our time andour common future.�

�We have much to contribute to theefforts of teachers, researchers and


Patriarch Offers OrthodoxTheology as Foreign Policy Tool

By Holly J. Lebowitz

policymakers committed to making religiona force for the prevention and resolutionof conflicts that continue to undermine thesecurity of human beings in societies,� saidBartholomew, who arrived Tuesday (Oct.28) for a three-day visit to the Boston area.

Bartholomew�s address to students,faculty and visitors sponsored by the pres-tigious the Fletcher School of Diplomacy atTufts repeated one of the central messageof the spiritual leader�s month-long U.S.visit � Orthodox Christianity, with its morethan 250 million adherents around theworld, must be counted among the majorreligions of the world.

His address, delivered from a large tenton the athletic field, followed a luncheonmeeting with Tuft trustees, faculty andpresident, John DiBiaggio, along with somestudents and community leaders. He wasgiven an honorary doctorate in internationallaw.

The small but active Orthodox studentpopulation turned out to support theirspiritual leader.

�Having a religious figure give his per-spectives and his thoughts on how to con-duct international relations through his re-ligious beliefs will be very interesting,�Estelle Zagaris, an undergraduate interna-tional relations major and co-president ofthe Tufts Orthodox Christian Fellowship,said before the speech.

Later, students said they appreciatedthe patriarch�s message that Orthodox the-ology can address international relationsissues, adding this would be especially trueif Bartholomew�s push for pan-Orthodoxunity comes to fruition.

Christian Orthodoxy is divided intomore than a dozen independent ethnic andnational churches, including Bartholomew�sGreek Orthodox Church and such otherbodies as the Serbian Orthodox Church andthe Russian Orthodox Church.

�We�re hoping that if we get everyonetogether, at least talking, it will soothe someof the tensions in foreign policy,� saidSteven Rountos, who serves with Zagarisas co-president of the Orthodox ChristianFellowship.

�One of the main issues for GreekOrthodoxy deals with peace between na-tions and equality between nations,� saidOdiseas Papadimitriou, a sophomore whotraveled from Brown University in RhodeIsland to meet the patriarch. �That was oneof the main purposes of Jesus.�

Bartholomew offered his theologicalimpetus for foreign policy action as an al-ternative to what he called the �arid intel-lectualism which results in excesses of ra-tionalism and one-dimensional secularism�plaguing both religious scholarship andpolicymaking.

�Debates over multiculturalism withinthe U.S. context, as well as efforts to craftnew constitutions in the multiethnic soci-eties in southeastern Europe would be en-riched by attention to Orthodoxy�s visionof the person,� he said.

Orthodox theology, Bartholomew said,makes the person central. �The human be-ing as an existential reality can only be aperson when he lives in freedom,� he said.

Bartholomew also said that the Ortho-dox �way of life,� which brings faith intoeveryday activities, integrates people andcommunities in a way that demands pro-tection of human rights.

�Specifically, the principles of freedomand relationality make Orthodoxy�s concep-tion of personhood fully compatible withdemocratic norms, regarding individualhuman rights,� he said.

Bartholomew concluded his addresswith a pledge to �pursue what makes forpeace� and to continue to oversee �worksfor global peace and international reconcili-ation.�

BROOKLINE, Mass. � Ecumenical Pa-triarch Bartholomew told faculty and stu-dents at Holy Cross School of Theology onOct. 30 that they must keep intact theChurch�s teachings as handed down by theApostles and seven Ecumenical Councils,during convocation ceremonies where hewas awarded an honorary Doctor of Divin-ity degree.

Holy Cross Awards PatriarchBartholomew Honorary Degree

By Jim Golding

The Ecumenical Patriarch delivered amajor address on Church teachings titled�Pure Orthodoxy: A Question for theTimes,� in which he spoke on trends andissues facing the Church.

He said that Orthodoxy is a lived truthor dogma and that the deeds of OrthodoxChristians reveal �the careful observationwhich is the content of our faith.�

The Patriarch cited examples of how theChurch manifests right worship such as theway chanting is done in various churches,saying that it �reveals eloquently if the faith-ful give a greater significance to contritionor to aesthetic enjoyment.� On how ico-nography is presented, he said that it �re-veals if greater importance is given to thenatural light, or to the uncreated light, whichillumines the Saints from within.�

In a third example, he said that the con-figuration of seats in churches and whetherit �manifests our right worship, or our ex-cessive concern with comfort.�

Discussing the basic teachings of theFaith, His All Holiness said that the Churchreveals correct dogma �through the HolySpirit in order to teach the correct life andgive peace to troubled souls.�

He said that Orthodox Christians livingin the United States, with its various reli-gions, �constantly see various ways of liv-ing and are in danger of being beguiledby�them, without examining if their way oflife is consonant with the Orthodox Faith.�

The Patriarch expressed his concernabout secularization creeping into churchpractices and that �general Orthodox dog-matic positions and understandings are, insome cases, replaced with Protestant andRoman Catholic ones.

Warning of applying secular thoughtto Orthodoxy, he said that �many of the oldand new Orthodox, who with zeal are deep-ening their understanding and living of theOrthodox Truth, are stressing different ex-isting deviations from correct Orthodoxlives,� and they emphasize �a continuallyexpanding tendency of secularization� anda tendency �of judging ecclesiastical subjects

and problems by worldly criteria, with a de-basement of the ecclesiastical criteria.�

Patriarch Bartholomew also discussedthe quality of translations of ecclesiasticaland liturgical texts into English, calling manyof them �inferior� and noted that they mayintroduce the �wrong beliefs and even he-retical notions into Orthodox worship.�

He acknowledged the extreme difficultyof translating sacred texts and hymnology intoanother language and said that, beyond �thebest knowledge of both languages,� a holylife on the part of the translator is required.

�Only then does the translator enterinto the depths of divine meanings and isable to convey them faithfully into anotherlanguage,� the Patriarch said, citing the ex-amples of St. John Chrysostom and Sts. Cyriland Methodios. �Many of these saints trans-lated into new languages untranslated eccle-siastical definitions and, thus, enriched theselanguages with thousands of new foreignwords from the Greek language.�

He also said that plain language shouldnot be substituted for ecclesiastical languagebecause �it brings us down once again tothe earth.� He said the real problem is notknowing the faith.

�Many will say that the meanings of theprayers, the troparia, the readings and therest of the liturgical texts must be under-stood,� said Patriarch Bartholomew. �In prin-ciple, this is correct, but that which hindersunderstanding is not so much the form ofthe language, as much as it is the lack offamiliarity on the part of the hearers withthe lofty meanings of our faith. Not a singletext is comprehensible without familiarity bythe reader and the hearer of its content.�He said that the clergy and faithful can ac-complish this understanding throughpreaching, study and similar means.

On the issue of accepting converts tothe faith, the Patriarch said they should notbe made to follow local traditions of theparticular Orthodox ethnic community theymay join. �Whatever traditions do not re-late to Orthodoxy, but to other parts of life,ought not to be imposed on the newcom-ers as a so-called part of Orthodoxy.�

He also said that professors and stu-dents of Holy Cross have a great responsi-bility for ensuring the correct Orthodoxteachings and �to remove every inimical andworldly effect from our Orthodox faith�

Prior to the convocation, His All Holi-ness attended a farewell breakfast with Dio-cese clergy and their families at the Cathe-dral Center, followed by a doxology at HolyCross Chapel.

AN HONORARY degree in international law is bestowed to His All Holiness by the presidentof Tufts University, Dr. John DiBiaggio, at Ellis Oval athletic field. (D. Panagos photo)

HIS ALL HOLINESS, the Patriarchal party and Boston Diocese clergy and their familiesfollowing a doxology at Holy Cross chapel. (D. Panagos photo)

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ATLANTA � Arriving in early eveningfrom Boston on Oct. 30, His All Holinessreceived a generous dose of Southern hos-pitality at Annunciation Cathedral where hecelebrated a thanksgiving doxology.

Atlanta Gives Ecumenical Patriarch Enthusiastic Welcome

By Jim Golding

An honor guard and dozens of childrenin ethnic dress flanked the driveway lead-ing to the main entrance of one of the new-est, most beautiful churches of the Archdio-cese.

Hundreds of adults also stood outsidethe building to greet His All Holiness whilea brass band played �Ti Ypermaho,� as thePatriarch and his entourage ascended thesmall hill leading to the cathedral.

Inside, a standing-room-only crowd ofmore than 600 persons watched reverentlyas the Patriarch, other hierarchs and nearly50 Diocese clergy proceeded to the front ofthe iconostasis.

After the 30-minute doxology, AtlantaDiocese President Dr. John Skandalakis andBishop Alexios offered welcoming remarks.

Archbishop Spyridon then introducedHis All Holiness.

Patriarch Bartholomew spoke at lengthin English, then in Greek, lauding the Atlantacommunity for its accomplishments, which�have been an integral part of the Church�sprogress.� He said the parishioners were the�inheritors of the rich legacy� that the firstimmigrants established through theirstruggles early this century, and also were�continuing the legacy of the Apostles.�

The spiritual leader of 300 million Or-thodox Christians also declared a strongpastoral message about the Church�s mis-sion. �We are the apostles of the Apostles,an unbroken line going back to Christ,� thePatriarch said, exhorting the faithful �to putGod first, then ourselves in relation to Him;never ourselves, but Christ in ourselves.�

The Patriarch also warned of falling preyto the attractions of the contemporary world.�It is easy to make the mistake of looking toour own genius, rather than the Lord�struth,� he said.

He also called upon the faithful to helpOrthodoxy become the faith of the 21st cen-tury.

Later that evening, he attended the 60th

anniversary banquet of the NationalPhiloptochos, attended by more than 1,000persons.

National President Mimi Skandalakispresented a check for $150,000 to the Ecu-menical Patriarchate, representing moniesraised by Philoptochos chapters throughoutthe nation.

A day of good willThe next morning, His All Holiness

started the day at a breakfast sponsored byFulton County Commission Chairman MitchJ. Skandalakis at the Georgian Club, attendedby business and civic leaders and other dis-tinguished citizens.

Mr. Skandalakis, in his welcoming re-marks, told the Patriarch, �Your impact onme has been dramatic and permanent� andthat he and his wife are passing on the faithto their children.

Archbishop Spyridon, who introducedthe Patriarch, said His All Holiness �cameto Atlanta in order to make his pilgrimageto America more complete.�

Patriarch Bartholomew, recognizing thecity�s role in raising the nation�s conscious-ness for social change, spoke of two menfrom Atlanta who greatly influenced society� the Rev. Martin Luther King and formerPresident Jimmy Carter. He described Carteras �a powerful, spiritual force for reconcilia-tion and said of King that he �changed thecourse of the nation�s understanding of so-cial justice.�

Honoring Martin Luther KingPatriarch Bartholomew took the historic

step of becoming the first head of a majorfaith to visit the Martin Luther King Centerfor Social Change, a two-block complex ad-jacent to the Ebenezer Baptist Church neardowntown Atlanta, where Dr. King servedas pastor during the early days of the CivilRights Movement during the 1950s.

His All Holiness was greeted by the slaincivil rights leader�s widow, Coretta ScottKing at her husband�s memorial.

At a brief ceremony, she said that Kingwas �deeply moved by the support he re-ceived from Archbishop Iakovos in the CivilRights Movement,� and also praised the�continued support of the Greek OrthodoxChurch.�

Mrs. King thanked PatriarchBartholomew for his leadership and in �pro-viding a voice of greater understanding forunconditional love of all peoples and reli-gions.�

She added, �in a spirit of pride and in-terfaith unity, I pray your visit will deepenour spiritual unity.�

The Patriarch, said that �as an apostleof peace, I came to pay tribute to anotherapostle of peace.� He also said that, whileDr. King�s dream has �not yet been fullyrealized I pray that the work of your noblehusband will continue in this center.�

His All Holiness, escorted by Mrs. King,then proceeded to the nearby tomb of Dr.King in the midst of a long reflecting poolwhere he placed a wreath.

War, religion has been seen to be in conflictwith the hallmark of modernity, which issecularism. Secularism is seen as being theonly fair way of not imposing religion uponpeople against their will, and yet,secularism�s emptiness leaves the culturedesiring a moral direction.�

He said that, Orthodoxy is not automati-cally opposed to modernity, but the Churchmaintains the memory of Christ�s �simpleand yet profound message unchanged� andoffers this message �to a world in search ofa moral compass.�

Dr. Skandalakis, the Chris Carlos Dis-tinguished Professor at the school, and

The director of the Centers for SurgicalAnatomy and Technique served as masterof ceremonies.

One of the speakers was Dr. EvangelinePapageorge, professor emeritus at Emory�sSchool of Medicine, who graduated in 1928and served on the faculty for 46 years.

Olympic Park CeremonyAn ecumenical prayer service for peace

drew about 400 persons at the CentennialOlympic Park in downtown Atlanta, whichserved as the focal point of the 1996 Sum-mer Olympics.

His All Holiness and ArchbishopSpyridon were joined by clergy from otherChristian groups, including Roman Catho-lic, Episcopal, and African Methodist-Epis-copal churches in praying for peace.

Other participants included GeorgiaGov. Zell Miller, Mayor Bill Campbell of At-lanta and Bishop Alexios.

The hour-and-a-half event included a�Dance for Peace� by the Woodward Acad-emy Dance Ensemble, combined children�schoirs from Annunciation Cathedral andBeaver Ridge Elementary School, and theClark Atlanta University Philharmonic Soci-ety and Cascade United Methodist ChurchChancel Choir.

The Philharmonic Society and ChancelChoir ended the program with an inspiringrendition of the Battle Hymn of the Repub-lic, which brought the entire audience to itsfeet.

His All Holiness stressed the theme ofpeace in his address to the assembly. �TheOlympic games of ancient Greece were win-dows of peace in a fractious society,� thePatriarch said. �The Olympic games of themodern era point us toward the idea ofpeace, and, yet, we find ourselves not whollyat peace when the games occur.�

The Patriarch said that men of peacehave endured derision and scorn, evendeath, but persevered in expressing theirvision of peace and that evil prevents hu-mans from attaining peace.

�Evil conspires to tempt men andwomen to rebel against the Truth they knowand feel within their hearts. Evil tempts frailhuman senses to replace the image of Godwith the image of vain human glories. Evil�svanities cannot abide peace, for in peace,the promise of union with God is fully real-ized by humankind, he said.�

His All Holiness pointed to the exampleof Dr. Martin Luther King who dreamed thatmen and women would live together in peace.�He ran the race, fighting the righteous battle,struggling on an Olympian scale with the forcesof darkness and evil. He is a martyr to thecause of peace, to ideals that Christ Himselftaught to one who preached His word.�

The Patriarch also called upon his au-dience to speak at all times for peace and�to manifest Christ�s blessing that He leftwith us.�

As the program ended, the hundredsof persons attending the event lined up togreet him as he exited the park.

A Diocesan banquet attended by sev-eral hundred at the Ritz Carlton hotel con-cluded the day for His All Holiness.

Honored at Emory UniversityAfter a brief visit to the Atlanta Diocese

offices, His All Holiness attended a luncheonin his honor at Emory University, one of thenation�s leading private universities, foundedmore than 100 years ago by the Methodists.

At the luncheon, Dr. William M. Chace,Emory�s president, gave PatriarchBartholomew the �President�s Medal� for hisefforts to nurture greater spiritual unityamong people.

In his address, His All Holiness said thatmodern society often portrays the impor-tance of spiritual values and faith as mar-ginal in comparison to advancements in sci-ence, but the effect on society has beendetrimental.

�Contemporary society has searchedfor a moral compass everywhere, too oftenignoring religious traditions,� the Patriarchsaid. �Especially since the Second World

WARM RECEPTION � The Patriarch received a warm welcome upon his arrival in Atlanta.Archbishop Spyridon and Bishop Alexios are at right. (D. Panagos photo)

TOUCH OF GREECE � Hundreds of childrengreet His All Holiness as he entersAnnunciation Cathedral in Atlanta.

(D.Panagos photos)

A fatherly blessing with a kiss.



Patriarch Bartholomew Visits Vibrant Orthodox Chicago DioceseGray skies hovering over the windy city

failed to damper the elated spirit of hundredswho gathered at Chicago�s Midway airportto greet His All Holiness Ecumenical Patri-arch Bartholomew and the Patriarchal partyupon their arrival on Saturday, November 1.

by Eleni Daniels

The Ecumenical Patriarch�s 3-day visitto Chicago included nearly a dozen publicand private events before continuing on toDes Moines, Iowa and Dallas, Texas onNovember 4.

An official welcome of His All Holinesswas led by His Grace Bishop Iakovos, whoserved as general chairman of the visit com-mittee, and Fr. Demetri C. Kantzavelos,chancellor of the Chicago Diocese. Diplo-mats, clergy, archons, philoptochos, civicleaders, parishioners and students from theSocrates School of the Holy Trinity were alsopresent.

�This is so exciting, it is such an honorto meet him,� said Julie Fudukos, 13 of Chi-cago. �His visit here will affect the future.He�s trying to promote peace in the world.�

Among them was Mr. Andrew Athens,President of SAE; Bishop Nicholas ofAmissos of the Carpatho-Russian OrthodoxChurch of America; Bishop Vsevolod of theUkrainian Orthodox Church of America andthe Greek Consul General of Chicago Nicho-las Zaphiropoulos.

Mayor Richard M. Daley of Chicago is-sued a welcome statement saying His All Ho-liness is the spiritual leader of some ofChicago�s most dynamic communities, includ-ing Greeks, Ukrainians, Serbians and Russiansof the Orthodox faith. �It is a great privilegefor the people of Chicago to welcome His AllHoliness to our city,� Daley added.

The diocese of Chicago is comprisedof parishes in the States of Illinois, Wiscon-sin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri (except Kan-sas City), and several parishes in Indiana.

Chicago has the largest concentrationof Orthodox Christians in America, with anestimated 500,000 Albanian, Antiochian,Carpatho-Russian, Greek, Romanian,Serbian, Ukrainian and other jurisdictions�faithful.

Doxology and Prayer ServiceImmediately following, Patriarch

Bartholomew led a Doxology and Prayerservice at the Annunciation Cathedral inChicago where more than 500 parishionersanxiously awaited his arrival.

His All Holiness was initially greeted bytwo youths, a boy and a girl, at the steps ofthe Church and welcomed him with flow-ers and greetings in French and Greek.Young children in traditional Greek costumeshowered His All Holiness with rose petalsas he ascended the steps to the Cathedral.

Parishioners were visibly moved by thePatriarch�s presence as tears welled theireyes and filled their hearts with joy as heproceeded to the nave of the Church.

National Pan-Orthodox Youthand Young Adult Festival

A youth rally extravaganza took placeall day at the Navy Pier on November 1. Thefestival was presented by Chicago person-alities, Danae Alexander, radio DJ, and LouCanellis, sports reporter/anchor.

Featured performers were JimmySantis, an Orthodox Christian recording art-ist from New York City, and Andrew An-thony, Orthodox Christian songwriter, re-cording and performing artist from Nash-ville, TN. Live music and dance perfor-mances from various Greek, Serbian andRomanian dance troupes filled the stage.

Later in the afternoon, His All Holinessjoined more than 6,000 children, teenagersand their families who came from Illinois,

Wisconsin and Indiana to be at this festivalat the Navy Pier. Here he led a Doxology ofThanksgiving and Prayer service and gave aPatriarchal address to the youth.

�You will represent not an archaic cus-

highlight of the evening was the momentHis All Holiness accepted the children�s in-vitation and joined them in a storytellingcircle for a truly family event.

Ladies Philoptochos65th Anniversary Breakfast

Monday morning, November 3, theChicago diocese held a breakfast for thePhiloptochos at St. Andrew Greek Ortho-dox Church where His All Holiness led anArtoclasia for the society members.

Hosted by the Diocesan Philoptochos,comprised of 22 chapters, the breakfastcommemorated the 65th anniversary of thePhiloptochos Society. Presenting the eventwas Allison Rosati, news anchor of and Su-san Regos, president of the Chicago diocesePhiloptochos.

�We hope to continue to support ourChurch, our faith, our Patriarchate and con-tinue to serve humankind - the needy andthe poor - for which we were formed,� saidRegos. �The ladies are here with love, respect,humility and dedication to have the opportu-nity to meet His All Holiness. It is indeed aprivilege to have him with us today.�

Honored guests included Mrs. LynneZaphiropoulos, wife of the Greek ConsulGeneral of Chicago, Mrs. Despina Nicho-las, president, Diocese of DetroitPhiloptochos, Mrs. Beatrice Marks, honor-ary national president of Philoptochos,among others.

With philanthropy invariably in mind,the table centerpieces were donated by thechapters and the food-filled baskets wereto be distributed after the breakfast to theneedy throughout the city by the GreaterChicago Food Depository.

Next, His All Holiness visited the adja-cent Hollywood House at the Hellenic Foun-dation where he was greeted by the Presi-dent of the Hellenic Foundation, MichaelChioros, and fellow board members andmany of the residents.

At 12 noon a Civic Leaders Luncheonwas held in honor of His All Holiness hostedby the Mayor of Chicago Richard J. Daley atthe Four Seasons Hotel.

�People of every background and beliefare blessed by you and your visit,� Daley said.�The Church is a sacred centerpiece of oursociety. Spiritual values are the foundationof strong cities and strong communities.�

Mayor Daley presented His All Holinesswith a proclamation from the City Councildeclaring November 1, 1997 as PatriarchBartholomew Day in Chicago. Similar proc-lamations were presented by representativesfor Governor James Edgar of the State of Il-linois and for Senate President and StateSenator James (Pate) Philip.

In the late afternoon, His All Holinessattended a Religious Leaders Reception atthe Diocese House where more than fiftyreligious leaders from the area came to greethim. Some of the many religious leaderswho attended were: Archbishop FrancisGeorge, Roman Catholic Archdiocese ofChicago; Rabbi Michael Balinsky, Presidentof Chicago Board of Rabbis; Bishop KennethOlsen, Bishop of Chicago, EvangelicalLutheran Church of America; Bishop Job,Chicago Diocese Orthodox Church inAmerica; Rohinton M. Rivetna, Zoro Astrian;Bishop Nicholas of Amissos, Carpatho-Rus-sian Orthodox Greek Catholic Diocese ofAmerica, and Bishop Vsevolod of Scopelos,Ukrainian Orthodox Church of America.

The day ended with Vespers, a warmreception and dinner for PatriarchBartholomew and hundreds of clergy andpresvyteres of the Greek Orthodox Archdio-cese held at SS. Constantine and HelenChurch in Palos Hills. The event was spon-sored by the Archdiocesan Presbyters Coun-cil and the National Sisterhood ofPresvyteres.

tom and belief, but the living reality of Godin the world, he said. �We look at you andare assured that modernity is not godless,but rather, we see that God has planted theancient truth in your modern hearts andsouls. Guard this deposit of faith.�

His outspoken concern for the environ-ment was evident once again as he blessed

over 2,500 pine saplings that had been laidout in front of the stage. Young childrenjoined him on stage as singer Andrew An-thony debuted a new song, The Life GivingTree, composed in honor of this event. HisAll Holiness distributed the saplings to thechildren as a reminder of our dire need tonurture, love and care for our Orthodox faithand our environment.

At day�s end, members of Leadership100 and the Order of St. Andrew hosted areception and �Living the Legacy� dinner atthe Palmer House Hilton and Towers. Mas-ter of Ceremonies was Fr. Demetri C.Kantzavelos, chancellor of the Chicago Dio-cese. The gala dinner featured mezzo-so-prano Eleni Matos of Corpus Christi, Texas.

Pan-Orthodox EcumenicalPatriarchal Divine Liturgy

Another highlight of the Chicago visitincluded an Ecumenical Patriarchal DivineLiturgy (one of only four on the tour) also atNavy Pier, on Sunday, November 2.

More than 12,000 Orthodox faithful fromthe Midwest attended this once in a lifetimehistoric Divine Liturgy and Artoclasia celebrat-ing the 75th anniversary of the Greek Ortho-dox Archdiocese in America. And a day which

marked the celebration of the sixth anniver-sary of His All Holiness� November 2, 1991enthronement as Ecumenical Patriarch.

His All Holiness traveled on a charteredtour boat, a short trip down the Chicagoriver, to the Navy Pier as hundreds of bish-ops, priests and altar boys awaited his ar-rival at dockside. Hundreds more parishio-

ners were standing along the entrancewayand along the huge hall area to catch aglimpse and take a photo of the EcumenicalPatriarch.

At the end of the liturgy, His All Holi-ness addressed the faithful in both Greek andEnglish, with a special message to the youth.

�Go to the church. Go to your priests.Talk with your parents. Pray regularly. Don�tforget that our faith is alive. Our message isstrong. Our truth is universal,� he said.

An impressive 30� round stained glasswith the seal of the Ecumenical Patriarchatewas given to His All Holiness upon the com-memoration of his sixth anniversary as Ecu-menical Patriarch.

In the evening, more than 2,500 peopleattended the Pan-Orthodox Family �Dinnerfor the Faithful,� held in honor of His AllHoliness at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers.The Master of Ceremonies was journalistBill Kurtis and featured Greek-Americanwriter and storyteller Jane Fontana of Chi-cago and a group of five boys and girls. The

CHICAGO WELCOMES HIS ALL HOLINESS with a Navy Salute as he makes his way to acheering crowd of Orthodox faithful. Pictured alongside him is His Eminence ArchbishopSpyridon, His Grace Bishop Iakovos, and Chicago Diocese Chancellor Fr. Demetri C.Kantzavelos. (D. Panagos photos)

CONCERN FOR THE ENVIRONMENT is paramount as His All Holiness distributes pine saplingsto the children at the Pan-Orthodox Youth and Young Adult Festival at Navy Pier.



DALLAS � Some small town airports canaccommodate big jets, others cannot.

The pilot of the privately leased Boeing727 flying the Patriarchal party to Dallas sched-uled to arrive at Addison Municipal Airport,about 15 miles north of Dallas on Nov. 4 at4:30 p.m. apparently had second thoughtsabout landing at this suburban airfield.

Patriarch Receives Friendly Texas Welcome in Dallas

By Jim Golding

Already more than an hour behindschedule, he flew on to Dallas� Love Fieldnorth of downtown, the large commercialairport less than five minutes by air fromAddison, but half an hour by car.

Other church leaders attending in-cluded Bishop Charles V. Grahmann of theCatholic Diocese of Dallas.

In his homily, the Patriarch told thecongregation they were �commissioned tocarry on the work of the apostles� over thewide-spread DenverDiocese and to �pre-serve the traditionsand faith of our fore-fathers.�

He also praisedthe work of Arch-bishop Spyridon,whom he called �ayoung archbishopwith much zeal andlove to bring and ad-vance the Orthodoxfaith in America.�

His All Holinessdrew a comparisonbetween the cities ofConstantinople andDallas, recalling thecatastrophe andtrauma both havesuffered; the formerfor the persecutionsuffered by Chris-tians over the centu-ries, the latter overthe assassination ofPresident Kennedy,whom he called �avictim of the sameterrrorism, violenceand hate that plagues the world today.� Onthe following day, the Patriarch altered hisschedule at one point to lay a wreath in avery moving ceremony at the memorial hon-oring the slain president near the site of hisassassination at Dealy Plaza.

After the vespers, PatriarchBartholomew, although behind schedule,devoted his entire allotted time to meet withthe youth of Dallas, and those who traveledgreat distances from other parishes in theDiocese.

In his pastoral message, he urged themto take part in the Mysteries of the Churchand to carry on its legacy. �Living in a sinfulworld, we have many distractions and ob-stacles that block our path toward Christ,�the Patriarch said. �By living a �good� and�moral� life without participating in theMysteries of the Church, is to fall short ofthe prize of our high calling in Christ Jesus.�

Spends more time with childrenA brief question-and-answer session

followed with the dozens of children in at-tendance.

The Patriarch responded with a good-natured smile to a question on what he doesin his spare time with �You should ask me ifI have any free time� and proceeded to ex-plain his busy daily schedule that includesprayer services and many audiences with visi-tors. �I like communicating person to personwith my spiritual children,� he replied.

Another child asked a question that hasbeen uttered by many an adult - if the Churchwill ever be united.�Yes,� His All Holiness quickly answered.�It is already united. We have the same faith,and the same sacraments, although we be-long to different national backgrounds, anddifferent traditions brought to America, butthese are secondary things. The most sub-stantial issue is that we have and confessthe same faith.�

After distributing crosses to the chil-dren, The Patriarch attended a dinner in hishonor hosted by Mayor Ron Kirk at the Dal-las Museum of Art.

In his brief address at the dinner, thePatriarch commented on the splendor of the

Museum and expressed his joy that the re-cent exhibit of �The Glory of Byzantium� inNew York and the current �Treasures ofMount Athos� in Thessaloniki have broughtOrthodox Christianity to Western eyes. �Andwith even greater joy in our hearts,� the Pa-

triarch added, �wenote that the so-called �Museums ofAtheism� in theformer communistcountries are beingtransformed onceagain, returning totheir intended pur-pose and mission �of being Churchesraised up to theglory of God.�

Celebrates�Thanksgiving�

The nextmorning, Nov. 5,the Patriarch tookpart in an ecumeni-cal ceremony at�Thanks -G iv ingSquare,� a 3.5-acresite in downtownDallas whichopened in 1977 asa multi-culturalshrine and researchcenter for the prayerand thanksgivingtradition in America.

The ceremony included children�sgroups from the Dallas Islamic Academy,First Baptist Academy, Holy Trinity GreekOrthodox Church School who sang for HisAll Holiness, along with a Buddhist flutist, amember of the Sikh community playing atambouri from India, and a brass ensemblefrom the Salvation Army.

Other faiths and denominations repre-sented included Zoroastrians, Roman Catho-lics, Episcopalians, Hindus, Baptists, Meth-odists, saffron-robed Hare Krishnas andJains.

About 100 persons attended the event.Monsigneur Milam Joseph, president of

the University of Dallas, a private RomanCatholic institution, presented His All Holi-ness with an International Catholic BibleCommentary on Holy Scripture, which wasthe result of work by Catholic, Protestantand Orthodox theologians. PatriarchBartholomew presented him with a book onConstantinople.

The Patriarch told the audience of morethan 100 that Orthodox theology expressesthanksgiving through the Eucharist, and that�if we express loving gratitude to him, evenunder oppression, then we demonstrate thatwe are children of God.�

Honorary doctorateIn the afternoon, His All Holiness re-

ceived an honorary Doctor of Divinity de-gree from Southern Methodist University, aprestigious private institution especiallynoted for its theological, law and businessschools.

In his comments, President Dr. R.Gerald Turner said that SMU conferred thedegree �in recognition of His All Holiness�contributions toward peace and reconcilia-tion � and for �challenging the modern worldto apply new found knowledge with an an-cient faith.�

Accepting the honor, PatriarchBartholomew spoke of the Orthodox per-spective on spirituality and human rights,and gave a brief historical background onthe Ecumenical Patriarchate and the author-ity it derives from Apostolic succession origi-nating with Jesus Christ.

On the Church�s role in the modernworld, the Patriarch noted that �the Chris-tian message of love has been marginalizedby the rise of modernity in a post-enlight-enment world. Often, the message of loveis seen as simplistic, too naïve to matter ina complex, secular society�Human rights areseen as an outgrowth of individual rights,rights that have been described in increas-ingly secular terms since the enlighten-ment.�

He said that, while secular Americanculture �allows that human rights are God-given,� man�s relationship with God alwaysis seen as personal and private, with no pub-lic sign.

The Patriarch said �faith in God, faith inHis iconic presence within humanity is thesource and guarantee of freedom. There canbe no true freedom without faith in God.�

He continued, �Orthodox spiritualityassures us that Orthodox Christians will al-ways respect the human rights of others. Ifthey do not respect those rights, then theyhave desecrated the image of God that isinherent in all human beings.�

Prior to the degree ceremony, His AllHoliness had met with about 60 OrthodoxChristian students attending SMU andtoured the Bridwell Library of SMU�s theol-ogy school that contains many historic reli-gious volumes.

A great impressionThe Patriarch�s full day in Dallas ended

with a Diocesan banquet that evening.During his address to the faithful, His

All Holiness praised the work of BishopIsaiah in the Diocese and the Dallas com-munity for its dedication to the faith.

�It brings great fatherly joy to our heartand soul, to hear about all the wonderfulprograms the Denver Diocese has imple-mented for her faithful,� he said. �Since ourarrival here�we have seen, in very personwe have encountered, the profound dedi-cation and love of our Orthodox Church.The people of this wonderful Diocese havea great sense of enthusiasm and motivation,not unlike those who originally settled thevast lands of this Diocese more than a cen-tury ago.�

A sampling of Greek Orthodox Texansat the banquet underscored the strong posi-tive effect the Patriarch�s visit has had onthe faithful here.

Dr. George Bithas, local chairman of thePatriarch Visit, noted that, �for Orthodoxyand its impact on the non-Orthodox popu-lation in the area, His All Holiness� visit hasprovided them an all-too-brief glimpse of theliving tradition of the Orthodox Church.�

�He is so warm and humble,� said KrisAnn Vogelpohl of Galveston, who said thatthe Patriarch�s visit to the sign-languagechoir elementary students was one espe-cially poignant memory that she takes awayfrom the visit.

Arnie Kime of Fort Worth said, �Wewish him the very best in his endeavors. Ithas been a pleasure being in his presence.�

�We wouldn�t have missed it for theworld, it�s a once-in-a-lifetime experience,�said Constance Plomarity, a young adultfrom Corpus Christi, who flew to Dallas withher family to see the Patriarch.

�When we first heard �Dallas� (as a stopon the Patriarch�s itinerary) we were a littlebit afraid,� said Lynn Livanos, a young adultand parish council member at Holy TrinityChurch who directed local public relationsefforts for the visit. �We were honored, butwe wanted to do things right.� She summedup the Dallas committee�s planning efforts,saying that �after months and months ofexhaustive planning, the events of the pastfew days have been awe-inspiring. It provesthat when we work together with God�sgrace we can accomplish anything.�

Unfortunately, more than 100 dignitar-ies and Orthodox faithful, including BishopIsaiah of Denver, Archbishop Dimitri of theOCA Archdiocese of the Midwest, alongwith vehicles for the motorcade, the sign-language choir from Stonewall Jackson El-ementary School, and Holy Trinity Schoolchildren waited at the municipal airfield asdarkness fell.

But from such an awkward beginning,the visit of Ecumenical PatriarchBartholomew turned into a resilient success.

Hundreds of faithful and guests waitedpatiently at Dallas� new Holy Trinity Churchcomplex on the north side of the city as thePatriarch continued his entire program forthe evening, which created a highly favor-able impression among many in the con-gregation at the pan Orthodox vespers.

Shortly after arriving in the motorcadethat rushed from Addison to Love Field toretrieve him, he made a welcoming state-ment at the Arthur Sarris Community Cen-ter and joked about the arrival incident. �Wethought it was obvious that your Patriarchcould only land at �Love Field� to bring youthe love of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.�

As for the children of the sign-languagechoir who were disappointed at not beingable to perform for the Patriarch, their dis-couragement turned to surprise and joywhen, the following day, His All Holinessmade a spontaneous unscheduled stop attheir school to greet them.

Pan Orthodox VespersAt the Tuesday night vespers, Patriarch

Bartholomew was joined by more than 60priests of the Denver Diocese, ArchbishopDimitri, and Bishop Basil of the AntiochianOrthodox Church.

A MOMENT of silence at the spot wherePresident J.F.Kennedy was assasinated.

(D.Panagos photos)

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Ðñïóöéëåßò ïìïãåíåßò, ôÝêíá åíÊõñßù áãáðçôÜ,

Ç åðïðïéÀá ôïõ �40, ðïõ ãéïñôÜæåéç ÏìïãÝíåéá óôéò 28 Ïêôùâñßïõ ìáæßìå ôïõò áðáíôá÷ïý ôçò ãÞò Åëëçíåò,Ý÷åé áíåêôßìçôç êáé äéçíåêÞ áîßá ü÷éôüóï äéüôé õðÞñîå ìéÜ ðåñßëáìðñçåèíéêÞ íßêç, üóï äéüôé äéáôñáíþíåé ôéòðíåõìáôéêÝò åêåßíåò áñ÷Ýò ðïõ Ý÷åéáíÜãêç ï êüóìïò ìáò ãéá íá ðïñåõèÞóùóôÜ êáé íá ìåãáëïõñãÞóåé. Åôóé ôçíåßäáí ôüôå ïé ìåãÜëïé ôçò ãÞò, êáé Ýôóéåßíáé êáé óÞìåñá ç åðïðïéßá åêåßíç:«Ýíá öùôåéíü ðáñÜäåéãìá ðïõ ïöåß-ëåé ï êáèÝíáò ìáò í� áêïëïõèÞóåé»,üðùò åßðå ÷áñáêôçñéóôéêÜ ï ôüôåÐñüåäñïò ôçò ÁìåñéêÞò Ñïýæâåëô.

Ï öåôåéíüò åïñôáóìüò, ìáò îáíá-äßíåé ôçí åõêáéñßá íá áíáëïãéóôïýìåìåñéêÝò ôïõëÜ÷éóôï áð� ôéò âáóéêÝòðôõ÷Ýò ôïõ ðáñáäåßãìáôïò åêåßíïõ,ôéò ïðïßåò ïöåßëïõìå íá ðñïóÝîïõìåùò ÏìïãÝíåéá ãéá íá öáíïýìå áíôÜîéïéôçí çñùúêþí ðñïãüíùí ìáò. Åôóéìðïñïýìå íá áíôéìåôùðßæïõìå êáëý-ôåñá ôéò áðáñÜäåêôåò ðñïêëÞóåéòóôÞí éóôïñéêÞ ìáò ðïñåßá ìÝóá óôïóõãêåêñéìÝíï ÷ùñï÷ñïíéêü ðëáßóéï,óôï ïðïßï ìáò Ýôáîå ç èåßá Ðñüíïéá.

Ôü áðïöáóéóôéêü Ï×É ðïõ áíôÝ-ôáîå ï Åëëçíéóìüò óôï Öáóéóìü ôï �40Þôáí âáóéêÜ Üñíçóç ôçò ðïëéôéêÞò ôïõåùóöïñéêïý åãùêåíôñéóìïý êáé ôçòäáéìïíéêÞò áëáæïíåßáò, ç ïðïßá ðïëé-ôéêÞ õéïèåôåß êÜèå áèÝìéôï ìÝóï âßáò,áäéêßáò êáé óùâéíéóìïý ãéá íá åðéöÝñåéõðïäïýëùóç, åêìåôÜëëåõóç, êáôá-ðßåóç êáé äé÷áóìü ôçí áíèñþðùí, äçë.üëá åêåßíá ôï äåéíÜ ðïõ áíôéôÜóóïíôáéóôüí áëçèéíü ëüãï êáé óôá áíáöáßñåôáäéêáéþìáôá ôçò áèñþðéíçò öýóçò,üðùò ôçí Ýðëáóå ï áãáèüò êáé öéëÜí-èñùðïò Èåüò.

Ðßóù áðü ôï éóôïñéêü êáé çñùúêüåêåßíï Ï×É, ðïõ óôïß÷éóå óôüí Åëëç-íéóìü ìåãÜëåò êáé áéìáôçñÝò èõóßåò êáéïëïêáõôþìáôá, õðÞñ÷å, ùò áäéÜ-óåéóôï ðíåõìáôéêü õðüâáèñï êáéáêáôáìÜ÷çôï Ýñåéóìá, ç áêëüíçôçðßóôç óôÞí áëÞèåéá êáé óôÞí åëåõ-èåñßá, êáé ðñü ðÜíôùí ç óôáèåñÞ

ðñïóÞëùóç óôÞí åíüôçôá. Äåí Üöç-óáí ôüôå ïé Åëëçíåò íá äéáóðáóôåß çåíüôçôÜ ôïõò áðü ïðïéåóäÞðïôåäéáöùíßåò êáé äé÷ïãíùìßåò ôïõ ðáñåë-èüíôïò. Áöçóáí ôéò äéáöïñÝò ôïõò óôïðåñéèþñéï êáé Ýíùóáí ôéò äõíÜìåéòôïõò ìå ôçí êïéíÞ êáé áìåôÜêëçôçáðüöáóç íá õðåñáóðéóôïýí ôçíáëÞèåéá ðÜóç èõóßá. Åôóé, êáé ôçí íßêçðÝôõ÷áí êáé ôçí õðüóôáóÞ ôïõòóôüëéóáí ìå êÜèå åßäïõò áñåôÞ:ðåéèáñ÷ßá, áðïöáóéóôéêüôçôá, ãåí-íáéüôçôá, áêåñáéüôçôá, çñùúóìü,ìåãáëïøõ÷ßá, ðáôñéùôéóìü, áõôï-èõóßá êáé ôüóá Üëëá. Åãéíáí ôïðáñÜäåéãìá ãéá êÜèå ðñïâëçìáôéêÞðåñßóôáóç óå êÜèå åðï÷Þ.

Áí ôï óýíèçìá ôçí öáóéóôþíáíôéðÜëùí ôïõò Þôáí «ï èÜíáôüò óïõç æùÞ ìïõ», ôï äéêü ôïõò ôï óýíèçìáÞôáí ôï áíôßèåôï «ï èÜíáôüò ìïõ çæùÞ óïõ», äçë. ôï íá èõóéáóôþ ãéáôçí áëÞèåéá, ôçí åëåõèåñßá, ôï äßêáéï,óçìáßíåé íá õðçñåôÞóù êáé íá óôå-ñåþóù ôç æùÞ. Åßíáé ôï ßäéï ìå åêåßíïðïõ Ýêáìå êáé æçôÜåé êáé áðü åìÜò ïßäéïò ï ×ñéóôüò: íá óçêþíïõìå ôïóôáõñü ìáò êáé íá ôïí áêïëïõèïýìå,íá äßíïõìå ôç æùÞ ìáò ãéá ôïõòÜëëïõò.

Ï êüóìïò ìáò áðåéëåßôáé óÞìåñááðü äéÜöïñåò åùóöïñéêÝò äõíÜìåéòêáé ôéò âëÝðïõìå áõôÝò íá äñïýíáêüìç êáé ìÝóá óôüí éåñü ÷þñï ôçòÅêêëçóßáò, åêåß ðïõ êáôáñôßæïíôáé ïéÜíèñùðïé óå óþìá ×ñéóôïý. Ç íßêçåíáíôßïí ôïõò åðéôõã÷Üíåôáé ìå ôï ßäéïáðïöáóéóôéêü êáé áðüëõôï Ï×É ôçíçñþùí ôïõ �40 ðïõ Ý÷åé ùò õðüâáèñïôçí áêëüíçôç ðßóôç óôÞí áëÞèåéá êáéùò âÜóç ôçí óôáèåñÞ ðñïóÞëùóçóôÞí åíüôçôá. Ôï ðáñÜäåéãìá åêåßíïðïõ «ðñÝðåé ï êáèÝíáò ìáò í� áêï-ëïõèÞóåé», åßíáé ãéá ìáò êáé ÷ñÝïòðáôñïðáñÜäïôï êáé ðñïíüìéï éåñü.

Ìå èåñìÝò ðáôñéêÝò åõ÷Ýò,

ÁÑ×ÉÅÐÉÓÊÏÐÉÊÇ ÅÃÊÕÊËÉÏÓÃÉÁ ÔÇÍ ÅÈÍÉÊÇ ÅÐÅÔÅÉÏ ÔÇÓ 28çò ÏÊÔÙÂÑÉÏÕ

ÍÅÁ ÕÏÑÊÇ.� «ÅõëïãçìÝíç åßíáé çðüëç ìáò ðïõ óáò õðïäÝ÷åôáé» äéá-êÞñõîå ï äÞìáñ÷ïò ôçò ÍÝáò Õüñêçò ê.Ñïýíôïëö ÔæïõëéÜíé, õðïäå÷üìåíïò ôïíÏéêïõìåíéêü ÐáôñéÜñ÷ç ê. ÂáñèïëïìáßïáñãÜ ôï âñÜäõ ôçò 23çò Ïêôùâñßïõ,óôï áåñïäñüìéï Ëá ÃêïõÜñíôéá, ðñïåñ-÷üìåíï áðü ôç Âáëôéìüñç. Ìáæß ìååêáôïíôÜäåò ëáïý, ôïí ÐñïêáèÞìåíïôçò Ïñèïäïîßáò õðïäÝ÷ôçêáí ï Óåâ.Áñ÷éåðßóêïðïò ÁìåñéêÞò ê. Óðõñßäùíêáé äåêÜäåò Üëëïé éåñÜñ÷åò êáé åðßóçìïé,óõìðåñéëáìâáíïìÝíïõ êáé ôïõ ðñþçíÁñ÷éåðéóêüðïõ ÁìåñéêÞò ê. Éáêþâïõ.

Áíáöåñüìåíïò óôïõò ëüãïõò ôçòåðßóêåøÞò ôïõ óôéò ÇÐÁ, ôç óõì-ðëÞñùóç 75 ÷ñüíùí áðü ôçí ßäñõóç ôçòÁñ÷éåðéóêïðÞò ÁìåñéêÞò, ï Ïéêïõ-ìåíéêüò ÐáôñéÜñ÷çò åðéóÞìáíå üôé çóõììåôï÷Þ ôïõ, ùò ðíåõìáôéêïý ðáôÝ-ñá êáé ðáôñéÜñ÷ç óôçí åðÝôåéï áõôÞ«ìáñôõñåß ôçí áëÞèåéá, üôé ôï óþìá ôïõ×ñéóôïý, ç Ïñèüäïîç Åêêëçóßá ìáò,óõíå÷ßæåé åíåñãÜ ôç äéáêïíßá ðñïò ôçíáëÞèåéá êáé ôç óõìöéëßùóç ìÝ÷ñé ôùíáðþôåñùí Üêñùí ôçò ÃÞò».

Óêõôáëïäñïìßá åêäçëþóåùí

«Ï ðéï ðïëýôéìïò èçóáõñüò ôçòÅêêëçóßáò» üðùò ÷áñáêôÞñéóå ï Áñ÷é-åðßóêïðïò Óðõñßäùí ôç Íåïëáßá, Þôáíï ïéêïäåóðüôçò óôï ðñüãåõìá ðñïòôéìÞ ôïõ Ïéêïõìåíéêïý ÐáôñéÜñ÷ç ôçíåðïìÝíç, óôï �Tavern On The Green� ôïõÌáí÷Üôáí.

Óôç äéÜñêåéá ôçò éäéáßôåñçò åðáöÞòôïõ ìå ôïõò íÝïõò ï Ðáíáãéüôáôïò ôïõò÷áñáêôÞñéóå «åëðßäá ãéá ôï ìÝëëïí, ìéáãåíéÜ Ýôïéìç íá áöÞóåé ôç óöñáãßäá ôçòðÜíù óôï Ýèíïò êáé óôïí êüóìï üëï»êáé åîÝöñáóå ôç ÷áñÜ ôïõ ãéá ôçíáãÜðç êáé åìðéóôïóýíç ìå ôçí ïðïßá,ùò äéáðßóôùóå, ðåñéâÜëëïõí ôïí Áñ÷é-åðßóêïðï Óðõñßäùíá.

Ìåôïíïìáóßá ôçò 79çò Ïäïý

ÌåôÜ ôï ðñüãåõìá ôçò Íåïëáßáò,ï Ïéêïõìåíéêüò ÐáôñéÜñ÷çò ìåôÝâç óôçíÝäñá ôçò É. Áñ÷éåðéóêïðÞò, üðïõðáñïõóßá êáé ôïõ ÄçìÜñ÷ïõ ôçò ÍÝáòÕüñêçò ôåëÝóèçêå áãéáóìüò óôçí åßóïäïêáé Ýãéíáí ôá áðïêáëõðôÞñéá ðëÜêáòìå ôçí åõêáéñßá ôçò óõìðëÞñùóçò ôùí75 ÷ñüíùí áðü ôçí ßäñõóÞ ôçò.

Ï ÄÞìáñ÷ïò ÔæïõëéÜíé áíáöÝñèçêåóôçí ðñïóÞëùóç ôïõ Ðáôñéáñ÷åßïõóôéò áñ÷Ýò ôçò áëëçëïêáôáíüçóçò êáéôçò åéñçíéêÞò óõíýðáñîçò ìåôáîý ôùíäéáöüñùí ðïëéôéóôéêþí êáé èñçóêåõ-ôéêþí ïìÜäùí êáé Ýêáíå ôá áðïêá-ëõðôÞñéá åéäéêÞò ðéíáêßäáò ìðñïóôÜáðü ôçí É. Áñ÷éåðéóêïðÞ, ìåôïíï-ìÜæïíôáò ôçí 79ç Ïäü óå «Ïäü Ðáôñé-Üñ÷ç Âáñèïëïìáßïõ».

Áêïëïýèùò ï Ïéêïõìåíéêüò Ðáô-ñéÜñ÷çò åðéóêÝöèçêå ôï Åèíéêü Óõì-âïýëéï Åêêëçóéþí êáé óõíáíôÞèçêå ìåðëçèþñá èñçóêåõôéêþí çãåôþí, åíþ ôïìåóçìÝñé ðáñáêÜèéóå óå ãåýìá ðñïòôéìÞ ôïõò, óôçí Áñ÷éåðéóêïðÞ.

Ôï áðüãåõìá ï ÐáôñéÜñ÷çò óõíá-íôÞèçêå ìå Üëëïõò Ïñèüäïîïõò éåñÜñ-÷åò óôï Êáèåäñéêü íáü ôçò Áãßáò

Ìå ðÜíäçìåò åêäçëþóåéò áãÜðçò ïé Åëëçíïñèüäïîïéôçò ÁìåñéêÞò õðïäÝ÷ïíôáé ôïí Ïéêïõìåíéêü ÐáôñéÜñ÷ç

ÔñéÜäáò êáé åîÝôáóáí áðü êïéíïýèÝìáôá ðïõ áöïñïýí ôéò ó÷Ýóåéò ôùíÏñèïäüîùí óôçí ÁìåñéêÞ. ÁêïëïýèçóåÐáôñéáñ÷éêüò Åóðåñéíüò.

Ôï ðñùß ôïõ ÓáââÜôïõ 25 Ïêôù-âñßïõ ï Ïéêïõìåíéêüò ÐáôñéÜñ÷çò åðé-óêÝöèçêå ôç ÈåïëïãéêÞ Ó÷ïëÞ ôïõ ÁãßïõÂëáäßìçñïõ óôçí ðüëç ÓêÜñôóíôÝéë êáéêáôÜ ôçí äéÜñêåéá åðßóçìçò ôåëåôÞò ôïýáðïíåìÞèçêå ôéìçôéêü äßðëùìá êáéáíáêçñý÷èçêå äéäÜêôùñ ôçò ó÷ïëÞò.

Áêïëïýèùò åðéóêÝöèçêå óôçí ïéêßáôïõ ôïí ðñþçí Áñ÷éåðßóêïðï ÁìåñéêÞòê. ÉÜêùâï êáé åß÷å óýíôïìç óõíÜíôçóçìáæß ôïõ. Óôçí óõíÜíôçóç áõôÞ ðáñåõ-ñÝèçêáí ï Áñ÷éåðßóêïðïò Óðõñßäùíáòêáèþò êáé ï åõåñãÝôçò ôïõ Ïéêïõ-ìåíéêïý Ðáôñéáñ÷åßïõ ê. ÐáíáãéþôçòÁããåëüðïõëïò.

Ôï áðüãåõìá ôçò ßäéáò çìÝñáò ï ê.Âáñèïëïìáßïò åðéóêÝöèçêå ôçí êïéíü-ôçôá ôïõ Áãßïõ Äçìçôñßïõ óôç ÔæáìÝéêá,üðïõ åêáôïíôÜäåò ìáèçôÝò ôùí åëëç-íéêþí êïéíïôéêþí ó÷ïëåßùí ôïí õðïäÝ÷-ôçêáí ìå Ýíá ðëïýóéï ðñüãñáììá ìååëëçíéêïýò ÷ïñïýò êáé ôñáãïýäéá.¢êïõóáí ìå ìåãÜëç ðñïóï÷Þ ôá ëüãéááãÜðçò ôïõ Ïéêïõìåíéêïý ÐáôñéÜñ÷ç,ï ïðïßïò ôïõò êÜëåóå íá âÜëïõí ìÝóáóôçí êáñäéÜ ôïõò ôçí ìçôñéêÞ ôïõòãëþóóá, ôçí åëëçíéêÞ, ìéá ãëþóóá,üðùò åßðå, «ðëïýóéá, ùñáßá, ðáãêü-óìéá». Áêïëïýèçóå êáôáíõêôéêüò åóðå-ñéíüò óôïí êáôÜìåóôï íáü ôïõ ÁãßïõÄçìçôñßïõ.

Ôï âñÜäõ ï Ïéêïõìåíéêüò ÐáôñéÜñ-÷çò ðáñáêïëïýèçóå óõíáõëßá ôçòÍÜíáò Ìïýó÷ïõñç, ðïõ äéïñãÜíùóå ôïÔÜãìá ôùí Áñ÷üíôùí ôïõ Áãßïõ ÁíäñÝá,óôïí Êáèåäñéêü íáü ôïõ Áãßïõ ÉùÜííç,óôï Ìáí÷Üôáí. Áêïëïýèùò, ïé ¢ñ÷ïíôåòôïõ Ïéêïõìåíéêïý Èñüíïõ ðáñÝèåóáíäåßðíï ðñïò ôéìÞ ôïõ ÐáôñéÜñ÷ç óôïîåíïäï÷åßï ÐëÜæá.

Ðáôñéáñ÷éêÞ Èåßá Ëåéôïõñãßá

Åßêïóé ÷éëéÜäåò ðåñßðïõ ðéóôïß,óõíÝñåõóáí ôï ðñùß ôçò ÊõñéáêÞò 26Ïêôùâñßïõ óôï ÌÜíôéóïí ÓêïõÝáñÃêÜñíôåí, üðïõ óå áôìüóöáéñá èñç-óêåõôéêÞò êáôÜíõîçò ôåëÝóôçêå üñèñïòêáé Ðáôñéáñ÷éêÞ Èåßá Ëåéôïõñãßá.ÓõãêéíçôéêÞ Þôáí ç ðáñïõóßá êáéáôüìùí ìå åéäéêÝò áíÜãêåò, óôá ïðïßáï ßäéïò ï Ïéêïõìåíéêüò ÐáôñéÜñ÷çòðñüóöåñå ôçí Èåßá Êïéíùíßá.

ÊáôÜ ôçí äéÜñêåéá ôçò È. Ëåéôïõñ-ãßáò, ôåëÝóôçêå ìíçìüóõíï õðÝñ áíá-ðáýóåùò ôçò øõ÷Þò ôïõ ÏéêïõìåíéêïýÐáôñéÜñ÷ç Äçìçôñßïõ, óôïí ïðïßï ï ê.Âáñèïëïìáßïò Ýêáíå éäéáßôåñç ìíåßá.¸êáíå åðßóçò åéäéêÞ áíáöïñÜ óôçíðáñïõóßá ôïõ Áñ÷éåðéóêüðïõ ðñþçíÁìåñéêÞò ê. Éáêþâïõ êáé ôüíéóå üôé«ôþñá ç åêêëçóéáóôéêÞ æùÞ êáé éóôïñßá

ÅêôåíÞò êÜëõøçôçò åðßóêåøçò ôïõ

Ïéêïõìåíéêïý ÐáôñéÜñ÷çóôéò óåë. 9-16

ÏÑÈÏÄÏÎÏÓ ÐÁÑÁÔÇÑÇÔÇÓÓÅËÉÄÁ 18 10 ÍÏÅÌÂÑÉÏÕ 1997

ÈÅÓÓÁËÏÍÉÊÇ.� ¢ãíùóôåò ðôõ÷Ýò áðü ôáðñþôá ìåôáíáóôåõôéêÜ ÷ñüíéá ôçò æùÞò ôùíÅëëÞíùí ïìïãåíþí «óôá ðÝñáôá ôçò ãçò», öþôéóåôï áõèåíôéêü åêèåóéáêü õëéêü, ôï ïðïßï ðáñïõ-óéÜóôçêå ôï êáëïêáßñé óôá ðëáßóéá ôïõ åéäéêïýðñïãñÜììáôïò «Åê ðåñÜôùí», ôïõ ÏñãáíéóìïýÐïëéôéóôéêÞò Ðñùôåýïõóáò ôçò Åõñþðçò «Èåó-óáëïíßêç �97».

ÓðÜíéá íôïêïõìÝíôá áñ÷åßïõ, áëëÜ êáéóýã÷ñïíåò öùôïãñáößåò ãéá ôç äñÜóç ôçò åëëçíéêÞòäéáóðïñÜò óå êÜèå ãùíéÜ ôïõ êüóìïõ, ðåñéëÜìâáíåç ìßá åíüôçôá, ìå ôßôëï «Åéêüíåò áðü ôï Ellis Island -ÇÐÁ». Ôçí áôìüóöáéñá ôçò îåíéôéÜò æùíôÜíåõáíöùôïãñáößåò ÅëëÞíùí ìåôáíáóôþí, áðü ôç óõëëïãÞôïõ ìïõóåßïõ ôïõ Ellis Island, ôï ïðïßï áðïôåëåßóýìâïëï ôçò ìåôáíáóôåõôéêÞò éóôïñßáò óôçíÁìåñéêÞ. Ðåñßðïõ 12 åêáôïììýñéá ìåôáíÜóôåòáðïâéâÜóôçêáí óôï íçóß, üðïõ ðåñßìåíáí íáåîáóöáëßóïõí Üäåéá åéóüäïõ êáé ðáñáìïíÞò óôéòÇÐÁ. Óå ðåñéüäïõò ìåãÜëùí ìåôáíáóôåõôéêþíñåõìÜôùí, Ýöôáíáí óôï íçóß Ýùò êáé 500 Üíèñùðïéôç ìÝñá, üëïé øÜ÷íïíôáò ãéá ìßá êáëýôåñç ôý÷çóôçí îåíéôéÜ. Ãéá ôïõò ðåñéóóüôåñïõò, ç äéáäéêáóßáåîÝôáóçò ãéá ôçí ðáñï÷Þ ôçò Üäåéáò äéáñêïýóå ëßãåòþñåò, åíþ êÜðïéïé õðï÷ñåþíïíôáí íá åðéóôñÝøïõíóôéò ðáôñßäåò ôïõò.

Ïé åðéóêÝðôåò ôçò Ýêèåóçò åß÷áí ôç äõíáôüôçôáíá áêïýóïõí êáóÝôåò, üðïõ ¸ëëçíåò ìåôáíÜóôåòäéçãïýíôáé ðþò Ýöôáóáí óôçí ÁìåñéêÞ óôéò áñ÷Ýòôïõ áéþíá, åíþ ðáñÜëëçëá, Ýâëåðáí íôïêéìáíôÝñ -áöéÝñùìá óôïõò ìåôáíÜóôåò ôçò ÁìåñéêÞò êáé ôï EllisIsland, ìå ôßôëï «Ôï Ôáîßäé».

«Ìå ôá äéêÜ ôïõò ìÜôéá: Åëëçíï-Áõóôñáëïß»,Þôáí ï ôßôëïò öùôïãñáöéêÞò Ýêèåóçò, ðïõóõíõðïãñÜöïõí ç öùôïãñÜöïò ¸öç ÁëåîÜêç êáé ïêïéíùíéïëüãïò - éóôïñéêüò Leonard Janiszewski. Çôáíìßá áðåéêüíéóç ôçò åëëçíï-áõóôñáëéáíÞò ðáñïõóßáò,ùò áíáðüóðáóôï êïììÜôé ôçò êïéíùíßáò ôçòÁõóôñáëßáò. Ôçí áðïôåëïýóáí óýã÷ñïíåò öùôï-

ãñáößåò êáé íôïêïõìÝíôá áñ÷åßïõ êáé ôç óõíüäåõáíêåßìåíá êïéíùíéêÞò éóôïñßáò óôá åëëçíéêÜ êáé óôááããëéêÜ.

Ç Ýêèåóç «To Eëëëçíéêü ðñüãñáììá ôçòÂáõáñéêÞò Ñáäéïöùíßáò óôç Ãåñìáíßá» ðåñéëÜìâáíåóõãêéíçôéêÜ ìçíýìáôá êáé ãñÜììáôá ÅëëÞíùíáêñïáôþí êáé ìßá «ðåñéÞãçóç» óôçí éóôïñßá ôïõåëëçíéêïý ðñïãñÜììáôïò ôçò âáõáñéêÞò ñáäéï-öùíßáò, ðïõ Üñ÷éóå ôç ìåôÜäïóç äåêÜëåðôçòåâäïìáäéáßáò åëëçíéêÞò åêðïìðÞò óôéò 21 Äåêåìâñßïõ1963, ôñßá ÷ñüíéá ìåôÜ ôï êëåßóéìï ôçò ðñþôçòóõìöùíßáò ìåôáîý ÅëëÜäáò êáé Ãåñìáíßáò ãéá ôçíáðïóôïëÞ ìåôáíáóôþí óôçí åõñùðáúêÞ ÷þñá.

Ôï «Áñ÷åßï Åëëçíéóìïý Íïôßïõ ÁöñéêÞò - ËýêåéïÅëëçíßäùí» ðåñéëÜìâáíå öùôïãñáößåò áðü ôïõòðñþôïõò ¸ëëçíåò ðïõ Ýöôáóáí óôç Íüôéá ÁöñéêÞóôá ôÝëç ôïõ 19ïõ êáé óôéò áñ÷Ýò ôïõ 20ïõ áéþíá,áðü ôç óõëëïãÞ ôïõ Ëõêåßïõ Åëëçíßäùí Í. ÁöñéêÞò.Ç ÁöñéêÞ Þôáí Ýíáò áðü ôïõò äåýôåñïõò ôüðïõòåðéëïãÞò ôùí ÅëëÞíùí ìåôáíáóôþí, üðùò ï Êáíá-äÜò, ç Áõóôñáëßá êáé ç Âñáæéëßá, êáèþò ï êýñéïòüãêïò ôçò äéáóðïñÜò, ðåñßðïõ 400.000 ¸ëëçíåò,åß÷áí Þäç åãêáôáóôáèåß óôçí ÁìåñéêÞ ìÝ÷ñé ôá ôÝëçôïõ 19ïõ áéþíá. Ïé ¸ëëçíåò ðÞãáí óôçí ÁöñéêÞ ìåóõìâüëáéá, ãéá íá äïõëÝøïõí óôïõò óéäçñïäñüìïõòêáé óôá ïñõ÷åßá. Ðïëëïß åãêáôáóôÜèçêáí óôçíÁßãõðôï êáé óôï ÓïõäÜí, ôçí Áéèéïðßá, ôá åäÜöç ôçòóçìåñéíÞò Ôáíæáíßáò, ôç ÆéìðÜìðïõå, óôï Ìáðïýôïêáé ôç Íüôéï ÁöñéêÞ.

Óôçí Ýêèåóç öéëïîåíïýíôáé åðßóçò éóôïñéêÜóôïé÷åßá ãéá ôç æùÞ ôùí ÅëëÞíùí ôçò Ïõããáñßáò.Ðåñßðïõ 100.000 ðïëéôéêïß ðñüóöõãåò åãêáôÝëåéøáíôçí ÅëëÜäá ìåôÜ ôïí åìöýëéï ðüëåìï êáé åãêáôá-óôÜèçêáí óå ÷þñåò ôçò ÁíáôïëéêÞò Åõñþðçò.

Åðßóçò, ç Ýêèåóç Ýöåñå óôï öùò áíôéðñï-óùðåõôéêÜ äåßãìáôá ôçò ðëïýóéáò åêäïôéêÞòäñáóôçñéüôçôáò êáé ôïõ Ôýðïõ ôïõ åîù-åëëáäéêïýåëëçíéóìïý, ìÝóá áðü ôï ôåñÜóôéï áñ÷åßï ôïõ Ã.Äïëéáíßôç. ÁíÜìåóÜ ôïõò, ôá ðñþôá åëëçíéêÜ âéâëßá

Ðåñéóóüôåñá áðü 1.000 ÷åéñüãñáöá Ýããñáöá ôçòÊáéíÞò ÄéáèÞêçò, ðïõ ÷ñïíïëïãïýíôáé áðü ôïí 7ï ùòôïí 16ï áéþíá öõëÜóóïíôáé óôéò ìïíÝò ôïõ ÁãßïõÏñïõò óýìöùíá ìå åéóÞãçóç ôïõ êáèçãçôÞ ôïõ ÁÐÈ,ÉùÜííç Êáñáâéäüðïõëïõ óôï ÉÁ´ äéåèíÝò åðéóôçìïíéêüóõíÝäñéï ìå èÝìá: «×ñéóôéáíéêÞ Èåóóáëïíßêç: ÐüëéòÓõíáíôÞóåùò ÁíáôïëÞò êáé Äýóåùò». Ôá ðåñéóóüôåñááðü áõôÜ (256) âñßóêïíôáé óôç ìïíÞ Ìåãßóôçò Ëáýñáò, 168 óôç ìïíÞ Âáôïðáéäßïõ, 92 óôçí ÐáíôåëåÞìïíïò,86 óôçí ÉâÞñùí , 83 óôç Äéïíõóßïõ êáé ôá õðüëïéðáóôéò Üëëåò ìïíÝò. Ôá 250-260 áðü ôï óýíïëï ôùí 1006÷åéñïãñÜöùí ðåñéÝ÷ïõí ôéò ÐñÜîåéò ôùí Áðïóôüëùí.

Ï ê. Êáñáâéäüðïõëïò áíÝöåñå üôé ÷åéñüãñáöá ôçòÊáéíÞò ÄéáèÞêçò õðÜñ÷ïõí äéÜóðáñôá óå ðïëëÝòâéâëéïèÞêåò áëëÜ ôá ðåñéóóüôåñá âñßóêïíôáé óôï ÁãéïÏñïò. Ìåôáîý ôùí âéâëéïèçêþí ðïõ ðåñéÝ÷ïõí ôá ðéïðïëëÜ áðü ôá ÷åéñüãñáöá áõôïý ôïõ åßäïõò åßíáé: ôùíÁèçíþí (419), ôùí Ðáñéóßùí (373), ôçò Ñþìçò (367),ôïõ Ëïíäßíïõ (271), ôçò Áãßáò Áéêáôåñßíçò-ÓéíÜ (230),ôçò Ïîöüñäçò (158) , ôçò ÉåñïõóáëÞì (146), ôçòÌüó÷áò (96), ôçò ÐÜôìïõ (81), ôçò Öëùñåíôßáò (79)êáé ôïõ Êáßìðñéôæ (66).

Ï êáèçãçôÞò áíáöÝñèçêå åðßóçò óå Ýíá Èåóóáëï-íéêÝá êáëëéãñÜöï ôïõ 13ïõ áéþíá, ôïí ÈåüäùñïÁãéïðåôñßôç ï ïðïßïò ìáæß ìå ôçí êüñç ôïõ ÅéñÞíçáíôÝãñáøå ðïëëÜ âéâëéêÜ ÷åéñüãñáöá ìå Ýíá åéäéêüôýðï ãñáöÞò äéáêïóìþíôáò ôá ðáñÜëëçëá ìå ìéêñï-ãñáößåò êáé êáôÝëçîå ëÝãïíôáò üôé ôá êáëëéãñáöçìÝíáâõæáíôéíÜ ÷åéñüãñáöá ìáñôõñïýí ôçí áãÜðç êáé ôçíöñïíôßäá ôùí áíôéãñáöÝùí êáé ôüíéóå üôé èá ðñÝðåéíá ãßíåé Ýñåõíá ó÷åôéêÜ ìå áõôÜ.

1000 ÷åéñüãñáöá ôçòÊáéíÞò ÄéáèÞêçò óôéòìïíÝò Áãßïõ Ïñïõò

Ï ê. Ãåþñãéïò Ó. ÌðåìðÞò åßíáé êáèçãçôÞò ôçòÐáôñïëïãßáò óôçí ÈåïëïãéêÞ Ó÷ïëÞ Ôéìßïõ Óôáõñïý ôçòÉ. Áñ÷éåðéóêïðÞò ÁìåñéêÞò

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ÐñÜãìáôé ìå ðçãáßåò, ÷áñïýìåíåò äïîïëïãéêÝòåêöñÜóåéò, ïé õìíùäïß ôçò Åêêëçóßáò ðåñéãñÜöïõíôçí åïñôÞ ôùí Åéóïäßùí ôçò Èåïôüêïõ. Ìéá åïñôÞ ìåïéêïõìåíéêÝò êáé ðáãêüóìéåò äéáóôÜóåéò, äéüôé, üðùòðïëý óùóôÜ ôïíßæåé ôï Áðïëõôßêéï ôçò åïñôÞò, ôáÅéóüäéá ôçò Èåïôüêïõ åßíáé ôï �ðñïïßìéï�, äçëáäÞ ïðñüëïãïò êáé ç ðñïåôïéìáóßá êáé ç ðñïêÞñõîç ôçòáãÜðçò ôïõ Èåïý ãéá ôïí Üíèñùðï, åßíáé ôï ðñþôïÜããåëìá ôçò åí ×ñéóôþ óùôçñßáò.

ÉóôïñéêÜ, ç åïñôÞ ôùí Åéóïäßùí ãáëïõ÷Þèçêå,áíáðôý÷èçêå êáé ðáãéþèçêå ìÝóá óôïõò ìõóôéêïýòêüëðïõò ôçò ÉåñÞò ÐáñÜäïóçò ôçò Åêêëçóßáò ìáò êáéÝãéíå áíáðüóðáóôï ìÝñïò êáé äüîá êáé ÷áñÜ ôïõÏñèüäïîïõ åïñôïëïãßïõ ìáò.

Ï ìáêáñéóôüò êáèçãçôÞò ôçò ÈåïëïãéêÞò Ó÷ïëÞòôïõ Ðáíåðéóôçìßïõ Èåóóáëïíßêçò, ÉùÜííçò Áíá-óôáóßïõ, óôï åîáéñåôéêü âéâëßï ôïõ ãéá ôá Åéóüäéá ôçòÈåïôüêïõ, ãñÜöåé, üôé ç åïñôÞ ôùí Åéóïäßùíðñùôïåìöáíßóôçêå óôá Éåñïóüëõìá êáôÜ ôá ôÝëç ôïõ7ïõ áéþíá êáé ìåôáöõôåýôçêå óôçí Êùíóôá-íôéíïýðïëç ôïí ßäéï áéþíá Þ ßóùò óôéò áñ÷Ýò ôïõüãäïïõ. ÂÝâáéá, õðÜñ÷åé ç ðëçñïöïñßá üôé ç åïñôÞôùí Åéóïäßùí ðéèáíüí íá åìöáíßóèçêå ôïí Ýêôï áéþíáóôçí ÁëåîÜíäñåéá, åíþ óôç Äýóç åìöáíßóèçêå áðüôïí äÝêáôï áéþíá êáé ìåôÝðåéôá. ÓÞìåñá, ãéïñôÜæåôáéðáíôïý ìå ìåãáëïðñÝðåéá êáé éäéáßôåñç áßãëç.

Áíáíôßëåêôá, ç åïñôÞ ôùí Åéóïäßùí âáóßæåôáéêáè� ïëïêëçñßá, óôï ëåãüìåíï �ÐñùôïåõáããÝëéï� ôïõÉáêþâïõ, áñ÷éåðéóêüðïõ Éåñïóïëýìùí ôïõ �áäåëöï-èÝïõ�. Ôï ÐñùôïåõáããÝëéï ôïõ Éáêþâïõ åßíáé ãíùóôüóôïõò áñ÷áßïõò ÐáôÝñåò êáé óõããñáöåßò ôçòÅêêëçóßáò, üðùò óôïí Üãéï Éïõóôßíï êáé ìÜñôõñá,óôïí ÊëÞìåíôá ôïí ÁëåîáíäñÝá, ôïí Üãéï ÅðéöÜíéï,ôïí Üãéï Ãñçãüñéï ôïí Íýóóçò, óôïí Üãéï ÔáñÜóéïÊùíóôáíôéíïõðüëåùò.

Ç éóôïñßá ôïõ Ðñùôïåõáããåëßïõ åßíáé ðïëý áðëÞ.Ïé ãïíåßò ôçò ÐáñèÝíïõ Ìáñßáò Þóáí ïé åõóåâåßòÉùáêåßì êáé ¢ííá. ¼ðùò óõíÝâáéíå óå ðïëëÝò Üëëåòðåñéðôþóåéò ôçò ÐáëáéÜò ÄéáèÞêçò, ç åõëáâÞò ¢ííá

ðáñÝìåéíå óôåßñá, ãåãïíüò êáé ðçãÞ ìåãÜëçò ëýðçòêáé óõíôñéâÞò ãéá ôéò ïéêïãÝíåéåò ôïõ áñ÷áßïõ ÉóñáÞë.Áðü Üããåëï, Ýãéíå ãíùóôü üôé ç ¢ííá èá öÝñåé ðáéäßóôïí êüóìï, ôï ïðïßï ïé êáëïß ãïíåßò ôïõ èá ôïáöéÝñùíáí óôïí Èåü. ̧ ôóé, üôáí ç Ìáñßá Ýãéíå ôñéþíåôþí, ïé ãïíåßò ôçò ôçí åéóÞãáãáí óôï Íáü ôïõÓïëïìþíôá, ãéá íá äéáêïíåß ôïí Êýñéï, ìå ôáðåßíùóçêáé ðïëëÞ áãÜðç. ÐáñáìÝíåé óôïí Íáü ìÝ÷ñé ôçòìíçóôåßáò ôçò ìå ôïí ÉùóÞö. Óå ìåôáãåíÝóôåñåòðçãÝò áíáöÝñåôáé, üôé õðçñåôïýóå ôïí áñ÷éåñÝáÆá÷áñßá, êáé üôé åôñÝöåôï óôï Íáü áðü Üããåëï.

Ç ÐáôåñéêÞ êáé ãåíéêÜ ç ÂõæáíôéíÞ ÐáñÜäïóçôüíéóå üëùò éäéáßôåñá, ìå ôçí åïñôÞ ôùí Åéóïäßùí,ôçí áãéüôçôá, ôçí ðáñèåíéêüôçôá, ôçí õðáêïÞ, ôçóåìíüôçôá áëëÜ êáé ôçí ðíåõìáôéêÞ ðñïåôïéìáóßáôçò ÐáñèÝíïõ Ìáñßáò, ôçò Ìçôñüò ôïõ Õéïý ôïõÈåïý. Ãé� áõôü Üëëùóôå, ç Ïñèüäïîç åéêïíïãñáößá,ìå æùçñÜ ÷ñþìáôá �éóôïñåß� ôï ãåãïíüò, ãéá íáêáôáäåßîåé ôçí åõóÝâåéá êáé ôçí ôéìÞ, ôçí ïðïßáôñÝöåé ç Åêêëçóßá ðñïò ôï óåðôü ðñüóùðï ôçòÐáíáãßáò.

Óôç ÌïíÞ Äáöíßïõ, óôï ÐñùôÜôï ôïõ Áãßïõ¼ñïõò, óôçí ÌïíÞ ôçò ×þñáò óôçí Êùíóôá-íôéíïýðïëç, äéáâëÝðåé êáíåßò ôçí åõöñïóýíç ôçòÅêêëçóßáò ãéá ôçí Åßóïäï ôçò Ðáíáãßáò óôá �Üäõôáôùí áäýôùí� ôçò óùôçñßáò ôïõ áíèñþðéíïõ ãÝíïõò.Ïé õìíïãñÜöïé ôçò Åêêëçóßáò ìáò óõììåôÝ÷ïõíåíåñãÜ óôçí ðáíÞãõñç áõôÞ ôçò åí ×ñéóôþ óùôçñßáò:Éäéáßôåñá, ï Íéêïäçìåßáò Ãåþñãéïò, ößëïò êáéóõíåñãÜôçò ôïõ áãßïõ Öùôßïõ êáôÜ ôïí Ýíáôï áéþíá,åîõìíåß ôï Åéóüäéá ôçò Èåïôüêïõ ìå ðïéçôéêÝòåêöñÜóåéò èåßáò êáé ïõñÜíéáò Ýìðíåõóçò. ¸ôóé êáé ïÍéêïäçìåßáò Ãåþñãéïò êáé Ýôåñïé õìíùäïß áðïêáëïýíôá Åéóüäéá �Ýáñ åõöñüóõíïí� ÷áñïýìåíç ÜíïéîçäçëáäÞ, êáé ôçí Ðáíáãßá �óêåýïò åêëïãÞò ôïõ Èåïý,êáé ïõñÜíéïí ðáëÜôéïí êáé èñüíïí ôïõ Èåïý.�

¼ëïé ëïéðüí, �ðáñèÝíïé, ìçôÝñåò, éåñåßò, ëáïß�êáëïýìåèá íá äïîïëïãÞóïõìå êáé íá ôéìÞóïõìå ôçíÌçôÝñá ôïõ Êõñßïõ çìþí Éçóïý ×ñéóôïý, ôïõÓùôÞñïò çìþí.

ËÅÕÊÙÓÉÁ.- ÌåãÜëç óõëëïãÞ áðü âõæáíôéíÝòåéêüíåò êáé øçöéäùôÜ ôçò Êýðñïõ, êëåììÝíá áðïìïíáóôÞñéá êáé åêêëçóßåò ôùí êáôå÷üìåíùíðåñéï÷þí, âñÞêå ç ãåñìáíéêÞ áóôõíïìßá.

Ðñüêåéôáé ãéá åéêüíåò êáé ôá ìùóáúêÜ, ðïõ÷ñïíïëïãïýíôáé óôïí 14ï êáé 16ï áéþíá, êáéåêëÜðçóáí ìåôÜ ôçí ôïõñêéêÞ åéóâïëÞ, áðï ôïìïíáóôÞñé ôïõ ÁíôéöùíçôÞ óôçí Êåñýíåéá êáé ôçíÐáíáãßá ÊáíáêáñéÜ óôçí êáôå÷üìåíç ËõèñÜãêùìç.

Ãéá ôçí õðüèåóç óõíåëÞöèç óôï Ìüíá÷ïãíùóôüò Ôïýñêïò áñ÷áéïêÜðçëïò, ëáèñÝìðïñïòèñçóêåõôéêþí åéêüíùí êáé Üëëùí áñ÷áéïôÞôùí, ï×éêìÝô Áúôßí. ¼ðùò äéåõêñßíéóáí ïé áñ÷Ýò áóöáëåßáòôçò Âáõáñßáò, óôçí áíáêÜëõøç ôùí åéêüíùíïäÞãçóå ðëçñïöïñßá ðïõ äéáâéâÜóôçêå áðï ôçíêõðñéáêÞ áóôõíïìßá.

Ç ãåñìáíéêÞ áóôõíïìßá äéåíÞñãçóå Ýñåõíá óåäýï äéáìåñßóìáôá, éäéïêôçóßá ôïõ Ôïýñêïõ áñ÷áéï-êÜðçëïõ, óôï Ìüíá÷ï, üðïõ áíáêáëýöèçêå ïëü-êëçñïò èçóáõñü áðï åéêüíåò, øçöéäùôÜ êáé êïììÜôéáôïé÷ïãñáöéþí, áîßáò 34 åêáôïììõñßùí äïëáñßùíÇÐÁ. Ïé áñ÷Ýò ôçò Âáõáñßáò áíÝöåñáí üôé ôáêëáðÝíôá èá åðéóôñáöïýí óôçí Ïñèüäïîç Åêêëçóßáôçò Êýðñïõ ìåôÜ ôï ðÝñáò ôçò äßêçò ôïõ Ôïýñêïõáñ÷áéïêÜðçëïõ.

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ðïõ ôõðþèçêáí óôç Âåíåôßá, ôï ÂïõêïõñÝóôé, ôïÉÜóéï, ôç Ìïó÷üðïëç êáé ôç ÂéÝííç, ìåôÜ ôç ìáæéêÞÝîïäï ðñïóöýãùí óôç Äýóç, ðïõ áêïëïýèçóå ôçíêáôÜëõóç ôçò ÂõæáíôéíÞò Áõôïêñáôïñßáò.

Óôçí åíüôçôá «ÂëÜ÷ïé êáé ÓáñáêáôóÜíïé ôçòÄéáóðïñÜò» ðåñéëáìâÜíïíôáí éóôïñéêÝò öùôï-ãñáößåò áðü ôá ìåôáíáóôåõôéêÜ ñåýìáôá ôùíÂëÜ÷ùí êáé Óáñáêáôóáíáßùí óôçí ÅëëÜäá êáé ôéòâáëêáíéêÝò ÷þñåò, õëéêü áñ÷åßïõ áðü ôçí ÐáíåëëÞíéá¸íùóç Ðïëéôéóôéêþí Óõëëüãùí ÂëÜ÷ùí, ôçí Ðáíåë-ëÞíéá Ïìïóðïíäßá Óõëëüãùí Óáñáêáôóáíáßùí, ôïõòÓõëëüãïõò Óáñáêáôóáíáßùí Èåóóáëïíßêçò êáéÅëåõèåñßïõ - Êïñäåëßïõ êáé ôï Óýëëïãï Óáñáêá-ôóáíáßùí Öïéôçôþí Èåóóáëïíßêçò. Åéäéêüôåñá,öùôßæåôáé ç ìåôáêßíçóç ðñïò ôç Óåñâßá ôùíÓáñáêáôóáíáßùí íïìÜäùí êôçíïôñüöùí ôçòÌáêåäïíßáò áðü ôï 1880, êáé êõñßùò ç äéáóðïñÜôïõò óôç åëëçíéêÞ, óåñâéêÞ êáé âïõëãáñéêÞ åðéêñÜ-ôåéá, ìåôÜ ôçí áðåëåõèÝñùóç ôùí Âáëêáíßùí áðüôïõò Ôïýñêïõò ôï 1913 êáé ôç ÷Üñáîç íÝùí óõíüñùí.

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ìáò åäþ óõíå÷ßæåôáé ìå ôï íÝï ðïéìå-íÜñ÷ç óáò Éåñüôáôïí Áñ÷éåðßóêïðï ê.Óðõñßäùíá, ãýñù áðü ôïí ïðïßïíóõóðåéñùìÝíïé, åíùìÝíïé, áãáðçìÝíïéêáëåßóèå íá ãñÜøåôå íÝåò óåëßäåò äüîáòêáé ôéìÞò ãéá ôçí Åêêëçóßá êáé ôï ãÝíïòìáò åäþ».

Ôï áðüãåõìá, ìåôÜ áðü ãåýìá ðïõðáñÝèåóå ðñïò ôéìÞ ôïõ ï ÊõâåñíÞôçòÐáôÜêé óôï ÑïêöÝëåñ ÓÝíôåñ, ï Ïéêïõ-ìåíéêüò ÐáôñéÜñ÷çò óõíáíôÞèçêå ìå ôáìÝëç ôïõ Óõëëüãïõ Êùíóôáíôéíïõ-ðïëéôþí êáé áêïëïýèùò åðéóêÝöèçêåôïõò ôñïößìïõò ôïõ Ãçñïêïìåßïõ ôïõÁãßïõ Ìé÷áÞë óôï Ãéüíêåñò êáé óõíï-ìßëçóå ìáæß ôïõò, ðñïóöÝñïíôáò ôéòåõ÷Ýò êáé ôçí ðáôñéêÞ åõëïãßá ôïõ.

Íùñßò ôï åðüìåíï ðñùß ï Ðáíáãéü-ôáôïò ðáñáêÜèéóå óå ðñüãåõìá ðïõðáñÝèåóå ï ÄÞìáñ÷ïò ê. ÔæïõëéÜíé óôçíïéêßá ôïõ êáé ðáñïõóßá 2000 êáëå-óìÝíùí, ï äÞìáñ÷ïò ÍÝáò ÕüñêçòðáñÝäùóå óôïí ê. Âáñèïëïìáßï äéáêÞ-ñõîç ìå ôçí ïðïßá 27ç Ïêôùâñßïõáíáêçñý÷ôçêå «ÇìÝñá ôïõ Ïéêïõ-ìåíéêïý ÐáôñéÜñ÷ç Âáñèïëïìáßïõ».

ÌåôÝâç óôç óõíÝ÷åéá óôçí Ýäñá ôïõÏñãáíéóìïý ÇíùìÝíùí Åèíþí üðïõóõíáíôÞèçêå ìå ôïí Ãåíéêü ÃñáììáôÝáê. Êüöé ÁíÜí, ìå ôïí ïðïßï óõæÞôçóå êáéåíçìåñþèçêå ãéá ôéò ðñïóðÜèåéåò ðïõêáôáâÜëåé ï ôåëåõôáßïò ìå óôü÷ï ôçíåäñáßùóç ôçò åéñÞíçò. Ï ÏéêïõìåíéêüòÐáôñéÜñ÷çò åõ÷Þèçêå åðéôõ÷ßá óôéòðñïóðÜèåéåò ôïõ ê. ÁíÜí, ãéá üëï ôïíêüóìï üðïõ åðéêñáôåß Ýíôáóç êáéãßíïíôáé óõãêñïýóåéò.

Ôï ìåóçìÝñé ï ê. ÂáñèïëïìáßïòåðéóêÝöèçêå ôçí Ýäñá ôçò áñ÷éåðé-óêïðÞò êáé óõíáíôÞèçêå ìå ôï ðñïóù-ðéêü ôùí äéáöüñùí ôìçìÜôùí ôçò. ÓôçóõíÝ÷åéá åðéóêÝöèçêå ôçí Ýäñá ôçòÏõêñáíéêÞò Ïñèüäïîçò ÅêêëçóßáòÁìåñéêÞò, óôç ÍÝá ÉåñóÝç êáé ôï ðñùßôçò Ôñßôçò áíá÷þñçóå ãéá ôç Âïóôþíç,åðüìåíï óôáèìü ôçò ðïéìáíôïñéêÞò ôïõåðßóêåøçò óôéò ÇíùìÝíåò Ðïëéôåßåò.

Óôç Âïóôþíç

ÈåñìÞ õðïäï÷Þ åðåöýëáîå óôïíÏéêïõìåíéêü ÐáôñéÜñ÷ç êáé ï Åëëç-íéóìüò ôçò ðåñéï÷Þò ôçò Âïóôþíçò êáéôçò ÍÝáò Áããëßáò. Óôï áåñïäñüìéïËüãêáí ôçò Âïóôþíçò ôïí ê. Âáñèï-ëïìáßï õðïäÝ÷èçêáí ï åðßóêïðïòÂïóôþíçò ê. Ìåèüäéïò, ï êõâåñíÞôçòôçò Ìáóá÷ïõóÝôçò Ðïë Óåëïýôóé, ïäÞìáñ÷ïò ôçò ðüëçò Ôïì Ìåíßíï êáéðëÞèïò êüóìïõ. ÁíÜìåóÜ ôïõò îå÷þ-ñéóáí ïé ìáèçôÝò êáé ìáèÞôñéåò íôõìÝíïéìå ðáñáäïóéáêÝò åëëçíéêÝò óôïëÝò. Óôçíðüëç, ï äÞìáñ÷ïò ðáñÝèåóå åðßóçìïãåýìá óôï ïðïßï ðáñáêÜèçóå êáé ïãåñïõóéáóôÞò Ôåíô ÊÝíåíôé, ï ïðïßïò êáéåîÝöñáóå ôçí ÷áñÜ ôïõ ãéá ôçí ðáñïõ-óßá ôïõ Ïéêïõìåíéêïý ÐáôñéÜñ÷ç óôçÌáóá÷ïõóÝôç.

Óôï äéÜóôçìá ôçò ðáñáìïíÞò ôïõóôçí Âïóôþíç ï Ïéêïõìåíéêüò Ðáôñé-Üñ÷çò åðéóêÝöèçêå ôçí Êïéíüôçôá ôùíÔáîéáñ÷þí óôï ðñïÜóôéï Ãïõüôåñôáïõíêáèþò êáé ôçí ÁñìåíéêÞ Åêêëçóßá ôïõÁãßïõ ÓôåöÜíïõ, üðïõ óõíáíôÞèçêå ìåôïí çãÝôç ôçò ÁñìåíéêÞò ÁðïóôïëéêÞòÅêêëçóßáò. ÐáñáêÜèéóå åðßóçò óåäåßðíï ðïõ ðáñÝèåóå ðñïò ôéìÞ ôïõ ôïÊÝíôñï Ôæïí Ö. ÊÝíåíôé, åíþ åß÷åóõíÜíôçóç êáé ìå ôïí ÊáñäéíÜëéï ôçòÑùìáéïêáèïëéêÞò Åêêëçóßáò óôçí Âï-óôþíç ÌðåñíÜñíô Ëï, áíôáðïäßäïíôáòðáëáéüôåñç åðßóêåøÞ ôïõ óôï ÖáíÜñé.

Ï ê. Âáñèïëïìáßïò ðáñáêÜèçóå êáéóå ãåýìá ðïõ ðáñÝèåóå ðñïò ôéìÞ ôïõï ðñüåäñïò ôïõ Ðáíåðéóôçìßïõ Ôáöôòôçò Âïóôþíçò êáé êáôÜ ôçí äéÜñêåéÜ ôïõáíáêçñý÷èçêå åðßôéìïò äéäÜêôùñ.

Ìå ðÜíäçìåò åêäçëþóåéò áãÜðçò ïé Åëëçíïñèüäïîïéôçò ÁìåñéêÞò õðïäÝ÷ïíôáé ôïí Ïéêïõìåíéêü ÐáôñéÜñ÷ç

Ï Ïéêïõìåíéêüò ÐáôñéÜñ÷çò ðáñÝ-óôç ôï ðñùß ôçò åðïìÝíçò óå äïîïëïãßáóôçí Ýäñá ôïõ Åëëçíéêïý Êïëåãßïõ ôçòÂïóôþíçò êáé ôçò ÈåïëïãéêÞò ó÷ïëÞòôïõ Ôéìßïõ Óôáõñïý, óôï ÌðñïõêëÜéíêáé áíáêçñý÷èçêå åðßôéìïò äéäÜêôïñáò.

Óôçí ÁôëÜíôá

Åðüìåíïò óôáèìüò Þôáí ç ÁôëÜíôá,üðïõ ôïí õðïäÝ÷èçêáí åêáôïíôÜäåòðéóôþí áðü ôçí ðïëéôåßá ôçò ÔæüñôæéááëëÜ êáé ôéò ãåéôïíéêÝò ðïëéôåßåò ôçòÁëáìðÜìá êáé ôçò Íüôéáò Êáñïëßíáò, ìååðéêåöáëÞò ôïí Åðßóêïðï ÔñùÜäïò ê.ÁëÝîéï, ðïõ åêôåëåß ÷ñÝç Áñ÷éåðé-óêïðéêïý Åðéôñüðïõ. ÁìÝóùò ìåôÜ ôçíåðßóçìç õðïäï÷Þ ï ÏéêïõìåíéêüòÐáôñéÜñ÷çò ðÞãå óôïí Êáèåäñéêü íáüôïõ Åõáããåëéóìïý üðïõ åøÜëç äïîï-ëïãßá êáé ôï âñÜäõ ðáñáêÜèçóå óåäåßðíï ðïõ ðáñÝèåóå ôï Åèíéêü Óõì-âïýëéï ôçò Öéëïðôþ÷ïõ, ìå ôçí åõêáéñßáôçò 65çò åðåôåßïõ áðü ôçò éäñýóåþòôçò.

Óçìáíôéêüò óôáèìüò óôçí åðßóêåøçôïõ ÐáôñéÜñ÷ç óôçí ÁôëÜíôá Þôáí çåðßóêåøÞ ôïõ óôï ôÜöï ôïõ äïëïöï-íçìÝíïõ çãÝôç êáé áãùíéóôÞ ôùí áíèñù-ðßíùí äéêáéùìÜôùí ÌÜñôéí ËïýèåñÊéíãê. Ôïí ê. Âáñèïëïìáßï ðïõ Ýøáëëååðéìíçìüóõíç äÝçóç, õðïäÝ÷èçêå ç÷Þñá ôïõ Êéíãê, ÊïñÝôá Óêüô Êéíãê.

ÊáôÜ ôçí ðáñáìïíÞ ôïõ óôçí ÁôëÜ-íôá ï Ïéêïõìåíéêüò ÐáôñéÜñ÷çò åðé-óêÝöèçêå êáé ôï Ïëõìðéáêü ÐÜñêï êáéôéìÞèçêå ìå ôçí áíþôåñç ôéìçôéêÞäéÜêñéóç ôïõ Ðáíåðéóôçìßïõ ¸ìïñé.

Óôï ÓéêÜãï

Ç Ýêôç åðÝôåéïò áðü ôçí åêëïãÞ ôïõê. Âáñèïëïìáßïõ óôï èñüíï ôïõ Ïéêïõ-ìåíéêïý ÐáôñéÜñ÷ç ãéïñôÜóôçêå ìåìåãáëïðñÝðåéá óôï ÓéêÜãï, êáôÜ ôçíäéÜñêåéá ðáíïñèüäïîçò ëåéôïõñãßáòóôïí ÷þñï Navy Pier, üðïõ ÷éëéÜäåòåëëçíïñèïäüîùí ðñïóÞëèáí ãéá íáëÜâïõí ôçí åõëïãßá ôïõ. Ôï áðüãåõìáôçò ðñïçãïýìåíçò çìÝñáò ï Ïéêïõ-ìåíéêüò ÐáôñéÜñ÷çò óõíáíôÞèçêå óôïíßäéï ÷þñï ìå 6000 íÝïõò, ðïõ ðáñïõ-óßáóáí Ýíá åéäéêü ðñüãñáììá ìå åëëç-íéêïýò ÷ïñïýò.

Óôçí äéÜñêåéá ôçò ðáñáìïíÞò ôïõóôï ÓéêÜãï ï Ïéêïõìåíéêüò ÐáôñéÜñ÷çòÝãéíå äåêôüò ìå ôéìÝò êáé áðü ôïíäÞìáñ÷ï ôçò ðüëçò ê. Ñßôóáñíô ÍôÝéëéðïõ ðáñÝèåóå êáé ãåýìá ðñïò ôéìÞ ôïõ.

Óôçí Áúüâá

Ôçí Ôñßôç, 4 Íïåìâñßïõ, Þôáí çóåéñÜ ôïõ Íôå Ìüéí, óôçí ðïëéôåßá ôçòÁúüâá. Ïé ó÷åôéêÜ ëßãïé åêåß ïñèüäïîïéôïí õðïäÝ÷ôçêáí óýóóùìïé, ìå èåñìÝòåêäçëþóåéò áãÜðçò. ÔåëÝóôçêå äïîï-ëïãßá óôï íáü ôïõ Áãßïõ Ãåùñãßïõ êáéáêïëïýèùò ï ÊõâåñíÞôçò ôçò ðïëéôåßáòÔÝñé ÌðñÜíóôáíô ðáñÝèåóå ãåýìáðñïò ôéìÞ ôïõ Ïéêïõìåíéêïý ÐáôñéÜñ÷ç.

Óôï ÍôÜëáò

Ôï áðüãåõìá ôçò ßäéáò çìÝñáò ïÏéêïõìåíéêüò ÐáôñéÜñ÷çò Ýöèáóå óôïÍôÜëáò ôïõ ÔÝîáò, üðïõ ôïí õðïäÝ÷-èçêå åðéêåöáëÞò ðëÞèïõò ðéóôþí êáéôïðéêþí åêðñïóþðùí ï ÅðßóêïðïòÍôÝíâåñ ê. ÇóáÀáò. ÁìÝóùò ìåôÜ åøÜëçÐáôñéáñ÷éêüò åóðåñéíüò óôï íáü ôçòÁãßáò ÔñéÜäïò êáé áêïëïýèçóå äåîßùóç,ðïõ ïñãáíþèçêå áðü ôç Íåïëáßá ôçòÅðéóêïðÞò. Ôï ßäéï âñÜäõ ï äÞìáñ÷ïòôïõ ÍôÜëáò ê. Ñïí Êåñê, ðáñÝèåóåäåßðíï ðñïò ôéìÞ ôïõ ÏéêïõìåíéêïýÐáôñéÜñ÷ç.

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�You just remember, you are still inTurkey, and here we do not tolerate anyoneraising his voice with our employees. Nowget out of the line and go to the rear againbefore I call the police.� Those were sober-ing words for many of us tourists to hear atan airport in Constantinople. Perhaps thepoor old codger in front of us shouldn�t haveraised his voice, but our hearts went out to

by Chris Andreas

him anyway. The words of the manager werestill ringing in my ears when after waitingan hour on that �insane� line I finally arrivedat the ticket booth. And one can only imag-ine how I did my best to keep myself frombecoming completely unraveled when ayoung lady looked at my tickets and said,�Oh sir, you are at the wrong airport. Youwant Domestic Flights, not International!�So much for trying to communicate with taxidrivers through a pocket sized translationbook.

More seriously, however, the words, �.. . remember, you are still in Turkey,� tell adeep truth concerning that nation. Whenyou�re in a foreign land where you noticethat most traffic cops have a sub-machinegun at their side, you realize rather quicklythat you�re in a country that may have someheavy problems. When you notice that of-fices and lobbies of all buildings, both pub-lic and private including those of churches,must have, as mandated by law, hanging ona wall a picture of an early 20th century na-tional hero, you realize that you�re in a coun-try that may be suffering from a sense ofinsecurity. When you see a priest of theChristian faith not being permitted to preachthe Gospel or wear his priestly garments inpublic; when you see the Church not beingpermitted to choose its own leadership oropen theological seminaries or ethnicschools, one might be reminded of dicta-torships of the recent past. But in fact this is

what one finds in modern day Turkey, a U.S.NATO ally in the Near East.

Whenever evil rears its ugly head, thegood must respond against it in some way.In earlier decades of this century, the worldfailed to do so against some pretty nasty dic-tatorships and paid heavily as a result. AnEnglishman by thename of Toynbeeonce said that wewho fail to learnthe lessons of his-tory are bound torepeat its mis-takes. Thus, wenow witness theefforts of worldpeace organiza-tions and quite of-ten the implemen-tation of protec-tive interventionon a global scale.

As a people,Turks are as warmand hospitable asanyone else in theworld. But theirgovernment is an-other matter, andit cannot be de-nied that todayTurkey is finding itself increasingly isolatedfrom the late 20th century civilized world,and this due to policies that contradict whatthe rest of the world considers democraticand just.

Where does all of this leave us as Ameri-cans of Greek heritage? We are all familiarwith our past relationships with Turkey;there is no point in rehashing the story here.But in understanding our faith and culture,

we are left with a legacy to support ourpeople everywhere. For all Greeks, Turkeyremains as the primary imbroglio in theworld, and we must continue to do all wecan in support of our brethren and of ourMother Church who remain there.

Regarding our Mother Church, the Ecu-menical Patri-archate ofConstantinople,there are thosewho may say,�We don�t needthem. We as aChurch inAmerica shouldbe autocepha-lous.� or �Let thePatriarchate mo-ve to Geneva.The Churchwould be betteroff. The Turkishg o v e r n m e n tdoesn�t allowthe Church tochoose its ownleaders any-way.� I can onlyask whether ornot we�re socertain that we

would be better off being autocephalous orthat the Church would be better served witha move by the Patriarchate to Geneva oranywhere else? Is history itself so repletewith major success stories that have comefrom autocephaly that we should all join the�bandwagon?� Do we actually believe that,from a temporal understanding, the Ecu-menical Patriarchate does not know thatthey would be better off if they moved to a

different and more acceptable part of theworld? Yet they reject the refinements andriches of the modern world in favor of theheavenly pleasing spiritual realm while re-maining constantly as a target of anti-Chris-tian forces. There is more to their determi-nation than mere custom. And as much asthe argument for autocephaly may be theresult of those who have genuinely con-cerned themselves with the spiritual wellbeing of the Church, in many cases it alsosmacks of nationalism and modernism.�This will be an American Church only, andwe will be free to do as we wish.� This atti-tude, I firmly believe, has its own inherentdangers. Quite often, nationalism and mod-ernism take on a religion all their own.

The past five and a half centuries standout as a witness of great sacrifices on the partof the Church and the Ecumenical Patriarch-ate of Constantinople. Throughout, theChurch has endured intermittent period ofpersecutions including mass slaughters of thefaithful which in turn included many of herleaders. Anyone who has done any studyingat all or who has listened to the stories offorebears is familiar with the history. Five anda half centuries is longer than the early Churchendured at the hands of pagan Imperial Rome.Her sufferings continue to this day. Yet, bythe Grace of God, our Mother Church re-mains intact. And to �cut and run� would bean affront to all those martyrs who so noblygave of their blood during this tremendousepoch of trial and tribulation. To cut and runwould be an admission that evil can indeedwin in the end if it persists long enough. Andif it can win in Constantinople, the MotherChurch of all Orthodox, and First in Honoramong all Patriarchates, then it is only logi-cal to assume that it can win everywhere elsein the world as well.

Make no mistake, this is spiritual war-

The minaret always towers above christianmonuments and Churches in Constantinople.


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Our young people today are facedwith many questions, fears and challenges.As youth workers, we can help answertheir questions, allay their fears and leadthem to make the right choices.

In order to do this, though, we mustlearn how to be active listeners. We musthear their words, empathize with their feel-ings and gain their perspective. Active lis-tening says, you are important and I aminterested in what you�re saying. Onceour young people receive this message,then they will be more apt to share theirthoughts and concerns with us.

Here are some tips on how you canbe a more active listener:

1. Maintain good eye contact thatreflects empathy, understanding, worth,and concern.

2. Use verbal comments to react towhat your speaker is saying and feeling.

Listening and Responding with Empathy3. Restate your speaker�s thoughts,

clearly reflecting their message.4. Ask questions that will encour-

age your speaker to elaborate on their feel-ings and thoughts.

5. Maintain a nonjudgmental atti-tude.

6. Give advice but don�t preach.

REMEMBER, to communicate withempathy is to communicate so that theother person feels genuinely heard. Mostpeople listen, but few hear. Our Lord JesusChrist listened to people. He heard whatthey said and he responded with compas-sion and love. Let us emulate Christ�sexample so that we may hear the con-cerns of our young people, acknowledgetheir feelings and respond with love.

If you look inside the altar of any Or-thodox Church, you will find a book of theGospel on the Holy Table. In the earlychurch, the gospel was not placed on theHoly Table as it is today butrather it was kept with the holyvessels in a special place in thechurch called theskevophylakion which meansa place for guarding vessels.Before the invention of theprinting press, the Gospel waswritten by hand on parch-ments, �of elaborately pre-pared animal skins,� and so itwas a very valuable item andvery few people could evenafford to have one in theirhomes.

During the Divine Liturgy, the priestwould take the Gospel from the vestry andcarry it to the Holy Table in a procession.This transfer was called �the Small En-trance.� This same procession is re-enacted

The Holy Martyr PlatoNovember 18th

Plato was born and raised as a Chris-tian in the town of Ancyra in Galatia. Platostruggled from his youth to lead a virtu-ous life and never tried to conceal his faithin and love for Jesus Christ. On the con-trary, he preached it openly and con-demned idolaters for their bowing downto dead creatures in place of the living God.

For this reason, Plato was harshly tor-tured by the governor, Agrippinus. Whenthe governor offered him a chance toavoid death and save his life by worship-ping idols, Plato replied, �There are twodeaths: the temporal and the eternal;and there are two lives: the one transi-tory and the other without end.� Uponhearing this response, the governor com-manded that Plato undergo even harshertorture. Red-hot cannon balls wereplaced on Plato�s naked body and his fleshwas cut into strips. To this, Plato cried,�Torture me more harshly that your in-humanity and my endurance may bethe more clearly seen.�

Thereafter, Plato was thrown intoprison and spent eighteen days withoutbread or water. When those guarding himmarveled that Plato could live without foodfor so long, he said to them, �You are sati-ated by food, but I by holy prayer; you re-joice in wine, but I in Christ the true Vine.�

Plato was finally beheaded in about266 A.D. and received a wreath of eter-nal glory.

When we try to follow Christ and liveby His example, a battle or warfare beginsto take place. It�s called a spiritual warfarebecause it�s a battle between the negativemessages that continue to influence us andthe way Christ tells us we should live ourlives. One of the most difficult battles weface is the one against peer pressure.

Peer pressure is one of the most domi-nant influences in our lives

and it can cause us to do and say thingsthat we do not necessarily agree with but�everyone else does.� Even St. Paulstruggled with this. Listen to what hewrites:: �I don�t understand myself at all,for I really want to do what is right, but Ican�t. I do what I don�t want to do - what Ihate...It seems to be a fact of life that whenI want to do what is right, I inevitably dowhat is wrong...My new life tells me to doright, but the old nature that is still insideme loves to sin. Oh, what a terrible pre-dicament I�m in! Who will free me frommy slavery to this deadly lower nature?Thank God! It has been done by Jesus Christour Lord. He has set me free.� (Romans7:15-25 / TLB) Even the saints struggled andexperienced frustration when dealing withpeer pressure but they did not despair. Theypersisted in their struggle to do what�s rightbecause they knew that Jesus Christ wouldbe with them to strengthen them and helpthem every step of the way.

It�s not always easy to do the right thingespecially when it doesn�t agree with whatour friends are doing. Since peer pressureis a major battle in our lives, it is importantto be equipped with the weapons that willhelp us to win this war. Here are some tipsthat can help you:

Remember that everyone you spendtime with has an influence on you. Peoplecan influence you in either a positive or nega-tive way.

Choose your friends wisely. Remem-ber your uniqueness. You are special inGod�s eyes.

Never forget the wise saying, �Contro-versy is the cost of conviction.� Defend-ing our values and beliefs isn�t always easy.In the long run, though, we�ll be more ac-cepted by our peers when they observe aconfidence in ourselves that God gives uswhen we grow in Him and choose to do theright thing.

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Did you know that your body is, lit-erally, a temple of God? It�s true, and asa temple of God, we must be careful howwe treat our bodies and what we do withthem.

For example, what would you say ifsomeone suggested that in order to gener-ate more income for your church, the sanc-tuary be converted to a nightclub duringthe week? Just imagine how much moneyyou could bring in!

No doubt, such a proposal would be

today during every Divine Liturgy. Thismoment symbolizes Christ�s coming intothe world to teach us God�s truth. JesusChrist enters into our midst when the priest

carries the gold-covered Gos-pel book from the Altar. Thepriest calls all of us to wor-ship and bow down beforeChrist as he proclaims�Come! Let us worship andbow down before Christ!�As the priest prepares to readthe Holy Gospel, let us rec-ognize that at that very mo-ment, it is Christ that is in ourmidst and it is He that isteaching His Gospel to us. Asthe faithful in Jesus� time re-ceived His teachings and ac-

cepted His Word, we too at this momentmust prepare ourselves to receive the teach-ings of Jesus Christ, plant them deep withinour souls, and strive to live according to HisWord.

met with much resistance and hostility. Al-most everyone would argue that such aproposition is sacrilegious and violates thesanctity and holiness of God�s house.

This is true, but what about our bodywhich is even more so a temple of Godthan the church building is? We receiveChrist into our bodies on Sundays by par-taking of Holy Communion but how do wetreat or mistreat it throughout the week?Do we respect our body as the temple ofGod or do we turn it into a bar or an amuse-ment park? �Do you know that your bodyis the temple of the Holy Spirit who is inyou, whom you have from god, and youare not your own?� (1 Cor 6:15)

As temples of the Holy Spirit, our bod-ies belong to God and they are not ours todo as we please. Although such a conceptchallenges the egomania cultivated by oursociety today, it is based on the belief thatour bodies are destined to spend eternitywith God. They were created to glorify Hisname in all that we do and say as well asthrough our actions and interactions withone another. Therefore, �glorify God inyour body and in your spirit, which areGod�s.� (1 Cor 6:20)


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from page 2PRESBYTERS

from page 20SIEGE

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books kept out of sight for centuries. In ex-change for letting the treasures out for thefirst time, the monks were assured of funds,some from the European Union, to help res-cue their crumbling buildings, Greek Cul-ture Ministry officials said.

To some, this signaled that the monas-tic community was capable of flexibilitywhen it came to its own survival.

�It would be good to create an areathat women can visit, such as a museumat the entry to Mount Athos, but this issomething the monks should initiate. Theyshould not be forced,�� Alavanos said.

Defenders of the ban agree that amuseum on the border could help to pla-cate protesting women but warn thatChurch organizations would put up a hugefight against women wandering around themonasteries.

�Some of the elder monks have livedin penance and away from the world for 50or 60 years,�� Hadjifotis said. �Nobody hasthe right to disturb their peace.��

OF SPECIAL INTERESTfrom page 2

A report was also given on Clergy Ben-efits by the V. Rev. Gabriel Karambis, chair-man of the Administration Committee of theProgram and the newly appointed directorof the office, Mrs. Katherine Peters who suc-ceeded the Rev. Constantine Eliades whorecently retired. Fr. Eliades was congratu-lated for all of his efforts on behalf of theclergy and their families. The ArchdiocesanOffice of Benefits will be mailing informa-tion to the clergy and their families within avery short time concerning the entire ben-efits program and the new clergy remunera-tion scale for 1998.

Finally the Presbyters formed a com-mittee to begin preparation for the Clergyand Presbyteres program at the Clergy-La-ity Congress to be held in July of 1998 inOrlando , Fla. The suggested topics thusfar include Bioethical issues facing thechurch today, priests� vulnerability in theface of changing society, clergyman in thenext Millennium and the physical health ofthe priest�s family.

Also stated was the need for all clergy-man in the Archdiocese to realize that thePresbyter�s Council is the voice of theclergy in the Archdiocese. All concerns andquestions on issues should be directed tothe elected representative who comprisethis advisory council to His Eminence andthat they will then bring them to the atten-tion of the Archdiocese.

The next meeting will be held in thespring of 1998 at a location to be deter-mined.

ins in convalescent homes, and supportgroups for the bereaved and divorced.

The annual Greek Festival is a major in-come source and the community�s main ac-tivity during the year although the parish de-rives most of its income from stewardship,which Fr. Chris introduced in 1995-96.

Fr. Chris said that his biggest challenge inthe community consists of four goals: �that thewill of God will prevail, that we will turn aroundthe social mentality toward the spiritual, for ourstewardship program to surpass 1,000, and tobring more youth into the church.�

PARISH PROFILEfrom page 4

several philanthropic programs, including St.Basil Academy, Children�s Medical Fund, HolyCross School of Theology, St. Photios Shrine,St. Michael�s Home for the Aged, and others.

For reservations, call: Mrs. AlfredJohnson (212) 879-2360; Mrs. LenaSpyropoulos (212) 249-0403, or Ms.Marguarite Stephanopoulos (212) 744-2429.

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fare of the highest magnitude, and notmerely political warfare of a temporalsphere. Being First in Honor while at thesame time remaining within an environmenthostile to Christianity, the Ecumenical Pa-triarchate of Constantinople remains as aprime example of a bastion of freedom forthe Christian world. It is also the front lineof battle against those who oppose the truefaith as given to us by our Lord and SaviorJesus Christ. Finally, it is a test of our ownresolve and faith.

If our Patriarchate is not supported withall of our power, and if at some time in thefuture it is forced to remove itself fromConstantinople and go elsewhere, it willresult in severe international implications.By that I mean that if it falls, then all theother major Patriarchates, I believe, will alsobe placed in greater jeopardy and will bemore likely to fall, the Domino Theory be-

coming an Effect. For instance, if the freeand Christian world does not stand up andprotest the forced removal of the Ecumeni-cal Patriarchate, then what will prevent Al-exandria, where our Coptic Orthodox breth-ren are already imprisoned by the hundredsif not thousands, from also eventually fall-ing? What will prevent the Jerusalem Patri-archate, whose numbers of faithful Chris-tians dwindles with each passing day, andwhere there are attempts through the pas-sage of laws at the State level to prevent allChristian teaching, from also falling? Andwhat will prevent the Church of Antioch,within the borders of a nation known for itssupport of international terrorism, from alsofalling if the world in general and our ownpeople in particular do not supportConstantinople? For if evil can be victoriousagainst the Mother Church, certainly it canbe victorious against all the others as well.

You won�t see many of the above factsin most American newspapers, so it�s up to

us first to stand up and be counted for ourfaith and Church. All of us as part of theRoyal Priesthood of Christ have a stake inthis. Our spiritual ancestry goes back toAndrew the Apostle, the Protoclitos, theFirst-Called of Christ. To lose inConstantinople is to lose this heritage. Onthe other hand, fighting for the MotherChurch spiritually, politically on both thenational and international fronts, andthrough financial support will generate farmore positive results. Like the Early Church,our Mother Church in Constantinople cannow rise again after centuries of persecu-tion and not only continue through the Graceof God to stand against those forces of evil,but also take her rightful place within a Chris-tian world that starves for the Truths of theApostolic Faith. As Greek Orthodox, we arethe only ones who can bring this about. Onlyby witnessing our own faith in action willthe rest of the world care enough to alsostand up and be counted.



DES MOINES, Iowa (RNS).� Asmorning breaked across the Midwest-ern plains early Tuesday (Nov. 4), DoraBitsos was to join more than two dozenother members of her Omaha, Neb.,church for a 2 1/2-hour bus ride to DesMoines and what she expected to be ahigh point in her life as a Greek Ortho-dox Christian.

For a Few Hours, America�s Heartland was the Center of Orthodoxy

By Ira Rifkin

�I�m going to see the ecumenicalpatriarch!� said Bitsos, a member ofOmaha�s St. John the Baptist GreekOrthodox Church. �It�s an honor just tobe near him and maybe receive hisblessing.�

The American heartland is by nomeans a bastion of Orthodox Christianstrength. But for about five hours Tues-day it was the center of the Orthodoxworld when Ecumenical PatriarchBartholomew stopped here enroutefrom Chicago to Dallas as part of hismonth-long tour of the United States.

Bartholomew is Orthodoxy�s lead-ing figure. He has direct authority over

has received a $50,000 gift to spruce upin anticipation of Bartholomew�s visit.

In the United States, Orthodoxy�s mi-nority status has thrown together mem-bers of the various ethnic churches whotraditionally remained apart in their na-tive lands. In cities such as Des Moines,this forced ecumenism has pushed localOrthodoxy to the faith�s cutting edge.

The absence of church options hasprompted Orthodox Christians frommore than a half-dozen ethnic jurisdic-tions to worship together at St. George.The congregation is now home to Rus-sian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Antiochian, Cyp-riot and Latvian Orthodox Christians, inaddition to the descendants of the Greekimmigrants who founded the parish in1928 and who still predominate.

One result of this mixing is thegreater use of English at St. George as acommon liturgical language. Worship ser-vices today are half in Greek, half in En-glish. A decade ago, they were entirely inGreek.

�The emphasis today is on the Ameri-can way of life,� said Krino Wright, 65, alife-long member of St. George. �There�s

the 13 million-member Greek Ortho-dox Church and is traditionally regardedas the �first among equals� by leadersof the more than one dozen other au-tonomous Orthodox churches, whichshare a common theology and worshipstyle but are divided along ethnic andnational lines.

The churches � which have theirroots in the Balkans, Slavic Europe andthe Middle East � have a combinedmembership of more than 300 millionworldwide. An estimated 2 million to 6million Orthodox Christians live in theUnited States.

Bitsos is one of hundreds of Or-thodox church members from acrossthe Midwest who converged here to seeBartholomew, who during his relativelybrief visit was to lead two worship ser-vices and attend a public luncheonhosted by Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad.The largest of the services, set for theDes Moines Civic Center, was expected to attract about2,700 Orthodox Christians.

�For us, it�s not so much the person we�re going for,although we respect and honor him,� said the Rev. NickKasemeotes, pastor of Holy Anargyroi Greek OrthodoxChurch, the only Orthodox congregation in Rochester, Minn.

�He symbolizes 2,000 years of Christian tradition. He�sa symbol that Christianity can survive in adverse conditions,�said Kasemeotes, who spent much of Tuesday in a bus alongwith members of his parish also making the trek to DesMoines. The drive is four hours each way.

In Muslim Istanbul � the church�s headquarters eversince the city was called Constantinople and was the east-ern capital of the Roman Empire � Orthodoxy�s adversi-ties include Islamic fundamentalists upset by the patriarch�scontinued presence there and the ongoing political tensionsbetween Greece and Turkey that periodically boil over. InDes Moines, Orthodox Christianity faces adversity of an-other sort. Here, where Orthodoxy is a little-known minor-ity faith � and sometimes mistakenly lumped in with Or-thodox Jews � the issue is basic survival.

�We�re an outpost,� said the Rev. Peter Cade, pastorof Des Moines� St. George Greek Orthodox Church. �Wehave to fight just to keep from minimizing our traditionsjust to fit in.�

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America claimssome 1.5 million members, but just 124 families are affili-ated with St. George, the only Orthodox congregation inIowa�s capital city and one of just six in the entire state.The next largest branch of Orthodoxy in the United States,the 1 million-member Orthodox Church in America, whichhas its roots in Russian Orthodoxy, does not have a singleparish in Iowa.

Instead, Midwestern Orthodox Christians tend to becentered around Chicago, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Detroitand Gary, Ind. � cities that offered enough jobs to attractthe bulk of the tens of thousands of immigrants from Or-thodox nations who settled in the region in the late 1800s

not so much emphasis anymore on Greekindependence day, for example. It�s not aghetto environment anymore.�

Opening the church to the largerAmerican culture has brought with it con-troversy and conflict, however.

For one, the tensions that haveerupted in American Orthodoxy over at-tempts by Bartholomew and ArchbishopSpyridon � the ecumenical patriarch�shand-picked head of the American Greekchurch � to maintain authority over Or-thodoxy in the United States have foundtheir way to Des Moines.

Many Orthodox Christians in DesMoines supported the 1994 efforts ofsome American Orthodox bishops tomodernize their church by uniting underan autonomous U.S. leadership � an ef-fort rejected by Bartholomew.

�Administrative unity is the numberone issue here,� said Cade. �We may begeographically distant from the Orthodox

population centers, but distance means little in the worldof telephones and e-mail.�

Intermarriage, primarily involving younger OrthodoxChristians, has also impacted the parish.

In 1995, the latest year for which figures are available,nearly two-thirds of the marriages performed by priests ofthe Greek Orthodox Archdiocese�s Chicago diocese, whichincludes Des Moines, involved a non-Orthodox Christianspouse. Orthodoxy allows its members to be married inthe church if they marry a �trinitarian� Christian.

�The big change in this regard began in the late 1970s,�said the Rev. Demetri Kantzavelos, chancellor of the Chi-cago diocese. �What will happen with the next generationis a guess.�

In Des Moines, about 80 percent of the marriages atSt. George involved a non-Orthodox spouse. Many of thenon-Orthodox spouses eventually converted to Orthodoxyafter being attracted by its conservative theological viewsand ornate, high-church worship style, Cade said.

Converted spouses, along with other converts, accounttoday for almost a third of St. George�s membership. Withthat has come further pressure to dilute St. George�s ethnicroots.

�The downside is they (converts) have a Western, veryAmerican mindset that sees ethnicity as detached from faith,�said Cade, himself a convert from the United MethodistChurch, where he was once a minister.

�I have to differ with that. The idea of faith meshingwith culture is precisely the point of Orthodox Christianity,which is about transforming culture rather than abandon-ing it.�

Cade believes Orthodoxy will flourish in cities such asDes Moines, thanks in part to the nation�s current swingtoward traditional religions. Just what face Orthodoxy willpresent in the future is the big question.

The challenge facing St. George, he said, is to �broadenthe appeal of pan-Orthodoxy while retaining Greek in thename of our church.�

and early part of this century.Des Moines was on Bartholomew�s schedule because

the 57-year-old patriarch asked to visit a small Midwesternparish to see how it differs from the big city congregationshe will visit during most of his 16-city tour, which ends inPittsburgh Nov. 17.

�It�s his pastoral way of saying, ̀I think you�re also im-portant and I think you matter,�� said Cade, whose church

ECUMENICAL DOXOLOGY led by His All Holiness at the CivicCenter of Greater Des Moines (far top). Also pictured, the75-member choir from mid-western Orthodox, RomanCatholic and Presbyterian churches. The Patriarch (above)greets parishioners at St. George Church following adoxology of Thansksgiving (below). (D. Panagos photos)

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