tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658400389748240946.post188925309854310080..comments2024-01-19T00:28:05.335+11:00Comments on Orthodox Christian Fellowship (F.O.C.U.S) UNSW: Christ is Born, Glorify Him!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658400389748240946.post-52802676055440892442010-12-24T20:35:38.349+11:002010-12-24T20:35:38.349+11:00Merry Christmas Pandeli!
Καλά Χριστούγεννα!Merry Christmas Pandeli!<br />Καλά Χριστούγεννα!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658400389748240946.post-59430158571661692742010-12-23T02:23:53.586+11:002010-12-23T02:23:53.586+11:00Χριστός γεννάται, δοξάσατε.
Thanks for posting th...Χριστός γεννάται, δοξάσατε.<br /><br />Thanks for posting these wonderful truths, brother! They have been the central truths of my witness for Christ ever since I first heard them at the beginning of my life as an Orthodox Christian, when my catechist, Fr Michael Courey, taught them to me, but until now I did not know that they are found in the writings of St Irinaios and in Tertullian. I have studied many of the writings of these and other Church fathers, but I don't remember encountering them there. (Maybe I've just forgotten.) But this is what makes Orthodoxy so astonishing, to me and to others who really do want more of Christ in their lives, that the full tradition and life of the Church is available here, not just a thinly disguised humanism or self-centered and contentious triumphalism. All truth, all beauty, are found in Christ and become available to us in our encounter with the single reality of His coming to us, a single event which we experience as several, though they are one: His conception, His birth, His life, teachings and miracles, His passion, His death, His resurrection, His ascension, His sending to us of the Holy Spirit—all these, to us several events, but one Reality, one Event, which we celebrate now and throughout the years of time.<br /><br />Have a blessed Nativity, brother, you and yours, and the fullest blessings in the year to come.Ρωμανός ~ Romanóshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00212143017939554092noreply@blogger.com