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The Sunday of the Veneration of the Cross is today! With a spirit of celebration and surrounded by flowers, the Precious Cross of Christ is placed in the center of the Church. All of the faithful come forward to venerate the life-bearing Cross of Christ, with profound devotion in gratitude for everything that It has already given to us, and what It continues to offer. We are now halfway through Great Lent, along with the spiritual and ascetic struggles that go with it. As today’s Synaxarion explains, the Church presents to us the life-giving Cross in order to refresh and comfort us, as we endure the hardships of fasting. The Precious Cross is like a tree with many leaves that a weary traveler sees on a long and harsh journey. Just as the traveler stops to rest in the shade before continuing, so we too rest in the “shade” of the Precious Cross. In this we are given the strength and grace to continue our fight in the Spiritual Arena, for the rest of our lives.
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Beloved Brothers and Sisters,
I feel the need to reach out to you these days, when everyone is going through such an unprecedented suffering, and, of course, we all share this pain.
Due to the rapid spread of the virus, as you know, the Governments, in order to protect their people from this great danger, have been forced to take harsh restrictive measures to avoid the crowding in many public places, even in places of worship of any religion.
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Brother hierarchs and beloved children in the Lord,
From the Phanar, from the heart of the Queen of Cities, from the City of the Great Church and of Haghia Sophia, we are communicating with each and every one of you – women, men, and children – because of the unprecedented conditions and tribulation that we are facing as a human race as a result of the global threat posed by the pandemic of the new coronavirus, called Covid-19.
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We honor today a great Father of our Church, St. Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonika. St. Gregory, in keeping with the example of the Holy Fathers of the Church, confronted the heresies of his time to defend Orthodox doctrine. This is why the Church has designated the Second Sunday of Great Lent to commemorate his memory, in extension of the previous Sunday of Orthodoxy.
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Today, on this first Sunday of Great Lent, our Holy Church celebrates the triumph of Orthodoxy. It is a commemoration of victory of the true faith against heresies, and all other enemies. That is why this day is called the “Sunday of Orthodoxy.”