INFORMATIVE BULLETIN OF THE PAPHOS LATIN PARISH January 2017 – Part 2 κάνετε κλικ εδώ για Ελληνικά …and they offered Him gold, frankincense and myrrh In the 4th century AD the Church began to use incense in the Eucharistic celebration, in which it came to symbolize the ascent of the prayers of the faithful and … More A year full of promise
κάνετε κλικ εδώ για Ελληνικά INFORMATIVE BULLETIN OF THE PAPHOS LATIN PARISH January 2017 – Part 1 In time and beyond It is customary, these days, to make new resolutions which we hope to keep during the coming year. The year which begins is like a book with blank pages and we are called to … More A PEACEFUL 2017!
Informative Bulletin of the Paphos Latin Parish November 2016 κάνετε κλικ εδώ για Ελληνικά A month full of meaning As the Greek edition of the “Informative Bulletin: completes ten years of presence and service to the community, its English counterpart has reached nine months of being part of our parish’s outreach and a faithful reading … More Thanksgiving
κάνετε κλικ εδώ για Ελληνικά (The content first appeared in the February 2010 issue of the Informative Bulletin of the Paphos Latin Parish) Confronted by the chaos that followed the fall of the Western Roman Empire, by the end of the 5th century, certain strong figures stood up who tried, more through persuasion than by … More The christianization of Europe
Old as the Creation, new like each dawn κάνετε κλικ εδώ για Ελληνικά (The content has been first published in Greek, in the September 2009 issue of the Informative Bulletin of the Paphos Latin Parish). It has been said that the Holy Scripture is the love story between God and His People. Indeed, the sacred texts, … More A love story
κάνετε κλικ εδώ για Ελληνικά Making the sign of the cross… …with the words “In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” is like opening a window to the reality of God’s presence in our life, and like inviting Him to stay with us, guiding us and … More A Sign of protection and restoration
κάνετε κλικ εδώ για Ελληνικά Clarifications The fourth century of our era signals the official recognition of the Christian Faith as having equal status with the other religions which were tolerated in the Roman Empire, namely the Greek-inspired paganism and the religion of Mithra. At the beginning of the 4th century the Christian population in the Empire has … More Catholicity of Faith and heresies
κάνετε κλικ εδώ για να το διαβάσετε στα Ελληνικά Interior life, exterior conquests It was mentioned on a previous post, “The secret of the Kingdom…”, regarding Mysticism in 16th century Spain, that it was more “extroverted” as compared to what had been the case in the previous two centuries. Certainly, it is natural to the person … More Inroads
κάνετε κλικ εδώ για Ελληνικά Disarming simplicity and voluntary radical poverty for the love of Christ characterize Saint Francis of Assisi. Moreover, he worked tirelessly for the good of the Church and the spread of the Gospel to the non Christian world. A great figure among the Saints of the Church, Saint Francis of Assisi reminds … More Saint Francis of Assizi
Κάνετε κλικ εδώ για να το διαβάσετε στα Ελληνικά In the year 781 A.D. during the Tang dynasty, (618- 907 A.D.), in the S.W. region of the province of Zhejiang, near the city of nowadays Longquan, a commemorative stele was erected in honour of the one-hundred-and-fifty years presence of the Assyrian Christian community in … More The Stele of the Luminous religion of Da Qin
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