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!
κάνετε κλικ εδώ για Ελληνικά The first Universities The first ten centuries in the Church’s history, as we have seen, are totally interwoven with the sociopolitical conditions in the Mediterranean basin and the countries near it. Ten centuries of fermentation with the Gospel in the everyday life of thousands of people brought about, at times … More Unity of faith and language
κάνετε κλικ εδώ για Ελληνικά Charlemagne Three great men, three decisive steps into the formation of the West in the eighth century of the Christian era: Charles Martel, who stopped the Arab expansion at Poitiers in 732 A.D., his son Pepin III the Short, who supported the Church of Rome against the Lombards and who … More The Holy Roman Empire
κάνετε κλικ εδώ για Ελληνικά In Flanders fields In Flanders fields the poppies blow … More In Flanders fields
A factor of unity and identity κάνετε κλικ εδώ για Ελληνικά The 7th century is characterized by the wars of the Byzantines against the Persian which end in 627 A.D. with the total victory of Emperor Heracleius over them. Wars between the Byzantines and the Arabs do follow (629-717 A.D.) resulting in the annexation of … More Efforts and Achievements
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 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 …and the desire for God In the Greek language, both Modern and Ancient, truth is aletheia (αλήθεια) and this word is derived from a + Lethe (α+λήθη) which mean non-forgetfulness. In Greek thought, therefore, truth is that which cannot be forgotten. It is not forgotten because it does not … More Truth…
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
Open Reflections 