για Ελληνικά κάνετε κλικ εδώ In the Book of Revelation, chapter 12, there is a mysterious scene: a dragon vomits a torrent from his mouth, which threatens to carry into its waters the woman who brought a male child into the world. But the good earth absorbs the river and the woman and her son … More The Strength of the Church
INFORMATIVE BULLETIN OF THE PAPHOS LATIN PARISH April 2017 Για Ελληνικά κάνετε κλικ εδώ The Resurrection is a cosmic event! For Christians, memory is too lofty and noble a sanctuary to be defiled by human sin. This is what Saint Pope John-Paul II said, among others, while he was visiting Greece, in May 2001. Indeed, … More A cosmic event!
κάνετε κλικ εδώ για Ελληνικά Concerns and strives of 11th century Christians The eleventh century remains a time of confrontation between the Arab and the Christian leaders in Spain, with the reconquest of Seville by El Sid, in 1094, and the partial unification of the Iberian peninsula under the Catholic king of Navarre. In the … More Embattled for the Faith and Education
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 The Fall of the Western Roman Empire The 5th century is a agitated century with many rearrangements on Roman lands. First of all, in 402, Honorius is obliged to transfer his capital from Milan (since 293 AD Milan was the capital of the Roman Empire) to Ravenna under pressure from the … More Embattled on many fronts
κάνετε κλικ εδώ για Ελληνικά In the Greek language the word artos (άρτος) means bread and is derived from the verb ar-ar-isko (αρ-αρ-ίσκω) i.e. to prepare, to connect; therefore, artos points to the procedure (kneading, baking) of bread making. Since artos describes the most basic human (type of) food it might belong to a linguistic sub-layer … More Bread and Wine
κάνετε κλικ εδώ για Ελληνικά Defenseless city? In the 4th century AD another historical event took place which – although was not directly involving the life of the Church played a pivotal role in its future development. In 330 AD the Emperor Constantine the Great decides to transfer the capital of the Empire to Byzantium, … More Spiritual unity, geographical division
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…
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