His Eminence Dorotheos B’: Circular Message by His Eminence Metropolitan of Syros and Mykonos. Dorotheou B’ to the inhabitants of the islands on the occasion of Holy Week and Easter
Message to the inhabitants of the islands on the occasion of Holy Week, but also the celebration of Easter, Metropolitan of Syros addressed, Ms. Dorotheos II.
'My blessed Christians, Residents of our sun and sea -seafood islands,
My dear visitors, Those of you who chose them, To celebrate with us the Holy Days of the Great Week and Easter, of our Lord's passions and resurrection.
"Espera is screened and in the morning" (Psalm 26, 6)
With this prophetic reason from the book of Psalms, King David, heralds the joyous event of Christ's resurrection and the sunrise of a new day.
As Sunday's sweetheart succeeds the supernatural darkness of Friday and the prevailing silence of Saturday, The Teacher's Faithful Students, they become irrefutable witnesses of the Risen God!
Very Sunday morning, these courageous women arrive at the Memorial, mourning their Crucified Master.
Following the shocking events of the next- applied, come in faces with one more paradoxical fact. The absence of the buried body of the Lord.
And while it was rated 'They stole the hoped;», A laughter angel sues the cheerful event, with the exhortation of 'lament ὁ weather is gone, you are crying! ».
The cry of the night is now over, giving his place to the ethnic rejoicing! The hope of the myrrhs did not stole! The Hope of the World Risen! Because the resurrected Christ is the only certain hope in a deconstructed world.
The modern, the so -called news, time, galloping rapidly on roads of rough. Humanity, like a boat without anchor, sails in uncharted waters and unknown sea.
The man, moving from a selfish mood to overcome the creator of God, wishes to overcome him and gain eternity and immortality, building a new Babel tower.
The achievements of artificial intelligence, the- humanization of society, the underestimation of the value of the human person and the violation of his freedom, they overshadow the real light-bearing experience of Christ's Resurrection.
Like the scent-bearing women of old, so today, bereaved humanity now wonders: "who stole our hope;».
Nobody can, Nevertheless, to steal and deprive man of hope, stemming from the empty monument of the resurrected god.
All constructions of modern science, They are handmade creations of man. Are not capable of giving immortality to man, because they lack a unique and invaluable gift provided by the resurrection of Christ:
The love!
This love, which is reflected in the face of Christ and donated through the fact of the victory of the Crucified God over death.
This love that lives the man and makes him a real community of the experience of the shining resurrection.
This same love that is recorded in the letter of the beloved disciple: "we saw that we passed from death to life, because we love the brothers".
Because the passage from death to life and resurrection takes place only through love for our brother, As the Augustine Holy Augustly lifts' love and do it,what do you want. If you shut up, shut up with love. If you shout, to shout with love. If you correct, to correct with love. If you forgive me, to forgive with love".
And if we ask ourselves the measure of this Resurrection love that springs from the Life-giving and Holy Sepulcher, this Holy Father of the Church, gives the answer effectively and accurately:
"the measure of love is to love without measure"
With holidays & paternal wishes and paternal love
Dorotheos II of Syros"