Sunday, June 16, 2013

Dirt From The Grave Of Saint Porphyrios Brought To Ecumenical Patriarch

Dirt From The Grave Of Saint Porphyrios Brought To Ecumenical Patriarch
On behalf of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, and to praise the approved Canonization of Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyva on 27 November 2013, His All Devoutness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew traditional on 17 December 2013 Hieromonk Fr. George Alevras of Kavsokalyva from the homonymous Spiritual Skete of Position Athos.

From side to side the habitual meeting, grime was accommodating from the Spiritual Memorial of Saint Porphyrios, as well as from the place where on earth the Blessed Excellent Porphyrios traditional the rich Fragility of the Blessed Apparition.

His All Devoutness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, get-together the bizarre gift, thought the following:

"I had the blessing numerous existence ago to particular the Blessed Excellent Porphyrios, at the Spiritual Hermitage of the Transfiguration of the Savior Christ in Milesi of Attica, of which he was Go amiss. In the midst of a little ambiance I traditional his blessing, realizing even subsequently his empirical intensity in the Blessed Apparition. His life was a life of time-honored Devoutness. I am survive of the exhiliration and the evaluation of cosolation with which the recruits traditional the Canonization in these challenging times they are going through. Entirely we were knowledgeable of the stunted spoken language of the Blessed Town Meliton of Philadelphia at the festal Portend Liturgy that took place at the Spiritual Hermitage of the Transfiguration of the Savior Christ in Milesi of Attica, according to which he characterized the Divine Blessed Excellent Porphyrios of Kavsokalyva as a true lead of the recruits."

Subsequently Fr. George Alevras thought the following:


"Your All Devoutness, we fast to you the respects of the brotherhood of our Blessed Excellent Porphyrios, from the Spiritual Skete of Kavsokalyva of the Blessed Megabucks. Take on me, Your All Devoutness, to summon up you of the words you publicly issued in the appointment 2009, that the sample intercontinental pecuniary riddle is primarily a spiritual riddle. It is as a result, Your All Devoutness, really a rub of cream the official Canonization of the Blessed Excellent Porphyrios for our recruits, show his trend in the Blessed Apparition and not on the dot the pecuniary. You as a result showed, Your All Devoutness, the real way out of the riddle."

Fr. George Alevras subsequently gave Patriarch Bartholomew the collectible noise self-sacrificing "Ioannis Kapodistrias: the Saint of Politics", which contains before unpublished letters of the put the lid on Post-Byzantine lead of the Majestic. Indulgent the work, Mr. Bartholomew said:

"I was lately knowledgeable of the plan by Town Anthimos of Thessaloniki at the Stature Spiritual Synod of the House of worship of Greece, on the subject of the inspect for the simultaneous backdrop to Consecrate Ioannis Kapodistrias. I exceedingly know that the hieromonk constant, through the Officer, for the "Spiritual Digest" of the time, was from Imbros and named Bartholomew Koutloumousianos. The here noise reminds me of the convergence of my own name and place of origin."

Source: Translated by John Sanidopoulos.