Encyclical

 1 Christmas2000              |          mind, the Holy Mother and Great Church of Christ, with its
 2 Christmas2000              |            the year 2000"; and the great Clergy-Laity Congress which
 3 Christmas2000              |           a fitting manner for our Great Visitor.~May His grace and
 4 Pascha2000                 |          is Risen!"~With this same great joy, we also repeat over
 5 SundayOfOrthodoxy2000      |            day the first Sunday of Great Lent we read in church the
 6 SundayOfOrthodoxy2000      |       right belief and life. Every Great Lent the Church calls all
 7 SundayOfOrthodoxy2000      |            the Triodion period for Great Lent, the par excellence
 8 SundayOfOrthodoxy2000      |      during the period of Holy and Great Lent but throughout this
 9 SundayOfOrthodoxy2000      |     suitably during this period of Great Lent, to enable us to celebrate
10 HolyAndGreatLent2000       |          the beginning of Holy and Great Lent, 2000~+ BARTHOLOMEW~
11 HolyAndGreatLent2000       |            each year the season of Great Lent be set aside as a time
12 HolyAndGreatLent2000       |      period of preparation for the Great Lent, which is to say, for
13 HolyAndGreatLent2000       |            of ages. Amen.~Holy and Great Lent 2000~+Archbishop of
14 Christmas1999              |           in recent times has to a great extent been maliciously
15 Christmas1999              |            1:11-12), have acquired great sensitivity to all evil
16 Christmas1999              |           of this, we applaud with great satisfaction the proposal
17 Christmas1999              |          of man to determine, to a great extent, the path his life
18 Christmas1999              |        divine illumination and the great mercy of God, so that they
19 HolyAndGreatLent1999       |           the occasion of Holy and Great Lent, 1999~+ BARTHOLOMEW~
20 HolyAndGreatLent1999       |          sacred season of Holy and Great Lent:~"The time is now at
21 HolyAndGreatLent1999       |           the delight of Paradise. Great was the fall. Great was
22 HolyAndGreatLent1999       |      Paradise. Great was the fall. Great was the wound. The image
23 HolyAndGreatLent1999       |     deification. Yet it would be a great mistake for us to suppose
24 HolyAndGreatLent1999       |            to the holy Services of Great Lent. Let us preserve our
25 HolyAndGreatLent1999       |           the ages. Amen.~Holy and Great Lent 1999~+ Bartholomew
26 Christmas1998              | spontaneously offer praise for the great joy and for the miracle
27 FeastOfStJohnChrysostom1998|            He had articulated that Great Catechetical Homily on the
28 FeastOfStJohnChrysostom1998|            the enthronement of the great Saint John Chrysostom, who,
29 Pascha1998                 |         set ablaze the lamp of the Great Church. It has at once enlightened
30 Pascha1998                 |           and why the glory of the Great Church is the Cross.~For
31 HolyAndGreatLent1997       |            Encyclical for Holy and Great Lent, 1997~Beloved Children
32 HolyAndGreatLent1997       |            have commenced Holy and Great Lent.~Herein is the spiritual
33 HolyAndGreatLent1997       |            are. With the advent of Great Lent, she desires not to
34 HolyAndGreatLent1997       |          good and blessed earth of Great Lent; so that we may become
35 Christmas1997              |          the flock of the Holy and Great Church of Christ throughout
36 Christmas1997              |          child is the harbinger of great joy and graces every family
37 Christmas1997              |       shall be called the Angel of Great Counsel, Wonderful Counsellor,
38 Christmas1997              |         two thousand years of that great day in the history of the