Encyclical

1 SundayOfOrthodoxy2000      |     Already about two thousand years have passed since the Nativity
2 FeastOfStJohnChrysostom1998|      spiritual elder, for four years. His spiritual ascetic discipline
3 FeastOfStJohnChrysostom1998|        and intensified for two years by living alone in a cave.
4 FeastOfStJohnChrysostom1998|        In addition, for twelve years he shone as the most brilliant
5 Pascha1998                 |      where there is a thousand years of continuous spiritual
6 Christmas1997              |   Oikoumene.~Over the past few years, as we have travelled through
7 Christmas1997              | observance of the two thousand years of that great day in the
8 Christmas1996              |        as Anno Domini, and the years before that as BC. ('Before
9 Christmas1996              |     his Son thirty-three short years later for the redemption