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  1 Text|               for I am a sinful man, 0 Lord".~Who else from the
  2 Text|          priest's slave (cf. John 18:10).~Such kind of spontaneity
  3 Text|           who is in heaven" (Mat. 16:17).~The disciples see Judas
  4 Text|             priest's slave (cf. John 18:10).~Such kind of spontaneity
  5 Text|            him earnestly "(1 Peter 1:22).~ ~ ~
  6 Text|             him "Satan" (cf. Mat. 16:23).~We should admit that,
  7 Text|             and wept bitterly" (Mat. 26:75), the brave Peter gives
  8 Text|            sinful man, O Lord" (Luke 5:8)~When we speak about the
  9 Text|              wept bitterly" (Mat. 26:75), the brave Peter gives
 10 Text|          sinful man, O Lord" (Luke 5:8)~When we speak about the
 11 Text|         Testament, so that we may be able to relive the authentic
 12     | about
 13 Text|          Saint of Constantinople, we accord a special place to the Catholic
 14 Text|        leader in various activities, acting also on behalf of the rest
 15 Text|             the Faith, of prayer, of action and of repentance.~Among
 16 Text|          being the leader in various activities, acting also on behalf of
 17 Text|        Christ's beatitude, which was addressed to the believers of all
 18 Text|          explains why Christ usually addresses this Apostle either to ask "
 19 Text|               Mat. 16:23).~We should admit that, whether he is frightened
 20 Text|             and the most contrite of aft the other Disciples of Christ.
 21     | after
 22 Text|           his sinfulness towards the all-knowing Lord: "depart from me, for
 23     | already
 24     | always
 25     | an
 26 Text|          since he could not find any answer and excuse, he felt even
 27 Text|              develop into an intense antipathy, which would be fatally
 28     | anything
 29     | anywhere
 30 Text|           sympathy towards Peter? It appears that these 'Whys' had silently
 31 Text|              of soldiers in order to arrest Jesus, and again it is Peter
 32 Text|           him. And he was not at all ashamed to declare it before Christ,
 33 Text|     addresses this Apostle either to ask "Do you love me?" and to
 34 Text|           them.~For instance, Christ asks "Who do men say that the
 35 Text|              describe characteristic aspects of St Peter's life, the
 36 Text|            may be able to relive the authentic Apostle of the Faith, of
 37 Text|        miracles St Peter stands with awe and wonder, just as the
 38 Text|            see Judas coming with the band of soldiers in order to
 39 Text|               Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jona! For flesh and blood
 40 Text|            fellow-Apostles, Christ's beatitude, which was addressed to
 41 Text|            well as all the power and beauty of his truth.~One would
 42     | been
 43 Text|           which was addressed to the believers of all times: "Blessed are
 44     | below
 45 Text|              and illness are offered benefits. They have surely been and
 46 Text|            tears after the momentary betrayal at the courtyard of the
 47     | beyond
 48 Text|         perhaps the even more moving biographical element of St Peter, is
 49 Text|              them exclusively to the Bishop of Rome, it was only natural
 50 Text|           already mentioned, nor his bitter tears after the momentary
 51 Text|           making paralytics to walk, blind men to see again, dead people
 52     | both
 53 Text|          bitterly" (Mat. 26:75), the brave Peter gives us the most
 54 Text|              the fact that he is the brother of our Andrew the first-called
 55 Text|            neither his confession at Caesaria of Philippi, which we have
 56     | cannot
 57 Text|              time that we read again carefully whatever is relevant to
 58 Text|             even for such a "lucky'" catch of fish?~This means that
 59 Text|         hours in those parts without catching anything! Did Christ do
 60 Text|         Peter, is the fact that at a certain time he felt his unworthiness
 61 Text|           weakness and contradictory character, as well as all the power
 62 Text|           man to become the image of Christians of the East, and, yet, it
 63 Text|              The disciples see Judas coming with the band of soldiers
 64 Text|              a type of Peter have in common with the one whom the West
 65 Text|            Who else ever made such a comparison? Who else considered himself
 66 Text|             even greater the need to confess his sinfulness towards the
 67 Text|           Peter. Being always deeply conscious of the fact that he is the
 68 Text|             injustice. Suffice it to consider that we hardly have anywhere
 69 Text|          such a comparison? Who else considered himself humbler than the
 70 Text|     first-called and Patron Saint of Constantinople, we accord a special place
 71 Text|              logic of things", which constitutes perhaps the even more moving
 72 Text|        minute his human weakness and contradictory character, as well as all
 73 Text|            the humblest and the most contrite of aft the other Disciples
 74 Text|           with the one whom the West created in imagination as the "Prince
 75 Text|              who draws his knife and cuts the right ear of Malchus,
 76 Text|             the Twelve Apostles ever dared to make such a confession?
 77 Text|              blind men to see again, dead people to rise.~However,
 78 Text|            was not at all ashamed to declare it before Christ, thus making
 79 Text|          frightened for a moment and denies Christ in the courtyard
 80 Text|              for this reason that he deposits every minute his human weakness
 81 Text|         Among the many passages that describe characteristic aspects of
 82 Text|             estrangement should also develop into an intense antipathy,
 83     | Did
 84 Text|             lived the mystery of the direct presence of the God-Man.
 85 Text|            way have become worthy of divine mercy. But in the case of
 86 Text|           Jesus perform miracles and doing good for people: making
 87 Text|            and again it is Peter who draws his knife and cuts the right
 88 Text|            goes to the plethoric and dynamic Apostle, who stood out among
 89 Text|              kind of spontaneity and dynamism by Peter explains why Christ
 90 Text|             knife and cuts the right ear of Malchus, who was the
 91 Text|        Epistles, namely, to love him earnestly "(1 Peter 1:22).~ ~ ~
 92     | either
 93 Text|             more moving biographical element of St Peter, is the fact
 94     | end
 95 Text|           many people who toiled for endless hours in those parts without
 96 Text|            but also full of fire and enthusiasm. It is for this reason that
 97 Text|             as the foundation of the entire Church, it rendered him
 98 Text|            was only natural that the estrangement should also develop into
 99     | every
100 Text|        Apostle Peter to the point of exaggeration as “Prince of the Apostles”
101 Text|              me?" and to project his example as the characteristic case
102 Text|             that he transferred them exclusively to the Bishop of Rome, it
103 Text|              not find any answer and excuse, he felt even greater the
104 Text|              of his truth.~One would expect such a type of man to become
105 Text|            sinfulness. How are we to explain this paradox? The only explanation
106 Text|    spontaneity and dynamism by Peter explains why Christ usually addresses
107 Text|             responsible for the said fabrication of Rome.~Precisely for this
108 Text|             authentic Apostle of the Faith, of prayer, of action and
109 Text|            antipathy, which would be fatally reflected in the sacred
110 Text|         revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven" (Mat.
111 Text|              Vespers on the Patronal Feast of the Apostle Andrew.~Yet,
112 Text|      particular reason for Christ to feel sympathetic towards St Peter
113 Text|               again on behalf of his fellow-Apostles, Christ's beatitude, which
114 Text|              the main Reading at the Festive Vespers on the Patronal
115 Text|             end truly sacrificed his fife for Christ, precisely as
116 Text|              the illogical nature by filling the nets with fish precisely
117 Text|               and since he could not find any answer and excuse, he
118 Text|              flesh, but also full of fire and enthusiasm. It is for
119     | first
120 Text|            brother of our Andrew the first-called and Patron Saint of Constantinople,
121 Text|          blessed confession - as the foundation of the entire Church, it
122 Text|            admit that, whether he is frightened for a moment and denies
123 Text|             the Apostles for all his gifts. And we should love him
124 Text|           only explanation one could give is that those people who
125 Text|              26:75), the brave Peter gives us the most living picture
126 Text|        Christ, the Son of the Living God". For this reason it was
127 Text|           the direct presence of the God-Man. What was beyond this "logic
128 Text|              Peter, our mind usually goes to the plethoric and dynamic
129 Text|           perform miracles and doing good for people: making paralytics
130 Text|       However, in the sight of these great and unheard of miracles
131 Text|             and excuse, he felt even greater the need to confess his
132 Text|              this 'injustice' is not hard at all. From the time when
133 Text|       Suffice it to consider that we hardly have anywhere in the world
134 Text|                and Peter immediately hastens to speak out, on behalf
135 Text|              but my Father who is in heaven" (Mat. 16:17).~The disciples
136     | here
137 Text|        people who toiled for endless hours in those parts without catching
138     | However
139 Text|              else considered himself humbler than the others, and unworthy
140 Text|             was at the same time the humblest and the most contrite of
141 Text|             felt his unworthiness to humiliate him. And he was not at all
142 Text|              suffering from pain and illness are offered benefits. They
143 Text|             work wonders even on the illogical nature by filling the nets
144 Text|            type of man to become the image of Christians of the East,
145 Text|             whom the West created in imagination as the "Prince of the Apostles"?~
146 Text|           repentance were within the immediate logic of things for all
147 Text|            Son of man is?" and Peter immediately hastens to speak out, on
148 Text|        support the Papal Primacy and infallibility by the supposition that
149 Text|    separating himself from them.~For instance, Christ asks "Who do men
150 Text|          should also develop into an intense antipathy, which would be
151     | into
152 Text|             high priest's slave (cf. John 18:10).~Such kind of spontaneity
153 Text|           Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jona! For flesh and blood has
154 Text|            16:17).~The disciples see Judas coming with the band of
155 Text|          stands with awe and wonder, just as the other disciples also
156 Text|         slave (cf. John 18:10).~Such kind of spontaneity and dynamism
157 Text|            it is Peter who draws his knife and cuts the right ear of
158 Text|             Christ, thus making it a landmark of humility for all times.
159     | latter
160 Text|            who cannot live below his level or pretend. He is full of
161 Text| characteristic aspects of St Peter's life, the most moving is neither
162 Text|          picture of a man who cannot live below his level or pretend.
163 Text|             for all the Apostles who lived the mystery of the direct
164 Text|             it to Him, that is worth looking again at the "head" of the
165 Text|            unworthy even for such a "lucky'" catch of fish?~This means
166 Text|            am~a sinful man, O Lord" (Luke 5:8)~When we speak about
167     | made
168 Text|             Peter by making them the main Reading at the Festive Vespers
169     | make
170 Text|            and cuts the right ear of Malchus, who was the high priest'
171 Text|            New Testament, so that we may be able to relive the authentic
172 Text|          lucky'" catch of fish?~This means that the "leader" of the
173 Text|              Church dedicated to the memory of Peter and Paul, our people
174 Text|             also do, yet there is no mention here Of contrition and sense
175 Text|      Philippi, which we have already mentioned, nor his bitter tears after
176 Text|              become worthy of divine mercy. But in the case of the
177 Text|         about the Apostle Peter, our mind usually goes to the plethoric
178 Text|        reason that he deposits every minute his human weakness and contradictory
179 Text|          anything! Did Christ do any miracle for them all? Why, then,
180 Text|           his bitter tears after the momentary betrayal at the courtyard
181     | more
182     | my
183 Text|           the Apostles who lived the mystery of the direct presence of
184     | namely
185 Text|        wonders even on the illogical nature by filling the nets with
186 Text|             he felt even greater the need to confess his sinfulness
187     | neither
188 Text|      illogical nature by filling the nets with fish precisely where
189 Text|             the Apostle Peter in the New Testament, so that we may
190 Text|              the case of the sterile night at sea there was no particular
191     | nor
192 Text|               for I am~a sinful man, O Lord" (Luke 5:8)~When we
193 Text|              in the case when he was obliged to call him "Satan" (cf.
194 Text|            from pain and illness are offered benefits. They have surely
195 Text|            was not so. Surely in the official worship of our Church and
196     | often
197 Text|              the band of soldiers in order to arrest Jesus, and again
198 Text|              wider conscience of the Orthodox people the Apostle Peter
199     | others
200 Text|            are deeply suffering from pain and illness are offered
201 Text|            Rome tried to support the Papal Primacy and infallibility
202 Text|           How are we to explain this paradox? The only explanation one
203 Text|              good for people: making paralytics to walk, blind men to see
204 Text|           for endless hours in those parts without catching anything!
205 Text|           repentance.~Among the many passages that describe characteristic
206 Text|          Andrew the first-called and Patron Saint of Constantinople,
207 Text|           the Festive Vespers on the Patronal Feast of the Apostle Andrew.~
208 Text|              first time he saw Jesus perform miracles and doing good
209     | perhaps
210 Text|            confession at Caesaria of Philippi, which we have already mentioned,
211 Text|             gives us the most living picture of a man who cannot live
212 Text|  Constantinople, we accord a special place to the Catholic Epistles
213 Text|             mind usually goes to the plethoric and dynamic Apostle, who
214 Text|             the Apostle Peter to the point of exaggeration as “Prince
215 Text|            when at a later stage the Pope of Rome tried to support
216 Text|        character, as well as all the power and beauty of his truth.~
217 Text|             Apostle of the Faith, of prayer, of action and of repentance.~
218 Text|            the mystery of the direct presence of the God-Man. What was
219 Text|              live below his level or pretend. He is full of blood and
220 Text|           tried to support the Papal Primacy and infallibility by the
221 Text|            that Peter also had these privileges, and that he transferred
222 Text|          Christ, precisely as he had promised it to Him, that is worth
223 Text|            They have surely been and purified, so that in some way have
224 Text|            reason it is time that we read again carefully whatever
225 Text|              by making them the main Reading at the Festive Vespers on
226 Text|             was only natural that he receive thereafter, again on behalf
227 Text|               which would be fatally reflected in the sacred person of
228 Text|              of the Apostles” and to regard himself - and not his blessed
229 Text|          again carefully whatever is relevant to the Apostle Peter in
230 Text|            so that we may be able to relive the authentic Apostle of
231 Text|            the head Apostle'. For we remember how often we see him from
232 Text|             of the entire Church, it rendered him a stranger to the East.
233 Text|            high priest or whether he repents a little later and "went
234 Text|             the latter is not at all responsible for the said fabrication
235 Text|         acting also on behalf of the rest of the Apostles, yet without
236 Text|              flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father
237 Text|            these 'Whys' had silently revolted his conscience, and since
238 Text|         draws his knife and cuts the right ear of Malchus, who was
239 Text|            see again, dead people to rise.~However, in the sight of
240 Text|             one who in the end truly sacrificed his fife for Christ, precisely
241 Text|              all responsible for the said fabrication of Rome.~Precisely
242 Text|              first-called and Patron Saint of Constantinople, we accord
243     | same
244 Text|             was obliged to call him "Satan" (cf. Mat. 16:23).~We should
245 Text|              Christ asks "Who do men say that the Son of man is?"
246 Text|           human weakness, or even to scold him bitterly, as in the
247 Text|              of the sterile night at sea there was no particular
248 Text|       mention here Of contrition and sense of sinfulness. How are we
249 Text|            the Apostles, yet without separating himself from them.~For instance,
250 Text|            all? Why, then, should he show particular sympathy towards
251 Text|             to rise.~However, in the sight of these great and unheard
252 Text|        appears that these 'Whys' had silently revolted his conscience,
253 Text|             times: "Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jona! For flesh and
254     | since
255 Text|            who was the high priest's slave (cf. John 18:10).~Such kind
256 Text|              coming with the band of soldiers in order to arrest Jesus,
257     | some
258 Text|          Constantinople, we accord a special place to the Catholic Epistles
259 Text|            John 18:10).~Such kind of spontaneity and dynamism by Peter explains
260 Text|            East. And when at a later stage the Pope of Rome tried to
261 Text|         unheard of miracles St Peter stands with awe and wonder, just
262 Text|               But in the case of the sterile night at sea there was no
263 Text|             and dynamic Apostle, who stood out among the Twelve as '
264 Text|            Church, it rendered him a stranger to the East. And when at
265 Text|          those people who are deeply suffering from pain and illness are
266 Text|            is surely done injustice. Suffice it to consider that we hardly
267 Text|            the Pope of Rome tried to support the Papal Primacy and infallibility
268 Text|             and infallibility by the supposition that Peter also had these
269 Text|            reason for Christ to feel sympathetic towards St Peter and the
270 Text|            should he show particular sympathy towards Peter? It appears
271 Text|              him precisely as he has taught us to do with his Catholic
272 Text|           the moment when he saw the Teacher to work wonders even on
273 Text|            mentioned, nor his bitter tears after the momentary betrayal
274 Text|             Apostle Peter in the New Testament, so that we may be able
275 Text|           him from within the sacred texts, being the leader in various
276     | than
277 Text|             of our Church and in our theology we have done no injustice
278     | thereafter
279     | They
280     | though
281     | thus
282 Text|           There were many people who toiled for endless hours in those
283 Text|              privileges, and that he transferred them exclusively to the
284 Text|         later stage the Pope of Rome tried to support the Papal Primacy
285 Text|         Apostles"?~It is, then, this true Peter, the person of contrition
286 Text|               the one who in the end truly sacrificed his fife for
287 Text|              power and beauty of his truth.~One would expect such a
288 Text|             sight of these great and unheard of miracles St Peter stands
289 Text|             certain time he felt his unworthiness to humiliate him. And he
290 Text|         humbler than the others, and unworthy even for such a "lucky'"
291 Text|           texts, being the leader in various activities, acting also
292 Text|          main Reading at the Festive Vespers on the Patronal Feast of
293 Text|         people: making paralytics to walk, blind men to see again,
294 Text|          From the time when the West wanted to project the Apostle Peter
295 Text|            purified, so that in some way have become worthy of divine
296     | well
297 Text|          repents a little later and "went out and wept bitterly" (
298 Text|              later and "went out and wept bitterly" (Mat. 26:75),
299     | whatever
300     | whom
301 Text|               It appears that these 'Whys' had silently revolted his
302 Text|          Apostle Andrew.~Yet, in the wider conscience of the Orthodox
303 Text|            Peter stands with awe and wonder, just as the other disciples
304 Text|              saw the Teacher to work wonders even on the illogical nature
305 Text|           when he saw the Teacher to work wonders even on the illogical
306 Text|          hardly have anywhere in the world a Church dedicated to the
307 Text|               Surely in the official worship of our Church and in our
308 Text|          promised it to Him, that is worth looking again at the "head"
309 Text|              in some way have become worthy of divine mercy. But in