Furthermore, it is our
intent:
· as the successor to the thrones and
struggles of our Holy Predecessors, the Patriarchs of Constantinople, to honor
their memory through the celebration of the Divine Liturgy in the Venerable
Patriarchal Church, beginning with Patriarch Paul the Confessor this coming
Wednesday, the 6th of this month.
· to reinforce the observance of the special
liturgical praxis of the Great Church. The promotion of liturgical life, in
following the Typikon of our Church, will be the object of our special concern,
because this is the center of our christian existence and life.
· to publish yearly the Calendar of the
Ecumenical Patriarchate.
· to reinforce and make good use if the
Patriarchal Institute of Patristic Studies in Thessalonika, the Orthodox Center
of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Chambesy, the Patriarchal Monastery of St.
Anastasia the Pharmakolytria in Chalkidiki and the Orthodox Academy of Crete.
· to sanctify during the coming Holy Week a
new quantity of Holy Chrism, due to the diminishing supply contained in the
Myrophylakion of the Patriarchate.
· to reinforce and modernize the services of
the Patriarchate on order that the workload might be less tiring and more
productive. The piety and love of ancestry of the great Angelopoulos family,
headed by the Honorable Archon Great Logothetis Mr. Panayiotis Angelopoulos,
donated to us "a venerable mansion of Orthodoxy," the Patriarchal
House, functional and beautiful, in which the diakonia of the Great Church will
continue with even greater results, and from which her voice will proceed full
of affection and solace towards her children throughout the earth and beyond.
To our Great Benefactor and to his beloved family, we express, on this
auspicious occasion, the satisfaction and praise of the Church of our People.
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