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September 3, 2023

Homily on the Epistle for the 13th Sunday After Pentecost (Metr. George Pavlidis of Nikaia)


Homily on the Epistle for the 13th Sunday After Pentecost 
 
The Matador
 
 By Metropolitan George (Pavlidis) of Nikaia

"Be watchful, stand firm in your faith, be brave, be strong." (1 Cor. 16:13)

In our time, my beloved, there has been a tremendous confusion and change in the thoughts and feelings of people. Priceless values that supported individuals and peoples in the past are forgotten, the eternal is exchanged for the perishable, character is worn out in modern morbid manifestations. Under the guise of so-called progress, ancient family traditions are betrayed and pure traditions are abandoned. Of course, this situation, perhaps only with a different aspect, would also be present in the time of the Apostles, a fact which then forced the Apostle Paul to write the above significant words to the Corinthians, which, I think, will be very useful to analyze more extensively.

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