Pro-logue....to Epiphany

Pro-logue....to Epiphany 

Bless, bless and be blessed, 

may Panagia be always with you ,

have a nice week, 

and a blessed new year....

We are spiritually transferred from Bethlehem to the Jordan desert, 

and we will see a new and extraordinary mystery through the eyes of our soul..

Precedingly, we saw an infant ,the most perfect god ,and now in Epiphany we see 

a perfect godman and a strange miracle and spectacle.

In the first place,shepherds and wise men

knelt before the Lord and later on a called servant baptized the Lord. 

Precedingly, angels praised and glorified..:

...glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased...

subsequently, a fatherly divine voice proclaimed the Lord...This is my Son ,the beloved. Listen to him!...

From the swaddling clothes of the manger ,to the currents of the Jordan river...

From the flee to Egypt due to Herod's viciousness ,to the desert and the forty days of fasting against the intelligible Herod the one who fights and condemns our souls. 

Let us follow the path where the star goes ,and follow the sun of justice. 

Let us not only ask for the radiance of Tabor and the unsetting light of the resurrection but also adhere to The very King and our God...and to the humble and inconspicuous cave of Bethlehem, to the persecution and flee to Egypt, 

to the forty days of fasting with the temptations and our tribulations ,

to the Mount of Olives, 

to the Jordan desert, 

to the homilies, 

to Lazarus, 

to the entry into Jerusalem, 

to the anguish in Gesthemane,

to the betrayal ,but without betraying anything concerning our faith and what our fathers handed over ,

to the arrest, 

to the praetorium, 

to Pontius Pilate, 

to the prison, 

to Annas and Caiaphas, 

to the trial, 

to the court,

to the smacking,

to the slapping,

to the spitting, 

to the laughter,

to the chiton, 

to the reed,

to the sponge, 

to the vinegar,

to the gall,

to the partition, to the abandonment, without abandoning Him,

to the cobbled path,

to the Golgotha, 

to the burial, 

to the garden, to the empty and new tomb..

in order to savour the unsetting light of the Resurrection and listen to the Lord's voice..

All hail...peace be unto you...

May all the people on earth relish and savour this peace because our brothers and sisters in the triumphant church experience it and are within its energy...

Blessed New Year...and let us prepare ourselves to be enlightened....through sprinkling.