Στην εκκλησία μας οργανώσαμε μια
εξαιρετική μουσική χριστουγεννιάτικη εκδήλωση χθες βράδυ. Η πολυ-βραβευμένη
αγγλική γυναικεία Χορωδία Jubilate μας προσέφερε μια
μουσική πανδαισία, με χριστουγεννιάτικους ύμνους και κάλαντα!
Ο παρών ιστολόγος ως Ιερατικώς
Προϊστάμενος καλωσόρισε τη Χορωδία και το πυκνό ακροατήριο με τα παρακάτω
λόγια:
Καλησπέρα σας!
Good-evening to you all and welcome to our newly build and newly
consecrated Church of St. Panteleimon and St. Paraskevi.
We are gathered here tonight, as we did last year around this
time, in order to celebrate, the so called Metropolis of all Christian
Festivals and that is Christmas, with the great and valuable help of the
awards-winning ladies’ choir Jubilate, with all those beautiful voices of the
highly talented ladies.
Christmas is obviously a unique Christian festival, commemorated
on 25th December every year throughout the Christendom. There is no
Christianity without it. The Holy Scriptures record that “...every spirit that
does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God” (1 John
4, 3).
On Christmas Eve, in our Greek Orthodox Vespers we joyfully
chant: “What shall we offer Thee, O Christ, who for our sakes hast appeared on
earth as a man? Every creature made by Thee offers Thee thanks. The angels
offer Thee a hymn; the heavens a star; the wise men, gifts; the shepherds,
their wonder; the earth, its cave; the wilderness, the manger: and we offer
Thee a Virgin Mother. O pre-eternal God, have mercy upon us”.
Tonight the angels are here and they will certainly offer
hymns and carols, in honour of this great festival and in praise of our Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ!
On behalf of all of us I would like to offer them, as well as to
our Greek ladies who organised this event, our very many thanks and sincere
gratitude.
My dearest
friends,
Let us wish
that this Christmas will be filled with spiritual joy and happiness and let us
think not of what present we will receive, but of what gift we shall offer to
our Saviour and our Lord, who humbly accepted for our sake to become one of us
and to appear on earth as a man!
Welcome again
and enjoy the music!
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