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Beauty for Ashes: The Spiritual Transformation of a Modern Greek Community
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Published
2009
by St. Vladimir's Seminary Press
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As a member of a parish without a priest, their are a variety of opinions about what we need. Someone young, someone energetic, someone who can help us with our building program, someone who can meet our felt needs. But what we seem to forget is that this is God's work, not ours. Our task it personal holiness, which makes us a vessel fit for His use. In this way God gives us beauty for ashes. This was the experience of the Orthodox community of Nikopolis and Preveza, riven by worldliness and sca...more
The book offers a look at how an ancient Orthodox diocese in Greece was revitalized at the end of the 20th Century. A hopeful story that even in modern times an old Orthodox diocese can be revived. Its immediate application to the Church in America is more difficult to assess since here we are not trying to revive a church gone dormant due to neglect and corruption, but are trying to establish Orthodoxy in a land which is more amenable to Protestant Christian ideals.
The Orthodox Metropolis of Nikopolis / Preveza, a town northwest of Greece, suffered thirty years under the leadership of a bishop involved in all sorts of political and financial scandals.
In 1980, a new bishop was sent to it. With the help of his spiritual sons, with whom he was about to pursue monastic life on Mount Athos before his episcopal appointment, Archbishop Meletios raised the local Orthodox Christianity from the ashes and has since been given it its spiritual beauty back (cf. the tit...more
In 1980, a new bishop was sent to it. With the help of his spiritual sons, with whom he was about to pursue monastic life on Mount Athos before his episcopal appointment, Archbishop Meletios raised the local Orthodox Christianity from the ashes and has since been given it its spiritual beauty back (cf. the tit...more
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