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Pope Benedict XVI used the Holy Brothers and Equals-to-the-Apostles Cyril and Methodius to teach about evangelization. These Saints are the enlighteners of the slavs and they are the Patron Saints of our Church. Our ancestors in the faith, received Christianity through their missionary efforts, establishing the Church of Greater Moravia which eventually became the Byzantine Catholic Ruthenian Church. The Pope's address bears witness to the impact that these Saints have had and today they model for us evangelism, on the Church level as well as on our local parish level.
By Robert Draper and Photography by Travis Dove
The holy peninsula of Mount Athos reaches 31 miles out into the Aegean Sea like an appendage struggling to dislocate itself from the secular corpus of northeastern Greece. For the past thousand years or so, a community of Eastern Orthodox monks has dwelled here, purposefully removed from everything except God. They live only to become one with Jesus Christ. Their enclave-crashing waves, dense chestnut forests, the specter of snowy-veined Mount Athos, 6,670 feet high-is the very essence of isolation.
One of the gems of the Vatican's priceless religious art collection — a 6th century reliquary containing the fragments of the cross on which Jesus was crucified — has gotten a new look after being restored to its Byzantine-era glory, experts say.
The past ten years have seen a flurry of conciliatory gestures between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church. These events are often occasions for theological homilies, documents, photos, and even the restitution of relics of different saints.
Efforts such as these have been very important in helping breach the divide that has separated Eastern and Western Christendom since A.D. 1054. But there is another element-much more visible at the grass-roots level-that can be a very powerful force for unity. In fact, you have probably experienced it yourself: It is the desire to see the face of God.
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The Christian Church was born in the Holy Land, what we call the Middle East today. As it spread, the Church took on the ways of the nations which accepted it. In this country, most Christian churches are 'western' because their roots are in western Europe, and their ways reflect the culture of the German, Irish or Italian immigrants who founded them. Some American churches, including ours, were started by people from Eastern Europe or the Middle East. They still keep the ways of the Holy Land” Jerusalem, where Christ founded His Church; Antioch, where the name Christian was first used; Damascus, where Saint Paul was converted. Because our ways reflect this Eastern culture, we are called 'Eastern' Churches.
The mystery that God is with us is a fact in our lives. His presence has been experienced by people from the beginning right to our own day. People have reflected on this mystery and tried to express it in words: what we call Theology. Some of these teaching have been recognized by the Church as authentic reflections of its experience of God. These are the doctrines of the Church, which serve much like route markers for us, keeping us along the right road to God. Chief of these are those summarized in this article: the core teachings of our Church.
by Stephen J. Patterson of the Biblical Archaeology Review
Late in the fall of 1896, two young scholars from Oxford embarked on the long steamer voyage to Cairo. Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Hunt were slight in their mid-20s. Pals through graduate school, they had resolved to enter into this venture together. This was to be their second season in Egypt. The first had been spent in the Fayum learning the basics of field archaeology from for experienced French diggers. Now they were on their own, employed by the recently formed London-based Egypt Exploration Fund, to search for papyri that might reveal something of Egypt's Christian and pagan past.
