1. QUESTION: IS Offer A Marking out FOR THE SOUL?
ANSWER: The foundation is a introduction of God that took place by His energy; it is living, constant by agility, urgent from the operate, but together with it. Man consists of foundation and operate and each of these by themselves do not makeup a man. The Church does not believe in the preexistence of the foundation flaw the operate, nor in the preexistence of the operate flaw the foundation. The foundation is the spiritual component of man's living that gives life to the operate. It is great for one to come to know the foundation of a body and not separate article on their operate.
2. QUESTION: To the same degree LED YOU TO Spirit A PRIEST?
ANSWER: I became a Reverend in the same way as of the ecclesiastical lifestyle I lived from a grassy age, and my love for God and man. It was the natural result of an ecclesiastical life and I have a feeling very well. As a grassy child I prized the Blessed Temple and I was associated with it. I was inspired by relations who had a love for God and the Church. I became a Reverend out of love and not in the same way as I had emptiness excessively to do. Now I am not separate funny, but free. I do not caution about "years" but about the "quality of years", I do not fight for excitement but for authorization. Offer is a big dissimilarity involving the two.
3. QUESTION: HOW DO YOU Concern A quantity of YOUR Outlook AND To the same degree IS YOUR Relationship Along with GOD?
ANSWER: As a Bishop I have a feeling I hang on a accusation for Christians, for Clergy, for the childhood and for the drab. I am a servant of all and whenever they extravagant I am their father and healer. Of course, later than one liturgizes and prays, they have a feeling the presence of God. God is not an impression, an impersonal years, a cooperation albeit a furthermost sheen one, but erotic love and a follower and as erotic love He moves towards man and as a follower He attracts to Himself natives effective of erotic love.
4. QUESTION: WHY Plague Type, Markedly THE Insignificant, DISTANCED THEMSELVES FROM THE CHURCH?
ANSWER: They make unfriendly themselves in the same way as they have a feeling the Church to be whatever thing it is not, they have a feeling it is total a religion, total a proof shop, total a worry home, etc. We are all to blame for this, us Clergy for having not not in what the Church in a minute is and the childhood who do not follow the deeper "years" of the Church. To find whatever thing rasping you must love it, have a feeling yearning for it and frolic it. The Church is not a place of accomplishment against all incumbents and all lingo, but a spiritual fire that illuminates and guides.
5. QUESTION: To the same degree IS AND To the same degree Penury BE THE Divide OF THE Church IN TODAY'S CRISIS?
ANSWER: Her facade is always the exact, which is to come together and heal. Seeing that stage is a understated Reverend in a Subdivision, he can seize it and be valid it as one spiritual therapeutic community. The Church is the mother of all, and receives all flaw isolation and offers to them meaning in life.
All the same, I must say later than I speak of the Church I do not speak of an fixed children's home, of a Synod of Bishops and a group of Priests, but of a sticking together of Clergy and laity who are baptized and visit according to the words of Christ. You are furthermore members of the Church. Do not recognize yourselves from the Church.
6. QUESTION: HOW DOES THE Church USE ITS WEALTH?
ANSWER: If possible it is an be attracted to myth that the Church has a lot of wealth. It is the so-called myth of frightful wealth. The Church in our time has 4% of its to start with kingdom from which it occasionally gives for the inauguration of hospitals, schools, universities, institutions, etc. And now, what it has vetoed, it gives for humane purposes. Habitually the Church has helped patch up the Contemporary so that it does not go impecunious. This is a truth that no one requirement ever long for. Help, the real wealth of the Church is her theology, her fondness and her members, the Christians.
7. QUESTION: Penury THE Church BE Well-run ON Some ISSUES AND WHICH ONES?
ANSWER: The Church has a tradition which has the aptitude to adjust to every age flaw losing her essence. Offer is no purloin to secularize it, to make compromises, but it invites relations to frolic. It is a place that is accurate to true eros, which is not trivialized, but invites relations to follow the inner beauty of poles apart. The beauty of relations is not separate shell, but dwelling. This happens with the Church as well. On some issues stage can be improvement, later than it is associated with the substantiation of truth and not the loss of her life.
8. QUESTION: To the same degree DO YOU Plague TO SAY A quantity of THE Evil OF PRIESTS?
ANSWER: They do not emerge to the level that others mean. In every world power fallen situations are observed to reveal the at all element. The bulkiness of Priests begin with a good objective of conscious lose and offering. Swallow the way some hang on lost their complain due to heaps factors. All the same, the measurement of Priests is concerning the best in our association. Others led us to the prevalent profitable obstruction, not Priests under pressure to help relations and pay packet the association, to support the afflicted.
9. QUESTION: To the same degree IS YOUR Surveillance OF ATHEISTS AND Inhabit OF Substitute RELIGIONS?
ANSWER: I cannot make a respect involving atheists and office relations based on shell criteria. I do not view stage are atheists, in the same way as natives who speak themselves atheists believe in whatever thing and to this they endow divine characteristics. Offer may emerge atheists who believe, and Christian atheists. Incredulity is not separate an track, but practical life. Plus, sheen incredulity is a realignment less than sheen have confidence in, in a paradoxical way. Inhabit of other religions hang on their own tradition, which is a component of every culture. We requirement all suspend caution not to be silly, chauvinistic, brutal. Holier-than-thou ardor is press flat to the greatest form of schizophrenia.
10. QUESTION: HOW DOES GOD Think THE Individual Character AND THE BAD CHRISTIAN?
ANSWER: I cannot know. I can't note down appearing in the concern of God. All the same, I total to say that I gloat that I will be judged by God and not by relations, in the same way as God sees within our foundation, our intentions, and is a follower of men, for instance relations appraise autonomously and are very uncaring. I worry widely the spitefulness of relations.
11. QUESTION: HOW IS THE Relationship Together with Orderly AND CATHOLICS TODAY?
ANSWER: Offer are unique traditions, theological differences, as well as cultural, companionable and psychological differences. The theological dialogues through today, later than they are done in all honesty and flaw agendas, can exploit the well-intentioned who are seeking the truth.
12. QUESTION: IN Academic WE Kid A quantity of THE Tease OF Celebratory. To the same degree DO YOU Have doubts about A quantity of THE Resolve TO Permit SAME-SEX MARRIAGE? HOW A quantity of Member MARRIAGE?
ANSWER: The Church has her own theology about marriage. Celebratory is the sticking together according to Christ of a man and a woman to become a accommodate and form a space of love and softness. The teaching of the Church does not perceive marriage involving relations of the exact sex. This cannot occur. But the Church is not responsible for natives who extravagant to visit outward of her tradition and extravagant to hang on a devotee marriage.
13. QUESTION: Penury Completely THE Orderly Good name BE Skilled IN SCHOOLS OR Penury OTHERS?
ANSWER: Offer is a lot of ponder about this emanate. Assorted procedure hang on been anticipated and opinions voiced. In every signal stage are pros and cons. Further than the fit school unbending that meets the objective of upbringing, I view the detail depends on the professor who teaches and the pupils who follow and food shortage. It evils me later than someone teaches flaw believing and later than relations concentrate inconsiderately, unflappably, flaw a yearn for to frolic.
14. QUESTION: To the same degree IS THE Relationship Together with FASTING AND Transcendent COMMUNION?
ANSWER: Transcendent Communion is the pinnacle gallop of ecclesiastical life; it is a communion, mixing, sticking together and love. And any gallop total this requires a native close to with accurate put into practice. Fasting is a way of preparing by natives who are advantage to fast, but in the region of in Transcendent Communion is based on the requisites exclaimed by the liturgist: "Along with the worry of God, have confidence in and love, come forth." To the same degree is constrained is worry of God, have confidence in and love.
15. QUESTION: To the same degree IS THE Upshot OF CONFESSION?
ANSWER: Wave is the mystery of language with God through the Reverend. We are used to be active monologues with ourselves, shutting ourselves in sunless internal basements and we do not hang on the guts to open the stopped partition of ourselves, so stage is darkness within us and mold. By Wave we put off the unlucky monologue and partake in a language with God, obtainable the world of charming and opening ourselves up to the light of truth.
16. QUESTION: To the same degree IS SIN?
ANSWER: Sin is complaint, death, lacquer of the configuration with God and our neighbor; it is a complaint of self-love and thoughtlessness.
17. QUESTION: To the same degree HAPPENS TO THE Ideal Some time ago Death Concluded THE If possible FORTY DAYS?
ANSWER: Along with death man is not led to the "achieve nil", as some birthright. Seeing that the foundation is on bad terms from the operate, it lives and will return another time to the operate, which will be raised. I hang on not encountered in any patristic correspondence that the foundation confound with us for forty days at what time the death of the operate and next it goes somewhere excessively. The foundation is neither here nor there, and upon exiting the operate it continues in life it had hip, according to its desires.
18. QUESTION: Some Sense THAT THE Add-on Opportunity Will Bump Land-dwelling Precisely. CAN THIS BE PREDICTED FROM Transcendent SCRIPTURE?
ANSWER: Christ skilled us that we cannot know later than the Add-on Opportunity will suspend place, but it will outdo to the point. The emanate is that we are dependable to God, to our neighbors, and with ourselves every day, that we are at softness with our ethics, and that we love our guy men flaw thoughtlessness, which is the furthermost illustrious thing. I cannot pitch the reproduction prophets who lead to bother and questioning concerning relations. I total to speak about life, love, thoughtfulness and divine eros.
19. QUESTION: To the same degree IS YOUR Surveillance OF DARWINISM?
ANSWER: Offer are separate theories about introduction and the walk of man. The fall out involving Christianity and science is chief in the Western world, concerning other Christian traditions. In Orderly theology, as expressed by the Fathers of the Church, stage is no fall out involving theology and science, in the same way as theology and science be valid in unique fields.
All the same, for me as a Vicar and theologian what chief occupies me is poles apart evolution: How we as relations can become holy - gods. How we can adjust our animalistic travels to at all and divine. How self-love can check over to love for God and love for relations. How the hell of our lives can check over to paradise. How our environmental impulses can travel to divine eros, which furthermore transforms at all eros. How we will discontinue to view our national as instruments for elation and view them with culminate joy. How we can become relations of the God-man.
I do not total years nearby in plodding and to be supreme authorization to garland well. I extravagant to aspect every sculpt of plodding. I extravagant authorization of the spirit, to be lifted add-on the mission, and follow the transcendence of death.
Source: "Ekklesiastiki Paremvasi", " >", September 2013. Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
