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				<title>2013 Catechetical Homily of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew for the beginning of Great Lent</title>
				<link>http://patriarchate.org/documents/greatlent2013</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ The holy fathers, who arranged everything in an orderly manner, instituted a period of ascetic discipline and spiritual purification for forty days prior to the great feast of the Lord’s resurrection. This ascetic rule assumes the form of a limitation on foods through fasting, but especially an abstinence from evil.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:15:05 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Statement by His All-Holiness at the announcement of the retirement of Benedict XVI, Pope of Rome</title>
				<link>http://patriarchate.org/documents/statement-by-his-all-holiness-at-the-announcement-of-the-retirement-of-benedict-xvi-pope-of-rome</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ Upon being informed on the way to his native island of Imvros of the imminent retirement of Pope Benedict from the Petrine ministry on the Throne of Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew issued a formal declaration and personal statement to the media, responding with sadness to the news. His All-Holiness closely cooperated with Pope Benedict during his papal tenure, issuing joint statements on contemporary problems facing humanity and realizing official exchange visits, but above all resuming in 2007 the conversations of the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches (established in 1980 and interrupted in 2000).   ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:19:37 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Catechetical Homily of His All-Holiness for Holy and Great Lent</title>
				<link>http://patriarchate.org/documents/2012-greatlent</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ In recent times, we observe an elevated level of concern. Many challenges arise. The world is suffering and yearns for help. Indeed, we are going through a general test. Some people call it a financial decline; others refer to it as a political crisis. So far as we are concerned, it is a matter of spiritual perversion.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:37:36 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Announcement about Vatopedi Monastery</title>
				<link>http://patriarchate.org/documents/vatopedi</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ The Holy and Sacred Synod convened today, January 10, 2012, under the chairmanship of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, for its regular session during which, among other matters, it discussed the issue that has arisen regarding the remand in custody of Fr. Ephraim, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Vatopedi.   ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:58:53 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>His All-Holiness expresses support to Pope Shenouda on recent tragedy in Egypt</title>
				<link>http://patriarchate.org/documents/shenouda</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ It is with heavy heart and wholehearted sympathy that we communicate with Your Beatitude – indeed, not for the first time this year! – for similar tragedies confronting our beloved and pious Coptic Christian brothers and sisters under your spiritual and pastoral protection in Egypt.   ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:01:06 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Message of the Heads of the ancient Orthodox Patriarchates and the time-honored Autocephalous Church of Cyprus</title>
				<link>http://patriarchate.org/documents/synaxis-ancient</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ Adhering to the injunction of the Apostle, according to which in the Church of Christ “whenever one members suffers, all members suffer with it; and when one member is honored, all members rejoice with it” (1 Cor. 12.26), we have assembled at the See of the historical and martyric Ecumenical Throne, at the invitation and under the presidency of the first among us in order and honor, in order to experience and declare the love of Christ that binds us (2 Cor. 5.14) at all times, and most especially in times of trial and tribulation.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:56:05 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Announcement Synaxis of their Beatitudes the heads of the Ancient Orthodox Patriarchates and the Church of Cyprus</title>
				<link>http://patriarchate.org/documents/announcement-synaxis-of-their-beatitudes-the-heads-of-the-ancient-orthodox-patriarchates-and-the-church-of-cyprus</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ At the invitation of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and under the presidency of the same, the Heads of the Ancient Patriarchates and of the time-honored Church of Cyprus gathered in Synaxis at the Phanar on September 1-3, 2011.   ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:10:39 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>2011 Catechetical Homily on the opening of Holy and Great Lent</title>
				<link>http://patriarchate.org/documents/2011greatlent</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ “The arena of the virtues has opened; those who desire to compete may enter, girding themselves with the good struggle of fasting.” (Triodion, Cheesefare Sunday) Or, better, the arena has always remained open, from the time that the All-Merciful Lord of Glory deemed it worthy to assume our nature. Since then, through His Church, he invites every person to participate in the boundless gifts of the grace of the Holy Spirit, particularly during this blessed period of Holy and Great Lent.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:21:42 -0400</pubDate>
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				<category>Address</category>
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				<title>Religion and the Environment: The Link Between Survival and Salvation</title>
				<link>http://patriarchate.org/documents/cnn-op-ed</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ Last October, the Ecumenical Patriarchate convened an international, interdisciplinary and interfaith symposium in New Orleans on the Mississippi River, the eighth in a series of high-level conferences exploring the impact of our lifestyle and consumption on our planet’s major bodies of water. Similar symposia have met in the Aegean and Black Seas, in the Adriatic and Baltic Seas, along the Danube and Amazon Rivers, and on the Arc  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:00:44 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Sins Against Nature and God: We Are All Accountable for Ignoring the Global Consequences of Environmental Exploitation</title>
				<link>http://patriarchate.org/documents/sins-against-nature-and-god</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ Once again, in a matter only of a few years, the eyes of the world are turned with suspense toward the Gulf Coast. Sadly, the oil spill is following a path similar to Hurricane Katrina and threatening the coast of Louisiana as well as neighboring states.   ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 18:09:49 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Catechetical Homily On the Commencement of Holy and Great Lent </title>
				<link>http://patriarchate.org/documents/lent2010</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ Beloved brothers and sisters, children in the Lord,

Tomorrow, we enter the period of Holy and Great Lent. In the Lenten vespers of Forgiveness chanted this evening, we shall hear the sacred hymnographer urging us to "begin the time of fasting with joy, submitting ourselves to spiritual struggle" in preparing to welcome the great Passion and joyful Resurrection of our divine-human Lord.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:40:00 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>At the Patriarchal Chorostasia of the Doxology on the Occasion of the 18th Anniversary of His Enthronement </title>
				<link>http://patriarchate.org/documents/18th-anniversary</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ This evening we are brought together by the Holy Spirit in great joy and supreme love, as we celebrate with the community of Saints Constantine and Helen Church here in Annapolis, along with many faithful of the God-saved Metropolis of New Jersey.  It is with profound humility and paternal love that we share with you this day as the observance of the eighteenth anniversary of our enthronement as the successor of the First-Called Apostle Saint Andrew as Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, and Ecumenical Patriarch.   ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:56:00 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>At the Patriarchal Divine Liturgy and Archon Investiture</title>
				<link>http://patriarchate.org/documents/2009-11-01-divine-liturgy</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ The New Testament readings that we heard this morning provide us with a unique image – not only of the faithful in general within the Church – but also of the relationship that you enjoy as members of the Order of St. Andrew with the Apostolic See of Constantinople founded by the First-Called Apostle Andrew. What we have before us is an icon of the bond that we share, of the affiliation with which you are invested as Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:24:00 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>At the Patriarchal Chorostasia of the Service for Ecumenical Peacemakers</title>
				<link>http://patriarchate.org/documents/homily-atlanta-2009</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ It is, we emphasize, no coincidence that we meet in this place and at this hour, on the evening when the Orthodox Christian Church begins its commemoration of the Holy Apostle Cleopas.  Saint Cleopas was one of the Apostles of the Seventy commissioned by Christ (Luke 10:1, 17).  He was also one of the two disciples that the Lord met on the road to Emmaus after the Resurrection (Luke 24:18).  The experience of Saint Cleopas has great meaning for our encounter today.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:54:00 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Homily - St. Demetrios - October 25, 2009</title>
				<link>http://patriarchate.org/documents/2009-10-25-stdemetrios</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ Beloved, the power of a prayer is not to be measured by its length. The most powerful prayer may also be the most brief.  Few but fervent were the words of Saint Nestor:  “God of Demetrios, help me.”  Yet through the power of these simple words, evil was vanquished, tyranny was frustrated, faith was vindicated, and not one, but two saints for the Kingdom of God were revealed.   ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:48:00 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Welcome Message at the Second Orthodox Youth Conference</title>
				<link>http://patriarchate.org/documents/2nd-orthodox-youth-conference-2007</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ t is with great joy that we welcome the 2nd Conference on Orthodox Youth, under the theme “Members of the Church – Citizens of the World”, which is organized by the Ecumenical Throne, from July 11 to 16 2007, here in this ancient and historic City, which will be the Cultural Capital of Europe in the year 2010 and where Christianity has been vibrant for two thousand years and has survived in spite of all difficulties, challenges and divisions. This Conference should also be considered as a pilgrimage to this City where the Apostle Andrew preached the Holy Gospel, where he performed many miracles, and where thousands of martyrs and confessors witnessed to their faith.   ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:27:00 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Homily  By His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew during the Concelebration of the Divine Liturgy with His Beatitude Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All-Russia in the Patriarchal Church of St. George</title>
				<link>http://patriarchate.org/documents/concelebration-of-the-divine-liturgy-2009</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ t is with great joy, deep love and much honor that we welcome you today to the court of that Church, from which the unwaning light of the holy and blameless Orthodox faith was conveyed to the noble and blessed Russian people, whom we behold at this moment in the precious person of Your Beatitude. We greet and embrace you wholeheartedly, praying that the Lord may bless your people with His grace, establishing them in “the faith once delivered to the saints” (Jude 3) and increasing the seed of the Gospel that they received from here.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:18:00 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Foreword to the Published Proceedings of the Fourth Summer Seminar at Halki</title>
				<link>http://patriarchate.org/documents/foreword-fourth-summer-seminar</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ One of the more fundamental problems, which constitute the basis of the ecological crisis, is the lack of justice prevailing in our world. By justice we mean not only the legal correspondence of giving and receiving, of transgressions and consequences, of offering and reward, but the more inclusive virtue that lies beyond the narrow fulfillment of obligation. The liturgical and patristic tradition of the Church considers as just, that person who is compassionate and freely grants, using love as one’s sole criterion. Justice extends even beyond one’s fellow human being to the entire creation. The burning of forests, the criminal exploitation of natural resources, the gap between the wealthy “north” and the needy “south,” all these constitute expressions of transgressing the virtue of justice.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:16:00 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Catechetical Homily for Holy and Great Lent 2009</title>
				<link>http://patriarchate.org/documents/great-lent-2009</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ The fast proposed to us by our Holy Church is not any deprivation, but a charisma. And the repentance to which it calls us is not any punishment, but a divine gift.

When the Church urges us, through the words of Scripture, not to store up for ourselves treasures on earth "where most and rust consume" but instead to store up treasures in heaven, where there is no danger of corruption, it is telling us the truth.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:59:00 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Message To The National Young Adult League Conference In Washington, DC</title>
				<link>http://patriarchate.org/documents/national-young-adult-league-conference</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ It is with sincere joy that we convey to all participants of the National YAL Conference being held in Washington, D.C. from July 10-13, 2008, on the critical theme “Doers of the Word” our Patriarchal and Paternal greeting.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:47:00 -0400</pubDate>
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