Piraeus, Attica, Greece, December 12, 2023
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His Eminence Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus of the Greek Orthodox Church celebrated an ancient Western Liturgy this weekend.
On Sunday, at the Holy Church of Panagia Myrtidiotissa in Piraeus, the hierarch served the Liturgy of St. Ambrose of Milan, “who worked for the Gospel with great knowledge, love, and dedication in the fourth century,” reports the Metropolis of Piraeus.
The Ambrosian Rite is a Latin liturgical rite that is today celebrated mostly in the Archdiocese of Milan in Italy.
The Metropolitan stated in his homily that St. Ambrose “emerged as a great Father of the Church who fought against heresies, even Arianism.” He continued:
A great Shepherd of the Church, St. Ambrose left us a wonderful Liturgical text, a Divine Liturgy, which demonstrates the unity of the Church, which for ten centuries, a thousand years, both in the East and in the West, proclaimed the new thing that the world awaits amidst the daily failure of history and which is nothing other than the invitation of the All-Holy God to sit down at the supper of His love and in the communion of His Holiness with fidelity to the Evangelical preaching and the Apostolic and martyric succession of our Holy Church, which is the Body of Christ with Him as the head…
We feel the blessing of the Holy Spirit who inspired all the saints towards the same liturgical direction, towards the same experience, and we understand how blessed we Orthodox are to maintain in the second and third millennia the same faith of the Apostles and the God-bearing Fathers, who did not innovate, who did not betray, who did not destroy this unity of faith.
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