12/21/2012
Shio Otarashvili
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All these traditions help the whole of the Georgian nation experience the great joy and love that the Risen Savior brought us and share them with each other.
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The Nativity of Christ is a great feast of the whole of the Christian world, and each country has its own unique traditions of celebration of it. Georgia is no exception in this respect. December 25/January 7 is called in Georgian “Shoba Akhali Tseli”, that is, “Christmas – New Year” (exactly in this sequence).
Shio Otarashvili, Archbishop Stephan (Kalaidjishvili)
We have to remember that today the world wants to prosper without God. Both communism and liberalism are false ideas; they deceive man, falsely assuring him that we have to build heaven on earth. There will never be heaven on earth. We have to come down to earth and live there without “isms”, doing ordinary work and following the commandments of God. I talk about liberalism as a philosophy and a forced politic of a denial of absolute truth.
