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“The Queen replied, ‘Anthony will merely give the blessing, then depart from this world to eternal repose. The other one, Theodosius, will follow him after two years. Therefore, take enough gold. Moreover, no one can do what I shall do to honor you. I shall give you what eye has not seen, what ear has not heard, and what has not entered into the heart of man (1 Cor.2:9). I, Myself, shall come to look upon the church and I shall dwell within it.’”
We knew that because in this early stage of Christianity, after it was declared an official religion by the Byzantine Emperor Constantine, it was very likely to find one. People at that time used to put a reliquary with the relics of the patron, to whom a temple is dedicated, under the pillar of the alter table, when the temple is sanctified.
The first Greek immigrants arrived during the 1880s, when they were hired to work as divers in the growing sponge harvesting industry. The town now calls itself the sponge capital of the world.
The Central Coast of Australia, with its lakes and ocean beaches, is the nearest recreational area for the four million people living in Sydney. Over the last twenty years, with improvements in roads and public transportation, many people have decided to move from Sydney to this area to be closer to the sea, where the cost of living is lower. Over 300,000 people now live there, many of whom are Russians. The closest Russian Orthodox church being over an hour away, ten years ago, a small group of people in the Gosford area decided to establish their own church. The Diocese supported this endeavor and appointed an Australian priest to the parish, Fr James Carles. Over this decade, many changes have taken place.
Metropolitan Nikolaos of Mesogaia and Lavreotiki
The higher one climbs, the more—we are told by scientists—gravity weakens; the less one can feel earth’s pull, the more one’s ties to earth are loosened; it becomes so much easier for one to depart from earth’s demanding and contending presence. One becomes so much lighter.