Ημερίδα: «Ταυτότητα φύλου - Μία διεπιστημονική προσέγγιση», Αθήνα, Κυριακή 28 Μαΐου 2017

Ο Τομέας Επιστημόνων του Συλλόγου «Ο Μέγας Βασίλειος»,

η Χριστιανική Ένωση Επιστημόνων, η Χριστιανική Ένωση Εκπαιδευτικών Λειτουργών, ο Σύλλογος «Απόστολος Παύλος »,

η Ανωτάτη Συνομοσπονδία Πολυτέκνων Ελλάδος και η Ενωμένη Ρωμηοσύνη

σας προσκαλούν

να τιμήσετε με την παρουσία σας την Ημερίδα με θέμα:

«Ταυτότητα φύλου - Μία διεπιστημονική προσέγγιση»

το οποίο θα πραγματοποιηθεί:

  στην Αθήνα

την Κυριακή 28 Μαΐου 2017,

στο Αμφιθέατρο του Πολεμικού Μουσείου Αθηνών,

οδός Βασ. Σοφίας και Ριζάρη 2 

 Μέσα από την Τράπεζα Ιδεών μπορείτε να παρακολουθήσετε τη ροή του Συνεδρίου (βιντεοσκοπήσεις, εισηγήσεις, ανακοινώσεις, πορίσματα κλπ).

"Ν": Τις θέσεις μας για την ομοφυλοφιλία μπορείτε να δείτε εδώ. Ενότητα στο blog μας εδώ. Επισκεφθείτε επίσης, παρακαλώ, το ιστολόγιο omofylofilia.gr.

Ευχαριστώ.

Ιησούς Χριστός: πιο γλυκός από μέλι, πιο άφωνος από ψάρι...

Γιατί μετά την ανάστασή του ο Κύριος έφαγε μέλι και ψάρι ενώπιον των μαθητών Του;
Επειδή αυτά είχαν και Του τα πρόσφεραν, είναι η απλή και άμεση απάντηση. Όμως δίδεται και μια θεολογικότερη συμβολική σημασία, που περιλαμβάνεται στο άρθρο 10 ερωτήσεις για την Αναληψη και εδώ την αναδημοσιεύουμε από τον ιστότοπο της Ορθόδοξης Μητρόπολης Ζάμπιας και Μαλάουι, της Αφρικής.
Είναι γνωστό ότι τους ζήτησε φαγητό για να τους αποδείξει ότι είναι άνθρωπος με σάρκα και οστά και όχι μόνο πνεύμα. Για τη λεπτομέρεια των εδεσμάτων, διαβάζουμε:

41 ἔτι δὲ ἀπιστούντων αὐτῶν ἀπὸ τῆς χαρᾶς καὶ θαυμαζόντων εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· ἔχετέ τι βρώσιμον ἐνθάδε;
42 οἱ δὲ ἐπέδωκαν αὐτῷ ἰχθύος ὀπτοῦ μέρος καὶ ἀπὸ μελισσίου κηρίου,
43 καὶ λαβὼν ἐνώπιον αὐτῶν ἔφαγεν. 

41 Επειδή, λοιπόν, αυτοί ακόμα απιστούσαν από τη χαρά τους και θαύμαζαν, τους είπε: «Έχετε κάτι φαγώσιμο εδώ;»
42 Εκείνοι του έδωσαν μέρος από ψάρι ψητό και κηρήθρα από μέλι.
43 Και αφού τα έλαβε μπροστά τους, τα έφαγε.

Στο σημερινό Ευαγγέλιον της Εορτής ακούμε ότι ζήτησε και έφαγε ο Χριστός «ιχθύος οπτού μέρος και από μελισσίου κηρίου», δηλ. ένα κομμάτι από ψητό ψάρι και από κηρύθρα με μέλι (Λουκ. 24:42). Γιατί αναφέρεται η λεπτομέρεια αυτή; Κατά την εκκλησιαστική παράδοση, η λεπτομέρεια αυτή είχε πολύ σπουδαία αλληγορική σημασία.
Όσον αφορά στο ψάρι, γνωρίζουμε ότι αν και ζει μέσα στην αλμυρή θάλασσα, το σώμα του δεν είναι αλμυρό, αλλά γλυκό. Κατά παρόμοιο τρόπο και ο Χριστός, που έζησε μέσα στην ‘αλμυρή θάλασσα της αμαρτίας’ του κόσμου τούτου, «αμαρτίαν ουκ εποίησε, ουδέ ευρέθη δόλος εν τω στόματι αυτού», δηλ. δεν έκανε καμιά αμαρτία, ούτε ξεστόμισε τίποτε το δόλιο (Ησ. 53:9).
Επίσης, ο Χριστός παρέμεινε πιο άφωνος και από το ψάρι όταν υπέστη το σωτήριο πάθος του και δέχτηκε τα ανήκουστα εκείνα βασανιστήρια και ακατανόμαστους υβρισμούς.
Όσον αφορά στο μέλι και στο κερί, γνωρίζουμε ότι το μέλι είναι γλυκό και το κερί φωτιστικό, γι’ αυτό και θεωρούνται σαν σύμβολα της πνευματικής ηδονής και του φωτισμού που μεταδίδει στους πιστούς ο Χριστός μετά την Ανάστασή του. Επίσης, συμβολίζουν, το μεν πρώτο την θεραπεία της μεγάλης πίκρας της αμαρτίας την οποία συμβολίζει η χολή που του δόθηκε στο πάθος του, το δε δεύτερο, την διάλυση του πηκτού σκοταδιού της αμαρτίας την οποία συμβολίζει το σκοτάδι που έγινε κατά την σταύρωσή του.

"Ν": Η εικ. με την κηρήρθα είναι από αυτό το άρθρο (θα το βάλουμε κι εμείς κάποια στιγμή) που δείχνει περιπτώσεις όπου οι μέλισσες άφησαν ακάλυπτα τα πρόσωπα των αγίων πλάθοντας κηρήθρες πάνω σε ιερές εικόνες.

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Φτου, ξελευτερία ή "αυθαιρεσίες" στην Ανάληψη

Αφού είδε τους φίλους Του, αφού έδειξε τις πληγές Του -για να μην πουν πως όνειρο ήταν η Αγάπη που σταυρώθηκε- αφού η Μάνα Του αγαλλίασε την εγκατάλειψη του τάφου, αφού το Φως πλανήθηκε πάνω στα αξημέρωτα της γης και ειρήνεψε το μέσα των όντων στην ωριμασμένη ελπίδα της αυγής, μπήκε σε ένα σύννεφο και έφυγε για την οικία των ουρανών, για τον Πατέρα.
Τον έβλεπαν που ανέβαινε. Έμεινε όμως πίσω το Φως για να μην ξανασκοτεινιάσει ο κόσμος.
Θα Τον ξαναδούμε.
Θάρθει πάλι σε σύννεφο τυλιγμένος, με τους αγγέλους, να αναζητήσει αυτούς που δεν αρνήθηκαν το Φως, αλλά και όσους αυτομόλησαν στο σκοτάδι που έφτιαξαν οι άνθρωποι που μίσησαν το Φως.

Ο βασιλεύς της Δόξης είναι δικός μας πια... Οικείος, με παντοτινά τα σημάδια των καρφιών, τα σημάδια της αγάπης.
Όσοι κρυφτήκαμε στο σκοτάδι, ας κάνουμε ένα γρήγορο τρεχαλητό να προλάβουμε να καβαλήσουμε μιαν αχτίδα πριν έρθει Εκείνος, καθώς το Φως είναι ο μόνος προορισμός και μετά φτου ξελευτερία! (Τι και πώς)

Ένα κλικ αγάπης, παρακαλώ, στα:

Απόδοση του Πάσχα: Κάθε τι στη ζωή κρίνεται από την απόδοσή του



Ανάληψη, μια άγνωστη γιορτή!

Ο αναληφθείς Χριστός, το σωτήριο χελιδόνι που μας οδηγεί στην αιώνια άνοιξη (άγ. Νικόλαος Βελιμίροβιτς) (από εκεί η 1η εικ.)

Η Αγία Ανάληψη και άλλοι τινές...

Γίνε κι Εσύ Πολεμιστής του Φωτός

Και:

Το λάθος ενός αγίου και ένας παράξενος, ελεύθερος σκλάβος (26 + 27 Μαΐου)!...

Λιβάνι από μια γυναίκα με μεγάλη ανάγκη...

Utah Mormons, Protestants Finding New Spiritual Home in Ancient Orthodox Church

 

by Bob Mims
Journey to Orthodoxy
 
Utah Mormons and Protestants are rediscovering a reverence for God by converting to Orthodoxy.

It shook the fundamentalist Christian world to its roots: Hank Hanegraaff, the darling of evangelicals as host of the long-running, nationally syndicated “Bible Answer Man” broadcast, had joined the Greek Orthodox Church.
Hanegraaff, for nearly 30 years president of the Christian Research Institute, an evangelical apologetics ministry, also has written 20 books opposing purported cults and heresies and non-Christian faiths. If ever evangelicals had a doctrinal superhero, Hanegraaff was he.
But on Palm Sunday, in a video released via social media, there was the 67-year-old Hanegraaff kneeling for “Holy Chrismation” — a rite of anointing with oil accompanying baptism — inside St. Nektarios Greek Orthodox Church of Charlotte, N.C.
Within days, Bott Radio Network, a 107-station strong, evangelical broadcasting empire, severed its longstanding relationship with him; other critics proclaimed Hanegraaff had somehow betrayed true Christianity.

“Nothing could be further from the truth,” he countered in a broadcast shortly after he, his wife, Kathy, and two of their 12 children became Orthodox. “Nothing has changed in my faith. … I have fallen ever more in love with my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”

There are no authoritative statistics available, but anecdotally, at least, it appears Hanegraaff is hardly alone in finding a spiritual home in the world’s oldest — and Orthodox believers insist the first and most faithful — Christian fellowship.
That certainly is the case for Sts. Peter and Paul Orthodox Christian Church in downtown Salt Lake City. The Rev. Justin Havens says the church, located in a former Jewish synagogue at 355 S. 300 East, had fewer than 100 worshippers when he became its priest nine years ago.

“We have almost tripled in size since then,” Havens says. “I would say 60 percent or more of our parish is made up of converts. About half of those are former LDS [Mormons], and the rest are former Protestants and evangelicals, along with a few former Catholics and Episcopalians.”

Havens — himself a convert to Eastern Orthodoxy, having been raised Presbyterian — says the congregational growth has left his tiny church “packed to the gills.”
On Easter Sunday, more than 500 worshippers stood for prayers, liturgical chants, the Eucharist and sermon.
Orthodox Christians traditionally stand throughout worship, but this was different: Parishioners were elbow to elbow, the crowd spilling out of the nave and down the stairs.
While maintaining their current home in Salt Lake City, the congregation hopes to build a larger church nearer to the line between Salt Lake and Utah counties, where many parishioners live. 

‘Stagnant in my faith’

Suzanne and Bruce Plympton, who drive in from West Jordan on Sundays, are among the former Mormons who found there way to Sts. Peter and Paul. Other converts have found solace in sister Greek, Russian, Serbian and other Orthodox churches in Utah.

“We were baptized [into Orthodoxy] nine years ago,” Suzanne says, noting her spiritual search first took her from Mormonism to an evangelical Christian church, where she served as a children’s minister and church secretary.
“I was stagnant in my faith. I had always believed in God, but it wasn’t changing my life; I wanted to grow closer to him,” the mother of four adult children recalls. “Ironically, my sister and her family had discovered Orthodoxy while preparing for a [Protestant] mission to Russia.”

Encouraged by her sister, Suzanne began visiting area Orthodox services. It was a cultural shock — in one case, the service was all in Greek, and the traditional liturgical worship was a far cry from the laid-back, contemporary-music-laced, nonliturgical evangelical atmosphere.

“At first, I didn’t understand a thing. But I kept studying it; I had always wanted to know the truth,” she says. “I realized the Orthodox Church had been around for 2,000 years, had carefully guarded their theology and had not allowed popular beliefs to change them.”

For five years, she and her husband visited and studied Orthodoxy before deciding on Sts. Peter and Paul.

“The church that Christ established, that I had been seeking, has always been here,” Suzanne says. “I’m part of the body of Christ, and it’s so deep your feet never hit the bottom; there’s so much to learn and experience.”

For Rick Scouler, baptism by Havens in 2012 came after several decades within the Pentecostal/charismatic movement.

“Over the years, I became less convinced in how [worship] was expressed. So much of it was based on emotion,” the 64-year-old real estate appraiser recalls. “Emotion’s not a bad thing . . . but it seemed Christ had become way too familiar. Instead of awe and reverence, to me, it seemed it was just too easygoing and relaxed.”

Then, during a visit with friends, Scouler and his wife, Marie, met “Father Justin.” They struck up a friendship that led to discussions over coffee and, eventually, a regimen of extensive reading about what the original New Testament church was like in beliefs and worship.
They began attending Sts. Peter and Paul.
Still, some aspects of Orthodox Christian worship can be overwhelming to newcomers. Along with the myriad icons and murals of saints, worshippers can seem constantly on the move amid the sweet smell of incense, singing psalms and praying a voluminous liturgy accompanied by frequent genuflection.
Then, there’s the idea of soliciting the prayers of saints, and Mary, the mother of Jesus. To Protestants and especially evangelicals and Pentecostals, the concept of “Holy Mary, Mother of God” is foreign, if not heretical.

“It seemed so ‘Catholic,’ you know? But then we understood it was not worshipping her, but giving her honor,” Scouler says. “One thing I like about Orthodox worship is [it emphasizes] God’s majesty. There is honor given that is, after all, quite fitting for God.
“It’s like I’m home, like I’ve got my faith back; the awe of it all is back,” he adds. “I’ve got that real desire to serve [God] and please him.”

Quest for truth

Cameron Davis, who now attends South Ogden’s Transfiguration (Greek) Orthodox Church, says studying Christian history was an important factor in his 2014 conversion.
The 30-year-old father of two, who holds philosophy and political science degrees from Utah State University, concedes that he is

“by nature skeptical, second-guessing, and slow to make decisions; so my conversion to Orthodoxy was a pretty sober development.”

While the richness of liturgy and worship in an Orthodox setting is often cited as spiritually fulfilling, Davis — while acknowledging such benefits — characterizes his conversion as more about “what is and isn’t true” about such things as the Trinity, the nature of God and other doctrines he found at odds with Mormonism.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in preaching that the prophet Joseph Smith “restored” the original Christianity, is one of a long, well-populated line of movements seeking to do the same since the Great Schism tore the faith’s Western and Eastern branches asunder in A.D. 1054.
Now, Davis believes that foundational first-century Christianity has never disappeared, and that its home is the

“Orthodox Christian spiritual tradition [he found] more beautiful and compelling in light of my reading of history and theology.”

The Great Schism not only ripped the Roman Catholic Church from Eastern Orthodoxy over such issues as papal authority, creedal changes and the nature of the afterlife, but it also led to further fracturing through the centuries. The 16th century’s Protestant Reformation split the Roman church, and then the reformers further divided into competing denominations. Today, the World Christian Database notes, the “body of Christ” has splintered into no less than 9,000 denominations — each, to varying degrees, purporting to restore the purer, ancient faith founded by the first generation of believers.
Havens understands the hunger for the truth and does not judge believers who continue their search elsewhere along the denominational continuum.
But the former special-education teacher, raising seven children with wife Seraphima, has found his peace — and purpose. It wasn’t always so. After leaving behind his Protestant upbringing, Havens says his search for spiritual truth was at times agonizing.

“I went through hell,” he recalls. “I was never an atheist, but I went through a time of confusion. There were so many denominations, often with diametrically opposed ideas.”

Through prolonged study and reflection, Havens discovered the Orthodox Church and sustaining traditions built by communities of “ancient Christians [who] were serious about their faith,” even to the point of a martyr’s death.

“You can’t do it on your own,” he says. “It’s an everyday thing, touching everything you do; it is living, breathing and alive.”

See also

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Μορμονισμός & Ορθοδοξία  
Orthodox Reformed Bridge - Ορθόδοξη γέφυρα προς τον προτεσταντισμό 
Pentecostalism and charismatic movement in Africa
Travelers on the Way to the Light
The Way - An introduction to the Orthodox Faith  
Theosis (deification): The True Purpose of Human Life
LIVE, BEYOND THE LIMITS!

Protestants ask: Why be Orthodox? 
in Search of Orthodoxy
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Spiritual travels in Greece

 

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ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ: Πνευματικά ταξίδια στην Ελλάδα 

Greece is not just a land of sunlit coasts, beautiful mountainous regions or picturesque traditional villages…. Nor is it the homeland of Pericles and Aristotle, of Odysseus, Theseus and Jason.

It is also a land where for 2000 years, the authentic spiritual tradition and legacy of Christianity has been preserved intact, the way it was taught by Jesus Christ, propagated to other nations by His disciples (the Apostles) and observed for 20 centuries by innumerable thousands of Christians – men, women, and even children – who attained self-awareness, profound wisdom, spiritual balance, peace and union with their fellow-man, with all the creatures of the world, and naturally with Jesus Christ Himself. Even in our day and age, one can encounter such people in Greece, provided one keeps open the eyes of their soul…

This is the spiritual tradition and legacy of the Orthodox Church, which Greece of course shares with all the traditionally Orthodox Christian peoples (for example, our brethren the Russians, the Serbians, the Bulgarians, the Rumanians, the Ukrainians, the Georgians, et al.) as well as with all the other major Orthodox populations in the rest of the world.

The visitor will find many places at every step on Greek soil, where saints, ascetics and martyrs once lived, as well as spiritual champions and teachers of great stature (both men and women).

A great number of people from all over the world have made this trip, and their life was changed. Not only did they become Orthodox Christians, but they also diffused the treasures of the Orthodox Church to their own homelands.

These are the treasures that we are inviting you to become acquainted with; they are offered for free, to each and every person, just as God “makes the sun rise and provides the rain” for free, for everyone.

This is naturally much more than ordinary tourism; it is a life’s journey – a journey towards our heart and our soul, towards our fellow-man, and towards the Sun of Righteousness, Jesus Christ.

We thank you.

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Official website of the Orthodox Church in Greece
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Orthodox Outlet for Dogmatic Enquiries
Mystagogy
Holy Mount Athos

Full of Grace and Truth
 
Our blog in English
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Theosis (deification): The True Purpose of Human Life
Theosis, St. Silouan and Elder Sophrony
"Partakers of Divine Nature" - About Deification & Uncreated Light in Orthodox Church

The Way - An introduction to the Orthodox Faith