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Fasts & Feasts

September

1 - Liturgical New Year (7519)
8 - The Nativity of the Mother of God
14 - The Universal Exaltation of the Cross

October

1 - Protection of the Mother of God
3 - Respect Life Sunday
17 - Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council

Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost

September 5, 2010

Nativity of the Mother of GodMatthew 22:35-40 - And one of them, a lawyer, asked [Jesus] a question, to test him. "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?" And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets." (RSV – Portion of the Gospel for the 15th Sunday)

Becoming like God - The first commandment teaches every kind of godliness. For to love God with the whole heart is the cause of every good. The second commandment includes the righteous acts we do towards others. The first commandment prepares the way for the second and in turn is established by the second. For the man who is grounded in the love of God clearly also loves his neighbor in all things himself. The kind of man who fulfills these two commandments experiences all the commandments. (St. Cyril of Alexandria)

Scripture

  • Matins - Luke 24:1-12
  • Divine Liturgy - 2 Corinthians 4:6-15, Matthew 22:35-46
The icon is of the Nativity of our Most Holy Lady the Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary (September 8th).
 

Programme of Events for HB Patriarch Gregorios III in Argentina 2010

Tuesday, 24 August 2010 11:39

25 August - 6 September 2010

Wednesday 25 August
11:00 Arrival of His Beatitude Patriarch Gregorios III and his party at Ezeiza International Airport Buenos Aires and official reception at the airport
18:00   Ceremony and reception at The Cedars of Lebanon Foundation

Thursday 26 August
9:00 Visit to Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, SJ Archbishop of Buenos Aires and President of the Episcopal Conference of Argentina
10:30 Visit to the Head of Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires
12:30  Meeting in the Apostolic Nunciature with the Nuncio Archbishop Adriano Bernardini followed by lunch
19:30 Reception in the Syrian Embassy in honour of His Beatitude

Friday 27 August
12:30 Meeting with Ambassador Guillermo Oliveri Secretary of State for Religious Affairs, followed by a lunch in the palace of the Secretary of State
Official visit to the President of the Republic of Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
19:00 Pontifical Divine Liturgy concelebrated in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour
Inauguration of the first part of the Church
Followed by cocktail reception in the parish hall

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Sermon of His Beatitude Patriarch Gregorios III in Latin America

Saturday, 14 August 2010 13:37

(2010)

Friendly loving greetings, first from the Holy Land of Palestine, cradle of Jesus' birth, and then from all the holy lands, those Arab countries that were the cradle of Christianity's birth! We bring you greetings from your original homelands, each of your motherlands that are not just your geographical, earthly ancestral lands, but, as you are Christian, your spiritual homelands too. Psalm 87 tells us that all people are children of Jerusalem. Indeed, every person is born in her through the spirit and through faith. With the Venerable Pope John Paul II, we repeat that the Holy Land is the homeland of every Christian, since it is the homeland of Jesus and Mary.

The cordial greeting that I bring you comes from the heart of one who was impatient to see you, the heart of your Patriarch. That is why I am telling you what I have always said, I love you. I am also bringing you greetings from your brothers and sisters in the Christian East.

We should always keep a feeling for our Arab homeland and our belonging to the East, although you should also be completely integrated into your new homelands, as you are. Many of you have been born here and perhaps have never known or visited the homeland of your parents and their forebears.

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For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed!

It is truly proper to glorify you, who have borne God, the ever-blessed, immaculate and the Mother of our God. More honorable than the Cherubim and beyond compare more glorious than the Seraphim, who, a virgin, gave birth to God the Word; you, truly the Mother of God, we magnify.

Wisdom from the Church Fathers

For to despise the present age, not to love transitory things, unreservedly to stretch out the mind in humility to God and our neighbor, to preserve patience against offered insults and, with patience guarded, to repel the pain of malice from the heart, to give one's property to the poor, not to covet that of others, to esteem the friend in God, on God's account to love even those who are hostile, to mourn at the affliction of a neighbor, not to exult in the death of one who is an enemy, this is the new creature whom the Master of the nations seeks with watchful eye amid the other disciples, saying: "If, then, any be in Christ a new creature, the old things are passed away. Behold all things are made new" (2Cor. 5:17).

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