Η γυναίκα της Αφρικής φροντίζει για όλους και για όλα...

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Η γυναίκα της Αφρικής
φροντίζει για όλους και για όλα...
Λόγω του κόστους της εκπαίδευσης στην Αφρική και της δυσκολίας να ανταποκριθούν οι γονείς, σπάνια πληρώνουν για τη μόρφωση των κοριτσιών (κυρίως στα χωριά), προτιμώντας να πληρώνουν για τη μόρφωση των αγοριών... με αποτέλεσμα οι περισσότερες γυναίκες να μένουν αναλφάβητες.
Συνήθως παντρεύονται από την ηλικία των 14 ετών και μετά.
Η μέρα της ξεκινάει πολύ πολύ νωρίς το πρωί, πριν την ανατολή του ηλίου.
Ξεκινάει μια καθημερινή διαδρομή στο ποτάμι ή στο πηγάδι για τη μεταφορά του νερού σε ασήκωτα μπιτόνια, τα οποία αρκετές φορές κουβαλούν στο κεφάλι..
Μια διαδικασία επίπονη που πολλές φορές απαιτεί ώρες περπάτημα..
Αναζητάνε ξύλα για ν' ανάψουν φωτιά για την προετοιμασία του φαγητού.
Σε κάποιες χώρες όπως στο Κονγκό, πολλές γυναίκες δουλεύουν σε φυτείες... το αντάλλαγμα?? λίγα ξερά ξύλα ή τροφή...
Φροντίζουν τα παιδιά τους και μετά ξεκινάνε τη διαδρομή για τα χωράφια όπου δουλεύουν σκληρά... τα οποία πολλές φορές βρίσκονται σε μεγάλη απόσταση από το χωριό.
Επιστρέφοντας στο σπίτι, μετά από μια πολύ κουραστική μέρα στα χωράφια, μαγειρεύουν για όλη την οικογένεια και κάνουν τις δουλειές με τη βοήθεια των κοριτσιών τους... αν έχουν.
Η καθημερινότητα τους είναι ιδιαίτερα δύσκολη, επωμίζονται το βάρος της οικογενειακής φροντίδας, της οικιακής και αυτό της εργασίας.
Η γυναίκα της Αφρικής συνήθως μένει στο περιθώριο και έξω από τα κέντρα λήψης αποφάσεων... (είτε μέσα στην οικογένεια, είτε στον κοινωνικό και πολιτικό χώρο).
Στερούνται στοιχειώδη δικαιώματα..
Σε κάποια αφρικανικά κράτη όμως όπως η Ζιμπάμπουε, η Αγκόλα έχουν ιδρυθεί υπουργεία για τη "θέση της γυναίκας".
Η Ρουάντα επίσης έχει τον μεγαλύτερο αριθμό γυναικών βουλευτών παγκοσμίως.
Το μερίδιο των γυναικών εκπροσώπων στην βουλή της ήταν 61,3% τον Ιανουάριο του 2022. 

**κάποιες πληροφορίες από το "demain le monde"
(Οι φωτογραφίες είναι από αποστολές μας στην Ουγκάντα, Ρουάντα και Μπουρούντι).

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Forgiveness Sunday, also called Cheesefare Sunday, the final day of pre-Lent in the Orthodox Church

 

Photos: Divine liturgy presided over by Bishop Nektarios... Diocese of Gulu and Northern Uganda

Orthodoxwiki.org

Forgiveness Sunday, also called Cheesefare Sunday, is the final day of pre-Lent. It is the Sunday after Meatfare Sunday and the Sunday before the Sunday of Orthodoxy.

Significance of the day

On this last Sunday before Great Lent, the last day that traditionally Orthodox Christians eat dairy products until Easter, the Church remembers the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise. God commanded them to fast from the fruit of a tree (Gen. 2:16), but they did not obey. In this way Adam and Eve and their descendants became heirs of death and corruption.

On Forgiveness Sunday many attend Forgiveness Vespers on the eve of Great Lent. They hear on the Lord's teaching about fasting and forgiveness and enter the season of the fast forgiving one another so that God will forgive them. If you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will forgive you; but if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your heavenly Father forgive you your trespasses (Matthew 6:14).

The Gospel reading of the day also gives advice on fasting. Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. (Matthew 6:16-18).

The Rite of Forgiveness

After the dismissal at Vespers, the priest stands beside the analogion, or before the ambon, and the faithful come up one by one and venerate the icon, after which each makes a prostration before the priest, saying, "Forgive me, a sinner." The priest also makes a prostration before each, saying, "God forgives. Forgive me." The person responds, "God forgives," and receives a blessing from the priest. Meanwhile the choir sings quietly the irmoi of the Paschal Canon, or else the Paschal Stichera. After receiving the priest's blessing, the faithful also ask forgiveness of each other. 

Sunday of Cheesefare: Expulsion of Adam from Paradise

 

Orthodox Church in America

As we begin the Great Fast, the Church reminds us of Adam’s expulsion from Paradise. God commanded Adam to fast (Gen. 2:16), but he did not obey. Because of their disobedience, Adam and Eve were cast out of Eden and lost the life of blessedness, knowledge of God, and communion with Him, for which they were created. Both they and their descendents became heirs of death and corruption.

Let us consider the benefits of fasting, the consequences of disobedience, and recall our fallen state. Today we are invited to cleanse ourselves of evil through fasting and obedience to God. Our fasting should not be a negative thing, a mere abstention from certain foods. It is an opportunity to free ourselves from the sinful desires and urges of our fallen nature, and to nourish our souls with prayer, repentance, to participate in church services, and partake of the life-giving Mysteries of Christ.

At Forgiveness Vespers we sing: “Let us begin the time of fasting in light, preparing ourselves for spiritual efforts. Let us purify our soul, let us purify our body. As we abstain from food, let us abstain from all passion and enjoy the virtues of the spirit....” 

Kontakion - tone 6

O Master, Guide to wisdom, / Bestower of prudence, / Instructor of the foolish, and Defender of the poor: / make firm my heart and grant it understanding. / O Word of the Father, / give me speech, for behold, I shall not restrain my lips from crying out to Thee: / "Have mercy, have mercy on me who have fallen."

Please read more about the meaning of this storytelling below.

1.  The dogma regarding Creation  

2.  Creation from nil  

3.  Existential consequences of the dogma on Creation  

4.  The consequences of man’s downfall  

5.  Christology 

6.  Salvation

7.  Ecclesiology

 

Professor Metropolitan of Pergamus & Chairman of the Athens Academy John (Ioannis) Zizioulas (1931 - 2023), Lessons on Christian Dogmatics

 

 

Contents

Α. ON DOGMATICS AND DOGMAS

1. Definition – Sources – Content and Method of Dogmatics:

1a. Form and character of Dogmatics

1b. Dogmatics as Hermeneutics (Interpretational)

1c. The Dogmatics method

2. The term: «Dogma» and its significance

3. The affiliation of dogmas to the Holy Scriptures

4. The work of the Holy Spirit in the phrasing of the dogmas

5. The work of the Church in the phrasing of the dogmas

6. The prestige and the authority of the dogmas

 

 Β. ON COGNIZANCE AND FAITH

I. On cognizance:

 

          1a.    Cognizance of things

          1b.   Cognizance of God

          1c.    Cognizance through the Son and Logos 

          1d1. Cognizance in person  part 1: The element of Freedom

          1d2. Cognizance in person  part 2: The element of Love

II. On faith

 

C. ON GOD 

1. The biblical premises

2. Basic principles of Patristic teaching:

 

          2a. Up to the Cappadocian Fathers

          2b. The contribution of the Cappadocians

          2c. Augustine’s views

          2d. Discerning between "Theology" and "Providence"

          2e. Existential interpretation

  

D. SUPPLEMENT

1. Discernments of the Cappadocians on the “being” of God:

 

          1a.  The “whatever”, the “what” and the “how” of God

          1b.  “Essence”, “energy” and “person”

 

2. The transferral of the terms “essence”, “Energy” and “Person” into Theology (The problem of freedom)

 

          2a.   The prerequisites of the Patristic Synthesis

          2b.   The contribution of the Cappadocian Fathers – The patristic notion of the person

          2c.    Augustin’s theology and the problem of the Filioque

          2d.   The theological problem of the Filioque

          2e.   The Filioque in Theology and in Providence

          2f.    The dogma of creation - the problem of Gnosticism

          2f2.  The correction of Platonic ideas by the Christian faith

Ε. ON CREATION, SALVATION, CHRISTOLOGY AND ECCLESIOLOGY

1.  The dogma regarding Creation  

2.  Creation from nil  

3.  Existential consequences of the dogma on Creation  

4.  The consequences of man’s downfall  

5.  Christology 

6.  Salvation

7.  Ecclesiology

 

F. ECCLESIOLOGICAL TOPICS

Introduction

Questions

2.  Orthodox Ecclesiology topics:

 

      2a.   The eschatological identity of the Church

      2b.  “Therapeutic” or “Liturgical”  Ecclesiology: the synthesis of Saint Maximus the Confessor - Questions

      2c.   The Trinitarian basis of Ecclesiology

      2d.   Imagery in ontology - Questions

      2e.   Formation and structure of the Church

      2f.    The Local and worldwide Church – The Synodic institution  

      2g.   The functions of the Church – Questions

         3.   Commentary on Western Ecclesiology

 

                3a.  The dialectics of “the one” and “the many”. The priority of a universal Church

                3b.  The problem of priority between Christology and Pneumatology (of the Spirit)

                        Ecclesiological consequences

                3c.   History and Eschatology – Questions

           

G. ORTHODOXY AND WESTERN THEOLOGY

Texts by Rev. John Zizioulas (Addendum)

(Dogmatics – Therapy - Theology – Filioque – Ecclesiology – Christology – Pneumatology)

1    Introductory, basic characteristics of Western thought

1b. Western Ethicism and Dostoevsky

2.   Theology and Providence (Oekonomia) in Western thought

2b. Sickness and healing in Orthodox Theology

3.   The problem of the Filioque

4.   The existential repercussions of the Filioque  -  Questions  

5.   Ecclesiology, Christology, Pneumatology  

 

END

Lessons on Christian Dogmatics

These are the notes that were taken from the lectures of Professor I. Zizioulas (current Metropolitan of Pergamus and Chairman of the Athens Academy) at the Poemantic Division of the Thessaloniki University’s School of Theology, during the academic year 1984-1985. They are published with the blessing and the permission of the reverend Metropolitan. The notes were published with the caring and the responsibility of the students, for use during their examinations. Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki Published by :  Publication Services Because of its size, this series of Dogmatics will be presented by us in segments, in the hope that the entire text that we have in hand will be made available very soon.

It is with immense joy, that we are hosts to this significant piece of work in our website. We consider this presentation an honor, and acknowledge the extremely significant opus of the reverend Metropolitan of Pergamus.   We are referring to the hand-typed notes of the reverend Metropolitan’s lessons at the University of Thessaloniki, which benefited us so much, that we wished to make them more broadly accessible.   It is our fervent desire that you study these notes, which exude the fragrance of the Orthodox faith and are delivered with scientific precision, in a simple and comprehensible manner.   We wish to thank with all our heart those who toiled and participated in the acquisition of these notes for us.   May the blessing of God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ be with every person who seeks Him.

Επείγουσα ανακοίνωση για βοήθεια προς τον διάκονο της Ορθόδοξης Εκκλησίας στη Σιέρα Λεόνε. Emergency Call for the Deacon Emmanuel Coomber of Orthodox Church in Sierra Leone.

Ορθόδοξη Ιεραποστολή

SOS. Appel d’urgence pour le diacre Emmanuel Coomber de l’Église orthodoxe de Sierra Leone. Imejɛnsi Kɔl fɔ di Dikon Ɛmanuɛl Kumba fɔ di Ɔtodɔks Chɔch na Siera Liɔn.სასწრაფო მოწოდება სიერა ლეონეს მართლმადიდებლური ეკლესიის დიაკონ ემანუელ კუმბერს. Спешно обаждане за дякон Еманюел Кумбър от православната църква в Сиера Леоне.Хитан позив за ђакона Емануела Кумбера из Православне цркве у Сијера Леонеу. Apel de urgență pentru diaconul Emmanuel Coomber al Bisericii Ortodoxe din Sierra Leone. Екстрений виклик для диякона Еммануеля Кумбера Православної Церкви в Сьєрра-Леоне

Deacon Emmanuel Coomber (45) a clergyman of the Holy Orthodox Mission in Sierra Leone is seriously ill in hospital suffering from a heart and kidney condition. His treatment is extremely expensive. For example over the past week and the coming week we have to pay $ (AUD) 375 $ (US) 270 per day for his medicines. If he stabilises he will need to travel to Ghana for surgery ($ 26,000) in addition to travel costs. We need help!!

Είναι τεράστιες οι δαπάνες για τα φάρμακα, το ταξίδι και την εγχείρηση στη Γκάνα.

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DONATE NOW for Orthodox Christian Church in Sierra Leone, for Deacon Emmanuel. Μπείτε στον παρακάτω σύνδεσμο και κάνετε μια γενναιόδωρη δωρεά για την αποκατάσταση της υγείας του διακόνου Εμμανουήλ. Πρέπει να προσφέρουν Ορθόδοξες Μητροπόλεις, ενορίες, μοναστήρια και απλοί πιστοί.

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Προσθήκη της 27.1.23: Ο π. Εμμανουήλ κοιμήθηκε: 

DEACON EMMANUEL PASSED AWAY. ETERNAL BE HIS MEMORY

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Feast day of st Basil the Great in Lusaka, Zambia (from here)

Saints Basil the Great, Seraphim of Sarov, Nikephoros the Leper & others Orthodox Saints in January 1, 2 & 3

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