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Good afternoon,
In this edition of the Orthodox Observer, find information about the 2025 Hellenic Dance Festival, the Orthodox Christian Prison Ministry Certificate’s first graduating cohort, and a new photographic exhibit at the Maliotis Cultural Center.
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“In these holy days, let us all run most earnestly to the Theotokos, that she may grant us her protection and mercy. Every day let us supplicate her with faith for the salvation of our souls and of the world.”
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2024 National YAL Conference Concludes, Celebrating
Unity in Christ
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The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese Department of Youth and Young Adult Ministries (Y2AM) is overjoyed to announce the triumphant conclusion of the 2024 National Young Adult League (YAL) Conference, held July 3-7, 2024 at The Westin Gaslamp Quarter in beautiful San Diego, California.
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Department of Religious Education (DRE)’s Did You Know: Did you know that when we pray the Jesus Prayer, we are praying for the whole world?
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When we pray the Jesus Prayer, we pray not only for ourselves but for all people, as we are called to pray for everyone (1 Timothy 2:1).
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Registration Now Open for 2025 Hellenic Dance Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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The Metropolis of Atlanta and Hellenic Dance Festival are excited to announce that HDF 2025 registration is now open!
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St. Nektarios Greek Orthodox Church in Charlotte, NC Creates Children’s Shrine to St. John the Baptist
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At their Vacation Church Camp earlier this summer, St. Nektarios Greek Orthodox Church in Charlotte, NC created a small shrine to St. John the Baptist, placing the shrine in their parish courtyard to be visible and particularly accessible to the children who love to play and explore there on Sundays after Divine Liturgy.
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Certificate Program in Prison Ministry Graduates First Cohort
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The first ever Certificate Program in Prison Ministry, in partnership with Orthodox Christian Prison Ministry (OCPM) and St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (STOTS) graduated its first cohort of students June 16-22, 2024.
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Photographic Exhibit Showcasing First Modern Olympics Opens at the Maliotis Cultural Center
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During the 33rd Olympic Games in Paris, a special photographic exhibit showcasing the first modern Olympic Games, held in Athens, Greece, in 1896, will open at the Maliotis Cultural Center in collaboration with the Benaki Museum of Athens.
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The Orthodox Observer Recommends
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The Orthodox Observer Recommends is a new initiative of the GOARCH Communications Department. Each week, a team member will share something we’ve been reading, listening to, watching, or discussing together!
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This book was recommended by Corinna.
“ David Bentley Hart’s translation of the New Testament, first published in 2017, was hailed as a ‘remarkable feat’ and as a ‘strange, disconcerting, radical version of a strange, disconcerting manifesto of profoundly radical values.’ In this second edition, which includes a powerful new preface and more than a thousand changes to the text, Hart’s purpose remains the same: to render the original Greek texts faithfully, free of doctrine and theology, awakening readers to the uncanniness that often lies hidden beneath doctrinal layers.
Through his startling translation, with its raw, unfinished quality, Hart reveals a world conceptually quite unlike our own. ‘It was a world,’ he writes, ‘in which the heavens above were occupied by celestial spiritual potentates of questionable character, in which angels ruled the nations of the earth as local gods, in which demons prowled the empty places . . . and in which the entire cosmos was for many an eternal divine order and for many others a darkened prison house.’ He challenges readers to imagine it anew: a God who reigned on high, appearing in the form of a slave and dying as a criminal, only then to be raised up and revealed as the Lord of all things.”
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