The Feast of the Three Hierarchs at the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem
You can find a video an some photos at the end of the text.
From Secretariat-General of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem
On Monday, January 30/February 12, 2024, the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem celebrated the Feast of the Three Hierarchs, Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and John Chrysostom.
On this Feast, the Church honours the Three Hierarchs as teachers of the faith, defenders of the decision of the First Ecumenical Council on the one essence of the Son with the Father and the teaching of the Divinity of the Holy Spirit, and the Virginity of the Mother of God. The three Saints were authors of a multitude of theological writings explaining the Holy Bible, and great teachers, “the three greatest luminaries of the Three-sun God”, as their apolytikion says, who drew the boundaries between Christian teaching and ancient Greek philosophy, mainly through the writing of Saint Basil to the young, “ὅπως ἄν ἐξ ἑλληνικῶν ὀφελοῖντο λόγων “.
This common Feast was established in the 11th century by the Church under Metropolitan John to resolve a dispute between the faithful Vasiliites, Gregorites, and Johnites about which of the three Hierarchs is greatest.
In their honour, a Divine Liturgy was held in the Holy Trinity Church of the Patriarchal School of Zion in the morning by the Chairman of the School Board and Elder Sacristan, His Eminence Archbishop Isidoros of Hierapolis…
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