Homilies
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This article brings together two homilies delivered during the Tuesday 1st November Liturgy, as part of the 17th Orthodox Congress in Western Europe. The first, by Liesl Behr, offers a reading of Luke 8:1-3 centred on the women in Christ's circle. Drawing on textual analysis, she challenges the traditional interpretation that confines these women to a role of passive support, in order to highlight their active courage and concrete commitment in following Christ. The second homily, by Metropolitan Dimitri of France, develops a eucharistic ecclesiology: the unity of the Church rests on sacramental communion and on a Tradition understood as a dynamic process, rather than as a fixation on the past. The theological contribution of the whole lies in the articulation between incarnate faith, the universality of the Orthodox Church, and humanity's vocation to deification.
This article has not been translated yet — it is available in its French version here.
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