August fifteenth, experience of hope and experience of lifetranslated

Written by Panos N. Avramopoulos

In spite of our troubled times and the homogenization of the cultural ethos of the peoples by the forces of globalization, the fifteenth of August, the second EASTER of the Greeks, still raises the popular consciousness. The deposits of popular piety of the modern Greeks are empty. And this moral force that emerges from the depths of his soul, diffuses into the relationships of his social life. Yannis Ritsos moved on various aesthetic levels, but he drew all the power of his poetic expression from his spiritual roots. "The tree is held by them." But the order given by the mothers of Monemvasio to their children is also typical: "Come on, baby, read the alphabet one more time from the lamp and say your patermo before you lie down". The central core of the Orthodox faith is Christ. Surrounded by the saints and with the leading face of the Virgin Mary. The spirituality and ethos of our church is based on the Blessed Virgin Mary.

On the fifteenth of August, in churches full of believers, popular piety is prevalent, inextricably linked to the tradition of our church. One feels in the faces...