Visit of H.B. Patriarch Gregory III to our community

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Visit of H.B. Patriarch Gregory III to our community

Visit of H.B. Gregory III Patriach of Antioch and All the East, of Alexandria and Jerusalem, to our little community. Church of San Maurizio, Milan Italy, 30 Sept 2012

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Re: Visit of H.B. Patriarch Gregory III to our community antv #386991 10/08/12 10:58 AM
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Philippe Gebara Member Joined: May 2006 Posts: 802 Likes: 2 Rio de Janeiro/ RJ - Brazil	Great, antv! I am happy you had the opportunity to enjoy from the strong and charismatic presence of our Patriarch, as we had when he visited Brazil in 2010. Is it a Byzantine community?

Re: Visit of H.B. Patriarch Gregory III to our community antv #387026 10/09/12 02:30 PM
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antv Member A Joined: May 2007 Posts: 212 Italy	Yes we in Milan are a Byzantine little community, which core is Italo-.Albanian. His Beatitude was in Milan for other issues, and we offered him to celebrate the Sunday morning Divine Liturgy with us. We have been very lucky We asked in advance if His Beatitude perhaps preferred to have the Liturgy with some cuts (we celebrate it in its lenght), but luckly we were said that His Beatitude wants to celebrate strictly according to the books. The Liturgy was celebrated in Greek (minor parts in Italian, Arabic, Albanian), and His Beatitude knows very well the Greek and sings it with a strong and tuned voice. Also during the following lunch H.B. sung some Greek pieces.

Re: Visit of H.B. Patriarch Gregory III to our community antv #387058 10/10/12 04:04 AM
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Irish Melkite Global Moderator Member Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 10,090 Likes: 15 Massachusetts	Wonderful! Thank you for sharing, my friend! Many years, Neil "One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."

Re: Visit of H.B. Patriarch Gregory III to our community antv #387169 10/12/12 11:57 AM
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likethethief Member L Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 1,206 Likes: 1 SF Bay, CA USA	Originally Posted by antv Yes we in Milan are a Byzantine little community, which core is Italo-.Albanian. His Beatitude was in Milan for other issues, and we offered him to celebrate the Sunday morning Divine Liturgy with us. We have been very lucky We asked in advance if His Beatitude perhaps preferred to have the Liturgy with some cuts (we celebrate it in its lenght), but luckly we were said that His Beatitude wants to celebrate strictly according to the books. The Liturgy was celebrated in Greek (minor parts in Italian, Arabic, Albanian), and His Beatitude knows very well the Greek and sings it with a strong and tuned voice. Also during the following lunch H.B. sung some Greek pieces. Thank you for sharing this! It sounds like he enjoyed this visit with your parish very much.

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