A MODERN READING OF ORTHODOX

If there is something that all Greeks agree on, it is that the new Hellenism is going through a crisis of values, of the will to regroup, to hope and to recreate. The area of ​​the Greek Orthodox Church is no exception, when one takes into account the fact that the majority of New Greeks are indifferent or bypass the Church, while many of those who claim to belong to it are content to praise it and speak with national pride about its course, rather than experiencing it. The message of the times for the modern Greek Orthodox Church, one would dare to say, is a "return to the catacombs": A return to silence, humility and a pure heart, virtues which alone can attract the "lightning of divinity" within and around us! The modest testimony in this book of faith and life of the embattled leader of the Orthodox Church - flesh of our national flesh - Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, combined with the long experience of the Church, comes at an opportune and necessary hour to awaken the Greek public, to spiritually stimulate those of us in need of stimulation, to bring hope to those who have exhausted its last reserves... (From the presentation on the back cover of the book)