Myrgiotis Panagiotis, Mathematician, writes.
Today the holy church celebrates and celebrates the three melodious rivers, the three hierarchs, who inextricably and inextricably connected Orthodoxy and Hellenism, so that we can speak of Greek Orthodoxy.
Great ecclesiastical figures, fathers of orthodoxy and, for the time, the scientists. They studied all the then modern sciences at the university of pagan Athens. Devoted to their studies, knowing two roads; from home to school and from home to church.
They were young, but they did not get carried away by the ease and fashion of their time. They knew their destination, to save the immortal soul and not to satisfy and satiate the passions of the perishable body.
Their brilliant studies opened before them brilliant worldly career paths. They gave them up. It is not bad, of course, for one to use his studies for a worldly career. It depends what he will command: money, glory, wasteful life or uncharitable offering to fellow human weak brother? Society needs good and virtuous citizens, useful workers in the vineyard.
The three prelates followed the solitary life. They excelled as conquerors against evil and trophy bearers of Christ. Each of them has a special day that the holy church honors their memory: Basil the Great on the 1st of January, Gregory the Theologian on the 25th of the same month and John the Chrysostom on the 27th of the same month. On January 30th, our church honors and celebrates the memory of all 3 hierarchs and the State designated this day as the day of letters and arts.
The work of the hierarchs that they left to their descendants is enormous and varied. They served the suffering and weak man with their charity work. We all know about the famous Vasiliada where Saint Basil treated and aged the infirm with his own hands. The written work is excellent, brilliant and voluminous. Treasury of divine wisdom and philosophy inspired by the Holy Spirit. It provided solutions to the problems of that time, but it also answers today’s problems and impasses of the proud and selfish man of consumer society, materialism and selfishness. It is a treasure of diamonds hidden in some libraries and we need to get to know it…yesterday not tomorrow. Many problems of contemporary societies would not exist if each of us personally and all of us turned to the immense wealth of the Greek Orthodox literature.
It is a shame that the Greek children, the youth, the pride and the future of our country, feed on spiritual horns (and many times of poor quality) and despise the nutritious food provided by the works of the Holy Three Hierarchs. Unfortunately, there are also many young people who are unaware of their existence. We are dealing with Western philosophy which is, so to speak, a stray-illegitimate child of ancient Greek literature and not a genuine one. We all have a great responsibility. Of course, it’s never too late.
The annual celebration of the three greatest luminaries of the three-year-old deity gives us the opportunity to exchange opinions – suggestions and to reflect on the current state of education – education and its future, that is, the future of the country. The greatest industry of small Greece is its culture and the golden cargo of education and the Greek spirit of the historical past, which the West is rediscovering through the ancient language.
Brilliantly every year we should honor the melodious rivers of wisdom and actually celebrate the day of letters (January 30) beyond and beyond trite pageants and award presentations. And these are necessary, but not sufficient. To establish at least one three-day period with speeches, seminars and dedications of substance and real reflection on the work of the hierarchs and education – education – culture. Of Greek culture, the measure of democracy and the spiritual contribution of the Greek spirit, ancient as well as modern, to the spiritual path of the whole world.
We will discover much and be pleasantly surprised by much.
Let’s look forward, let’s move forward. Today we may be few. Tomorrow there will be many of us. Today’s ethno-nihilists with different horizons will also join. It will be a blessed work. The next generations will thank us and the current generation will find that there is wealth, there is a bright (Greek) way out of the dead-end black logic of the West.