Orthodoxy-in prison in the mountains

Orthodoxy-in prison in the mountains

And if they even put me in prison and say "you're mad, you won't perform Liturgy", and they also take the Antimensio, then in prison if we're imprisoned together, I'll tell you "lie down". You will lie down and I will perform Liturgy on your chest without Antimensio! Every believer is an image of God. And because it is an image of God, every believer is a Holy Table. I will put a plastic cup on your chest, some bread that I will find from the food of the prisoners and a plate of any kind and I will perform Liturgy! Nothing stops us, we are determined for everything! In the mountains or in prisons, nothing stops us! So what authority? How was Liturgy held during so many years of persecution? Have you ever thought of these? Father Virgil Georgiou describes these events beautifully, very beautifully, these extreme cases. Because he lived in a regime that persecuted Christians. And in fact he was the one who lived and did, in the sense that before he became a clergyman he was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Romania, he was not an accidental personality. And he knows the reality of the events when he describes them. The Church is Communion and without Communion nothing happens! I have nothing else to say. 04-04-2013 Father Konstantinos Stratigopoulos